With every press conference he gets worse

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Totally out of his fucking depth

The persecution complex thing does provide light relief

One wonders about taking prophylactic advice from someone who is unsure of the number of children he has!

Well well, if it ain't another gf complaining about MN bias. Is this going to be a daily thing from Tory HQ, like the press conference? I suppose at least these ploppers are more coherent that Bozo.

I think he has been good. This crisis has humanized him.

One is only as good as one's team. His saving grace has been his chancellor.

I'm thankful Corbyn isnt standing where BJ is. Despite the fact that the PM is being led by advisors. Corbyn's interview today was pathetic.

Rishi Sunak was excellent. Really clear and good content. Good suit too (will I be lynched)

BJ was better less overwhelmed

People wanted a big bazooka from the government, and so here it comes today. Not that that will stop the people who hated Boris before and still hate him now from whining, of course!

So much for Labour bankrupting the country, eh @Cendrillonsings?

Sunak has to be the next Tory leader, he’s seriously impressive.

I also think Boris is doing well every day, the pressure he must be under is beyond enormous. And yes he signed up for it, but he is still human and most folks would fall apart at the sheer pressure he’s under.

Corbyn is not saying much I think because there is not much to say, Boris is doing everything Jeremy thinks needs doing, plus he is also human and I suspect he knows this isn’t the time to attack someone under this amount of pressure.

I’d put good money that the people sitting behind their key boards attacking like they could do it better are the very people whose family, friends and colleagues would either laugh themselves senseless or shit themselves at the thought of them actually being prime minister.🤷‍♀️

I am far from a Tory voter, and no fan of Boris. But, much like I felt about Brexit I will do my best to put trust in the experts as I don't know better than them. Boris seems to have a good bunch around him, and is using them.

people sitting behind their key boards attacking

Yes, it's really shit when people do that isn't it Bluntness100?

Hypocrites are really shit as well.

Alsohuman

So much for Labour bankrupting the country, eh

Bit of a non sequitur, given that Labour wanted to splurge money on this scale even if no global pandemic had existed. Since it does, the government had to come up with a whole new level of monetary and fiscal intervention to combat it. What’s the problem?

But there was no money to “spaff”, suddenly there’s no end to it.

Anyway, this is the first positive thing a Tory government’s done in over 20 years so I can forgive it for borrowing the opposition’s clothes.

The cost of all this intervention will be gigantic, and will have to be paid back at some point once the crisis is over. But it’s better than the alternative.

Boris is Boris. We asked for him and he's got an impossible situation. Sunak is impressive though, nice to see a politician who doesn't think punishing the already impoverished is a solution.

The other good thing about Rishi was his ability to give a heartfelt, clear and easy to understand message such as when we look back we will remember the good things we did, the small things. Something like that but it was exactly the right note.

I think he's doing a good job and seriously bad situation! Slaying the PM right now isn't going do anything.. put politics aside and come together for a change to get through this shit storm. JC is quite and that's the best thing he can do right now quite frankly..!!

Its not about how BJ comes across today or yesterday or if he seems in control etc etc its what he and his party and govt have done (or rather not done) since January this year.... not even about the massive bugettery stimulus Sunak has announced.

Its about wasted opportunity.

So only this week asking industry to build ventilators, writing to ex NHS staff, only on thursday shipping out PPE equipment......

We all saw what China did in Wuhan, 1000s of new beds provided and his govt sat back and did nothing, convincing us that Heard immunity is the way fwd and we should take it on the Chin!!!! just 24 hrs ago he said we could send this virus packing inside 12 weeks... people need to wake up to the fact the guy is an idiot and everything he has done in the past backs this up, from bridges to water canon to him shagging his way around producing kids at every opportunity.

NorthPark hospital overwhelmed with CV patients before we've even started to see the real impact of this crisis.

They have all woken up to this global dash for medics and equipment way way too late.

The thing that strikes me, is that he can’t talk about PEOPLE. He just appears to not know how to do that. He can talk about business and the economy and how the budget will help them and they will be able to help their ‘workers’. He seems to have no comprehension that there are PEOPLE that aren’t covered by that safety net and they need help

He isn’t fit for this job. I mean that sincerely. I don’t know if he just doesn’t CARE? It seems deeper than that. I always thought he was a clever man, but is he actually stupid? He seems unable to think laterally, to think about the big picture. Is there something wrong with him?

@stoptherideiwanttogetoff I think the opposite actually. We need to be on this guys ass CONSTANTLY. If we weren’t we would still be in the ‘herd immunity’ phase officially

Unofficially I think we still ARE. I think this is still the approach that he is taking. But he got so much backlash he has to make it appear otherwise. He hasn’t closed the damn schools. That list of key workers is so all encompassing and givers the perfect tool to business to force their employees to work

I also think Boris is doing well every day, the pressure he must be under is beyond enormous. And yes he signed up for it, but he is still human and most folks would fall apart at the sheer pressure he’s under.

Boris was back on form yesterday, though understandably looked a little tired. Rishi was 10 out of 10.

Reading through this thread, we would have all stuck with Chamberlain in 1940 as he wears a decent tie and Churchill would have been seen as "unpatriotic" and should "keep quiet as now is not the time for politics"

Except PMs in other countries don't look as if they are terrified or falling apart, they look like leaders. Just Boris who looks seriously out of his depth.
And I was shocked that exNHS staff has not already been contacted. Totally incompetent.

@jasjas1973 Only a few people on this thread are genuine people.

Really? What are we then? Cardboard cut outs?

@SubjectMatterExpert I agree with everything you’ve said.

Our leader in the Netherlands is (IMO) handling this pretty well. He’s already said that they’re having to make 100% of the decisions with just 50% of the information. He’s responded to demands - doing a quick turnaround after saying the schools would not be closing. He did a Q&A for the equivalent of Newsround, answering questions like what would he do if he had to self-isolate (clean up a bit). I don’t like him particularly, but I feel like he comes across as competent, flexible and human.