Is It Time For Boris Johnson To Resign?

[dave50]

I voted for him in the election along with millions of others in the North of England, seeing as someone who seemed to understand and be on the same wavelength as us Northern working class folk. However during this crisis it seems he has always playing catch up, never leading and in thrall to his scientific advisers who seems to be setting policy at the moment. Now all the backstabbing going on in no. 10 and his girlfriend now seems to be running the show by the backdoor. I have no confidence he won't make a pigs ear out of distributing the vaccine. I think the new year would be a good time to go along with matt Hancock. Rishi sunak should take over.

[emmie]

some seem to forget he was very ill with Covid 19, and we have how many deaths now, 46,000 maybe more, hardly lucky

[douglas9401]

As a government they were given a chance to shine but seem to have mislaid the polish in all the kerfuffle.

[emmie]

covid, Brexit is not a kerfuffle.

[TrevorThePug]

Mislaid the polish and sold all the silver!

[emmie]

what silver...

[douglas9401]

Indeed emmie, more of a fine kettle of fish.

[TrevorThePug]

Exactly, what silver!

[10ClarionSt]

In the OP it says:

/never leading and in thrall to his scientific advisers/

I have been saying that for weeks. Johnson is not a leader. Leadership is something that is sadly lacking from him. Witty and Valance have had him dangling on a string throughout this pandemic. Johnson is only interested in power. This country will be paying through the nose for generations to come; that will be the legacy left by Bojo the Clown and future PMs will have to manage that.

In the meantime, yous is gonna pay for all a dis.
Income tax - up. VAT - up. Petrol tax - up. NI contributions - up. Start lining up the fall guys now, because Johnson will be laughing his armpit off at everyone as he sails away into the sunset. Which will be soon, I hope.

[emmie]

did we have any to start with, besides which if you want to cast stones, who sold off the Gold reserves, one Gordon Brown, who sold us a pack of lies over time, most notably on WMD Tony Blair, SKS wouldn't do any better, not now not ever.

[emmie]

10cs no he won't.

[Hymie]

ToraToraTora - I was not making a claim that Labour (or any other government) would do any better – just that this government has not got a clue what it is doing (your statement may give people the impression otherwise).

[douglas9401]

The WMD stuff was allegedly based on expert advice, as is the response to the virus.

Maybe experts are the problem with the world and not gullible politicians who listen to the wee head too much.

[TrevorThePug]

Exactly Hymie.

Why does an honest and accurate trashing of Johnson’s government lead people to assume one is a labour acolyte?

It’s almost a fanatical position and their ‘only’ counter argument.

10CS very true but he ‘needs’ to see Brexit through first. Can’t have any more rats jumping ship.

[ToraToraTora]

I wonder what agent Cob would have done!

[Ellipsis]

> we have how many deaths now, 46,000 maybe more

It was headline news the other day! We passed 50,000, the most in Europe.

So it's nice to discover that the focus in Number 10 is on infighting and backstabbing rather than dealing with Covid or Brexit.

No deal with the USA or EU yet negotiated (but we got one with Japan, woo-hoo).

How's the deal with the USA going? Who are we even dealing with now? How could we let negotiations run up to and through a US election?

With the EU, we need to agree a free trade deal before next Thursday, November 19th. This is the last possible date to enable the legislation to get through UK law and the EU council before January. It's not going to happen, or at least it seems very unlikely.

We have stumbled and bumbled our way into a no-deal Brexit, while our "leadership" was fighting among themselves. Boris has proven himself to be what he was suspected to be all along, an incompetent buffoon who couldn't manage a pee-up in a brewery, and we'll all be paying for it for many years to come. Those of us who don't run our own hedge funds, anyway ...

[Bobbisox1]

Belgium and Spain are above us deaths per 100,000 Ellipsis ,so we're not exactly the highest in Europe but I wish we figured the lowest , we all do

[Ellipsis]

Bobbi, if you're going to pull somebody up on an error, make sure it's their error and not yours! We have more deaths than any other country in Europe. Not deaths per 100,000 - deaths. Our total is over 50,000 and no other country in Europe has that many. This was headline news just the other day.

[TrevorThePug]

Good points Ellipsis, but you shouldn’t so easily dismiss the achievements of the Japan deal.

It secures the UK a future price for ‘soya sauce’....... at exactly the same price as it is now.

Don’t laugh, everything else will be be going up tenfold. So.... result.

[gulliver1]

Trump has gone , Cummings is going before the end of year, Boris will be next , Then Farage the MOUTH.
Can't wait.

[Ellipsis]

I'm very happy we got a deal with Japan. And it shows it could have been done with the USA and EU too.