To think that a personality cult has developed around Boris Johnson?

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I know this sounds completley ridiculous but have a quick look around social media and in particular Twitter, and you will see a disturbing number of people with lots of union flags in their twitter handle name who effectively think that the sun shines out of his arse, that he can do no wrong and that any justifiable criticism of his or his governments handling of the current crisis is part of a massive 'leftie' conspiracy against him.

They are terrified of 'lefties's and 'liberals' and think all of the media are out to get Boris and his government, it is just bat shit. Its not just Twitter either, I had to unfriend someone on Facebook after they told me that I should 'show Boris some fucking respect' a few weeks ago. This was after I'd shared something criticising his handling of the pandemic. Thankfully it was somone I don't really know that well and never have to see again, but still!

If im honest it all a bit disturbing. Its reminscent of a personality cult IMO, 'how dare you disrespect our glorious leader'.

"Boris dons a pink stetson to join in Gay Pride March."
What a handsome devil.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032330/Boris-dons-pink-stetson-join-Gay-Pride-march.html

I emailed my Mp back in January asking what govt plans were to deal with the crisis. I have friends and family around the world who were messaging me aghast at the lack of action here months ago.

His best words.....

"Orientals...have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole."

Appear to be the words of a Greek columnist called Panagiotis "Taki" Theodoracopulos.

'a disturbing number of people with lots of union flags.' (OP)
What's disturbing about our national flag ? I live in Scotland, where a lot of people display the Saltire on their number plates, and in their gardens - should I find this 'disturbing' ? In most nations of the world, the national flag is widely displayed (much more so than in the UK).
Why do the left regard our national flag 'disturbing' ? When UK athletes win gold medals and do a lap of honour, draped in the national flag, does the OP regard regard this as 'disturbing'. How bizarre !

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong got the information on the same date, followed it and managed to contain it. Funny that...

"Goh Jae-young, an official at the Korea Centers for Disease Control Prevention, told BBC Korean."

"At first we interview the patients and try to gather information, emphasising that this affects the health and safety of the entire people."

"Then to fill in the areas they perhaps haven't told us, and also to verify, we use GPS data, surveillance camera footage, and credit card transactions to recreate their route a day before their symptoms showed."

Sounds like a brilliant plan - when can we introduce this? Right wing supporters will love it!!

@mummmy2017
I was another outraged wedidn’t go into lock down sooner. As for ppe, he failed several times to answer the offer to be part of the EU wode buying group for ventilators and pps. Why? Because he didn’t want to be beholden to the eu. His idiology is categorically worth more than our lives.

Do you seriously, seriously expect individual hospitals to have stockpiled enough ppe when they barely have enough money to run essential services? Are you that far removed from the reality? Do you genuinely not appreciate how destitute our public services are?

What you said sounds like the crap Trump has spouted over federal stock piling and refusing to distribute supplies. Awful, just awful.

Clavinova, apologies you are right. He didn’t write them, he merely commissioned them as editor of the Spectator.

He has, however, described black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", and more recently referred to Muslim women who wear the burqa, a full-body veil that covers the face as well, as "letterboxes".

He also chose to appoint an advisor who once said black Americans have a lower average IQ than white Americans and who discussed the benefits of forced contraception.

The Spectator article on single mothers was published in 1995 - different times;

Tony Blair 1997 -

"For part of a generation of young women early pregnancies and the absence of a reliable father almost guarantee a life of poverty."

"Behind the statistics lie households where three generations have never had a job"... "There are estates where the biggest employer is the drugs industry."

"Blair backs Harman over cut in lone-parent benefit."
"A group of women protesters shouted "Labour scum" when it was approved."

he merely commissioned them as editor of the Spectator

Not sure you've got proof of that - the Deputy Editor may have passed the article.

He also chose to appoint an advisor who once said black Americans have a lower average IQ than white Americans and who discussed the benefits of forced contraception.

I thought that was Dominic Cummings?

more recently referred to Muslim women who wear the burqa, a full-body veil that covers the face as well, as "letterboxes"

Maybe read the whole article before you go in to full melt down.

Blair was right though. Young single women who choose early pregnancy are more likely to live lives in poverty. That’s very different from Johnson’s position. Labour invested huge amounts in Sure Start and avoidance of teen pregnancy. Tories shut children’s centres.

Third generation unemployed wasn’t a rare thing after years of Thatcher. Things like a decimated fishing industry meant children were born into poverty. I’m not sure Blair attached the same judgement and derision that a Johnson has.

Sure Start is much missed.

Not the people I follow on twitter. I haven't noticed that at all.

Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Latvia, Bulgaria and the Netherlands have banned the burqa - all EU countries.

He's always had a personality appeal I used to quite like him in the mayor of London days even though he's not a choice I would make politically

The advisor was Cummings or the appointer was Cummings? Either way Boris accented them as an advisor even if Cummings had trawled the gutters for them.

Just as a Captain is responsible for their ship, an editor is accountable and sets the culture of their publication. Boris was culpable.

@CalishataFolkart I was going to share that exact article. I was gobsmacked when I read it - he really is simply playing a part. I mean he does it damn well - but it’s frightening.

There are 15 nations that have banned the Burkha. Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Latvia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Netherlands, and China.. Not all EU countries and not all are EU countries. That’s irrelevant though. It is the description that is so unacceptable. Describing women as letterboxes objectifies women. It shows contempt of both the religion and womanhood.

The appointer was Cummings.

Either way Boris accented them as an advisor even if Cummings had trawled the gutters for them.

I doubt Boris Johnson had anything to do with the man's appointment - I thought he resigned after a few weeks in any case.

Not all EU countries and not all are EU countries

I only listed the EU countries.

It shows contempt of both the religion and womanhood

Or contempt for the religion/men who enforce it rather than the women who wear it?

You do know the EU order of supplies has not arrived.. to the EU.
Everyone who was caught out, every country. Your blame game is just that, words.
The manufactured can't make enough supplies, hence why everyone is low on stock.
But don't let that stop you finding your scapegoat.

Latvia, Bulgaria and Denmark are EU countries - which one isn't?

Yes - exemplary PM. Such an example to all of us and a great ambassador for our country.
A womanising philanderer.
A thug caught on tape agreeing to have a journalist beaten up
A slack mouthed liar who has endangered a British mum jailed in Iran
A racist who describes Muslim women as 'letterboxes', and refers to black people as Picaninnies with watermelon smiles
A rule breaker who refused to follow Parliament's rules on declaring financial interests - repeatedly
A egotist who blew millions of public money on the Garden Bridge before it was unceremoniously scrapped
A mayor who refused to heed the advice given, wasting £300,000 of public money on illegal water cannon
A PM who insists Scots should stay in the union, while as Editor of The Spectator he allowed the publishing a vile anti Scottish poem, using terms reminiscent of the Holocaust.

Yes - such a great guy 🙄