I understood BJ was going on holiday to Scotland with his family, even PMs are allowed a holiday and he has certainly earned one after the events of this year.

I am sure wherever BJ is he will be in touch with his ministers,
Omah we do have the technology to keep in touch with people these days without having to be there in person.

I understood BJ was going on holiday to Scotland with his family, even PMs are allowed a holiday and he has certainly earned one after the events of this year.

I am sure wherever BJ is he will be in touch with his ministers,
Omah we do have the technology to keep in touch with people these days without having to be there in person.

Omah, lf Boris Johnson is rubbish. Who do you think would do a better job?
What other Prime Minister/government has had to cope with a never seen before rampant, killer virus? Who would have done better? Diane Abbot looks a good choice.

What about yourself? You seem to be very good at criticising everything the government does! What would you have done if you were the present Prime Minister?

It is becoming daily more apparent that Johnson is weak, lazy, disorganised – and out of his depth.

August is supposed to be the silly season, the month when newspapers fill their pages with trivia because politicians are all on holiday.

Not this year. Day after day our government generates news. It is the gift that keeps on giving – one fiasco after another, shambles piled on shambles.

Right now we have the A-levels debacle with Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, awarded an F-grade for wrecking the university prospects of thousands of teenagers – the majority from exactly the sort of less privileged families this government claimed to champion. Boris Johnson seems to have gone characteristically awol.

Last week the government gave 160,000 British holidaymakers just 30 hours to return from France or face quarantine, triggering a frantic exodus of furious vacationers by price-gouging plane, train, automobile and cross-Channel ferry.

The day before that the Office for National Statistics revealed that Britain had entered the deepest recession in its history, and the worst of any advanced economy. That is not because the government acted boldly and decisively to counter Covid-19. On the contrary, Britain also has Europe’s highest excess death rate (with over 65,000 deaths between January and June).

And so the list goes on, with nobody ever sacked, nobody apologising, nobody accepting responsibility. The government’s delay in imposing the lockdown cost around 20,000 lives. It failed to provide frontline medical workers with enough personal protective equipment. It failed to protect the country’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens in care homes. Its attempts to set up any sort of track and trace system, let alone a “world-beating” one, have been woeful.

Johnson squandered his authority by refusing to sack Dominic Cummings for breaching lockdown rules. His government’s subsequent relaxation of those rules has been so piecemeal that most people long ago lost track of what they can and cannot do. It was forced to perform humiliating U-turns on free school meals and the NHS surcharge for foreign health workers. It failed to get all pupils back in schools before the summer holidays.

Johnson has shamefully refused to suspend a former minister and Conservative MP accused of rape. He cannot nominate a bunch of new peers without causing a furore. His government bungled even its attempt to rig the election for the chair of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee.

With the possible exception of Rishi Sunak’s emergency measures to counter the economic impact of the lockdown, it is hard to think of anything this government has done well, or of a single way in which the year-long Johnson-Cummings premiership has benefited the British people.

The A-level fiasco shows why Boris Johnson is profoundly unfit to be Prime Minister

Martin Fletcher (Former foreign editor of the Times)

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Of course, it's only a viewpoint .....

Indeed, the guy needs a break with his family preferably away from the masses. Camping in Scotland ideal. No internet, phone switched off, bliss.

A No.10 spokesperson has said that despite being away, Mr Johnson chaired a video conference call with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson on Monday – but has no plans to cut short his holiday. The Prime Minister will be kept up to date and will continue to receive updates and briefings as necessary.

So, we're supposed to believe 100% in what a socialist, Fabian Society rag puts out in print are we?

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/19/where...6/?ito=cbshare