In the case of Sunak if you can't be popular spending a few hundred billion you'll never be popular. The jury is out for me on him, tough times ahead and he needs to help the right people
Did OK with the Nightingale Hospitals to be fair, that avoided a 0/10 for me
Damage is done now, we ease and hope for the best. The public I'm sure will continue on the whole to be very responsible despite being let down badly
Think we have high excess because we were poorly prepared for a pandemic, it crept up on Johnson, he thought he could wing it, then locked down too late and had to just fight fires.
We have been playing catch up ever since. Right now he's staring down the barrel of a shocking legacy, but it...
He does have form in this area, below was from 2018
TBH, it just exemplifies a level of arrogance from the Tory "double breasted suit brigade", they know they will never lose their seat and just couldn't give a flying f&&k what joe public thinks. Just so out of touch
More lefties at it, claiming the Tories disbanded a pandemic team to concentrate on Brexit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8416075/Boris-Johnson-scrapped-Cabinet-Ministers-pandemic-team-six-months-coronavirus-hit-Britain.html
Bring back Paul Dacre....
He wanted the May deal
Brexit has been a contributor to why the country has been so poorly prepared, the Tories nationalist pet project consumed everything since 2016. Our country was weaked, we were dysfunctional, had a zombie government and just flapped around from crisis to crisis, acting...
Public health expert Professor John Ashton...
The government's coronavirus response was "appalling"...
February as a "lost month" for the UK where no action was taken ....
He's very laid back, he doesn't really believe in intervention and his personal life's been chaotic ...
"He was dealing...
A wasted opportunity for Britain
I remember watching the debates back during the election campaign, the only one that told the truth, the only one with realism, the only one with pragmatism, instead lies and pure fantasy won through.
If he'd been in charge during this crisis he would have...
I know NSC tends to be centre left generally, but even by the metropolitan educated liberal latte supping elite of Brighton and Hove 87.5% very poor / poor is pretty damning
Bunker Podcast - https://play.acast.com/s/the-bunker/b084ebb3-5ffe-44b8-9130-2c189921a9c0
Interview with Mathew Parris, he's got the measure of Johnson. Essentially lazy, doesn't do detail and is essentially scared of parliament
While the quality of the average Tory MP has dropped with even a few crypto-fascists now in the fold, not sure if everyone with principle has gone.
If Johnson is failing still come the next election they will drop him