© UnknownUK PM Rishi Sunak • MP Matt Hancock
The
Telegraph's
Lockdown Files have fizzled out. I fear they've had less impact than lockdown sceptics hoped. They did have some impact, including coverage by the BBC, though other media that advocated the harshest restrictions did their best to ignore the leak, or to attack Ms. Oakeshott personally. Now we're back to trivia: Lineker, Partygate, and a dredge through the lower sludge of the Met, which ignores their main deficiency:
an inability to catch burglars. The Files reveal
Matt Hancock as arrogant, vain and ignorant. He lacks curiosity. He entangles himself in his own spin, unable to reduce quarantine when he's
told he can do so. He 'deploys' data on the Alpha variant to increase fear, not owing to its
medical impact. He is drunk on power, mocking those paying to be imprisoned in
Heathrow's Premier Inn. His supposed boss -
Boris - emerges marginally better. Boris half-knows that it is
all mad. He occasionally expresses alternative views, but he is too feeble, cowardly and innumerate to seize control. Instead, he ignores the rules... and pays the price.
So, here we are... £400 billion squandered; two years stolen; trust in government and science shattered; the Brexit Government's majority wasted; awash with folk who have lost the habit of work.Back, though, to the Files.
What bugs me is what hasn't emerged.
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