Do you feel sorry for Boris?

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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.

When did Whitty say that 20,000 was worst case?

No. He is weak man and weaker prime minister.

No

No - he wanted the job and he campaigned, backstabbed and did everything he could to get it. Now he’s got what he wanted and I don’t feel sorry for him at all.

I'm not gullible. I don't fall for the Daily Mail rhetoric. He's not listening to the advice. He's been more concerned about getting people back in their offices that he has about preventing people dying in care homes or in their line of work. If he wasn't well he should have stepped down and put someone else in charge. Terrible legacy.
Thankfully the vaccine roll out has been better. He probably hasn't interfered in that so it's going well.

Can you imagine sympathy from the media for Corbyn in this situation?

Nope, me neither.

No sympathy for him.

Not even slightly. I fucking hate him

No, it's all staged for the papers, to please the unthinking. If he was truly sorry, he wouldn't keep making the same mistakes over and over again. His behaviour at the start of the pandemic was also inexcusable.

Absolutely not. He's allowed his own desire to be liked and his own ego and lack of ability to actually do anything to get in the way of what he should have done. He's been incapable of making decisions at the right time and as a consequence we now have the highest death rate from Covid in the world

The man is a complete liability - but even worse, his lack of action has caused so many needless deaths.

Why would I feel sorry for such a man. Buffoon is too kind a word for him.

I don't and I don't like him one bit. However on the other hand I don't think anyone when they take the job of PM would expect this.
I think he has made some very bad choices and has always been a good few weeks behind in making them as well. However he hasn't made them completely by himself.

I do think he, and any leader of any country, is in a bit of a rock and hard place. They're in charge of the economy, people's livelihoods, education and the health of people. And if you lock the country down then one or the other always suffers. There never has and never will be one actual good decision which works for everyone.
So on that front yeah I do feel mildly sorry because he can't make any good choices.

But he is also a knob who thinks he is an ancient roman orator and is a lot of words and too slow action.

Hahaha

Nope.

Not a jot. Quite the opposite.

No not really. Seems more like karma given he is responsible for brexit. No way would that campaign have got the votes without it. And he has behaved like an utter prick at every stage of brexit. And continues to disregard parliament.

@Splodgetastic

I would have said not, but, having Recently read a bit more about his background, I do feel sorry for him.

What about his immensely privileged background has caused you to feel sorry for him?

No

No. He missed 5 cobra meeting last February.
‘Take it on the chin’ comment.
Was slow to make the tough decisions, ignored SAGE.
Never closed our borders (oh the irony)
Cummings debacle.
‘Have yourself a Merry little Christmas’
Tenders given to wealthy mates rather than expert companies.

He was PM at a tough time, I’ll give him that, but he clearly put the desire to be liked above everything.

Nope.

While I don't disagree with the most of the criticism already mentioned in this thread, I do feel a bit sorry for him.
I've always thought he was a self serving dick, but he does appear quite beaten.
He's the poster boy for be careful what you wish for.

No, but I feel embarrassment for him that we're in the shit we're now in because of his politics. It stinks like a blazing funeral pyre, fed by the public money he and his mates have been burning while over 100,000 people died. He is pitiable. That's not the same as feeling sympathy for someone, surely?

Not one bit

No. No. No.

Hell, no. He wanted the job, tough shit that it's not the job he thought he'd get, that's the way it goes.

Yes, he’s taken a lot of flack over decisions made at a point in time, with information available at that point in time, that’s subsequently changed, but according to lots of people he should have been a mind reader, known it was going to change and made decisions on what he didn’t know at the time

Yes he could have done some stuff better, closing borders for one in the first lockdown, but it’s a balancing act between health and economy

Look on previous posts here on how the economy should be opened up and lockdown stopped, or how weshould have stricter lockdowns,

He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t

@Splodgetastic

I would have said not, but, having Recently read a bit more about his background, I do feel sorry for him.

Could you elaborate on this please? I thought he was comfortably privileged at the very least.

Not a jot. And I agree that he is kite flying / prepping for his resignation.

Coward.