Wednesday 27 January 2021

“We did all we could.”

So said the PM yesterday in the daily briefing where he announced that the UK's death toll from COVID using his metric had passed the tombstone of 100,000.

By the end of May 2020, we could point to two decisions, that the PM or his Ministers made, that each cost 20,000 lives.

Since then there have been two lockdowns imposed too late, a relaxation of restrictions allowing social mixing indoors over Christmas, and the borders have never been secure, despite that being the whole bloody point of Brexit.

On top of that, spaffing £32 billion on track and trace and dodgy PPE and more on Operation Moonshot on top of that.

I would call that a total failure of leadership and a total failure of lessons learned. The PM talked of those yesterday, and yet where has been the LL from the first wave, the failed lockdowns, the failed track and trace?

He takes responsibility, but none of the blame, because, “We did all we could.”

Their best wasn't good enough, never was, never will be.

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