Drareg
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It’s from RT but additional sources can be found elsewhere, Boris Johnson and the UK government struck a deal for "stay home, stay safe" 3 weeks before lockdown while pumping the rhetoric of going for herd immunity.
Im not sure if this was to set the left up for blame down the line but it’s clear they knew they would lockdown, you don’t just hedge with an advert deal worth 119 million just in case it’s needed, they knew what they were going to do.
The ‘liberal-left’ narrative that the UK Tory government wanted to pursue Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ instead of a lockdown has been shattered by official filings which appears to show the opposite was the case.
The phrase ‘smoking gun’ is oft-overused, but it is surely appropriate in relation to the reportin the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the UK government struck a deal worth £119m with an American advertising company, OMD Group, urging people to ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ a full three weeks before Boris Johnson ordered a lockdown.
Think about what this means. It’s safe to assume that if this big money deal was struck on 2nd March, the preparations began a lot earlier – in February, or more likely, even earlier than that. You don’t just set up an advertising campaign with a major US agency in a couple of hours.
Im not sure if this was to set the left up for blame down the line but it’s clear they knew they would lockdown, you don’t just hedge with an advert deal worth 119 million just in case it’s needed, they knew what they were going to do.
The ‘liberal-left’ narrative that the UK Tory government wanted to pursue Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ instead of a lockdown has been shattered by official filings which appears to show the opposite was the case.
The phrase ‘smoking gun’ is oft-overused, but it is surely appropriate in relation to the reportin the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the UK government struck a deal worth £119m with an American advertising company, OMD Group, urging people to ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ a full three weeks before Boris Johnson ordered a lockdown.
Think about what this means. It’s safe to assume that if this big money deal was struck on 2nd March, the preparations began a lot earlier – in February, or more likely, even earlier than that. You don’t just set up an advertising campaign with a major US agency in a couple of hours.
