Well that's it. What little respect I had for the current government has gone, unlike Dominic Cummings.
Boris Johnson's weeks of dithering and inaction have cost - quite literally - the lives of tens of thousands of people, and all the while they were dying, he and his cabinet have been trying to take us for fools by telling us how well they were doing. They have manipulated the figures and lied every day to make themselves out to be on top of it, whereas all they really have done is defend themselves against awkward questions.
They blamed the nurses for causing the lack of PPE and now they are blaming the scientists for giving bad advice. They had to make a U-turn over charging overseas nurses, doctors and cleaners for the privilege of using the NHS. They are beneath contempt.
Boris Johnson is nothing without Dominic Cummings (the man that even David Cameron described as a 'career psychopath') and Cummings knows it. A woman living a few hundred yards from the hospital in Durham was not allowed to leave the house to say goodbye to her loved one dying there, but Cummings can get in his car and drive 260 miles whilst ill with Covid and still keep his job. By all accounts he left the house when there to visit another town 10 miles away, walking around and spreading the virus. He helped make the laws but obviously thinks that they don't apply to him. Boris has - once again - put out a confusing message by interpreting the rules in a way which suits Cummings but not the rest of us. That could already have cost lives.
His own back-benchers are now giving Boris a hard time over Cummings, and long may they keep it up. The cabinet will try to change the subject by saying that the row over Cummings is a left-wing plot at a time when they should be allowed to get on with their jobs of fighting the virus, but they never got to grips with the job in the first place.
Boris Johnson was given so many chances to prove himself to be a good P.M. and he has blown every one of them, day by day. Bluster no longer serves any useful purpose.
The handling of this crisis is a national disgrace.
Well said.
ReplyDeleteTime for us to keep our heads down even more as people wonder why they should bother and the lockdown, such as is left of it, falls apart.
Confidence in this administration has been lost. Nobody knows who to believe. Their efforts to protect the economy has made the situation 10 times as bad as it need not have been. The belated decision to lockdown on a Monday rather than the weekend was a disaster. They had no courage in their convictions.
DeleteHearing the explanation for the actions taken was like hearing a not very bright kid work out how much we knew and thinking of a good reason for every bit of it. Not good enough and demeaning.
DeleteYes, that's a good analogy. He didn't tell the headmaster what he was about to do because he didn't want to overload him with information. He definitely told the head about his plans, but Boris told him to say that he had not. When they did admit to talking about it, it was supposed to be when they were both delirious, so neither could remember what was said. The dog ate my homework.
DeleteAs someone who happily voted for Boris at the last election, I agree with everything you have said. Everybody who was fined for being found miles from home around that time, should now be appealing and asking to be re-inbursed.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be a first.
DeleteWords fail me Tom - I agree with what you say.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shocking waste of time and resources.
DeleteThe whole thing is astonishing, though given the protagonists not too unlikely.
ReplyDeleteIt would be almost humorous if it were not a matter of life and death.
DeleteWell you can read what I wrote elsewhere. He gave a passable interview,but no matter which way he turned he could not deny that his actions were wrong. The country has judged him, Johnson should sack him and end the misery.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great message to send out: Let me be very clear - It was not wrong, but it was not right either.
DeleteIt's November for us. We'll vote him out or in. Not a good time in the world today.
ReplyDeleteI have a worrying feeling that he could well be voted back in. I don't think that Boris will come out of this looking like Winston Churchill though.
DeleteExtremely well put and I agree with every word.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame it even has to be mentioned.
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