It seems like only yesterday
that we could confidently predict that the competent
leadership of Boris Johnson, aided and abetted by a Brexit specifically
designed to facilitate cross-border supply
chains, guided by that special sense of English
exceptionalism and superiority, coupled with the luxury of having many
months to plan and prepare, would lead to a smooth and effective rollout of a
Covid vaccination programme. With all of those advantages, who could possibly
have predicted that, within 24 hours, the government would be taking emergency
decisions to alter the order of priority for vaccination just days before
the programme starts?
In other news, who could ever have foreseen
that companies might decide to relocate
facilities outside the UK in preparation for Brexit instead of building
new facilities specifically to serve a state so important, and so
exceptional, as the UK? That would be like expecting the Transport Secretary to
know that viruses don’t understand the difference between ‘high
value’ individuals and the rest of us plebs. It takes a really special kind
of government – rather like the one which the UK has at the moment – to understand
the importance of allowing a select few to spread the disease a little further
when we are within sight of being able to get it under control. Holding the
line for just a few more months would just make it too easy, wouldn’t it?
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