The timeline from January to March is even more damning
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The timeline from January to March is even more damning
I agree, but to be fair to Johnson, he was out of the loop for much of February because he was on holiday.
The most damning part of the article for me is the bit where it says there was a realisation in mid March that we were going to be worse than Italy and yet there was still hesitation about implementing the lockdown.
not sure how accurate this is, but...Attachment 3844
this graph is damningAttachment 3845
How anyone can read that times article bob posted and not think the government completely ****ed everything is beyond me.
some military historians think that time was absolutely crucial to the UK. after he came back with his piece of paper he also immediately stepped up preparations in the army. had we ended up in war at that earlier time we would have fared a lot worse.
unfortunately that gets lost as the narrative for how the war played out was set by the guy who came afterwards, to paint him in the best possible way.
Just to add a little bit of substance to me last post about Chamberlain:
"Chamberlain's return was not universally well-received. 15,000 people protested against the Munich agreement the same day in Trafalgar Square, three times more than welcomed him at 10 Downing Street. Due to Chamberlain's ongoing manipulation of the BBC, this news was largely suppressed at the time.[5] Labour spokesman Hugh Dalton publicly suggested that the piece of paper which Chamberlain was waving was "torn from the pages of Mein Kampf."[6] Disbelieving Chamberlain, Isaac Asimov published in July 1939 "Trends", which mentions a World War in 1940. He later wrote "I was too conservative" (about when war would begin).[7]"
This has just appeared on the Guardian's rolling coverage;-
"Vaccine will be ready by September, drug maker chief claims
British people will be able to access a coronavirus vaccine from September, the chief executive of drug maker AstraZeneca has said, despite concerns it will not be ready.
Pascal Soriot told The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that British people will get first access to the vaccine from autumn.
The pharmaceutical firm, which is working with Oxford University, had previously said it has secured the first agreements for at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, PA reports.
But a leading member of the project told The Sunday Telegraph the lower transmission of Covid-19 in the community leaves the trial with only a 50% chance of success.
Asked if people in Britain will be among the first to get the vaccine, Soriot said: “Yes, we have actually received an order from the British Government to supply 100 million doses of vaccine, and those will go to the British people.
“And there’s no doubt, starting in September, we will start delivering these doses of vaccine to the British Government for vaccination.”
But Soriot went on to say the possibility of the vaccine being rolled out in autumn depended on if an Oxford University trial worked before the transmission rate lowers further.
He added: “The vaccine has to work and that’s one question, and the other question is, even if it works, we have to be able to demonstrate it.
“We have to run as fast as possible before the disease disappears so we can demonstrate that the vaccine is effective.”
Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group began development on a vaccine in January, using a virus taken from chimpanzees."
"At the time that he came back with "a piece of paper, it was widely celebrated in the UK. PMs don't have the vision of hindsight. Johnson possesses neither hindsight nor foresight"
You actually said this.