Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Oh c’mon Ram...you sound almost gleeful about the Germans.
It’s not a bloody competition...it’s about learning from the best examples and showing some leadership and personal responsibility
How can you take a leader seriously who, in the space of the same ‘speech’, talks about the likelihood of having a third wave in January but still supports a five day relaxation over Christmas? That’s insane.

At least the Germans acknowledged they were probably ‘lucky’ first time around and the other UK nation’s don’t seem to be chasing Johnson’s pathetic aim of avoiding the ‘Grinch’ label...I hear NI are entering lockdown again on Boxing Day.
I'm trying to highlight the difficulty of the situation and the continual berating of the government and fawning of other governments, when they appear to get something right. The German government was widely held as dealing with covid correctly in the spring and having it under control. I wonder how their policies and actions that were so effective then, have now failed so spectacularly. Surely, if it was their actions that controlled the virus then, they should have continued to work now.

I'm sick to death of the media promoting one expert or business person claiming the government is too strict, only for the next article to have another expert or business person saying the opposite. Then we have the media constantly searching the country to find 2 pubs either side of a tier line and describe the situation as ridiculous, that story was done to death months ago when Leicester first went into lockdown.

Scottish and Welsh governments are never held to task for their many failings.

Johnson is trying to allow us to be adult about Xmas, rather than criminalising normal families. The people most likely to be responsible for spreading the virus are those that would ignore any rules anyway.

It's not a competition, but you seemed to 'enjoy' highlighting our death figures early in the crisis and comparing them with other countries throughout the world and how we should have took our lead from them.