They used an Excel spreadsheet for T&T when a database would be industry standard? The app was months delayed because of a technologically illiterate initial spec. Why?Because everything is privatised and improvised. Chaos is a ladder for Tories... 1/ It's the same with lockdowns

2/ Local lockdowns being imposed with no common criteria, so that they map exactly onto poverty-stricken former industrial areas. Why? Because with an 80 seat majority there's no accountability....

3/ "Read the local advice" is a very different line from "we the government are telling you to do this"... but Johnson bears responsibility for every needless death that happens because of the confusion...

4/ The libertarian wing of the Tories wanted all along for mass support for the lockdown to disintegrate - that's why Sunak talks of "liberation" just at the point where new restrictions are needed...

5/ And now they are signalling austerity 2.0. It's their "sacred duty" to demolish the state, starting with £1,000 per person benefit cut, again targeted on the poorest areas...

6/ So long as the gullible media treat this as an incompetence story they miss the real intent: this is creative destruction applied to the accountability processes in our unwritten constitution... it's been ongoing since prorogation...

7/7 If interviewers did their jobs they would start here, at the question Johnson doesn't want to answer: why are you wilfully destroying people's trust in government, and in public health advice, and in the competence of public bodies?