Virus deaths justify inquiry calls – Yorkshire Post Letters

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson says he accepts responsibility for the 100,000 plus UK deaths due to the coronavirus. Would it be churlish to say he didn’t really have much option?

In all honesty, I don’t really care whether he accepts responsibility or not because nothing is going to happen to him.

Personally I would prefer, when this is all over, that lessons were actually learned, action to prevent a similar catastrophe happening again was actually taken and we addressed some, if not all, of the social problems highlighted by the pandemic. I would also like to win the lottery, but I don’t hold out much hope for that either!

From: Terry Palmer, South Lea Avenue, Hoyland, Barnsley.

READING several letters (The Yorkshire Post, February 3) regarding putting the blame for over 100,000 Covid deaths firmly at the door of certain politicians, do these critiques really believe that politicians are solely to blame for this catastrophe?

Did these politicians follow the advice of the scientists or not? And did the ordinary men and women then follow the scientific advice given by the politicians or not?

Unlike the politicians that ignored the will of the people on Brexit, I personally believe that politicians did follow the scientific advice on Covid. If that advice was wrong, then that would be a completely different argument simply because politicians are not scientists.

From: Peter Brown, Shadwell, Leeds.

THE pomposity implied by Bernard Ingham’s penultimate paragraph (The Yorkshire Post, February 3) was stunning: “Boris Johnson and Joe Biden should get together and set out their ambition for a Europe of nation states co-operating and trading freely with each other.”

Firstly, such an arrangement exists. Britain’s just left it. Secondly, does the White House’s new occupant look as if he wants to control Western allies and democracies in such a heavy-handed manner?

And inept, Trump-like and no longer run by Dominic Cummings as our entitled, Old Etonian PM may be, even Mr Johnson has yet to display the level of delusion Sir Bernard suggests.

Also, your columnist muddles the European Union with some members “escaping Communism 30 years ago”. The EU’s expansion helped those countries reinvent themselves as liberal, Western democracies after the Cold War.

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