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Mr Johnson looks so ill.

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randomer · 23/06/2020 17:55

I abandoned the briefings early on but I was shocked to see him tonight. He looks ill and the strange manic grin makes it worse.

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GetOffYourHighHorse · 24/06/2020 14:33

Critical care @gimmeaye

ICU/HDU all the same during the Covid outbreak.

catsingangs · 24/06/2020 14:54

People are going for Dominic Cummings because he masterminded the Leave campaign.
He deserves a knighthood as far as I am concerned

I thought we had enough of unelected beaurocrats ?

Mr Johnson looks so ill.
Peregrina · 24/06/2020 14:58

I notice nobody is complaining about Corbyn breaking lockdown on two separate occasions.

Is Corbyn an unelected adviser to the PM then?

People are going for Dominic Cummings because he masterminded the Leave campaign.

Or because he's a nasty hypocrite who thinks the rules don't apply to him. Other people have not been able to be with loved ones as they died, attend funerals, or see new grandchildren, but he can drive the length of the country when he was supposedly ill.

He deserves a knighthood as far as I am concerned
A matter of opinion, but many of us could think of genuinely worthy candidates.

randomer · 24/06/2020 15:11

something bad......yes, otherwise why would Johnston not sack him when he went to Specsavers the scenic route? The 2 of them are locked into something very frightening I think.

I suppose its fun to mock me but I am an ordinary, boring citizen, not the PM of the disunited UK. I have never claimed to be Churchillian or have a world beating scheme.

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wowfudge · 24/06/2020 15:13

Cummings deserves a knighthood? What for exactly? And, if that lying git deserves a knighthood then Martin Lewis ought to be canonised in his lifetime without the need for miracles and elevated to sainthood this week!

randomer · 24/06/2020 15:13

I couldn't give a about Dom and his masterminding. He is a vile liar. btw how is his autistic son , who can only be cared for by parents or grandparents? I wonder who is caring for the kid now.

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ifeellikeanidiot · 24/06/2020 15:21

He's an overweight, middle age man who's just had a new baby.

He was in intensive care very recently and is presumably suffering the horrific post viral effects that are associated with covid.

Plus he's prime minister, that's going to tire you out.

Oh yes, and there's the Brexit deadline next week. That's a crazy lot of pressure. The workload in itself is unimaginable, but for it all to be going so wrong so publicly, that's tough.

And you've got to think that he's feeling a bit uncomfortable about the way his government handled covid. That'd certainly age me a lot.

Then finally there must be a bit of a nagging worry that he's misunderstood the whole BLM thing. Tough to have so many racist comments of yours made public. By all accounts he can be quite smart - he must be wondering if his whole Britain as great white saviour empire thing just doesnt sit right. You've got to hope that at some subconscious level he's beginning to wonder whether just because he cant see racism in the UK, doesnt mean he can just dismiss the experiences of the many people who do.

So yeah, he doesn't look well, but that's hardly surprising.

Growingboys · 24/06/2020 15:26

He went back to work too soon.

I feel sorry for him.

Peregrina · 24/06/2020 15:26

He could remove his Brexit deadline right now. OK the right wingers in his party would come for him, but that might give him a face saving way out. I am not going to feel sorry for the man - he was desperate for the job, he got it, now he has to take the rough with the smooth.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 24/06/2020 15:30

'Other people have not been able to be with loved ones as they died, attend funerals, or see new grandchildren, but he can drive the length of the country when he was supposedly ill.'

He socially distanced, he didn't attend a funeral or dance to Abba no matter now much the Guardian told you he did. He stayed near family should he need childcare for his son. He didn't break the rules which is unfortunate for those desperate to get rid of him.

UserErrorMessage · 24/06/2020 15:31

@Growingboys

He went back to work too soon.

I feel sorry for him.

Why are you feeling sorry for him?
randomer · 24/06/2020 15:38

*He went back to work too soon.

I feel sorry for him*

What a tremendous opportunity he had to be brave. To say " I got this wrong, I was over confident. Men do get ill. Men out there, go to regular health checks. I have been ill. I need to recuperate. I will be taking a back seat."

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Chocolatedeficitdisorder · 24/06/2020 15:40

I think he looks like the talentless toerag that he is.

I'm very glad that I'm in Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon is making the decisions, but hey, you guys wanted Johnson. Good luck with that.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 24/06/2020 15:54

'I'm very glad that I'm in Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon is making the decisions, but hey, you guys wanted Johnson. Good luck with that.'

You're glad Sturgeon covered up the Nike conference outbreak and that Scotland had double the ratio of care home deaths to England?! I think it's more appropriate for me to say 'good luck with that' tbh.

ThankyouNicola talks a good talk with her furious head wobbling and finger pointing at Westminster but she is fairing no better than anyone else. Worse actually.

ssd · 24/06/2020 15:55

Lol how is she fairing worse??

yellowhammers · 24/06/2020 16:34

Peregrina you know very well I never said the Jeremy Corbyn was an advisor to Boris. However he is a leading light in the Labour Party and broke the rules on at least 2 occasions and was photographed doing so.

I think Dominic Cummings deserves a knighthood for masterminding the Leave campaign. I realise that you will disagree because you are a staunch Remainer, as I know from several years of other threads.

That's fine. We can disagree.

Why on earth should Boris extend the deadline even though Barnier clearly wants to.
I am happy to see the back of the EU and I would suggest that the majority of voters agree, otherwise Boris would not have such a great majority.

tobee · 24/06/2020 16:46

It must be so hard for Tories to forget that Corbyn is no longer lead of the Labour Party.

Peregrina · 24/06/2020 16:48

He stayed near family should he need childcare for his son.

Other people had childcare needs every bit as pressing but obeyed what they thought were the rules, and didn't go driving the length of the country. Obviously it's more fool them.

Other people did not go out driving to beauty spots to test their eyesight. Well, of course, once Cummings did, they thought "sod this, if he can break the law, so can I", but they didn't have a PM jumping in to defend him.

randomer · 24/06/2020 16:53

I suppose if Dom gets the knighthood, it could be tricky with his eyes and all. And child care? How would that work out?

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Peregrina · 24/06/2020 16:58

Not sure randomer - I think the Queen's eyesight is OK. Were you suggesting she might miss with the sword and poke him in the eye rather than tap him on the shoulder?

ssd · 24/06/2020 17:08

Or he might miss the steps at the podium and headbutt the Queen by accident?

GetOffYourHighHorse · 24/06/2020 17:11

'Lol how is she fairing worse??'

Well, as I said double the care home deaths.

She comes across as very petulant. Sneering at the 'stay alert' message then using 'stay safe!' exactly the same thing. Chucking her toys out of the pram when Johnson announces England's next steps first when she is quite happy to do so herself. I bet she wished she'd dare hang on to her CMO though, she tried but wibbled and had to cave. Rightly so, Calderwood clearly broke the rules on her weekend jaunts away when there weren't any exceptional circumstances.

randomer · 24/06/2020 17:12

@ssd, that was more my thinking. Or the palace is a big place, he might get lost and end up in a bluebell wood with a child's bike and a Stottie cake.

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ssd · 24/06/2020 17:17

@GetOffYourHighHorse, are you always so patronising to women?

Do you criticise men in the same tone?

SheWranglesRugRats · 24/06/2020 17:17

Whoever was in charge would be following the exact same scientific advice.

No they wouldn't. There was conflicting advice from various parts of SAGE, they chose to go with the Imperial model, they didn't have to.

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