Number Ten Downing Street has, probably as a propaganda exercise rather than a genuine exercise in consultation, asked the Great British Public for questions about how it is handling the coronavirus issue. Needless to say this has, on Twitter at least, elicited a lot of responses that the Government may not wish to hear. Whilst of course there are some normies on the Twitter thread who are getting their entire ‘news’ from places like the BBC, something quite obvious as it is these who are asking for ‘more restrictions, they are very much in the minority. The vast majority of contributors to this thread are vehemently angry, accusing Boris Johnson of a ‘fuck up’, of corrupt contracts for PPE and pointing out that despite a lockdown in March, the nation’s borders remained open.

If the government thought that they would be getting the sort of supportive questions that they’ve so far been getting from the MSM from this particular exercise, then they are wrong. Instead what they’ve got is a fair picture of how Britons see the Government’s performance with regards to Covid. If the screenshots are what is being said on a censorious platform like Twitter, just imagine what people are saying about this government in the privacy of their own homes and among their friends? It’s probably far more vehement than what is being shown on Twitter?

The Government has made an immense number of mistakes in handling this issue. Sensible precautions such as temporarily closing the borders to entrants from China and other affected nations when this issue first arose were not taken, nor were policies put in place to ensure that the NHS actually functioned properly. There also seems to have been no work done to ascertain whether the Government’s one and only policy, that of lockdowns was either working or whether it was doing more damage than the disease that they were brought into prevent.

The first screenshot image was the Government’s Tweet and the subsequent ones are of those who are critical of the government. A spin through the Tweets as received at the time of writing showed me that they were roughly 85% critical of the Government and its policies and no more than 15% in favour. I don’t really need to tell you that this is not a good number for a government, any government, to be looking at when it comes to a major public policy.

Twitter link below

Do you have a question about coronavirus that you’d like to ask the government?

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) January 10, 2021