Yep, Wales is going to be the yardstick against which BoJo can be judged. Early, moderate action versus head up his nether end. Unfair in a way, as BoJo has always lied, and ducked responsibility. Any decision was going to be hard, so it was very unfair for the vested interests of his Right Wing Pub and Entertainment industry backers to make things hard for him.
Unfortunately for him, the North is likely to pay the biggest price. Covid cases in the North lag the South by a couple of weeks, as a result the North will likely get a double whammy of Covid plus Winter Flu leading to a much greater death-rate while with luck the South will be seeing reductions in cases.
Just to compound things the Government seems to have no plans to compensate people for higher fuel and National Insurance. Coupled with the cuts to Universal Credit, real poverty and ill-health are likely outcomes even without Covid.
Methinks that these betrayals and the cuts to the HS2 will not be forgotten when the issues of ‘levelling up come around at the next by-election. Tactical voting will at last come into its own!
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