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To think Boris should be fired/resign over this

123 replies

Janie564 · 08/12/2021 19:45

170,000 people dead.

People couldn’t visit loved ones in hospital on their deathbed.

People couldn’t attend funerals of their family.

All of us had to put up with Xmas without our friends and family.

And these knob heads had a party. Absolute joke

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dangerrabbit · 09/12/2021 06:53

Yes he should, bt he will get away with it again because the public have inexplicable love for him 🤔

RogueHair · 09/12/2021 06:57

Tory MPs need to hold a vote of no confidence in him. That’s one way to get rid of him and try and rescue their reputation. He’s like that skid mark that won’t shift and is the nastiest stain on the soiled pants that is the Conservative party. Surely even they must know that he’s going to take them down with him. I thought their mantra was that the party comes first.

YourenutsmiLord · 09/12/2021 06:59

I was thinking about Labour and how ineffective they are but I am wondering if they are deliberately not making waves so that Boris is the PM at the next election - he is a total liablility and it would pay them to keep him in place - a new brighter or better PM might mean fewer votes for Labour.

AlternativePerspective · 09/12/2021 07:04

Part of the problem though is that there’s no credible opposition.

I have 0 doubt that Labour wouldn’t have done any better.

I dislike everything this government stands for and didn’t vote for them, but neither would I vote for Labour, which is precisely why the conservatives will keep winning, because those who don’t vote for them vote for the smaller parties because they don’t want Labour either.

As for the party, that should have come out and been questioned after last Christmas, so the media are to blame for the timing there. and frankly holding off on that until an unknown variant could take over and knowing releasing the information would lead to less compliance and possibly more deaths is down to the press.

SpindlesWinterWhorl · 09/12/2021 07:21

The more I see and read of various grifters, and their dearth of talent alongside their Johnson-circle contacts, and the more I recall the state of them at that press briefing rehearsal - frankly, at least one of them comes across as having had a few sherberts - and the more I think about the state of various players sniffing away, the more I think that the theory that the country is in the hands of a bunch of wealthy, middle-class cokeheads isn't quite so nuts after all.

I really hope the Tory Party gets hurt by this. The Tory Party has enabled this venal court to establish itself at the heart of government, much of it unelected.

mrsjg · 09/12/2021 07:35

Placemarking

romatheroamer · 09/12/2021 07:40

Boris will probably be OK.....you've only got to look at half of the interviews of people in the street (incl. N Shropshire). They may've been Tory inclined anyway....a lot of people are. The apathetic response "a year ago...couldn't really care". Hopefully they don't feel that way about murders and other serious crimes which can take years to solve. "We've got to get on with the here and now". OK, but the here and now is a complete shambles.

Porcupineintherough · 09/12/2021 07:44

Oh give over @AlternativePerspective at this point it's hard to see who couldn't do better. My pet tortoise would probably make a better fist of it and he's hibernating.

MatildaIThink · 09/12/2021 07:45

He should resign for a multitude of reasons, but the deaths are probably not one of them. The reality is that the vast majority of whose who have died from Covid were going to die regardless of what happened, we might have prolonged their lives 6-12 months, but the deaths were inevitable.

Willowowisp · 09/12/2021 07:48

I agree Boris is a disgrace. However perplexed that it is better to speak French. Honestly, a president who undermined the vaccines just because none of them were french and whose wife admits to having groomed her pupil whilst a teacher.

OldaRailer · 09/12/2021 09:52

I'm more and more coming to the cokehead explanation of it all. If they are on something it's really inexplicable.

OldaRailer · 09/12/2021 09:52

If they aren't..

RuggerHug · 09/12/2021 09:57

I mean he'd done and said enough deplorable things before getting the job that he should never have been there. He's done enough sackable coup inspiring stuff since and nothing has happened. He should be gone but I'd be very surprised if anything happened.

fournonblondes · 09/12/2021 10:20

@Janie564

170,000 people dead.

People couldn’t visit loved ones in hospital on their deathbed.

People couldn’t attend funerals of their family.

All of us had to put up with Xmas without our friends and family.

And these knob heads had a party. Absolute joke

Can you prove that there was a party? Please send me the proof.
fournonblondes · 09/12/2021 10:25

This reminds me so much of the Trump witch hunt. Only for the US to end up voting in two idiots who have not done any better at all and in fact doing the same stuff than Trump did. LITERALLY! Plus Cuomo being just exactly what he criticised of Trump.

bakingbernie · 09/12/2021 10:27

Oh for goodness sake. It was a year ago. Move on, let's worry about the here and now.

OldaRailer · 09/12/2021 10:28

No let's hold government to account.

the80sweregreat · 09/12/2021 10:28

They have made a mockery of all of us all
That's whats hurt me the most

OldaRailer · 09/12/2021 10:29

Yep.

RuggerHug · 09/12/2021 10:29

@bakingbernie

Oh for goodness sake. It was a year ago. Move on, let's worry about the here and now.
Why not both?
OldaRailer · 09/12/2021 10:30

Saw Ruth Davison yesterday talking about response in the constituencies over this and how Downing Street is insulated from that.
She looked livid.

HarrietPierce · 09/12/2021 10:31

It will all be off the headlines now as Carrie has given birth to a daughter.

DrierThanANunsNasty · 09/12/2021 10:31

He should be fired for countless things, INCLUDING secretly using party donations to refurb his flat which has been miraculously moved down the headlines in place of the news of his second baby.

Utterly disgraceful. I just wish there was a better opposition than what we have right now.

MarieVanGoethem · 09/12/2021 10:32

TBH I think it was an over-generous assessment by Johnson’s former Uni Tutor who, on the matter of the former’s being PM, quoted the Roman historian Tacitus on the Emperor Galba: “Capax imperii nisi imperasset...”
[“He was up to the job of emperor as long as he never became emperor.”]

He has made it very clear he hasn’t a shred of decency nor any moral fibre, so he’ll not resign unless he stands to gain something from it. I’m hoping he’ll be pushed though, given said unwillingness to fall. Not that the Tories offer great hope for a replacement, but someone able to operate a hairbrush & follow the instruction to wear a mask somewhere you’re still required to do so & you’re surrounded by vulnerable people and those who care for them would be a step up on the current incumbent, let’s face it.

(As a side note, am cherishing secret hope Rees-Mogg will eventually flounce à la Paterson over the standards investigation Grin )

GattioAnyone · 09/12/2021 10:34

Operating a hairbrush would be a good baseline.

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