Parliament needs to be recalled if they wish to bring in additional measures so doubt this week
Hmm hadn’t thought of that. Makes me more confident that nothing will change then even if the news is very bleak then. Would have to be immediately catastrophic to get them back in.
Unbelievably, even with the Taliban takeover the government (ie Boris Johnson, it’s not a decision MPs can make) would not recall Parliament until 3 days after the President had already fled and Kabul had been captured. It was heartbreaking. I remember writing to my MP and asking them to ask Boris to return because it was so unbelievable that we weren’t debating our response while so many Afghan people were dying and with all the obvious horrific consequences that were unfolding for women and children there, still are.
Time off culture among Cameron and then Johnson (I think Theresa May would have been more decent looking back) is wildly inappropriately strong in emergencies.
It has muddied the water recently the stories that Omicron is ‘less severe’ than Delta. Because it’s so much more infectious, it could still overwhelm the NHS. Omicron long covid will affect loads of people. And if Omicron can evade the vaccine, and affects millions of people at the same time couldn’t it mutate again into a more serious variant which can also evade the vaccine?
All of which point to urgent need for minimising infections by delaying the peak and ‘flattening the curve’ as long as possible, until we know more. Government started off saying that which was really sensible then it all sort of petered out despite no further evidence to act on.
Going on previous, Boris will put things off until early January and then act at short notice when we need to be getting on with our plans for school and work. I do recognise it’s a horrendous time to be a PM and to try to make the right calls. I have very little confidence that Boris Johnson has the temperament or capacity to seriously engage with it.