The Dubious World of Boris Johnson

With respect to the 4 Russian Tu-95s that caused the Quick Reaction Alert scramble from Lossiemouth this afternoon, that is a regular occurrence. They never entered UK Airspace and are quite entitled to fly where they do.

The Typhoons are mainly launched because the Russian Aircraft don't run with Transponders on and are there to make sure they don't interfere with commercial Air Traffic. They're so old that in a real shooting match they'd be in the North Sea before they knew what plane had opened fire on them.

The gutter press always go into a wankfest over a QRA. In reality it's little more than a good training exercise. If Vladimir wants to launch a sneaky attack it won't be with 4 Propellor driven Bombers from the early 50s

On 26/1, on this thread I listed the glaring fuck-ups by the government led by Boris Johnson in regard to their handling of the Covid pandemic, in reaction to the claptrap line being repeated like a mantra that he (BJ) "came good on the big calls". Obviously the largest odiously-smelling pile of steaming horseshit uttered by a government since the "45 minutes away from attack by Saddam" garbage by Blier.

One by one I listed them all (well the main ones). But of the first, the initial delayed lockdown in March 2020, where even a delay by probably just 1 week ended up causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, I didn't add also more pertinent additional facts such as how there was no preparation, no plan and no leadership, as Johnson missed FIVE consecutive emergency meetings about Covid in the buildup to the crisis; boasted that he had shaken hands with Covid patients; went into hospitals without wearing a mask; and allegedly said (when pushed to introduce restrictions to slow the spread of the virus), “let the bodies pile high”


The other glaring fuck-ups again were:
- the disgraceful neglect of the care-home sector that had a supposed 'protective-ring' around it, scapegoated to ease pressure in NHS wards (all resulting from the delayed lockdown),
- lack of PPE (though that was more the blame of prior lack of preparedness, but still partly his fault), dodgy PPE contracts to VIP Tory chums,
- the track-and-trace debacle at massive financial cost (& again the beneficiaries of which are VIP chums),
- no circuit-break in school-half-term in Autumn 2020 against scientific advice resulting in an unnecessarily prolonged 2nd tier-system semi lockdown over Christmas into New Year (when before he locked down he scoffed at Starmer that Starmer wanted to cancel Christmas),
- and finally, delaying putting India on the red-list (because he went on a trade-visit there) leading to a surge of the delta variant, resulting in a 3rd lockdown last Spring.


Written by Devi Sridhar (published in the Guardian on Tuesday 1/2/22):
Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...is-johnson
From a public health perspective, we need modelling of appropriate behaviour from the top
It is simply a tragedy of history that when the Covid-19 crisis hit, Boris Johnson was prime minister of the UK. The scientific research from British academic institutions – and the NHS – is superb. We are envied by much of the world. Yet the UK response to Covid in 2020 was abysmal, as reflected by the death toll of 176,000.
In March 2020, there was no preparation, no plan and no leadership. Johnson missed five consecutive emergency meetings about Covid in the buildup to the crisis; boasted that he had shaken hands with Covid patients; went into hospitals without wearing a mask; and allegedly said (when pushed to introduce restrictions to slow the spread of the virus), “let the bodies pile high”.


Original message was:
(26-01-2022 17:16 )crankshaft Wrote:
Boris' main defence is that he came good on the big calls. The biggest is the claim that the vaccine rollout and our ability to allow quick license for Astra-Zeneca to rollout production wouldn't have happened if we were still subject to the European Medicines Agency thanks to Brexit. It's not true, however. The idea that Brexit enabled the UK to press ahead and authorise one is not right. It was actually permitted under EU law. Under European law a vaccine must be authorised by the EMA, but individual countries can use an emergency procedure that allows them to distribute a vaccine for temporary use in any EU nation state.

What were his other 'big calls'? The initially delayed lockdown which has cost tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, the disgraceful neglect of the care-home sector that had a supposed 'protective-ring' around it, scapegoated to ease pressure in NHS wards (all resulting from the delayed lockdown), lack of PPE (though that was more the blame of prior lack of preparedness, but still partly his fault), dodgy PPE contracts to VIP Tory chums, the track-and-trace debacle at massive financial cost (& again the beneficiaries of which are VIP chums), no circuit-break in school-half-term in Autumn 2020 against scientific advice resulting in an unnecessarily prolonged 2nd tier-system semi lockdown over Christmas into New Year (when before he locked down he scoffed at Starmer that Starmer wanted to cancel Christmas), and finally, delaying putting India on the red-list (because he went on a trade-visit there) leading to a surge of the delta variant, resulting in a 3rd lockdown last Spring.

I'd say that's a catalogue of failure. No enquiry still. More deaths per 1000 of population than any other country in the world.

And all throughout the lockdown of 2020 and the tier-system semi lockdown at the end of 2020/start of 2021, perfectly aware staff across Whitehall were regularly boozing it up in contravention of rules he signed off!

I'm sure Jonathan Pie's next YouTube diatribe will be well worth a listen. Re: the VIP PPE contracts, he said in a previous vlog: "They're on the take, and what they're taking is the fucking piss"

(02-02-2022 11:13 )SecretAgent Wrote:  Cummings did a live Q&A yesterday. In it he confirmed Johnson went to the party in his flat on the day Cummings left that the police are investigating. It’s been called the ABBA party as music could be heard throughout No 10 including “Winner Takes it All” being sung loudly. Cummings says photos of Johnson at the party exist.

I'm sure he's given everything he's got to Sue Grey, so the self-righteous little prick needs to fuck off and never be heard from again.
He put Boris where he is via the Brexit campaign and the 2019 election campaign. He's a bit late with his buyers remorse. If he didn't realise what Boris was like then, he's not half as smart as he thinks he is.
He doesn't give a shit about the country. He's only doing this because Boris sacked him. If he hadn't, Cummings would be in there right now heading up Operation Save Big Dog.

Totally Agree SM Cummings only put Boris where he is and if he didn't know what Boris was like then he not as smart as he think I still look back and I still wonder why Boris stuck with him for so damn fucking long, and when the perfect opportunity for Boris to sack him during the original lockdown presented itself to Boris on the day of Cummings' press conference - and didn't.

Problem now is The Gray report to me will more likely end up not being one fucking big whitewash in full once the Met completes it's investigation and Boris can carry on dragging this country's great reputation through the gutter. I can only see Boris issusing more threats to his backbenchers of cutting local funding to keep their support. At some point the backbenchers need to grow a pair, and ignore his threats and threaten a full open back bench rebellion that weakens Boris to the point where a leadership contest is possible. I know we'd probably end up with a far bigger cunt in No.10, but hey hopefully who does get in No.10 will see the fucking mess Boris has and start to unravel it to get this country PROPERLY back on it's feet

The more the Government pushes ahead with this NI hike in April, the more likely more low paid jobs will disappear and this country will probably have far worse unemployment poverty under Boris than Thatcher.

And as for Cummings? He can fuck off to Australia for all I care. I hope someone has the sense to lock Boris in a space capsule and send hin into infinity and beyond

No 10 policy chief Munira Mirza, at his side since City Hall, quits over Jimmy Savile slur.
She was one of few aides from Johnson’s City Hall days who stuck with him throughout. He is said to find it hard to trust advisors - but she was one of the few he did.

The fact anyone sticks by him confuses me, he's done and said plenty of stupid, immoral shit before now, but this one is a final straw. Good.
Hopefully this is a sign of the end of him as PM, (more letters please) but the people next in line are fucking useless too, so lose, lose. lol.

(03-02-2022 17:33 )skully Wrote:  The fact anyone sticks by him confuses me, he's done and said plenty of stupid, immoral shit before now, but this one is a final straw. Good.
Hopefully this is a sign of the end of him as PM, (more letters please) but the people next in line are fucking useless too, so lose, lose. lol.

The scum like Rees Mogg, Patel, Kwarteng, Dorries etc… stick by him because they know he’s the only idiot stupid enough to give them jobs. This bunch of inept, soulless, nasty bastards shouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone be in the cabinet!!

Jack Doyle has resigned as director of communications at No 10.

jumping before they were pushed Prob get the feeling its being orchistrated now

(03-02-2022 16:25 )Cooper_temple Wrote:  No 10 policy chief Munira Mirza, at his side since City Hall, quits over Jimmy Savile slur.
She was one of few aides from Johnson’s City Hall days who stuck with him throughout. He is said to find it hard to trust advisors - but she was one of the few he did.

She was head of culture for London when Boris was Mayor and always struck me as being a shrewd operator -- in a good way.

Not uncontroversial. I think she had a background in far left political journalism before ending up in a Conservative Mayor's staff. But she seemed to have a knack for landing meaty portfolios while staying out of the limelight. She obviously carried that into No 10, where she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Dominic Cummings, yet almost no one had ever heard of her.

I'm sure some will have a view on whether this is a careerist move in a rats-and-sinking-ships kind of way. Whatever the case, it's another big chunk of brain power that just walked out the door.

Further evidence that No 10 is no place for quiet, hard working intelligence.