COVID inquiry: No 10 had ‘unbelievably bullish’ approach to pandemic and thought UK ‘would sail through it’
by topotaul
COVID inquiry: No 10 had ‘unbelievably bullish’ approach to pandemic and thought UK ‘would sail through it’
by topotaul
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It still baffles me that we’ve been pretty much fine with our elected officials surrounding themselves with a harem of angry, sweary weirdos whom we don’t get to know or even elect. These people, who, again, are unelected, have an insane amount of influence over our senior ministers and, in the case of Boris Johnson, can literally be the last person in the room that sways his shopping trolley mind. “The system failed, Dominic?” You are the fucking system, and it’s clearly no longer fit for purpose. Britain really is broken. We just couldn’t see how bad it was until now.
So let’s waste more money agreeing that it was a shambles, that the politicians and mostly the government were useless and incompetent hypocrites and that nobody had a clue what they were doing.
Because apparently we didn’t already know this.
They’ll walk away with no punishment and no accountability or consequences. It’s an absolute joke and waste of time and money.
I see so many ignorant and poorly informed views and opinions on the Covid pandemic response. More of these people who think they know what they’re talking about should spend time actually watching some of these inquiry sessions to see how things actually were. I’m not just talking about those supporting the government, I mean the vast majority of people on this sub who claim it was an absolute disaster too. It’s nowhere near as black and white as people pretend.
We can only really benchmark against other countries, and I personally thought we did a good job, not perfect.
But when we listen to this, we can now see it could have been a lot better than good. The attitudes and characteristics shown are without doubt, not the qualities of good leadership.
Quite a few people voted for Johnson becuase they thought he was funny. Nobody’s laughing now, are they. “Let the bodies pile high”, “why damage the economy for people who will die anyway”…boom, boom!
This is why the inquiry was delayed, exposed shocking, disgusting, career ending behaviour and no one cares now. Sunak should be hounded out
I remember his Greenwich speech where he described the Chinese lockdowns as autarky and market fragmentation. He could only see a societal medical emergency in terms of impact on profits.
Brexit was so straightforward that they became complacent
Didn’t they scrap the THRCC six months before Covid to focus on Brexit? It doesn’t seem to be mentioned often.
It’s because many British people have this false sense of superiority over other countries.
Many, incl. myself, believed it would all blow over by the summer & would only ever affect pockets of the UK.
Easy to criticize in hindsight
We would have sailed through it if it was treated as it should have been nothing more than a cold and flu. But to many people wouldn’t have made obscene amounts of money if we had done that
It’s unpopular opinion but Boris probably had the right skillset for the pandemic.
If we listened to all these scientists we would still be in lockdown in a state of anarchy and irreversible economic ruin.
We locked the country down to protect the NHS but what good has it done. They’re an absolute mess and in complete chaos and now they’re holding the country to ransom going on strike.
Doesn’t the prevalence of cocaine explain most of this?
The fact people gave Boris a majority of 80! He has to be the second worst tories leader.