The Covid inquiry has hosted a parade of men who assure us they’re experts in everything – except their own incompetence, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
‘Boris Johnson accused Dominic Cummings of being part of an ‘orgy of narcissism’, so the former PM can add irony to his tally of pandemic kills.’ Cummings departs the Covid inquiry in London on Tuesday.‘Boris Johnson accused Dominic Cummings of being part of an ‘orgy of narcissism’, so the former PM can add irony to his tally of pandemic kills.’ Cummings departs the Covid inquiry in London on Tuesday.
As the pandemic approached, then raged, no one – from the prime minister to the cabinet secretary to the health secretary – seems to have realised how bad they, specifically, were at their own jobs. Now that we’re seeing some of the receipts for their backstage chaos and deadly incompetence, the major takeaways are this country’s systemic inadequacy and the sheer monumental unsuitability of the specific set of people charged with dealing with the crisis.
‘We had to endure a lament from Lee Cain that for a man of Johnson’s ‘skill set’, Covid was unfortunately the ‘wrong crisis’. Cain arrives at the Covid inquiry in London on Monday.last week when he said that the Covid inquiry was soon to learn of WhatsApps containing some “really pretty disgusting language and misogynistic language”. This obviously means so much more coming from the guy who once said he wouldn’t rest until Theresa May was “”.
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