Johnson and Sunak shamed into self-isolation in U-turn over ‘Covid Javid’
How humiliating for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak that they have to follow the rules for the plebs and self-isolate after being in contact with Health Secretary and Covid case Sajid Javid.
It says everything about the UK’s pitiful protections that Javid hasn’t been in post for more than a month yet, and already he has contracted the virus. He’s out of the picture for the moment because he’s getting treatment.
But both Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson are also having to take action, because they have been in contact with Javid during the incubation period.
Johnson has already had the virus. What does it say about the body’s natural immunity, let alone the various vaccines that we’re all having pumped into us, when the prime minister is still having to isolate himself – despite having developed the former and received the latter – for fear of spreading the infection?
Worse still is the fact that both Johnson and Sunak wanted to take the Michael Gove route and opt into a privileged scheme whereby they could keep working but would be tested for the virus on a daily basis.
Nobody had ever heard of this scheme before Gove went to Portugal to watch the Champions League final and mixed with people who had Covid-19.
On being told about the contact, he promptly announced that he wouldn’t be self-isolating like a member of the common crowd – and that is how we learned about the daily test regime for the elite.
He was given hell for it and rightly so.
It can hardly be surprising, then, that after Downing Street announced that they would be on the same scheme – and the same criticisms started – Johnson and Sunak gave up and accepted the inevitable.
They only did it because they were caught.
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth [said] it was unfair politicians appeared to have access to “VIP testing” to avoid self-isolation, while Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey asked if it was only available to the “privileged few”.
The u-turn means that Michael Gove should now have to answer some uncomfortable questions, especially after Johnson said it was “far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules”.
Gove didn’t!
And neither Johnson nor Sunak were going to.
So it seems Johnson didn’t make the change because of any principles, but because of shame.
Source: Covid-19: PM and chancellor self-isolate after rapid U-turn – BBC News
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little fascist dictator duck johnson won’t be in quarantine – rather he will continue enjoying his life of leisure at his latest pad – Chevening! There he will have staff waiting on him hand and foot. Perhaps little fascist duck johnson will spend some time attempting to write his fake biography on Shakespeare. Yes the one wherein he was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by a stupid publisher and which said book has still not materialised!
Scrounger crook little fascist dictator johnson certainly knows how to steal money but hey he is a male politician so that makes it okay. Meanwhile greedy crooked Sunak can spend his time in quarantine counting all his money has managed to grab from his so-called banking career!
By the way the fake vaccines are supposed to prevent individuals from contracting coronavirus but that certainly isn’t the case with little fascist dictator johnson, Sunak and javid!