When will the bubble burst?

[Cybergenesis]

There's a LOT of people that refuse to admit Boris is an idiot and Brexit was a huge mistake.

Lately it's become merged with our response to the virus. Some people seem to think Boris was the sole cause of the vaccine rollout success, an example of how awesome our country is.

They can't admit Boris was lying about 50,000 new nurses, dodgy contracts, overpriced PPE and all the other fiascos he's caused. Because if he was lying about firing Matt Hancock then maybe he's been lying about everything, including Brexit.

And if Brexit was a bad idea then maybe Remain was right and we tricked and manipulated by racists and greedy sycophants. No, that can't be true. I'm too smart to be tricked. Brexit must be a great idea and Boris must be handling the virus brilliantly, look at the vaccine rollout!

Here we are diving head-first into the third wave. Infections are rising fast in the UK and this is before the results from people that went out for the football, it's going to skyrocket.
And we're removing restrictions.
The Johnson Variant is going to cover the country, millions infected, Long-Covid impacting thousands, high chance of making a new vaccine resistant variant.

What a mess.
Surely this is going to burst the bubble?
Surely in the face of this people can't STILL insist Boris is doing a great job?

Nah. The band is playing while the ship sinks.

The bubble will never burst. Johnson is one of those people to whom shit just doesn’t stick.

He’ll quit at some point and leave everyone else to clear up the mess.

@Cybergenesis

Shows you how stupid a lot of people are and that they have zero grip on economics and trade.

we were told to ignore experts and a lot of people did

All the people I know still ardently supporting Brexit are wealthy and retired. They really have no reason to change their minds as Brexit has had very little impact on them.

The bubble will never burst for the Brexiters because it's never the direct consequence of what they voted for their fault.

Here is the Express blaming the EU for the lack of immigrant workers resulting in shortages and the red tape involved in allowing them into the UK It's apparently some evil EU plot

I thought we were now in charge of our own immigration rules? Isn't that what "we" not me voted for?

And yes, it's a genuine article - I checked but won't link to it as it is purely click bait.

We are now in Permanent War territory with the EU.
Wankers

IMO, it takes around 2 years to feel the effect.

COVID helps to mask Brexit consequences to some extent.

I think leavers will never accept they were wrong and will blame the government for wrong Brexit implementation. Like the Brexit was good but wrongly done.

Next GE will be interesting...

Hard to draw the line between impacts caused by COVID and Brexit. Wonder if any of the parties make rejoin the EU as part of their campaign for the next GE? Or is it too soon?

One of the few upsides of the pandemic for the government is that they can blame any Brexit effects on Covid and most people will take it at face value.

I think the saddest thing I ever heard is my deeply socialist parent recently start a sentance "at least Thatcher"...

They can blame it on Covid, but the public know that they haven't handled that well. E.g. Sunak and Johnson having to isolate when they were called out for supposedly being on a special scheme which excused them, or Javid having to delete a tweet about 'cowering' about Covid.

Then you have the mess over holidays and amber lists. Despite saying that this is really a first world problem - a lot of people have been looking forward to a holiday, have spent money on it and then find that the place they have gone to is whopped onto an amber list at the last moment.

I agree that they will always blame everything on Covid. They have the perfect excuse.

Plus they knew there would be these issues, Ress Mogg and Gove stated there will be issues and will take about 10 years for the “advantages” to be seen. They don’t care that prices will rise, NHS will be even more short staffed, until we can train more staff, they aren’t affected by any of these things.

I was just looking to see if there was a mumsnet thread following Boris Johnson's sayings around, like there was for Trump. Odd that there isn't one.

I'm finding his bumbling in Scotland entertaining. Not only was Thatcher saving the planet, but contracts existing for oil exploitation in the North Sea cannot be ripped up. So, people of the UK, old working contracts cannot be ripped up and replaced at will. I'm sure the British Gas workers recently, Asda workers a while ago, and, oh, any of the probably millions of people who've experienced this happening will be so reassured.

It’s an unmitigated disaster…and about to get worse when health documentation for all foods come into force as industry isn’t prepared.