Line of Duty spoof Boris video

People have short memories when it comes to Johnson's actions.

7 Nightingale Hospitals built (with great speed admittedly) at a cost of £530 million. There were 60 admissions in London.

This - from the King's Fund:

"The ‘five whys’ can be a simple but powerful way of getting to the root of an issue. But two whys may suffice in this case: were the Nightingales a waste of money? Why? Because they didn’t see many patients. Why? Because there weren’t enough staff to run them?

The largest Nightingale hospitals were reported to have 4,000 planned beds and would need 16,000 staff at full capacity (a higher staff complement than any hospital in England barring Barts Health NHS Trust and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). For an NHS that entered the pandemic with 100,000 vacancies this would always have been an eyebrow-raising ask – as there were few supernumerary staff who could move to support the Nightingales without their local hospitals falling over.

And although, in extremis, the Nightingale staffing ratios could have been changed to allow a smaller group of staff to care for more patients, delivering sub-optimal care on a mass scale like this would have been a very different proposition to the narrative of an ‘ultimate insurance policy’ that we (thankfully) didn’t need."

Johnson is good at coming up with ideas - he does it all the time - but often the ideas aren't fully researched or costed.

He claims success for the vaccine rollout. All he did was to say it should happen. There is a good scientific base in the UK investigating and developing the necessary vaccines. All he had to do was to give the go ahead to quickly develop those vaccines.

Now the Vaccine Manufacturing and innovation Centre, opened in 2018 with public money, specifically to develop vaccines to help the UK deal with pandemics, is being sold off.

Whilst on the subject of health, Johnson continually states that the govt is building 40 new hospitals. This isn't the case:

25 are rebuilds of existing hospitals
12 are building new wings
3 are new hospitals - for non urgent cases.

The source for these figures is the BBC Fact Check

Vicky McLure, from Nottingham, was on The One Show tonight- such a shame they did not mention this spoof!

We thought it was brilliant, so believeable.
I wonder if Line of Duty is coming back

Yes EllanVannin, our PM is a laughing stock. That’s good for our enemies and not good for us, or our friends

Putin loves down and out, it makes his job easier !

A clever video advertising our Mickey Mouse Leader.

Led by donkeys is anti Brexit. This LoD spoof is brilliant. It’s exactly the kind of satire that reminds people what we expect from public servants
I agree we want the government and opposition focussed on the danger from Russia snd the danger to our just about managing despite working three jobs. The 20£ should have stayed for UC claimants. It’s shameful to allow those having to decide whether to heat or eat to be harder hit then the wealthy
None of this means the PM shouldn’t face the consequences of his actions
No I didn’t break lockdown guidance
No I didn’t drink at work

Holysox, the video was apparently made by Led By Donkeys , a British anti-Brexit political campaign group which uses satire targeted at pro-Brexit politicians. Since the group's creation in December 2018, its four founders have been calling out what they call "thermonuclear hypocrisy".

I have watched this and agree that it is very clever. Initially I was amused by it, but as it went on I was saddened at what this country has become, what a drop in standards of public behaviour we are witnessing. Holysox, why would Russian trolls make a film about something that is patently true? I do agree though, that there are more important things being done by this government, laws which will harm daily life for many, and very few people care

Indeed Chesnut. Been reading about the tension between NATO and Russia and likelihood of war in Europe. Then Russia hiking gas prices as part of the game. Maybe not just the far right doing a distraction campaign, maybe russia trolls on social media. Who commisioned this video exactly?

powerful people are using the media to wage a get 'Boris' out campaign and people are falling for it.
I agree we have been swamped with news on 'parties at No 10' rather than real news. It is completely overwhelming the media, I can't even switch my radio on in the kitchen to cook dinner without hearing about Boris and parties. As if there was nothing else going on in the world or the country.
I feel we are being manipulated and controlled by the media.

It’s so good.
When the pM is the story and the subject of endless humiliating jokes he’s not long in post. I wish he’d show humility abd resign

The Line of duty sketch is brilliant

I can’t get over the ridiculous names the plans are given,

Red Meat
Pork Pie
Big Dog
Bye Bye

Very good. When’s he going though?

HolySox

MaisieD interesting blog and I share some of it's concerns. I think Boris going will be a disaster for us. Really Keir Starmer needs to push for a vote of No Confidence and get the lot out. He had opportunity with the vote to introduce Plan B measures but, credit to KS, he put our welfare first. As I said above my concern is the wealthy hard right using the media.

There is no point in Starmer pushing for a vote of no confidence, HolySox, the tory party would unite to defeat it because preserving the party in power is more important than the wellbeing of the country they are supposed to serve.

HolySox

As AnnSixty says very clever but difficult to laugh at although for different reasons for me. Personally I am saddened by the media onslaught on our PM over something that is not important when you weigh up what Boris has achieved during the pandemic. Many issues such as ventillators, more hospital space (Nightingales), taking the country into and out of lockdown with minimal impact to daily life, furlough schemes and loans (probably too generous with £4.3 billion now unrecoverable), the success of procuring vaccines, the success of the booster campaign helping to keep current restrictions to a minimal level... but hey powerful people are using the media to wage a get 'Boris' out campaign and people are falling for it.

I agree totally HolySox. In fact it’s reminded me of the film...’ Don’t Look Up ‘. Won’t say too much, in case I spoil it, but that’s basically people distracted from a real threat, by the trivia of the world.

It was the same when Princess Diana died. The Royal family were blamed then, especially the Queen, who must have suffered terribly at the time. Now she’s a sweet old lady who can do no wrong.

Media frenzy is all this is....and people are like sheep, getting caught up in the whirl of it all.

I feel sad too. Boris has kept us safe, and I am grateful to him for it.

MaisieD interesting blog and I share some of it's concerns. I think Boris going will be a disaster for us. Really Keir Starmer needs to push for a vote of No Confidence and get the lot out. He had opportunity with the vote to introduce Plan B measures but, credit to KS, he put our welfare first. As I said above my concern is the wealthy hard right using the media.

I think you’re wrong in one crucial respect MaizieD. You’ve overlooked Boris’ one selling point, which is his appeal to the electorate due his ‘ordinary bloke’ aura. Whatever plans there are once he’s gone, they aren’t going to appeal half so much to the people who voted for Boris’ personality, and there are millions of them. That’s why the party faithful want him to stay, they know that without him their policies would never have slipped under the radar as they have.
I loved the Call of Duty skit, It was tagged on another thread yesterday and it’s brilliant.

MaizieD, thanks for the link to that article, Richard Murphy is spot on and the comments are very interesting. I live in Northumberland where feudalism is still alive and kicking.

As AnnSixty says very clever but difficult to laugh at although for different reasons for me. Personally I am saddened by the media onslaught on our PM over something that is not important when you weigh up what Boris has achieved during the pandemic. Many issues such as ventillators, more hospital space (Nightingales), taking the country into and out of lockdown with minimal impact to daily life, furlough schemes and loans (probably too generous with £4.3 billion now unrecoverable), the success of procuring vaccines, the success of the booster campaign helping to keep current restrictions to a minimal level... but hey powerful people are using the media to wage a get 'Boris' out campaign and people are falling for it.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph……and the wee donkey! ????

As a massive fan of Line of Duty, I think this is brilliant ?

Oh maizie that it what is so worrying me.

Admirable video. Led By Donkeys are doing a great job.

But it's sadly irrelevant. Getting rid of Johnson solves nothing. He is just a front man for a government that is bent on establishing a state in which all regulation is swept aside, the NHS is privatised and state spending is severely curtailed.

I suggest that people read this blog post. The actions of the government and the fact that it is controlled by the hard right all indicate that this is the direction of travel for the UK. Murphy is not the only person saying this, he's just the one I am most familiar with.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/01/19/remember-that-the-tories-are-only-getting-rid-of-johnson-to-make-things-worse/

Oh I’m so glad someone linked it, I can’t and find it so annoying.

Really good and very hard hitting.