Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
Boris really shouldn't be answering any questions himself. This isn't the time to hold the PM's feet to the fire, when those feet are attached to a dangerous moron.
I don't think the scientists have really changed their tune at all. For years (not just since the start of this pandemic), they have been warning of exactly this outcome. The imbecilic right wing (mostly in America) reads this to mean that it was pre-planned, but it wasn't. It was predicted. With a fairly high degree of accuracy. Boris is playing the blundering idiot because it comes naturally to him. He is not an intellegent man playing the role of a moron. He is a moron. You can take the act at face value. But those around him are well aware that this was an inevitability. It's just that all government thinking is short-term, and so nobody planned for it because there was no policital ground to be gained in doing so. The pandemic just happened to land on whomever was in office at the time. For the UK and the US, this was very unfortunate, for obvious reasons.