So, Britain has arrived at the figure of 100k deaths from covid, if of course you believe the government figures that is. As well as being 100k of individual tragedies, this figure also represents an epitaph for a failed government pushing failed policies, not just once but over and over again.

Britain has a highly advanced and, from what I can gather, very effective foreign intelligence system along with one of the most widespread embassy network around. I have little doubt that despite the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to hide the existence of Covid, that the true nature of it was known or at least suspected by Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its intelligence services several months before it became a major issue.

Because of this foreknowledge, the Government should have done the one thing that might have,if not prevented covid from getting to the UK, at least prevented it from gaining the foothold that it did, which was to close the UK’s borders back in January or February 2020. Sadly the government did not do this. They kept the borders open to both legal and illegal entrants and they did so whilst penalising the very Britons that this government was sworn to protect.

If some degree of caution was required when faced with a novel disease then why on earth did not the government take the one course of action that would have represented caution, that of closing Britain’s borders early? In effect Boris Johnson’s government took a course of action that caused immense suffering to Britons in order to keep Britain’s borders open. This is a monstrous and unforgivable failure on the part of the government.

Instead of instituting sensible precautions such as border closures when it might have done some good, the government embarked on policy after damaging policy that we can now see have failed dismally. They listened to ‘experts’ whose track record of prediction of previous diseases such as CJD, SARS, Foot and Mouth, swine flu and Avian influenza was not just ‘not good’ but truly laughable and they brought in policies that have plainly not worked.

None of the policies instituted by this government to deal with Covid have worked. The dehumanising masks have failed, test and trace has failed as have the consecutive and economy killing lockdowns. What’s worse is that they’ve failed despite a very high level of compliance by the public with the government’s ever changing, incoherent and, as we’ve now seen proven, useless policies.

Every policy regarding covid that has been implemented by this government has failed, as many suspected that they would. The first lockdown failed because it is almost impossible to contain an airborne virus in this way once it becomes established. This was a lesson that was learned in the 17^th century in Britain where cases of bubonic plague, that turned into the highly transmissible pneumonic form, increased despite a policy brought in by some administrations, that of London for example, of locking people with plague in their homes. Boris Johnson’s government failed to learn the lessons of the past and continued with a lockdown policy that was doomed to failure from the start.

The UK Government’s policy towards covid has most surely been the best ever example of a ‘cure’ being worse than the disease itself. This government’s policies have seen the economy decimated to a degree not seen since World War II or the Great Depression. The bill for the government’s failure will be paid not just by my generation but also by my child’s and his children’s generation.

A walk through any British town will now show businesses that have closed due to covid or rather the government’s approach to it that will probably never ever reopen. Our unemployment rate is now up to levels not seen since the Thatcher years when the economy was restructured and state subsidy was replaced by hard nosed capitalism. The retail, hospitality, entertainment and service industries have been completely shafted, along with the jobs that these sectors created. What’s worse is that we will not get a true picture of the economic situation and how badly the government has damaged the economy until the state support of businesses and furloughs stop. Then we will see in all its gory glory, the government’s abject failure to keep Britain working and earning in the face of covid.

But it’s not just the economy that has suffered. We’ve suffered as a society. The government has damaged our children and our children’s chances in life by keeping them off of schools, playgroups, play centres, parent and baby groups and away from social contact. The government’s policies have likely contributed to a great deal of mental health problems in our children that are either manifesting now or will manifest in the future.

The damage that has been done to our children’s education is immense. Younger school pupils have been denied the necessary and important social contact with other children that is necessary in order to create well rounded individuals and older school pupils have been robbed of their final exams and given only ‘assessments’ that may well bear no relation to the real levels of attainment that these children had. I would not want to be one of the generation of 2020 or 2021 school leavers who have not sat final exams as there would be no way that either an employer or an institute of higher education would trust the assessed grades dished out by the teachers. These are going to be the lost school generations who are going to have to, like my late fathers generation whose education was interrupted by World War II, go to night school to achieve the qualifications that they should have got in school but did not.

In addition to the destruction that Boris Johnson’s government has wrought on the economy and the futures for our children, by its failed approach to covid, there is also the social and political damage that has been incurred. Johnson’s covid policies have stripped away from Britons liberties that many took for granted. Freedom of speech and assembly have been removed and what’s worse is that they’ve been removed from some but not others. Few will forget the disgusting sight of Met police officers and officers from West Midlands police kneeling to the racist thugs and Marxists of BLM and the equally disgusting sight of police officers beating elderly women to a pulp because they dared to protest the lockdowns. Some of us have known about the inequitable practises of many of Britain’s police forces for a long time, especially those of us who have observed the way that these forces failed to deal with serious crimes such as those of the Islamic Rape Gangs, but during the covid crisis this inequitable behaviour has been observed by more and more Britons. When the dust settles the various police forces will have been seen by many more Britons as not to be trusted. This is to my mind a huge tragedy as it took well over a century to create police forces that were seen as positives by the community but in the space of a year a situation has been created that will force many more Britons than before to see the police as ‘them’ and not ‘us’.

The government’s covid policies have also damaged trust between individual Britons. Those of us who ask awkward questions about the current situation now look over our shoulders to make sure that we are not overheard lest we draw the attention of one of the many and disgusting ‘covid grasses’ that are about and which have been encouraged to exist by the government. Because of Boris Johnson’s mishandling of the covid situation Britons now have to think and live like East Germans, worrying all the time about informers. Nobody I know now discusses openly where they are going or what they are doing lest it be picked up by a covid grass and reported to the police. People are now having to take steps to protect themselves from informers by removing such informers or suspected informers from their social circles and thereby destroying relationships that were previously seen as solid. The government’s covid policies have broken social bonds and introduced suspicion of others into British society and I find this particular aspect of the government’s policies particularly worrying and disgusting.

Whilst without a doubt the government’s continual inaction and wrong actions have caused problems, the government itself was not entirely to blame. Blame also needs to be apportioned to the National Health Service. This organisation failed to plan for any possible future problem, such as a novel disease, failed to ensure that there were enough staff to cope with any potentially unforeseen problem and failed to have any mothballed facilities that could be brought on stream should there be some sort of national medical emergency. The NHS has however spent profusely on worthless guff such as ‘diversity and inclusion’ and even arts staff. The rot in the NHS does not merely have its roots in either the time of this government nor recent ones. The rot goes back decades. Decisions made back in the 1980’s regarding nursing training, the later decision to make nursing a degree level profession and an over reliance on staff imported from other nations, have all contributed to staff shortages that meant that although the government could build the emergency Nightingale Hospitals, the NHS could not staff them properly. The Nightingale Hospitals were an expensive and useless white elephant and also the perfect analogy for the badly run, poorly staffed and inefficient NHS itself. It should also not be forgotten that up to 25% of the covid infections in some areas were not acquired in the community but were hospital acquired ones. People went into hospital for a non covid related procedure and came out, or in worst cases did not, because they picked up covid in one of Britain’s filthy and inefficient hospitals.

The death toll from covid is bad enough but it is likely to pale into relative insignificance because of the deaths caused by the NHS panicking and turning itself into a covid only service. Cancer and heart disease screenings have all but stopped along with many other regular surgeries and treatments for other conditions. The government has thrown billions of pounds at the NHS during covid and prior to it and still the NHS has failed. I would not be at all surprised to find later down the line that the number of people who have died from preventable or treatable conditions is way way higher than the number who have died from covid or even the initially projected number of deaths from covid which was 500k.

In addition to the physical diseases that have not been screened for or treated by the NHS because of their ‘covid only’ approach, there is also the issue of mental illnesses caused directly or indirectly by the government’s covid policies. The NHS mental health provision was at best a Cinderella service, given the crumbs from the table after all the rest of the NHS and its management parasites had taken their cut. This service could not cope during normal times but now it is overwhelmed. It cannot cope with the stresses and strains imposed on it by the direct result of the government’s woeful policies. I suspect that we may have to add tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of suicides caused by the government’s policies and the NHS’s failure to treat preventable mental illness to the 500k of deaths caused by the lockdowns.

The way that the British government has approached covid has been a complete and utter disaster that has seen us end up with a much higher death toll than other urbanised nations. Looking at the Worldometer figures, Britain with 101k deaths is in fifth place on the death count list whereas Sweden, which took a radically different approach and which has a similar level of urbanisation to the UK, has only had ten percent of Britain’s death toll. Sweden’s death rate is approximately the same per million of population as that of the UK and Sweden didn’t destroy its economy or society in order to contain covid. This alone should tell us that the government’s policies towards covid have not worked and indeed may even have been counterproductive.

Politically the Conservative Party has been seen to have utterly failed Britons. About the only thing that I can say positive about them is that it’s likely that a Corbyn led Labour government might have been worse. But we should have expected better from the Tories. We should have expected them to be a bit hard nosed and to have seen that any new illness will run through the dry tinder of the vulnerable and that this probably could not be prevented. We should have expected the Tories to understand that killing the patient by killing the economy and the social structure was pointless. Instead what we have got are pseudo-Tories who behave like socialists, micromanaging everything and everybody. Acting on intelligence and closing the borders, letting the economy continue and not destroying children’s education might have had a much better outcome than what we have got.

We should not forget the destruction that Boris Johnson’s Tories have brought to Britain. Whilst I applaud Johnson’s government for finally pulling its finger out regarding Brexit, it has failed dismally with regards to covid. I’m a former Tory voter and I don’t believe that I can in all good conscience vote for the Tories at either the next General Election or the more closer local elections. Instead I will vote for one of the alt parties, either Reform, Heritage or Reclaim as all these parties have asked the awkward questions of government and of how the government has managed the covid situation. We must fight to regain the freedoms that have been lost, extirpate the grassing culture that the Tories have created and ensure that no government ever again brings the sort of destruction that Boris Johnson’s Tories have brought to the United Kingdom.