Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[William of Walworth]

I agree with some who've posted critically in response to Edie ....

She said "Whatever his politics ... " but it's exactly his brand of Tory politics that has brought the NHS to this pass, and Boris Johnson personally has a whole lot to do with all the mis-steps, mistakes and delays concerning this pandemic.

He is personally (and the Government collectively) responsible for the UK's outbreak becoming so bad.

I'm fucked if we 're somehow "not allowed" to criticise him just because he's been unfortunate enough to get this horrible disease -- plenty of others have caught it because of him.

No-one on this thread is wishing him dead! (I'm certainly not).

A few have come pretty close to be fair, but the overwhelming majority, rather than wishing him dead, are either taking the piss, criticisng his politics as poltics, or both.

One solution suggested above was for Edie to put this particular thread on ignore. Good idea.
I really hope she continues posting, as she has a lot of good stuff and information to offer, but probably better and nicer for her to do so on other threads.

Boris Johnson -- I might hope he recovers, and I do, but criticism of him and pisstaking him really isn't worthy of a flounce.

 

[Santino]

In good spirits can be an ominous term.
Nelson's body was brought back from Trafalgar in a barrel of rum or brandy (historians dispute which it was).

But what about the Irish border?

 

[frogwoman]

Yeah I'll definitely carry on criticising him but I can understand why health workers don't wanna see that stuff at the moment tbh.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Do we know he definitely not in icu?

 

[Marty1]

Got to agree with you Edie , I despise the guy as a politician but don't wish him dead. He's expecting a kid as well.

Maybe the few posters that have wished Boris dead are just playing to the gallery?

Cabin fever + (perhaps) alcohol can bring the bravado out in some ‘hold me back’ types.

 

[William of Walworth]

Yeah I'll definitely carry on criticising him but I can understand why health workers don't wanna see that stuff at the moment tbh.

I do get that, but one or two of the health workers I know here would, when they have some rare time off from their professional duties, be taking the piss out of him just as much as some have on this thread. (Gallows humour and so forth).
There can't be many Boris-fan NHS workers, especially not right now. None of them, nor us, actually want hom dead though.

 

[Pickman's model]

I agree with some who've posted critically in response to Edie ....

She said "Whatever his politics ... " but it's exactly his brand of Tory politics that has brought the NHS to this pass, and Boris Johnson personally has a whole lot to do with all the mis-steps, mistakes and delays concerning this pandemic.

He is personally (and the Government collectively) responsible for the UK's outbreak becoming so bad.

I'm fucked if we 're somehow "not allowed" to criticise him just because he's been unfortunate enough to get this horrible disease -- plenty of others have caught it because of him.

No-one on this thread is wishing him dead! (I'm certainly not).

A few have come pretty close to be fair, but the overwhelming majority, rather than wishing him dead, are either taking the piss, criticisng his politics as poltics, or both.

One solution suggested above was for Edie to put this particular thread on ignore. Good idea.
I really hope she continues posting, as she has a lot of good stuff and information to offer, but probably better and nicer for her to do so on other threads.

Boris Johnson -- I might hope he recovers, and I do, but criticism of him and pisstaking him really isn't worthy of a flounce.

i am astonished that johnson has yet to achieve the obloquy and hostility aroused by the likes of margaret thatcher, john major and tony blair

 

[Teaboy]

Yeah I'll definitely carry on criticising him but I can understand why health workers don't wanna see that stuff at the moment tbh.

I've looked back through the thread and with the odd exception pretty much everyone is saying something along the lines of 'he's an absolute shit but I'm not wishing death on him'.

 

[frogwoman]

I've looked back through the thread and with the odd exception pretty much everyone is saying something along the lines of 'he's an absolute shit but I'm not wishing death on him'.

Yeah I know.

 

[Pickman's model]

He might do yeah but so will lots of ppl. that doesn't mean i would feel able to celebrate his death, this entire pandemic is a tragedy and I know of quite a few people who have died of this shit now. I admit I laughed when he was taken to hospital but that doesn't mean I want people to die. Its horrible when anyone dies.

tbh it is horrible when most people die but it's not horrible just because someone dies. cases in point: ian stuart donaldson. margaret thatcher. and i doubt many people here could summon up any unhappiness at the deaths of the likes of pol pot, adolf hitler, benito mussolini, osama bin laden. there are some people who are improved by death. this isn't to say that most deaths aren't a tragedy. but there are also some that are a positive cause for celebration. Johnson may yet end up among this select band

 

[brogdale]

Maybe the few posters that have wished Boris dead are just playing to the gallery?

Cabin fever + (perhaps) alcohol can bring the bravado out in some ‘hold me back’ types.

Trolley lad reckons some posters are "playing to the gallery".
Top lad.

 

[LDC]

The fact he has it also means he's most likely infected other people and then them others etc which is pretty shit. And he'll end up using scarce resources that I'd rather weren't taken up. So overall I'd rather he just didn't have it.

 

[Sprocket.]

Well he's tweeted now so he's definitely fine. That's going to look faintly sick at his funeral that is.

His epitaph the opposite of Milligan’s, Spike, not Steven.
“I told you I wasn’t ill”

 

[Wilf]

The fact he has it also means he's most likely infected other people and then them others etc which is pretty shit. And he'll end up using scarce resources that I'd rather weren't taken up.

It's impossible to know when/where he actually contracted it, but seeking out and shaking hands with people already diagnosed with coronavirus was beyond stupid. Beyond stupid because it shockingly irresponsible. It's equally impossible to say where/when raab, cummings, that science bod and carrie symonds got it, but the timings must put johnson in pole position as a superspreader.

 

[Pickman's model]

His epitaph the opposite of Milligan’s, Spike, not Steven.
“I told you I wasn’t ill”

or
Posterity will ne'er survey a nobler site than this
Here lie bones of Boris J
Stop traveller and piss

 

[JimW]

Weirdly not reporting it in China yet. They've even had the Queen's speech up in full on my regular news portal and there's been a wealth of schadenfreude reporting on the situation in the UK including incredulity at herd immunity. Him and his partner getting sick was most commented story for a day or two. At a guess they're nervous of anything that smacks of a fall in the established order but who knows?

ETA scratch that, just started cropping up

 

[quimcunx]

I not so sure about the near death assumptions. Many people will have symptoms beyond the allotted 7 days and may feel bad enough to have a visit from paramedics but not be admitted to hospital, or not at first. But this is the prime minister so I think rather than them trying to avoid taking him to hospital they have taken him in and put him on oxygen where they might not have for me or you.

 

[nogojones]

Got to agree with you Edie , I despise the guy as a politician but don't wish him dead. He's expecting a kid as well.

Maybe he'll treat this one with more regard than the others he's fathered

 

[Marty1]

tbh it is horrible when most people die but it's not horrible just because someone dies. cases in point: ian stuart donaldson. margaret thatcher. and i doubt many people here could summon up any unhappiness at the deaths of the likes of pol pot, adolf hitler, benito mussolini, osama bin laden. there are some people who are improved by death. this isn't to say that most deaths aren't a tragedy. but there are also some that are a positive cause for celebration. Johnson may yet end up among this select band

Comparing BJ to Hitler?

Lol, top banter mate, let me buy you a pint etc

 

[existentialist]

Comparing BJ to Hitler?

Lol, top banter mate, let me buy you a pint etc

He's not suggesting BJ is Hitler, though, is he? He's offering examples of unpopular leaders whose death did not result in huge amounts of mourning.

Whether or not you agree with him, your attempt to get in a bit of gratuitous pearl-clutching is a little bit invidious, to say the least. Not to say hypocritical, give your parrotting of quite a few seriously unsavoury Trump lines...

 

[Pickman's model]

Comparing BJ to Hitler?

Lol, top banter mate, let me buy you a pint etc

you're very definitely not the sharpest tool in the box

 

[existentialist]

you're very definitely not the sharpest tool in the box

I think he actually got left OUT of the box. He's that bent screwdriver whose only practical use is levering lids off paint tins, and stirring the paint.

 

[Marty1]

He's not suggesting BJ is Hitler, though, is he? He's offering examples of unpopular leaders whose death did not result in huge amounts of mourning.

Wat?!

but there are also some that are a positive cause for celebration. Johnson may yet end up among this select band

Anyway, if you read this thread without checking the news you’d think BJ was about to receive the death sentence at some Nuremberg trial equivalent.

 

[Treacle Toes]

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He's here apparently.

 

[existentialist]

Sort your quoting out.

And the very post from Pickman's that you quote says exactly what I'm saying. And does not equate BJ to Hitler. Stop being a twat.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wat?!





Anyway, if you read this thread without checking the news you’d think BJ was about to receive the death sentence at some Nuremberg trial equivalent.

Like Hitler, you mean?

 

[killer b]

I'm fucked if we 're somehow "not allowed" to criticise him just because he's been unfortunate enough to get this horrible disease -- plenty of others have caught it because of him.

No one's said anything like this tbf. A few people have just said it's bad taste to wish him dead, and

No-one on this thread is wishing him dead! (I'm certainly not).

they definitely are.

 

[philosophical]

But what about the Irish border?

The solution to the border is down to those who voted brexit.

 

[Wilf]

I can't claim to speak on behalf of the whole Wishing Boris Johnson Dead community...

Actually, I'm not really a fully paid up member, didn't pay my subs for a couple of months and now I can't vote in the leadership election.

 

[Wilf]

The solution to the border is down to those who voted brexit.

I'm going with 6 feet apart (I think we got rid of metres after Brexit).