Is anyone actually still behind the Prime Minister?

[annabel85]

I don't think he has handled the pandemic as well as he could tbh and i've noticed the tide turning on here recently very much against him. The right wing media are really getting restless with Boris as well and of course the left are sticking the knife in.

I think a lot of people cut him loads of slack because it was an unprecedented situation and then he got really ill himself (I don't think his 'shake hands with the virus' attitude was sensible either) which set the government back in their response. Then he was let down by his main advisor which has eroded confidence in his administration.

How can Boris get a hold of this and the government approach to Covid and get everyone back on side again? 9 months ago he won one of the biggest landslides ever, to huge fanfare. It's a bit of a downfall at the moment, he still has a chance to recover it.

Boris needs to unite the country again.

@jasjas1973

Who in their right mind supports shaking hands with someone with an unknown respiratory disease that had shut down China and was doing the same to mainland europe?
I have to agree that was totally stupid of him. I'm sure he has learnt that lesson the hard way. He may have side-effects from Covid for the rest of his life.

It's a pity others haven't learnt from his stupidity and aren't all self-isolating even when diagnosed with Covid. Thankfully, he did do that.

I loathe the man. Doesn't give a fuck about his country.

Is anyone actually still behind the Prime Minister?

My guess, lots of Tory backbenchers.

With knives.

P.s. Don't you think he looks tired?

WWII was probably easier for the PM, he could blame the Germans. This is a natural phenomenon, everything falls back on the government.

@Shouldbedoing

Don't mention violins. That's under the superinjunction.

@Itsabeautifuldayheyhey

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Also, do you apply this 'it's easy to whinge' rhetoric to people fucking up in all jobs, or is it only the PM? I'm just wondering, if a doctor ballsed up your operation or a builder did a dangerous job on your extension, would you feel any criticism had to be prefaced with ooh well, it's a tough job and obviously I've never had a go at an appendectomy myself? Or would it be ok, in that scenario, to expect that someone voluntarily putting themselves forward for a job would make a competent go at it?
I don't think comparing the unprecedented issues the PM is dealing with this year can even be compared to those faced by previous PMs. They certainly cannot be compared to routine appendectomies or routine building work.

Well, by all means let's make it more complicated surgery or building work then. And stuff that's at least partially their fault in the first place because of their earlier fuck ups.

I’m completely behind him - 100%

(As long as he’s standing on the edge of a bloody cliff!!)

@JamieLeeCurtains

P.s. Don't you think he looks tired?

I think he looks like he knows he’s fucked. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person

You are all quite right that he is doing a good job trying to bluster his way through with a slogan! I mean, slogans are all very well in terms of giving people something they can latch on to ("Build The Wall!" "Lock her up!", "GBD!", "Hands, Face, Space!") but they don't actually cut the mustard when it comes to, for example, test and trace or PPE provision.

He isn't my PM. I have been listening with interest to the views of Tory voters. My Dmil was all for the incompetent idiot and his get Brexit done rhetoric. She has gone silent on whole thing, I haven't had a "at least Corbyn isn't in charge" for a good few weeks.

The only person behind Boris is Dominic Cummings with his hand up his bum working him like a glove puppet.

WWII easier for the PM? Hardly. Without bothering to make a list, recent politicians have had some pretty tough stuff to deal with too, and those PMs were always very visible, rarely hiding behind others in the cabinet or boycotting journalists and news programmes who have the audacity ask them questions. (And they were also rarely 'missing')

This PM has never United the country. Some people may have cut him some slack with the unprecedented pandemic but he’s a privileged idiot who has no idea how to actually run a government. Best thing I read was he ‘wanted to become PM and wanted to have been PM but had no idea how to do the bit in between’ ( I paraphrase. )

Recent PMs, I mean.

Unprecedented or not he’s fucking it all up though he always never fit for office in the first place

He never wanted the job just the title, he has little (if any) moral compass and is an architect of brexshit

He can’t leave office quick enough for my liking

what is he actually good for?

He is a clown, he is inept. He is not statesmanlike. What is he good at ?

Well, lying, is what he is good at

If you had a lot, and I really do mean a lot, of money riding on the collapse of the pound in the event of a no deal Brexit, Boris would be one of the few people with the front to continue distracting people with , all the stuff he says. In parliament.

Contradicting stuff he said so convincingly only a few months ago.

I'm afraid that we are sleep walking into disaster. Boris is a convenient puppet who wanted to be PM so badly he was prepared prepared to do anything

I'm behind him.......with a large phallic shaped cactus

Well this is what you get if you vote for a narcissistic pisshead. The veneer was never going to last, was it?

Boris was "let down" by his own advisor? I'm not sure I could be that generous with the behaviour or his response to it.

If Boris was simply stupid, all this could be put down to mistakes and incompetence. But he isn't stupid.

I know Cameron messed up but Boris was the big celebrity noise , he could have swung that vote a bit, but he sided with the ERG instead and went with big slogans and buses.
It's just a theory of mine.. we will never know of course

Not just yours. Cameron at least had the sense to realise he'd fucked up and walked away as fast as he could with as much dignity as he could scrape together. Boris is/was too vainglorious to see a poison chalice when everyone else was running away from it as fast as they could. No serious politician wanted to be the one to have to deliver the UK into the real cold hard nasty future that lay outwith the ERG's Brexit wank fantasy. Only a bozo like Johnson would think it was going to be anything other than a chance to stand next to Chamberlain in some fantasy football The Most Useless Prime Minister play-offs.

Not stupid, but lazy. Unfortunately he uses his intelligence to perform a pantomime of intelligence - throw a Latin phrase in, speak in a very posh voice, use colourful insults, don't bother reading the brief.

@annabel85 When was the country last united?

The Union was always a fragile thing , but now it's at breaking point.

I think the issue here is people are fed up of it. There is no way now to handle this that won’t fuck off large swathes of the population. Whatever you lock down or pause will piss some peoole off and not go far enough for others,

So I’m Tory, but even I’m fucked off snd thinking cmon get a grip, but I’m actually genuinely not sure what they can do, because the only thing that will make me happy is for it all to go away, or for there to be an effective treatment or vaccine. None of which the tortes can make happen.

I just think it is loose loose, there’s not even one solution more popular than others, everyone is fucked off with it in one way or another.