Johnson’s Covid policies are killing his core voters but the mass media are hiding it
Get the message? You won’t see Boris Johnson actually sitting over a dying pensioner making rude gestures at them (and the rest of us), but he might as well. Until pensioners realise that his policies on Covid-19 add up to the same, he can carry on – aided by the papers and TV channels that keep the over-60s tranquillised – easy prey for the cull.
Simon Wren-Lewis makes an excellent point here:
The people most at risk from this pandemic are those who predominantly voted this government in.
The article points out that people aged over 60 are most at risk from Covid-19. There are 16 million of them and 60 per cent – 9.6 million – voted for Boris Johnson and his Conservatives.
Meanwhile, Johnson has made mistake – if you can call them that – after mistake and more than 70,000 people have died, according to official figures. Unofficial figures put the number much higher.
How can a government that lived through March 2020 not just repeat the same mistakes again, but make worse mistakes?
When a Prime Minister, supported by his ministers, ignores medical advice again and again, the responsibility rests entirely with him.
Now comes the really nasty bit: the mass media – your friendly daily paper; your cuddly favourite TV channel – has been misleading those at-risk over-60s by hiding the truth from them.
The newspapers they read are doing their best to hide the truth from them, the broadcast media with a few honorable exceptions chooses not to enlighten them, and recently it appears the government has resorted to trying to hide what is happening in hospitals.
So those over 60 will continue to vote for a government that through its failures is literally killing them.
How perverse.
READ: mainly macro: Why the UK’s COVID crisis should be personal for so many Tory voters
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Were do they get these figures myself I voted for Corbyn and alot of my friends who are OAP voted the same anyone voting for this lot haven’t felt their hand yet but with this virus could bring them to try to claim universal credit or dear then theyl feel that stick l
They’re official figures. 60% for Johnson still leaves 40% for others, which is a large proportion!