O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

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I genuinely wonder how much you understand about political appointments rA. Ministers lead departments full of "experts in their fields" and act as mouthpieces for them. They set policy which is carried out by the support staff. It really isn't that crucial that they themselves are experts in the chosen field of their department. Ministers jump from role to role with every reshuffle. Policy re vaccinations is pretty simple: get it done quickly, safely etc. In crude terms, the minister does not need to be a logistics expert, just make sure the department have them.....

I understand what you’re saying GP however is it not perhaps the case that maybe they should have more ‘expertise in the chosen field of their department’?
Perhaps, as was my point with Zahawi, we need to look for a better system than ministers who ‘jump from role to role with each reshuffle’...although I’ll readily concede that Gavin Williamson more than adequately demonstrates your point about lack of ‘expertise’...as, imo, I’ve never encountered such a dangerous and incompetent liability in any Cabinet...and that includes Patel, Abbott and the current PM.