Any Boris Fans Still Out There?

[diddlydo]

Does Boris have any support amongst thinking people?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/18/sinking-without-trace-rightwing-press-turns-on-boris-johnson-coronavirus

[naomi24]

As much call as for diddly's implication that anyone who supports Boris is a non-thinker.

[eve1974]

I am
NO fan of tories!

However... I think Boris is doing an okay job in unprecedented times. *spits n washes mouth out with soap*

It galls me to say it but I can’t think of any current alternative in the other parties.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Why do people set any store by what the Guardian or any other blatantly anti government media says. Tying your question to such obviously biased reporting does no credit.

[fiveleaves]

Boris has always been about bluster and artful ambiguity. That is all coming apart now. I doubt if he will be PM by next April

[dannyk13]

Unfortunately this pandemic has got Boris stuck between a rock an a hard place.Does he allow it to run rife or does he invoke measures that will damage the economy?

[dannyk13]

fiveleaves //. I doubt if he will be PM by next April//
But who would replace him?

[naomi24]

I don't want him replaced.

[Bobbisox1]

I'm with Boris and won't jump ship jump because papers like the Guardian print their carp,I knew when I opened my iPad just now that this could be one of at least of the anti Tory trio who posted this ,I wasn't wrong

[dannyk13]

Naomi //I don't want him replaced.//
Nor me, I just hope that this pandemic will end in time for him to get on with governing the country.

[Old_Geezer]

Apart from where catching a dose of cov has turned his head, and left him doing more erroneous fire-fighting than planning a strategy to return to normality; he isn't doing too badly. He's still probably the best option for PM in what appeared to be the only party willing to support democracy when the time came.

[ichkeria]

Like I said earlier: it’s not just the “left wing” media.
It’s the Times, it’s the Spectator for heaven’s sake!

If I wanted a campaign running I’d get Dominic Cummings in like a shot and the PM to do the speeches.
Then when it was won, I’d get someone else to run things :-)
Cummings probably hates the Tory Party . He seems to hate everything remotely institutional.
You can’t run government like that. But at least a few more competent cabinet members would help.

Naomi btw your comment was ad hominem (ad feminam)
That’s the difference.
But let’s let it lie.

[naomi24]

Oh right, Ich. It's acceptable to denigrate a whole group - but not one. I see. I guess it depends which side of the political fence you sit on. That's only a guess mind.

[iluvmargie]

I've got mixed feelings now, but I'll admit I wouldn't want to be in his position.

[naomi24]

Would anyone, Margie? Easy to criticise but his is a thankless and unenviable task.

[iluvmargie]

It is.

[poorclare]

YES

[fiction-factory]

>It’s the Times, it’s the Spectator for heaven’s sake!

There has been a feud between Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson since the start of this year. Remember the stories in The Sunday Times which number 10 said were false? https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeydurso/rupert-murdoch-sunday-times-boris-johnson-coronavirus

[askyourgran]

Can't think of a decent alternative, certainly not KS. Boris has had to deal with unprecedented problems for a new(ish) PM, and expected to visit floods, Factories and pestilence, being a victim of Covid himself. He broke the deadlock of Brexit and it is not surprising that he has the nerve to tweak the leave Agreement a little more.

[ichkeria]

"There has been a feud between Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson since the start of this year"

??
Rupert Murdoch doesn't write Times leaders.
And he doesn't own the Spectator

[gulliver1]

Boris said on TV, We are going to do millions of Covid tests a day. In Documents Compiled by Boris's Govt,
the figure was put at ten million a day.
When Questioned about this by, The Commons Liason Committee. Boris Answered " I Don't recognise those figures. " How can people trust the man.