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

Given that Johnson has had, over the years, what seems to be a somewhat uncontrollable libido, is it just me that worries that we have a PM who is obviously open to temptation eg the Arcuri scandal, in the way that being homosexual years ago made it easy for public figures to be bribed etc. I don’t think I’ve actually expressed myself very well here so hope what I’ve said makes sense. I am pleased that public figures can now be publicly gay without fear of recrimination. But people like Putin know that the PM of this country has at least one Achilles heel.

I think that gelding would be a better idea(if we're going to continue with the equine analogy). He doesn't have any qualities worth passing on to offspring.

Times Diary:

Prime ministers have trouble enough with ambitious colleagues briefing against them without their chief adviser’s family telling strangers they are on the way out. On a visit to Chillingham Castle in Northumberland last week, Anna Silverman, a TMS reader, fell into conversation with its owner, Sir Humphry Wakefield, father-in-law of Dominic Cummings, who merrily informed her that Boris Johnson is still struggling badly with having had Covid-19 (as if being a new father and needing to babysit Gavin Williamson isn’t tiring enough) and will stand down in six months.

A keen rider, Wakefield compared having the virus to being gone in the fetlock. “If you put a horse back to work when it’s injured it will never recover,” he said. To continue the analogy, and given Johnson’s fecundity, perhaps the PM will be put out to stud

Out to stud - about right!

Well he will have more time to enjoy the things he really likes doing..So maybe this advice from Slade is appropriate- Lock up Your Daughters www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QlEv2oVTWs

I see a story has slipped out that Boris is going to step down in 6 months.
No surprise. I was told a month ago he hates being PM

So... if that were to happen I wonder what the fan club would be saying then?

Poor man, so difficult to be PM with a baby and the after effects of a near fatal illness and a completely taken him by surprise pandemic to cope with. No wonder he's decided to throw the towel in...
And all those nasty nit picking haters just don't understand....

Running off and leaving a shambles behind him.
Pathetic and selfish.

No surprise really

Emma Kennedy

I see a story has slipped out that Boris is going to step down in 6 months.

No surprise. I was told a month ago he hates being PM.

And on top of that, why on earth is he going to hang about to be held to account for No Deal Brexit?

August is the month when photos appear of eggs frying on pavements Haven't seen one of those yet so I guess Johnson's baby is the next best thing. haven't seen any of the baby either but with all this talk about the PM's holiday, he is in the forefront of the news. Sadly as I'd like to forget about him completely.

Elegran

Disposable nappies! geekesse and a toilet tent zipped on! And I bet you had a calor gas cooker, not a primus! Oh the luxury!

I had a pressurised petrol primus with THREE rings! (Are those things even legal now? I still have it. I got quite good at syphoning off petrol from the minibus we travelled around in.) I also had a home-made cooler to keep meat and milk fresh. I’m a hardened camper, me - years of scouting left their mark.

Nowadays I use a tiny one-man survival tent and a single burner primus. All my camping kit (tent, sleeping bag and roll, cooking and eating stuff) fits in a single stackable box, and if I need to escape I can sling the box in the back of the car and take off in minutes. Don’t get the wrong impression, though - I like luxury hotels too.

Disposable nappies! geekesse and a toilet tent zipped on! And I bet you had a calor gas cooker, not a primus! Oh the luxury!

Am not interested in where mr Johnson had a holiday nor am I remotely bothered about the size of his latest offspring.
I still maintain however that he should have put in an appearance, video recorded or whatever, during the A level furore. That’s all.

Lemon ???

Yes you probably right

Soon be September and back to being sensible for everyone.

Add to that .....Johnson never had Covid it was all a pretence, or he did have it but nothing worse than a sniffle, the dog really belongs to someone else and the cottage in Scotland was snatched from another couple who had booked it earlier and are now inconsolable at losing their holiday.
Plus there are no midges in Scotland anyway.?

George Monbiot

So now we know what Boris Johnson does in his holidays.
The only remaining question is what he does the rest of the time.

ginny ? yes, this thread is getting a bit Monty Python isn’t it?

Ah well , of course they didn’t take their own baby. Or, maybe they don’t have one at all. Perhaps the couple in Scotland are doubles. The tent is probably for the baby at night so it doesn’t wake them. The dog is left with the baby as a guard.

Oh, for goodness sake !

The latest picture of him with a baby in a sling, made me smile, I say ‘A’ baby as it is half the size of the baby that was sitting on her chest in the first pictures of him ?

I had a miserable 'holiday' in the same part of Wester Ross with a 16 month old toddler, in a dilapidated cottage. The weather was awful and the midges voracious - the only safe place was under water. In 1972 we didn't have disposable nappies and there was no way we could dry the ones we washed. Oh, and I was pregnant with DS2. I think we lasted 4 days.

Elegran

I did too, geekesse, with a 5 year-old, a 3 year-old and a baby a couple of months old, in about 1970, before tents with frames and standing room height were affordable. We had had many camping holidays on our own so were experienced. The older children loved it but it wasn't really a holiday, making up bottles for baby and rinsing terry nappies in a bucket. The following year we bought a second-hand caravan which was vastly better.

I was doing it a little later - early 1990s with five children 10 —> 3 months. Breastfeeding solves the bottle issue, and disposable nappies are a blessing, though you have to be responsible about disposing of them. We used a big canvas scout ridge tent with a toilet tent (chemical toilet) laced into one end.

No not all 13 pages, I simply couldn't stomach the endless rubbish, but enough to feel deeply worried about the gate and the fence,and baby Wilfred! Now the worry is exactly who owns the land that the farmer rents?! That's a head scratcher for sure! No doubt all will be revealed at some point, meantime we wait with baited breath ready to pounce!

I did too, geekesse, with a 5 year-old, a 3 year-old and a baby a couple of months old, in about 1970, before tents with frames and standing room height were affordable. We had had many camping holidays on our own so were experienced. The older children loved it but it wasn't really a holiday, making up bottles for baby and rinsing terry nappies in a bucket. The following year we bought a second-hand caravan which was vastly better.

Dear God have you people really not got anything better to do than pick over three days of someones private summer holiday stitch by stitch?!!
Well you've obviously read all 13 pages of comments to know all the detail therein!
I have enjoyed the thread over a grey, blustery weekend.

Jabberwok. Well said