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Yes, the UK was prepared for the coronavirus. Then Boris Johnson's government knowingly and deliberately de-prepared us.
My column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Having brought all the evidence together, I feel like crying over the waste and loss of it all.
Just so sad and angry.
"In other words, none of these are failures of knowledge or capacity. They are de-preparations, conscious decisions not to act. They start to become explicable only when we recognise what they have in common: a refusal to frontload the costs."
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So, to believe the story that Gove, Cummings and Johnson have spun between them, you must now believe several contradictory claims. But no intellectual contortions are too humiliating for some Conservative MPs and pundits, who dutifully repeat whatever they're told.
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There must be a queue of Tory MPs anxiously phoning the whips, asking "which of these contradictory lies are we promoting today?".
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George Orwell said that "The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes." In other words, if the elite excuses itself from the national effort, that effort is dangerously undermined. Cummings must resign theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
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