Ẃt mcs ɖ insîdrz’ acǎnt so devstetñ z ɖt it ćîmz wɖ evriʈñ evriwn olrdi nz abt Boris Jonsn’z caṛctr. An uņemd “sīńr advîzr” t Dǎnñ Strīt “brouc rancs” t se: “Ẃt y lrn abt Boris wz h dd’nt ćer eni mītñz. H lîct hiz cuntribrecs. H dd’nt wrc wīc-endz. It wz lîc wrcñ fr an old-faśnd ćīf xktiv in a locl oʈoṛti 20 yirz ago. Ɖr wz a riyl sns ɖt h dd’nt d rjnt crîsisplanñ. It wz xacli lîc ppl fird h wd b.”

Xaɉretd or nt, hírñ ɖt ɖ prîm ministr tc tū wīcs’ hoḷde at Ćīvnñ az ɖ vîṛs bgan t spred in ɖ YC wl stic in ɖ public meṃri. Nr wl eniwn fget hiz ćiri 3 Marć bost ɖt h wz stl śecñ handz wɖ vîṛșufrrz. Nr ɖt h wz at Twicnm fr a crǎdd rugbimać on 7 Marć. Bt abv ol, h míst nt wn bt ol v ɖ frst fîv Cobra mītñz on ɖ gaɖ̇rñ crîsis. Gordn Brǎn ćerd evri sngl Cobra mītñ on ft-n-mǎʈ – ẃn onli ɖ hlʈ v animlz wz at stec. Jonsn z ćarjd wɖ westñ 38 dez bfr tecñ sirịs ax́n agnst an eṗdemic aproćñ in plen sît. In hiz mînd, Ćîna wz far awe. N īvn ẃn Iṭli sufrd ɖ fl horr – dspt biyñ betr priperd, wɖ mor bedz n mor intnsiv-cer ynits – wel, ɖt wz jst Iṭli.

Nwn ilectd Boris Jonsn t cǒp wɖ a pleg. Ɖ smōl grūp v êjñ acṭvists in ɖ Tori parti s’lectd him fr hiz Brex̣tri – n ɖe lîct ɖ cut v hiz ćiri jib. H wz fun, upbìt, popylr n, abv ol, h hd swuñ ɖ Brexit vot t vicṭri. Mîcl Gov rportd on Súnde ɖt ɖ prîm ministr z “in ćirfl spirits”, bt ɖt’s baf̣lñli in’proprịt. Ćirfl? Abt ẃt? Gd croce on ɖ blosm-strùn Ćécrz lōnz? Ɖr r scorz v ded doctrz n nrsz amñ sm 20,000 ded sitiznz, n rîzñ. Hir z ɖ roñ man in ɖ roñ job at ɖ roñ tîm – ɖ polr oṗzit v Winstn Ćrćl’z arîvl in pǎr.

Ẃt mcs Jonsn s’prīmli unsūtd t ɖs ptiklr darcist aur z hiz naćṛl antiṗʈi twdz ɖ stet. In a spīć mnli on Brexit in Grenij on 3 Febrri, h atact Wūhan-stîl locdǎnz: “W r startñ t hír sm bizar ǎtarcic reṭric, ẃn barịrz r gwñ p, n ẃn ɖr z a risc ɖt ny dzizz sć az c’roṇvîṛs wl trigr a panic n a dzîr fr marcitsegṛgeśn.” H wnt on: “Hymaṇti nīdz sm guvnmnt smẃr ɖt z wilñ at līst t mc ɖ ces pǎrf̣li fr frīdm v xćenj.” H wz ɖt guvnmnt, alñ wɖ Doṇld Trump. “Hrd-iḿṇti” wz Jonsn’z poḷsi untl it bcem p’liticli unsstenbl. Ɖr-aftr, incompitns.

Ɖ Fnanśl Tîmz’ anaḷsis v bungld vnṭletrpṛkrmnt z a soḅrñ rīd: it sz ɖ guvnmnt cōld in non-speṣ́lists t mc p ɖ śortfōl in ynits n endd p wɖ products unfit fr Covid-19 peśnts. N ɖ Gardịn rvild ɖt, undr osteṛti, ɖr wz a dlibṛt 40% cut in imrjnsi prsnl pṛtctiv iqipmnt stocpîld fr an eṗdemic.

Lebr’z śado hlʈsecṛtri, Joṇʈn Aśwrʈ, z cōlñ fr pubḷceśn v ɖ fîndñz v a ʈri-de eṗdemicsiḿleśn in 2016, X’sîz Sigṇs, ẃć uncuvrd a criticl śortij v intnsiv-cer bedz, morgcpaṣti n PPI. Ɖ guvnmnt z rfyzñ frīdm-v-inf̣meśn rqsts, so ɖt me hv t wêt fr ɖ inevitbl public inqîri. Az wl fînl dītelz v ɖ fełr t tst, tres, îṣlet n trīt evri sngl ces, ẃć ɖ Wrld Hlʈ Orġnîześn nǎ sz śd b a prīcndiśn bfr cuntriz lūsn ɖer locdǎnz. Nn v ɖz ʈñz r in ples in ɖ YC, nẃr nir.

Yesṭde ɖ NHS Cnfeḍreśn n NHS Pṛvîdrz fîṇli lost peśns wɖ guvnmnt-dsoṇsti ovr wiśfl targits n planz: jst tel s plen facts, ɖe dmandd.

No guvnmnt cd b fŭli redi fr ɖs: fyćrlésnz wl b lrnt fṛm Sǎʈ C’rīa n uɖrz. Bt ɖs w nǒ: ǎr guvnmnt z snğlrli unsūtd t ɖ tasc n unfit fr prṗs. In hiz absns, Jonsn’z lac v sirịsnis z rflectd in hiz abizml ćôs v cabiṇt, s’lectd fr ol ɖ roñ rīznz. Doṃnic Rāb, Priti Ptel, Iliẓbʈ Trus n ɖ rest wr ćozn fr Brex̣tri n hetrid v ɖ stet. Rīd Britańa Unćend, ɖ comṗleśn v ɖer c’lectd ʈncñ, t si intu ɖer soulz. Ɖr’z no evidns ɖer wrldvy hz ćenjd.

Doṃnic Cumñz wz bròt in bî Jonsn t swñ a recñbōl at Ẃîthōl, locl caunslz, ɖ BBC n eniʈñ ɖt smelt v gd guvnmnt. No s’prîz ɖt ɖoz hu d’nt b’liv in ɖ stet hv md ɖ wrst poṣbl fist v runñ it in a crîsis. Brexit imbodid ɖer mîndset: brec awe, brec ʈñz n dsrupt. Ẃn ɖ prîm ministr rtrnz, hiz sngl most ri’śurñ act wd b t pṛloñ imīɉtli ɖ Brexit trnziśn: yt last wīc Nu 10 sd it wd rjct an xtnśn, īvn f ɖ YY ofrd it. F Jonsn blundrz on az ɖ icoṇmi c’lapsz, ɖen w śl trūli nǒ w r in ɖ handz v fnatics.

Ultiṃtli, a public inqîri wl xamin ɖ stet v ɖ cuntri ẃn ɖ vîṛs struc. Hǎ 10 yirz v osteṛti cripld evri srvis dzînd t pṛtct n dfnd. Hǎ ɖ Andru Lanzli rformz blù ɖ NHS intu fragmnts; sośl cer wz stript bér; n locl guvnmnt, rsponsbl fr public hlʈ, wz średd. Īvn ɖ armi wz hobld.

Ɖ prîm ministr cn wax snṭmntl abt ɖ NHS, bt it’s onli wn arṭri v public srvis ɖt z ɖ lîfblud v gd guvnmnt. Az parḷmnt rtrnz, it’s tîm fr MPs t ćalinj ɖ fełrz v ɖz reṇgedz.