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To think Prof Chris Whitty deserves a knighthood

155 replies

Lemonwoe · 19/05/2021 21:43

For his dedication to the country for the past 18 months.

I also secretly find him a bit attractive: reckon it’s his humble intelligence

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Blossomtoes · 19/05/2021 21:45

All he’s done is his job.

Anythingwill · 19/05/2021 21:46

YABNU. He always seems like he doesn’t want to be in the limelight but does it anyway. When you see some of the reasons others have been knighted, he really should be recognised. I love him

SpongebobNoPants · 19/05/2021 21:47

All he’s done is his job
The same as every other knighted person then? Hmm
He’s done his job to an excellent degree under exceptional circumstances

StealthPolarBear · 19/05/2021 21:47

He spoke at an event I was at on the day he became cmo. He never expected this job, none of us did.

Iloveyou3x · 19/05/2021 21:48

I doubt dealing with a worldwide pandemic was in the job description! He definitely deserves recognition. I think he’s a very eloquent and intelligent man.

endofthelinefinally · 19/05/2021 21:49

He is just a really nice man. I watched him in conversation on a RSM webinar recently.

LynetteScavo · 19/05/2021 21:49

I think almost all knighted people have pretty much just done their job!

He's done his job very well, even though it's not quite the job he thought he was taking on. He definitely deserves a knighthood IMO.

DareIask · 19/05/2021 21:49

Absolutely agree.

MozzchopsThirty · 19/05/2021 21:50

Oh I love him, he'd be the perfect doctor, calm, intelligent, honest,
Dd bought me a mug with his face on for my birthday 💙

EgonSpengler2020 · 19/05/2021 21:51

A year ago I would have agreed but after the revelations about the government using deliberate psychological tactics to scare the population into compliance I don't think any of them deserve commendation. He is a health professional first and foremost and should be calling out this kinds of unethical practice, which I have no doubt he was aware of.

XenoBitch · 19/05/2021 21:51

Ah, there is a creepy Chris Witty Appreciation Society on FB.... making him out to be something he is not. YABU

Lupinhere37 · 19/05/2021 21:53

I was thinking this about Tim Spector ( the Zoe Covid app professor ) only yesterday. He also has done an incredible job. I have nothing but admiration for him.
Chris Witty is impressive. He handles bumbling Boris so well at the press conferences.
I think they should both be knighted.

MyrrAgain · 19/05/2021 21:54

@EgonSpengler2020
IF true (pretty big if)... Then good on them. Get people to actually comply with the rules and take a frickin vaccination so we can get out of this shit.... so basically for the health of the country and the majority of people in it then fucking good on him!! That's his job. To provide for the country as a whole and steer us through the pandemic

Aurorie11 · 19/05/2021 21:57

Plus JVT, love his analogies

Odagled · 19/05/2021 22:02

I think they should knight Matt Hancock.

JustMeAndWheatley · 19/05/2021 22:02

Yes and JVT

AlecTrevelyan006 · 19/05/2021 22:03

I'd prefer it if we scrapped the honours system

SGS1805 · 19/05/2021 22:04

@Blossomtoes

All he’s done is his job.
What a douche you are
RockWhatRock · 19/05/2021 22:04

He’s the kind of bloke who would turn it down.

Blossomtoes · 19/05/2021 22:05

@Odagled

I think they should knight Matt Hancock.
Only if we’re going to start awarding knighthoods for fucking up and giving taxpayers’ money to your mates.
Bluntness100 · 19/05/2021 22:05

Actually yes and I don’t think he “just did his job” no one signed up for this, th man has not just worked tirelessly he’s had his private life intruded on, he’s been abused in the streets, on th media. He’s been put under so much pressure, and not treated well by many.

Blossomtoes · 19/05/2021 22:06

What a douche you are

What a peach you are.

AnneLovesGilbert · 19/05/2021 22:06

He’s great.

Can’t stand JVT, makes me curl inwards with cringe.

SGS1805 · 19/05/2021 22:06

@Blossomtoes

What a douche you are

What a peach you are.

Ok
Mum2jenny · 19/05/2021 22:11

No, he does not deserve a knighthood. He is doing his job, and imo not very well.

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