"This government got the big things right"

[Fambo Number Mive]

@BorisJohnson

United Kingdom government official
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Confronted by the nation's biggest challenge since the Second World War and the worst pandemic since 1918, any government would get some things wrong.
 
But this government got the big things right.

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1483873206066896896

You can see Johnson's boasting above, but the UK government did not get "the big things right".

It locked down too late three times. It failed to enforce mask wearing properly. It did not ensure that people with limited incomes received masks. It did nothing to protect the most vulnerable. It continued to fail to protect the NHS or its staff despite

The seventh highest number of deaths in the world, beaten mainly by countries with much higher populations. The fourth highest number of cases in the world.

[evilcommiedictator]

Well, it killed off a bunch of it's own elderly voting base, I imagine most people don't mind not having those tiresome "I was -3 during the blitz" idiots out of the way

[shoulders]

Some extremely big things:

- PPE contracts scandal
- An eye watering outlay on a dysfunctional test and trace system which appears to be a total abuse of public funds.
- Letting discharged hospital patients with covid return to care homes alone an act of gross negligence leading to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths
- The slow starvation and crippling  of the NHS

Some simply big things:

- Scotch egg/Tier fiasco
- Allowing mass spread of Delta in futile effort to save face at Christmas leading to a 5 month lockdown
- Reopening schools for a day
- Mass disobedience of the rules by elites resulting in no punishments whatsoever while ordinary people stopped by police for going about their business
- Failure to support businesses or even understand what makes certain businesses different from another on an even basic level (eg. VAT cuts)

I'm sure I missed a fair few there.

[chveik]

got to it hand to them tho