What still gets me is that I - and many others, I know - were genuinely pepared to support the Govt when the pandemic began. It's easy to tweet criticism, but this remains an unprecedented crisis and it is hard for politicians too. I think it is important we remember that. But...

Whatever willingness there was, Johnson managed to erase it all very, very quickly. That is actually quite a feat as it's pretty usual for crises to to unite and strengthen Govt support - esp a crisis is of this scale really should have. But the failures were to great

and too unforgiveable; the trust eroded too much already to carry this. Plus all the scandals we have come to learn about. All the failures. The never listening. The constant jingoism even at this time. The choices that will contine to make things worse (eg Brexit transition).

But often things weren't really by choice, but by dithering until no choice was left. This was always my point in the first lockdown: lockdowns are about saving lives, yes. About the NHS, yes. But also about improving choices moving forward. Who would not want to maximise those?

Yet despite all issues; despite a decline in polls; despite the fact that we are heading straight towards 100k Covid deaths in the UK, he's still dithering along. ... Allowed to dither along by his party. Enabled to dither along by many others. ... It is incomprehensible to me.

But then, sadly, @antoni_UK makes an important point here too: https://twitter.com/antoni_UK/status/1346216917514772482?s=20