Six months in and there appears to be no clear strategy from the government about how we get ourselves out of the semi-zombified state that the country and many businesses find themselves.
The sympathy and goodwill that all right-thinking people had for Boris Johnson and his cabinet colleagues when this crisis started back in March has slowly but surely evaporated, alongside the realisation that just because you are good at sound bites, winning elections and acting the goat does not a good Prime Minister make.
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