Another announcement

I wouldn't want his job, and yes I feel sorry for all the people who have to make these unpalatable decisions.

Oh Gawd, not another drawn out 'briefing'. Tautology, I know.

He is beginning to look very grey and hangdog. I guess this is not the glowing premiership he envisaged.

Maybe he is quitting

That really would be very good news and I may break the rules by dancing in the street because I know I would not be alone.

caught on the hop
He was given figures/ information that didn't add up. Did he bother to read them? No. If he had I like to think that with his education he would have realised that 2+ 2 weren't making 4.
The only reason he's making another speech is because he's been told that the natives are becoming restless ?
I wonder, also, if he's been informed that the natives have noticed that the emperor has no clothes.

Surely it is to announce the extension of furlough to March?

I also feel sorry for him.
He is being pulled this way and that by all the scientists and so called experts all wanting him to do something different.

Then there are his own MPs with differing views on the wisdom of the latest lockdown.

Then there is the issue of him having had the virus himself, Brexit still to be finalised, plus there is a young baby to add to the mix.

I think he’s fully entitled to look a bit care-worn at times !

Who would swap places with him?

B9 I think this will be about the furlough carrying on till March too. They obviously think that not much will change with the Covid situation over the winter.

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Jennifer I agree ??

Do you know, I cannot bring myself to feel remotely sorry for him. His hubris led him to barge his way into the "top job" and now he actually has to take on the responsibilities of that job I feel no sense of pity for him. Let him reap what he sowed.

Honestly I am usually quote a mild person, but feeling sorry for this dreadful man is a step too far.

I would not swop places with him - but he did ask for it!!

It is not a place I would have asked for in the first place!

I’m with JenniferEccles. He has my sympathy.
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.

It's with Simon Stevens, so going to frighten us with stories of NHS becoming swamped again?

As we already know what he is going to say why bother to watch - can't bear all the turgid charts.

B9exchange

It's with Simon Stevens, so going to frighten us with stories of NHS becoming swamped again?

I actually l thought Simon Stevens was very good and said it as it is. He stressed the important number, those being admitted to hospital.

I like what Sir Simon Stevens said at the beginning about asking the nurses, paramedics and doctors what they wanted him to put across.
I liked that he stressed it was REAL. it is so very real and that message needs to be hammered home

I thought Simon Stevens was excellent. He produced a simple, understandable clear graph and made clear what he thought about the amateurish garbage put on our screens on Saturday.

Don’t feel one iota of sympathy for him
Be careful what you wish for
I can’t bear to watch all this, every radio station, newspaper, tv
I ve done day 1, is that it, can we come out now

I do wish Boris wouldn’t keep bringing up Christmas, and more or less saying it will be ok to have a ‘normal’ one.

It won’t be.

He should be upfront, admit it will very much depend on how the virus progresses, and December 2nd will not be the end of it all.

I did wonder with furlough being extended to March if it's on the cards that the lock down will go on until March too.

Smileless2012

I did wonder with furlough being extended to March if it's on the cards that the lock down will go on until March too.

Exactly.

What a depressing thought Calendargirl we have friends in business, husband and wife with a hair salon and a restaurant; it's a very worrying time for them and so many others.

I haven’t heard Starmer offer any solutions though. All he appears to have done is criticise which is very easy to do when you’re in opposition. The government have made mistakes but I do feel for the Prime Minister. He’s damned if he does or damned if he doesn’t. How do we know the opposition would have done any better?