Former Aide To Johnson Says She Felt Like She Was His Nanny.

[gulliver1]

Cleo Watson a former aide in no 10 described how Johnson needed house training, and how she had to schedule his naps and sooth his tantrums.I even had to take his temperature during Covid, he told everyone else to keep washing their hands but he never did, we even set up a row of chairs between the door way to our office and his ,to keep covid distancing. He would kneel on the chair seats looking over the top howling for attention like a puppy dog. .... What a fool to have had as a PM.

[ichkeria]

Sorry to slightly digress, but this hand-washing thing was a complete red herring. As far as I know no one ever caught Covid off a surface (admittedly this wasn't fully known at the time).

Ironically however, hand-washing IS a good thing, and hopefully the gels and the hand washes will remain long after Covid has settled down.

[Bobbisox1]

Did you get that from the Beano?
No doubt somebody will come along and a link for you soon

[Ellipsis]

This is the original source that the other stories are based on:

https://www.tatler.com/article/cleo-watson-whips-book

[FatticusInch]

ichkeria
//Sorry to slightly digress, but this hand-washing thing was a complete red herring. As far as I know no one ever caught Covid off a surface (admittedly this wasn't fully known at the time).//

What about off a piece of cake or from a shared bottle of vino?

[naomi24]

She was fired two years ago. Still smarting.

[anneasquith]

Maybe the newest Mrs. J felt threatened by her ?

[naomi24]

Maybe she was rubbish at her job.

[barry1010]

She can wave her career goodbye, nobody likes a tittle tattle

[gulliver1]

16.19 Much closer to the truth there, Anne.

[Ellipsis]

The ending is amusingly written, maybe truth, maybe fiction, who knows ...

> As so many in politics know, the end comes sooner or later – generally sooner, if you’re employed by this prime minister. (Although I suppose he’s had karma returned with interest recently.) The end for me came in November 2020, about two weeks after Dom’s hurried departure. The PM had been isolating after his latest ‘ping’ and he and I finally reunited in the Cabinet room, where we had an exchange that I am sure may have been familiar to many of his girlfriends. Him: ‘Ho hum, I’m not sure this is working any more.’ Me: ‘Oh, OK, you seem to be trying to break up with me. I’ll get my things.’ Him: ‘Aargh… I don’t know… yes, no, maybe… wait, come back!’ I suppose it went a little differently. He said a lot of things, the most succinct being: ‘I can’t look at you any more because it reminds me of Dom. It’s like a marriage has ended, we’ve divided up our things and I’ve kept an ugly old lamp. But every time I look at that lamp, it reminds me of the person I was with. You’re that lamp.’ A lamp! At least a gazelle has a heartbeat. Still, he presumably knows better than most how it feels when a marriage breaks up.

[ichkeria]

“What about off a piece of cake or from a shared bottle of vino?”

Well you’re probably joking, but the point of the parties was the contact rather than the food and drink

[gulliver1]

16.07 "Come along and a link for you"
Sounds like an old pop song Bobbi.

[naomi24]

She was Cummings’ mate. Nuff said.

[Paigntonian]

Gibberish.

[naomi24]

Spite.

[Paigntonian]

The implication is that this woman was stupid to be treated like a nanny. So why did she do it?

[davebro]

Total BS. (IMV)

[Deskdiary]

She’s got a book to flog.

[Ellipsis]

Yes, it's quite unbelievable that Boris Johnson would need such looking after, isn't it. Do you remember how well he kept his own car?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9317278/boris-johnsons-messy-car-cups-rubbish/

[naomi24]

Haa! Nothing like scraping the barrel, ellipsis.