Quote Originally Posted by Dodbroon View Post
Boris and the Tories get rightly criticised along with all the devolved governments. Remember though that Boris and Co. at the very outset were for going for herd immunity i.e. no lockdowns, let the virus take its course etc. He was talked out of it by the scientists, some of his own party and the opposition. Wonder where we would have been today if he had stuck to his guns?

I have a total disdain of ALL politicians but in regard to Covid I have a small element of sympathy for most of them. It was something totally new to them and they were getting conflicting views from medical scientists, economists, opposition parties ( who didn't have to make the hard decisions and who could simply criticise and carp away from the sidelines) etc. They were like rabbits in the headlights and mistakes were made. It seems that the politicians are the ones who are taking the brunt of the enquiry's criticism not the scientists who were all over the place at times and changed tack over the course of time more than once. The opposition parties and the media also called for this and that and influenced matters and public opinion and are, imo, worthy of censure.

Finally there is our Nicola, the one politician who I do not include in my mild appreciation of the difficulties that politicians suffered. No other politician, imo, used the epidemic to nakedly promote themself or their political ends as she did. She invented discord with the UK government to serve her own needs and milked the misery of the populace to promote her obsession with independence. She sickened me then and still now as she tries to rewrite history. The most sickening thing was speaking to folk at the time who thought Saint Nicola was our saviour. This was reflected in the wider Scottish population and media, UK population and media and it is to be hoped that the criticism of her in the report thoroughly debunks all the hype around her performance at the time and that she is seen to be properly found out!
Cowan and Cosgrove wrote and sang a song live on air in praise of her ( Nicola ) circa December 2020.......vomit inducing ****e......and the dentist was a weekly guest on off the ball.....that's how bad the propaganda got.

I have absolutely no doubt they will do it all again next time.

Save granny, save the NHS, vaccine passports, masks, social distance signs, one way systems in pubs, supermarkets and streets, 10 mins a day exercise, no crossing county lines,......just ****e ****e and more ****e .....and the majority of people loved it. 🙄