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The great irony of the inept response to this pandemic by the British government - a government inaccurately & tendentiously conceptualised by ultra-Remainers as âpopulistâ - is not that they took the wrong course by virtue of not listening to the âexpertsâ but that they did. https://twitter.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1266391557890084866
This isnt the narrative the centre-left want to bash the Tories over the head with - i.e âyou were too rigidly technocratic & liberal in not closing your borders fast enough bc you listened to the expertsâ - bc it makes it too obvious that a 
Gov would have done exactly the same
Gov would have done exactly the same
Do we think that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would have been quick in closing our borders or been brave enough to junk expert advise in the face of an unprecedented public health crisis when they advised him that closing borders/instituting quarantining measures was pointless?
The answer, of course, is: no, don't be silly.
We have a right-liberal PM & a left-liberal opposition leader when we probably could have done with an Orban or a Netanyahu for these kinds of extreme circumstances.
Ed put it better than I did https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1265191808377683969?s=20
If you are in a relegation scrap at bottom of table who do you want managing your side? Sam Allardyce or Pep Guardiola? Big Sam ofc. If you are top 4 side looking to hire a manager who will encourage the kind of expansive play suited to the Champions league however, you chose Pep
Boris Johnson is not Sam Allardyce & neither is Keir Starmer. Thats what Im trying to say. Both are Pep & at the moment the UK is scrapping at the bottom of the table with an away fixture to come, away to Tony Pulisâs Stoke no less, with no Sam Allardyce to lead us into battle.
We have Pep leading us instead. Can you imagine Pep Guardiola managing Sam Allardyceâs Bolton or Tony Pulisâs Stoke? No, neither can I, but, politically speaking, that is what we have got.
Now you can see the way in which face a double-bind bc ultra-Remainers have spent the last yr trying to paint BJ as being a nationalist authoritarian populist (i.e an Orban) when the truth is, if he had been, we might not have f***ed up our response to this plague so badly.
face a double-bind bc ultra-Remainers have spent the last yr trying to paint BJ as being a nationalist authoritarian populist (i.e an Orban) when the truth is, if he had been, we might not have f***ed up our response to this plague so badly.
Which is why a lot of the criticisms of BoJo by his left-lib ultra-Remainer detractors rings hollow for me. They amount to saying that he wasnt illiberal enough when they have spent the last year saying that he was too illiberal! Make your minds up lads!
Fin.
