Boris Johnson

[Khandro]

I have supported him for a long time, but am beginning to wonder, my question now is; Is he a jerk?

[emmie]

that was for Jim

[ToraToraTora]

jim that's a lefty wet dream. Anyone with any sense knows that no government and/or PM would have done any different or any better.

[emmie]

perhaps Khandro can throw in his two penny worth

[jim360]

"Anyone with any sense knows that no government and/or PM would have done any different or any better."

I can't take seriously the claim that this is the best any government could have done. Or, if it is true, then it's a matter for despair at the standards of our available leadership, rather than a useful defence of Johnson et al.

[emmie]

no matter how much a defence one puts up for THe Tories as a whole, those who hate them will always want to kill the messenger

[venator]

Anyone who wants to live in the strange Westminster world is a jerk by definition...

[emmie]

so they are all Jerks.

[emmie]

strange reasoning.

[Khandro]

I posed the question & went to bed with 1 answer, booted up this morning & there's an amazing 70! Someone above asks why I've changed my mind.

When elected PM he gave a very good speech, no doubt prepared by D.Cummings where he thanked the 'Red Wall' Labour voters for support & "lending him their votes" he went on to say he wouldn't let them down. Cummings was the one person near to him who really understood what these people felt & why they voted so, (also the originator of the winning phrase "Let's get Brexit done")

Cummings has now been ousted & the word around Whitehall is that it is at the behest of Boris' live in girlfriend & her green priorities has had him, at this of all times, to announce the banning of petrol car sales in 9 year's time. This shows - along with many other things- the singular lack of priorities which has been demonstrating since he took office.

He is a man who can't be decisive, & without Cummings he will finish with a watered down BRINO. He wanted desperately a job which his way beyond his abilities. He wants to wear the hat, bit it doesn't fit.

[emmie]

i asked why you have changed your mind, now you have explained.
who would you put in charge if you had the choice.

[emmie]

would you rather have had Labour in charge by the way.

[diddlydo]

Yes obviously.

[emmie]

wasn't asking you to be fair but the once supporter of Boris and his party

[gulliver1]

08.37 Khandro , very good summing up of the situation
Also your prediction of Boris "ending up with a watered down BRINO", is about as good as Brexit will get.

[Bobbisox1]

People like yourself Khandro ( among others on here) never ever come up with someone they think could lead us out of this, all yous do is bang on with the same thing time after time
Well?

[emmie]

to be fair our poster supported as he said Boris for a long while, he has changed his mind.. Not unheard of

[iluvmargie]

I too have changed my mind, but I do keep coming back to 'what would Corbyn have done' and I have to admit, probably not much better.

[Khandro]

A million jobs have gone since the first lockdown with probably a million more when the furlough money runs out. Millions are facing financial ruin & turn to the PM for leadership & are told how they will be using hydrogen power to cook their breakfasts in 2030 due to a green revolution & their islands will be the, "Saudi Arabia of wind".

Official figures show how there has been a surge in loneliness & isolation, people don't know what their lives will look like come the spring let alone 2030.

Businesses & individuals are 8 weeks from the Brexit deadline & no one has a clue where they stand, I'm sorry but, how ever you look at it, this is chaotic leadership. Amen.

[emmie]

so you change tack, party, could they honestly have done anything differently, except for Brexit this covid 19 has caused havoc