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Where was Boris Johnson?

271 replies

RoyalFamilyFan · 30/12/2021 15:30

Does anyone know where Boris Johnson was over the last ten days? He was interviewed and asked if he had been abroad. He said of course not and did a laugh as if he was lying.
So where has he been?

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Gechik · 30/12/2021 18:40

He is so pasty looking, if he went anywhere with sun he would be like a lobster within 10 minutes so I doubt he had a tan in such a short time. I thought he looked really pasty looking at MK yesterday

DesdemonaDryEyes · 30/12/2021 18:46

Baby mamma? Seriously

BiggerBoat1 · 30/12/2021 18:54

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

Momentum is growing for Ginger. He had a certain presence that I think would give the position some much needed dignity. Thank you his behalf

Tough on mice. Tough on the causes of mice.

Grin Grin

C'mon everyone - vote Ginger!! We can reclaim our borders. get our gardens back!

Far more credibility than Boris.

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elelel · 30/12/2021 19:01

He did a speech to the nation on 22nd Dec and I think one on the 23rd as well…

He didn't. That is the whole point. Those were pre recorded.

'Oh, Boris, where have you been (given the lack of speeches and the pre recorded pieces)?

'In this country'

Anything but 'in this country' would have been plausible, anything.

Mamamia7962 · 30/12/2021 19:02

I thought he was on paternity leave.

KeflavikAirport · 30/12/2021 19:11

It's not complicated @ancientgran, the elected MP runs with a deputy. A sort of vice-president figure, if you will, to step in if needed. Better than leaving the constituency without a representative for months on end in case of prolonged ill health or maternity leave and would go some way to encouraging women into parliament.

Havanananana · 30/12/2021 19:13

Anything but 'in this country' would have been plausible, anything.

I really don't care where he has been or what he has been doing, but "in this country" sounded very much like a Freudian slip and his body language and tone of voice suggested that he thought that the journalist knew that he had been somewhere else and had proof.

As an experienced journalist and supposedly talented politician, he should have been able to bat the question away - his usual response is to pretend that the question was about something else and answer accordingly, sticking to his own agenda and using his own well-prepared "world-beating" "getting on with the job" stock phrases.

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RoyalFamilyFan · 30/12/2021 19:15

@Mamamia7962

I thought he was on paternity leave.
He said he wasnt taking any.
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StarbucksSmarterSister · 30/12/2021 19:23

If the result of the GE had been different, we would have JC in charge. Wonder how that would have worked out

Off the top of my head:-
Locked down earlier (scientists have said even one week would have saved 1000s of lives)
No €37bln to Dido
NO covid contracts to incompetent pals whilst rejecting competent PPE suppliers who offered their services
Probably no shoving old people back to care homes without testing.

I'm sure there's more. And I don't even like JC.

Lolamento · 30/12/2021 19:26

@JinglingHellsBells

OP I think you don't understand how people work. Just because you aren't seeing the PM on your TV doesn't mean he's not working. He lives at his place of work (unless he's away) and there are things called the internet and phones, so he can be kept up to date anywhere.

What are you hoping for? Daily press briefings?
Daily tours of vaccination centres?

This
DirtyDancing · 30/12/2021 19:27

@girlmom21

Who cares? He's allowed a rest like the rest of us.
Christ. He's the least hardest working PM in history. Do you know how the briefings officials give his private office have to be massively simplified for him? He can't even cope with a normal level of submissions .. he is notorious for having the attention span of a gnat...
Lolamento · 30/12/2021 19:28

@StarbucksSmarterSister

If the result of the GE had been different, we would have JC in charge. Wonder how that would have worked out

Off the top of my head:-
Locked down earlier (scientists have said even one week would have saved 1000s of lives)
No €37bln to Dido
NO covid contracts to incompetent pals whilst rejecting competent PPE suppliers who offered their services
Probably no shoving old people back to care homes without testing.

I'm sure there's more. And I don't even like JC.

Sure! Make your wish list if JC were in power. I can only him as an asshole supports the regime in Venezuela. Disgusting communist worm 🤮
awaynboilyurheid · 30/12/2021 19:32

Haha and there you have it … if JC was in power… it’s laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic He’s not in power Boris is so let’s concentrate on actual facts.

BoredZelda · 30/12/2021 19:38

I don't actually think A Prime Minister should be able to go away for 10 days and do nothing. In the company I work for senior staff don't do this, and they are a lot less important than a Prime Minister.

Our CEO is currently in Mexico. He’ll be back on the 5th January.

CEOs have holidays too.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 30/12/2021 19:38

Disgusting communist worm 🤮

His politics are irrelevant. The question was what could he have done better.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 30/12/2021 20:01

@Lindy2

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The screen shot isn't very clear so here's the link.

The figures in your link are the same as the ones I quoted above, you numpty (barring minor variations caused by the two sets of data covering slightly different periods).

Deaths per million population:

            Your figures          My figures

UK - 2,164 2,184
Germany - 1,335 1,272

HTH.

ancientgran · 30/12/2021 20:17

@KeflavikAirport

It's not complicated *@ancientgran*, the elected MP runs with a deputy. A sort of vice-president figure, if you will, to step in if needed. Better than leaving the constituency without a representative for months on end in case of prolonged ill health or maternity leave and would go some way to encouraging women into parliament.
Running with a deputy would make more sense. Do all MPs in these countries run with a deputy?
ancientgran · 30/12/2021 20:19

@BiggerBoat1 I have to make one confession on Ginger's behalf, he was a bit of a ladies man. He had one of those collars that released a lock on the cat flat so he could let himself in and out, he worked out how to stand close enough to let one of his lady friends in and he had many. I hope that doesn't disqualify him.

KeflavikAirport · 30/12/2021 20:24

Yep

Lindy2 · 30/12/2021 20:32

MissLucy perhaps I should have posted an Atlas instead as your knowledge of which countries are in Europe is also very lacking.

Your Germany and UK death rates were about the only thing you got right.

Now where would I find Hungary, Poland, Belgium etc. Apparently not Europe......

Havanananana · 30/12/2021 21:14

The more people that come on and attempt to deflect and derail the thread, the more it seems that there is something to the original question - Where was Boris?

So far the Boris Bingo card has "He was doing his best", "Covid response", "Working hard" and even "What would J Corbyn have done?"

Perhaps we're all going to find out on Sunday, when the Observer publishes some photos, or perhaps it will be the Mail or Telegraph which spills the beans as they ditch Johnson and begin to line up Truss, Sunak or even Gove as the next PM?

WimpoleHat · 30/12/2021 21:36

So far the Boris Bingo card has "He was doing his best"

My favourite was from our plumber. “Well, I wouldn’t want that job”, says he. Well, no, Steve. Neither would I. But that’s why neither you nor I has stood for election as an MP and then put ourself forward as a candidate for Conservative party leader. That’s why we don’t get the Prime Ministerial salary and the grace and favour residences and a ministerial car. The fact that we wouldn’t want to do it doesn’t mean we have to be grateful for any old shoddy incompetent who comes along to fill the post. It’s not some local voluntary position that nobody else wants to do.

Gechik · 30/12/2021 21:37

The baby is only a few weeks old, I can't imagine they have been gallivanting around the world anyway but we are not in lockdown so anyone can go on holiday

luckylavender · 30/12/2021 21:50

@Squills

Give the man a break!

Why do you think he should be on duty over Christmas?

Chris Whitty was
luckylavender · 30/12/2021 21:51

@TheWayTheLightFalls

"In this country" is a clear indication that he's been in either Scotland or Wales, surely? Grin
Except that you always know he's lying when he opens his mouth