"A few weeks of paying furloughed workers to save precious jobs...had already got the Tories squealing about the lazy plebs getting used to their ( government created & enforced) indolence. They simply can't handle the idea as it goes against every ideological bone in their collective body.
Thats the real issue. "
Agreed. I think it was obvious what needed to be done in February and we'd be out the other side by now but it was ideologically impossible for UK government to act as necessary.