Boris Johnson 'failed' Britain due to 'inability' to handle covid pandemic | Jack Straw 

Johnsons brain was in his " Johnson" simple as that..

He's probably the only Tory willing to face the camera (and doubtless there's a fee involved). He really needs to cut down on the eye liner!!

The choice of most of their guests shows they aren't a serious news channel.

They're a Tory channel.

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Gullis thinks he is relevant.

Because he comes cheap.

Partying while pensioners were dying alone.

like starmer and rayner.........😮

@@gmorgan894 And not PERMITTED to attend their funerals. Crimminal.

@@tonyedwards3938 Usually people crying "Criminal!" are exaggerating, but in this case yes: Lockdown violation actually /was/ criminal. But not the go-to-prison sort of criminal - the penalty was a fixed penalty fine, which attendees paid. £50 per violation per person. I'm sure Boris can afford it - his net worth is estimated at £90 Million.

Because he knew it was nonsense.

But then blew (wasted) £36 billion trying to fix his procrastination on track and trace plus a few billion on faulty PPE.

No, it was more the people that did not believe it at the start and even now we have the fools that still believe that it was just the flu. If Boris had have acted earlier, the vast amount of the people would have ignored the rules because they were only advisory at first.

@@kenmay1572 and all on the advice from the World Health Organisation and trying to do the best for the people, there was a lot of money made that should not have been made but a lot of that money was to keep those that could not work with 80% of their earnings on furlough. If he had not taken the steps that he did, the death rate would have been a lot higher than that because at one point we were losing 1500 people a day.

​@@honestchris7472His actions or lack of them cost lives.

@@royboy565 Or, perhaps his actions saved many lives because he took the actions, his aim was to stop the spread of the virus based on the advice that he had from the WHO and that advice would have been exactly the same if any other party was in office at that time at its height, we were losing 1500 people a day, getting us the vaccine was a turning point but we all know that after the first lockdown, we got a bit of freedom and then far too many people ignored the advice and the ruling to control the spread of the virus and when out partying, to beaches to large gatherings and mixed in each other houses, the result was another lock down but we had the vaccine and it had worked after the first lockdown and we were lucky in the second because the coronavirus mutated to a less dangerous strain.

Michael you are right but the Tories bought into his act hook, line and sinker.

I think Boris did dither because he he wanted to escape responsibility. His non attendance at Cobra meetings was deliberate and part of his evasion of Prime Ministerial decision making .There was no way Boris could please his girl friend and his senior advisor so he kept on prevaricating even though it was the wrong thing to do for the U K.

And the Americans, his paymasters.

Yes , at least 615 million doses @ £10 a shot given to Americans and 315 BILLION worldwide .Ker-effing-ching!

Pride of Durham that is why he needs to be audited.

@@prideofdurham4776 He let the " Red Wall" labour voters down by not believing in a good Brexit for GB, his whole family are self serving elites, who quite frankly will never worry about,war,no food, debt or cold, there ,s something radically wrong in society?, which Liebour can't fix my view.

That's part of the problem. SARS1 could have been a global pandemic, but wasn't. So could SARS2. And MERS. But those were all caught and contained early on. This lead to complacency: When yet another disease came along and scientists warned this could be the bad one, no national leaders wanted to ruin their economy with harsh lockdown measures right away for a disease that would probably just pass unnoticed like the last four or five.

Are you aware of operation sygnet??

@@vylbird8014 And by the time they realized the danger, the virus was already spreading across Europe. Lockdowns were only introduced to slow that spread, so that health services could cope. Not stop it.

No.

I survived, but only just. My life is very different to what it was, in a very bad way. Well over four years later I can barely climb my own stairs.

@@HJJSL-bl8kk The illness or what they injected into you?

​@@HJJSL-bl8kkYet there are people who think covid was a scam etc, I lost people through covid. Some people in the UK think everything is a conspiracy.

Try Sweden.

What big bonus did Chris Witty get?

dont mention the war...

Raymond the WHO could only advise just like the scientists .

It got worse - four months later the government was outright subsidising pubs with the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, desperately /paying/ people to go and eat socially indoors in a desperate attempt to save hospitality businesses from collapse.

Do I gather you broke the rules by associating with someone who also had broken the rules HJ S L ?

@@annewalden3795 There were no rules then, but there should have been.

@@HJJSL-bl8kk Yes people would have benefited from early guidance .

@@annewalden3795 I was worried about transmission in early February 2020 after talking with an oncology nurse (a friend was having chemo back then). The person I caught Covid from trusted that the government would do the right thing. They are wracked with guilt that I nearly died. I don't hold them responsible but I know who I blame. I think Boris Johnson is a self-centred buffoon who didn't give a toss.

True but they didn't prepare and locked down too late then made error after error.

@@royboy565 Bearing in mind lockdowns were only introduced to slow the spread of the virus so that health services wouldnt be overwhelmed (which they weren't), and that a vaccine was thought to be years away, when should we have had a lockdown and what difference would it have made?

Labour told Johnson to lock down earlier like the scientists wanted. Johnson ignored them and caused many more deaths..

Pretty much every Country had lockdowns. I mean who wouldn't believe experts right. So called experts and MSM I blame much more than Boris. Vast majority of Countries did lockdowns. Some longer and more often than the UK. We came out of lockdowns pretty much the first in Europe. Experts an MSM telling us that all those people were dying of covid didn't help when it comes to spreading fear. But we now know many people died with covid not of covid. At the time however experts recorded those deaths as dying of covid.

There were no cost free options. But its very likely lockdowns were the least worse option.

From the Covid Enquiry, Johnson did not have the application to understand his advisors & is very difficult to work with, so he made loads of unnecessary mistakes. Eat out to Help Out was a decision taken by Sunak & Johnson, unbeknown to the Advisors, which caused a later lockdown

@@badbooks476 Lockdowns were only ever introduced to slow the spread to allow health services to cope. Not to stop it.

@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 Thanks, but I never said that

It is estimated by health experts that lockdowns saved thousands of deaths.

Herd immunity, something that the Dutch government went with (I know, because I watched Mark Rutte the then prime minister announce it) was basically the exact same plan that the UK went with. Because there was no other choice without a vaccine. Lockdowns were part of that plan. They were introduced to slow the virus, not stop it. Because without them health services would not have been able to cope.

It was always due to start now. Even if tories won this would still be happening.

You must be one of those people. You can fool some of the people all of the time.

Yes

I'm sure the govt wasn't told to buy defective ppe from pub landlords or have a useless track and trace system and have parties in the middle of it all.

@@royboy565 During the worldwide scramble for ppe, the government did what any government should have done - Took its chances and grabbed what it could.

​@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304No they didn't, they gave the orders to their cronies and didn't go through the normal procedure which had been quickened up substantially because of the pandemic. It is on record that a friend of Hancock, a pub landlord was given a contract and Michelle Mone and her husband also. Take your blinkers off.

@@royboy565 Plane full of ppe for the UK sat on a Turkish runway. Delayed for we don't know what reason. We will likely never know what strings were pulled to finally get that in the air. When it landed and was inspected, it was rejected as being not up to standard. You grab what you can from where you can.

Johnson was the architect of his own downfall.

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Thats essentially what we did anyway. Its what most countries did. And lockdowns were an important part of that. Because without lockdowns, and without a vaccine, the virus would have spread too fast for heath services to cope.

Yes.

like when he was parachuting with those union jacks and that

Sarcasm is alive and well.

Maurice far too much political interference in the N H S and too much cost cutting .

The Tories had no choice as Boris had lost all credibility through his own mistakes .

Johnson was the architect of his own downfall. Only himself to blame.

why do you think they flouted the rules ..... there was no threat .

​@@user-ch8ku6qe3xIrrelevant. And tell that to those people who lost loved ones.

​@@user-ch8ku6qe3xTell that to those who couldn't go to funerals of loved ones who died of covid.

He always was.

You know that because they told you?

yes he has some very sick friends like epstein for instance .

No, it was Johnson's fault. To say he was incompetent is being kind.

@@royboy565 No. Because that implies that the system was perfect until Boris inherited it.

​@@clearspiraHe ignored advice from the scientists to lock down earlier and covid took a stronger hold because of it. He then was all over the place. Worst P M to have in a crisis situation.

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His biggest mistake was the COVID hospitals extremely large waste of money. But was any body prepared for what was to come . NHS , care homes private houses all are responsible for outbreaks like this. Boris took the brunt for having a party in a working bubble, but was starmer the same. I sympathise with all those who lost loved ones. Question is where did COVID come from , but we still trade with them, send them the bill or charge huge import duty

No fan of Corbyn but he would have done a better job than Johnson.

Jancaulfield someone who had a moral code , experience in administration and decision making and was actually capable of doing a serious job . Johnson was a journalist and a womaniser whose self indulgence was notorious .He did not have the C V required to deal with a real crisis and he should never have been a Politician.

​@@howardtwissell683We still do not know where Covid came from .

Colin I think it would be a real joke to honour Boris for being the worst P M we ever had .

True - but they did have a test run some 8 years earlier, which they ignored. They treated it as if it was flue rather than a sars type breakout of which there was evidence of handling those from east asia. He dithered consistently to take the tough decisions in time to be effective, closing borders (at least with italy as we watched it hit there before it really hit the uk) lying about the ppp preparedness, every single time he dithered, making it worse as this enquiry reveals. Utter incompetence

@@Mark13091961 I seem to remember that the WHO warned against closing international borders. In fact, when Trump announced the closing of US borders, he was almost universally criticized by not just the WHO. And no country was prepared in regards to ppe stocks. Italy, for example, sent ppe aid to China. Only to have to buy it back again when it spread to Europe.

Also, it was never suggested that lockdowns would stop the virus. The only reason for lockdowns was to slow the spread to prevent health services being overwhelmed. And it worked.

And Italy stopped flights quite early. Unfortunately it obviously didn't help. It's far more complicated than that.

Yeah and the moon is made of cheese.

@@royboy565 the news told you that you was sick and you believed it 😄 get that tinfoil hat on a little tighter boy

And yet by World standards per capita. UK ended up just above average. Something MSM tried hard not to mention too much at all.

​@@markbanner6473 Your mum / dad / mate / colleague didn't die from COVID, did they ???

@@matthewcook9404 And yet people in government did lose people. Do you seriously think that a new virus could have been stopped. Viruses don't work like that. Sooner or later it will unfortunately catch up with practically everyone. Lockdowns or not. I and the vast majority of my family have had covid. Some more than once. Of course those who survive are fortunate. They are lucky whatever you want to call it. Those who sadly died obviously were not fortunate.

Keith Bird we will never know but perhaps the number of deaths as a proportion of population might be revealing.

You are funny.

Alan it did not help that Osborne was responsible for reducing the stock of protective clothing etc since the Tories came to power .You will remember that the lack of such clothing was a major issue and there were some strange deals approved by the Tories.

​@@annewalden3795He is obviously a tory apologist.

@@royboy565 I think you will find he was a Labour Minister.

​@@annewalden3795I'm on about Alan's comment.

Yeah of course he did and Johnson always tells the truth and Johnson also got a world beating brexit deal. Ever thought of going on Fantasy island?

you utter ignoramus. are you serious?