Rishi Sunak – the government minister who may be the only one with more Covid-19 related blood on his hands than Boris Johnson – is agitating to cause more deaths again.

Sunak, whose ‘Eat Out to Die Out’ wheeze contributed to reversing all the benefits of the first UK lockdown by encouraging people to congregate indoors in the middle of a pandemic, says he thinks scientists like Chris Whitty have changed their focus from protecting the NHS to keeping infections low and staying ‘Covid-free’.

What the blazes is wrong with him?

The trouble is that Sunak is said to be the most popular politician in the country, because his furlough scheme protected jobs. It wasn’t generous at all, but the fact that it made him popular simply demonstrates how badly demeaned the UK’s workforce has become after 40 years and more of Tory-style neoliberal economic policies.

Here’s Owen Jones to explain in detail what’s wrong with Rishi Sunak:

Many people have pinpointed ‘Eat Out to Kill Off’ as a reason to distrust Sunak’s instincts. Here’s a very good point:

But many people have highlighted his many other blunders:

And there’s a warning that his idea will bring on a deadly third wave of the virus:

But of course we should not forget that Sunak’s Tory government is doing what it can to harm us all, even after vaccines were developed against the virus.

The delays that the Tories are imposing on second doses of the vaccine are too long. People should be having the booster after three weeks, not three months.

It seems clear the government knows this, too – as super-rich people like Stanley Johnson have had both doses of the vaccine in the recommended period, suggesting that the Tories have imposed a two-tier vaccination system that leaves most of us behind.

It also gives the virus a chance to adapt, according to some:

https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1357254094885425152

Sadly, we live in a country run by liars. The Tories say they are guided by the science but we have seen them ignore good advice time after time because they were desperate to keep the economy ticking over. All the did was make matters worse.

Sunak will influence his Cabinet colleagues and make matters even worse. He is part of a government that cannot do anything right.

So perhaps we should be glad that it seems reactions to Sunak are changing. Let’s hope this will become the last word:

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