Boris and a costa?

[ThisHereMamaBear]

I am so confused now. What message is he giving? We're in Lockdown and he's having a costa. I had a close look at the picture and it doesn't look like one of those fill them up at home cups. I'm moving planets.

I was on my bike today - and I popped into a Co-op to get an ice coffee.
And some chocolate.

God knows I would start a thread on Boris at most times. You can look at my history

But this is fine.

@majesticallyawkward so many valid reasons. Embarrassing for you tbh

I went into the News Agent to buy a Tango today. Just a Tango. It were lovely cold in the hot sun.

You can buy Costa branded reusable cups and, shock horror, you can reuse their takeaway ones, so whilst I appreciate that the assumption is easy to make that he picked up a takeaway coffee on his way to work (helping to save the economy and all that) he might be drinking coffee or even water that came from home.

World gone mad - Boris has a coffee. Like many others, I will criticise him for many things but not a coffee in a cup! It doesn't even mean he's been to a shop - you can get them at the rugby club,my dd's school, my other dd's office, the BP garage.

If he was wandering round Whitehall drinking Cristal from the bottle I would be offended but coffee? Pick your battles OP.

I'm just shocked that BJ wanders around in public spaces without body guards. Obama did that once, saying hello to random people as he walked thru a park rather than take his car for half a mile journey. The secret service begged him not to do it again, their blood pressure couldn't cope.

@ThisHereMamaBear I'm not mocking you. I'm just a little exasperated with the whole situation, as I'm sure many of us are, particularly the rather hair-shirt approach to the little pleasures in life we are still allowed. The time when we'll only have bread, water, and turnips to subsist on (metaphorically or literally) may be approaching soon enough!

I do take your point about Boris should have been expecting to be pictured, that's the contract he's made with the press all along, and what's got him to his current position. And now it's biting him on the backside. If you look at the angle the photo's taken from it gives you a pretty good idea of where the photographer must have been.

Another classic AIBU. 99% yes you are.
Well you're all wrong and MN is horrid.

• We are being gaslighted. He shows himself walking through a park with a coffee, not a care in the world. Then tomorrow announces that restrictions continue. Classic mixed messaging. When the confused public follow suit and there’s a spike in cases/deaths, it’ll be our own fault. You’ll see.*

There's been a lot of "Where's Boris?" accusations this week. He wants us to know he's busy working (serious conversation ) and healthy (walking and not breathless in a car)

I can't help but wonder if the reusable cup had coffee. Would it be ok if it had whisky poured at the office because it meant he'd not been in a shop?

Honestly, what an utterly ridiculous thing to get het up over. There are plenty of things to criticise Boris over, but this isn't one of them.

A walk through the park is fine and so is a takeaway Costa.

I highly doubt that tomorrow morning's banner newspaper headlines will be BORIS JOHNSON HAS A COFFEE IN THE PARK.

No need for the pearl clutching over something so utterly banal.

What message is this sending out?

That he has a takeaway coffee, plenty of places that are open for essentials well takeaway coffee, and is also taking a walk on his own which is perfectly fine.

What's your point?

Sell * not well

Imagine if he got a Twix to go with. A metophorical two fingers up to the Country.

He's a twat, and no clue about every day life for British people. Anyone that thinks differently is clearly deluded / brainwashed by the right wing press - Wake up people, Costa is really not the issue here. And for those MN naysayers we are high earning professionals.

I actually get what you mean. No there's nothing wrong with getting a Costa coffee... there just something distasteful about it for some reason

Uber deliver costa... just saying 🤷‍♀️

@rosecreakybex
No there's nothing wrong with getting a Costa coffee... there just something distasteful about it for some reason

Like what?

Absolutely pathetic. This refers to the OP and not BJ. For gods sake grow up.

No there's nothing wrong with getting a Costa coffee... there just something distasteful about it for some reason

I see. Would it be better if he was drinking the sort of poncey coffee that's made from beans that capuchin monkeys had eaten then shat out? Or beans that had been hand woven by Eritrean tribeswomen?

@ThisHereMamaBear
If he'd been in hospital with a heart attack and got spotted going through the park smoking a fag, judge away. But he was drinking coffee after having coronavirus. I can't stand the man but I wouldn't judge him for that.

These threads are such a joke.

I'm outraged! Or I would be if I was the MD of Costa. Who wants their brand associated with that knob, terrible advertising.

As a person who likes neither Boris or Costa I couldn't give a shiny shit.

Anyone who drinks coffee is unreasonable. He should have been drinking tea.

That pic in the park was a carefully staged photo op. The Government know easing lockdown will mean more deaths but the economy is tanking and the economic crash of Brexit is just around the corner, hence the mixed messaging.
They want people to stop respecting the lockdown but they don't want to be blamed for the mortal consequences. Herd immunity by stealth.