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A rhetorical question, but as soon as we ask it we are reminded how poor our governments tend to be and how difficult it is improve things via the feeble levers of our democracy. Here in the UK there is still an enormous temptation to view the coronavirus debacle from a specific standpoint –
- We need to do what we are doing.
- It’s inconvenient but maybe we’ll wait and see.
- We are doing more harm than good.
Instead of pretending to protect people we may as well go back to the herd immunity policy. Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, minimise interpersonal contact as far as possible, protect the vulnerable and pay attention to general hygiene. Apart from that it may as well be business as usual. Pretending won’t help.
Yes – this is certainly a contender for our worst ever government and Boris must be a contender for the worst ever Prime Minister.
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In no way is my comment in support of Boris, but he did come into the job and immediately had the virus to deal with, sadly that was all it took to show how useless he is, a PM of substance would have stood his ground and taken advice from a broad range of 'experts' and then analysed the content, not as he has simply repeated the advice from serial failure Prof Ferguson and then taken Chris Witty at word he who has taken the shilling big time from those backing a virus, that impartiality should in a sane world caused his instant dismissal.
Is he the worst, we are spoilt for choice, Major blotting his blotter with Edwina and his awful affected voice will be remembered for the cones hot line and Maastrict which no one voted for, Blair, reams on him no need to repeat, give away the gold and wreck private pensions Broon, I'm not a quitter and the Brexit result will be enacted next week Cameron, he quit, May the never achiever and as a parting shot to the nation signed us up to a trillion dollar climate change act, so Boris is in the big league now.
And that's without going as far back as Ted Heath!
At my age, I'm beginning to think that I really don't care that much, about what government is in 'power'.
They all screw the public in the end, I always assume that Labour are worse because I've never voted for them, but nowadays, a Conservative government isn't really different from a labour one in the level of incompetence.
Probably, the best option is to ignore the whole shebang, never watch the awful BBC, and enjoy the countryside - no gummint will kill you - yet...
Great minds........
https://therealslog.com/2020/09/22/a-tragic-compendium-of-cowardice/
Wiggia - yes, it's a depressing list when we look back. It does suggest that these people are merely actors in a show they did not put on themselves. I couldn't read the piece in your link, too dispiriting.
Graeme - my mind also whizzed straight back to Ted Heath, the yardstick by which we measure how dire PMs have been.
Scrobs - I agree, ignore the whole shebang. I'm not there yet but it's the direction I'm taking.
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