Every court in the land spends most of its time trying to attribute blame for things which are now history, and I believe that that is regarded as helpful in moving forward as a society because of the way in which, albeit far from 100% effectively, it tends to discourage others from doing those things in the future.It's 'reasonable' if one merely wants to attribute 'blame' for things which are now history - but that, in itself, does not help us moving forward.
It's a start. Let's try and make it the first, hesitant, step on the path which leads to the situation where future individuals in government when a major crisis arises, and their actions are delinquent and their behaviour egregiously digusting, fear not a telling off from an enquiry but a prison term.As I said, it's what matters in terms of the future. Finding/exposing individuals as 'scapegoats' will not help the future at all, not the least because none of the individuals concerned will be in government when the next major crisis arises.
But of course this enquiry should identify and lambaste the guilty, not find people to be blamed and punished for the actions of others.
Who was it who demoralised and fragmented the NHS?The planning was not as Baldrick-like as you seem to imply, although it was necessarily fairly theoretical, given so little past experience of such events. Since memories/data of past major pandemics (e.g. the 1919/20 'flu one) are so distant, most of the 'lessons learned' had too come from the 2009 HiN1 'flu pandemic, which was of limited value.
Who was it who wrecked the care-home sector?
Who was it who cut local authority funding so deeply that they had no capabilities to respond in areas where local actions and oversight were the best approach?
Who was it who dismantled so much of the apparatus of local authorities that we are now the most centralised economy in Europe and one of the most centralised of any democracy in the world?
Who was it who, basically, wrecked the entire state in a mad ideological pursuit of "market-driven private good, public bad"?
Even "limited value" is greater than the zero value of SFA.