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Where is Boris?

106 replies

Whatsthis1515 · 08/05/2020 20:29

He seems to have disappeared again!

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HappyHammy · 08/05/2020 20:32

What would you like him to do.

HirooOnoda · 08/05/2020 20:33

@HappyHammy his job would be an excellent place to start Grin

Incrediblytired · 08/05/2020 20:33

He’s probably on paternity leave or working out how to give nurses paycuts once this is over.

YogaLite · 08/05/2020 20:35

Probably Chequers.

I was also expecting him to lay a wreath or something for VE day tather than put out a prerecorded speech from a comfort of his own chair Confused

ifonly4 · 08/05/2020 20:37

In all fairness he's been seriously ill. A lady in our road who had coronavirus at the same time still isn't right, so he's probably having to limit what he does at the moment. No matter what you think of him, he does need time to recover and if that means fewer hours and having the pressure taken off him for a while, we have to accept it.

overnightangel · 08/05/2020 20:37

If he ever actually was ill

TimothyTerrible · 08/05/2020 20:39

Of course he was actually ill FFS

PJ6M · 08/05/2020 20:41

@overnightangel

If you have any evidence that he wasn't ill then present it.

If you don't have any at all, then you're just making yourself look silly.

HappyHammy · 08/05/2020 20:43

I thought he was at Westminster Abbey this morning..maybe he is working in his office.

UnshakenNeedsStirring · 08/05/2020 20:54

Hiding in a fridge

EdwynCollins · 08/05/2020 20:56

He was obviously ill but i believe for one minute he was close to death. I don't think any other person at the stage he was at would be in hospital never mind icu
If he had been so ill as we were told he would have taken weeks to recover

lovelyupnorth · 08/05/2020 20:56

Holiday or hiding who knows but as always not leading.

lovelyupnorth · 08/05/2020 20:57

Prison would be good

HirooOnoda · 08/05/2020 21:04

@ifonly4 he very much wasn’t ill when we needed strong leadership to make the plans to best cope with the burgeoning crisis. Skipping multiple cobra meetings at a crucial stage will be looked upon quite poorly in time, for both the failed practical steps taken (PPE issues / testing delays / lockdown delays etc) as well as the care free message this gave the nation at that time.

He downplayed it from the start, so much so that when the world was sharing advice on limiting contact he was attempting to score points about shaking the hands of care workers - we know how that ended up.

Thankfully he has recovered, the same cannot be said for thousands of dead, at least some of whom would still be here today if it were not for the succession of systemic failures in both the planning and response to this global crisis

WoollyMollyMonkey · 08/05/2020 21:05

Have you checked the fridge? I have no doubt he’ll pop out on Monday or whenever some “good news” eg about relaxing a bit of lockdown, is to be announced. He lets others take the flak for the bad news days.

JudyCoolibar · 08/05/2020 21:07

Probably retired hurt after he made such a fool of himself at PMQ. Starmer's expression was fascinating, at times I had the feeling he was thinking "Oh, for God's sake, at least try to make it a bit of a challenge for me".

Humphriescushion · 08/05/2020 21:08

@lovelyupnorth that made me laugh!Smile

june2007 · 08/05/2020 21:09

Wel I would hope he is spending time with his new baby? Ofcouse he was ill. I don,t think much of him as pm but denyers like this are as bad as conspiracy theorists.

Strawberrypancakes · 08/05/2020 21:12

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Aposterhasnoname · 08/05/2020 21:13

If he ever actually was ill

Really? I mean, there’s a fuckton of stuff you can criticise him for, but this is a low blow. And not only are you calling Boris a liar, but the hospital he was in, and the drs and nurses, who have been named, and in some cases given interviews.

Have a word with yourself. This level of hate is not healthy.

Bluntness100 · 08/05/2020 21:14

I’m not going to go into how I know, but he was ill, he was very ill and by the time he got to hospital he was brought in in the car on an oxygen bottle. He left it very late, and genuinely yes, he was touch and go. Just because he Recovered doesn’t mean he was never Ill,or it wasn’t serious. It was. Very,

I strongly suspect he is still in recuperating from it.

1forAll74 · 08/05/2020 21:16

Getting some beauty sleep,or helping with the new baby. Think he will be speaking on Sunday. Speaking about this,that, and the other.!

Proppedupinbed · 08/05/2020 21:18

Boris can't handle a crisis. It's in his past record. When the routs happened in London and he was mayor he was on holiday and didn't cut it short. He ignored the floods at the beginning of the year.

Now he has been ill and he has a new baby. He has actual excuses to be absent.

He will continue to avoid taking action and allow blame and attention to the diverted elsewhere.

To make it worse, he is a shit leader who has a cabinet who are incompetent and scared to make decisions in his absence due to his vindictive nature.

NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite · 08/05/2020 21:19

@EdwynCollins

"He was obviously ill but i believe for one minute he was close to death. I don't think any other person at the stage he was at would be in hospital never mind icu
If he had been so ill as we were told he would have taken weeks to recover"
Jenny McGhee, the New Zealand nurse who tended him in ICU said that he definitely needed to be in ICU. Are you saying she is lying?

www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-boris-johnson-nurse-says-he-absolutely-needed-intensive-care-11977359

He is still recovering. When he spoke after coming out of hospital he was quite breathless still.

NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite · 08/05/2020 21:21

I have no doubt he’ll pop out on Monday or whenever some “good news” eg about relaxing a bit of lockdown, is to be announced.
Sunday at 7 p.m.