Johnson’s lack of respect

Josianne if you are flying Business Class or First Class you get free entry into the appropriate Airlines Lounge. Once inside all food, drink (including champagne) newspapers and in some cases beauty treatments are free.

Josianne

vegansrock

How did he and Carrie rack up £1800 of freebies at Heathrow? They must have eaten/ drunk a lot.

Even executive lounges aren't cheap, it's easy to run up £100s.
Anyway, it would have cost far more in security detail if he and his family had enjoyed the hospitality at Giraffe or TGI Friday amongst holidaymakers.

I thought executive lounges had free refreshments? Is that different to business class lounges ?

vegansrock

How did he and Carrie rack up £1800 of freebies at Heathrow? They must have eaten/ drunk a lot.

Even executive lounges aren't cheap, it's easy to run up £100s.
Anyway, it would have cost far more in security detail if he and his family had enjoyed the hospitality at Giraffe or TGI Friday amongst holidaymakers.

vegansrock

How did he and Carrie rack up £1800 of freebies at Heathrow? They must have eaten/ drunk a lot.

Same way they managed to spend £200k on a makeover for the flat at No. 11.

I hope they're not there much longer to enjoy it.

How did he and Carrie rack up £1800 of freebies at Heathrow? They must have eaten/ drunk a lot.

Absolutely tootly Atqui
I would imagine Starmer is thanking his lucky stars that he isn’t in power at the moment.

“Johnson has spent his life wanting to be PM, my guess is he had little understanding of what it entailed “

I don’t suppose any would be PM has had any understanding of what dealing with a pandemic entailed until now.

I don’t know who said it, but it was along the lines of ‘Johnson always wanted to be PM, and have been PM, but didn’t want the stuff in between’.
And this was years ago

Johnson has spent his life wanting to be PM, my guess is he had little understanding of what it entailed but I am not going to weep for him for that. It will end in disaster, it's very rare that it doesn't.

No, being King would be far easier.

Well a lot of them live away from their families and one has just lost his Mother. Lots of people have the pressure of responsibilities that they haven't even chosen.

Despite what he thinks, he's not actually World King.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

Well Jane, do any of them have the responsibilities the PM has at present?

I think that the long knives will already be getting sharpened.I cannot see the Tory party having any qualms about giving him the push as soon as possible.

That’s very funny Westendgirl as I have never said (or thought even) that Johnson is PM material. If you can find it on GN I will post you a tenner.
He isn’t old but is past middle age and not the fittest I should think. Given that he has had Covid himself and in ICU last year, has had to deal with the pandemic, Brexit and a new young family....
That being the case, I cut him some slack, but as I have just said on another thread, he was voted in to foil Corbyn and get on with the Brexit process.I doubt many though he would be a wonderful PM, and will be gone either at, or before the next GE.

I work with a lot of men in their 50s (and I'm married to one) who haven't had the privilege Johnson has had and none of them look as old as him (or as scruffy) or as miserable

Dont know what happened there but the message is intact !

Oh come on Lemongrove, he's not old in terms of age for P.Ms in this country.
Churchill was 80, and Margaret Thatcher 65,Teresa May 62,Gordon Brown 59.
Can you not accept that Johnson is not and never will be good PM material ?I suspect that the majority of the Tory MPs know this and are getting ready for a switch.



thatcher 62,Teresa May was 62.
Can you not accept that Johnson is not PM material ?

I think he’s 57/58 ....not young at all.

He is in his mid 50s FGS...

Germanshepherdsmum

I would have thought that the things he’s had to deal with since becoming PM would bring anyone to their knees.

So would I GSM !
Plus the fact that he’s not a spring chicken.

No need to apologise at all *MaizieD" I didn't take it as a dig at all and knew exactly what you meant.

I never aim to upset anyone and I apologise if my post has done so.

Oh, Scones, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it as a dig at you. I was just speaking from past experience.

Germanshepherdsmum

I would have thought that the things he’s had to deal with since becoming PM would bring anyone to their knees.

I quite agree Shep. I don’t think that he’s ‘in a good place’ at all.
I don’t think that he was ever capable of being PM. He is well out of his depth.
I’ve told this story before on here: on the morning of the Brexit result, I cried, not because of Brexit, but because I was terrified of Johnson becoming PM.
Everything about him seems very conflicted: he is desperate to hang onto power (I was genuinely surprised when I read those reports saying that he wanted to outdo Thatcher’s run), but simultaneously doesn’t seem to want the job at all.
It really is like some Greek tragedy.
There is something incredibly chaotic about him