I’m delighted Boris is back!

Phew Parsley3, I thought the same and couldn't understand why I had missed it so frantically googled and researched then read the thread properly!

I am depressed enough about the state we are in and could envisage me languishing in a dark room for the foreseeable, if it was true, so am delighted to be able to open the door and venture out again to await more nonsense.

sue421

So glad Boris is back ..... now to sort out these people who are travelling unnecessary ..... holding parties etc. I want to get through this.

How little we knew.

When I first read the OP I thought that the country was having a collective loss of reason then I noticed the date. Still, it is good to start the day with a laugh. Well done for resurrecting this old thread. I love the change from see him back to see the back of him.

OMG I thought this thread was a joke....
DiamondLily has expressed my thoughts entirely.

I have just reread this thread, and the thing that has stood out the most is how many posters are no longer posting on GN.

I do hope that they are just missing as opposed to the alternative?

I choked on my muesli when I read the heading !

GagaJo

Thought it might be nice to resurrect this pro-Boris thread. Just to remind us of his popularity.

An old thread revived If we pull on it will Johnson unravel.

All those thoughtless comments about the lying, cheating, theiving prat. Who knew people could be so scammed?

Not sure that he's used his abilities to "galvanise us for the common good" or "united us". However, his confidence has remained undimmed, for sure.

I'd be delighted to see the back of him...?

Being incompetent, self serving, and a compulsive liar, is never a good look for a leader of a country. ?

Thought it might be nice to resurrect this pro-Boris thread. Just to remind us of his popularity.

paddy I think he took the job believing he would simply spearhead the Brexit campaign, get one over on those furriners at the EU, raise his profile as the man who got Brexit done as some sort of wannabe Churchill and then retire to some celebrity role more suited to his personality in America. I don’t think he envisaged for one second just what he was get himself. Now it’s become apparent that all he has to offer is a jabby finger, a booming voice, meaningless sound bites and Dominic Cummings. For some people, of course, that’s enough.

James O Brian

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So 20,000+ deaths later and he’s still your hero?

You really are gullible (Trump) people.

He certainly didn't sign up for the responsibility of steering the country through this unprecedented crisis. His past modus operandi is to do the minimum and rely on others to do the hard work. The man's a chancer of dubious integrity, just our total bad luck that we have him and his inexperienced Tory lackeys at the helm. Far from welcoming him back I totally despair that our future's being determined by this man. I await PMQ's with interest - he might have to do his homework before facing the incisive and formidable Sir Keir Starmer.

Being "entitled" to something doesn't mean you have to take it,Coronavirus and Brexit ongoing and he thinks paternity leave is a priority ....Why DID he take a job he's not prepared to do ?

Johnson probably learnt all about "bread and circuses" (ie babies and rescue dogs) during his studies. I expect he also know about the classic Greek hero, who is defeated by his own hubris.

vegansrock It's a characteristic of weak leaders to appoint even weaker people to their close circle. Those with any talent have been disempowered.

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I suspect that will be exactly what we’ll get FarNorth - with Dom crouched down behind the podium frantically moving Boris’ cardboard arm to replicate the jabby finger and the clenched fist so beloved of his supporters.

Come next month they’ll be photos of baby number mumble mumble for them to coo over - because optimism and every cloud and bulldog spirit etc.

FarNorth It's rumoured the Russians did that when Brezhnev was very ill and even after he died (not that I'm claiming that Johnson is dead), but there are precedents.

They and other governments botched the job bringing back nationals into the country. Allowing planes in and out of the country and then suddenly realising this behaviour is causing a pandemic. How very bright these decision makers are they are the first to tell us to use common sense.

So those who are thrilled to have Boris back because the UK needs him so much - are also thrilled for him to go off on paternity leave

I know he said that in early March. Has he reiterated recently?

Maybe the still photo, broadcast earlier, will become the norm.
We'll be routinely presented with still photos and cardboard cutouts of Boris giving a cheery wave to keep our spirits up.

So those who are thrilled to have Boris back because the UK needs him so much - are also thrilled for him to go off on paternity leave, leaving us to struggle on without his steady, guiding hand??

Interesting about the paternity leave. The last PM to be a father whilst in office thought it wasn't on. Tony Blair-
I would be kidding you if I was to say: 'for x-period of time I'm not going to pick up the phone, I'm not going to talk to anyone, if there's a crisis in the country or the world that I'm not going to be interested.
That's ridiculous. You can't do that in my job. The important thing is to help Cherie and the baby. I will, obviously, try as much as possible to cut down in that period what I'm doing. But I have to run the country. That still has to go on.
Obviously Boris realises the country can manage without him. After all he's spent most of his time as PM on holiday or ill.