BBC News - Peter Cruddas: PM overrules watchdog with Tory donor peerage
Corruption, Corruption, Corruption.
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Gillian Merron, Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews has been given a life peerage, nominated by Keir Starmer. Bought and paid for.
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Keir is probably thinking that is the deal of the century
Coincidentally, so is she.
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I see nothing wrong with pointing out that lauding Captain Sir whatever detracts from the fact that it shouldn’t be fucking necessary. Sainting the zimmer warrior won’t make Worzel Johnson’s hands less bloody.
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Quite. I note that Johnson has also yet to deliver an end to global poverty or to realise the dream of world peace.
If any prime minister ever had a claim to be cut some slack, Johnson is it. It’s beyond me to understand how anyone could think otherwise. I’m not a fan, for the record I was appalled when it came down to him as the last tory standing, but that’s what happens when you let people vote. FFS, he had the mire of the brexit negotiations to deal with and had covid thrown at him from practically day 1, are we really saying he ought to have solved the chronic funding issues of the NHS at the same time?? FFS.
Given that his lot are the main cause of it then I’d say that it’s not unreasonable to say this. IMHO
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4 year olds who dribble their dinner get given some slack. PM’s with 100K deaths on their watch? Not so much.
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So, he’s personally to blame for the underfunding of the NHS then, is he? To the point where he, personally, has “blood on his hands”? Simply on the basis that he was elected tory leader a year and a half ago?
He’s a Tory and he has supported Tory policy for years, all of which has seen the NHS underfunded. He has also avoided Cobra meetings, lauded herd immunity, locked down too late, opened up too early, failed to secure borders, shaken hands with Covid patients, spaffed 22 billion on track and trace, fuck knows how much on empty unstaffed Nightengale hospitals, failed on PPE from American jewellers and Turkish chancers, funnelled fuck knows how much money to tory donors, supported cummings’ lockdown wanderings and given the cunt a raise and generally been the worst cunt possible we could have in charge. Apart from that he’s doing a blinding job.
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Despite the appalling death toll, apparently there is still a large bunch of Tories trying to hasten the end of the lockdown. I think Johnson and his cabinet have made an appalling job of managing the pandemic, but he finally made some sense in the week when he said that we shouldn’t rush the easing of lockdown. Now the papers are full of dates when the suggest the easing might begin. We still have a long way to go before we know the effect of the vaccination programme on the pandemic and it would be utter madness if the brakes were to come off any time soon. We are seeing the figures come down which is encouraging. What we don’t want to be doing is making the same mistake as before and unleashing another period of viral spreading.
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On reflection then, he’s the ideal candidate not to have been given the job then. I wonder how that happened.
The point about him being a tory and therefore being responsible for NHS underfunding is basically saying that the country elected the wrong party. I have no idea what input he had into NHS funding before he was parachuted into the hot seat, other than he wasn’t Minister for Health. Track and trace can reasonably be described as a fuck up, we’ll never know either way as it wasn’t made compulsory to download it. I don’t know anyone who actually did that. Still, that’s clearly Johnsons fault, nobody would have yelped about civil liberties if he’d done the right thing and forced it on the public. The first reference I heard to herd immunity was from Whitty and his department. Johnson fucked up there as well I suppose, listening to those so-called experts. The Nightingale hospitals were opposed by every quarter as a waste of money when they were being commissioned, so yep, he fucked up there alright, if they had been needed we’d have all said it was just bad luck they weren’t there.
It really is scapegoating to place it all on him, even everything the tories have done in the past because he’s a tory.
It’s a clusterfuck of cunts that should be sharing the blame I agree. 115000 dead is testament to their utter, cataclysmic failure. But the buck has to stop somewhere and Johnson is in the shit seat.
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I agree…CEO takes the shit…he’s steering the ship.
So it’s not actually his fault personally, then?
But it’s not on the basis that he was elected Tory leader a year and a half ago is it. It’s on the basis that he is Prime Minister, in charge, making the decisions. Decisions he has made during this crisis, (or rather not made), have directly led to the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of people. On him, he is accountable, no-one else, so yes, blood on his hands. Constantly ignoring the scientist’s because he wants to be loved, delaying lockdown - twice. Lifting lockdown too early - twice, opening up pubs, eat out to help(the virus) out, the debacle of sending students back to universities, boasting about shaking hands with corona virus patients, giving his advisor a spot on prime time TV, from the Downing St rose garden no less, to spin his bullshit and lies when he got caught out flaunting his own lockdown rules. The constant bare faced lying when painted into a corner on things like the disastrous test and trace system which was unfit for purpose even after throwing 20 odd billion quid at ‘friends’ to run it. Not even bothering to attend five SAGE meetings because he was too busy sorting out his divorce and his latest squeeze’s baby shower. The examples of his incompetence and dangerous decision making go on and on. The only thing he;'s got right is letting the NHS run the vaccine rollout, which of course he is claiming all the credit for even though he’s got nothing to do with it. And wants to shout about it from the rooftops at every opportunity, just don’t mention the 120,000 deaths. And still they learn nothing, as the unfolding hotel quarantine fiasco shows. For six weeks people have been flying in from countries with the new variants, no checks, hop on the train and disappear to all parts of the UK. Many directly from South Africa via Dubai. It’s a nonsense.
I do wonder what Johnson’s apologists would be saying if, in a parallel universe all this was happening under a Labour administration, led by say, Jeremy Corbyn. Just imagine if he had presided over this absolute catalogue of errors, his negligence being directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Bunging billions to trade union Labour Party donor barons to fuck up the vital Test Track and Trace, handing out highly paid roles to unqualified family friends and school mates. Setting up a ‘fast track’ in the whips office for Labour MPs to put their friend’s names forward for million pound contracts. There would be uproar, he would have been overthrown by the forces of the state months ago. That is a given.
Yet Johnson just carries on, gaslighting the nation, with a tame media, most of them nothing less than courtiers, letting him get away with it, not holding him to account.With a Labour opposition sadly becoming more irrelevant by the day. Democracy in this country is in a very bad place.
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Well he does come across as a bumbling incompetent, but I don’t know him personally.
Perhaps he’s a political whiz kid and has everything in hand, making sure nobody is profiteering and has kept the death toll down from +1 million? It doesn’t look like it, but what are the chances that he has?
As been said. He’s the “leader” he carries the can.
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As in ultimately responsible and should resign? Yes. I’m sure the Eton mess is doing his best but he’s not up to the job.
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That I can agree with. I’ve said before that I was appalled that he could ever have been in the position he’s in, and I stand by that opinion.
It begs the question “how in the fuck did that ever happen?” and that imho is worth looking at before condemning the man personally in the terms that have been used. He’s not up to the job, and should never have been in it. So why is he there?