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The side I fell out with during the EU referendum dismissed the arguments that Remain introduced as 'Project Fear' whilst introducing conspiracy theories.
The people I'm falling out with now believe the government - brexiters - must not be criticised and in conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1254048976304836608
The people I'm falling out with now believe the government - brexiters - must not be criticised and in conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1254048976304836608
If Robinson wants to tell people that Covid is serious, he needs to be talking to people like Allison Pearson who swings from one side of the argument to the other depending on her needs to deliver a column to a copy deadline. 
He needs to ask himself why the segment of the media commentariat and people supporting an early exit from lockdown, because the economy is under threat, are the same people who told us that Brexit was acceptable in spite of putting the economy at threat.
Remainers were the rational "steady as she goes, safety first, defend the NHS" community in 2016 as opposed to the "burn the bridges, safety nets are for wimps, the NHS needs to be rebuilt in the US model" beliefs of the Leave community.
The people who believed that Johnson was a feckless indolent liar who would say and do anything to win power whilst avoiding any real responsibility have been proven right whilst the people who framed the 2016 referendum as the latest part of the Cameron/Johnson psychodrama…
… now can't get Johnson to sit down and answer serious questions because he uses the machinery of high office to avoid scrutiny in one-on-one debates whilst sitting down for softball interviews on 'This Morning' where they ask him about his favourite colour.
In the meantime, the real carbon-based Leavers and their silicon-based bots and assorted sock-puppets tell us that criticising Johnson, Cummings et al is equivalent to effectively undermining the NHS as if ten years of Tory austerity and a hardline immigration policy…
… hadn't already achieved that deliberate political aim and the deliberate dismissal of reports on NHS preparedness over recent years wasn't the UK equivalent of George W. Bush's failure to respond to national security briefings prior to 9/11.
Maybe - when the mainstream BBC Politics team (Burley, Neil Kuenssberg, Robinson, et al) stops being an encounter and therapy group for the staff and readership of the Telegraph and Spectator (this applies to bits of ITV News as well) and starts asking serious questions - …
… people who have turned away from the BBC Politics' output because it's become self-serving and obsessed with personalities and trivia will start to trust it as a broadcast news media provider again. 
