Using characteristic language, Boris Johnson has described a strategy that evolved for a period of time around plans to announce his potential death from Covid-19 as a “death of Stalin-type scenario.” It’s not entirely clear if he was taking his cue from Armando Iannucci’s 2017 satire. Nevertheless, speaking about his hospitalisation recently, he told the Sun on Sunday: “I was not in particularly brilliant shape and I was aware there were contingency plans in place.
Is it so bad?
Doctors had prepared to announce .... so what that means... did they practice pronunciation of his name or what 🤦♀️
Boris Johnson is to blame or the buck stopped with himself. He deliberately allowed the COVID-19 to prey on him, by ignoring basic rules which had been stated by medics, the experts.
Shite, and you know it.
Oh come on ! Really, you’re peddling this story now 🙄
Horseshit....
As usual, somebody is lying.
bull$hit
What a great news!
Is this obnoxious dummy humbled in any way?
Indeed, we would have, as did street_ten (Downing St.) 💯 Public relations is of the utmost importance, particularly during crises, e.g. the death of a Prime Minister as a result of the same suffered by many worldwide amidst a national emergency 🇬🇧
The guy wasn't even ventilated......
What needs to be highlighted is the fact that Boris Johnson has been cavilier and incompetent in his personal reponse to Covid 19. Failing to follow the H&S advice and this could have put the country at risk and uncertainty had the outcome been different.
I call 'bullsh*t'
Can I just ask so what !!?he has recovered and been off for 3 weeks and I don't understand why we need to know about the rest . For the past 3 months up to 900 people died daily ! Daily ! Do you understand daily Grand parents still dying in nursing homes and NHS staff .
Get the F out man. Total BS 🤦🏻♂️
And
The Guardian missed out the word “gleefully”.
in a 'death of Stalin' scenario (The Guardian). Weak signal? Or big ambition? Watch out, UK!
I feel like somebody snapped their fingers with a magic glove, then a bunch of politicians went back in time and undone the result.
That’s a load of Fake News, he wasn’t even on a Ventilator
That he wishes to discuss his illness in detail can only add weight to the already very negative views held of this man who is more interested in self & his popularity than those he is meant to serve. The media could do their bit for the country by not giving him the platform .
How is this 'news'.
Certainly, hospital personnel know the truth of his illness, all the details. The journalistic move to search for the truth will make them talk because the press will hide their personal information.
He still looks a little rough !
Absolute bullshit. Vying for attention and sympathy. Just a f’n game for him
But doctors don’t come out to personally announce the deaths of thousands in the Uk? I don’t get how this is news?
Had he died, I bet MattHancock would have announced that Johnson was still alive....or not as dead as he might have been had they not ramped up testing. Covid19UK
Presumably in between sudoku sessions.
Just wishful thinking on their part
Propaganda.
And, like that you were unfollowed! Propaganda bullshit.
But you have also reported it was 50/50 whether put the Idiot on a ventilator. Hardly at deaths door is it. Yet again, the Tories lie & bullshit.
On other points..is it really worth the risks (of a virus so incredibly diverse)opening schools for the short interim period before the summer holidays. Have a Pay to Stay scheme. Pay parents to stay home for online tuition of offspring.
He is the prime minister so of course you would have contingency plans if he died. However he didn’t so this is a non starter.
This would seem to have been a little premature given that he was never put on a ventilator, but then doctors plan for different eventualities, not like the government !!
Oh give it a rest will you.
Shaking hands with everybody at a hospital was dangerous.
Of course they did....
Does that mean we could have scraped brexit?
This is clearly just pure propaganda.
Thank fuck I don't pay to read this shit.
Papers talking it up, make a hero out of Johnson, laughable!. All the Johnson groupies having a fit of the vapours. 😭😢
Is this the same guy who didn't need a ventilator ?
I noticed his hands were shaking.
Shut up...the most 'sun newspaper' headline I've ever seen..pathetic
Bollocks
Boris was sat up in bed chatting with nurses or he was half dead. Which is it?
This is click bait
We knew it was bad.
Seems the big news this morning is Gov attack on BBC for reporting what medics said on Panorama. You lot fall their tricks every time. Yes, there would have been standard procedure in case of death of PM, and yes, when you breathe in and out, you use ‘litres and litres of O2’
That headline would have have given the Gurdian wet dreams for months.
Yes ,but they said he was in great spirits
Let’s publicise the birth of Boris Johnson’s child when new mothers are dying in childbirth with Covid 29. Sensitive.
Why the focus on this man? Surely the lives of everyone are more important?
Dont believe a word Boris says
Literally everyone on my facebook friends didn't die today, big news!
Classic deflection technique, oh look, a squirrel.
How is this news? You are newspaper not BoJo’s blog. Report on actual occurrences not fictional things that nearly happened (but absolutely didn’t as they are made up).
Pretty awful, but I'm sure doctors had prepared to say the same about many other patients. Let's hope his experience has changed some of his perspective.
I wonder how many people who the NHS have helped to survive C19, if given the same platform as BorisJohnson would talk about themselves as he has. I suspect that most survivors would say... 'The NHS is brilliant, it should be properly funded and truley valued at all times'
That's just a standard procedure for prominent people...
Rumours of my death have been much aggrandised.
aw naw they didnae
Who cares. He didn't die.. and you guys should analyse more what's happening in this country ! I thought you were supposed to be more critical about this government!
I was actually pretty well prepared for it myself.
Show us the death reel!!!
Can we just move on from him?
But he wasn’t on a ventilator? This ‘announcement’ may as well be dressed up as a dead cat lobbed on a table with a sign round it’s neck saying “please don’t look at the death figures or push BJ too hard on his government’s culpability for them”
why is this news? He didn't die but so many other are and have. Let's talk about them instead.
He recovered after a week. Try again.
He never had it
He's still visibly unwell. sorry for him but self-inflected. More sorry for USA: 67,444 ITA: 28,710 GBR: 28,131 and growing😢 🇪🇸ESP: 25,100 🇫🇷FRA: 24,760 BEL: 7,765 😬! 🇩🇪GER: 6,812 🇧🇷BRA: 6,761 🇮🇷IRI: 6,156 🇳🇱NED: 4,987😢 🇨🇳CHN: 4,633🙄 🇨🇦CAN: 3,566 🇹🇷TUR: 3,336 🇸🇪SWE: 2,669😢
Utter shite.... stopped reading when the article referenced the s*n on Sunday... for reference this does not qualify as Journalism
Total bullshine.
I’m sick of the lies. We were constantly told how he was in good spirits, and pushing through bravely!
Of course they had. It's standard procedure in the case of prominent people.
Pity they didn’t.
Isn't that standard procedure?
What absolute rubbish, this just shows that: 1. Johnson et al will say anything to divert attention; and 2. Newspapers will print anything with little regard for accuracy.
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