Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[FridgeMagnet]

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

They aren't actually offended anyway.

 

[agricola]

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

I suppose we should all be grateful that Johnson hasn't shot himself, or young Max would be sending statements in to CNN attacking the protection officers for them not stopping the assassin who was taking aim at the PM.

 

[Wilf]

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 rattack on the right to strike on the railways has hit the jackpot thanks to the RMT panic.

Agree entirely. Worst bit of what Hedley said was that it sounded a bit childish. Far better if he'd said he wouldn't be 'wallowing in grief' if johnson did die. Which if I remember right was the phrase johnson himself came out with about Liverpool after the murder of a convoy driver who was was beheaded by Isis. But yeah, that's a dreadful response by RMT. They had an open goal to link johnson surviving with the fate of those those he's condemned to death through lack of testing, PPE, too late lockdown...

 

[Lurdan]

Toby Young pays tribute to Boris, Man of Destiny in the Spectator :

It’s his sense of public duty that has landed him in this hole. People who don’t know him, and even some who do, talk disapprovingly of his arrogance and vaulting ambition. But the man I’ve known for more than 35 years contains multitudes, of which Richard III is only one. Henry V is also in there, one of his better angels. He cannot resist the pull of obligation to his country, the need to be of service.

(...)

I’ve often wondered what it must be like for him to be prime minister during his country’s darkest hour since the second world war. As I got to know him, it became clear that he saw himself as having a historic role to play in our island story. In politics, that doesn’t make him particularly unusual — you’d be amazed how many obscure backbench MPs entertain fantasies of becoming prime minister. Much rarer is Boris’s ability to inspire others with this belief. Even those who disliked him, who thought he was over-rated, could never completely write him off.

And those of us who’ve been closely following his career, watching him fulfil his destiny, came to believe it was all wrapped up with Brexit. That winning the EU referendum, then the leadership, then the election, had all led inexorably to the role he was born for. This was the pivotal moment in Britain’s history where he would bend events to his will and shape our future for decades to come. And yet we were wrong, or at least not entirely right. That may still be his most important contribution, but in the meantime providence has something else in mind, something even more challenging.

I am not a man of faith, but at moments like this you realise you’re still animated by certain core, irrational beliefs. One of those is a kind of mystical belief in Britain’s greatness and her ability to occasionally bring forth remarkable individuals — ordinary men and women of extraordinary ability, to paraphrase Bagehot — who can serve her at critical junctures. I’ve always thought of Boris as one of those people — not just suspected it, but known it in my bones. And in spite of his shrinking odds of survival, I still cannot bring myself to doubt. Britain isn’t finished with you yet, Boris. You will come back to us, full of strength and vigour, larger than life like never before. You must.

Hope Toby washed his hands after tossing that off.

 

[two sheds]

:throwingupsmiley:

 

[cupid_stunt]

:throwingupsmiley:

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is BOC still making it or is it all imported?

BOC still delivers to St. Thomas's.

 

[Ax^]

why is th

Toby Young pays tribute to Boris, Man of Destiny in the Spectator :


(...)




Hope Toby washed his hands after tossing that off.

Cunt in Favour of Eugenics manages to out do his own level of bullshite

Compariing some daft twat shaking hands with patients in a Hospital Ward to the battle of Agnicourt

 

[Ax^]

Is BOC still making it or is it all imported?

other companies making it in the united kingdom

 

[keybored]

Toby Young pays tribute to Boris, Man of Destiny in the Spectator :


(...)




Hope Toby washed his hands after tossing that off.

OK after reading that I do want Johnson to die, if only to see what Young would churn out then.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Toby Young pays tribute to Boris, Man of Destiny in the Spectator :


(...)




Hope Toby washed his hands after tossing that off.

There's an evergreen response that bears repeating here.

 

[agricola]

Toby Young pays tribute to Boris, Man of Destiny in the Spectator :


(...)




Hope Toby washed his hands after tossing that off.

TBF saying Henry V was one of someone's better angels would be a fairly damning thing to say about them.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Good question. The charity I work for was the first to step in in Lambeth and answer thousands of calls for food/medication/essential repairs etc... We literally had to create services overnight on top of the other work we already do...the local council have now stepped up but we are hundreds of calls a day still and copping a lot of flack because some people don't understand we haven't got the power to make supermarkets give them delivery slots or that the support on offer isn't equivalent to the shop you would do if could go to the shops yourself.

We even had one woman turn the shopping she asked for away because her Iceland shopping was delivered that same morning...she didn't even call to cancel her order with us and literally slammed the door in the delivery volunteer's face. Lots of stuff like this but thankfully still a minority.

There are lots of grateful, albeit anxious people who are understanding and know they need to lower their expectations a little.


I shall be spending the foreseeable future of my working life calling Shield/red cohort patients from the 6 GP practices I work for...making sure they have access to essentials like money/food/medicine/necessary repairs/telephone befriending, reporting priority safeguarding/care issues etc. Needs must.

The underfunding of local councils isn't a new thing and is absolutely reflected in just how much local charities are having to pick up the slack now and before the corona virus pandemic started.

Hmm, a question, if I may, re: repairs.

I have a neighbour who has no heating or hot water, and who has a "vulnerable person" (registered under the C19 criteria, due to kidney failure) in their home. They've been told that their heating system needs a "power flush" (that they have job number for), which will happen on 28th April. In the interim, they're being told "boil kettles of water to wash in". This seems to me like they - the council & their contractors - are fudging repair priorities. As far as I recall, lack of heating and/or hot water is a top priority job, and if so, I want to make sure the council treat it as such. Neighbours have already been without either for 3 days. Is there a way (outwith the usual bugging the housing officer over the weekend) I can push this forward, that you can think of?

 

[Cerv]

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

Oh fuck the fuck off.

there’s a finite supply of covid-19 to go around. once the ammunition’s used up, it’s gone. Johnson taking one for the team has spared someone else getting infected.

or it’s the opposite and Johnson’s reckless disregard for medical advice to avoid infection has made it likely he’s spread the virus to others.
hard to tell really.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Other organs may need support.

The syphilis is finally taking a toll.

 

[Sue]

There's an evergreen response that bears repeating here.

I love Kathy Burke.

 

[Wilf]

OK after reading that I do want Johnson to die, if only to see what Young would churn out then.

Late to the party, but we in the Wish Him Dead Club accept your membership application.

 

[existentialist]

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 :







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.”

Doesn't seem that unreasonable to me - it's an opinion, and an understandable one from his perspective.

A world in which union leaders were doing the same kind of sanitised PR that political parties thrive on would be the poorer for it.

 

[Wilf]

there’s a finite supply of covid-19 to go around. once the ammunition’s used up, it’s gone. Johnson taking one for the team has spared someone else getting infected.

or it’s the opposite and Johnson’s reckless disregard for medical advice to avoid infection has made it likely he’s spread the virus to others.
hard to tell really.

Yes he, literally, wiped it on himself.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nadine Dorries outright lie of a tweet really does sum the whole sycophantic dribble up.


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Round here, #ClapForBoris was met with resounding silence. The one for the NHS, and the ones for carers though, they produces tumultuous applause and cheering for about 5 minutes.

Dorries had probably been *sniffing the sherry cork just before she heard "whistling, cheering and shouting".

*By which I obviously mean "caning the fuck out of an ounce of weed, and a bottle of Wray & Nephew Overproof".

 

[keybored]

Late to the party, but we in the Wish Him Dead Club accept your membership application.

I was only joking.



He's been on my stiff wishlist for years.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The boss

Are we saying that C19 was "born in the USA", then?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Me either. Gutted.

I got 2.

 

[Sue]

I got 2.

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[ViolentPanda]

His favourite tune is actually something unspeakable by cliff Richard, they're just making it out to he the Beatles to make him seem human.

"Wired for Sound", I've no doubt.

 

[ViolentPanda]

'I've stubbed me toe, could you play something by Killing Joke for me on Newsnight? Maybe not I am the Virus'.

If Johnson had a fave KJ track, it'd be chosen by the title, so probably "Follow the Leader".

 

[Part-timah]

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

I can’t imagine the rank and file of the RMT will want to see SH suspended.

Anyone wanting top Tories to live lack basic human decency.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Isn't the prescribed Bullingdon therapy the blood of orphan peasant children?

Jim, I'm disappointed!

It's blatantly the blood of peasant children with parents, just to cause that extra bit of peasant suffering!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Also need to be aware of the distinction between “he sat himself up” and “someone adjusted his bed”

They're probably eliding the "h" in "sat".

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm betting it'll be a private bed OFF OF a general ward.
The care Greebo got in ICU at St Toms was great. The care she got on a general ward there, after she was well enough to leave ICU, was absolutely fucking appalling.