This is just the typical 'kicking the can down the road' approach to things that only makes things worse. It plays out exactly like the refugee crisis and the crisis in Greece.
At first they try a soft approach and delay and stall any real action and at some point they panic and make a 180 degree turn.
Information was poor, communication was poor, policy was poor. So people have been looking for alternative sources and voices all summer and autumn and this is the result.
There's usually some other underlying issues too that blow up in their face at exactly the same time that shatters their credibility.
We're supposed to have elections March 17th and the chances that the situation has gotten better by then are slim.
But despite this the political parties are now launching their campaigns, including the governing parties.
In a week or 2 they will probably announce the delay, only making people that protest more angry.
They should've just started a big lockdown around Christmas time, when the signs were already there this would get increasingly worse. Take the pain and move on. Indeed like New Zealand and Singapore did. Because we never had a proper lockdown. Businesses still open, car dealerships, theaters got an exemption etc. . We have a curfew since last night, 2 nights of riots. Cases were at 10k weeks ago and they didn't halt air traffic from the UK until last week.
