What is going on with this Johnson government?
Does anyone know? My thoughts are on a roundabout, that, when I do manage to exit from it, swiftly appears on the horizon once more. Last night's announcement plumbed a new low, however, clarifying this mix of horror and despair in my head as other objectively terrible moments in this crisis have not managed. (My desktop background is a painting by the father of a former colleague called the NHS Poppies. So awful, their deaths, but I have not read the words that place the blame solely at this government's feet.)
This (seemingly cowardly) middle ground, disproportionately affecting those on lower incomes surely, would seem wrong under clear instruction. That it is coupled with limited, confusing instructions has to be deemed negligent. Criminally so, possibly. IANAL. To read the statements from teachers' unions — NEU, NASUWT — unable to imagine endangering their members, all the children, asking again and again for the data this 'science' is based on, is harrowing in a very specific way. And it isn't just as a parent.
It has to be incompetence. I genuinely want to believe they have the best intentions. And this shambles is all they could come up with.
I can't bear to read what this night has wrought.
— jlj