to think that we're fu&@ed - Dominic Raab is running the country!

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Can someone in no 10 order this now
www.amazon.co.uk/Geography-Dummies-Charles-Heatwole/dp/0764516221?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Boris has been taken in ICU as an precaution can we all wait until we have more information until then wish him well and pray he gets better inshallah.

It is not as a precaution, that is spin. He will be on a ventilator.

Raab reminds me of Rik Mayall. A creepy Richie/Alan B’Stard hybrid.

He reminds me of the bloke off hi-de-hi who ran the holiday camp, think the character was Jeffrey Fairbrother (played by Simon Cadell).

Rishi would make an excellent stand in PM. Wishing Boris a speedy recovery. I have been impressed by his handling of this situation so far!

This really isn’t the time or the place.

Seriously these threads are in extremely poor taste.

Please do fuck
Off with
These nasty nasty threads..

It shows you for exactly what you
are.

Practice what you
preach and try being a bit decent, as hard as that many be for you ....

He’ll just be a spokesperson anyway. I’d rather have him than Starmer. Don’t trust him one bit. His history speaks for itself

It doesn't really matter who's PM they are just a frontman .
TBH who ever was in charge people LOVE nothing more than slagging them off and criticising .

That is far too sensible for politicians.

Raab will have been picked because he can be guaranteed to exactly what Boris would have done , I.e. what Boris' advisors tell him.

There will be no 'cross party crisis coalition' the government who were overwhelmingly voted in, a Conservative government will run it, so dry your eyes.

Get well soon Boris

There are a number of reasons why we should be worried about Raab taking charge:

1. His regressive views on the gender pay gap - he has stated it’s discrimination against men we should be getting exercised about: “from the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal

1. His regressive views on workers rights - he feels the “burden of employment regulation” is a “dragging anchor” on the British economy. He called for scrapping the requirement for small businesses to pay those aged under 21 the minimum wage, renegotiating the UK’s treaty obligations with the EU on workers’ rights, and securing a total opt out from European working time regulations."

1. Views on food banks - suggesting people who used food banks typically did so not because of poverty but because they have an occasional“cashflow problem"

That is quite apart from his comments on how he "hadn't quite understood" how reliant UK trade in goods is on the Dover-Calais crossing.

Can people please stop spreading misinformation regarding ICU.

Not everyone has a team of consultants looking after them, depending on admission you’re under the care of one consultant (the anaesthetist) who works alongside their junior colleagues, they call in the help of their consultant colleagues (surgeons, various specialities) if required. It doesn’t meant you automatically have multiple consultants from various specialties looking after you and having an input in your care as soon as you’re admitted.

Not everyone in ICU is on a ventilator, some are there are they need more intensive one to one nursing, some are teetering on the edge of needing a ventilator but cope with various other forms of oxygen delivery. Not every patient is sedated and has tubes hanging out every orifice.

It couldn't have been Rishi and couldn't have been Hancock as they would have then needed to have a stand in for Chancellor or Health Sec.

So that leaves Raab, Gove or Patel. Personally I think Gove would have been the better choice, but I guess Boris sees Raab as more of an ally.

Raab will be fine, he will do a good job,all the reasons why people don't like him don't apply here. No one can imply poor people have been thrown under a bus here, the Conservatives have just authorised the biggest bailout in living memory.

He's just the mouthpiece, he won't be making any important decisions.

'No one can imply poor people have been thrown under a bus here, the Conservatives have just authorised the biggest bailout in living memory'

I think quite a few people might disagree with the above statement:

www.themoneypages.com/debt/million-self-employed-not-eligible-governments-coronavirus-income-support-scheme/

@beautifulteeth Donald, is that you?

He is a very clever capable guy. (That weird Dover-Calais comment was an error not a belief).

But what possessed him to ever say it? It was a landmark piece of stupidity.

He’s definitely not the sharpest tool in the box which may be why he’s been chosen to be nominally in charge. He’ll do as he’s told and he’s expendable when this is all over and a scapegoat is needed.

Not read the whole thread , but I've seen some old news reports online of him being friends with rich Russians or something that sounded a bit dodgy? Daily mail comments pages also mentioned it.
I don't know much about him apart from running to be leader last year.