Covid manipulation left us a toxic political heritage

The opportunity to exploit any crisis has been firmly seized of both hands as examples of naked interest and naked greed saw the British government enriching with its blatant VIP purchasing paths which enriched a lot and benefited from it. The anger that seized the nation following the revelations of the Downing Street parties led to the fall not only of a Prime Minister, but undoubtedly set up the ingredients for the reversal of the following two.

A Boris Johnson rushing whose details and lack of gravity challenged the gravity of his office and his events were systematically compared to the first Minster Nicola Sturgeon, the first Minster Nicola Sturgeon, whose daily addresses to the nation saw him venerated by many, canonized by some, and despised by others. When the dust adjusted, the style was not very important, because the statistics of the metrics of Scotland are among the worst in Europe and despite the clowners in charge south of the wall, worse than in England too.

There have been moments of madness, sadness and even a slight slight lightness while the state flexed its power against its people in a way that little could then have imagined or tolerate now. The trans -border travel restrictions trumpet played in a particularly ugly demography, but was quickly pooped by the chief gendarme who said that no one would tell him how to enforce the law. The disruption of the funeral to ensure that the excess of mourning have been abandoned to be able to say that their last farewells will be forever a low point, and the crazy suggestion to cut the bottom of the class doors to help the air flow is only overcome in its madness by first place. They live with us, you know!

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Those who have cars and in local authorities like Highland were able to access nearly 10,000 square miles of immensity to help them avoid going crazy. Those who had the chance to live in the burbs learned to embrace the gatherings of prosecco through the fence in the garden while the sales of firefighters and gazebos were soaring, while those who climbed the walls in their apartments without air had the police at hand to make sure they did not come out of the daring line to try to make their claustrophobic.

One of my friends underwent a serious knee injury when walking alone and was thrown by two doctors who helped slogged the alarm for the rescue of the mountain before returning to their unteashed local area. Another doctor was not so lucky and was sentenced to a fine for a short crossing to the nearest supermarket in Moray because driving infinitely more kilometers to those in the opposite direction was apparently the preferred option. They were simply the strangest.

This weekend, the former secretary of the health office, Jeane Freeman, whom I accidentally thought was by far the most effective communicator in the Scottish government at the time, even the head and shoulders above the Prime Minister (who probably tells us why we were allowed to hear more) admitted what we all know, that some errors have been committed and that with the fact that [the benefit of] The decline some of the decisions made was worthy of review. Dr. Watsons investigates his constipated detective companion comes to my mind.

Nothing can of course cancel the past and the desire to point their fingers and distribute the blame is particularly understandable among those close to those who have lost their lives in care houses. For me, however, the biggest lessons of all are not issued by the recognition of errors were committed no less because I doubt that anyone seriously believed that they would not have been, but by examining some of the least obvious and undoubtedly more omnipresent changes that occurred during this period.

The relationship between the police and the state is currently under the spotlight for other reasons linked to the former Prime Minister, but a serious vagueness of the lines with regard to this relationship occurred during the cochable. I know by conversations that I had with him that the chief gendarme thought that he participated in television briefings alongside the FM was, in balance the good. However, I am not convinced that the optics of Scotland, the highest official of the police, repeatedly sharing a public platform with its most upscale politician was somehow wise, because by accident or design, he gives the impression of a politicized police service. It is at best unhappy.

The head of the then chief, Iain Livingstone, giving a briefing cocovored in St Andrews House (Image: Scottish government)

Covid also saw the healthy tension that must exist between the press and the government descend into manifest demonstrations of the law and contempt, and has helped to embrace a much broader antipathy for the press than healthy. I doubt that Nicola Sturgeon agrees, but his approach to the press did not make to appease the false prophets of their plots. The net effect is a company where more people are pushed to extract the news that agrees with them online propagandists and their social media accounts, and our general speech is quite a course.

But by far the greatest damage was caused by the lack of respect for the government's institution itself. The manifest displays and public messages were undoubtedly among the best, but behind the scenes, doubt was discouraged, control was considered a betrayal of betrayal and criticism. The adoption of an almost monarchical rule of rule may well have a predated covid, but it was indeed cemented. His arrogance and self-justice suffered the capacity of a consensus and have considerably reduced our policy. Five years on this is Covid's political heritage and I doubt that he will never be recognized.

Calum Steele is a former secretary general of the Scottish police federation and former secretary general of the International Council for Associations of Police Representatives. There remains an advisor for both.