Yesterday the UK had its worst day ever for new COVID cases.
New York Times, 12/15/2021
The policy passed, with the help of votes from the opposition, as did several other related Covid measures. But with nearly 100 Conservatives voting against Mr. Johnson, it was a stinging rebuke of their leader, undermining his authority at a time when he has called for a national campaign to prevent Omicron from swamping the country.
There are various explanations for this paradox, ranging from Britain’s cherished tradition of protecting individual liberties to a deep sense of fatigue with a government that has lurched from policy to policy during the pandemic, reversing itself and exhibiting a tendency to flout the rules it imposes on others.
Whatever the reasons, the striking parliamentary mutiny leaves Britain in a curious place as it battles the latest wave of the virus: mobilizing a national vaccine booster campaign, while clinging to the vestiges of the live-and-let-live approach it used last summer, when Mr. Johnson threw off most restrictions in England in what became known as “freedom day.”
10/13/2021 update starts here
What happens when drooling incompetents are elected to the highest office in the land.
New York Times excerpt:Although many of its findings were already known, the report grew out of the first authoritative investigation of Britain’s pandemic response. The inquiry, led by lawmakers from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own Conservative Party, described a litany of failures by his government in the months after the first coronavirus cases were detected in Britain in January 2020.
Britain has experienced one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks among wealthy nations, with 162,000 deaths officially attributed to the disease. Like many Western democracies, at the outset of the pandemic it struggled to balance individual liberties with strict measures such as lockdowns, and suffered from mismanagement at the top levels of government.
10/9/2021 update , "Boris Johnson continues to rip page after page from the Trump coronavirus Trump," starts here.
New York Times, 10/9/2021
Britain's Conservative Party boogies its way to Doomsday.
Britons are lining up for gas, staring at empty grocery shelves, paying higher taxes and worrying about spiraling prices as a grim winter approaches.
But to visit the Conservative Party conference in Manchester this past week was to enter a kind of happy valley, where cabinet ministers danced, sang karaoke and drained flutes of champagne — Pol Roger, Winston Churchill’s favorite brand, naturally.
Nobody captured the bonhomie better than Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who told a whooping crowd of party faithful, “You all represent the most jiving, hip, happening, and generally funkapolitan party in the world.” [emphasis added]
Nothing to whoop about here.
Original 5/3/2020 post starts here
Lie as people die.
As with Trump, reality clearly contradict him.
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