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Everything seems so last minute and ad hoc with this Conservative government. Their announcement of another level 5 lockdown (which hadn't existed until today)
by open-source-ux 6y ago
Everything seems so last minute and ad hoc with this Conservative government. Their announcement of another level 5 lockdown (which hadn't existed until today) and the u-turn on school closures makes it clear they are simply making things up as they go along.
The goverment's level of incompetence is simply off the scale. How has this nasty, rotten government gotten away with some much? (No doubt helped by our nasty right-wing press.)
- Veen 6y agoHow would it work otherwise? The lockdowns are announced when they happen. What's the alternative? Announcing them weeks before they go into force? Then people would be up in arms the nasty Tory government are delaying the lockdowns. They are "making things up as they go along" or as it's more charitably known, reacting to events.
- xyzzyz 6y agoBlaming it on Conservative government and “nasty” right wing press might make you feel better, but there is no reason to believe you’d get better outcomes if someone else was pulling the strings. Sure, UK government’s response to covid has been stupid, inconsistent and making things up as they went along, but the same is true about government response to covid almost everywhere else.
- f6v 6y agoThat’s right, nobody took it seriously. I remember my biology professors at the university joking about COVID in March: “Anyone came from Italy recently? Hahaha”. That was surreal.
- djsumdog 6y agoI agree. It's a power grab and security theater. It's like the TSA at airports. Let's show we're doing something for the people who keep screaming at the government to do something. It's like trying to stop a hurricane or an asteroid impact. Everything is for show and most of it is just going to make things worse.