100,000 deaths: after his – fake? – display of contrition, calls are mounting up for Boris Johnson to resign
Boris Johnson: it seems we all think it’s time for him to go. Otherwise, many more of us may not survive his government.
I don’t have to say much here; an angry nation is saying it all for me.
First:
The PM says he did all he could to prevent 100,000 deaths. He’s either lying in which case he should resign. Or he’s telling the truth and his best wasn’t up to the job and he should resign. #BorisHasFailedTheNation
— Kate Wilton (@KateWilton1) January 26, 2021
That is the issue at hand today: should Boris Johnson resign over his Covid-19 failures?
The nation has examined the evidence and found that he should.
Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain showered Robert Jenrick with just a fraction of the evidence of Johnson’s failures and it was overwhelming. Jenrick’s reply was to attempt to turn the conversation to the brighter side (as these government spokespeople do) but his words rang hollow:
“A series of cataclysmic gov’t failures. Does the PM regret anything he’s done?”@piersmorgan expresses the exhausted, exasperated, gut wrenching anger of the nation pic.twitter.com/EUtA9sdNBt
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 27, 2021
Perhaps surprisingly, Sky News went further – with a claim that Johnson’s act of contrition on television yesterday (January 26) was “gaslighting the nation”:
The PM was ‘sick with Covid’ because he went around shaking peoples hands like the buffoon he is. Also, NHS staff have worked so much harder than him. Jenrick is sticking his head in the sand of lies just like the rest of them. These people are fucking spineless. https://t.co/Ojm30aksHm
— Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 (@KathyBurke) January 27, 2021
These are not isolated examples. Peter Stefanovic (above) was right to say that Morgan was expressing “the exhausted, exasperated, gut wrenching anger of the nation”.
Johnson said he did everything he could. But consider the response of Dr Zubaida Haque, here: he only did what he was willing to do. And he clearly wasn’t willing to do enough.
100,000 covid deaths in the UK, and one of the highest excess deaths in the world tells us the PM didn’t do everything he could; he only did what he was willing to do. These tragic deaths were not the result of “following the science”; they were the result of following ideology. https://t.co/lsoXE8mDav
— Dr Zubaida Haque (@Zubhaque) January 26, 2021
Angela Rayner, for the Labour Party – not somebody I now feel comfortable quoting because of the diabolical persecution of her own party members that she supports – also nails it:
50,000 deaths from March-November. 50,000 deaths from November-today, including 25,000 in January alone.
The PM made the same deadly mistakes again and again. Too late to lockdown. Ignoring scientific advice. That isn't "doing everything we could". It is absolutely unforgivable.
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) January 27, 2021
The trouble is, her party wants schools reopened just as soon as possible, even though this will only provide an opportunity to infect and kill even more people.
Perhaps a more acceptable Labour response is Bell Ribeiro-Addy’s:
“We did everything we could.”
Says the PM who flirted with herd immunity, locked down too late, failed on PPE, outsourced vital health contracts, ignored transmission in schools & refused to give people the support they need.
If that’s the best he can do, he should resign.
— Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (@BellRibeiroAddy) January 27, 2021
Worst of all is the fact that people simply do not believe that the UK’s prime minister genuinely feels any sorrow, regret or contrition for the results of his actions (or inactions):
I have no idea how the PM feels about the grim Covid death toll here. I do know he sneered at Liverpool for holding a memorial for Ken Bigley who was beheaded by terrorists a decade before ISIS got going, and saw the city’s sorrow over Hillsbro’ as a psychological flaw.
— Shelagh Fogarty (@ShelaghFogarty) January 26, 2021
Instead – and this is the knockout blow as far as I’m concerned – we think he is a fake:
https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1354206431076081671
That should be the end of him.
We should also bear in mind at all times that if Johnson is taking responsibility for everything that the government has done – as he claimed – then he is also taking responsibility for the deaths its decisions have caused: 2,000 in the construction industry, around 30,000 in care homes, and many more in other sectors around the UK. This Site commented on those deaths here.
Saddest of all is the fact that, even if Johnson quits, the agony won’t be over.
The UK electorate gave his Conservatives an overwhelming (there’s that word again) 80-seat Parliamentary majority in November 2019. This means that, even if he does quit, we’ll only have another useless Tory foisted on us. Jeremy Hunt is already positioning himself to claim the leadership.
Other possible candidates are even worse. Johnson surrounded himself with a Cabinet of halfwits and this means that there is a very limited choice of replacements.
Would you want Priti Patel running the country? Dominic Raab? Robert Jenrick? Nadhim Zahawi? Michael Gove? Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Just typing the names hammers home how ridiculous it would be.
But those are the choices if Johnson is forced out.
And what about us – the population at large?
This Writer has had to put up with eight Conservative Parliaments in my lifetime, before the current ministry under Johnson.
Mostly, since I was old enough to have a credible opinion on the subject, I have known that every Tory election victory has meant having to knuckle down, expect a hard time, but live through it in the hope that the next election result will be different and the Tories removed.
This time is different.
This time, we have to ask ourselves whether we can even survive this government.
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Sole reason why over 100,000 women and men have died from coronavirus is not due to ‘tory ideology’ but systemic fascist tory autocracy wherein the fascist tories’ greed for profits has always superceded any resemblance of ‘real government!’ If little fascist dictator dick johnson was forced to resign his role would be immediately taken by another fascist male tory dictator! So it would continue the fascist criminal tories giving our public money to their corrupt, criminal greedy male owned corporate companies because this is how the fascist tories operate.
Then there is the issue of that fake opposition labour party who have done nothing other than to nod their heads and say ‘yes Starmer no Starmer three bags full Starmer we will obey you and not state these fascist tories are criminals and responsible for deliberate state instigated mass murder of over 100,000 women and men!’
The scandal of PPE supplies not being provided but instead our public money handed over to greedy private companies who have no experience whatsoever in making PPE but are experts in colluding with their criminal corrupt tory bros is staggering but it happened. Fascist tory government sold supplies of PPE to other countries in 2016 because the fascist tories didn’t want to pay storage charges. Then there’s the issue of track and trace which never happened because the fascist tories gave our money to private companies such as SERCO who have no experience whatsoever of track and trace but are experts in amassing huge profits for their male shareholders!
Then there is the latest lie being sold to us peasants and reinforced by the equally corrupt and rotten malestream media wherein the claim being uttered is ‘aren’t we fascist tories doing well – we’ve administered just one dose to x number of peasants!’ Irrespective of fact one dose of the vaccine is useless because the manufacturers keep stating vaccines only work if two doses are administered within a three to four week period! But the fascist tories don’t want our public money being spent on us worthless peasants because that money is being handed over to their corrupt corporate bros!
So what is the answer – well at present it’s either continue with this corrupt, rotten and murderous fascist tory dictatorship or hold another election wherein result will be return of the fascist murderous cruel tories into power and their campaign of deliberate state mass murder of thousands and thousands disposable ‘peasants’ will continue!
New Zealand has an ethical and responsible female prime minister who recognises her role is not to steal public money and give it to crooked and criminal private corporate companies. No she recognises her duty of care is to ensure all women, children and men residing in New Zealand are protected from the coronavirus pandemic!
Still never mind us stupid peasants believe all the fascist tory lies!
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/not-content-with-flattening-the-curve-jacinda-ardern-went-beyond-doing-everything-she-could/27/01/
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/watch-led-by-donkeys-debunk-johnsons-claim-we-did-everything-we-could-as-over-100000-die-from-covid/27/01/
Incompetent Liar Bozo trying to gaslight the nation of how sorry he is. 100,000 deaths could you even sleep at night knowing your incompetence and arrogance was responsible for most of them? Let alone stay in a job that has caused this much death and pain?
No normal person could but here we have ‘sorry’ bozo what a sick joke! He isn’t sorry he couldn’t care less his actions and inactions tell us that FFS!
Seems pointless to me, what if BoJo does resign? We’ll only get another useless, corrupt Tory parasite in his place.
Dear Vox Political,
Why is Sky News and the like going after Tory Boris so much? And talking up Starmer.
Is Starmer’s mark 2 Tory party being put forward to take office?
No-one should ever vote Labour again.
Labour knew Covid19 was coming, as it was in Europe in November 2019 (Holland), yet threw the 2019 election against Labour.
Every single Covid19 death and excess death is equally at fault of Labour and Tory alike.
I think there’s a lot of truth in what you’re saying – that the people in charge of Labour now threw the 2019 election because they didn’t want Jeremy Corbyn to bring in his progressive politics and drag the UK back into the 20th century from its current position in the 19th, with a view to actually enter the 21st before everybody else embarks on the 22nd. They did not care that a pandemic infection would kill more than 100,000 people because of Tory mismanagement. They only cared about their own personal well-being. That’s not an accepted Labour attitude.