Boris Johnson!

Very convenient excuse for it not being BoJo’s fault when the final Brexit talks fail!

Social distancing not happening in No 10?

If he’s self isolating on his own, away from Carrie and the (unknown number of) kids, that’s going to be one hell of a drinks order with Ocado

What an absolute f**** farce this guy and his f*** government is.

He must go down in the history books as the most incompetence PM of modern time, perhaps ever? Leading the most incompetent government.

Go and self isolate again whilst "WFH" (yes I know and agree he should isolate of course) you utter turd of a man.

Breath......

Can't he get tested?

I would have thought that in a position as "important" as his, there would be regular anti body testing to track the strength of his immunity.

Genuine question though, can you still be a speader if you're immune?

Why's Johnson saying "I'm as fit as a butchers dog" again, on the news this morning.... he looks like he just got out a coffin to me.

He was misquoted. Fat. Fat as a butchers dog.

Why doesn’t he find out what his mate trump took and do the same?
......or is he going to trial the vaccine and magically be better by the weekend?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/16/dominic-cummings-no10-boris-johnson

Pretty damning summary of Boris' government. I wish more within the party would speak up.

Hmm... Just watched his video announcement. He looks rough as f***. This sounds like an excuse to hide away from the events of last week.

Probably been on a huge bender since classic Dom did one. I'd look rough too.

Cummings gone, Brexit needs done, busy week of that ahead......ah, eh, uh, oh yes, Covid, someone had it, I snogged them, better go off the grid for a bit, Cue pictures of the (current) missus in Lapland or some ****

a vacuum of detail, industry and integrity

Grieve sums Blohard up perfectly....

Nice epitaph.

Why’s Johnson saying “I’m as fit as a butchers dog” again, on the news this morning…. he looks like he just got out a coffin to me.

Because he is based solely on reverting to the same lies and the same spiel.

He used to do dinner parties telling the same jokes no matter the audience - the act was always the same bluster which, because he hadn't wrecked the country at that point, was actually fairly amusing to the slightly tipsy business classes who attended these sort of things.

He finds a slogan or phrase and sticks by it:
Oven ready deal. Get Brexit done. Fit as a butcher's dog.
Cover it in some nationalistic pomp and circumstance, chuck in some basic Latin, wow the audience, go and shag someone else's wife. That act has long since been seen through and he's got no new material.

Boris's butcher's dog.

Why’s Johnson saying “I’m as fit as a butchers dog” again, on the news this morning…. he looks like he just got out a coffin to me.

Agree, he did look pretty rough. Although people he has worked with in the past said he doesn't really believe in getting sick and you just battle on and keep going, his downfall last time.

I think the bigger concern is him telling the world hes "bursting with antibodies" its pretty common knowledge peoples antibodies go down after having covid, chances are he had it so long ago he doesn't have any antibodies... unless hes had an antibody recently that is. Give it a few days and the tories will push out the same lines we know its a virus that doesnt discriminate,  (unless your of cause your black, poor or both), PM has shown great courage and all that nonsense.

he doesn’t really believe in getting sick and you just battle on and keep going

Which does rather explain so much of the uk gov too-little-too-late response to the pandemic.

PM has shown great courage and all that nonsense.

I've seen him playing tennis.

Etc.

Agree, he did look pretty rough. Although people he has worked with in the past said he doesn’t really believe in getting sick and you just battle on and keep going, his downfall last time.

I think the real story ,is that the useless bag of shit may have post viral fatigue(Long Covid) and he is trying to cure it with booze.

Chatting to my better half over lunch she made a good point about Boris's comments.

If the App pinged him to say he had been too close to someone found to be positive, then he can't have been social distancing as he claims, because the App is set only to trigger is you are within xm for y amount of time (not sure of values for England). The App assesses exposure time and proximity, not actual exposure to virus.

If he was correctly social distancing, then the App shouldn't have picked up a potential exposure, unless it is flawed.

So, Boris fibbing about social distancing or App is less than world-beating? Of course, it could also be both! (or neither and he's just looking for an option to duck out of a potentially awkward PMQ on Wednesday)

he doesn’t really believe in getting sick and you just battle on and keep going

When his best is barely functioning, who would notice if he just died at his desk or battled on?

“But it is very very important that in this conversation we don’t allow whatever I may have said or done to cloud the issue.” (Guardian) Says it all really.

'Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, and other staffers this week...' (Guardian)

So: no masks, windows closed, much less than 2m apart - and lo and behold....

Also, let's remind ourselves about the other person pictured here:

Lee Anderson, who is standing for the Tories in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, forgot he was wearing a live microphone while he phoned his friend to set up the fake encounter to impress a journalist

“Make out you know who I am... you know I’m the candidate, but not a friend, alright?” Mr Anderson was recorded saying as he spelled out instructions to his friend minutes before bringing a journalist to his door.

The candidate also appeared to lie about the content of the phone call, commenting to the reporter as he hung up that it was about “some leaflets that have just come for me”.

I can’t believe that Johnson is getting away with yet another skive. This is 2020, he can do a press conference and take question from within No10, but no, he makes a stupid little video about being bursting with antibodies. Truly a PM for our reality celebrity TV times.

Trump and Boris are brothers who were separated at birth I think.

Most world leaders have avoided being exposed, by the oh so difficult means of just doing exactly what they're telling the public to do and no more. Johnson is one of the few who failed at that, and one of the tiny minority that have actually caught the thing, and now he's failed at the basics <again>. And not only that but exposed half the government.

It's obviously a total lack of competence but more seriously it's an absolute absence of leadership and even the slightest effort to lead by example. Literally every skeptic in the country is going "one rule for you another for me" tonight. What an absolute ****.

I can’t believe that Johnson is getting away with yet another skive. This is 2020, he can do a press conference and take question from within No10, but no, he makes a stupid little video about being bursting with antibodies. Truly a PM for our reality celebrity TV times.

He's not got long left to hold out now, though. Jan 1st and No Deal = mission accomplished.

Just when you think Boris can't be more inept...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54965585
He's probably only concerned because Sturgeon is running rings around him from a political point of view.

Once again proving his complete ignorance to anything outside of the M25.

The SNP will be loving those comments.

Alexa Stratton has only been PM for a day & already her deputy has gifted the SNP another tranche of vote

Hes also having to isolate because he & his MPs can't use Zoom and are seemingly exempt from distancing & mask rules like the rest of us have to deal with in work

I think it was Hancock on R4 yesterday suggesting they didn't need masks or distance because No10 is a covid secure environment. That went well then.

Boris's thinking:

We're in the middle of a global pandemic with the country under lockdown, over 50,000 are dead, Brexit is looming with the talks about the collapse, leading to no deal economic chaos in January and because I'm a *ing idiot, incapable of following my own guidelines, I'm stuck self-isolating during this critical time. I've just lost my closest aids and the chaos in number 10 is now the big news story

Should I maybe show a bit of contrition? Try and bring about a period of relative calm and stability? Attempt to be statesmanlike?

Nah... * that! I'll open up another front and pick another completely unnecessary fight that will further alienate another huge tranche of people and further distract from the critical matters I actually should be dealing with.

I don't know about just being the most inept clown of a PM we've ever had, he's in hot contention for being the most incompetent national leader the world has ever seen.

The UK now looks like a complete Banana Republic. And the blame for that lies completely at his door.

I still find it completely beyond belief that this utter ****ing moron is in number 10, playing occasionally at being PM.

It's embarrassing. And this is just the warm up act for the true calamity that awaits us in January under the 'leadersship' of this buffoon

Yeah but....under Corbyn....

I think it was Hancock on R4 yesterday suggesting they didn’t need masks or distance because No10 is a covid secure environment. That went well then.

'Honest Bob' Jenrick's turn today, bullshitting and lying for his master. Both Jenrick and Hancock are cut from the same cloth. Jumped up little pillocks who would never have got near the top table in normal (non-Brexit) times and now being trotted out to look like tossers defending this oaf.

They are wedded to him through lies and bullshit.

Once again proving his complete ignorance to anything outside of the M25.

I don't think it is ignorance, or a mistake... he is where he is by riding a wave of English Nationalism... especially in the seats taken by the MPs he was speaking to... he wants to send them "home" (many don't live in their seats) with an "English First", "Put those Scots in their place", soundbite for their voters.

I did find it ironic that they wheeled out John Redwood this morning to have a pop at Scottish Nationalists, and decry nationalist policies. Seriously.... the lifelong cheerleader for Brexit, which is basically just an exercise in toxic, falg-waving English nationalism

You really couldn't make it up. They don't really do irony these Brexiteers, do they?

In the meantime I see Boris himself in the deploying that perennial old favourite of his, the 'Jedi Mind Trick' defence, where he comes out and states that he didn't actually say what everyone clearly heard him say.

It basically means that he's drunk enough vodka already today that he now thinks he's Yoda.

Remind me again when the Brexit deadline is?

I wonder how many people will die of Covid today?

God help us, with this drunken idiot flailing around number 10

When can we get rid of this odious turd?

There must be someone in the "conservative" party that can do better? No?

No10 is a covid secure environment

I detest that phrase.

There must be someone in the “conservative” party that can do better? No?

Be careful what you wish for...

No 10 is Covid secure, it seems to contain it very effectively.

I'm frankly disappointed that he didn't have Dominic Cummings rattle up a pithy three word slogan on his way out the door.

Jock Right Off

Oil Price Crash

Reject Competent Government

Blame Anyone Else

...something along those lines.

Can't have the porridge gobblers making us look incompetent, what?

The UK now looks like a complete Banana Republic. And the blame for that lies completely at his door.

Some blame needs to be passed on to the idiots that voted him in, surely?

Absolutely. All the polls show that there are a substantial number of those who now know how badly they ****ed up.

His personal approval have been in freefall since March and he's turned a 26 point poll lead in April into a -5 deficit now, which looks like it'll only be heading in one direction. Quite a job in 7 months.

The Tory party is legendarily ruthless. Anyone with those kind of results is normally toast. The only reason he is still there is because who else would want the job at the moment, and seeing as Brexit is his doing, they'll make him carry the can for that impending disaster first.

I think I'm going to stick a big bet on Johnson not being PM by the end of January

I think I’m going to stick a big bet on Johnson not being PM by the end of January

I did think they were going to give him longer (until end of next year or mid 22 to make sure he carries the blame whilst they can claim a new broom) but I am starting to change my mind on that. Saw one comment apparently from a tory MP which was along the lines of Sunak doesnt have that long to launch his leadership bid since if he is still in charge of the exchequer when the bills come due he will be screwed.

What I struggle to get my head around is that if you were to ask anyone on the street 'do you trust politicians', the answer would undoubtedly be 'no'. And yet a massive chunk of the population voted for Brexit and the Tories on the basis of what they were told by Boris/Gove/Farage or what they read in the Sun/Mail or what they saw on Facebook.

I'm not sure I would call them idiots (OK, I probably would), but they must be willfully ignorant and gullible. I find it baffling that some of my relatives, who I would say were otherwise intelligent, still think that Brexit is a good idea and Boris is doing a good job. It ****es me off that as they are retired/nearly retired, they are probably going to be insulated from the worst effects of Brexit, yet their grandchildren will have to pay the price of their ignorance and stupidity.