| BJ as leader. Safe or not? 11:51 - Apr 3 with 2543 views | Moriarty |
Could the delayed response to the pandemic be the undoing of BJ’s leadership?
Obviously given their majority, the Conservatives are safe until their term runs its course. But as the Covid surge comes, and the tragic number of dead so sadly increases, the NHS battles impossible odds, as the economy and society suffer, and newspaper scribes sharpen their pens, can he retain his leadership?
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/with-johnson-under-fire-blame-game-be [Post edited 3 Apr 2020 11:52]
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| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 07:53 - Apr 4 with 317 views | Moriarty |
| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 22:35 - Apr 3 by The_Last_Baron |
BoJo is very popular in the country. He is the Tories best bet form staying in power for an other decade.
Let's see how things develop over the next three to six months and we will realise if the Government handled this well. My feeling is that in terms of infections/deaths they will be kept down but the economy will take a decade to recover. |
No doubting his popularity in the UK. The election was a resounding success.
I think both our countries are now at the start of the surge and whereas I hope I’m wrong, I think it will be a difficult few weeks and our respective health services will really struggle to cope.
It may or may not bring into focus the folly of the herd immunity approach and the extent to which the U.K. govt diverged from WHO and the approach of other Nations. It was a very sudden u-turn to go to lockdown, and there are obvious inferences that can be drawn from this.
The folly of that initial approach is in stark contrast to the heroism of those on the front line, our health workers. | |
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| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 09:03 - Apr 4 with 283 views | ElephantintheRoom |
By rights the Tories should be evaporated at the next general election as their incompetence and mindless destruction ofsocial services, the police, healthcare and care in the community has been utterly exposed in the cruellest manner imaginable. And we have the sickening daily sight of serial liars and incompetents misprepresenting the facts and spouting garbage.
However ths current situation when it finally ends, is probably not a million miles off the situation after WW2 when the great unwashed voted in an NHS and caring welfare state. Five years later that motivation largely disappeared when the great unwashed realised such largesse had to be paid for and the Labour mjority all but disappeared in five years.
Will people recall in four years tme that the Tories destroyed the welfare state and healthcare in theis country before doublling down and devaluing the currency and weakening the economy just before a global pandemic struck - which they largely ignored until too late? Doubt it - but a fatally and voluntarily weakened economy will suffer in the years ahead. Jobless people with no houses might remember. But the 99% who didnt suffer anything much from corona virus probably wont. |  |
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| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 09:15 - Apr 4 with 268 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 15:26 - Apr 3 by BlueNomad |
We will need a Royal Commission after this in order to look at every aspect of this crisis - then we will be able to judge how history will view the government. I have no time whatsoever for this miserable crew but now is not the time to attack them. |
You misspelled 'kick this into the long grass.' |  |
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| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 10:32 - Apr 4 with 256 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 09:03 - Apr 4 by ElephantintheRoom |
By rights the Tories should be evaporated at the next general election as their incompetence and mindless destruction ofsocial services, the police, healthcare and care in the community has been utterly exposed in the cruellest manner imaginable. And we have the sickening daily sight of serial liars and incompetents misprepresenting the facts and spouting garbage.
However ths current situation when it finally ends, is probably not a million miles off the situation after WW2 when the great unwashed voted in an NHS and caring welfare state. Five years later that motivation largely disappeared when the great unwashed realised such largesse had to be paid for and the Labour mjority all but disappeared in five years.
Will people recall in four years tme that the Tories destroyed the welfare state and healthcare in theis country before doublling down and devaluing the currency and weakening the economy just before a global pandemic struck - which they largely ignored until too late? Doubt it - but a fatally and voluntarily weakened economy will suffer in the years ahead. Jobless people with no houses might remember. But the 99% who didnt suffer anything much from corona virus probably wont. |
I think you have miscalculated your percentage there but as long as 45ish% of the electorate have not changed their mind about voting Tory (even if they have personally suffered) they will continue in power. |  |
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| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 10:38 - Apr 4 with 255 views | Mullet |
| BJ as leader. Safe or not? on 02:11 - Apr 4 by The_Last_Baron |
The days when the media influenced the electorate enough to determine who wins an election are long gone.
What the papers say doesn't matter. Nobody buys them anymore. Hardly anyone even reads them. Apart from the Sun. |
The media is not the papers. The papers are now online and the Mail is now out of control because of it. Some have died a slow death but that's nothing new. |  |
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