Despite being Wales’s health secretary throughout the pandemic, many readers may only remember Vaughan Gething from his chip escapade, when he and his wife were pictured eating chips at a picnic table in April 2020, after telling everyone that they shouldn’t be “spending a prolonged period on a park bench”. The area was subsequently cordoned off to stop others doing the same…
Guido now spots Gething breaking his own rules again, campaigning in the local elections in a group of eight; just four days after the Welsh Government wrote on their website:
“The number of campaigners operating together should be kept to an absolute minimum and should not exceed 6 people in total.”
Guido presumes the Welsh Government are mere hours away from cordoning off this street corner to stop the public copying Gething’s example…
Not that many people noticed, Welsh Labour launched their Senedd election campaign today with a big virtual event. The livestream was a car crash. Consistently freezing, audio cutting out, and even the camera mysteriously moving upwards out of shot, Guido has compiled a taster video of the sorry affair. It’s just as well not many people tuned in…
Despite Labour’s call for the UK Government to carry out weekly COVID testing of NHS workers just three weeks ago, the party is failing to lead by example. Last week, from 29 June to 5 July, Wales’ Labour administration failed to carry out a single test for healthcare workers. In March Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething announced that healthcare workers would be first in line for tests. Guido shudders to think what the situation is for those at the back of the line…
This is just the latest in a long line of testing failures from the Welsh Government, which has consistently missed targets throughout the pandemic. The usual richness from Labour to harangue the UK Government on this when they don’t have their own house in order…
The Welsh Government, fresh from confusing its own guidance about meeting members of other households, has now embarrassingly further liberalised restrictions after its own Health Minister was pictured breaking them. Despite calls to ‘Stay Home’, Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething was snapped by The Sun picnicking in a park over the Bank Holiday weekend. This was even before England had allowed that activity…
Guidance abruptly changed on Monday, after Gething was seen in the park over the weekend. The Welsh Government is now denying the change is anything to do with the incident. Of course it wasn’t…
Readers may remember Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething from his swearing at a colleague during an expletive ridden virtual Welsh Assembly appearance, sending Coronavirus letters to the wrong households, and charging the taxpayer many thousands of pounds for globetrotting. After surviving these scandals, he’s now single handedly changed lockdown policy in Wales to pretty much match England. Remarkable!
The House of Commons’ first virtual parliament ran relatively smoothly today, with only a few MPs losing connection mid-question. Wales’ proceedings didn’t run quite as smoothly, with the Labour Health minister Vaughan Gething swearing at a fellow member being picked up when he left his microphone on. It appears Gething directed his fury at fellow Labour AM Jenny Rathbone, spitting “what the f**k is the matter with her?” Plaid Cymru are of course demanding his resignation…
