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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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Dongdingdong · 27/01/2021 13:45

@Splodgetastic why does his background make you feel sorry for him? I wasn’t aware that he’s experienced any particular hardship?

In answer to the OP, I don’t see any reason to feel sorry for him, but I sure as hell wouldn’t want his job.

Dongdingdong · 27/01/2021 13:48

I would like to see him in jail

Hmm
Dongdingdong · 27/01/2021 13:49

And I agree that he is kite flying / prepping for his resignation.

No idea where you get that impression from. The man won the last election by a landslide - he’s not going anywhere I’m afraid.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 27/01/2021 13:49

The worst people to have in power are those whose only interest is striving for it.

No sympathy at all - he's a complete cock. And his Churchill impressions are shite.

soundofsilence1 · 27/01/2021 13:50

I feel about as sorry for Boris as I did for Trump when he left the White House.

mrsanflowerpot · 27/01/2021 13:50

No. When you take on any job, you take on every aspect of it. He has not.

Splodgetastic · 27/01/2021 13:51

@Dongdingdong It depends how you define hardship. However, I don’t know whether what I have read is true or not.

HyacynthBucket · 27/01/2021 13:52

None whatsoever. He has been a disaster all the way through the pandemic and before. When he becanme mayor of London and later prime minister, he seemed to treat it all as a huge joke, and seemed to be in it just for the job titles, He has been consistently useless and for a lot of the time did not even appear to be trying to do the right thing. These terrible death figures seem to have finally had an impact on him, but he shows no inclination to learn from all his many mistakes.

AgentProvocateur · 27/01/2021 13:55

No. The whole cronyism thing makes me sick. He’s incompetent and should be held personally responsible for deaths that occurred due to not closing the borders in March.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 27/01/2021 13:57

@Mamamia456

Yes I do, because I would feel sorry for any PM having to do his job during a pandemic. Whatever he had done would be wrong, lockdown too early wrong, not lockdown soon enough wrong, close schools wrong, keep schools open wrong etc.
I don't think that's right.

All of the measures you've mentioned would have meant a shorter sharper shock, less deaths etc, had they been taken.

Instead we got arrogant English exceptionalism, and fucking eat out to help out. Oh, and 'schools are safe' followed by 'we must close schools' one day later.

Come on. He was bit damned if he did or didn't. The fact is he didn't in most instances and 100,000 families are devastated. There was no reason for the virus to hit us the worst, it was invited in and given leave to remain indefinitely.

YonderTweek · 27/01/2021 13:58

Hell no.

trulydelicious · 27/01/2021 13:58

He doesn't have the easiest of jobs, does he?

Dongdingdong · 27/01/2021 13:58

It depends how you define hardship. However, I don’t know whether what I have read is true or not.

@Splodgetastic could you elaborate a bit? I’m interested to know!

Susie477 · 27/01/2021 14:02

Of course not.

He used the Brexit referendum as a lever to advance his life’s obsession with becoming Tory leader and PM. He never gave a damn about the fact that Brexit was always going to be a disaster for the U.K. and would made the break-up of the country inevitable.

Then he catastrophically mismanaged the pandemic from the start, with late lockdowns and ridiculously over-optimistic statements about Christmas etc etc.

History will not be kind to Boris Johnson.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 27/01/2021 14:03

I think it's about his father being an abusive misogynistic cheating arsehole.

Also see - police reports of Carrie S screaming in their flat. And the fact that we have actually no idea how many children he actually his. And that he cheated on his wife/partner while she underwent cancer treatment.

Apple and trees come to mind.

Notanorthadontist · 27/01/2021 14:06

Not a scrap.

Ohbabybab · 27/01/2021 14:06

Absolutely not. I also hate that he’s cultivated being called ‘Boris’ - it’s a faux friend facade to hide behind. He’s certainly no mate of mine.
Also to the poster saying he’s learnt lessons - 100,000 lives is a great expense to pay for those learnings.

canigooutyet · 27/01/2021 14:07

Why would I have sympathy for him? Even before he was voted in, he was a spineless coward.
Early last year there was someone from WHO begging the leaders to pay attention to what was coming.
THose are who I have sympathy for. Those that stood up, spoke out and tried to advice him whether publicly or not.
HIS choices have left us with nhs, emergency services and education in a worse position then we started at. We knew these were crumbling before any of this.
His blithering has led to a whole generation of children who have lost far too much education. Why would I feel sorry for a man who has fucked their future at their own expense and who will be paying it all back in their lifetimes?

Who did his choices help?
The mates contracts should have been stopped for starters.
He should have attended all those Cobra meetings.

And rather than crossing his fingers and hoping for the best, September should not have happened. He should not have okayed the legal threat to schools when they wanted to close back in December.

He has blood on his hands, and it started the day the NHS was told to empty those beds.

herecomesthsun · 27/01/2021 14:07

Re Boris, on the one hand, very difficult job. On the other hand, he not only chose to do it, he has lied and blustered and made a pigs ear of the choices he had.

So I hold him accountable for his actions, but it's a tough situation.

A Labour PM would have been hung drawn and quartered by the right wing press and blamed for every development with the virus 1000x over though.

ssd · 27/01/2021 14:08

Hes got the daily mail sad face on at the moment, hasn't he?

He should get an oscar

Daisysflowers · 27/01/2021 14:09

Anyone who is prime minster and having to make choices during a pandemic is in a tough position. Not everyone is going to be pleased with decisions that are made as everyone wants different things and has different ideas of how the situation should be handled.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 27/01/2021 14:10

@Daisysflowers

Anyone who is prime minster and having to make choices during a pandemic is in a tough position. Not everyone is going to be pleased with decisions that are made as everyone wants different things and has different ideas of how the situation should be handled.
I don't think anyone's goal was 100,000 dead people though...
TechnoDino · 27/01/2021 14:11

None.
And I hope that history judges him very harshly, as I believe it will.

CremeEggThief · 27/01/2021 14:11

Not one iota, but I'm not as hardline about him as my dad, who said before we even went into a second lockdown, "That twat wants to throw himself off the top of Big Ben"! He has that much hatred for him and he's not even his Prime Minister. GrinGrin

carcarbinks · 27/01/2021 14:11

No and I don't believe he cares one bit about the majority of people in this country.

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