Do you feel sorry for Boris?

[User133847]

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.

He didn’t go to COBRA meetings in February about the pandemic so had no clue what was happening. If he’d dove his job and bloody give to the meetings he’d have been ahead of the game. He then went on holiday and said if the meeting notes were too long ‘he wouldn’t bother to read them’ anyone who feels sorry for him needs their head examined. Imagine in any other job/industry behaving like that and keeping your job! Boo boo he can’t survive on £100k a year my heart bleeds!

@poppyzbrite4

I think this is the video you meant to link to. Demonstrating a catalogue of errors and incompetence.

Thank you yes. That's the one.

Not in the least. If you pity this guy, you're suggesting he has no control over the cabinet or the country, and that the string of poor decisions and lies are in some way justifiable.

If anyone needs it spelling out, the man is not an idiot in any sense. That mea culpa statement was a calculated grab for sympathy. I sincerely hope none of you bought it.

Heres another video about our great leader.

twitter.com/i/status/1354175502114828289

[quote Frazzled99]@poppyzbrite4 yes because I'm sure that's what he set out to do and was the plan all along.[/quote]
It must have been pretty apparent early on in the crisis that he and his inexperienced cabinet were completely out of their depth. He could have called on some of the old guard that he purged from government to make way for his brexiteer yes men and women, but he didn't. He routinely ignored the advice from SAGE. He doubled down in support of Cummings and has screwed things up at every possible juncture. So of course he didn't set out for this to happen but sure as hell didn't go out of his way to stop things escalating in the tragic way it has.

“Weak willed lily livered egotistical narcissistic Toss Pot”

@LaurieFairyCake, why don’t you get off the fence and tell us what you really think 😂😂

@poppyzbrite4 thanks for the link to the video, I have just watched it and I’m horrified looking back almost a year later at the catalogue of serious mistakes Boris is responsible for.

So no, I do not feel any sympathy for him or his cabinet. Would I want to do his job? No, but I don’t worM my way into roles knowing I’m not competent enough to do the day to day let alone deal with a huge crisis. Boris and his party can do one. I hope people remember this at the next election and no I am not saying Labour would have done a better job, I don’t know that and can only judge what I have seen and experienced. This man acted too late, is yet to apologise and vocally expressed a desire to allow this virus to spread.

20,000 would be worst-case scenario. It makes me angry typing this because I don’t know how anybody could sympathise with him right now. I feel for everyone else affected by his shoddy decision making.

Correction: *20,000 would be a good outcome not worst-case scenario is what they said.

No. He’s a twat. And has surrounded himself with other twats. I can’t think of a single person in this country that they haven’t failed. Except perhaps Dominic Cummings.

No I do not. He’s a fool. My dog would do a better job. He really would.

@RedRum27 It wasn't me who put up the original link but yes, it's absolutely horrifying. You see how cavalier he was about the whole thing. Not bothering to go to meetings, not listening to warnings, couldn't be arsed to read long emails, taking weekends off, encouraging others to shake hands and go to massive gatherings, refusing to close the borders and so it goes on. And look where we are: We have the highest rate of Covid in the world, of any country not just developed countries. We are just below the US, India, Brazil and they have huge populations.

The reason people don't know this is because the press don't seem to be telling people the full story. Why is it a surprise to the nation that we have the highest amount of the deaths in the world? Why haven't there been calls for his resignation? It's disgraceful and people are really suffering. We reach 100,00 people and he does a #sorrynotsorry with sad face and everyone feels sorry for him.

1,000 people are dying from this a day.

No.

I feel sorry for the 100, 000 who died, their relatives and friends as well as healthcare professionals who were given dodgy PPE, teachers who have to work in unsafe conditions and for all of us for having to put up with this government and their appalling handling of this crisis.

Johnson should resign, which he would do if he had any integrity but he doesn't have any...

No, there's millions of people in this country who I feel for right now and he's not one of them since he has indirectly destroyed the lives of so many.

I wonder how everyone who voted for him and his party just over a year ago feels now? That's a rhetorical question, of course...this is Mumsnet and one of the rules on here is never admitting you've voted Tory.

To all those who want to compare outcomes with other countries.....surely the closest similar countries to compare to would be Scotland / Wales / N.Ireland?

How did those countries fare in terms of death toll? Equally shit, it would seem. But they don’t have Boris to blame for it 🤷‍♀️

No. I think Max Hastings, a former boss, sums him up well

No, he should be in prison.

Not an ounce

No, I don't feel sorry for him, he's acted awfully from the start of this. He's tried to put the economy before people - also not grasping the basic fact that we are the economy - if he doesn't look after the health of the population the costs are massive anyway.
So we've ended up with a massive death toll and a massive recession. Worst of both worlds.
He's not even learning from the early mistakes and is ploughing on regardless - eg borders still not properly closed, still no proper financial support for people who need to isolate, positive patients being discharged into care homes again, the schools debacle etc etc.
He is criminally negligent and if he had a scrap of honour in him, he would resign. We need a public enquiry.

Yes I do.

No. Nor anyone who would go so low as to profiteer out of a tragedy.

I feel sorry for my friend who died in May. And for my kids with their jobs gone, and my mum alone on her 88th birthday, and for the little boy across the road whose mum has cancer of the spine and who hasn't been able to see another child for nearly a year.

I feel sorry for 100,000 and counting dead, and their families.
But I don't feel sorry for Boris Johnson.
I do feel sorry for his kids.

Another thing he could have done, delayed the end of Brexit transition and put the 35,000 civil servants working on it on track and trace instead. He had the staff right there, he could have put them under the direction of local environmental health to try to get covid under control. Instead this wasn't even considered as an opinion, he chose to tie up thousands of staff, on both sides of the channel (I'm sure the EU would prefer to focus on covid) , who would have been better deployed fighting a fucking pandemic.

The bottom line, Boris is one person, and we have all seen on different shows , eg commander in chief, the west wing, the good wife, ect and the various power plays from various different sources and groups, then imagine trying to guide the general public on trying to keep them safe, ect with those and other factors I've probably missed, you imagine your self in Boris, shoes, then ask yourself whether you think you could better ?

No he's a narcissist who has blood on his hands. He is responsible for the brexit shitshow and probably the breakup of the UK.

No. At least he'll be remembered in history.

No!