Sorry Sandy, it’s all just been so boring on here recently.
Im sure there’s piles of ‘sleaze’ going on in all governments. Depends what you mean by sleaze, of course.
Things like Johnston getting his pal, Kate Bingham to organise vaccine procurement by bringing together academia with big pharma could be described as sleaze as it probably bypassed all the civil service procurement rules but, by heck, it worked. By getting ahead of the vaccination game the UK has saved billions. As long as there is an openness to these things, if a line has been crossed then usually people are brought to account. In terms of the UK, most of the press try their darnedest to catch out out Boris and Carrie unlike here in Scotland where the media is very passive.
Im sure we’ll find out that billions were wasted on PPE, ventilators, etc and it will all come out and the voters can decide.
Just like in Scotland, money wasted on ferries, an airport, vexatious prosecutions, Gupta, etc.. At the end of the day it’s up to voters to decide as to whether they are capital offences or acceptable decisions made at the time.
That’s democracy. Like it or loathe it!!