That is the most ridiculous post I have ever read.
Maybe it is, but:
1) When the scale of this pandemic was unfolding and warnings were coming in from Italy, Boris Johnson went on holiday for two week, missing 5 vital COBRA meetings which you could argue were critical at that stage.
2) Boris Johnson advocated us “taking Coronavirus on the chin” with the herd immunity idea, which essentially amounts to letting it rip through the population in an uncontrolled manner killing the weakest and most vulnerable. Again, this badly thought out policy squandered more valuable time, time countries like Germany used to get testing, tracing and isolating up and running.
3) Boris Johnson demonstrated very clearly that he hadn’t bothered to educate himself about the deadlines of this disease or just how contagious it is. This ignorance must have found it’s way into his initial plans and weakened them. He was so ignorant of the facts that he actively boasted about shaking hands with Coronavirus patients. A sort of Princess Diana AIDS moment. This resulted in him very nearly killing himself, the Chief Medical Officer and his Health Secretary. This resulted in him again being absent at a highly critical stage and leaving the country with no named leader.
4) Boris Johnson was warned about the looming crisis in care homes as early as February, this was playing out in other countries and even we mentioned it here. Boris Johnson did absolutely nothing except try his best to put the care home deaths out of public view.
5) In 2009 a WHO audit found the the U.K. was well prepared to handle a pandemic in terms of hospital capacity and stocks of PPE. From 2010 when the Tories came to power, they reduced that capacity and ran down PPE stocks to save money. Not all Boris Johnson’s fault, but again, he was either missing or did nothing with the time advantage he had over Italy.
Boris Johnson has a track record of going AWOL when the smelly stuff hits, treating everything like a joke or just ignoring warnings, particularly if they have a Made in the EU label attached. Even on Sunday when he announces the new lockdown measure, he is doing it by way of an address, not a briefing. This is no accident, it is done this way so that he won’t have to face questions or scrutiny as they do at briefings.
Boris Johnson may not have filled all of those Olympic sized swimming pools with bodies, but that’s how many we could fill with our death toll. That is the worst track record in Europe and a some of those 12, and climbing, pools full of bodies have been filled by Boris Johnson’s stupidity, recklessness, refusal to face responsibility, absenteeism and incompetence.
Anyway, don’t look at the pile of 50000 dead bodies over there in the corner, watch the jets, it’s VE Day.
