Never Mind The Cancer Outcomes

[grumpy01]

If Boris did say that he should be thoroughly ashamed of himself.

[Sqad]

Quite!

[Mamyalynne]

He did say it sadly.

In a quick response such as he made, it's always a risk that a stupid remark will come out.

Better to say - never mind XYZ, look at...

[jno]

"never mind the cancer outcomes, look at the poll figures"?

If he'd just said it in ancient Greek, few people would have noticed. What's an Eton education for?

[237SJ]

Even worse than his "Animals die in the food industry" quote. He's a bit of an idiot really.

[youngmafbog]

Johnson needs to go.

An embarrassment to the country and my beloved Tory Party.

[AuntPG]

"I’ve given you the most important metric - never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes - look at wage growth,” Mr Johnson said.

What a lovely man....someone to look up to as a solid magnanimous leader of the country.

[AuntPG]

I notice the 'Boris can do no wrong' brigade seem very quiet on this lol!

[pixie374]

Oh dear.... I usually like him- but what an awful comment.

[naomi24]

//Grilled about his plans for Britain’s recovery from the Covid crisis, the prime minister chose to emphasise economic growth over health measures.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-never-mind-cancer-b1931147.html

The question asked was about Britain's recovery so for him to say 'Never mind….' there must have been a question referring to health interrupting his response - but that doesn't appear to have been reported. I don't believe for one moment that he doesn't care about cancer patients… but jump on the bandwagon in an 'outraged' (as the newspaper would have it) manner by all means. Par for the course.

[AuntPG]

there you go naomi wriggle him out of that one please do

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/boris-johnson-never-mind-cancer-vad801c63

[AuntPG]

Ah you have seen it and still defending him? Ok...............I'm not 'outraged' BTW lol!

[Ellipsis]

Naomi - I suggest you watch the video at the top of your own link ...

[naomi24]

No wriggles here. Just a bit of common sense. I posted a link to the Independent at 11.15, APG, saying the same thing.

[AuntPG]

There is no context what-soever that would exonerate him from what he said. He's a blustering fool.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis,. I watched it. It doesn't show the original question being asked. It just jumps in somewhere in the middle of the interview so we've no idea what happened there. Sneaky I reckon.

[Ellipsis]

> The question asked was about Britain's recovery so for him to say 'Never mind….' there must have been a question referring to health interrupting his response

If you watched the video, you'd see that Boris actually interrupts the interviewer to say what it is he wants to say, rather than wait for the question. The interviewer then gives him time to say it. No interruptions. And after two "Erms" - uninterrupted - to gather his thoughts after he's started a sentence with "Never mind", Boris comes up with "you know, cancer outcomes" to finish the sentence. That's what I see.

[mushroom25]

is he not just echoing the attitude of the NHS toward any health issue (unless it's Covid)?

[Ellipsis]

Decide for yourself. Here is what he said:

I’ve given you the most important metric. Never mind life expectancy. Never mind cancer outcomes. Look at wage growth. Wage growth is now being experienced faster by those on lower incomes. It hasn’t happened for 10 years or more. That is what I mean by levelling up.

[pixie374]

Mushroom, don't you think it's more likely, that those are the figures the NHS are being asked for?

[Spicerack]

Given Ellipsis's quote, it sounds like 'levelling up' (yuk) was under discussion and the interviewer threw in a couple of 'what about' 'questions' about disparities in life expectancy and cancer outcomes.
So Boris just pointed out he was talking financially, not everything under the sun.
So I'm guessing the Indy clip was taken out of context. (shock, horror)
And I'm not a Boris supporter before the usual 'gobs on sticks' start.