EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Well, he completely mishandled it but you cannot really blame a virus for being "anti-democratic / project fear (ha..) all the tribal division tricks just won't fly.

As for optics, all project fear, no? ;)

It's odd behaviour - at some point (now-ish) whether they like it or not they'll be measured on delivery. Culture wars, slagging off opposition and further appointments of Disgraced Former Defence Secretary Fox won't help.

Johnson's popularity has dived over the pandemic and I imagine it's got further to go, and that wasn't even his fault (I mean, he didn't personally cause it); he'll be killed off by supermarkets running out (again) and traffic queues through the middle of Kent. You'd have thought that they'd start to take Brexit optics a bit more seriously.

The beauty of turning everything into a facet of the culture war is that it removes the need for competence:

• Boris killed at least 50,000 people by vacillating over lockdown, starving the NHS of PPE and then backing Cummings over the law, ending lockdown (and the potential for future lockdowns) at a stroke
  
• Yeah, but Corbyn would have been worse
  

It's odd behaviour - at some point (now-ish) whether they like it or not they'll be measured on delivery

Any economic impact will be blamed on the pandemic. The surge in property sales trying to get into the stamp duty holiday will be the indicator that Brexit is paying off.