Turkeys won’t vote for Christmas when the polls are telling them they’ll be stuffed Andrew Rawnsley
almost 6 years in The guardian
Neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn is being straight about why they do or don’t want an election
When Australia sneezes, the world catches a cold. So be warned that they had an unusually early and quite nasty flu season down under this year. I mention this because fear of the flu is one of the hidden reasons why Boris Johnson craves a pre-Christmas election.
Senior NHS officials have warned ministers that the severe flu season in Australia is likely to be a harbinger of the same here. That will compound what already threatens to be a grim winter for a stretched health service. Better, then, from a Conservative perspective, to have an election in the first half of December rather than wait until January or February when news bulletins may be nightly leading with reports of a winter crisis putting more pressure on intensive care and high-dependency units than the NHS can cope with. The thing most worrying to ministers is a repeat of the winter of 2017-18 when a bad flu season in Australia was followed by a killer one in Britain, which saw deaths hit a 42-year peak after the flu jab failed to work in the majority of cases. Continue reading...
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