Why Won't Boris Johnson Admit It's Too Dangerous To Keep Pubs Open?
Most of you are probably old enough to remember when Boris Johnson was going to “squash the sombrero” and “send the virus packing” in 12 weeks. He does seem to have an addiction to false hope, provided there is a snappy three- or four-word slogan attached.
Some of you will go back even further, to the time when Johnson said there had to be one country in the world prepared to stand up against this virus without shutting down the economy, and it might as well be good old Blighty.
Well, what a mess the country’s handling of Covid has been ever since, and what a total mess it is right now. Only someone who has neither respect for truth nor any desire to be connected to it could boast incessantly, as Johnson does, of the success he has made of it.
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Crisis management requires clarity of messaging and openness with the public about the data and the thinking behind decisions. Johnson’s government has been woeful on both.
I assume that his press conference yesterday was designed to provide greater clarity about the guidelines currently in place and the changes to the lockdown easing plan (sic). It would certainly have been quite a challenge to be any less clear than Matt Hancock had been on the airwaves in the morning, where his word blancmanges about the new rules for the new Northern lockdown had a succession of interviewers looking nonplussed.
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