[DouglasS]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

If we had any other government but a tory one, we would probably not waited until March last year to lock down and actually try to deal with a virus that had already arrived on our shores months before.

Let's not thank an incompetent government for doing the bare minimum of what's expected of them, let's have standards, shall we?

If this vaccination roll out is the bare minimum, then what are the efforts of almost every other country around the world bar Israel and one or two others?

We are world leading, you cannot call world leaders bare minimum

At least be willing to applaud when the government have done a phenomenal job, such as allowing you to feel safe to go on holiday/go abroad in 2021, which almost no other country could do for you, based on you wanting to wait for the vaccine - only the U.K. could give you that reassurance. The fact the government are able to make you feel that and the fact you’re able to even consider a holiday in 2021 is fantastic considering you wouldn’t be able to even consider freedom or holidays by your own standards of wanting to wait until you have had two doses.

Like I said in almost any other country in the world you wouldn’t have this freedom or reassurance that you have insinuated you require for a holiday (wanting both doses) so for that I say well done to Boris and Matt for letting you feel that you can go on holiday in 2021 when if you were in almost any other country around the world you would not be feeling this way based on you wanting to be vaccinated before going abroad.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by DouglasS

If this vaccination roll out is the bare minimum, then what are the efforts of almost every other country around the world bar Israel and one or two others?

We are world leading, you cannot call world leaders bare minimum

At least be willing to applaud when the government have done a phenomenal job, such as allowing you to feel safe to go on holiday/go abroad in 2021, which almost no other country could do for you, based on you wanting to wait for the vaccine - only the U.K. could give you that reassurance. The fact the government are able to make you feel that and the fact you’re able to even consider a holiday in 2021 is fantastic considering you wouldn’t be able to even consider freedom or holidays by your own standards of wanting to wait until you have had two doses.

Like I said in almost any other country in the world you wouldn’t have this freedom or reassurance that you have insinuated you require for a holiday (wanting both doses) so for that I say well done to Boris and Matt for letting you feel that you can go on holiday in 2021 when if you were in almost any other country around the world you would not be feeling this way based on you wanting to be vaccinated before going abroad.

Hero worshipping politicians is never a good idea. They are there to do a job, when they do it badly, people suffer and die. I have high expectations of the government, and they have rarely been met. I'm not gonna lower my standards and clap like a possessed seal just to please someone who cannot see the faults of their chosen party and the mistakes they've made. Such blind devotion has no place in politics.

I do not give a **** about how we're measuring up to other countries, if we can do better, we should do better. Making out that we're perfect because of some pointless leaderboard is peak flagwankery and I have no time for it. Patriotism is for the gullible.

It doesn't matter that we're leading in vaccinations when people have already died because of the Tories' slow reaction to a virus they were made keenly aware of months before they decided to do something about it. It is unforgiveable that they willingly sacrificed lives to live in delusion for a little bit longer by not doing what other countries like Australia and New Zealand did, and took pre-emptive action.

The Tories' inaction and incompetence killed people, and no amount of blind loyalty and flagwankery is going to change that.

[Daniel-X]

If we can’t go overseas this year I’d like to go down south like Cornwall/Torquay way.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Daniel-X

If we can’t go overseas this year I’d like to go down south like Cornwall/Torquay way.

So many beautiful places to visit here in the UK.
Cornwall looks amazing,