Where's the P.M.? Shouldn't he be in view, not hiding away ?

Westendgirl picking up on one point you make on their thread with regard to MP accused of rape. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? If the alleged victim is not named why should the alleged accuser be named? Until the trial no one knows who is actually telling the truth.

Who's John McDonald?

I do think Boris deserves a break despite public opinion of him. He was very ill and men are now entitled to paternity leave so why not Boris?

Watching how Nicola Sturgeon broadcasts clear information on TV.

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How many previous paternity leaves did he take one wonders.
Starmer is criticising the government daily - have a look at Twitter. The Tory controlled media choose not to report it.

Starmer should be in front of the main tv and radio media attacking Johnson. John McDonald was the master of using that media while in the shadow cabinet, but there again where are the present shadow cabinet members if Starmer cannot gain the energy to address that media.

I expect 'he' took what he was entitled to, like everyone else! Why would he not?!!

You are right about Starmer Grandad1943 and he is one of the reasons I left the LP some weeks ago, after being a member for years. Some of my friends have done the same, and we weren’t Momentum members either.

Two invisible men!!! I like Boris too! Sir Kier? I'm sure he's a nice enough chap, but a bit humourless?, dour even? but ok!
My lady in the post office thinks Rishi Sunak is just the ticket! Give it a few more years and the Conservatives have got a winner there!

How many previous paternity leaves did he take one wonders.
Starmer is criticising the government daily - have a look at Twitter. The Tory controlled media choose not to report it.

Well if Boris is once again "gone missing", Kier Starmer has hardly been a storm of activity pointing that out as leader of her majesties opposition.

Hardly the performance of "A Prime Minister In Waiting" many may think even in his own party.

Once again the invisible man.

Teresa May took a summer holiday both in this country and abroad during her premiership without comment despite the chaos of her stance on Brexit which she seemed incapable of making any sense of. Boris is glamping not camping, and yes I expect modern technology is possible in Scotland!

I like Boris.
He’s had Covid and deserves a summer week off like anybody else.
Plus, he didnt take paternity leave as the naysayers predicted he would when they called him lazy.

I don’t believe he’s camping for one minute. Yes he should be in charge as PM, but as he just lurches from one lie to the next, piling blame on others, he might as well take a permanent holiday. For all her faults, Theresa May did take her job more seriously and had a sense of duty unlike this puffed up oaf.

I think there was a mention of camping, but he is allegedly staying at the Fairmont in St. Andrews. I expected him to be at Trump’s place at Turnberry. Still time, as I understand the midges are ferocious this year, especially on the East Coast!

Brian Feeney of the Irish News writes-

"Those conned by Boris Johnson now see what a useless prime minister he is"

www.irishnews.com/paywall/tsb/irishnews/irishnews/irishnews//opinion/columnists/2020/06/03/news/brian-feeney-those-conned-by-boris-johnson-now-see-what-a-useless-

I am sorry to disagree with him. If GN is anything to go by there are still many who will never admit that.

There are things called phones, emails and video conferencing, no doubt these have been continuing?

Thanks to a comment by a GN poster, I stopped calling him Boris in favour of Johnson.

It's less 'cuddly' and gives the impression of someone who should be acting like a grown-up and doing a good job for the UK.

I'm sure Cummings will stay as he's such a bestie with Gove .

Jabberwok, don't you think this country deserves something better than this incompetent bunch ? I also think that if you are working for the public then you should expect to be scrutinised.

What difference does it make where he is? Perhaps the Scots would keep him lock him up in a castle somewhere? But who would that leave? Priti Patel, Sunak, Gove, Hancock or, heaven forbid, Gavin Williamson? You can choose between the incompetent, the ineffective, the two faced and the untrustworthy. The beauty of it is Boris encompasses all of those things!!!

Jabberwok the OP is not really about the details of Johnson's holiday arrangements but questioning whether he should, in fact, be doing some governing at a very difficult time for the UK.

My view, tho, is that it's a shambles regardless.

Johnson is still worth votes!

He makes things worse when he is around, I know it’s hard to imagine it could be ? so better he isn’t.
If he goes, does Cummings stay I wonder ?

Did he actually say he was camping or was that very important snippet gleaned from a ‘source close to the family’ aka the press?

Oh dear yet another Boris bashing thread!!! IF it's anybody's business, which of course it is not, they are glamping for two nights and spending the rest of their holiday perhaps in a hotel, staying with rellies, who knows?! The comments on here about how Boris spends his summer holiday are more than pathetic and actually no one's 'business '

I thought I would put in a comment but to be honest he is such a waste of space I can't be bothered.