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I wouldn’t give PM Boris Johnson too much credit here. He regularly skipped crucial meetings at the start of the pandemic, and as PM he is ultimately accountabl

• traceroute66 5y ago
  > I wouldn’t give PM Boris Johnson too much credit here. He regularly skipped crucial meetings at the start of the pandemic He did more than skip them, he remained thousands of miles away on holiday on a Caribbean island. Didn't deem it important enough to return early. You also forgot the Lockdown parties. ;-) Even before the party revelations, his and his government's handling of the pandemic was already well understood to be dire (dither & delay, too little too late, billions on dodgy contracts). Post-party revelations ? Whatever scraps of credibility that may have remained quickly took a long walk off a short pier. He and his supporters try to cling to his credibility on the back of the vaccines. But even that was dire. The completely un-necessary and embarrassing EU fighting and unfounded British exceptionalism over the vaccines, the false claims about AZ being a British invention when it is well documented that (something like) 75% of the AZ vaccine team are EU and Other nationals ... the list goes on.