We should remember that not all Tory MPs are equally complicit. Many of the worst decisions will have been made with just a tiny inner circle from Cabinet in the room.
Most MPs will have had no input at all into the planning process aside from debates and votes in Parliament.
Most MPs will have had no input at all into the planning process aside from debates and votes in Parliament.
So yes, the calamitous handling of the pandemic is 100% the fault of the Tory party.
But that doesn't mean we should be eager to tar all Tory MPs with the same brush.
Many of them are just as shocked and distraught as all the rest of us are.
But that doesn't mean we should be eager to tar all Tory MPs with the same brush.
Many of them are just as shocked and distraught as all the rest of us are.
For instance, over 80 MPs have now gone public to denounce Cummings or demand his resignation.
So sharpen and focus the aim of your wrath on the people who truly deserve to feel it.
So sharpen and focus the aim of your wrath on the people who truly deserve to feel it.
We will need the support of as many of the rational ones as possible over the next 4 years, as Boris Johnson and the organ grinder dismantle our democratic checks and balances.
It's a long, long time until the next general election.
It's a long, long time until the next general election.
