Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest mad wheeze is to propose extending the lockdown — “shielding” is his preferred euphemism — to people over 50. Naturally this has gone down like a cup of cold sick in the Conservatives’ natural constituency, which largely comprises people over the age of 50. 24 hours after floating the idea in the newspapers the government started to backtrack. And understandably so.
Here’s a taste of the responses in the Conservatives’ house journal, the Telegraph:
The ministry of silly ideas produces another one. They come up with more ludicrous nonsense each day, and we are paying their salaries! It’s beyond a joke now.
I’ve had enough of this facade. It’s so obviously a cover to bring in the great reset, give governments extraordinary powers that end democracy.
I genuinely believe this one statement will cause the greatest backlash Johnson has initiated.
From what I gather on Social Media his time will be less than Mays. Probably the end of the Tory Party as a whole.
Perhaps the most significant response, though, is this one from columnist Sarah Vine:
Vine is, of course, married to one of the most senior ministers in Johnson’s Cabinet, Michael Gove. Yes, Vine is famously independent and forthright and Gove has no control over her tweets. But her comment is, perhaps, indicative that all is not sweetness and harmony in the higher echelons of the Johnson administration. There is now a growing and very obvious rift over Johnson’s Chinese coronavirus policy: between those dogged loyalists who think it is proportionate and responsible and those who think it is erratic, crazed, scientifically baseless, hysterical, and hugely damaging not just to the economy but to the wellbeing and sanity of the nation generally.
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