pwhole
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This book sounds less funny than the cartoon but probably more important in the long run. I may actually buy this one, though the current climate suggests a collective amnesia descending once again - and that it may need extending next year with further self-inflicted disaster. And they'll probably get away with it again. I'm not sure how I should consider the status of a prime minister who is so inferior to me in every single way I can think of, and I don't even want to be famous. Can't someone just tell him to f*** off to his face? On TV?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/11/failures-of-state-review-never-forget-the-johnson-governments-covid-disasters
The authors have little patience for Johnson?s defence that any failings are only visible now with the benefit of what the PM likes to call the ?retrospectoscope?. By way of rebuttal, they reproduce the warnings scientists were giving back in January 2020, spelling out the dangers and urging swift action. Two are quoted, accusing Downing Street of twisting their words to suggest that it was they, the experts, who had underestimated the severity of the threat, a move Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, calls a ?Kremlinesque? attempt at ?government disinformation?. As Horton puts it: ?They really are scared that the verdict of history is going to condemn them for contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands of British citizens ? They are desperately trying to rewrite the timeline of what happened. And we must not let them do that.?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/11/failures-of-state-review-never-forget-the-johnson-governments-covid-disasters
The authors have little patience for Johnson?s defence that any failings are only visible now with the benefit of what the PM likes to call the ?retrospectoscope?. By way of rebuttal, they reproduce the warnings scientists were giving back in January 2020, spelling out the dangers and urging swift action. Two are quoted, accusing Downing Street of twisting their words to suggest that it was they, the experts, who had underestimated the severity of the threat, a move Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, calls a ?Kremlinesque? attempt at ?government disinformation?. As Horton puts it: ?They really are scared that the verdict of history is going to condemn them for contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands of British citizens ? They are desperately trying to rewrite the timeline of what happened. And we must not let them do that.?