Abolishing free Covid-19 tests on April Fool’s Day seems like a bad joke when even incompetent Boris Johnson recognises that this fatal pandemic is not over.
Removing the remaining protections in England is horribly foolish at this moment and owes everything to the Prime Minister’s egotistical desperation to applaud himself and appease restriction-hating Conservative MPs who might write letters demanding a no confidence vote to boot him out of No10.
Scrapping legal requirements to stay home, free tests and a compensation scheme helping cover lost wages of the infected are a failure by Johnson to do what is right for the nation’s health as his every decision is determined by a personal political survival instinct.
Nobody wants to be told what to do but equally most people wish the law to be clear and will obey whatever is stipulated for themselves, their families, neighbours and workmates – unlike the charlatan PM who broke his own lockdown laws with boozy parties.
Floods shame
Swamped families and businesses washed out again by floods are entitled to be furious with this Government when promises to build defences so often masked cuts and empty words.
A Home Counties Prime Minister – who represents a London seat in an essentially Southern Government – is neglecting the waterlogged in England’s North and Midlands.
This has become a disgraceful fact of life behind the Tory’s red wall propaganda.
The flooded deserve plenty of financial support as well as sympathy.
Right a wrong
Denied compensation and officially shunned for decades, Britain’s dwindling army of nuclear test veterans deserve national recognition.
Let us hope that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is about to right an indefensible wrong rather than implementing another official delay while pretending to care.
