Boris’ latest message.

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It’s good to see Boris is getting better. He said in his video message that he went through a critical 48 hours and it could have gone either way. Do you think the early intervention and oxygen helped save him? Would he likely have pulled through if he was treated like you or I and had to be turning blue or unable to finish his sentences before receiving hospital intervention?

let’s be honest the only reason you got a stonking majority was because of the British public’s mindless obsession with getting Brexit done, the influence of the horrendously partisan British press mainly

Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine. Try being a better Opposition if you want to form the Government.

IRS amazing the nearly identical tweets raised by tory politicians at Keir Starmer, trying to shame him for being an opposition, I.e. doing his job.

It is political! Sick to death of hearing fucking brexiteers, every time something goes colossally wrong, locally or globally. As soon as anyone suggests why it might have happened or how to improve it, out they come with their bleating 'it's not political'.
Oh do fuck off dear and leave the news to the grown ups.

Try being a better Opposition?
Try not having every media outlet in the pockets of establishment giants who will do whatever it takes to keep socialists out of leadership.
Look at what they stand to lose. The NHS will still be broken and sold. This process started with thatcher and they won't rest until it's done. We may be having a fluffy moment right now but it wont last. The media and government rely on us being sycophants with short memories and outlandish resources for forgiveness and wilful blindness

@vera99 did he actually say that? Do you have a source other than a Twitter activist?

@ShootsFruitAndLeaves I don't (currently) but Boris says a lot of stuff that is off-message and off-colour. I seem to remember something like that. We shall be watching New-Boris like a hawk to see if there any signs of him saying nice words but doing evil actions.

Carrie would well do to keep a watchful eye on home post-baby as well. He has considerable form for being a mendacious lying toad and apparently (sorry if you are having breakfast) has considerable 'needs'.

So glad Boris is better and what a wonderful message from him. There was genuine passion in his message. Don't make this political

When summing up the government's mistakes in those early stages and how it has affected everything since, Professor Ashton quotes a famous proverb: "

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.

He added: "The nail was Johnson not calling Cobra at the beginning.

"If they had reliable testing across the country, systematic sampling like you do for opinion polls, then those decisions about school closures, stopping sports events could have been taken on a county by county or city by city basis, like they did elsewhere.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-professor-dismissed-ranting-lefty-18061121

And Boris has been bloody amazing. He's calm rational and shows compassion when he speaks. He's handling this unknown territory for Britain very well. Leave the poor man alone

Furthermore other countries would certainly give their royalty/prime minister exceptional care. What should we treat him as 'Joe blogs?' no other country would. The NHS do not discriminate towards Joe bloggs - its a case of catering for the masses under drained resources. If Boris was given a speedier itu admission then so what? He is an exceptional circumstance. He's our prime minister.

Agree great that he is getting better.
Also agree that he is a threat to the NHS
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Limpbizkit, in the space of a couple of posts you've told people not to make this political, which is itself a political stance, and then praised Johnson's handling of the matter. The problem you have isn't with people making this political, it's with them taking a different political stance to you. Although that's true of just about everyone who's tried that line. A few of them are just hard of thinking, but most of them are massive hypocrites.

He's been amazing from start to finish

Really? What was amazing about his failure to organise PPE for several weeks when it was obvious it would be necessary? Or allowing events like Cheltenham to go ahead?

Interesting that the nurses he thanked were Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal. Thank goodness for immigration and the EU, eh?

Of COURSE it's political he's the PM ffs!!!

Exactly @JudyCoolibar !!!!

Great that hes getting better and on a human level I really hope he makes a full recovery.
As for his handling of this we are on track for the worst death rate in Europe despite having more time to plan than others, so no I don't think things have been handled 'brilliantly'.

He will say anything that suits him and do anything that suits him. He's thoroughly contemptible and a brush with death doesn't sadly change that.

I agree with this but he looked very ill (can’t believe posters are saying he looked well!) and shaken up in the recent statement and I hope the brush with death might have humbled him a little.

I think the govt PR people were in a cleft stick regarding news about his condition and I think they underplayed how ill he was all along tbh.

As for not ‘making’ this political, it just is political, nobody is making it so.

Didn't think he looked particularly ill, no breathlessness, no coughing, infact had i not known he'd been in hospital, i'd thought he was just delivering another one of his Churchillian speeches.

Glad he is well on the way to a full recovery but i suspect, like DC before him, he will milk this for all its worth and they'll be no change on the tories policies on the NHS.

I'm not revisiting 2009 again when Labour bankrupted the country,

I have a feeling the Tories are going to regret spending 10 years blaming Labour for a global financial crisis as they now have carte blanche to blame the Tories for the global pandemic for the next decade.

I thought he looked well, much better than I expected him to.

He has fared much better than my friend who has been ill for moe than a month and admitted the third time she was assessed by paramedics. Still in hospital two weeks after admission.

Clearly the NHS gave him treatment earlier than my friend who is a former nurse who worked in the NHS for all of her nursing career.

The NHS is bloody brilliant but let’s not pretend that it isn’t on its knees or that everyone will get the same treatment the PM did.

Yes I don't understand the conspiracy theories about Johnson not actually being ill. He looked increasingly sick in the week he was initially quarantined. He's not a young man, obviously has a high stress lifestyle, is obese, has been in contact with multiple diagnosed cases and didn't bother with the social distancing rules. It wasn't at all surprising that he was hospitalised.

Certainly right wingers have been politicising the issue and using it as a play for sympathy and to try and downplay his stupidity, but that doesn't actually mean it was all made up. It just means they saw their chance and jumped at it.

There are more than enough sticks to beat Johnson with for being an incompetent, irresponsible, hypocritical moral vacuum. Use those.

I think he was ill, just not as poorly as most who are admitted/in ITU. If he had have been he wouldn’t be giving an interview/discharged at this point in time.

@VegetableMunge very well said. +1

Glad he's pulled through

I hope this has made him realise the value of the NHS
And @toryandproud

Shows all in all that Boris giving the NHS its biggest cash infusion in history

Well, let's talk about that relative to inflation, shall we? Because when you actually look at the inflation increase, it's not so impressive..