I'm hardly an apologist for this government, but it's easy to see how they get pulled from pillar to post. On the one hand, there's the 'science' which seems to be all over the place, and is inevitably dominated by the doom-mongering subset who are in perpetual pursuit of funding. Then there's the media, which increasingly seems to be made up of people who are as thick as they are hysterical, and amongst all that, I sense that Boris, though a person of strong and often correct instinct, ultimately lacks the strengths of his convictions and finds it hard to be decisive.
And on top of that, the damn virus has taken it all out of him. The guy is clearly not himself, even now.
I totally understand the pillar-to-post thing, they're stuck in the middle of two strongly polarised camps, one wanting to open up, the other are scared as shit. But it's the
world class this and the
world class that which does my head in.
It's impossible to know currently whether everything that's gone wrong has been due to incompetence but as time goes on the cracks are showing.
As for the press, often they ask stupid questions because those stupid questions are the ones the public keep wanting to ask. They have to represent the public in times like these. Just like politicians though, some journalists give off a feel of commonsense and reliability, others seem shrieky and shallow.
We've also seen a lot of new journalists who've apparently come out of nowhere since CV began, only about half of them seem any good, although it always takes time to learn your chops and it's pretty tough live, on air.
Re: Boris, you have a point, I can't see anything obvious but certainly anyone whose life was in the balance just a few weeks ago must be a little fragile just beneath the surface.
