Can you think of a Prime Minister worse than Johnson?

Enoch Powell he was a racist.

Lucca

Jeremy corbyn brought up in posts yet again.

Where has Jeremy Corbyn been brought spoken of in the last dozen posts in this thread Lucca?????

Do you really take any notice of the throwaway remarks made by the hard of thinking, Lucca?

Jeremy corbyn brought up in posts yet again.

MaizieD, in regard to your two above posts, I am a fervent socialist in my core beliefs. However, I am also a fervent realist who accepts that the electorate rejected my beliefs and those of many others in the Labour movement at the last general election, and therefore we must go forward with what the nation voted for at this point in time.

As socialists, we must first and foremost "sort out" the many problems within the Labour Party the first of which will come to actualization in a few days with the release of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission report into antisemitism within the Labour Party.

That will bring forward several other major problems, which, not least will be the insolvency of the Parliamentary Labour Party. If and when all those problems within the movement are resolved we can again turn our attention to the wider political forum, for by that time the true economic impact of Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis will have become fully known to the electorate in Britain

So it's been reported, Maybee. I would think it would have been CArrie's udea rather than his, though...

Grandad, that was a splendid little homily and I am happy to acknowledge that, on the whole, people are willing to try to make things work; though I think there is a measure of self interest involved in working to try to protect their jobs and livelihoods.

But, fervent socialist that you are, don't you find it difficult to be optimistic when we have a government that is supremely indifferent to the general prosperity and wellbeing of the population they have theoretically, been entrusted with the care of?

Interestingly.

The three countries with the worse death toll and who are least able to manage the pandemic all have right wing populist governments.

USA U.K. Brazil.

Did he really have a baby shower at Chequers in February when the pandemic was spreading like wildfire?

Not many Prime Ministers have had to face a pandemic of this magnitude in living memory.

But, oddly enough, most countries' leaders have managed to deal with it much more effectively than Johnson. The highest death toll in Europe, when we had ample warning and the example of countries ahead of us in the number of infections to indicate how to act to contain the spread, is not a record to be proud of. He 'struggled', not because it was a new and unprecedented experience but because he is basically not up to the job. And, for the most part, the British public is recognising this.

I'm sure Boris is everything you all say,but a coward and a fool he is not!

What, the man who is invisible for large chunks of time and refuses to answer questions in any meaningful way, ducking answers to the parliamentary liaison committee and restricting press access? He 's doing this because his string puller, Cummings, is well aware that he is a bumbling fool who's just not up to the job at all.

Extract from Matthew Parris' article in today's Times.

That’s a ‘put up or shut up’ suggestion then grandad?

Agree grandad43

Positive post Grandad! Well said!

Not many Prime Ministers have had to face a pandemic of this magnitude in living memory. The last one of any note for this country was Asian Flu in 1957. I was ill with that aged 14, so am not an expert. There is not anyone left alive who can clearly remember that or still less how it was handled.
Not many P.M's have suffered serious life threatening illness and returned to work inside a month and been expected to (workshy if you don't!), or insisted on working as if nothing had happened. I'm sure Boris is everything you all say,but a coward and a fool he is not! Exhausted? he probably is. Would dear old Jeremy and his team have done any better? I very much doubt it!

Lucca

How do we mere citizens do that grandad ?

Lucca, I have been greatly heartened in the last two week by the way that employers and their employees have worked together to get their workplaces ready to reopen with safe working practices.

Covid-19 has made almost everyone in Britains working population reassess how their job is carried out, and in that the innovation and cooperation has been at times almost overwhelming.

In the above, Brexit may well also throw up great challenges (with or without a deal), but if Britains employers and their employees can face those challenges in the same spirit of cooperation and "can do" attitude as there is of now, then all may be well as we progress down that path.

It may not be the Britain we all knew before coronavirus and Brexit but I firmly believe we have within this nation a great capacity to see those challenges through to the best that there is to be achieved.

Hear Hear Grandad ? well said! I agree.

How do we mere citizens do that grandad ?

Well, whatever people think of them with an eighty seat majority a Tory government will in all probability be in power in Britain for the next four years.

That is what under Britains system of election the electorate voted heavily for, so, we must all now work towards making the best of that circumstance.

This

What kind of government is this!?

Will Hutton

We must keep saying this, and repeating this. The attempt by the British government in the middle of this pandemic to discredit, ostracise and delegitimise C4News,Newsnight and Good Morning Britain by refusing interviews is a democratic and civic outrage. We are all reduced.

Teresa May didnt seem to do much either, as if she was always just 'holding' the seat for someone- she always looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights & unsure what to do next Doubt she'd have a done better job than Boris during this pandemic either sadly...

I have always detested Margaret "No Such Thing As Society" Thatcher most of all. She helped to make greed and selfishness acceptable, and her legacy lives on in the callousness of people like Priti Patel and Ian Duncan Smith. However, I never doubted Thatcher's competence. Clearly she had an intelligent mind - it was the heart that was lacking.

Boris Johnson, however... My DH has always maintained that the man is a bumbling fool. I thought he was a clever man and the bumbling was an act to endear him to people. "Old Boris's quite a character. What has he been up to now?" However, seeing how he has behaved as PM, and particularly during the pandemic, I have come to the conclusion that DH was right. We are being led by a fool.

At this point time - no. Inept and/or ill advised but bad.

Lazy PM & incompetent Ministers failing to prepare for anything
I’m so angry with how unrepentant & arrogant they are