O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[swaledale]

I think that’s fair comment Swale. Just as Churchill can’t be personally credited with the success of the Normandy landings, so Johnson can’t be personally credited with the success of the vaccination programme or personally held to account for the emergence of the British/Kent variant.
The job of any PM, particularly at a time of crisis, is to be a figurehead, a leader and first rate communicator. Unfortunately he seems to have failed on all those counts hence MA’s alleged 25/75% approximate success/failure rate in terms of the Government’s handling of Covid.
The other main job of a leader, and I appreciate that this was done with only Brexit - and not Covid - on the immediate horizon, is to choose a good team/Cabinet to implement strategies.
Looking at the current bunch it seems likely that only Hancock and Sunak might emerge with any eventual credit. Words fail me as far as the child like Williamson, the rabbit in the headlights Gove, ‘Cruella’ Patel and ‘Arthur Daley’ Jenrick are concerned. Not good choices at all imo.

You will forgive me if I don't share you enthusiasm for Hancock, he is useless and as for Sunak, well eat to help out was supposedly one of his ideas, so not so sure that compared to the other useless ****wits, its not just that in comparison he seems partially sentient. Anyway Sunak has done the easy part, doling out money, the hard part comes post pandemic.

[ramAnag]

You will forgive me if I don't share you enthusiasm for Hancock, he is useless and as for Sunak, well eat to help out was supposedly one of his ideas, so not so sure that compared to the other useless ****wits, its not just that in comparison he seems partially sentient. Anyway Sunak has done the easy part, doling out money, the hard part comes post pandemic.

Not disagreeing...I have no ‘enthusiasm’ for Hancock but after an appalling start and step into the unknown he seems to have restored some small degree of credibility since the turn of the year. You’re right about ‘eat out to help out’...hadn’t realised it was a Sunak ‘brainwave’.
Either way...it’s all ‘relative’ and the others I mentioned appear much much worse than useless.

[swaledale]

Not disagreeing...I have no ‘enthusiasm’ for Hancock but after an appalling start and step into the unknown he seems to have restored some small degree of credibility since the turn of the year. You’re right about ‘eat out to help out’...hadn’t realised it was a Sunak ‘brainwave’.
Either way...it’s all ‘relative’ and the others I mentioned appear much much worse than useless.

I've known a good many senior people look credible off the back of others efforts!

[ramAnag]

I've known a good many senior people look credible off the back of others efforts!

Indeed! In all walks of life...and that I suspect is the point. The fact that the vaccination process appears to be going well is actually down to two groups of people imo...those in charge of procurement and those in charge of administering and running the vaccination centres.
I praised the process I went through last weekend because it was so well organised, but that, in truth, is probably 90% down to the folk at my local surgery and 10% down to the funding provided by a higher authority.