That Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock should be prosecuted for the avoidable Covid deaths

[LlynTegid]

The part 2 report of the Covid inquiry finds that at least 20,000 deaths were avoidable, had restrictions come in a week earlier.

Various other findings confirming the failures of Mr Johnson and Mr Hancock.

I think they should face criminal charges, such as corporate manslaughter given government is an employer. AIBU

Well that's all this panel shared, their opinions none of which were of much use 'lockdowns were harmful/we should've locked down sooner'🙄.

The focus of the enquiry went way beyond Lockdowns. Lockdowns were only part of it.

At the very least staying sober and taking it seriously would have been a good start.....
People died while Boris was buffooning around.

If the enquiry had the aim of learning lessons for the future it would have been fine. But a witch hunt was totally unnecessary. Whichever government had been in power would have made mistakes. By the current government’s record it could have been even worse. The Covid pandemic was an unprecedented situation and many of the decisions were reactive.

Why are you trying to make it a party political issue? Johnson was unfit for public office in the first place, and just about any political figure as PM, of any party would have been less damaging than he was.

@LlynTegid
YANBU at all but nothing will happen to them or the people who made millions from dodgy Covid contracts. The fact that people are still defending/excusing them is appalling and they should take a long, hard look at themselves.
It has all made me finally realise that the UK is utterly corrupt.

I can't see how that would've been practical either. The problem with wanting to quarantine drivers is that you then need enough drivers to replace them in the supply chain, whether that's between continental Europe and Britain or Britain and NI.

Certainly some of the stuff the UK imports is unnecessary, but we also don't make enough of the essentials, and there's no guarantee it would've been straightforward to separate it all out.

I know they got it wrong. The big difference is i didn't need a 200 million pounds enquiry to tell me that. The enquiry won't bring anyone back and no "lessons will be learnt". So seriously what was the point?

YABU. I don't like the pair, or the tories in general but I don't think they can be blamed based on hindsight from one report. None of us knew for sure what to do and weren't there another report that said no lives were saved from lockdowns?

And Wales had a higher death rate so even if it’s lock them down and shut the aisles it makes no odds.

@DonicaLewinsky

I can't see how that would've been practical either. The problem with wanting to quarantine drivers is that you then need enough drivers to replace them in the supply chain, whether that's between continental Europe and Britain or Britain and NI

Agreed..it was similar with the "drivers, airframe" bringing freight in.

I'm pretty sure some would have been OK for people in the logistics industry to had some sort of bizarre homeless existence forced on them for months on end just so the supermarkets and pharmacies could stay stocked up.

I think the closest any state got to trying that was Hong Kong..

Mmm, I expect so. Quite what they thought was going to happen when the drivers said thanks but no thanks and quit, I don't know.

The reality is that in order to have a model where you quarantine people bringing supplies into the country, you need a loooooot of slack in the system. That is not something that our 2020 supply chain had in abundance.

The inquiry was a load of nonsense. Lockdowns should never have happened. The government’s own report said that lockdowns would kill people but they did it anyway except for themselves of course as they weren’t scared. I think they should be in prison for life, not for not locking down sooner but for their part in the psychological operation that was the ‘pandemic’. Not to mention the unsafe and ineffective vaccine that they pushed on a brainwashed public.

Agree. There’s no way this would work. If pp looked at quarantine measures in Aus and even then cases got out and Melbourne suffered long lockdowns.

Plus Whitty confirmed border closure was impossible.

Why do you put pandemic in quotation marks?

The panel's opinions are based on interviews and evidence of those involved with the decision making.

Yours?

Couldn’t agree more. It changes nothing. Let’s face it they were damned if they did and damned if they didn’t. We did the same as many other countries. I wonder what their post Covid and lockdown enquiries show.

Oh well let me see, living through it? Listening to Whitty and Vallance every day as opposed to the hysterical media? This silly Lady Whoever says lockdown should have happened a week earlier yet literally from the beginning of March we were told on an escalating weekly basis to change behaviours. To self isolate if any symptoms, then middle of March told to wfh, avoid social contact avoid vulnerable households etc so non mandatory guidance was already in place well before the March 23rd 'stay at home'.

We need an inquiry into Hallett's £200 million 'report' and why the widely discredited Neil Ferguson was even given the slightest bit of credibility. They also should all attend a time management course stat. The pandemic ended over 3yrs ago why has it taken this long.

China. When will they be held accountable?

But we were lucky with Johnson as PM

Well it won’t but posters didn’t want to hear about the lab thing at the time. That was odd.

Yep, glad you agree. I knew you'd get there eventually.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/22/boris-johnson-took-four-days-off-as-nhs-warned-covid-could-overwhelm-system?

Great guy, hardworking

I know. Oo a lab in Wuhan dabbles in modifying viruses but let's blame the bats and grim 'wet markets'. The CCP must've pissed themselves laughing at that one.

Bone idle and indulged for his entire life. Someone on Facebook has just told me he was the best PM since Churchill 🤣

Evidently plenty of Johnson apologists still about. She was slobbering over him like Nadine Dorries did.