Is BoJo purposely backing DC to cause outrage?

[ellaandthebella]

I have been wondering about this but it might just be the conspiracist in me. Boris Johnson must know that backing Dominic Cummings will cause a lot of people to be angry and thinking there is one set of rules for them and another for everyone else, so why should they stay away from their families if others don't have to. I have seen on here and on social media lots of people saying well if DC does it then I am going to go and see people.

In that way if there is another peak of the virus then BoJo can say 'well I told everyone not to mix but they did it anyway, and it had nothing to do with government advice.'

What are your thoughts?

[thisenglishlife]

just when I thought MN posters could not get any more 'hysterical' and hard of thinking - here is yet another thread destroying that vague hope.
Honestly - just listen to yourselves - everything you hear/read on social media or hear a rumour of via your leftie newspaper rags is not necessarily the truth.
DC and BJ could have handled this a lot better. Which right wing newspaper is falling for the story? I'd expect better from a banana republic. We all expected a better statement after a few days. Also, was Mary lying or DC?

[MorrisZapp]

It's fb driven hard of thinking bingo on this thread:

Cull

'I heard...'

Just some old people

It's to distract from...

Second wave

Etc etc. Its embarrassing. At this point Boris Johnson could pull a safe vaccine out of his bum and half the Internet would accuse him of conspiring to get tax payers back to work.

[effingterrified]

So you're on duty today, Morris?

I suppose the Bank Holiday is over so back to work!

What a fucking job, though.

[MorrisZapp]

I'm working from home. Sorry, don't get your point.

[FourTeaFallOut]

[TheLashKingOfScotland]

At this point Boris Johnson could pull a safe vaccine out of his bum
^^ that's the most embarrassing comment on this thread. And tbh it's insulting the memory of the people who have died because of Boris' sheer incompetence to try to paint Boris as some misunderstood hero.
There's a point where the Tories are going to realise they need to choose between blind loyalty to a philandering, lying, cheating, amoral chancer and any opportunity of winning power again. The clock has already started ticking.
There's an interesting article by a psychology professor about narcissists pushing governing systems from democracies to pathocracies. It seems apt for the current climate.

[EvilPea]

.... I don’t have Facebook.

[effingterrified]

Thanks for sharing.

[EvenMoreFuriousVexation]

@MorrisZapp
At this point Boris Johnson could pull a safe vaccine out of his bum

Seems unlikely. He's too busy talking out of it.

[Wingedharpy]

Boris reminded me very much of Trump yesterday when he pulled out his glasses from his pocket and declared that a problem with vision was probably associated with Covid 19.

I was praying he wouldn't move on to talk about disinfectant🙄

[effingterrified]

Particularly as in articles from years ago he was saying he was blind as a bat and couldn't see without his glasses.

Very similar to Trump - saying something really easily provably false and expecting to get away with it.