Weeks into the crisis, politicians, according to your editorial, avoid admitting "when they have no answers to a question for fear it shows weakness" (Needless political spin risks corroding trust in No 10 crisis strategy, 02/04/20). In this case, I`m afraid it shows instead downright arrogance allied with gross incompetence, the former because Johnson and Cummings clearly ignored expert advice from the World Health Organisation about testing, and the latter because they appear incapable of providing the correct protective equipment .Booze-ups in breweries spring to mind!
In times of crisis audiences do indeed "need good news", and certainly not that the real government policy apparently is "herd immunity by the back door", When ex-colleague, pro-austerity, pro-NHS cutting and doctors` critic, Jeremy Hunt, is the "government`s most effective critic", it really is time to worry!
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