Maria Laura Avignolo
04/27/2020 - 18:43
- Clarín.com
- World
Boris Johnson returned with vigor and a harangue of rugbier from the podium at 10 Downing St, on his return as post-coronavirus prime minister. A model of recovery of the Covid 19, despite the paleness of its skin, to reconfirm that Britain could not even get out of the "lock down" , despite the enormous pressure of its party, some members of Parliament and the Torys donors. An air of Winston Churchill, its ideologist, in the adversity to motivate a kingdom that is tired of remaining locked up but is afraid of the epidemic, although it sees its jobs evaporate and its companies melt in this global crisis. He described the virus as "an unexpected and invisible assailant", taking a colorful turn in his own battle against the monster.
“We are now beginning to change course. If the virus were an unexpected assailant, an invisible assailant, of which I can speak to you from personal experience, then this is the moment when we have begun to fight together against the ground, "he described.
Against all expectations of his Torys peers, Boris Johnson called for a multi-party "national consensus" to present "a united front" against the pandemic. With a huge parliamentary majority and a rational Labor opposition leader like Sir Keir Starmer, you have a better chance than before . His biggest problem will be between Brexitiers and far-right torys, who demand that quarantine be lifted as quickly as possible for economic reasons.
Boris and Sir Keir Starmer, who were neighborhood neighbors in London and intellectual Islington, have a good relationship. They will meet this week officially, after Sir Keir, a human rights lawyer, replaced Jeremy Corbyn at the head of Labor. It is unclear whether Torys and Labor will share the costs of taking measures that need national approval. Sir Keir warned that "they were treating adults like boys." But the great difficulty for Boris will be Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, with whom he has a horrendous relationship because of Brexit and independence in Scotland.
At the Downing St gate, he explained that it is not time now to relax the “lockdown” or national quarantine. Relieving it would be " wasting all the effort and sacrifice of the British people and the risk of a second major wave of coronavirus," he analyzed.
"I ask you to contain your impatience because I think we are now reaching the end of the first phase of this conflict and despite all the suffering, we have almost succeeded," said the prime minister, who chose an epic tone, with gestures and allusions. heroic.
"If you can follow this path that we have, if you can protect the NHS (the health service), then I have no doubt that together we can overcome this," he continued. Boris insisted that Britain "is going through the peak." But that it is the moment of greatest risk in the face of the possibility that people can see “the apparent success” of Great Britain and relax in the “social distancing” . Such conduct would provoke "a second peak" of the epidemic, which would mean "a new wave of death and disease" and an economic disaster.
Boris described the virus as "the country's greatest challenge since the war" and each of us knows that this virus brings new sadness and grief to homes across the country. "
He then addressed his critics in driving the crisis, without mentioning them. Britain has defied so many predictions. We had no lack of fans or intensive care beds. We do not allow our NHS to collapse and to the contrary, we all collectively shield the NHS so that our amazing doctors, nurses and hospital staff can protect us from an outbreak that could have been much worse and collectively we flattened our peak, "he described. .
The NHS did not collapse as its critics predicted, and the military helped build the famous 4,000-bed Nightingale Hospital in London, Manchester, Harrogate and Birmingham, which did not have to be massively used and are "the white elephants" of the pandemic.
Engineer Sir James Dyson invested £ 20 million to build respirators that the government asked for in the absence. But, in the end, the order was suspended because doctors learned to use a type of oxygen that made them less necessary. But the protective material would have saved the lives of the doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers who died fighting the virus. There's not enough.
In the speech, Boris Johnson also responded to criticism of the conduct of the crisis. His delay in making quarantine decisions, the presence of his chief advisers, Dominic Cummings, in the Scientific Committee, which must advise the government and without the slightest influence from politicians. “I want to notify now that these decisions will be made with the maximum possible transparency . And I want to share all of our work, our thoughts, my thoughts, with you British people, ”said Boris Johnson.
The economy urges the country. Many of the companies will disappear after quarantine, unemployment is already rising brutally A Deltapoll survey showed that the British are happy with the restrictions and that "they are concerned about a quick exit" from the "lockdown" in all generations and political groups "by the consequences ”that the pandemic can bring.
The British restrictions have been going on for a month and the next quarantine review will be only on May 7. Foreigners seeking to enter Britain or returning stranded must serve a 14-day quarantine.