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Dom claims Boris said Telegraph his boss?

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3asAbird · 19/07/2021 22:30

Many claims in latest interview

www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57854811

How Boris dident think anyone under 80 would be hospitalised or die.
He regrets lockdowns
Ignored his scientists
Wanted to keep up meetings with the Queen as he dident consider the risks.

That the right wing press mainly the telegraph is his boss.
Did any of the refurbishment donation or free trips come from certain media?

Given the fact Boris was hospitalised and nearly died I find his attitude locking down too late 2nd and 3rd time and opening up now really odd.

Don't know if doms out for revenge
What he said doesn't really seem that inplausible.

So many new changes always leaked in the telegraph.

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MarshaBradyo · 20/07/2021 18:39

A whole hour. He’s worse than the royals.

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 18:40

I am looking forward to watching though Grin

One thing I do think is brilliant about Cummings is he does not give a shit about the Tory party, they were so unwise to let him in, it was always going to end this way Grin

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 18:41

Johnson will be watching too Grin

MarshaBradyo · 20/07/2021 18:43

I listened to his select committee hearing. I can’t watch this as his voice and everything about him irritates hugely now.

I did like the shopping trolley description though. Maybe he’ll come out with another

PerkingFaintly · 20/07/2021 19:13

Oh god. I switched it on because I thought I should.

I've just had to switch if off again. He's such a blatant liar I can't bear it.

PerkingFaintly · 20/07/2021 19:18

He's rehashing his Rose Garden crap, but even less credibly (if that's possible).

"Ooh, I was so worried about security in London and it was such a long term issue that we had been talked about relocating to my parents' in Durham."

So, you were planning to do your terribly important job in No 10 from there, were you? Even before you caught Covid?

How were you going to manage that?

And if you could work from Durham longterm, WTF did you drive back to London?

Oh, and bring the family back to the terrible danger of your London flat?

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3asAbird · 20/07/2021 19:19

I would rather watch dom than Megan and Harry.
In sure hes lot to say.
I can not like someone but also be interested in what he has to say is that not healthy debate i don't want to live in in right or left wing echo Chambers.
But I can't work out what political party dom aligns to.

I feel something was catalyst to him storming off and quitting.
Now wreaking his revenge but its entertaining to watch and entirely plausible .

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PerkingFaintly · 20/07/2021 19:22

There's your mistake. You think he aligns to something.

He's a genius, don't you know.Hmm He only aligns to himself.

Although he's happy to wander a little down Lenin's path, apparently

Orf1abc · 20/07/2021 19:24

@PerkingFaintly There are far bigger issues than Barnard Castle. Aren't you bothered about the incompetence of this government?

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 19:25

He is, in my opinion, telling the truth about Johnson, nothing he is saying runs contra to everything those who know but dislike Johnson have said before.

He does not align to any party, he is above all that Grin

MarshaBradyo · 20/07/2021 19:27

If that message below is indication of truth about Johnson then I couldn’t be less reactive

Of course decisions about lockdown or not include all angles not just covid

longwayoff · 20/07/2021 19:31

He's having a great time, smirking away and sniggering. He's loving every minute of this, look at ME. I did it all, the politicians were my puppets. Tosser.

vdbfamily · 20/07/2021 19:37

my parents vote Tory. They are late 70's and they completely agree with Boris on this one. They feel their grandchildren and great grandchildren have been thrown under a bus economically just to preserve mainly older people who have had a pretty good innings already. My brother died aged 53 of a brain tumor just before we locked down. This have my parents a different perspective I think as they outlived him by over 20 years. My dad has become obsessed with average age of death in UK and claims that it has barely changed despite Covid. Many of their friends agree with them so I am not convinced any of this will put off the die hard Tory voters at all.. Incidentally, they cannot bear Boris as a person but like that he gets stuff done!!

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 19:39

they cannot bear Boris as a person but like that he gets stuff done!! although actually, he doesn't (social care??), but it is hard to dislodge a view like this.

PerkingFaintly · 20/07/2021 19:46

[quote Orf1abc]@PerkingFaintly There are far bigger issues than Barnard Castle. Aren't you bothered about the incompetence of this government?[/quote]
Not sure where you got that idea, Orf1abc.

I am both extremely bothered by a huge numbers of issues about this govt (incompetence just one on the list).

AND I find Dummings' constant lying, weaselling, rewriting history and self-aggrandisement irritating –and frankly sneery. He obvious holds us mere plebs in a huge amount of contempt, imagining we can't see through his pathetic lies.

That's even before we get onto his other behaviour (as he admits, electioneering for Johnson because Johnson's so lazy Cummings expected he'd be left to run the show).

longwayoff · 20/07/2021 19:50

Con man says of planning sedition and a coup in No 10 says 'I dont think thats a con'. *er.

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 19:50

Cummings just said 'we actually have some pretty good judgement' hahahahaha!

lannistunut · 20/07/2021 19:54

It is terrifying what an utter bucket of sick this whole government is, but I do prefer seeing it out in public.

Anyone who says 'they're all the same' is wrong - this is a whole other level of fucked up-ness from a PM, a government and their wider circle.

Unsure33 · 20/07/2021 20:06

@MarshaBradyo

Totally agree , by his own admission he has no morals , he will do whatever he has to to get his own way ( DC)

And to be honest the comments attributed to Boris whilst in the middle of a pandemic were the same sort of comments that appeared on mumsnet hundreds of times . Especially about locking down to protect the elderly . There were many many comments about that .

Every decision that has been made has been split 50 50 with support or loathing .

That’s life .

Unsure33 · 20/07/2021 20:11

@Orf1abc

But the full facts are everyone , every single person of voting age has a choice to vote this government out . It is like he is insulting the voters by enlightening us to things we probably know anyway .

DC a is an unelected sneaky backstabber who thinks he is some God we should all worship . Let’s see him put his money where his mouth is and run for frontline politics where he can be voted for or not .

Otherwise just shut up .

User135644 · 20/07/2021 20:23

@lannistunut

It is terrifying what an utter bucket of sick this whole government is, but I do prefer seeing it out in public.

Anyone who says 'they're all the same' is wrong - this is a whole other level of fucked up-ness from a PM, a government and their wider circle.

Because there's nobody to hold them to account. If this was a left wing Labour government there'd be a coup.

Our fearless free press are in cahoots.

longwayoff · 20/07/2021 20:30

He's just smirkingly irritated his coup, "we" planned, has been interrupted. But it's not gone away. Gove and co lurking happily awaiting their power grab. He's an Anarcho-Fascist. Pick up your Orwells folks, the time is coming.

PerkingFaintly · 20/07/2021 20:37

If this was a left wing Labour government there'd be a coup. Our fearless free press are in cahoots.

Wouldn't there just.

Can you imagine what the press would have said had a Labour chancellor behaved like Sunak?

Or any Labour Prime Minister (at least, any left of Blair) told the country to lock down?

I loathe this government and its difficult to imagine who could have been a worse PM for the pandemic hit the vacuous vacillator Johnson, but I'm realistic enough to realise that we were "lucky" (in some horrible sense) that it was a Tory.

The unelected media barons would have made the country ungovernable if it hadn't been their boy in power.

newnortherner111 · 20/07/2021 20:48

I don't think I learnt anything from the interview, save the wish of Mr Johnson to risk the health of the Queen. I knew as anyone living in London since 2008 did or anyone in the Foreign Office in 2016 that Mr Johnson has no plan and is useless.

I thought of all the people who did not have the option to watch the interview as they have died of Covid 19, many of whom would be alive today if we had a competent Prime Minister.

Ooodlesofboodles · 20/07/2021 20:52

@TotorosCatBus yes I agree, Rishi could win an election. I don't think Hunt or Gove could but both are favoured by Murdoch and pals. So I reckon the plan has always been to use Boris as a trojan horse to maneuver these two into power. Boris wins the elections, have I got news for you, then is ousted and they step in. I think they have been surprised by Borises popularity- not least because they know him well. He has proved stickier than anticipated. So now the knives are well and truly out, otherwise Gove and Hunt will never get their shot at power. Cummings worked for Gove for a long time, they are birds of a feather.