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Thread - 5 root causes behind Johnson and the Tories shambles handling of #COVID19
1] The overriding focus on looking after their mates (eg turning a blind eye to breaking lockdown, handing out govt contracts / public money to them, giving them jobs)
1] The overriding focus on looking after their mates (eg turning a blind eye to breaking lockdown, handing out govt contracts / public money to them, giving them jobs)
2] Laziness to do the heavy lifting (eg develop an overall strategy, a communications strategy, to consult and negotiate with other stakeholders) instead things are done on the hoof, not planned, not properly consulted on) and no holiday is missed!
3] Arrogance not to learn from anyone else (eg the existing plans for pandemics, what the countries that managed COVID well did) and the need to invent their own solutions (eg the various moonshots, Dyson ventilators, track and trace app from scratch)
4] Disgust with public services and the people who work in them. The preference has always been to bypass (eg just work with compliant ones, sideline those who aren’t, always go to outside, eg consultants, first and trust them more than people in the public sector)
5] Politics and optics first, everything else second. They could have worked with other parties, they didn’t. They avoid any media outlet or show who may hold them to account. They always need to distract when there is difficult news rather than be honest.
Theses traits have been on display from the start and everyday since. Every shambles, mistake or screw up and be traced to some if not all 5. They’re pretty obvious too.
So, why does no analysis of what’s gone wrong on the BBC, Sky etc never mention these?
So, why does no analysis of what’s gone wrong on the BBC, Sky etc never mention these?
