Boris Admitted To Hospital

[AuntPollyGrey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52177125

[pixie374]

Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure have been known to be a high risk for some time now. Hopefully he has neither, I don't know.

[Apc2604]

TD. That's just it. We don't know his medical history. No reason why we should. Pretty obvious that the Prime Minister will get priority anyway.

[anneasquith]

I fail to see why he insists in being in charge of the government. If one is ill, concentrate on your health, no one is indispensable.

[AuntPollyGrey]

By the look on the faces of those entering Downing Street this morning its more serious than we think…..

[douglas9401]

Because, anne, the slimy toads he's in league with would spend their time working on how to sideline him permanently, as I think he would to them, rather than do the job.

So many looking for the top job, so few equipped.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Good Grief Douglas are you suggesting someone is gong to pull his plug out?

[Apc2604]

It would be expected that the head of any major organisation be asked for approval of any action being taken. I suspect this is what is happening. He is the one who takes responsibility.

[naomi24]

Douglas, //So many looking for the top job//

Right now I doubt that.

anneasquith, //I fail to see why he insists in being in charge ...//

Because he's a leader - and that's what leaders do.

[THECORBYLOON]

He is a leader but a good leader knows when to delegate.

[naomi24]

THECORBYLOON, You have no idea what he's doing.

[Apc2604]

And good leaders who delegate still like to be fully informed and approve.

[anneasquith]

Because he’s a leader. He’s in hospital , I’d not trust anyone who is ill enough to be quickly admitted to hospital, on supplemental 02, to make decision about Britain at this time .

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, you don't know either yet you say he insists on staying in control.

[THECORBYLOON]

That should have said "charge" rather than "control".

[naomi24]

TCL, see Apc's post at 11:26 Mon.

[THECORBYLOON]

How do you know he's "insisting"?

[allenlondon]

The trouble is, Johnson might see himself as a National Hero, a leader in the Churchilian mode, but few others do.

We just see him as a “here today, gone tomorrow politician” (to quote Robin Day), and while I don’t wish him ill, there are plenty of other sick people I worry about more.

[ichkeria]

He looks at his cabinet and sees Dominic Raabid, Priti Vacant and co ....
I think I’d want to stay in charge in those circumstances ...

[Peter Pedant]

at REAL risk of provoking a gale of
'foo ! what dat den' - and "dat hieroglyphic dat!" (*) - and even from Naomi - "stupid comment!"

am I really the only person to recall that Churchill had two bouts of pneumonia during the war (**), and the second time around, recuperated for three weeks ( innit?) in the Atlas mountains
and in the Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech ?

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/journal/sir-winston-churchill-treatment-pneumonia-1943-and-1944

didnt appoint a deputy and yes did work from his bed ....
and he was older

(*) taking into account I did work on an archoelogical site transcribing the Latin and Greek -JEA 1979.

(**) when he was Prime minister that is !

[Peter Pedant]

// We [the great mass of Abers] just see him [Poiky - BoJo] as a “here today, gone tomorrow politician” (to quote Robin Day),//

and Robin Day - he gone too innit?
( he is dead too to anyone who writes english)

and we dead foo too - J M Keynes
OK I admit he really said " and in the long run we are all dead" I just have attacks of writing in AB speak.