We all knew (part 2)

We assume that public schooled toffs are breastfed debates by their nannies. And so anyone who went to Eton and Cambridge would be of such high calibre that there were undefeatable.

And then, along came Johnson.

The Boris thing is an act, and underneath he is a real genius, ambitious and clever, a match for anyone.

And yes, we saw in the Conservative Leadership campaign, and the following election, a real fear of debate and scrutiny. For a graduate of the English public school sytem, debating of almost any subject is second nature. And yet almost every opportunity of actual debate ether with leaders of other parties or any serious radio or TV show was avoided.

Turns out he is no great mass-debater. He is lazy. Lazy to the point he admitted tonight he only reach scientific papers in extreme circumstances. 65,000 people or more have died through the virus. I mean, how much more serious would things have to be for Johnson to actually read a SAGE paper? Or understand the fact that many colleges and universities are facing financial ruin, or people can't get any kind of childcare and might need financial help in this.

This seemed like breaking news to the PM. As did the subject of quarantine for people flying into the country form June 1st. THis has been an issue for weeks, and yet for Johnson in front of a committee of senior MPs, it was like this was news.

How can we take anyone serious when they put the fate of his friend and advisor ahead of the public health of the very country is supposed to be leader of?

The emperor is naked and we can all laugh, but 65,000 people have died, and the same people who made the decisions that brought us here will make the decisions of the next step. It is what I have said for weeks, true then, true now.

Johnson must go, Cummings must go. And yet they have to take ownership of the decisions that got us as a country that got us here. To let them off now would be to forgive the unforgivable.

When I started witing about the virus, it was never meant to tie that crisis with that of Brexit, and yet it soon became clear that the sheer ignorance of the science and facts that took us down the hard/hardest Brexit road would lead to tens of thousands of extra COVID deaths. That must be answered for.

And when answered, maybe people will think that if Johnson and co got it so wrong on the pandemic, then maybe they were wrong about other shit too.

120,000 died as a result of austerity, and other 65,000 in the name of COVID don't matter, Think of that when you bury your Nan.