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Total COVID-19 expenditures in the UK were £310 billion to £410 billion according to official figures. While BoJo was partying during lockdowns. The same BoJo
by radnh 2y ago
Total COVID-19 expenditures in the UK were £310 billion to £410 billion according to official figures. While BoJo was partying during lockdowns.
The same BoJo was very enthusiastic about financing wars and torpedoing peace agreements.
But financing open access libraries? Hell, no! People might start to think on their own.
- ben_w 2y agoJohnson resigned as PM after it was clear the party was going to change its own rules to make it possible to have another vote of no-confidence in him, then again as an MP after being told he was being investigated for misleading the Commons, and his party lost the election just a few days ago. Johnson not in charge of what these libraries are facing, the damage he caused is too distant — blame Sunak for not reversing those things if blame is more important to you than repairing the situation, but for the latter the ball is in Labour's court.
- akslra 2y agoSame system, different actors. Johnson just exposed what was going on behind the scenes. Of course Sunak is similar in policies. So is Keir Starmer at least w.r.t. foreign policy. Maybe he'll fix the library situation for positive PR, it doesn't cost much.
- ben_w 2y agoLibraries aren't foreign policy. And Johnson didn't "just" expose what was going on behind the scenes, the point I was demonstrating is that he was so bad he was forced out of office even by the very party that itself was removed from office for being bad. If you want to argue that the UK electoral system is bad, I'd agree — yet your claim is neither evidence of that nor is it related to this story.