I wasn't going to comment on this thread - I think everyone here has said something I agree with - with few exceptions.
I think what I find wrankles is the idea that "it could have been worse" if we hadn't had the Johnson Government. Similarly the suggestion by many that all politicians are the same - clearly a nonsense idea.
Classic deflection and whataboutery - which is a bit like trying to prove a negative.
I, maybe like others was educated in ignorance, and especially about history - obviously British history, with all those pink bits on the world maps. It was only in later years I learned of the disasters that we as a country inflicted, and the arrogance and ignorance of Baden Powell, Rhodes, Mountbatten, and many others with questionable views.
Yes we were taught about the slave trade, but not perhaps about how important that British superiority over any other group of people was, in order to maintain that control at home and abroad. It was merely inferred.
Now we have a succession of politicians rolling up to tell us how ignorant about Covid they were in February and March 2020, and they were 'following the science'. On top of which we continue our ideological 'war' with the organisation that we have recently left - blaming that awful EU for our own decisions, and the deals and arrangements we so recently hailed as getting it done.
Is this, and the unmitigated failure to manage the Covid pandemic in the UK what we as a society have to accept - one miserable falsehood after another, one illusionist's trick that we must believe?