Do You Blame Boris Or The Whole Government For Letting The Indian Variant In, Then Letting It Seed Itself All Over The Country? .

[PrincessNutNuts]

I blame both.

They all need to do their fucking job and stop letting this happen.

You?

Yes I feel the same.

Both. Truthfully we’re governed by a cabinet of people who all shoulder the responsibility but Boris actively sought to be the figurehead and take the lead so I don’t feel he’s exempt through any special circumstance.

And don't let the Kent variant out (to India) - or is that different?

Both. Another instance of an entirely predictable and avoidable problem. I genuinely can't understand how they've managed to be so incompetent about this, given that covid is the main issue that anyone is concerned about atm and they've had all the best advice and a year to get to grips with things like travel and quarantine. It's quite mystifying.

My family lives in Australia and New Zealand, their borders have been closed since pretty much day one. They now lead normal lives other than not being able to travel overseas.
I don’t understand why we have not done the same. We should have closed borders with India the second the variant was noticed. It’s ridiculous.
My dad told me last night... “here starts the next lockdown”. I scoffed but deep down I am scared he may be right.

Both, but mainly Boris because as PM he makes the big decisions and the buck stops with him.. He has demonstrated, time and time again during this pandemic, that he is simply incapable of learning from his mistakes and of learning ‘what works’ from other countries which have handled the pandemic better than the U.K., eg Germany.

I blame them both, for letting variants in and out of the country. Obviously the first strain couldn't really be helped as it was happening before people really knew how bad it was but even when they did they locked down too late. My own family were a week ahead of the government in keeping the dc off school and staying in.

We've not left the first lock down.

It's carrying on this locker down!

I'm furious.

I can't blame boris because I don't know how much personally he's responsible for the team watching for new varients of concern and putting them on stop red list!

Has this team let him down? Why didn't he they move faster?
We are very good at some things but others, rubbish and I blame the government for not bringing in experts to plug our gaps.

I've been a bit of the opinion of 'it's a pandemic, people are doing their best' so far, but I really do blame them for this.

We've worked so hard and made so many sacrifices to get this under control and all the while, the government have left the back door open to let the virus right back in, with the hope of keeping India onside for a trade deal. Then, when they finally decided they couldn't go on the trade trip, they still invited an Indian delegation here, quite a few of whom turned out to have Covid! You couldn't make it up! Absolute top level incompetentancy.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus

And don't let the Kent variant out (to India) - or is that different?

Was just about to post similar. The Kent variant caused huge spikes in Europe.

No - I blame all those who voted for Brexit.

The outcome of THAT movement has been to instill the most incompetent group of politicians possible.

And having thrown away the UK's biggest and most important trade deal, the government were desperate to sign new ones with anyone, but India was highlighted as critical. So, putting them on the red list was delayed and delayed, while countries with significantly lower risks went on much sooner.

Johnson (I refuse to call him B*s) principally and the libertarian wing of the Tory Party. Johnson is lazy and incompetent, doesn’t bother to read the details, and by the time he’s grasped the severity of the situation it’s way too late. In a pandemic you have to be proactive not reactive.

Err susie, Germany has not done that great, there are good and bad things.

But they need to pull on experts were we fall down

@Puttingouthefirewithgasoline

Err susie, Germany has not done that great, there are good and bad things.

But they need to pull on experts were we fall down

U.K. covid deaths per million 1905.

Germany covid deaths per million 1027, ie 46% lower.

Source : Statista.com

I blame the people who travelled to a second world country to go to weddings and funerals with 100’s of people whilst in their country of residence both were prohibited and still are. Completely irresponsible.

Brexit has made us desperate for a trade deal with India. They deliberately put the lives of British people at risk in order to try to get one. The big fat stinking mess of brexit is the gift that keeps giving.

I think that if the Prime Minister can claim the glory for the vaccine programme, then he can expect to shoulder the blame for when mistakes have been made.

Johnson - this article explains why. Don’t read it if you don’t want high blood pressure!

news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-the-three-days-in-april-that-may-have-fuelled-uk-outbreak-of-indian-coronavirus-variant-12306393

I cannot believe we have sacrificed so much only to have it all put at risk by our clown of a PM.

I blame both. So desperate to mitigate the shit show that is Brexit, that they risked everything. Again.

@SlipperyLizard

Johnson - this article explains why. Don’t read it if you don’t want high blood pressure!

news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-the-three-days-in-april-that-may-have-fuelled-uk-outbreak-of-indian-coronavirus-variant-12306393

I cannot believe we have sacrificed so much only to have it all put at risk by our clown of a PM.

That is at least a three "Fucksake!" read.

How many more times are they going to do this to us?

Why can't the government just do their job.

They knew the Indian Variant was driving India's pandemic in March.

They let it fly here all through April and have a lovely mingle in the airport, then settle in and get its feet under the table in 50+ locations across our country.

And now it's mid-May and it's like Covid Groundhog Day again.

SAGE are saying this variant is so much more transmissible that it can lead to a big wave of hospitalisations.

And our government is ignoring them.

@OhYouBadBadKitten

I blame both. So desperate to mitigate the shit show that is Brexit, that they risked everything. Again.

That's what it looks like to me too.

When they said the Prime Minister wouldn't be travelling to India after all they forgot to mention that a nice big Indian trade delegation would be coming here instead didn't they?

And that some of that had covid.

I blame Boris Johnson. He put Pakistan and Bangladesh in the red zone 17 DAYS before India, despite India clearly having an escalating problem at that point. Anyone with half a brain knows that there are historically strong links between the UK and India. I guess he was holding out for his trip to see Modi to cobble together some trade deal ... so I also blame Brexit for this - he wouldn't have been so desperate for his trip to go ahead were it not for the urgency to set up trade deals now that we're out of the EU. If he can claim Brexit was why we had a great vaccination programme, then I will assert that Brexit is responsible for the Indian variant seeding this extent in the UK. So yeah, Johnson and his Brexit.

Both.
We're led by a reckless PM and his cronies.

@BunsyGirl

I blame the people who travelled to a second world country to go to weddings and funerals with 100’s of people whilst in their country of residence both were prohibited and still are. Completely irresponsible.

Absolutely irresponsible behaviour.

@SancerreSunsets

I blame Boris Johnson. He put Pakistan and Bangladesh in the red zone 17 DAYS before India, despite India clearly having an escalating problem at that point. Anyone with half a brain knows that there are historically strong links between the UK and India. I guess he was holding out for his trip to see Modi to cobble together some trade deal ... so I also blame Brexit for this - he wouldn't have been so desperate for his trip to go ahead were it not for the urgency to set up trade deals now that we're out of the EU. If he can claim Brexit was why we had a great vaccination programme, then I will assert that Brexit is responsible for the Indian variant seeding this extent in the UK. So yeah, Johnson and his Brexit.

It's literally playing politics with a pandemic isn't it?

And now we the people pay the price.

Again.