Boris has Covid, but is not isolating

FarawayGran

Is there one rule for us and one for them?
How can he say, with a straight face that he is not isolating?
I can imagine people up and down the land choking on their breakfast. The audacity! This could lead to real social unrest.
He could pass this on to anyone who works at No10. Has he no common sense or decency?
I cannot believe when I read that he is so popular. Why?

Shall we get this correct

Boris does NOT have covid
His phone was pinged by track and trace
He initially was not going to self isolate
He is isolating now

Please lets stop typing untruths

Makes me so angry as you say, one rule seems to be for us and one for them....I think any day now Boris is going to take a leaf out of Chairman Mao's little red book and produce his own ...Boris he say do this......whilst Boris does that..........he seems to be embracing dictatorship rather than leadership ...Chairman Mao also said : The sailing of the seas depends upon the helmsman ;..................all I can say is as long as Boris is the helmsman God help us all ............. as for the pinging ...DO NOT start me on that one !

Shall we get this correct

Boris does NOT have covid
His phone was pinged by track and trace
He initially was not going to self isolate
He is isolating now

Please lets stop typing untruths

Thistledown I voted for them too and will be the last time like you. Con artists all of them. I’d like to know when the taxpayers will be getting their money back the lines the pockets of the tory’s friends in the Covid money scramble.

He doesn't have Covid. He was pinged by the app. Calm down!

TBH I can’t understand all the fuss and self righteous outrage
about this. (I don’t mean just on GN).
Two politicians realise that they’ve said or done something extremely unpopular, but within hours, have backtracked.

A pity it doesn’t occur rather more often, IMO!

Well he is isolating but only because he has effectively been shamed into it as a result of backlash from British public….

Never allow the truth to get in the way of a rant.

Many of us know what we're doing. The ones who pay attention and don't believe what we read in the tabloids or on social media without a bit of critical thought.

I give up, what is the damn point of all this hokey cokey. No wonder none of us know what on earth we are doing.

Good post DebbieDevon.

Not replied on here before but had to when I saw this headline. I wish people would do a bit of research before believing what they read or pick up. Boris has not got Covid.

Funny how many comments on here just believe it. Social media has got a lot to answer for. Silly U-turn but yes he is self isolating after being pinged.

Shame you can’t edit your comment to be more accurate. We are all weary enough of this situation, let alone silly headlines like this. And silly U-turns.

Seems to have done ( yet another) U turn and us now self isolating, but why he ever thought he didn’t need to is way beyond me!! Not exactly “leading from the top”

Yes he is…and rightly so……let’s face it we will either all be isolating or in lockdown soon…..!

Johnson's behaviour is reprehensible. He has displayed continually that no rules, or laws, apply to him and by association his government. Nor does anyone have the right or ability to hold him to account, as he refuses to answer questions about his and his ministers behaviours and when challenged by the courts, threatens to change the laws and the power of the courts. Very much following Putin's playbook.

orly

He's not got Covid - he's been pinged by the NHS Track and Trace app and many more will also be pinged as the number of cases continues to rise. He can still work in Number 10 though. Would you have wanted to Churchill to take time off is he thought he had a cold while Hitler was bombing the hell out of London?

He isn’t at No10. Between being pinged and traced he managed to travel to his country pad to self isolate….

He's not got Covid - he's been pinged by the NHS Track and Trace app and many more will also be pinged as the number of cases continues to rise. He can still work in Number 10 though. Would you have wanted to Churchill to take time off is he thought he had a cold while Hitler was bombing the hell out of London?

I get sick and tired of people posting things on here without checking the facts. It is becoming like The Mirror or The Sun. This is getting as bad as social media. Also do 'them in charge' not check things before they publish posts?

Gosh! How very fortunate that both the PM and the Chancellor got picked to take part in the No Isolation if You Take a Daily Test trial! But wait - seems they've both declined to take part and are going to self isolate after all!

Anyone know if their places on the trial have gone to another lucky person?

Isn't self-isolation being stopped for people who have been double vaccinated on 16th August? Was Boris actually contacted directly or 'pinged' - if you are pinged I think you are advised to self-isolate but it is not compulsory. I'm not Boris's biggest fan but he is in an invidious position - damned whatever does. Funny how when we support someone they can change their mind after due consideration but if we don't approve of them they. Are criticised for making a U turn!

The husband of a work colleague had Covid, then had both his vaccs and now has Covid again

I love the Circus we call Parliament, give me our bunch of corrupt clowns over any Banana Republic monkey business.

He doesn’t have COVID, he was in contact with the health secretary who does and he is isolating at chequers, which is where he was when he found out, keep up

I am grateful to the people who quoted the three seives principle - am regretful that I'd not heard of it (and ask myself why I hadn't?) But its great and I will use it. For those who like me didn't know it, I think it says, when you want to tell someone something about another person, first ask yourself if you really can be sure its true, then ask if is it something good about the person, and last, is it necessary to tell someone about it. I hope I've got that right. I am thinking that sometimes you recognise that you are not telling something good about the person, but over rule that test, because you believe it is necessary to pass on your information. For instance, you might be sure that someone had been violent to others, so its true, and it passes the first 'sieve' , while it fails the second test because you are not planning to tell something good about the person. However, you tell it anyway because it is necessary - to protect someone else from possisble violence.

I voted for them but never ever again.......one fiasco after another....one u turn after another...
Totally arrogant all of them with one rule for them and another for the peasants....