According to the Mail (not a source quoted that often here):
Boris Johnson said he would rather see ‘bodies pile high in their thousands' than order a third lockdown, it was claimed last night.
The explosive remark is said to have come after he reluctantly imposed the second lockdown, sources told the Mail.
The source is, of course, widely presumed to the Dominic Cummings. I have little doubt that this is true. And the timing is interesting. It seems likely it happened after the Great Barrington crowd argued against lockdown at Downing Street, leading to deferral of the second lockdown and tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Johnson did get what he wanted.
But the real question is, who could trust a person who did say this, as I rather strongly suspect is the case?
What kind of ethic is that?
And what was the basis of the value judgement behind this?
The alternative was for what?
There are now ample allegations against the Prime Minister of financial corruption, some of which are eventually going to stick. But the ethical corruption really is worse. And both suggest his time should be up.
The only thing we might ever have to thank Dominic Cummings for is the fact that it looks like he wishes for revenge, and will get it.
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Last night on the Radio 4 “Westminster Hour” the Green MP Caroline Lucas said and on record several times that Johnson is a serial liar. The Tory MP panellist said he “did not accept that characterisation of the PM”.
Which is exactly the words used in a letter I received from my MP when I wrote to him listing 10 of Johnson’s greatest lies, it must be the party line that all Tory MP’s have been told to take. It makes me despair of how we can ever hope for things to change.
It’s Blairspeak, I remember seeing him on the media using it as a means of denial of anything he didn’t want to admit to but, I assume, couldn’t argue with; “I don’t recognise those (politically embarrassing) figures”, for example, and similar. It seems we now have the Tories imitating the techniques of their imitators.
Oh Dear, oh dear oh dear……………..we can safely say that if he did indeed say that, we have an imbecile for Prime Minister.
The bodies piled-high would not be those of the rich, famous or CONservative donors.
Just the little people. Those he dislikes anyway.
Anyone care to calculate the savings from the current death-count?
And the one to come from the curtailed healthcare for other ailments and diseases?
Meanwhile, in Monaco, et-al….
And please do not forget the links between the heir-apparent [Gove] and the newspaper owners…so this could be a media-led putsch to take over govt…
Surely we know this anyway 🙂
Of course. But that was yesterday. News moves-on, people forget.
Sometimes you just have to keep-on repeating things.
150,000 directly-dead + many more indirectly-dead, are soon forgotten.
“Nothing is older than yesterday’s news [paper]”
I think our PM meant that he would like to see piles of bodies safely in hospital carefully tended by the extra nhs staff provided by the £350 million a week saved from our ex-EU contribution
He has said it before, on 4th October 2017 referring to the possibility of developing the tourist industry in Libya after the overthrow of Gaddaffi. “There’s a group of UK business people, actually, some wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte on the coast, near where Gaddafi was captured and executed as some of you may have seen. They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai. The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away”.
Indeed. It was said at the Tory Party conference. Listen to those Tories laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8HLHlYbBl8
There was a headline in the Guardian the other day stating that 40% of the country thought that Johnson was untrustworthy; what did the other 60% think? I think we are in trouble.
Well, well… both Robert Peston and even the Beeb have been treating the quote as factual – which should surprise nobody, since what Johnson actually achieved was precisely what his enraged reported quote, in colourful terms, said. The bodies here did pile high.
Tonight’s TV news (Channel 4) reported a total death toll in India which, if adjusted to match the UK for population size, would come to a mere 9,000 odd deaths – and not the over 150,000 reported here by the ONS.
What on earth was even Channel 4 news doing tonight failing – totally – to report, let alone investigate (as journalists used to be expected to do) the six page rebuff to the relatives of the deceased’s call for a full public enquiry NOW! TV news?… Silence. No wonder this lying PM thinks he can get away with anything. Trump’s claim about his lack of jeopardy if he shot someone in Fifth Avenue begins to look modest by comparison.
Something else that should be asked. What is the motivation of the Daily Mail here? Most unlike this right wing, reactionary, pile of trash to attack a Tory leader. Their headline today (saw this on the bbc website, I wouldn’t be seen dead, piled or otherwise, buying a copy of the Mail) says “Boris on the ropes”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-56896604
So, what’s the Mail’s agenda? Preparing the ground for the next Tory leader? Tories are well known for stabbing in the back and it often starts with a full frontal assault. When the Mail writes like this the leader’s days are probably numbered.
Gove
In a word