Gunnar wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:18 am
Chap wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:54 am
Bye the bye, then man Trump called 'Britain Trump' is still in office, and busy doing his best to make sure the reputation of his country for integrity and even common sense follows that of the US down the tubes ...
That is sad indeed. Is there any indication that his popularity and influence in the UK is beginning to wane so that he may soon find himself out of office? [..]
He is indeed beginning to lose the effects of what has been called the 'vaccine boost' - the rise in popularity of the government following the considerable success of the National Health Service in vaccinating a large proportion of the population quite rapidly.
This kind of disclosure from his estranged former chief advisor is not helping him:
Dominic Cummings tells BBC Johnson denied Covid would overwhelm NHS
Former aide says Boris Johnson held out on October lockdown because those ‘dying are essentially all over 80’
Boris Johnson denied the NHS would be overwhelmed and said he was not prepared to lock down the country to save people in their 80s, texting his adviser “get Covid and live longer,” according to new WhatsApp messages released by Dominic Cummings.
In his first TV interview, the prime minister’s former chief adviser said Johnson held out on reimposing Covid restrictions because “the people who are dying are essentially all over 80.”
This bit about the Queen is particularly indicative of his behaviour in times of crisis:
In the BBC interview, Cummings claims that he had to stop Boris Johnson going to see the Queen in person at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, when staff in Number 10 were already falling ill and the prime minister had already instructed the public to avoid all unnecessary contact, especially with elderly people.
“I said, what are you doing, and he said, I’m going to see the Queen and I said, what on earth are you talking about, of course you can’t go and see the Queen. He said, ah, that’s what I do every Wednesday, sod this, I’m gonna go and see her,” Cummings said.
Downing Street denied that this incident took place. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
Cummings said he eventually convinced Johnson not to take the risk. “I said to him, there’s people in this office who are isolating, you might have coronavirus, I might have coronavirus, you can’t go and see the Queen. What if you go and see her and give the Queen coronavirus?
“You obviously can’t go … I just said if you, if you give her coronavirus and she dies what, what are you gonna, you can’t do that, you can’t risk that, that’s completely insane. And he said, he basically just hadn’t thought it through, he said, yeah, ‘holy crap, I can’t go.’”
