You can argue all night about the efficacy of the vaccine itself, but the pace of the rollout was undeniably faster than practically any other country, and I think it’s naive to suggest that No10 had no bearing on that.On the vaccine rollout, why the 200k deaths - amongst the worst death rates in the world?
FYI Starmer was cleared following two police investigations and by the way he promised to resign had he received a fine whereas BloJo didn't.
You are of course entitled to your opinion on Starmer's 'innocence' or otherwise, but it's irrelevant.
What about the death rates?You can argue all night about the efficacy of the vaccine itself, but the pace of the rollout was undeniably faster than practically any other country, and I think it’s naive to suggest that No10 had no bearing on that.
Again, I’m not a fan of Johnson, but the vaccine rollout was a success during his time as PM.
Cummings should have been fined too. But the whole nonsense about forgetting that Rayner was at the Durham event as well just highlights the hypocrisy of it all.
So let me get this right. If the Bank of England had not of stepped in today I could of lost all the money in my private pensions totaling nearly £30K?
Should I be worried for the future?
It doesn’t, because the rules were different in different areas.Cummings should have been fined too. But the whole nonsense about forgetting that Rayner was at the Durham event as well just highlights the hypocrisy of it all.
Why wouldn’t we? Oxford University already had the basis for that vaccine and naturally they pursued its development for this virus. As for the rollout, we were six weeks ahead of comparable countries in the EU and they had caught up before Delta hit in the summer so it made absolutely no difference. Whether we would have been ahead had there been a different PM is impossible to know but I suspect PPE, Care homes and test & trace would have been managed much better with far less waste and preventable deaths.If Starmer had been PM then we wouldn’t have pursued our own vaccine development, and the rollout would subsequently have been slower.
So even if you don’t want to attribute any positive contribution to Johnson, the fact that he had a different view from Starmer meant that the speed of the rollout was faster.
As for the Durham thing, Durham police did have a different view from me, but he was lucky to avoid being fined given the evidence presented by several people who attended the curry and beer, sorry, work event.
Nothing to do with whataboutery, which I must say is a rather lazy thing to throw into a debate. Johnson was rightly fined, Cummings should have been fined and disciplined if not fired by Johnson, and the same standards should apply to others who had beer and curry evenings during a lockdown.Nice attempt at whataboutery.
I believe he is booked on tonights Peston........ should be a giggle