Boris Johnson’s one-day working week

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PMQs followed by the briefing. BoJo cunningly consolidating all his work into one weekday again. Wonder what compliant scientist they’ll wheel out for the afternoon.

If he is working away behind the scenes, it isn't on COBRA meetings

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/14/prime-minister-has-not-hosted-a-cobra-emergency-committee-for-over-a-month

My ten-year-old self didn't understand why my parents were so excited about Thatcher resigning, and practically being ousted by her own party. Now I am feeling almost excited myself...

No, he won't want to do any of those tricky COBRA meetings where you have to deal with disagreement and put forward intelligent arguments.

I expect he looks back fondly to the good old days of the beginning of 2020 when all he had to do was sit in Cabinet meetings getting them to do call-and-response to lies from the manifesto. Job done for the day, back home, huzzah!

It's as if hiding away in that fridge he was trying to subliminally tell us something.

I wonder how long his visit was for?

This article by ex boss Max Hasting's is holding up well. Plus you get all his failings plus floored by corona recovery to add to the burden.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain

If the Johnson family had stuck to showbusiness like the Osmonds, Marx Brothers or von Trapp family, the world would be a better place. Yet the Tories, in their terror, have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street, and they should expect to pay a full forfeit when voters get the message. If the price of Johnson proves to be Corbyn, blame will rest with the Conservative party, which is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people – who will not find it funny for long.

He looks like a haunted man in that picture that's because he is.

Sadly for Hastings and the rest of us Tories went with Johnson and then the public went with Johnson in December.

Once the economic consequences of CV collide with Brexit there's going to be a lot more uproar about Johnson/Cummings.

Do you really think he's haunted vera99? He looks tired and aged but I doubt he's haunted. You need a conscience to be haunted and I genuinely don't believe he has one - never been any sign of it so far.

He's been to Westfield today to check the preparations for opening tomorrow

twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1272166592839847938?s=21

I'm not a right wing not posting these updates on his whereabouts. Think everyone wants to see him do some work on a day other than Wednesday

Thanks flamingochill that's interesting - so he is doing something. For a certain amount of time (but, as you say, how long..?)

Even though I can see what he's doing it doesn't really answer the question: What is he doing? Why is he doing that? Popping into Westfield to see how they're getting on with SD measures - why does the PM need to do that? What purpose is it serving?

The country is in the middle of health, economic and existential crises. There has been huge debate about the statue of Churchill, someone Johnson has extensive knowledge of, but he's got nothing to say?? About any of it??

He looks tired and aged but I doubt he's haunted. You need a conscience to be haunted
I agree. He deserves to be haunted though given all the extra deaths his incompetence has caused. I don't think he gives a shit about anyone other than himself though.

Johnson is congenitally incapable of hard work. He just isn’t interested in detail. He never has been. He’d rather reduce issues that threaten the lives of thousands into insufferable soundbites like “squash the sombrero” or horrifically tactless after-dinner gags like “Operation Last Gasp.”

By anointing him their leader, the Conservatives have imposed a lazy light entertainer as PM just in time for a once-in-a-century crisis, and what is cutting through to to public is very simple: he doesn’t care, he never did, and he is just not up to it.

the Conservatives have imposed a lazy light entertainer as PM
And the public voted for him in their droves, the voter is responsible.

Why is this clown the PM?

A chimpanzee would have handled the Coronavirus crisis so much better than Boris Johnson.

Theresa May would have done a particularly good job.

Gordon Brown would have done a good job too.

And the public voted for him in their droves, the voter is responsible

I think that's just too simple Ken. I would blame Tories first for putting him in as leader. As for the GE, well as much as I wanted Labour their campaign crashed and the hate campaign against Corbyn was so overwhelming any undecided voters would have found it hard to ignore.

Plus so many people had been sold the lie of Brexit. They wanted something to change and that was held out as the change they needed. I pity them as much as blame them because they'll bear the brunt of all the shit that's coming.

I'm still baffled as to what he was doing today. I saw footage on the news of him at Westfield - he looked like a councillor or shambling local businessman popping in for a bit of H&S fact-finding. With everything that's going on right now, the most useful thing he can think of to do is pop into a shopping centre to check out their SD measures and tell everyone he hopes they'll start shopping again.

An observer who had never heard or seen him before would have no clue that this man is supposed to be in charge of the country. In fact I wonder if that wasn't the intention - some sort of sneaky set-up to make him look as pointless and surplus as possible.

I note that even shit-snipers like Cendrillon have given up (or been stood down?) and crawled away. Something's got to give.

According to Facebook, Rishi Sunak visited a John Lewis on Wednesday.

Massive difference in pics

Very interesting flamingo..Sunak looks confident and hands-on, Johnson looks like a spare part. Do you suspect something...?

Sunak is the mighty atom!

I don't know if anyone has surveyed this properly but in real life I hear lots of praise for Sunak. Even those who missed out on furlough seem to agree that he's probably the best in the cabinet by a long margin.

Nobody knew who he was before CV but he's looking like the man who should have been PM over Johnson

Hmm, well he does look great compared to Johnson but I can't get the image of him doing that pitiful call-and-response thing in cabinet with a big gormless grin on his face after Javid got frozen out.

So far I find him shallow and if they get rid of Bozo we need someone with more about them. God knows who.

Everyone looks better than Johnson. Even Dillon the dog.
I'd forgotten about Cummings being instrumental in Javid's downfall...