Not being able to say goodbye to your loved ones, attend funerals, comfort the bereaved, see grandchildren, or any one of a thousand other things isn't a political issue. It's not a Leave/Remain culture war. It's what everyone in the UK has been labouring under for 10 weeks.
But the Right have undermined the solidarity we all share by making it all about politics.
A doctor reports not getting PPE? Well they're a Labour supporter, so we can discount the warning.
Someone laments not being at their dying mother's side. But they voted Remain, so...
A doctor reports not getting PPE? Well they're a Labour supporter, so we can discount the warning.
Someone laments not being at their dying mother's side. But they voted Remain, so...
Separate but parallel to that is Brexit. It hasn't stopped just because of the pandemic.
But the fact that someone voted Remain has nothing whatsoever to do with their personal experience of the pandemic, nor does it take anything away from the value of that experience.
But the fact that someone voted Remain has nothing whatsoever to do with their personal experience of the pandemic, nor does it take anything away from the value of that experience.
