– I resign from the Conservative Party because it has been an incredibly bad and awkward corona handling from the government from the very beginning.
Kjell Ove Saltnes was a Conservative member until yesterday. He was deputy to the municipal council in Eidsvoll, but now it’s over.
– I could not vouch for what the government does anymore, he says to Dagbladet.
It was Eidsvoll Ullensaker Blad who first mentioned the case.
Several party leaders say no
Error upon error
Saltnes points in particular to the way the government has handled infection from abroad as crucial for him. There should be mandatory testing at the border immediately, he says.
– Guest workers in this region had to be in quarantine hotels that did not exist, and it always seemed as if the government only cared about the big companies.
– We should have had mandatory testing at the border much earlier, also where the government lingered. Like I said – the government has been awkward, defensive and backward all along. Now I can not participate in this anymore, says Saltnes.
He adds that the small businesses in his region have not received good enough protection from the government.
– Locally, many companies are having a hard time now, but the government and the Conservatives are most concerned about them store the shipyards in Western Norway, not by the smaller companies all over the country. Again and again, the opposition has been much more offensive in packages of measures to save the business community across the country, Saltnes says.
No, no, and again no
No to the Storting vaccine
The big debate in recent days, about letting politicians jump ahead in the vaccine queue, is for Saltnes another proof of how hopeless the government’s corona handling is.
– It is completely wrong to let politicians sneak into the queue. They sit safely in their little bubble, they can keep their distance from each other. Ordinary people should get vaccinated now, teachers and kindergarten workers, there are people who work to create a safer everyday life for the whole country, says Saltnes and adds:
– It only creates greater distance between people and politicians as the government is doing now.
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