Coronavirus

[Ardiles]

I've been waiting for the press to wake up.

[Ardiles]

Pretty damning expose on Boris Johnson by that lefty rag, The Sunday Times:

https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1251563504118771712

tldr: they allege Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on coronavirus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears

This version gets around the pay wall:

http://archive.is/hBnH4

This is the most damning critique of failed leadership that I have read in a long time.

[Arriba]

Disgraceful, but not surprising is it?

[StfcRusty]

Disgraceful, but not surprising is it?

Nope.  Just glad it's been broken by the Sunday Times rather than the Guardian as far less easily dismissed.  Shame it wasn't the Daily Mail, some of Johnson's / the Government's more vociferous supporters might then actually read it.

[Matchworn Shirts]

“Boris will be back next week to lead UK out of lockdown”
It’s headlines like these which are laughable, his ‘leadership’ thus far has been quite frankly appalling.
Now is not the time, but once this is over, he and his cabinet should have serious questions to answer about their mishandling of the situation

[4D]

We're in this together.

[Arriba]

We're in this together.

Think we've heard this before somewhere
Was bullshit then too

[Legends-Lounge]

Think we've heard this before somewhere
Was bullshit then too

Yep, you just had to look at all the panic buying and the covidiots milling around to see that.

[Arriba]

Yep, you just had to look at all the panic buying and the covidiots milling around to see that.

Can't argue with that. The government are still cunts though.

[pauld]

“Boris will be back next week to lead UK out of lockdown”
It’s headlines like these which are laughable, his ‘leadership’ thus far has been quite frankly appalling.
Now is not the time, but once this is over, he and his cabinet should have serious questions to answer about their mishandling of the situation

Boris will be back once the death rate starts to fall off so he can look like he's "leading" the curve out of peak death, they don't want "Brand Boris" tarnished by having to announce ever increasing deaths or answering awkward questions about failure to get PPE, testing etc

[pauld]

This version gets around the pay wall:

http://archive.is/hBnH4

This is the most damning critique of failed leadership that I have read in a long time.

"And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be"

One of the key things that I don't think a lot of people have properly understood about Boris Johnson is how enormously lazy he is. Normally that would be problematic to say the least, in a time of national crisis, it's already cost thousands, and will possibly cost 10s of thousands, of lives

[Bob's Orange]

"And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be"

One of the key things that I don't think a lot of people have properly understood about Boris Johnson is how enormously lazy he is. Normally that would be problematic to say the least, in a time of national crisis, it's already cost thousands, and will possibly cost 10s of thousands, of lives

Sounds like the great leader across the pond who is ‘bored of watching baseball games from years ago’. How he has time to watch TV at a time like this is bizarre, the fact he is saying it in press conferences just smacks of arrogance.

[pauld]

This version gets around the pay wall:

http://archive.is/hBnH4

This is the most damning critique of failed leadership that I have read in a long time.

"We could have been Germany but instead we were doomed by our incompetence, our hubris and our austerity."

[pauld]

Sounds like the great leader across the pond who is ‘bored of watching baseball games from years ago’. How he has time to watch TV at a time like this is bizarre, the fact he is saying it in press conferences just smacks of arrogance.

The parallels between the laziness, incompetence and arrogance that led both the UK and the US into this disaster are quite frightening. One of the few things my Tory-voting Mum has been able to cling to is "At least we're not as bad as Trump". Strip away the theatre, the bluster in press conferences, the Twitter diarrhoea and look at what the two countries have actually *done* (or rather failed to do) and it's very similar.

[4D]

On the other side of the coin I think the government have acted very well with financial help.