moonay
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Reet ........fair enough if you think I'm being a little picky here, but I think this is a fair question.. ..... who the **** has been in charge up till now? .....
Not at all surprised you have a direct "love" phone line to SKSSee Hampton ........... I have a hotline to SKS ......... the first question asked at PMQs was the one I posed above.
That was a truly awful performance by Johnson today. He looked flustered and under pressure, probably due to being ill informed and embarrassed.
The fact that he had to associate himself with Starmer's comments re George Floyd rather than leading on it himself is disgraceful.
As you yourself said last week he is in danger of making your man look competent
Pity you didn’t read the Telegraph article Moonay, as you’d know it is a change in structure to manage the crisis going forward.
I thought Boris was very good today. Took no shit from Starmer and left him flustered and embarrassed.
I know Labour has been left behind by an inability to produce slogans so I’m glad Boris has taken this task on board for Starmer - Agree, U turn, Criticise
It's like a little kid being proud of a big turd.
So........who was "in direct control" before then?
You can't be serious. No reasonable person can have watched that and come to any other conclusion than Johnson was in a flap. I know you feel compelled to still defend him, but surely, you have to draw a line.
Let's just finish on what Johnson said about being proud of his record re the virus. Have a look at the timeline, the deaths, the management of everything and then the comparisons, with elsewhere.
It's like a little kid being proud of a big turd.
That is a headline - referenced by the writers assumption he wasn’t in control whilst admitted to intensive care and then recuperating. It seems whoever wrote it succeeded in their aim of garnering attention from the desperate.
A change in tactics from Boris. Starmer is used to pontificating in court. What he isn’t accustomed to is direct attacks on his pontificating and this left him flustered and ill at ease. Boris won that exchange hands down. I can’t believe you think otherwise.
What I have understood is that is a very difficult situation to manage, an unprecedented health crisis and that challenges and hurdles have been overcome. All despite the perennial losers whinging and complaining at every action and decision taken willing failure. Of course there will be a time for reflection, analysing what went well, what didn’t, what could have been done differently but that won’t distract from the enormous challenges faced and the efforts gone into tackling it. He’s survived a spell in intensive care, a media lynch mob trying to oust his advisor and the usual left wing hysteria and is still standing and running the country. It’s gonna be a long 4 1/2 years for some.
And he's been (supposedly) back in charge for how long? ........... Still a reasonable question.
As for the "attention for the desperate" comment .....I'll give you credit, .....you don't give up ea
There's just no point discussing this para. It'll end in pages of disagreement, for no purpose. Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but if that's what you really believe, then fine, but I shalln't be engaging any more.
I see the Johnson bluster is rubbing off. Such a shame.
It was a headline, nothing more. It obviously worked as you gleefully seized upon it without knowing the content of the article. Big tick for the headline writer I guess..
Probably for the best..
That would be the bluster that helped win the referendum, the position of PM, the Brexit deal and then a big general election victory. All those arguments you and the left were on the wrong end of which has resulted in a loss of perspective and reason. As you say such a shame.
Well, it wasn't a sufficiently big enough tick to entice me to pay to read the whole article, so it maybe didn't work that well.
I see, just like the PM, you've (still) not answered the question either ............... I'll give you a clue ....... I suspect the answer is summat to do with Barnard Castle.
Yaaaay ....... but you were still blustering.
I see it's being reported that Johnson (yet again) wasn't "totally" honest at PMQs. He gave the impression when he said to Starmer that he'd "rung him" that it was a one to one call ........ in fact it's been confirmed by No 10 that it was a call involving all Opposition leaders.
Same old BJ ......always lying.
What question have I failed to answer, I don’t recall there being one?
If you categorise bluster as being rational, proportional and not joining the hysteria then fair enough.
He was hardly lying. He was conversing with all opposition leaders via phone. Of course this was in response to Starmer waving his confidential letter around. Hardly confidential and published moments after he says he’d make it available. Boris should be wary, it’s clear he’s oppo can’t be trusted with confidential information. It was the save with his predecessor publishing confidential government documents during the election campaign.
Same old labour, can’t be trusted
So....who was in "direct control" then? From the article, it seems to be starting to give credit to the temporarily visually impaired motorist.
m not really sure which bits of your defence of the indefensible, and whinging at the whingers you consider rational, but hey, it's your opinion.
What on earth are you babbling about? Regardless, if you carried on listening after Starmer, I think there were 2 more instances of Johnson not replying to correspondence he'd been sent ages ago. It seems that he's just not very good at getting back to people ........... or maybe he just doesn't do very much all day.
I'd rather pin my trust on Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, rather than Boris Johnson and his bandwagon .................not so much Breaking down the walls of heartache, and more Blame it on the Pony (and trap) Express.
I’m surprised you don’t know the answer. Scrap that, I’m not.
Except it it’s not indefensible, you just want it to be as it supports your narrative. I think you’ve been seduced by twitter and have forgotten alternative opinions and views are allowed in this country..
Or maybe he’s been busy dealing with a national crisis and is prioritising. And I’m guessing responding to a letter from Starmer isn’t a high priority. He’s now assured he doesn’t need to as whatever he shares confidentially with him won’t remain that way. Shameful from Starmer..
I expected it from Steptoe, you wouldn’t trust him to run a bath. However I did expect a former solicitor to have more cognisance of the need for confidentiality. Sending what he says is a confidential letter then moments later publishing it is just proof he can’t be trusted. I honestly expected better. New Labour leader, same old problems.
and still no answer .......... you're getting more like Johnson every day.
I'm not attacking your opinions at all .
He's been too busy helping protect his puppeteer you mean.
You blame Starmer for not being more supportive, but when he does offer help, it's just ignored. I don't blame him for being pissed off.
You do realise that it wasn't confidential in a security sense .......... merely a gesture to protect Johnson from any embarrassment by having to either accept or decline the offer in public. That's all. Nothing at all wrong in Starmer making it public ........especially when Johnson was getting uppity about Starmer not being supportive. Johnson continually puts 'em on a plate for Starmer to put in the back of the net.
World beating test, track and trace system ........ doing wonderfully ........ but we've no (publicised) data to show.
We've gone from early 70s soul to mid 80s soft rock ................ Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
Shame old crap, how about
saying something about all these idiots in London and other city’s protesting. They will be spreading this more than any thing. Same locally have the police gone in hiding groups of youths everywhere. It’s a British thing we don’t like being told what to do Only good thing for the NHS. Sat nights now are a safe and nice to work. No drunken idiots to see