To think..

[Oxfordnono12]

Boris is an absolute joke!

Seriously, what has he done? The amount of people that are going to be affected by this virus is just brutal and all he is doing is, maintaining his up dates. Which sound like really, really, really awful motivational speeches. Can someone explain to me what he is actually doing? Am I missing something?

Today 14:20Ohtherewearethen

What bothers me the most is that there just appears to be absolutely no accountability whatsoever. I cannot think of a single other job where it would be ok to risk millions of people's lives, for tens of thousands to die, for thousands to lose homes, businesses, jobs, etc, and authorise people to work without correct, vital safety equipment, despite having a 'dummy run' pandemic practice a few years before which showed how woefully underprepared we would be, and for everyone to actually think it's ok because he is trying his best?! Every other boss would be sacked and struck from any competency register they have to be on in order to work again.
Compare BoZo the clown to the class act that is Jacinda Ardern and it makes me cringe. Worse than cringe because people are dying left, right and centre because of pompous ignorance and incompetence. He is not fit for the job and unfortunately people are paying the price with their lives. That man could kick a puppy and still people would think he's a hero.

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@Oxfordnono12I wonder if it's because he's got through his life so far being this jolly 'loveable rogue', but intelligrnt enough to play the blustering oaf to his advantage. He has carved out a persona for himself and people have fallen for it. Regardless of whether he is doing his best or not, it is simply nowhere near good enough. It disgusts me that some people have such low standards in this country and will accept anything from the Tories because they didn't like a man called Jeremy and his ideas of making things a little bit easier for millions of people.

absolutely, I completely agree, well said

@ThatUserNamesTakenTryAnother Others seem to be missing this point. He isnt trying his best. My opinion is; There is no money to be made while folk are at home, so feck the lives of the people get them out to work again. He doesn't care, he's not taking steps to protect anyone!

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Can I ask what you expect him to do? All of the world leaders are being criticized but they're obviously doing the best they can, they didn't expect this situation and had no way to properly prepare for it.

@ThatUserNamesTakenTryAnother WTF

What would you have him do then OP? Tell us what you'd do to ensure the economical impact was kept to a minimum and people's mental health doesn't deteriorate??

As Greece has merely 151 deaths from Covid and prepares to open as normal for the summer season, the UK has 31,000 plus.

Greeks, like many other Europeans, have been left astonished and alarmed by the Johnson government’s handling of the public health emergency. Britain’s chaotic strategy, initial soft-touch approach and high death toll have been met with disbelief in a country that, despite the eviscerating effects of a near decade-long debt crisis, has kept the virus under control

“Johnson’s management of the pandemic has been almost Mediterranean in style, flippant and carefree,” said the economic analyst Antonis Papagiannidis. “You can’t help but think that people have been left to rot, that the interests of the economy were put before health.”

In the absence of responsible leadership, Britons had been on the receiving end of conflicting messages, he said. “First, they’re told, ‘There’s no problem’; then, ‘Oh, there is a problem’. That’s not a way to treat responsible citizens. They should have been informed of the real risks and allowed to deal with them with their legendary stiff upper lip.”

What would you have him do then OP? Tell us what you'd do to ensure the economical impact was kept to a minimum and people's mental health doesn't deteriorate??

It's about what he should have done!

What do you think the mental health effect on people is that have lost loved ones to this disease?

We had 'early warning' from other countries of the impact on Covid and our PM took such a slow light touch approach we were left unprepared and the disease was able to multiply. Now he has reported to vague 'be alert' shit.

We should have sealed ourselves off - as an island nation easier to do that mainland Europe. Look at OZ and NZ shutdown paid off. Look at Greece!

"The government's response has been characterized by an absence of good public health thinking, and in fact, included some very bad public health thinking,” said Prof. Gabriel Scally, a former regional director of Public Health England. “Overall, the system has exposed its weaknesses in such a tragic way.”

Scally, who now heads up the epidemiology and public health section of the Royal Society of Medicine, a long-established independent non-profit, commented on Tuesday as new figures suggested the U.K.’s provisional number of recorded deaths attributed to COVID-19 rose to more than 32,000

@Glummsy Ah, so it's perfectly fine for people to die rather than loose money? The fact remains, he could have stopped this from the beginning when news came out. He delayed far too long! That in itself would have made a difference.

Mental health will absolutely rocket, there will be many factors that will cause this. One being that the government has not financially helped their people but also an most importantly, people have lost loved ones! Something that he wasnt too worried about when this began, which is appalling!

Totally agree, Oxford