The Johnson regime will not keep you safe.
It will not ensure fuel makes it to the pumps.
Or food from farm to table.
It won't ensure you can afford to warm your home.
It won't ensure hungry kids get fed.
Or NHS staff get paid.
It won't take simple steps to protect against Covid
It won't ensure pubs and restaurants have enough staff to get back to normal.
It won't protect the poorest from NI rises and UC cuts.
It won't protect farmers or factories or those relying on the borders being open.
It won't protect those who need the protection of the law.
It won't protect human rights.
It won't protect those whose families have been divided by war.
It won't protect the arts and musicians who can't tour.
It won't protect the NHS or its beleaguered, depleted staff.
It won't protect people of colour from xenophobia and racism.
It won't protect the sovereignty of Parliament, or democratic rights of protest.
It won't protect independent journalism.
It won't protect owners of flats in cladded buildings.
It won't protect the homeless.
It won't protect anyone who can't jump through hoops to prove their
right of residency.
It won't protect the UK's reputation as a fair and honourable country which respects international law.
It won't protect peace in Ireland.
It won't protect the people whom it exists to serve.
It WILL protect its friends, its donors, its contractors, and its providers of confected consultancy jobs. It'll protect its grip on power. It'll keep itself safe, but not the people, not the country it's supposed to protect. The regime is, let's face it, the enemy of the people.
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Does the ordinary British bloke in the street know that they have Covid "passports" in Europe, and they are freer because of them?
I don't think he does.
1/10
Does the ordinary British woman in the street know that there are no empty shelves in European supermarkets, and that the shortage of HGV drivers only exists in the UK, because of Brexit?
I don't think she does.
/2
Does the ordinary bloke in the street know that in the USA and in Europe, they've been vaccinating kids for months without drama?
I don't think he does.
/3
Man literally recorded conspiring to assault a journalist in charge of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Man who directed public funds to his mistress in charge of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Man who proudly signed international treaties with no intention of honouring them in charge of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I don't want our children to get covid, or long covid, or wind up in hospital at the rate of 1,100+/month. This regime does want them to get covid, and long covid, and has no problem with 1,100+/month of them winding up in hospital. This regime has contempt for our children.
There is no other way to interpret a strategy combining high community prevalence with the removal of mitigations in schools.
2/6
And the repeated forays into disinformation - schools are not vectors, covid is benign in kids, "natural" infection is better than vaccination - only add a layer of cruel confusion onto a bizarre policy of enforced exposure to a terrible virus.
If my policies in government had caused a breakdown in the supply chain such that food wasn't making it to the shops and restaurants of modern Britain, I would apologise, resign, and crawl under a rock in shame.
If I had presided over 150,000 deaths, and effectively caused many of them....
If I had lied to the people, lied to the Queen, and made a mockery of Britain's democratic norms....
When you think of all the disruption to school life the kids have endured, to tell them now that we're happy for them to catch it - when we have approved vaccines we could give them - seems like something of a hard boot in the teeth.
And to suggest, as one member of the vaccines committee has publicly done, that long Covid is "in the mind" when the evidence is the opposite is yet another insult. And speaking of mind, the cognitive harms even to those who feel recovered are worse than a stroke! Lord help us.
Apart from failure to secure food supply, failure to control the pandemic, failure to get us working, failure to get us travelling, stealing our money on an epic scale, dividing us bitterly, and killing 150k of us, it's been a top government so far.
Apart from alienating the Scots, alienating the Irish, alienating all of Europe, making buying from Europe a costly nightmare, making selling to Europe a costly nightmare, and establishing the UK as a bad-faith actor on the world stage, it's been a great show so far.
Apart from abandoning the norms of the unwritten British constitution, lying to the Queen, thwarting our sovereign parliament, overtly breaking laws, clamping down on protest, brushing away legal and electoral scrutiny - oh and lying all day long - it's been a decent govt so far.