This

Have come across so many people, usually 'unpolitical', who are lockdown sceptics

Never assume Twitter is representative, still less the tweets of those you choose to follow https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1323029078065250306
Seriously

Current government, ironically, is dealing with Covid issue much like predecessor governments dealt with EU issue

Not engaging with public scepticism, still less winning political argument

And if you don't win people over, they vote for the purveyors of easy answers
Farage is a political hobgoblin, who appears - and feeds off - when a government has failed properly to explain complex issues and to engage public support

The appeal of his easy answers are the measure - indeed, an index - of political failure

His opportunism is a warning
Every political action by Farage should have the opposite reaction from those in government: are we explaining a complex issue well, and are we properly engaging with the public for their support?

For that is what feeds this political hobgoblin

Mere sneering is inconsequential
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