Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[danny la rouge]

What happens now, in the middle of a crisis if Johnson is not at all well, for weeks lets say, but has no plans to let go of his power?

Raab will deputise.

 

[bimble]

Deputising is not the same as taking over the job of being pm though is it, apparently Raab can’t make decisions (not him personally his role & our constitution).

 

[danny la rouge]

Deputising is not the same as taking over the job of being pm though is it, apparently Raab can’t make decisions (not him personally his role & our constitution).

He can though. Callaghan was running the Labour government before Wilson resigned.

 

[gentlegreen]

Deputising is not the same as taking over the job of being pm though is it, apparently Raab can’t make decisions (not him personally his role & our constitution).

Our inconveniently unwritten one ...

 

[platinumsage]

Raab can only make decisions so far as he has sufficient support from cabinet. If there is major disagreement he may lack the political authority that a PM has to force things through.

 

[brogdale]

"#getwellsoonboris"

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just shouted "fuck you!" at the radio at the news that Stanley Johnson wants to thank the NHS.

Now I feel like a terrible person because they are human beings after all and the staff looking after Boris are, of course, amazing.

But you know - fuck you Stanley

 

[Pickman's model]

This is where we're headed next i think, because he is not going to be leaping out of bed feeling fine anytime soon but we do not have a clear system set up to deal with this situation like other countries do.

The writer there pulled this bit out of Johnson's book about his hero;
"In his 2015 book, The Churchill Factor, Johnson wrote that Britain’s prime minister carried on “through sheer force of will” after his 1953 stroke, insisting on trying to organise a summit between the Americans and Russians. “The story of Churchill’s last years in office is not of some giant red sun, heat gone, sinking slowly out of sight,” Johnson wrote. “He is no volcano puttering himself to extinction. He is Tennyson’s Ulysses - always struggling, striving, seeking: always convinced that some deed of note may yet be done. It is a story of unbelievable courage and willpower - and cunning.”.

What happens now, in the middle of a crisis if Johnson is not at all well, for weeks lets say, but has no plans to let go of his power?

the same thing that would happen with him, drift, confusion, and many, many people dying needlessly

 

[chainsawjob]

where's the throwing up smiley?

Just reading the BBC site.

Stanley Johnson told the BBC's Today: "He took one for the team and we've got to make sure we play properly now."

Also in need of a vomming smilie for this one. Or a punching one.

 

[Yossarian]

I don't think leaving the goal unguarded, suggesting that the other team be allowed to score as much as they want until they're tired out, then narrowly avoiding scoring an own goal fits the usual definition of "taking one for the team."

 

[Ax^]

shortly little video of Boris Johnson has handled the Covid situation

 

[ska invita]

" Some in Downing Street believe that he may need as long as a month to return to work and even then may have to make a gradual return to full duties." according to the Times thats a lot of daily "improving" briefings

 

[Lord Camomile]

shortly little video of Boris Johnson has handled the Covid situation

OG by the video creator, at least 4-5 of those aren't OGs, just 'keeper fumbles.

 

[souljacker]

Just reading the BBC site.

Stanley Johnson told the BBC's Today: "He took one for the team and we've got to make sure we play properly now."

Posh cunts always seem to be able to liken everything in life to the u15s rugger match they played in once. What what old bean!

 

[Ax^]

OG by the video creator, at least 4-5 of those aren't OGs, just 'keeper fumbles.

Work for Johnson also

 

[existentialist]

" Some in Downing Street believe that he may need as long as a month to return to work and even then may have to make a gradual return to full duties." according to the Times thats a lot of daily "improving" briefings

Nah, all they have to do is get DWP to assess him, and he'll be back in harness sooner than you can say "zero points"

 

[klang]

Also in need of a vomming smilie for this one.

I've got a couple of spare diy kits stored away, have one:

+


pm for assembly instructions

 

[Saul Goodman]

Nice tweet from Carrie.

I see she's getting better with the paint brushes.

 

[keybored]

It's a good thing feeling nauseous isn't one of the tell-tale symptoms of coronavirus because there'd be a lot of confusion and panic over the coming days.

 

[prunus]

Just reading the BBC site.

Stanley Johnson told the BBC's Today: "He took one for the team and we've got to make sure we play properly now."

17th March:

Stanley Johnson: ‘Of course I’ll go to a pub if I need to go to a pub’

Whole family of despicable cunts.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Steve Hedley from RMT has been suspended by the union after offering his thoughts:

Senior RMT official suspended over 'unacceptable' comments about PM | ITV News

Steve Hedley is believed to have made comments on social media about Boris Johnson's condition. | ITV News London

www.itv.com

I don’t agree with SH comments, but it’s a massive error by the RMT to respond to the faux outrage of shit like The Sun and other media. The suspension, is a knee jerking sacrifice to those intrinsically opposed to the organised working class and who a) can’t wait to attack trade unions and b) will now step up the assaults as unions are seen to respond to them.

The objective here: to continue to construct a narrative of national grief for Johnson and also to other the RMT in advance of an attack on the right to strike on the railways has hit the jackpot thanks to the RMT panic.

 

[William of Walworth]

I liked your post, but the actual comments weren't quoted on that ITV link ...

 

[existentialist]

I liked your post, but the actual comments weren't quoted on that ITV link ...

That's probably part of the "national mourning" narrative - "the things he said were just so awful that we are not going to repeat them"

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I liked your post, but the actual comments weren't quoted on that ITV link ...

If you want the quotes you’ll have to google the sun. I’m not linking to it

 

[Lurdan]

Hedley's comments were apparently on a Facebook page and he was asked about them while he was on an LBC phone in. This page at LBC's website gives some details and the recording :

Mr Hedley, the Assistant General Secretary of the RMT Union, wrote on Facebook: "I don't want to offend you, but if Bojo pops his clogs, I'm throwing a party. I hope the whole cabinet and higher echelons of the Tory party have been touching various bits of him."

Maajid asked him: "Would you join me in expressing relief and joy that our Prime Minister has been taken out of intensive care?" Mr Hedley responded: "I've not come on your programme to discuss that. My views on Tory politicians are well known. They are not the views of my union and I've not come on to give me personal views.

Maajid pointed out he had given his personal views, by saying he'd throw a party if the PM died. At which point, the RMT chief hung up the phone.

The Sun gives more details of what the Facebook postings supposedly were :

Spoiler: Quotes from The Sun

When one follower pointed out that Boris could die, Hedley replied: “Yes - poor virus.”

One pal who works as a carer pulled him up over the rant and Hedley fired back: “Feel free to block me.

"I hope the whole cabinet of Tory b******s get it too.

“I don’t want to offend you but if Bojo pops his clogs I’m throwing a party.

“I hope the whole cabinet and higher echelons of the Tory party have been touching various bits of him.”

When another Facebook friend criticised him for the post and said “this is a human being we’re talking about”, Hedley replied: “Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were human beings too - would you use the same argument for them? “If people are offended by my posts feel free to block them.”

He added: “The question I’m asking is how far the compassion and humanity in your religion or any religion extends.

"I take it it doesn’t extend to Hitler who killed millions but it does to Boris who helped kill 130,000 through Tory austerity policies.

“I’ll cry no crocodile tears for people who’ve killed the working class and vulnerable for years and have mishandled this crisis so badly that NHS staff are dying because they have inadequate protective equipment and patients dying because there are not enough ventilators.”

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Apparently "If Bojo pops his clogs, I'm throwing a party." Pretty tame tbh.

 

[editor]

His dad claims that "Boris took one for the team."

Oh fuck the fuck off.

 

[Ax^]

Is he still applying for French citizenship after Supporting Brexit

 

[Lurdan]

Apparently "If Bojo pops his clogs, I'm throwing a party." Pretty tame tbh.

The comparison with Hitler might have caused some concern as well.

 

[2hats]

Cavalier with his own health, let alone millions of others?

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanks hospital staff, saying 'I owe them my life' | CNN

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a statement Saturday thanking the National Health Service staff at St. Thomas' Hospital following his treatment for coronavirus, saying "I can't thank them enough. I owe them my life," according to the UK Press Association.

edition.cnn.com