So the Indian variant is here, it’s out of control and it’s highly likely to **** up all the plans.
How did it get here in the first place? Surely it can’t have anything to do with the 11 plane loads of people from India arriving in the U.K. each day can it? If that was the case wouldn’t someone have done something about it?
There were many people warning that India needed to be put on the Red list around 3 weeks to a month or so before they actually went on it. Now I am sure if the Indian variant causes a delay in the plans for easing lockdown controls and there is an inquiry, BJ will be able to show he was following advice from the experts.
The thing is, BJ was desperately trying to get out to see the PM of Indian Modi, to secure some type of trade deal between us. Everyone in the Government and the civil service knows that BJ is desperate to show being out of the EU means we can get better trade deals now than when we were in the EU.
Therefore no one is going to go on record and upset BJ in anyway and tell him officially not to go to India, hence we had thousands of people coming back from India without having to go into isolation hotels and so spreading what looks like a more contagious version of the virus than the Kent variant.
I just hope that we can vaccinate enough people (and the vaccine is effective) before the Indian variant explodes and we are back to square one again. The amazing thing is though, even if that was to happen, many people would not attach any blame what so ever to BJ, in fact they would be feeling sorry for him and saying he is trying his best.