Oh come on! Boris was still working on his red boxes from his hospital bed? Boris is notorious for not working on his red boxes even when fit and well. He'd turn up for GLA meetings without even having read the agenda.
It's No 10 spin, just like today's statement saying no one did anything wrong. It's too soon to make international comparisons. But other countries are looking at our success? This is as bad as some of the stuff coming out of the White House!
He's the only mayor of a major city who's found time to write a book during his mayoralty. Speaking of which, he was way behind, even before falling ill, on the deadline for his latest book. That's probably the reason for 'Boris doesn't work weekends' widely reported in the press - which, may I remind you, tends to have a pro-Tory bias.
As pp said, he's a lazy git who takes pride in not being a details man. Must have come as quite a shock to the cabinet office after Theresa May.
So he and Carrie have had a turbulent few months? And whose fault was that? Who boasted about shaking hands with Covid-19 patients on 2/3? Who went to Twickenham on 7/3? What sort of example did that set? How many of his close associates caught the virus? Hancock, Whitty, Cummings - and Carrie, to name the ones we've heard of. Perhaps they didn't wash their hands enough?
And it's wrong to criticise Carrie because she's a new mother? As if that excuses everything. She's a new mother because she embarked on an affair with a serial adulterer, notorious for fathering children with his other women, without using contraception herself. And with no apparent consideration for the feelings of his existing family.
This is not an occasion for national celebration. Especially now it emerges that an entire weekend at Chevening when our P.M. was M.I.A. in the middle of a national crisis was spent finalising the financial settlement and working out how to tell his family that Carrie was pregnant and they were now engaged. Cue loved-up soft-focus selfies posted by Carrie on her Insta account and splashed all over the press.
Forgive me for not joining in the celebrations on the day when they finally included the care home and community deaths in the NHS total. Nothing to celebrate about that.