Editorial: Boris Johnson's absence in the wake of devastating floods will haunt the Tories

. So it is, and it betrays a certain detachment from the concerns of the communities where five people have died over the weekend, and hundreds were evacuated from their homes.

Although Prime Ministers can't be expected to be everywhere, certain situations require a personal touch and leadership. As PMs, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron all visited flooded areas. Boris Johnson had a great PR opportunity and his absence smacks of not caring.

If only there was some clue as to how the famous absent father Boris Johnson would step up to his responsibilities...

Minister on question time said all the things they'd done but no one was interested They Boris haters just looking for something to bitch about like when he was on holiday

He was elected largely due to intolerance,nationalism and fear rather than empathy or compassion. Why would we expect him to care? Are we naîve as well as gullible?

It won’t.

heather151262 I’m glad he hasn’t gone because it proves our point . He thinks he is above the commoners . Hopefully he is digging his own ditch and deep !🤷‍♀️

No sign of our kindly monarchy? Too busy project managing taxpayer funded improvements to Buck House

Allchanges Will it tho? Will it? 10 years of austerity and people voted 'for change'. People are fucking GOLDFISH

It won't be held against him as the press & media will not hold him to account & he'll just carry on being abominable

HS2

What rubbish you talk ! We're not In America ! If he flew by plane or helicopter you have said it was a waste of tax payers money !! Stop reporting bias and stick to actual news !! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

wheresboris

He doesn't care. The con is done. You can't touch him

He's not Canute!!! That's why there is an environment Secretary and Local constituent MPs

Nonsense 🙄

Will it... Really? Did Obama Care about the African Americans... Ever?

Are we supposed to be surprised by this? Voters made their beds.

C'mon somebody on here must have voted for him. Own up.

Have you checked in the ditch and the fridge?

The're phelps to them 'n' left behind🙄

Well, top marks for consistency! And why change the habit of a lifetime?

You mean 'The Independent hopes Boris Johnson's absence in the wake of devastating floods will haunt the Tories'. Get it right, we love your bias hate towards the Tories, but it would better that you just come out and admit it!

What exactly is he going to do when he gets there?

do you feel haunted facilitating his victory? piss off

Check Whitehall fridges.

There’s no election so he sees no point in mixing with thick real people as he sees us.

Well apart from trying to be King Canute I cant really see what our Boris cud of done?

It's ok, he's traveling by fridge.

No it wont. The gammon will fall for his lies again at the next election.

I know you all think Boris is special, but unfortunately he's not special enough to turn up and hold back the water

leave him alone.. hes playing with train sets. this real life catastrophic deadly climate shift doesnt matter (;/pureSarcasm\\;)

Can't haunt people that have no souls to begin with

Cameron did bugger all when Somerset was flooded, this is what you get with the tories

Honestly such more journalism what laws have we had to follow till recently. Blaming our government and Boris for not turning up is wrong. Why not stop trying to kiss up and blame the EU for enforcing dredging laws. Getting like America and Trump media make fake news everywhere.

IanIrons I bet they regret voting for him

Doesn't need to be there. The services and relevant authorities just need to get on with their jobs and sort it out. I've never understood why people demand to see the Queen or Prime Minister. No doubt opportunist Corbyn will be trying to capitalise on it by turning up 🙄

No it won’t

Where has he been? Too busy laying into the BBC to trouble himself with ordinary people suffering. Though, frankly, if he'd shown up who would have been remotely convinced?

Oh dear another non story. That is why he has ministers to do the job. If he turns up he will be accused of having a photo opportunity. If be doesn't he is accused of not caring. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

Straight out of the Morrison bushfire playbook.

He got there votes, why should he care

They don’t care 😞 getting Brexit done is top priority 🙄 oh wait ... we haven’t got it done yet 😙

how will it? do you want a poster boy or do you want a prime minister that actually does his job? if he wasted time to visit every disaster area hed never get around to doing his real job...

Yeah, why isnt he out there with a sump pump?

they don’t care. They’ve made that clear from the get go

Has he gone missing again

Disgraceful actions from a Prime minister. Who are you taking advice from!!!!!

It seems brits are so dumb that Boris can get away with anything. After all they voted for him..

And people are surprised? He already got his votes so doesn’t really care.

Can't hunt a PM that isn't actually there.

It won't because the majority of voters will just forget that he did this. It's yet another failure to act on things, a practice so of the norm that anything beneficial will go down in time. Their failings as a Gov will be forgotten over and over again.

I think this will haunt remainers more. EU rules on no dredging in a country they don't even understand led to some of this flooding. If we'd of left 3 years ago as expected, we would of been able to change that.

Nobody cares. He’s given Little Britain its racism back to keep it warm, rich and successful. (Not that such racism ever went away, mind).

I think he is too busy laying in front of bulldozers at Heathrow Airport

It won’t

Far more important things to do than visit mere mortals that’s why he has an environment minister , he is so so important

Was he busy shooting Man Vs Wild documentary?

Was he in Hawaii?

What do you expect him to do about it? Yell angrily at the water? It's a flood, people need proper emergency care, that's all you can do.

Does he even know? Has Cummings not told him yet? BorisJohnson

He doesn't care.

Drop the paywall.

Aren’t they used to him being absent when there’s anything serious to work at?

He is in the fridge

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