Boris Promises To Jab 13 Million People In Six Weeks.

[Sunk]

Hope he does.
That is 2 million plus a week until mid February.
It is Boris’s own goal, no one has told him to do this.

I can’t help but think this is over ambitious. I’d love that to happen, but I would be surprise if they managed to do it. 8 or 9 million if we are lucky.

This happened in April when Johnson kept saying there would be so many test in a month, and he was always miles off the target.

Why doesn’t Johnson just give an achievable realistic prediction and do it.
The worst thing anyone can do is over promise, and under deliver. But Boris keeps doing that.

[Canary42]

He's a compulsive liar, just says what he thinks people want to hear (classic Con-man behaviour).

[ummmm]

That doesn't make him a compulsive liar. It's an aim...and hopefully the country will achieve it. He's not the one giving out the vaccines, Canary!!!

[Barsel]

Let's hope that now the army are involved, they will make sure the vaccines are delivered on time, that there will be enough vaccines for all, and that they are administered as quickly as possible. If not, I think a word from the brigadier will carry more weight than a word from Hancock.

[jno]

he does make his own job harder by over-promising, so then people lose faith in him. He should act more quickly but talk more slowly. His blather about world-beating test and trace systems blew up in his face badly; the same for his claims that it would be all over by summer, or by Christmas.

If he had promised to have 8 million people inoculated, then everyone would be delighted if the figure turned out to be higher. If he promises 13 million and it turns out lower they'll just be annoyed.

[ichkeria]

Exactly
But I hope, as usual, that this time he’s right

[bobbinwales]

Maybe theres a get out clause as doesn't he says its the target to OFFER it to 13 million. It sounds over ambitious to me but maybe if he'd said 8 million Sunk would of been on saying its nowhere near fast enough

[piggynose]

Be careful sunk. You could be accused of being anti british.

[TheChair]

Can anyone name a promise he's actually kept?
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-broken-manifesto-election-promises-2019-11

[Theland]

We are far far better at jabbing than Europia.

[Ken4155]

^
Totally irrelevant.

[dannyk13]

I watched Boris's announcement regarding innoculations and I don't think that he used the word promise anywhere.

[ToraToraTora]

....oh dear another Anti British Love in. Do any of you lot have anything other than continually slagging the PM off? If he'd announced a lesser figure you'd be saying he wasn't ambitions enough. What a nasty lot you are.

[ToraToraTora]

ken, 08:57, cobras, it's not irrelevant, these anti British types would be having a go if our vaccinations were behind the EUSSR. As it happens we have done more than double the whole lot, yet our fifth column attack us not their beloved EUSSR.

[ummmm]

Oi, stop it, TTT, nothing I said was anti anything or anyone else for that matter.

Maybe it's time for you to have a break from the internet!!

[Ken4155]

TTT, cobras to you, too. Vaccinating those most vulnerable to the Covid virus is a race against time, not against other countries. The fact that we are out-performing the rest of Europe means diddly-squat, imho, and that is not Anti-British.

[ToraToraTora]

ummm: "Maybe it's time for you to have a break from the internet!!" - you too love, don't tell me what to do. I'm not having a break I'm attacking every day, every anti british post.

[ToraToraTora]

09:38, it just serves as an indicator to me as to who is in the fifth column. If it were the other way round they'd be having a go about that too.

[ToraToraTora]

"Vaccinating those most vulnerable to the Covid virus is a race against time,", yes and in Europe we are winning by miles yet all we get is a load of verbal from our fifth columnists.

[riptide]

Well, when you have some idiots turning down the Pfizer vaccine to wait for the British one what hope is there, they should be put to the back of the queue.

[ummmm]

No you're not, TTT, you're seeing what is not there, you're reading posts wrongly, you're offensive and insulting.

Give it a bloody rest.