Gransnet forums

News & politics

Can you think of a Prime Minister worse than Johnson?

(488 Posts)
Whitewavemark2 Wed 27-May-20 19:13:26

I don’t mean whether you agree with certain political policies, I am talking about competence, knowledge and integrity.

I truthfully can’t think of a single one.

All PMs have a weakness, no doubt but this goes beyond anything I’ve every seen or read.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 07:55:11

Eventually all these chickens will come home.

Oh dear

The wife of a former Putin ally has donated £325,000 to Boris Johnson's Conservatives as he continues to sit on a report into Russian interference In total Chernukhin has donated £1.6 million to the party over the last five years.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 07:56:51

More chickens to be gathered to roost

On 19th March 2020 the Secretary of State required the urgent discharge of patients from hospitals back into care homes without being tested for COVID-19. Tens of thousands in care homes died.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 11:01:37

“The damage to reputation has been immeasurable. “What has become of your country?” one foreign diplomat asked me the other day. “We see only a ship of fools, and a plague ship at that.”

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 13:53:11

The Independent
@Independent
Chief nurse was dropped from coronavirus briefings ‘after refusing to back Dominic Cummings’

MaizieD Fri 12-Jun-20 14:00:39

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-chief-nurse-dominic-cummings-ruth-may-daily-briefing-downing-street-a9562741.html

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 15:00:30

Upwards of 60,000 have died, the economy has contracted by 20% and we are still intent on a no deal Brexit. What shall we talk about? I know: Winston Churchill’s statue

Sparkling Fri 12-Jun-20 15:11:24

The answer to the original post, yes plenty.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 12-Jun-20 15:13:21

Bet you can’t name them sparkling

Whitewavemark2 Sun 14-Jun-20 18:13:31

Will Hutton
@williamnhutton
Both Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer and Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times reliably report the growing Tory concern that the party will be politically damned for delivering the highest death rate and deepest recession in the west. Correct. The Brexit right has met its Waterloo.

Galaxy Sun 14-Jun-20 20:44:23

I wonder how Johnson feels about being PM, he has wanted this his whole life, and now

Galaxy Sun 14-Jun-20 20:46:01

I am having terrible trouble with premature posting today grin. And now he will be forever known as the PM who oversaw one of the worst death rates in the world. His entire term of office will be defined by it.

Lucca Sun 14-Jun-20 20:48:11

This.