Vaccination in Britain : a triumph of socialism !

Please don't whisper it: vaccination in Britain is a practical demondtration of the value of democratic socialism. The vaccine has been distributed and administered to the population with admirable effeiciency and dispatch by a nationalised industry, and it has been manufactured with the aid of considerable state subsidy, and with an assured and protected market. It is no surprise, then, that it has been the only element of the government's pandemic policy which has been at all successful. Other components of the government's 'strategy' (manufacturing PPE, testing, contact tracing) have been left to the wonders of the private sector, with catastrophic results. Predictably enough, the Labour Party has lost so much confidence in itself that it has been unable to capitalise on what should have been a propaganda victory.