Tory politics of division: ‘look at Scotland! Covid is much worse there than in England!’
Conservatives really are pathetic, aren’t they?
Faced with criticism over the rise of the Delta variant of Covid-19, they resort to whataboutery. So we see this, in the Tory-supporting Telegraph:
Scotland is by far the UK’s worst Covid hotspot with rates more than double England’s, according to figures published by Nicola Sturgeon’s government yesterday that increased pressure on her
Do you see what they did there?
“Scotland’s Covid rate is much worse than England’s so Boris Johnson is actually doing really well!”
Except he isn’t, of course. And the information provided by the Torygraph is doubtless void of important facts that affect the outcome: vaccine supply, geographical factors and so on.
People won’t see the faults in the story. They’ll see the headline and pour scorn on the Scots, and on Nicola Sturgeon in particular.
And that’s how Boris Johnson’s Tories manufacture support for themselves.
Source: Scotland’s Covid rate is more than double England’s, new figures reveal
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