To wonder where Boris Johnson is?

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He’s never at the daily briefings and given that we are living through the greatest crisis in living memory, he should be there. The list of people at these briefings gets more bizarre every day.

He’s the prime minister and he’s pretty absent at the moment meanwhile the death count grows. 35,000 people - it’s truly devastating especially when you think that if there is a terrorist incident and even one person dies, it makes the headlines for days.

And before anyone says he’s on paternity leave, he’s a notoriously absent father who has many other kids and if that was anyone else on here, would get slated for not fulfilling his parental duties.

Aibu to think he’s shirking his responsibilities as PM- he should be there every day being accountable but he’s not- he’s sending in his minions. It’s truly appalling.

Because when he does appear and speak, it has impact. If he attended the daily briefings, regularly that impact would wear off.

@Hugglespuffed 🙄🤨 Get a life!

He has just had a baby!

But he's also the prime minister. Of a country experiencing a global pandemic. That comes first on his list of priorities I'm afraid. Goes with the job description of the job HE wanted.

Because when he does appear and speak, it has impact. If he attended the daily briefings, regularly that impact would wear off.

I must have missed the impactful briefing he held.

For me that impact is negative. He is never clear and often wrong.

Maybe he's still not properly well? I guess it can take weeks to recover from being so ill that you have to go to intensive care.

He has just had a baby!

If I wanted to cut him some slack it would be because he's been seriously ill with the virus and I'm sure is still feeling the after effects.

He's busy asking the Queen to knight Captain Tom. I call it a distraction technique.

Sorry, but from the outside - I'm not in the UK - that's what it looks like to me.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/beacon-of-light-capt-tom-moore-to-be-knighted

Maybe he shouldn’t have gone around boasting that he was shaking the hands of coronavirus patients then when Italy was in lockdown & we knew what was coming 🤷🏻‍♀️ The man is an incompetent entitled charlatan

He's busy asking the Queen to knight Captain Tom. I call it a distraction technique.

He's not 'busy' doing that fgs. He'll have spent all of 30 seconds on it. It's a nice gesture but is certainly not 'distracting' people from the state of the nation's health and economy

Those figures are highly distorted. I want to see death figures split down to age and those with and without underlying health issues.

Singapore has had at least 2 people in care homes who died with covid19.

Hong Kong maybe no deaths, but they have other problems in their care home sector. Easier to have few deaths if almost no one is allowed into a care home.

To be honest, I smell a rat on the
South Korea claim because they have certainly had cases & outbreaks in their care settings.

littleblackdress I don’t care about Boris but the image you shared is really an apples and oranges comparison.

A lot of people in East Asia care for their parents at home; there is a strong cultural expectation take care of your parents in old age (or farm it out to live-in domestics from Southeast Asia but whatever). I find there’s no such expectation here.

@MangoFeverDream agree that there are cultural differences but it still doesn’t excuse the UK death figures which are still the second highest in the world and still don’t explain why tens of thousands have died in care homes. It’s still a national scandal!

To be fair shitty leadership seems to be the fashion these days. Boris and trump are like a parody. When my DH first came to the UK he couldn’t believe he was a real politician, he thought he was a comedy character!

It's not what he signed up for. He signed up for glory and ego stroking, not hard graft and scrutiny. If everyone had continued to look to him with deference and hang on to his every word, he'd be there. But asking awkward questions he doesn't know the answer to? Where's the fridge?

it still doesn’t excuse the UK death figures which are still the second highest in the world and still don’t explain why tens of thousands have died in care homes. It’s still a national scandal!

You’re right but you should be comparing it to European and American care home figures for a more accurate comparison.

I’d actually be curious to know this information.

He’s well known for delegating. Unbelievable he thinks it’s still appropriate at such times. I have no idea how people can vote such a bumbling idiot in. When put in the spot with “live questions” rather than a pre written speech he’s nearly as incoherent as Trump.

He's on stage 4 of Dither, Delay, Panic, Run Away so he's ordered some trainers on Amazon and is plotting his exit whilst hiding in a cupboard under the stairs.

I agree. In the early weeks of his convalesce it was totally understandable and I would defend him in these discussions (although I loathe the man).

But now its really unjustifiable. Particularly as he is supposed to be channeling Churchill through the worst crisis in modern times etc. Pathetic.

I'm glad he recovered from the disease but I really hope his career will be undone by the appalling incompetence he has displayed through this. Good riddance and lets have some competent and accountable leaders please.

This is yet another Labour thread..

Fuck knows why I read them, they give me the rage.

@KuckFnows the thing that should give you the rage is that 35,000 people have died at the hands of an incompetent prime minister mismanaging a crisis

@KuckFnows and as I have said, Boris Johnson needs to own this. As do the tories. It’s got fuck all to do with Labour and you have no idea of my voting choices which actually aren’t labour.

Check the fridge and if he’s not there, check your bed. He’s probably on the lookout for a new woman.

Labour thread, wise up. What gives me the rage is people unable to see our PM is an incompetent half wit - it’s irrelevant what political party he is in.