A lot of Westminster seems happy that *hire people to do urgent job X INSTANTLY in a pandemic x2 each 2-3 days* was borderline illegal 3/20 & very keen we keep the system/approach that killed >100k unnecessarily so next time there's a deadly crisis we kill even more
If we'd listened to this conventional wisdom spring 2020, we'd have done the conventional vaccine procurement instead of ripping it up & saying we'll ignore all normal rules/EU laws & *we don't care* if a court later says 'that was unlawful'
In the legal shitshow of spring 2020 we cd prioritise either A) 'don't lose a JR in a year' or B) 'solve problems killing 10000s'. Vote Leave chose B. Jolyon's legal cases are reinforcing the SW1 power structure & conventional wisdom back to A...
What's needed? A/ Better overall procurement system outside EU law, as VL said 2016. B/ a proper emergency protocol so Gvt can act fast *and* legally in genuine emergency like covid, & there's clarity re legal boundaries & radical transparency for lessons learned exercise after
Those saying 'stick to the rules' don't understand how they work: often nobody can tell No10 clearly what's 'lawful', & what gvt lawyers say is lawful is then defined as unlawful a year later. E.g proroguing. E.g procuring polls/focus groups. On both No10 was told it IS 'lawful'
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