Boris is what he was in his past - a journalist with a reputation for not letting fine detail and accuracy get in the way of a good story. He has zero qualifications for the running the country other than he went to Eton and it's the kind of thing old boys do. He's highly intelligent, make no mistake. As company in the pub, great. But on the whole Keir Starmer is making him look like a fish out of water. Now is not a time for humour and without a jokey persona Boris is stuck. Wrong man at the wrong time.
There's only one person more important than the king, and that's the person who has the king's ear....
Please don’t treat him like a loveable rogue uncle. lies as long as your arm, Twice sacked, once as a journalist, once whilst Tory vice chair. What he said about blue collar workers. ( oh he was only being light hearted. No he wasn’t he was/is a pompous *****) He’s a jovial chap which appeals to the public. WTF. Avoids anything that may put him on the spot. Channel 4 debate. Andrew Neil debate. He’s a multiple adulterer. With no morals. Sorry but he can get fckd. He has no qualities I admire. Good bluffer though. I’ll give him that. Now where’s that loveable uncle.
. get a life, man. what are the press doing with Boris, at the start the press were pestering him to lockdown and when he does, within days they are demanding him to open up, its the bloody shambles of the press that think they run this country, bunch of thick idiots the lot of them
Have you had a head injury? Blame the press? Blame anyone and everyone else expect Boris and his mates, cos Brexit innit! Go and buy an ultraviolet light and a gallon of bleach to ensure you can self operate when you get Covid!
My problem with Boris is he hasn't got the courage of his convictions. He has wasted time decision making to appease the P.C brigade instead of doing what people voted him to do which I thought was be decisive and calculated. He had a massive chance to really stamp his authority and hasn't done. Yes he would have upset people cutting their holidays short, paid loads of compo. He would have upset Nicola Sturgeon closing borders and stopping commercial flights coming in and out and placing people in quarantine and testing people. It would have cost billions, but it would have been a damn site better than the tens of thousands of lives it's cost and the billions he's pumping into an artificial economy.
It would have been right for him to be "pestered" into a lockdown (not that he was btw), not least because we were at least a couple of weeks too late to lockdown anyway. Presumably you think we should have carried on breathing all over each other till the end of the football season. The press are not as a group all for too early resumption of normal life either. Plus they are holding the government to account far more than the opposition are. Keir needs to start getting a bit more angry. Finally Boris has been part of the press for years, so when you describe the lot of them as "thick idiots", guess which PM you're including in that description?
Have you actually looked into the actions of Boris Johnson over his political career? The son he's just had was conceived with his mistress whilst his current wife was in hospital with cancer. That's the kind of chap he is. But he gave you the Brexit you wished for - so I can see your quandary. You've got to weigh up what is worse - thousands of people dying or teckin are country bac.
A long, but essential read; December 31st; China alerts WHO to new virus. January 23rd: Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care. January 24th: Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting. January 29th: Boris Johnson misses second Cobra meeting. January 31st: The NHS declares first ever ‘Level 4 critical incident’. Meanwhile, the government declines to join European scheme to source PPE. February 5th: Boris Johnson misses third Cobra meeting. February 12th: Boris Johnson misses fourth Cobra meeting. Exeter University published study warning Coronavirus could infect 45 million people in the UK if left unchallenged. February 13th: Boris Johnson misses conference call with European leaders. February 14th: Boris Johnson goes away on holiday. Aides are told keeps Johnson’s briefing notes short or he will not read them. February 18th: Johnson misses fifth cobra meeting. February 26th: Boris Johnson announces ‘Herd Immunity’ strategy, announcing some people will lose loved ones. Government document is leaked, predicting half a million Brits could die in ‘worse case scenario’. February 29th: Boris Johnson retreats to his Country Manor. NHS warns of ‘PPE shortage nightmare’ Stockpiles have dwindled or expired after years of austerity cuts. March 2nd: Boris Johnson attends his FIRST Cobra meeting, declining another opportunity to join European PPE scheme. Government’s own scientists say over half a million Brit’s could die if virus left unrestrained. Johnson tells country “We are very, very well prepared.” March 3rd: Scientists urge Government to advise public not to shake hands. Boris Johnson brags about shaking hands of Coronavirus patients. March 4th: Government stops providing daily updates on virus following a 70% spike in UK cases. They will later U-turn on this amid accusations they are withholding vital information. March 5th: Boris Johnson tells public to ‘wash their hands and business as usual’. March 7th: Boris Johnson joins 82,000 people at Six Nations match. March 9th: After Ireland cancels St Patrick’s day parades, the Government says there’s “no rationale” for cancelling sporting events. March 10th - 13th: Cheltenham takes place, more than a quarter of a million people attend. March 11th: 3,000 Athletico Madrid fans fly to Liverpool. March 12th: Boris Johnson states banning events such as Cheltenham will have little effect. The Imperial College study finds the government’s plan is projected to kill half a million people. March 13th: The FA suspends the Premier League, citing an absence of Government guidance. Britain is invited to join European scheme for joint purchase of ventilators, and refuses. Boris Johnson lifts restrictions of those arriving from Coronavirus hot spots. March 14th: Government is still allowing mass gatherings, as Stereophonics play to 5,000 people in Cardiff. March 16th: Boris Johnson asks Britons not to go to pubs, but allows them to stay open. During a conference call, Johnson jokes that push to build new ventilators should be called ‘Operation Last Gasp’ March 19th: Hospital patients with Coronavirus are returned to care homes in a bid to free up hospital space. What follows is a boom of virus cases in care homes. March 20th: The Government states that PPE shortage crisis is “Completely resolved” Less than two weeks later, the British Medical Association reports an acute shortage in PPE. March 23rd: UK goes into lockdown. March 26th: Boris Johnson is accused of putting ‘Brexit over Breathing’ by not joining EU ventilator scheme. The government then state they had not joined the scheme because they had ‘missed the email’ April 1st: The Evening Standard publishes that just 0.17% of NHS staff have been tested for the virus. April 3rd: UK death toll overtakes China. April 5th: 17.5m Antibody tests, ordered by the govt & described by Boris Johnson as a ‘game changer’ are found to be a failure. April 7th: Boris Johnson is moved to intensive care with Coronavirus. April 16th: Flights bring 15,000 people a day into the UK - without virus testing. April 17th: Health Secretary Matt Hancock says “I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE fall from the sky.” The UK has now missed four opportunities to join the EU’s PPE scheme. April 21st: The Government fails to reach its target of face masks for the NHS, as it is revealed manufactures offers of help were met with silence. Instead millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from the UK to Europe. April 23rd - 24th: Government announces testing kits for 10 million key workers. Orders run out within minutes as only 5,000 are made available. April 25th: UK death toll from Coronavirus overtakes that of The Blitz. April 30th: Boris Johnson announces the UK has succeeded in avoiding a tragedy that had engulfed other parts of the world - At this point, The UK has the 3rd highest death toll in the world. May 1st: The Govt announces it's reached its target of 100,000 tests - They haven’t conducted the tests, but posted testing kits. May 4th: The number of NHS staff that have died from Coronavirus overtakes the number of British Military personnel that died during the Iraq War. May 5th: The UK death toll becomes the highest in Europe. May 6th: Boris Johnson announces that the UK could lift restrictions by next week! May 10th: Boris Johnson makes a divisive, confusing and vague announcement that divides the country.
Ah, the Brexit agreement Johnson voted against saying that no British PM could countenance splitting the country, then when he got the big job brought it back and made his mates vote for it, while not understanding what was in the agreement and refusing to implement the NI infrastructure that is required according to the agreement he signed in about 6 weeks time thus putting us in line to break the first international treaty we signed at a time when we need to sign about 50 in the immediate future?
I've got a life thanks and I'd like to live a long one but that blonde old etonian buffoon and his chums have by their ideology and ineptitude reduced the chances of me being able to live a long life. His main adviser Cummings first thoughts on the pandemic were it's tough if we lose a few pensioners we need to keep the economy growing it's only when it became blindingly obvious it wouldn't just be a few pensioners that they then panicked and shut everything down. Now because the numbers are finally going the right way the right wing conservative ideology of stuff the workers it's profit that matters is coming back to the fore even though it's probably too early for a mass return to work that's what they want.
You've missed the point by a million miles. It's not the wrong end of the stick, you're actually holding a broom.
I suppose you could say that. It's probably more a frustration that people who don't like people who look and talk differently so wanted to tek are country back lol have caused us major issues. Do you want to answer my question now?
certainly, what’s your question? Or are you just insinuating that I am racist because I didn’t vote as you wanted. Typical remain response to Brexit if ever I heard one.
