Would it be unreasonable of me not to 'clap for Boris' tonight?

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I've just seen this in my FB page.
A local group has shared it.
'Clap for Boris' (see pic) Tonight 8pm.
Human to human, I wish him well & a full recovery but I won't be clapping...

We were meant to clap for Boris?
First I heard about it!

There wasn’t any noise outside this evening, unlike on clap for the NHS night, so I’m guessing my neighbours didn’t know (or didn’t bother?) about this either.

It’s not been well publicised compared to the clap for the NHS thing.

I wish everyone well in this situation, including him, but I think clapping for just one person would have been wrong when so very many are suffering, dying and bereaved. Boris is neither more nor less important than anyone else, just because he is the current PM.

Tumbleweeds here too thankfully.

@satansbumhole
Our neighbours had friends & family round on Sunday afternoon. Someone me called the police and came and dispersed the party. Selfish idiots! They do things like this all the time though so I shouldn’t be surprised.

@Alialialiali

Essex is a lot more than your lazy stereotype you know. Perhaps try watching some history programmes or do some reading instead watching TOWIE

Haha thank you @Anniegetyourgun (and everyone else) - I saw Hook on Netflix over the weekend and as soon as I saw that it was the first thing that came to mind

Nope and doubt will be doing anymore clapping

I wondered why someone let off a firework, scared my dog half to death and had to chase him halfway home. Didn't hear any clapping.

I love Boris!

What do you mean with 'hes going to be a dad soon'. He already has... how many kids? nobody knows

My street was silent, thank goodness. There are other (better) ways to send good wishes to ill people, if that’s what you want to do.

No clapping in my street! I’m glad, it really wouldn’t have been appropriate.

YANBU.

His leadership has been appalling. The policy of herd immunity was a public death sentence for many vulnerable people. He refused to participate in EU deals over ventilators. His party and him as a member of the government for the last 10 years has been responsible for running down the NHS.

Only a month ago he was telling us that we’d have to deal with most of us catching it and that yes, people would die.

Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it ?

It'll be very interesting to see what the Tory policy is towards the nhs when all this is over and if they don't increase funding then how they will justify it, I'm guessing austerity measures again.

Yes, so do I, Horlicks

Cynical, moi?

I also wonder whether any old 55 year old in indifferent health, clearly overweight and unfit, would get the same treatment as Johnson is receiving.

It'll be very interesting to see what the Tory policy is towards the nhs when all this is over and if they don't increase funding then how they will justify it, I'm guessing austerity measures again.

I expect Johnson will pull through, as the odds are in his favour, then use his experience to try and silence anyone who disagrees with any decision the Tories subsequently make about the NHS. It'll be all 'don't tell me about the NHS, I owe it my life so you know you can trust me, I learned all about it when I was IN ICU WITH CORONAVIRUS'. Calling it now.

How very David Cameron that would be, VegetableMunge.

I think you may be right that Johnson (or any successor) will try it on. Whether the people of the UK will wear it is another matter.

I won't be clapping for him. I won't be ' shamed' either. I'm not a hypocrite. No way am I applauding such a vile excuse for a human.
I hope he recovers but that is as far as any sentiment I have goes.

Watch yourself perking, or more whining, self appointed moral guardians will turn up and tell you how disappointed they are in you for saying a thing that is true.

Well, for now I'm happy to hope he:
a) survives the experience,
b) learns something rather more useful from it.

And that we all do.

I can't help feeling some of those clapping for the NHS are doing so in the guilty knowledge that they were the ones who voted to underfund it and underpay NHS workers, and are clapping all the more loudly for fear their chickens will come home to roost the day they need it.

I can't help feeling some of those clapping for the NHS are doing so in the guilty knowledge that they were the ones who voted to underfund it and underpay NHS workers, and are clapping all the more loudly for fear their chickens will come home to roost the day they need it.

Yep, I also hope the country starts seeing supermarket workers in a different light to.

'can't help feeling some of those clapping for the NHS are doing so in the guilty knowledge that they were the ones who voted to underfund it and underpay NHS workers, and are clapping all the more loudly for fear their chickens will come home to roost the day they need it'

Those of us that clap the NHS probably have friends and family working there, putting themselves at risk every single day or those of us that may well need treatment for the awful virus.

I doubt there's any guilty knowledge clappers .

I can't help feeling some of those clapping for the NHS are doing so in the guilty knowledge that they were the ones who voted to underfund it and underpay NHS workers

I don't think they do or ever will acknowledge the correlation between how bad things are now and the fact it was caused by constantly voting in the Tories over the past few years. Every Tory voter I know has an amazing ability to excuse it all, usually followed by 'yes but at least Corbyn's not in charge'. The Tories could be in power for the next 50 years, and they'd still be saying 'but but but Labour did x, y and a last time they were in power, the Tories are just trying to fix it all with their harder measures!'.

People were told many times over the last election that the Tories were fully on their way to deconstructing the NHS, they chose not to listen. Willful ignorance is a pandemic in itself.

'Willful ignorance is a pandemic in itself.'

Oh please, what an utterly inappropriate and bizarre thing to say in view of the fact we are currently in the grip of a global, deathly, actual pandemic.

He's not a fucking pixie, clapping won't make him better.

He wouldn’t have heard the clapping stuck where he is either. I wish he recovers for his sake and ours (last thing we need at the moment is someone running the country without a people’s mandate).

But, we are projected to be the most CV affected country in Europe, if those projections turn true, obviously he should take the blame, his policies and timing are questionable so only the future would tell if our “fighter” PM is a hero or a stubborn person whose actions or lack off contributed to the deaths of thousands of people.

@GetOffYourHighHorse

Oh dear, something I said hit home? There's always mass diseases going on in the world, suggesting that there is also mass ignorance in the world is not something that is 'too soon' to mention. There have been more deaths in this country because people voted Tory and allowed them to tear apart the NHS and didn't put a lockdown quick enough because they wanted to protect their business friends large amounts of money - but please get more offended by my terminology .