Frightening.

[gulliver1]

Boris Johnson's decision-making was "Bipolar" during Covid says Sir Patrick Valance.  My question is does anyone on AB agree with him ...I Do

[retrocop]

I don't think the bears had anything to do with it . No I don't agree with Valance

[Bobbisox1]

Is this from the drama you watched?

[gulliver1]

Sir Patrick also accuses Johnson of flip flopping his way through the covid crisis and cherry picking parts from his advice.It emerges also that Valance and Chris Whitty, Englands chief medical officer were not consulted over Sunaks, eat out to help out scheme .Had they been consulted they would have advised it was likely to increase transmission.

[Spungle]

Using "bipolar" as some sort of cheap insult doesnt work on any level, no.

[naomi24]

Where did you see this 'diagnosis'?

[gulliver1]

10.46  No ...But I Bet you watched it also .

[webbo3]

Link?

[naomi24]

gulliver.  This isn't 'News'.  You got it from the Channel 4 drama you watched last night.  That wasn't a factual documentary - it was a drama.  

[THECORBYLOON]

'Flip-flopping

In one damning diary extract, Sir Patrick wrote of Mr Johnson: “This flip-flopping is impossible. One minute do more, next do nothing.

 

“He doesn’t seem to push actual resolutions. Morning PM meeting, he wants everything normal by September, and then you deal with things locally and regionally.

 

“He’s now completely bullish on opening everything. As another person said, it’s so inconsistent. It’s like bipolar decision-making.”'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/03/downing-street-pandemic-covid-vallance/
 

[naomi24]

But that's just a personal attack, Corby, and somethng obviously picked up by Channel 4 to use as part of their drama.  It's not an official medical diagnosis.  It's just nasty.

[THECORBYLOON]

No-one claimed it was a diagnosis, did they?

[naomi24]

//Boris Johnson's decision-making was "Bipolar" during Covid says Sir Patrick Valance. //

 

^That sounds like a claim to me.

[bednobs]

bipolar has two meanings.

I read it as the other one to a diagnosed MH condition

[JDavis]

A drama based on factual evidence, naomi.

'Bipolar' is likely to have been a metaphor which was very apt in the circumstances.

[ToraToraTora]

stop feeding the troll peeps

[THECORBYLOON]

GULLIVER claimed the decision-making was "bi-polar" quoting from Vallance's comment and Vallance claimed, "It’s like bipolar decision-making.”

The claim is not a diagnosis and no-one claimed Johnson was bipolar as it was applied only to his decision-making.

 

[naomi24]

Whichever way you want to dress it up, Corby, it's nothing but a personal attack - and a nasty one at that.

[vulcan42]

gulliver fancies himself as the new sqad.

[gulliver1]

Naomi 11.03 Wrong again......."The Guardian"....

.......Engage before operating...Get it..

[Ellipsis]

> Is this from the drama you watched?

Patrick Vallance's comments were not from the Channel 4 programme last night. They were from diary entries released to the Covid inquiry. They were read out by the inquiry's lead counsel, Hugo Keith KC, as part of his opening statement on Tuesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66998218

The Channel 4 docudrama "Partygate" was helpful in showing the sequence of events, and the evidence, of the 14 known parties in 10 Downing Street during lockdowns, including the two separate ones on the night before Prince Philip's funeral.  If you wanted to know "Why oh why was poor Boris hounded out of first being the PM, and then being an MP?" then the programme gives an answer. Whether you like the answer is moot - the parties are listed here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59952395