UK pundits still wanging on about how “at least it’s not Corbyn in charge!!! ” are either basically government employees, or desperately trying to squash creeping doubts about what they’ve been complicit in

On the latter point, it’s less the backing Johnson to keep the Labour Left out than the total abandonment of accuracy and proper scrutiny of the government in single-minded pursuit of that goal. Hard to put the genie back in the bottle

Fwiw I think the UK would have been quite fucked trying to deal with a pandemic under Corbyn, because any time he tried to introduce any measures you’d have had wall to wall shrieking about Stalinism and Nazis