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  • I think you're right - and whether the credit is due to the government or not, it has been impressive.

    That said, so much has preceded this that could, by rights, have sunk a government,* but they've managed to weather it all. How?

    *off the top of my head:

    • Boris Johnson's "lots of people will die" approach to Covid and failing to close the borders (before Starmer, admittedly)
    • Boris Johnson boasting about shaking hands with Covid patients and then nearly dying himself
    • The awful numbers of Covid deaths
    • The shortage of PPE and the handing out of contracts to friends
    • Gavin Williamson's assessments fuck up Pt.1
    • The inexplicable pre-Christmas easing of restrictions and then the Christmas lockdown
    • Gavin Williamson's assessments fuck up Pt.2 (after his "cast-iron guarantees")
    • Priti Patel's bullying
    • Boris Johnson's latest affair

    How can a successful rollout cover that up?

    And how can Labour have failed so badly to make political capital out of the non-sensitive parts of that?

  • I think a lot just don't care. Boris got Brexit done, he's a true patriot who loves this country, he's doing something about those bloody immigrants, look at the cock-up the EU has made of vaccinations, imagine if Corbyn had been in charge, it's a national emergency you've got to skip some of the red tape, it's just those woke lefties complaining because he says what the man in the street is thinking, etc

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