I think we can all agree with this

The great covid slaughter converted me from my anti-capital punishment inclination. Hundreds or thousands need to be strung up for their behaviour, and many tens, or hundreds, of thousands need punishments such as having their pension rights confiscated and some jail time.

There’s an inexcusable shortage of jail space so get building!

Since the Conservatives were in office they’d suffer more hangings than Labour though the latter should at least see their Leader and their Shadow Sec State Health among the danglers. Most of the executed would be civil servants, public health “experts”, “scientists”, and doctors. Some journalists too, I dare say.

Because incentives! If you want to change the incentives for future occupants of such posts you need to get on with it. Clearly the example of Admiral Byng was too long ago.

Because incentives! If you want to change the incentives for future occupants of such posts you need to get on with it. Clearly the example of Admiral Byng was too long ago.

+1

Consider the Roving Bandit: you get to be bandit chief by being the nastiest-meanest-bandit-around and you keep your place until you are not. An incentive for competence at least. But civilization— life gets complicated, the bandit-in-chief needs assistants: he might have to reward competence but mostly he needs loyalty, and thus a settled order, a line of succession, at least for the Bandit class. — Stationary Bandits. Life gets more complicated more dilution and delegation of powers. But that’s fine so long as everyone (everyone that matters anyway) is of the Bandit class, that is, understanding that failure has fatal consequences. And if you want to be accepted into the Bandit class that is how it is.
But, let anyone be a Bandit in name only, no obligation to die a Bandits death rather than one of shame, then sure enough there is no limit to incompetence and failing upward no sin.