Various countries around Europe will need ventilators at different times and the principal of working together to have a ventilator bank that all could benefit from is something we seemingly weren't interested in. Much better to be left with thousands of ventilators in storage once the virus is over.
We have also ordered 3.5 million antibody testing kits without knowing they will tell us what we need to know and most would have blasted a Labour PM for doing so.
The Tories are getting some of the criticism because they are the ones calling the shots (or is it Dominic Cummings).