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Where the hell is Boris?

206 replies

Catmads · 30/10/2020 18:47

London has been in tier 2 for two weeks today, rumors of move to tier 3.

Numerous other areas moving into tier 2 or 3.

Furlough ending tomorrow.

Surely there should have been some kind of update or announcement from this sorry excuse for a government?

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ssd · 30/10/2020 22:12

Horrible language I agree. Save your insults for him.

the80sweregreat · 30/10/2020 22:14

I'm shocked at the mails headlines about this new lockdown. ' a cabinet source' !
I can't see many people being happy about this ( if any of it is true of course)

PhilCornwall1 · 30/10/2020 22:16

Where is Johnson? Hopefully face down in a ditch.

TheDrsDocMartens · 30/10/2020 22:19

Not much from Hancock or Williamson either.

PhilCornwall1 · 30/10/2020 22:23

@TheDrsDocMartens

Not much from Hancock or Williamson either.
Great isn't it, two twats we've had to see less of this week.
nancy75 · 30/10/2020 22:24

If Boris had got any sense (doubtful) he’ll be at home updating his CV. If Biden gets in next week Brexit becomes a whole different ball game, our great ‘uge best deal ever will be off the table & Boris will be presiding over a cluster fuck of a no deal brexit, no deal with USA & a failure to deal with a pandemic all at once. In his shoes I’d quit & get a job in Tesco’s! I can’t see him lasting much past xmas - whether he jumps or is pushed remains to be seen

WanderingMilly · 30/10/2020 22:24

You do realise they are trying to prepare for/negotiate a BREXIT as well....

the80sweregreat · 30/10/2020 22:25

Nancy, so true and so depressing too.

the80sweregreat · 30/10/2020 22:28

The Conservatives will get shot of him by early next year. It's true that if Trump loses next week then any deals pending will be down the drain. Biden and Johnson hate each other by all accounts.
It is all very grim.

MarmiteCrumpet25 · 30/10/2020 22:37

If Biden wins (hopefully) I think Brexit no deal won’t happen and BJ will be forced to fudge a deal 🤞

nancy75 · 30/10/2020 22:39

@WanderingMilly

You do realise they are trying to prepare for/negotiate a BREXIT as well....
Lol, you don’t think Boris is actually doing any of that do you? As if they’d let that buffoon in a negotiation - Cummings is not that stupid
TicTacTwo · 30/10/2020 22:58

Some of tomorrow's newspapers are reporting that Johnson will be doing a press conference on Monday to announce new restrictions (possible national lockdown with schools and essential shops open) starting as soon as Wednesday and lasting 4 weeks so that Christmas is "saved"

TicTacTwo · 30/10/2020 23:03

Considering that Johnson called Obama "part-Kenyan president" for saying that he thought Britain should Remain in the EU, I think that Biden has every right to Hmm BJ

GlacindaTheTroll · 30/10/2020 23:03

Is that a full lockdown with schools off? Or lockdown lite with the little germ factories still mingling?

Brazillio · 30/10/2020 23:04

I was going to start a thread asking the exact same question. Where the hell is Boris? 🙄😤

Why wait until Monday? He should speak tomorrow and he should also extend half term break by at least one week, along with the other measures he is proposing.

the80sweregreat · 30/10/2020 23:04

Boris 'saving Christmas' is how they are going to spin this one then! (Sounds very Dominic inspired to me. )
If schools stay open then nobody will bother doing it properly :(

TicTacTwo · 30/10/2020 23:04

Here's s pic before I'm asked

Where the hell is Boris?
MarshaBradyo · 30/10/2020 23:06

‘Save Christmas’ is such a load of bollocks

People don’t feel the same as March, most of lockdown is by consent ie not mixing at home.

Brazillio · 30/10/2020 23:07

What happened to this little idea? Or did I imagine this plan?

Where the hell is Boris?
the80sweregreat · 30/10/2020 23:08

People won't do it again. It'll be carnage. For the economy and for people's mental health and just about everything else.
What a nightmare ( if it happens)
Why is it being drip fed?

Tanith · 30/10/2020 23:10

I wouldn't be surprised if he's still ill. He had Covid early on, some people still haven't recovered and I don't believe he has, either.

They wheel him in when they have to (PMQ etc), he never looks well and he invariably screws it up.

nancy75 · 30/10/2020 23:11

Saving Christmas is the carrot at the end of the stick. They know full well that a huge number of people will visit family at xmas, no matter what the rules are. They will allow us out for Christmas Day because it looks better than saying we can’t go & half the country just ignoring them.

nancy75 · 30/10/2020 23:12

@Tanith

I wouldn't be surprised if he's still ill. He had Covid early on, some people still haven't recovered and I don't believe he has, either.

They wheel him in when they have to (PMQ etc), he never looks well and he invariably screws it up.

Not well or not sobered up?!
shrill · 30/10/2020 23:20

@VettiyaIruken

Drinking in the subsidised bar and negotiating board memberships and appearance fees for when he legs it.
This
ssd · 30/10/2020 23:27

@Tanith

I wouldn't be surprised if he's still ill. He had Covid early on, some people still haven't recovered and I don't believe he has, either.

They wheel him in when they have to (PMQ etc), he never looks well and he invariably screws it up.

He did that before covid
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