Not sure Boris wants to be PM in any case - he can move aside and go and write his book and only history will judge his achievements
But who do we get Rushi - wokey s-in-law of a billionaire - the man who helped RBS crash in 2008 and made a shed load of money out of it - NO
Liz Truss - not keen on French or Jermans will get my vote - YES
Scottish Tory leader just needs to keep his nose out and concentrate on trying to get elected North of the Border
Focus group 'rage' - when the rest of us don't give a flying...............?
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Good job no Tory MPs have died recently otherwise this could be construed as bad taste.
But back to my earlier point, even given my disdain for career politicians
in general, I'm more concerned at the constant leaks by inside sources (and/or contractors working in close proximity) than by another apparent lapse in behaviour. Yeah, it's good that a spotlight gets shone on this but to pretend it wasn't more widespread would be kidding ourselves.
For me, Boris and cronies getting a wee bit pished is something that, all things being equal, I really couldn't really give a fxck about. It's bad form while the
hoi polloi were expected to toe the line regarding hands, face, arses or whatever but they weren't the only ones - it's just that many news sites won't publish the stories about shift workers at the local hospital having an illicit bunfight or the closeness of concerned citizens at the mostly peaceful mass demos around the latest cause célèbre. Not part of the narrative, you see.
At the end of the day it's all about risk tolerance - tight-knit groups keeping together can still minimise exposure and the smaller the group, the smaller the risk. The biggest problem is that you are asking for trouble getting the mass of the population to be diligent in their application of this philosophy - largely because of a significant amount that are selfish and don't care about secondary effects, but also (and with apologies to those of you out there who find the notion a bit disagreeable) because many are thick as mince.
Keeping the contacts (and therefore spread) down was key to allowing the essential functions to continue and to greatly reduce the risk to those doing this work - if they fell then the situation during the past two years would have been very much less comfortable. Control of the spread was always primarily about protecting the health and other services from overload in the face of what was then an unknown pathogen against which we had ill-developed societal resistance to. That resistance is now in a different place given the vaccination programme and antibody prevalance arising from the previous waves. For those unable to or who steadfastly refuse to be vaccinated (or worse, genuinely believe in some of the bat-S**t crazy shite that has done the rounds), fair enough, the rest of society has helped push this now into a 'you don't really matter now in the grand scheme of things - but thanks for your solidarity' state.
@BCNTM is right in his take on where we are currently headed. This latest wave has, by and large, been a non-event considering the amount of people who have gone down with it. We will be reaching the 'live with it' stage pretty soon and while there will possibly be a shift in things like work patterns (and I for one will welcome the replacement of my daily 3 hour commute with something more targeted for effect) it will hopefully force some people to re-evaluate what is important in their lives.
Like what Boris and pals do isn't in mine.
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