Frightening.

[gulliver1]

Boris Johnson's decision-making was "Bipolar" during Covid says Sir Patrick Valance.  My question is does anyone on AB agree with him ...I Do

[naomi24]

It's difficult to engage when you never provide anything for the reader to engage with, gulliver  - like a link.   And yes I do get it.  If you're quoting The Guardian, then they are wrong to have reported this as they have.  This is worse than nasty - it's hateful - but par for the course.

[perseverer]

Naomi, the link Corby provided was from that well known left-wing rag, The Telegraph, and you"ll find the same story in just about every media source. 

[gulliver1]

Naomi 12,20 You are right, and the Guardian is wrong. OK.

[gulliver1]

Just watching Sunak making his conference speech on Telly.

.................He is almost as big a liar as Johnson.🤣

[retrocop]

Any newcomer to AB would be under the impression gulliver was an avid Tory supporter given the amount of time he is glued to a box watching the Conservative conference and giving us a word for word account or not.

[naomi24]

Perseverer, the link Corby provided didn't say what gulliver is claiming in his OP.

 

Channel 4 broadcast this at a most opportune moment - just as the Conservative Party conference was getting underway.  Can't think why.  Mr Johnson has been hounded out of office and out of parliament - and still, after all this time, his critics fear him.   The whole thing stinks - and always has.

 

By the way, Mr Gove hinted the other day that Mr Johnson may return to political life at some time.  Oo-er!  As gulliver says, 'frightening'.   ;o)

[gulliver1]

Retro ...love it. Sunak is going to change the Country and get everyone of their backsides and into work Says The man worth £730 million and probably never done a real days work in his life.🤣 haha

[Ellipsis]

I think you must have missed my post of 12:18, Naomi ...

[youngmafbog]

//and probably never done a real days work in his life//

And there you are 100% wrong.

[gulliver1]

Naomi do you think Boris is watching the Conference from outside with his nose pressed against the window.🤣

[youngmafbog]

You are a strange one.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, I didn't miss your post.  The diary entries were mentioned earlier.

 

Gilliver, I'd guess he's watching on television - unless he's there of course.  ;o)

[bednobs]

i dunno if im reading it differently to everyone else, but he (valance) is saying that tit was bipolar in the sense of swinging between close everything down and open everyhting up - the two polar opposites

[Ringlet]

I always felt that Johnson's early  brush with the covid virus had a detrimental effect on his ability to make decision, and he should have relinquished power for a period of months after discharge from hospital.  

[Ellipsis]

> Ellipsis, I didn't miss your post. The diary entries were mentioned earlier.

Oh. It's just that the Patrick Vallance diary was nothing to do with the Channel 4 docudrama, it came from diary entries released to the Covid inquiry yesterday, as I said in that post, with a second link. So it was his personal diary, that was forced into public by the inquiry into Johnson's behaviour ... not by Vallance's spite.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, I know what brought it to public attention but I don't think so called partygate prompted such spite.

[Ellipsis]

There are two things. One is Partygate. The other is Patrick Vallance's diary. They are disconnected. The diary was not about Partygate.

[naomi24]

They could prove rather influential.  The inquiry is not ignoring partygate.

[Ellipsis]

Nor should it. But the Patrick Vallance diary entries, that were in the OP, were nothing about Partygate. Here's that link again:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66998218

What you seem to have done is mixed up the news about one of Boris's failings (flip-flopping),  with a docudrama about another of Boris's failings (partying and lying about it).

Boris would still be in power if not for the partying and lying. The flip-flopping would not have got him out of power ... it's a completely different issue.

[naomi24]

I doubt Boris would still be in power in any event.  His many enemies would have made sure of that.