The Sin Bin • Re: Deepest recession in 100 year ?
While the public health crisis is much more important than this political pantomime, the pantomime is more entertaining. So I watched quite a lot of news yesterday. For much of the day the commentary seemed to be leaning towards Cummings being effed. Then, about an hour or so before Johnson rolled out, it started to shift to talk of wiggle room and of official qualifications to the rules/guidance (Government websites related seem to the crisis use both terms pretty much interchangeably). So, I guessed he was going to give a moderately detailed timeline and explain that DC had adhered to the letter of the rules/guidance, as he interpreted them. I’m surprised he didn’t - unless there is a hole in that story. I can only think that they felt that would make the government advice look too pick and mix (although BJ’s performance failed to mitigate that, imo) or they decided to take a ‘never explain, never apologise’ stance - but I think that only works if you’re not already on the back foot.
Statistics: Posted by Mild Rover — Mon May 25, 2020 7:48 am