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To feel awful for Boris

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YouDoYou18 · 15/04/2020 07:08

A few people I know have said some awful things like ‘it serves him right’

I didn’t vote conservative, and to be honest I’ve never been a big fan of BJ himself.. but Christ do I feel awful for the poor man.

He must have thought it was going to be relatively easy, brexit was almost over and we just had to get through the last little bit and then the world fell into one of the biggest disasters in recent history...

He’s got to balance trying to save a big percentage of the population with making sure they have an economy to return to when this is over, he’s got to pull unprecedented amounts of money from thin air to support everyone through this time, everyone thinks they can do a better job and then to top it off he catches the virus himself and ends up hospitalised!

He just can’t catch a break! Whether you like him or not surely I’m not being unreasonable in feeling pretty bad for the guy?

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Crickets · 15/04/2020 11:29

Absolutely not. I do not think the government are going a good job of managing the crisis. Neither they nor Boris have learnt from the experience of others.

I'm working long hours from home and feel lucky that my place of employment has responded so well to keep people safe at home. People can of course accept furlough pay, it's their own money.

MPs have been given access to

a £10,000 grant (of our money) to help them meet additional costs to work from home. Public sector workers meet these costs themselves. We should learn from previous expenses scandals made by MPs and demand full disclosure of claims. Other public sector workers have expenses capped and are unable to claim without receipts. MPs should hold themselves to the same standard.

These people clapped when the public sector pay freeze and awarded themselves a pay rise the next month.

RantyAnty · 15/04/2020 11:29

I felt bad for him as a person who was seriously ill. I'm glad he and his partner are well.

I feel sorry for the public for continuing to elect incompetent men with big egos as is the case in most of the world.

1forsorrow · 15/04/2020 11:31

#CendrillonSings Do you think maybe - just maybe - it’s a little more complicated to shut down a 2 trillion pound economy that to cancel a football match?

The national lockdown started only a week after that date anyway, so I’m not sure what you think it proves.

Maybe, just maybe, you could consider that I didn't suggest he shut down the whole economy? In fact the whole economy isn't shut down now. What I did suggest was that with what we knew, knew at the time not with hindsight, that letting things like the Cheltenham Festival, Crufts, Stereophonics concert in Cardiff go ahead was stupid. Some football clubs called matches off prior to the Premiership cancelling them all on the 13th. What do you think they knew that the PM didn't.

1forsorrow · 15/04/2020 11:32

Don't know where the # came from!

Runnerduck34 · 15/04/2020 11:36

Sometimes you get what you wish for, he wanted to be prime minister , he supported years of nhs underfunding and arguably should have put the country into lockdown sooner and stopped or monitored international flight arrivals.
I wish him anyone else with coronavirus a speedy recovery.
But no I dont feel sorry for him, many will suffer a hell of a lot worse, lose a loved one or face financial ruin, he will come out relatively unscathed.

Antonin · 15/04/2020 11:41

@ilovesouthlondon I am so sorry for your loss and the tragic circumstances surrounding it. I agree with your sentiments entirely.
Any sensible decisions made have been slow and after experts and public have demanded it. Why is it ok for Boris to recuperate in the most spacious of his 3 homes, in the countryside surrounded by a country estate while the homeless are still unprovided for, promised food vouchers for hungry children have not arrived, and those deprived of wages are told to wait months for a payout.
Talk about us and them. Boris and his ilk should look to history for the causes of the many peasants revolts — more numerous than are generally taught in school.
Currently we, the masses are being deprived of dignified funerals even. Can you imagine this happening to those who wield the power?

MarieQueenofScots · 15/04/2020 11:44

Politically he's a waste of space. I feel sorry for the numbers of people suffering as a result of Tory policy.

I also feel sorry for him and his partner in the run up to the birth of their child in uncertain times with the added worries over his health.

Sympathy isn't a finite resource.

Heatherjayne1972 · 15/04/2020 11:49

Boris. An example of. ‘Be careful what you wish for- you might get it’

I feel for him on a human to human level after all he’s a son a brother father a fiancé and a father to be
For those people I’m glad he’s better

However I didn’t vote for him and never would. His policies are awful in my opinion

Fudgewhizz · 15/04/2020 11:54

@CendrillonSings Being a sheep isn't exclusively a left-wing thing. You're not seriously suggesting that there are more people on the left who blindly follow than there are people on the right who do, eg taking Daily Mail headlines as fact?! I'd be interested in your evidence if so. One would assume it would be pretty even on both sides.

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 15/04/2020 12:04

I hope all the people on here who are anti Boris wont have the audacity to accept their furlough pay

Well done for winning today's "most idiotic post of the day" award

Absolutely...we ought to have a daily prize

Though it may need to be hourly...or minutely

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 15/04/2020 12:06

I bet mumsnet is a lot less‘politically unbalanced’ than people like to say

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 15/04/2020 12:11

At the time of writing, 406 people are reported to have died in Ireland of Covid-19 including those in care homes. 12107 are reported to have died in the UK - NOT including care homes. These are official figures.
No I do not feel sorry for him.

MarieQueenofScots · 15/04/2020 12:17

I hope all the people on here who are anti Boris wont have the audacity to accept their furlough pay

Are you under the impression it comes from his own pocket? Confused

LilacTree1 · 15/04/2020 12:19

He’s the Prime Minister

You preside over whatever happens

Though he couldn’t even think sensibly about a bridge. I wouldn’t be surprised if he resigns.

Anniegetyourgun · 15/04/2020 12:33

I'm still confused by the poster who expected to find sheep in children's playgrounds. Perhaps it's a rural community thing.

LilacTree1 · 15/04/2020 12:41

What also worries me aboit this government screw up is they will say, in order to manage it more efficiently in future, we need more of your data...

LilacTree1 · 15/04/2020 12:43

“ Boris and his ilk should look to history for the causes of the many peasants revolts — more numerous than are generally taught in school.”

Protests will be massive when they’re finally allowed. So the government will have to resign before that. 2022 I suppose.

Wow, so many things to look forward to.

Peregrina · 15/04/2020 13:10

Who knows Lilac?

We hear of all this Blitz spirit during the last war. We don't hear of the strikes, we don't hear of the looting of bombed properties.

What I suspect is that people will pile onto planes to go on holiday.

Easilyanxious · 15/04/2020 13:13

Wrong board to post on too many nasty people on here he can’t see beyond him being a Tory . But yes secretly I bet Jc is very glad he didn’t have to get in and deal with all this

Peregrina · 15/04/2020 13:17

We can see beyond him being a Tory - we can see a man who is a liar and an adulterer, who thinks quips like Operation Last Gasp are funny, until it affects him. It doesn't matter what colour rosette he wears.

Porcupineinwaiting · 15/04/2020 13:18

@Peregrina well said Angry

CendrillonSings · 15/04/2020 13:23

It doesn't matter what colour rosette he wears.

And yet somehow the lies of other rosette-wearers mysteriously seem to pass you by...

StealthPolarBear · 15/04/2020 13:32

LilacTree1 and mire of your money, if you are poor

Peregrina · 15/04/2020 13:35

And yet somehow the lies of other rosette-wearers mysteriously seem to pass you by...

If they were in Government they would not escape criticism either. You would be the first, of that I am sure.

tenlittlecygnets · 15/04/2020 13:41

He must have thought it was going to be relatively easy, brexit was almost over and we just had to get through the last little bit

Easy?? renegotiating thousands of trade deals?? Right.
YAVVVVVVU

No sympathy here at all. Johnson is a self-serving, power-hungry liar.