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Do you feel sorry for Boris?

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User133847 · 27/01/2021 12:56

Seeing the headlines in the papers today and there seems a lot of sympathy for him. The front pages see him looking really forlorn and sorrow regarding the death toll.

When you think a year ago he was planning on ushering in what he deemed as a golden age of Britain. Now 12 months later it's in tatters.

I can understand the sympathy, but wonder whether a Labour PM would be offered the same.

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StellaAndCrow · 27/01/2021 16:31

I think he wanted to be King, and rule over us - I don't think he wanted a job.

MadameButterface · 27/01/2021 16:31

As my cousin says if we had had JC in then, and he had been ill we could have been left with the delightfully innumerate Diane Abbot!

tory wankers always bang on about how crap Diane abbott is at maths but we don't hear much from them about how dido harding made a £12bn spreadsheet that didn't work, or how Priti Patel is super trigger happy with the delete button. weird huh. I'd have a cheeky mojito with old Di any day of the fucking week.

PhilCornwall1 · 27/01/2021 16:31

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@PhilCornwall1 being honest doesn't make you a nice person [/quote]
Fine by me.

VinylDetective · 27/01/2021 16:32

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@poppyzbrite4 what you believe he soley made the decision to send people to care homes? He had no advice whatsoever just woke up and said , right this is what I will do? [/quote]
Anyone with half a brain could have worked out they should have been tested first. Yet nobody thought of it? Seriously?

donewithitalltodayandxmas · 27/01/2021 16:32

@vynldetective wherever it originated from its a very insensitive comment.
Some people may if had to do this for a loved one and I don't find things like this funny about anyone.

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User133847 · 27/01/2021 16:32

Ironic how the man who wanted to be Churchill will go down as a Chamberlain figure.

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UseOfWeapons · 27/01/2021 16:34

Yes, I do,
I feel sorry for anyone trying to manage a difficult situation like this. No matter who was in charge, no matter what they did, there’d still be huge numbers of people who were adamant it was all wrong.

Labobo · 27/01/2021 16:34

Not at all. He's a greedy, amoral, self-serving train wreck of a man with zero leadership skills and an ego the size of Jeff Bezos's bank accounts.
He has blundered uselessly through Covid and Brexit, never improving a situation or taking decisive leadership.

Many many people deserve pity in this crippling crisis. He's not one of them.

Impatiens · 27/01/2021 16:35

@User133847

Ironic how the man who wanted to be Churchill will go down as a Chamberlain figure.
Worse. Chamberlain is viewed as weak and gullible but Johnson is corrupt.
VaggieMight · 27/01/2021 16:35

His little sad face act was orchestrated to dominate the headlines today instead of the 100,000 victims. The right wing newspapers and his team knew this would be the front page headlines today before the press conference even aired.

donewithitalltodayandxmas · 27/01/2021 16:36

@VinylDetective we were not so were of asymptomatic then and my point being was that I don't think Boris made this decision on his own of his own back
We need to be looking at all decisions made and all the evidence given not purely pinning on one person and one only.
And also an enquiry to look into , we can't learn going forward if we don't look in to what went wrong , why it went wrong and what we could do differently.
Other european countries made similar decisions with care homes I believe ? Why , what made any do
It ?

dottiedodah · 27/01/2021 16:36

Poppyzbrite4 No I am not doing a wind up .and certainly not from the DM! I am not saying he hasnt made mistakes ,but my point is many people seem to think if we had a different Govt in, or had done XYZ differently we would have been in a better position .All I am saying is he is in a difficult position is all! I am leaving now as some remarks feel a bit personal .I was simply replying to OPs question of whether we feel sorry for BJ or not that was all!

VinylDetective · 27/01/2021 16:37

@VaggieMight

His little sad face act was orchestrated to dominate the headlines today instead of the 100,000 victims. The right wing newspapers and his team knew this would be the front page headlines today before the press conference even aired.
It misfired with The Times then. Its front page is a montage of the faces of people who have died.
dottiedodah · 27/01/2021 16:37

UseOf Weapons .this is what I meant!

DodoApplet · 27/01/2021 16:39

I really do wish people would stop calling him "Boris". He isn't your friend: "Boris" is a brand image he's meticulously cultivated over a long period of time to enable him to portray himself as a klutzy scatterbrain who can get away with not answering embarrassing questions on the pretext that he doesn't quite understand them. Unfortunately for him, that image is now presenting him with a problem - because the country, of which he is now Prime Minister, is in the middle of a major crisis, and he has to be able to understand them. I'm wondering how long it's going to take him to work this out.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 27/01/2021 16:39

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@includewomeninsequel no there is a lot of hate , just read some of the comments but when people are questioned on something they write , they ignore it as often have nothing to back it up .
Unplugging life support I would say thats quite a nasty comment [/quote]
Honestly, the list of things we should all care about now is staggeringly long. We have children with mental health problems stacking up, people waking up today without family members, parents having to visit foodbanks just to feed their kids.

Feeling bad about a comment on the internet, about someone who will never read it, just isn't where my energy is going to go.

If you've joined the board and don't like it, it's a free country, nobody is making you stick around to try to make the rest of us feel guilty about freely expressing our opinions (which were asked for by the OP of this thread).

AgeOfExploration · 27/01/2021 16:40

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit @Mamamia456 @PersonaNonGarter

He’s a machiavellian sociopath who lied and back-stabbed his way to prime minister to satisfy his own monumental ego. There was not one sliver of a sense of duty or public service in his narcissistic ambition.

So I’ll take my grim pleasure, thanks, in seeing him realise that being ‘king of the world’ isn’t quite the jolly jape that he thought it’d be. And I’ll reserve all of my sympathy for the people who have been royally screwed by his incompetence - the fallout from which will last for years, and ruin countless lives.

@YardleyX is that a genuine question, or are you just making a snide, head-tilty remark that you think is humorous?

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 27/01/2021 16:41

@VinylDetectivewe were not so were of asymptomatic then

Pretty sure we knew about asymptomatic covid since last March. The care home scandal was after that.

Folklore9074 · 27/01/2021 16:42

You can understand sympathy? WTF??? Honestly think this might be a joke post.

Absolutely not one tiny bit. He and his government have behaved with criminal incompetence throughout this pandemic.

His 'sad face' is a insult to everyone who had died, everyone who has suffered throughout this pandemic. The media are utterly complicit here too. If you are sorry your actions bare this out. He should resign.

maddiemookins16mum · 27/01/2021 16:42

@UseOfWeapons

Yes, I do, I feel sorry for anyone trying to manage a difficult situation like this. No matter who was in charge, no matter what they did, there’d still be huge numbers of people who were adamant it was all wrong.
This. I’m not a Tory voter btw.
Dastardlythefriendlymutt · 27/01/2021 16:42

No

MinesaBottle · 27/01/2021 16:43

No I don’t. He thought he’d come in, ‘get Brexit done’ preferably with minimal effort, and go down in history and a Churchillian figure who liberated Britain from the yoke of EU tyranny. Instead he’s presiding very badly over a situation that requires actual leadership and facing the disintegration of the UK thanks to his and his government’s actions. His inadequacy for the job is all too clear. I’m not saying eg Corbyn or Cameron could have done any better, but Boris is who we’ve got and so much of this is on him and his cronies.

Port1aCastis · 27/01/2021 16:43

His fucking acting yesterday really really annoyed me sad face sad face well that's not good enough grow a pair man develop a strategy and at least try to sound sincere. I watched my 35 year old friend die from Corona last week, previously all he could say was you will lose your loved ones, and you bozo lost my vote
Arsehole!

VinylDetective · 27/01/2021 16:44

[quote TheresAnEyeInMeSoup]**@VinylDetectivewe were not so were of asymptomatic then

Pretty sure we knew about asymptomatic covid since last March. The care home scandal was after that.[/quote]
We did and it was. But, it’s only a few hundred very old people so apparently it doesn’t matter. 🤷‍♀️

rainbownamebow · 27/01/2021 16:44

No I don't. The man should be in prison.