A Bit of a Boris Giggle

I do believe Boris was very ill, to say NHS at a time of unimaginable stress would have him in in in ITU at such a time, flirting and joking with overworked staff, means the staff and doctors didn't know what they were doing admitting him and taking up a valuable ITU bed.

How did a post about a quote made by Boris Johnson in a recently published book about the Yorks turn into a post about covid and who could or couldn't handle it? Or who was or is a good PM?

Good Lord, get a life some of you - you've made yourselves look quite foolish.

Allira
Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing and we will never know if Starmer might have done better so it's pointless surmising.

My foresight says Next time there’s a PM change, there will undoubtedly be things that the new PM will do better than Starmer has done.

Primrose53

Ladies - it IS supposed to be a Giggle thread. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Po faced lefties!

I think if you follow politics for a long time you can get a pretty fair idea of how a politician will react to a certain event. Don’t forget that Keir said throughout the pandemic that he would always support the government if he felt that was what was best for the country.Imo Theresa May would have handled it far better than Johnson

Mollygo

Can anybody say with truth, what KS would have done faced with Covid?
I’m not defending BJ here, but reading detailed claims of what KS would have done when that can never be verified is stretching the truth a bit.

Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing and we will never know if Starmer might have done better so it's pointless surmising.

I read some reactions to the comments and thought I would offer some support to those who feel the same.

The thread title didn't really reflect the topic of the thread, which seemed to be about a book he's written.

Perhaps it might help to read the OP properly first.

The book is about the Duke and Duchess of York and the author is Andrew Lownie.

Boris Johnson was mentioned in the book which is why he is the subject of the thread.

I didn't comment at the beginning.

I read some reactions to the comments and thought I would offer some support to those who feel the same.

The thread title didn't really reflect the topic of the thread, which seemed to be about a book he's written.

I am as entitled to respond to threads as much as people are to post them.

Did OP really think everyone was going to agree?

Can anybody say with truth, what KS would have done faced with Covid?
I’m not defending BJ here, but reading detailed claims of what KS would have done when that can never be verified is stretching the truth a bit.

keepingquiet

The ones thinking Johnson was a hoot...?

You mean from the very beginning, as the thread is headed
A Bit of a Boris Giggle

If a thread is offensive or looks as if it might be from the title, perhaps it is better avoided.

The ones thinking Johnson was a hoot...?

Some people
Exactly which people, keepingquiet?

Whitewavemark2

That is one of the most ghastly posts I’ve seen in a long while🤢🤢🤢

I agree! Some people have no idea how some of our families suffered during Covid...

😁
I have heard the expression 'he laughed her into bed' but I'd still prefer Keir, thanks.

Ladies - it IS supposed to be a Giggle thread. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whitewavemark2

That is one of the most ghastly posts I’ve seen in a long while🤢🤢🤢

Good grief…

That is one of the most ghastly posts I’ve seen in a long while🤢🤢🤢

No, not Keir, being being bed with Boris.

Oh Godfathers, what a thought!

I bet Boris would be more fun in bed than Keir! 😉

I can picture KS in his stripey PJs, removing his glasses and putting them neatly on the side, then pulling the bedclothes up tight around his neck and switching the light off. 🤣

Two pieces of journalism that stick in my mind are:

Max Hastings in June 2019: I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain

Jonathan Lis from August 2020: Boris Johnson: The Anti-Prime Minister

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/boris-johnson-the-mutant-algorithm

So many paragraphs in the latter stand out but a few here:

And so the key to this game is failure. Johnson does not set out to fail per se. Rather, failure is just another route to winning. He fails to prove the failure won’t hurt him. He sabotages things because he can.

Johnson wanted to become Prime Minister but never to be Prime Minister – at least, not in the formal sense of doing what leaders are appointed to do. For him, power is about breaking precedent, cheating the system, scoring the con to end all cons.

The thrill of failure is just that: a thrill. … When you are so purely solipsistic that only the self exists, you are capable of centring, considering, governing only for yourself. Cronies cling to you for the scraps of self-interest they can pluck in your wake. This is corruption at its most decadent: botching a crisis or destroying a national infrastructure not for political gain, nor even for financial reward, but ultimately for pure personal sport.

Now there’s someone just the same in the White House and another in the wings here in the UK behaving the same way.

That line Johnson wanted to become Prime Minister but never to be Prime Minister – at least, not in the formal sense of doing what leaders are appointed to do could be describing Farage. He wanted to be a Member of Parliament but doesn't want to do the work of a Member of Parliament. Heaven help us if he ever gets to number 10.

Doom? He brought it on himself. Too slow to take us into lockdown, so they could have that horseracing event. Missing how many COBRA meeting because he preferred to sneak off to write his book?
And the lock down parties, when He Majesty was grieving at her husband's funeral.
All his own work.

ruthiek

Calender girl I truly believe he was doom d to fail as he was hit by re it then months later covid and ukraine . As for the parties i think he was made a scapegoat . All I am glad it wasn’t Starmer as pm during covid he wanted to lock us down for far longer

But he would have locked us down sooner as he would have listened to the warnings coming from Italy. And he wouldn’t have given people forewarning of lockdown thus giving people the chance to spend the weekend partying and spreading it. And probably wouldn’t have told people that he’d been shaking hands with people with covid. Didn’t he say he wanted to improve the health and diet of people in this country given that he’d realised his excess weight* was one of the reasons why he was so ill with covid? What came of that?
*and look at him now

Calender girl I truly believe he was doom d to fail as he was hit by re it then months later covid and ukraine . As for the parties i think he was made a scapegoat . All I am glad it wasn’t Starmer as pm during covid he wanted to lock us down for far longer

Always knew Boris would be PM. Hasta la Vista.