And yet he has imposed two. And each (whilst being described as a nuclear option) was imposed ahead of alternative policies—such as stopping agency staff hopping from care home, to care home and ensuring patients weren’t released from hospitals into communal care environments.
Also, fast testing has been available for 13 months (that’s when it was first mentioned in my workplace) but it has only become widely accessible recently.
He could’ve insisted that companies offered immediate and full sick pay for staff with symptoms, but he refused. He could’ve imposed Covid cleaners on public transport, but every simple mitigation measure seemed beyond him.
Nevertheless, I was reading an interview with David Cameron a few weeks ago, and he described being PM as if floating on a sea of civil servants whom he was powerless to control. I dare say Boris will be thrown under the bus should he have delusions that he is actually some ultimate authority.
From what I’m gathering (from admittedly anecdotal evidence) these protests actually represent a huge swathe of opinions, which only loosely cohere in their resistance to the draconian lockdown. ‘Anti-vax’ doesn't seem to even nearly represent what’s going on.
Boris might need his water-cannon back soon—for his own cabinet meetings.