You're right, Mike. At a time of two huge crises, one completely unnecessary and entirely self-inflicted, we have the worst government in living memory dealing with them. Inept, liars, with the added bonus of corruption. They long ago acquired the sobriquet "the nasty party" and they've certainly lived up to it. Most governments probably made mistakes in the early days of the virus, but ours refused to learn from its mistakes, repeating them over and over by ignoring scientific advice and doing too little too late. They even authorized a five-day super-spreading christmas, belatedly changed to one day only for many and cancelled altogether for millions. With the number of Covid cases now higher than at the start of the pandemic and christmas infections yet to be taken into account, god knows what January will bring to an already massively over-burdened NHS.
You may have seen that a deal has been struck with the EU. Although it's better than no deal at all it will leave the country much worse off than we were as members of the union. It has to be approved by parliament tomorrow and I imagine that Labour will have no option but to approve it, since it's better than nothing, but I imagine the hard right wing of the Tories will vote against it as it won't be destructive enough for them. Hard to believe that decent folks could even think about voting for people like Johnson and Trump to run their country.