Have you forgotten the huge number of deaths; the continual lockdowns due to dither and delay as a result of trying to wish COVID away rather than tackling it head on;
There was no precedent for this, but the UK locked down 6 days after France, some countries locked down sooner, some later. The UK wasn't some massive outlier. We locked down at the same time as New Zealand, the US, and Greece for example.
the 'herd immunity' take it on the chin travesty which robbed us of our chance to nip COVID in the bud
Boris Johnson only mentioned "herd immunity" in one speech, that wasn't actually the strategy we followed. Sweden actually never locked down so you could say they followed that strategy and they probably had excess deaths due to that, unlike Denmark who are an easy comparison. It's false to say we could've "nipped COVID in the bud" because no comparable country managed that in Europe basically.
and the rampant corruption where billions of pounds in defective medical equipment was burned and the huge excess profits from these contracts which were given to Tory donors without adequate competition?
PPE was a free for all due to you know an international emergency where every country on Earth was basically scrambling to get PPE from literally anywhere they could, where the government was facing a daily roasting about the lack of PEE, where Matt Hancock was being shouted at on national TV for his lack of action. You talking about "adequate competition" in 2022 is actually so hilariously ignorant when at the time for all we knew the NHS could collapse with thousands of dead Nurses and Doctors and millions of dead people We were setting up emergency hospitals because we had no idea what was going to happen, we know we just needed as much PPE as possible because we were basically in a war time scenario.
Great, a scientific miracle saved us (although we paid much more than continental Europe for it) and the NHS rolled it out (which they want to cut).
Who else would roll it out? lol
Kate Bingham was a crony who ended up being very good at her job, although we'd better not mention Dido Harding and the £37 billion wasted on a test, trace and isolate system that was independently verified to be so bad it had no impact on the course of the pandemic. Without the vaccines we would be truly screwed.
Ok we tried something and it didn't work very well, these things happen.
I agree that Johnson and the Conservatives have been good on Ukraine and providing them with the required weapons which I applaud. However, losing your handlers, meeting with and potentially leaking state secrets to an ex-KGB officer and making his son a lord against the wishes of the intelligence services is not. The Tories have taken far too much money from Russian oligarchs linked to Putin and are much too friendly with them.
Jesus, how much misinformation do I have to sift through? Boris Johnson isn't required to go everywhere with his security, he is allowed to speak to people because he is the Prime Minister, he doesn't have "handlers". That's not how it works. The security services can raise concerns, but ultimately as the Prime Minister he can ignore those concerns, do you know why? Because he's the Prime Minister. The head of UK government is someone who is chosen to make decisions like that. Just like Prime Ministers in wartime can go speak to leaders of other countries and discuss secret war time plans and strategies, that is why they're elected and chosen. If Boris Johnson had leaked secrets to Russia and betrayed the UK then he should be hung for treason, but I think probably that wasn't the case.
I think a lot of people in London take money from Russians, I think a lot of Russians in London are in London because they aren't very friendly with Putin, some are, some aren't. Someone being Russian doesn't mean they're a secret KGB agent. This is pretty much again CT stuff.
