Johnson was not alone in this .......... Sunak was more than a bit part player in all of this - and let's not forget the Tory rabble that cheered him on either. Jenkyns, Rees-Mogg, Patel, Braverman, Mordaunt to name but a few .....
The newspapers that cheerlead the Tories & Farage all while avoiding proper press regulation or at very least Leveson 2 ensure these things will happen.
Oh wait, I was saying this at the time and lost friends who told me I should believe the government. Johnson didn't care and hadn't a clue other than making his mates money.
Also, whilst the article mentions other Western European countries are recovering better than the UK (mainly because they didn’t have corrupt grifters in charge at the time) it seems to, as always, ignore the bloody big Brexit 🐘 in the room
1/ It really brings home the irresponsibility of Western governments, and especially Boris. I knew on December 26th that a highly infectious fatal disease had arisen in Wuhan because I had to begin making the arrangements for a doctoral student from the city to transfer from Perth-based to distance.
2/ From then on all of his supervision and examination had to be done online. He said he had been forced to disband his choir because two of them had died.
3/ It was a double whammy: China would not let him leave, and, by later in January, Australia would not have let him back in. He only went home because they were renovating his hall of residence and it was cheaper to fly home than find alternative accommodation over Christmas.
He and others still need to face prison sentences for making profit out of it for their rich mates. A huge heist on public money. But, English society being what it is, that will never happen. Look at how toothless the current inquiry is.
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I'm still staggered that when we faced something like COVID there were people whose first reaction was 'how can I profit from this?'
We had the worst of governments at the worst of times, using the cover of COVID to execute a raid on the country's resources.
I hope there aren't quiet back room conversations trading off justice with the reputational damage to government/politicians but fear there may be.
So there’s that.