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.

As an aside, I strongly suspect he has not properly recovered from the virus. Many people take ages to recover. Some get minor strokes and other serious conditions. He looks bloody ill to me. That raises other questions of course.

Then he should take time off sick and appoint an Acting Prime Minister to - you know - act as Prime Minister until he is well enough to return to work. no-one would criticise that. What we criticise is when it feels like there is no leadership - simply a void.

The majority voted for him, support him and agree with his handling of this crisis. Hopefully he's getting some quality time with his new son and recovering from a very serious illness and ignoring the minority vile left wing bullshit.

The majority voted for him, support him and agree with his handling of this crisis

Not in Scotland they didn't.

If it was the baby (a laughable idea given he’s famously a monumentally shit father) or his health, then he should be taking leave. It’s completely unacceptable for a Prime Minister to be so absent at any time. During a national crisis it’s a total disgrace.

I wasnt a fan of Thatcher, but her turning up on the morning after the Brighton Bombing is what leaders should do. If you want that job, you have to be prepared to sacrifice nearly anything.

The majority surveyed (2/3rds) believe hes doing a very bad job, in fact InfiniteSheldon

The majority voted for him, support him and agree with his handling of this crisis. Hopefully he's getting some quality time with his new son and recovering from a very serious illness and ignoring the minority vile left wing bullshit.

ACtually, that is not at all true. The majority did not vote for him - the Con party won 43.6% of the vote. So the majority voted against him. But due to our peculiar fptp system, you can get less than 50% of the votes but well over 50% of the seats.

The latest poll shows that only 47% of the population think the government are handling the pandemic well, as opposed to 49% who think they are handling it badly. news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-public-support-for-boris-johnsons-handling-of-covid-19-pandemic-plummets-poll-11989792

And he is the Prime Minister. Yes, obviously a parent should be allowed to take parental leave, but he hasn't done this. He is planning to do so later in the year. So I bloody hope he hasn't kicked off his shoes to spend "quality time" with his son. If he wants to do that he takes paternity leave like the rest of the population, he doesn't get to take it "later" but take time off now anyway.

Ditto the "recovering from Covid". If he is too unwell to work effectively he should take time off sick and nominate an Acting Prime Minister. If he is well enough to work he should be working. This isn't the time to have a void caused by the person who is supposed to be doing the job needing to go for a lie down instead. (Figuratively speaking. I have no idea what he is actually doing.) Part of leadership is to be seen to be leading.

As for your final comment- - well, that says more about you and your partisan party lines than about other posters.

He delegates because every time he opens his mouth he gets it wrong. Eg when he said people could return to work the next morning when he actually meant Wednesday. He carnt portray information in a coherent manner. He needs to admit defeat and quit.

He knew the baby was coming when he took the job. If he felt he couldn't deal with both, he shouldn't have accepted it. He clearly though all he would have to do is see us through Brexit. Tough.

This is just another pointless thread one of many on here
And as for winning by a majority they did you would rarely get someone in power with over 50 percent when you have lots of parties unless you just want a two horse race
Also everyone forgets we were given a vote to change out voting system a few years back no one hardly voted
You don't have to like it but you do have to accept it for now
But expecting him to be on daily is ridiculous what other country even does a daily briefing ?

He carnt portray information in a coherent manner

Which is why I think he's getting kept away the majority of the time from the public.

He has just had a baby!

I don't recall Tony Blair going into hiding when Leo was born.

Gosh, you're really riled up at someone vocalising their enjoyment of Tory squirming aren't you struggling? Not sure who you think appointed you as thread monitor, but it's excellent craic either way. I'll let you know when you're qualified to provide moral and intellectual guidance, but it might be a while.

But expecting him to be on daily is ridiculous what other country even does a daily briefing?

He is making weekly appearances, which during the worst national crisis since 1939 is just taking the p1ss

I don't recall Tony Blair going into hiding when Leo was born

Not sure if you've noticed, but circumstances now are rather different from what they were then.

Sorry, I'm tired, I've just realised that post makes no sense in the context of what I was quoting. Ignore me.

Not a lot of love here for Boris I see, maybe it’s time to step up Michael Gove (he doesn’t have babies or Coronavirus)

@blackberry I don't vote Tory ,I didn't actually vote for any of them as they are all pretty crap . I just think some on here are so self righteous it's laughable you have no right to tell others who they should vote or look down on someone who doesn't think like you ,

@jasjas1973 are all other works leaders appearing daily though ? I think not so you think they may be behind closed doors making decisions ?

@blackberry you also won't let me know when I'm qualified for anything as you don't know me or anything about me to decide , I'm just not keen on people who appear to look down or belittle other people because they have different opinions to them what makes you right and them wrong ?

I don't recall Tony Blair going into hiding when Leo was born.

Nor David Cameron when Florence was born

Not a lot of love here for Boris I see, maybe it’s time to step up Michael Gove (he doesn’t have babies or Coronavirus)

You're right, struggling, I won't be letting you know when you're qualified because it isn't going to happen. The time for you to whine about belittling other opinions was before you came on telling us all how silly we are though. Bit difficult to try for the moral high ground now.

So they leaked that he wouldnt be turning up for PMQs, then did- wonder why? (I know why)

@strugglingwithdeciding

If he were in the back office making the decisions we all will have to rely on fair enough but his much vaunted latest speech was then superseded with a load of caveats..... just as his decision on a return to school has been abandoned.

He cannot een decide if the UK will buy the Roche tests yet, Germany ordered 5m immediately. .... UK? still negotiating... just as we took 3 months to decide if a loss of taste/smell would be added to the list of symptoms.. when the WHO and most other countries did back in March... wtf did he think uk scientists would discover that the RoW couldn't?
This is the whole problem... we are not making decisions and johnson is at the heart of this.