Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock failing us over tiers and pandemic – Yorkshire Post Letters

WE have a Covid vaccine that is in short supply, requires extreme and complex measures to store and distribute it and whose efficacy is still not certain.

We have a rapid Covid testing kit which is at best 70 per cent accurate but in reality nearer to 50 per cent.

We have had a month-long countrywide lockdown followed by 95 per cent of the country then being put under severe or extreme restrictions all so we can have a five-day Christmas meet, greet and virus-spreading party.

All the above are being promoted as good news stories which just goes to show what a parlous state we’re in and how desperate the government is to appear positive and dynamic.

Our government is out of its depth and floundering, and has been for the last 11 months. It is made up, with few exceptions, of ministers who, under normal circumstances, could have aspired to be adequate but have been cruelly exposed by the pandemic.

While I accept they have a difficult job, making decisions based on constantly changing, confusing and often contradictory information, it is what they are paid to do.

They pushed themselves forward as being the best the country could get so they can’t complain and, before I’m accused of being anti-Conservative, let me say I can’t think of any politician, of whatever party, that could have done better and quite a few who would have been worse! 

We have a dearth of good, solid, sensible politicians in this country at the moment and have had for some considerable time. 

From: Geoffrey Brooking, Saxley Court, Havant.

WHAT magnificent leadership on the part of Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson as regards coronavirus (The Yorkshire Post, December 15).

The swift action of the Government to deal with fresh spikes of the virus underlines this.

The fact that a new variant of Covid-19 has been identified so quickly also proves what a great job the scientists are doing. People should be very careful, think about their local NHS, and ultimately save lives.

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