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Latest ONS Death Registrations 2020 up to Week 18 (May 01)

England & Wales - where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate:All Ages:      33,365Under 65:      3,908Number of deaths (all ages) that are above the 5 year average (prior to 2020) for given period where COVID-19 is not mentioned on the death certificate i.e. unexplained additional deaths. Period being lockdown date to Week 18:   12,771All worth it?!

Michael Brown ● 2373d8 Comments

"All worth it?!"Sorry I'm not sure what point you are trying to make!

Ed Robinson ● 2373d

All worth it???????? Are you trying to stir things up by any chance?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2373d

All worth it???????? Are you trying to stir things up by any chance?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2373d

Ivonne, don't bother with the fool, as with a two-year-old, it only encourages him.

Richard Carter ● 2373d

Interesting article in the Daily Telegraph today from looking at the opening (see below).Many people have being saying all along that this doesn't have to be lives vs economy.Protecting the most vulnerable should have top of the government's list. It looks like the only government achieved target was to keep ICU utilisation within capacity, which may have been achieved at the expense of others."British exceptionalism has brought an exceptional outcome. We have both an eye-watering number of avoidable deaths and a staggering amount of avoidable economic damage. The purported trade-off between lives and jobs – always a false choice – has instead spared neither. It is the worst of both"

Ed Robinson ● 2373d

Norman Tebbitt, also in the Telegraph, noted how Keir Starmer was showing up the PM’s lack of grasp of both policy and detail. If the Telegraph is turning against the government then things must be really bad.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2373d

The Telegraph and possibly the Times might be turning against Johnson, but not against their natural party of government, the Tories. Johnson did his bit with his 'Typical Boris' act to deliver a Tory majority, but he's so clearly out of his depth in the present crisis, and making vague anti-austerity comments, so he'll have to go. Not for one moment are they praising Starmer, but simply holding him up as the kind of character the Tories now need to lead the party through these difficult times towards business as usual. Names in a hat, please!

Peter Evans ● 2372d

I think Rishi will be the only name in the hat!Comment in the Telegraph:Keir Starmer took Boris Johnson apart like a Duplo train setAt PMQs, the new Labour leader asked a series of calmly factual questions – and the Prime Minister visibly struggledhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/13/keir-starmer-took-boris-johnson-apart-like-duplo-train-set/

Ed Robinson ● 2372d