As a national health policy designed to suit 250 or so Tory MPs, it appeared to be wholly successful
You couldn’t make it up. “Now was the time for personal responsibility,” said the prime minister with no sense of personal responsibility. His whole life has been conducted with a reckless disregard for other people. Boris Johnson is a man who has always done exactly what he wants, when he wants to do it, and has a trail of broken marriages and promises to prove it. When the rest of us mugs were doing our best to follow the letter of the rules that he made, he was busy enjoying himself at one party after another. And when he was caught, he didn’t have the decency to apologise. Instead he chose to brazen it out, cheapening himself and his party still further.
No matter. Do as I say, not as I do and all that. In any case, the changes to the Covid rules that the Suspect was announcing in his Commons statement had little to do with what was scientifically proven. Rather, it was to win over the libertarian rightwingers in the Tory party who had always been against any form of lockdown restrictions and on whom he was relying to support him through his ongoing Partygate difficulties. ...
