Are you watching the Prime Minister speaking live on news channels?

No Calendar and GG, I disagree, I believe it is very important to give out confidence and certainty. I am not bashing the Tory party. Rishi gives out the right signals, his speaking, his body language his sense of connection. Boris is trapped in his prep school ways.

Or greymar he is just totally exhausted, which given the circumstances is understandable.

Two of my boys went to prep school, scruffiness and slouching were against rules and carried various punishments/privileges taken away!

He is completely out of his depth. A spoilt prep-school boy incapable of doing a real job, let alone the most important job in the country.

Basically BJ is a divisive figure- sycophants will think Boris marvellous, those who dislike him will want to throw up when he blusters on. Sunak better , maybe he should take over.

Just heard both of these politicians speaking on the radio. One used a long rambling sentence with no obvious punctuation so that what useful stuff he did say was not that easy to disentangle. The other one was clear, speaking well (and grammatically) and said what he wanted to say (and pretty good it was, I think, and I'm certainly no Tory) in a straightforward manner.

Do we have the wrong man in the PM job?

Nicola Sturgeon also has been clear and forthright in what she says, but no, we're keeping her here!

GG, I see he is exhausted like TM was totally exhausted. Dispassionately and rather shallowly,it's not what I want to see.

Bj wanted the job, desperate for it in fact. Suck it up springs to mind. He sees himself as a Churchillian figure, start acting like it.

You can keep her - please do!!

Yes, please do keep her

Boris is ok. Leave him alone. I think he's cute. I just want to walk behind him and ruffle his hair. Bless him.

Labaik/Greymar/trisher/paddyanne/varian/vegansrock/Whitewave

I understand you collectively share the same opinion of Boris Johnson, hardly breaking news, I accept you do not like his appearance and decry what he wears, his hair, his posture etc, all things personally aimed at the man with regular comments/posts. Your perogative.

Trying to raise the debate a tad, ' What in the Media Briefing today did the PM/Chancellor do that you find so upsetting that does not apply to appearance? What measures that were announced do you disagree with?

What constructive measures do you want the government to take, what further measures can you think of for the government to exercise.

You have all been '' noticeably ' asking for the government to take action and have mentioned measures you wanted to see taken by the government. Having read your many posts I am interested to understand what you think is left to do that the PM and the Chancellor did not enact over the last few days that were not mentioned by you on other threads.

I don' t mean get a hair cut or wear a different tie, or move quicker you have repeatedly made that point over the forums. I am asking for constructive criticism of the measures put forward thus far.

Thank you.

Ask away......I don't wish to answer and please don't lump me together with a whole band of other people.

I think the leader of the country at any time and especially at this time should look and sound professional. We all present ourselves and adopt a personna for work. I see a counsellor and she is presented in a professional manner, I greatly appreciate this as it makes me feel valued and worthwhile. She has clear professional bondaries and instils confidence.

BJ has none of these qualities.

What is left to do....is now to be seen to support health workers. More of them , more equipment, more pay.

Police supermarkets ( as in the verb)

He is leader of a party that has ran our health service and police into the ground. And now they are the ones responsible for saving our lives/keeping us safe. Not him. Don't expect me to suddenly respect him.

Well said Labaik - and now it is going to cost lives. There will be unnecessary deaths due to a lack of ventilators, ICU beds and medical staff.

There could well be crime and public disorder due to an overstretched police force. Many of you voted for this!

I like Boris. He is calm, defers to the experts on either side, uncaps his pen to make a note & refers back, inspires us with his attention to detail.

Comets the hour, cometh the man.

He isn’t old, weedy and whiny like Corbyn. He is on top of his brief, erudite and sincere.

He’ll do for me in this crisis. I trust him.

Please keep her north of the border to look after her tiny flock, is it 5.4 million? in comparison to UK population of 66.44 million.
She doesn't have that much to do, does she? But gets an inordinate amount of air time, media attention, disproportionate in comparison to Wales with 3.2 million people.

Ah Corbyn! At last. Nobody said they were pro Corbyn.

uncaps his pen? For the Love of God.

Won't it be wonderful if Mr J's conservative government continues to wrestle with the negative impact on all our public services, including the NHS of 9 years of austerity imposed, by the Conservative party. Also, the way the increasing need to unity social and health care for older people and other vulnerable groups has continued to be talked about but no action taken.
Having set my stall out, confirming I'm no conservative voter, can we please focus on something more significant than Mr J's rather unkempt, exhausted presentation. I didn't like it when Michael Foot was castigated for his warm donkey jacket. Focus on policy and the responses to the crisis we're living in please.
I wish we didn't have a run down health service, with not enough ventilators or staff. However, we still have a fantastic NHS with wonderful staff. Mr J and his chancellor seem to have put together a positive package to support industries and the self employed, increased UC by £20 a week. Yes, we would all want more but what they have done so far seems positive.

BJ is doing a grand job, he is a good leader and is giving us the right messages, not too much at once. He is keeping our spirits afloat during the most torrid scary time. There are always moaners, negative people and tbh we really don`t need or want them right now. The same few posters over and over ad nauseam

So now you are running the show? Ok .

He reminds me of my first boss who was bumbling and vague.
However he ran a very successful business because he employed the best people and listened to what they said!

Well said craftyone!

Hear hear Iam64 I think the package announced this evening sounds very good too.Does anyone disagree with what was said I wonder, and if so, why??
Continuous politicising of this health crisis ( a crisis such that we haven’t seen in our long lifetimes) by castigating everything that BJ says or does, is frankly ridiculous and juvenile.