Sadly, I’m not sure you are right on that Bob. Objectively the worst performing largish country in managing the pandemic, as the death toll and death rates show, to say nothing of the economic side, this may well be eclipsed in storytelling/propaganda terms by the vaccine roll out, particularly if it is turned into an ‘us v them’ thing with the EU. It’s the way populists work, ignore failure, find external and internal enemies to demonise, take all the credit deserved or not. People tend to remember the last thing they’re told.
So poor and late decision making, clearly dodgy on occasion ‘expert’ advice and an element of the population who were never going to follow rules and the resulting deaths will be overshadowed by jabs. They’ve already got everyone praising the rollout, the fix is in. If vaccine supplies run short it will be the evil EUs fault. If infection rates and hospitalisations don’t fall fast it will be because of people who don’t follow the rules. Johnson is the hero of the hour, Gove told us we wouldn’t have a vaccine roll out without his leadership this very morning.
