The British are so apathetic, in any other nation (France) there would be riots, marches, and demonstrations against the ruling party. The silence is deafening!
Boris missed first 5 emergency meeting of cobra on how to deal with the covid pandemic. The PM had a book to finish that he’d already had an enormous advance on. So Boris PM needs come first, he appears to have no concern for people of UK whatsoever!!!!
What is utterly appalling and totally mystifying is that there are still millions who will vote Tory next year and some of whom actually want Boris Johnson back in office as PM.
@@roamingism Did Labour support the decade long underfunding of the NHS? No. Did they support the scrapping of the pandemic response plan? No. Did they support the granting of funds to provide PPE to VIPs who had no experience in that area of industry? No. Did they support Matt Hancock's plans for limiting testing for COVID? No.
Having listen to all of this ... I can only come to one conclusion. They were all looking out for themselves ... AND NOT A CARE FOR HOW MANY OF OUR CITIZENS BECAME FODDER ... I will NEVER forgive.
This “inquiry” looks like some odd caricature of reality. They concentrate on showing how hard it was to get the Prime Minister to believe their fantasies that what they were doing was useful. Only problem was he didn’t have the self confidence to tell them all to F off
I think you needed to read between the pauses ... 'I have been trying to follow the science but it's very difficult as it involves things I was too lazy to study and sometimes they show me squiggly lines on charts which are sometimes differently coloured and hard to keep up with. Are we finished? When do I get my gin and totty?'
The science isn’t hard to understand, even for someone who gave science up at 15, he just isn’t particularly competent or a particularly good critical thinker.
Tories now: "it's an ongoing investigation so it wouldn't be right for me to comment". Tories later: "this investigation has now finished and it's time to move on".
This inquiry is a complete and utter farce. They have already prearranged the 'outcome'. More lockdowns, harder, faster and if necessary, longer. Why no questions of why the pandemic happened, origins, Patrick Vallance's collusion with Fauci, Collins, et al. mRNA entering mainstream medicine, cancel culture of experts rather than open debate, etc. All an utter load of BS is this inquiry. Just like the one about the Iraq War. Look where Tony Blair is now. None of these people will be held accountable!!
Imagine if The House of Comedy, sorry Commons was as transparent and professional as this. There needs to be an independent inquiry into the last 13 years of the Tory Government......Period.
This isn't transparent. The source of lockdowns, China, who the world followed created them, not the science. Nobody, except possibly Sweden had the guts to come up with a differe😢nt solution.
@@commonsense9176 met police was part of the problem they aided the tory .punished us tax payers and looked the other way for the tory.how do we deal with the police .they dragged women away from a park due to wiayne couzens and but hurt trying to show who'e boss and pritti patel backed than thanked them the day after a night with the borrises at downing at street.
Committees are one of the few aspects of Parliament that function as intended. It's a shame committees didn't have more powers to recommend criminal charges.
Boris resented only getting upper second class honours with his degree in Literae Humaniores. Hence all the references in his speeches to topics from the 'O' level Latin syllabus.
I think he still is thick or has that changed? I'd hate to think that someone would view this as he was thick but isn't anymore, so we'll vote for him because some people are somewhat less intelligent than Boris which is frightening
Politics, phphilosophy and economics is the benchmark. The economics covers you for stats including graphs and the philosophy does the ethics. Science isI so specialised it is hard to know which one but an understanding of how science works would help.
I think Blowjob needed one as he is as thick as two short planks. Yet he went to Eton and according to Moggy people who go to state schools are as thick as potted plants. It seems to me they're the thick ones.
Fancy schools in most countries tend to make maths and science or biology compulsory. Says a lot about the £100Kpa Eton schooling you get. Trained at bollocks and not much else.
This is the benefits of an Eton education. Every M.P. and minister should be made to pass an exam. Two of the papers should be on ethics and common sense. Failure results in our death.
@@jedimasterbazz basic information processing should be included, like English comprehansion, and understanding factual data. Even badic stuff like pie-charts or bar graphs.
You have it so wrong. They dont care, they cant. Look up eugenics london. Youll find the last 100years of history where darwins insane cousin tried to make his own genetics system to control breeding. It was on par with hitlers. He started by holding lectures at eton and other universities, as well as writing articles in the papers. Last forced sterilization was in the 1970's usa (they really lapped it up over there). They have ethics, it just involves ridding the planet of us lot. We have to get mental health evaluations in place for government members. And that all needs to be publicly available for scrutiny. Having purebred psychopaths with a wealth obsession in power left the door wide open for putin.
@@dianamincher6479 Both. Cummings will do whatever it takes to sink Sunak, and anyone else, but only for his own pleasure and not for the good of anyone else.
@@R08Tam He absolutely is thick! When you strip away all the quotes and latin phrases hammered into his head at school you're left with an empty man who knows absolutely nothing..
Not sure how many people have clocked on that this is what they'll warn students of politics of in 50 years. It's both enlightening and scary. A lot or us knew what he was, an intellectually challenged personification of Dunning-Kruger, but a lot of people on the same thought level put him in charge
he nver had to think for any one but his own self serving interests every in parliment new what he was he been given many jobs before this and either been fired or fucked them up at our cost .EVERY BODY who claimed not to know needs to go too for lying
Neither do the public who vote berks like the ones who constitute the Tory government into power. Who in their right minds gives a pseud like Jacob Rees-Mogg a seat in Parliament?
To win a modern general election you need a media savvy psychopath. As a professional comedian as well as a posh boy Boris was the ideal front man for the Tory party.
“The prime minister gave up science when he was 15” no one expected him to be a scientist that’s why he had experts around him. However even for a senior leader in a regular business it is a minimum expectation that they can read and understand data. That is how you measure productivity, output you name it. So one would expect that a “Prime minister” should be able to grasp data being presented to him/ her. This only reinforces his incompetence and lack of suitability for that role. It’s not unreasonable to expect the people running the country to be the best of the best but oh no… only in government…Smdh
It's not has if the pandemic was the only thing that was happening he was trying to deal with the brexit negotiations afghanistan evacuation climate change war in Ukraine etc etc.
Don't you know that being able to quote ancient Greek or Latin authors is the apposite skill for a Prime Minister? There's always some pithy dictum you can quote to convince the hoi polloi that you are destined to be their leader. If that doesn't work, make some fatuous remark about Peppa Pig and chortle. /s
And no one is an expert in all areas. Their entire job is supposed to be listening to the general opinion and that of experts and making a decision based on that. Which he clearly didn’t have the skills to do.
@@snowyowel7961 Yet, despite all those urgent serious challenges, Johnson was more interested in dealing with his divorce from a wife he cheated on while she was fighting cancer, and trying to write a lazy book about Shakespeare for £500K.
Basically Vallance is indicating what we all knew anyway. That Johnson is as thick as four short planks. And he became the leader of our country. Dear me !
The Brexiters knew he was not the brightest spark, so if anyone is responsible it is the Brexiters who promoted him to high office. Not did they promote a buffoon to the highest office in the land, but also created the economic shambles that is Brexit.
This will cost us Millions of. Taxpayers money And in the end not one of those Scumbags will pay the price they should pay for All those Deaths and Suffering they have Caused Millions ,And continue to. Cause for Many years to come .😊
He fell short of the old domestos injection trick but I think he was wilfully “unhearing” most of what the advisors were telling him. It’s pretty clear he wanted the thing to run riot and kill off a load of vulnerable people who would otherwise have been dependent on a functioning nhs and care system.
Thw whole lot need to be charged becayse people died due to their actions, from Johnson right down to those who knew all this but decided to keep their mouths shut until now, when lives have already been lost.
What’s the point of all this, we all know johnson, sunak, wancock are guilty and have blood on their hands, we don’t need these enquires to tell us, nothing will be done none of them will be held accountable! 😡🤬😡
Patrick Vallance also said Scotland did a great job on data analysis "THE UK’s top scientist during the pandemic has praised Scotland’s health data as “brilliant”. “I think Scotland has done over the years a brilliant job of getting health records, both primary and secondary care health records, and linking them and that’s been a piece of work that was done a long time ago and it really came into its own to be able to provide very useful information.” Will we ever hear this in National news? No is the answer because 95% of the news is biased against the Scottish Government. I applaud Mr Vallance for his honesty as a true professional unlike Johnson Sunak and Co. 👏👏👏👏
the tory and the media with the likes fo mrss kuntburger are as much to blame as a borris for backing lies that cost peoples lives .we cant even say let people die here face book and yout ube would community standards ban us .
It's shocking to hear about the incompetence, the negligence, the ignorance, the ignoring of the science . I say shocking ...but not because I'm surprised, but because as I hear the evidence- the truth of their behaviour is absolutely abhorrent. Although the lawyers are doing an excellent job ...what will the consequences be of all these hearings ? Will it all fade into a forgotten past ...?
I Ignored the science and I've never been more healthy. When are the sheep gonna shut up about "listening to the science?" Morons. Haven't learned a thing about propaganda. Science like cloth masks and avoiding all germs?? Wow.
At the time of the greatest crisis this country has faced since World War Two we needed a great statesman, one with empathy, maturity and intelligence. Sadly, we ended up with Johnson, unably supported by Hancock and Sunak.
It seems to have been forgotten that we might have had Jeremy Corbyn musing on how to understand the problem and solution under a 'Socialist' dogma canopy! Margaret Thatcher was that rarity; trained as a scientist, but sadly was not around to apply her mind to the ghastly dilemma.
You're running a country. Take notes, have somebody take notes for you, speak with experts before and after meetings so they can dumb it down for you. Good lord
I'm also struck by the total lack of understanding of the spread of viruses and the window period required in terms of testing. Here, during a pandemic of C19, there's suddenly a political will to control it or not... rather than the blanket "not" of HIV. Again and again I'm sickened by the handling of this. Johnson needs a giant kick in the arse for his incompetence.
Giving up science at 15 is the very reason you should put 100% trust in the scientists and listen to their advice! Imagine giving up woodwork at 15...but then ignoring the advice of the joiner you'd employed? Ludicrous.
😂🤣😂🤦🏽♂️🥴🤡 yeah ! right on !!! did you mean like the bit when they chanted ‘sAfE & eFfEcTivE & fULLy tEsTeD’ on a daily basis, for months & months on end ?
Its bs. All these guilty fkrs are trying to get away with the "im stupid" excuse. Ok mitch mcconnel went a bit further to escape but its the same shit.
is Bodger losing sleep over this? if he attends the Enquiry, his utter humiliation will be seen by the world and Sunak must be sweating vinegar as well
As someone with ADHD, I'm 100% convinced Johnson blatantly has ADHD. And again as someone with ADHD, the absolute last person you want in control of a country, ESPECIALLY a country going through a major crisis, is a man with a really bad ADHD.
That's being generous. In reality, he's probably just thick as a plank. Most people I know with ADHD are quick witted, just have a short attention span. Allegedly he has a degree from Oxford, so it's a reasonable expectation that he can read complex literature and problem solve, but we've seen no evidence of either in this sorry saga.
@@andrewclimo5709There are a few programs at Oxford that are infamous of not being competitive (for Oxford standards) in admissions, and Classics is one them.
How nice, polite and kind these solicitors/lawyers are to these people ... when they were totally responsible for the DEATH of hundreds of thousands of unnecessary Deaths!!!
Isn't it their job to do everything to get the answers to their questions and lines of inquiry - how exactly would being impolite and judgmental help that? Even moreso, in this instance, this is, fundamentally, a witness to the chaos rather than a decision maker within it... any ire or judgment would be misplaced.
Agree. Such quiet, deliberate discussion of the death dealing decisions must drive the victims’ families absolutely mad. Definitely need a Nuremberg Trial for the perpetrators.
Can I just say how clear and conscious his communication of scientific advice seems to be? I feel I’d be able to follow his advice quite well from this.
After watching this enquiry, ask yourself, will you do anything the government ask you again, if your answer is no, I have hope for the people of Britain
The "letting it rip" argument was just because Boris was tired of it all, and wanted to disappear into the bottle again. Nothing to do with governing the nation.
I'm very confused. What problem do world leaders have with exponential curves? I'm really struggling to figure out a way you couldn't be taught the core concept in a minute.
@@plumbr13Sure, I'm rusty but heres an example. Imagine a petri dish with some bacterial cells. Everytime they reproduce through mitosis the populations number doubles, resulting in double the new cells from the next mitosis. The time between each mitosis will remain consistent but the population will experience exponential growth. If you plot the total population against the time intervals you will get an exponential curve with points going further and further up until they shoot off somewhere to the moon. You can also use the graph to produce a equation for the line that represents the rate of exponential growth assuming space and resources were limitless. This has predictive power, based on the interval number you can calculate the total population during that interval. If we can grasp this the Prime Minister definitely should, especially with repeated meetings like these.
Shocking. Hard to imagine a more catastrophic failure of a national government’s response to the pandemic. Lacking trust in expert opinion and or inability to understand and act m, even read, such advice must be the eight deadly sin. Unfortunately the deaths that result are of the innocents who elected these ill-equipped ‘decision’ makers. Thank goodness my late wife and I moved with our son to New Zealand in 1996 and had Jacinda Ardern’s administration, warts and all, to trust in and be kept safe by.
Advice is exactly that, competent people giving evidence based opinion. If those who need to make decisions don’t like that advice they are free to make other decisions AS LONG AS they have the balls to acknowledge that their decisions were theirs and not attempt to hide behind “scientific advice’, ‘expert knowledge’, etc.
The take away from this inquiry is that we need better systems for who we elect to weed out these fantasists. Johnson managed to go through an election campaign without serious scrutiny of his abilities. That’s not good regardless if your on the right or left
Who'd have thought it? Being able to quote Latin literature doesn't mean you are intelligent or capable of being prime minister. Sometimes you need a scientist like Thatcher or Merkel. They weren't perfect but compared to lightweights like Johnson, Blair, Berlusconi, Cameron ....
Huh so Boris didn't get this stuff any better than the average person, not a huge surprise. But most of the governments of many countries not getting even the basics is really disturbing. Don't you need to be able to quickly and fully understand graphs, statistics, models, etc. on a daily basis to have a hope of doing a good job in just about any ministerial role?
The Prime Minister was baffled by graphs and science. In any business other than politics, that would prevent you from becoming a senior executive. Understanding statistics and trends are vital elements in making strategic decisions. It's no surprise we had one of the worst death rates in the world when an idiot with the mental age of a 12 year old was running the country.
They should be all jailed for the way thee treated the British people. But their still in power. And they got their honors. Sirs and lords now they were rewarded for their crimes against the British people
shame on all of them for not saying any of this at the time as they stood thier with johnson every day in front of the microphones. At any moment they could have spoken the truth - BUT THEY CHOSE NOT TO every single day. they continued with the lies..............
And these are the people that lead us....remember.....utterly unworthy of our respect .......remember.....this should be on live on TV, in schools etc.......remember....
Test him for ADHD. That’s not a diss. I have ADHD. It’s also not a statement on whether neurodiverse people should or shouldn’t be in politics and high office. The demographics would almost certainly dictate that a decent percentage of sitting MPs and associated influential job roles would feature neurodiverse people. I’m just saying it’s the most basic assessment of his personality. Coupled with narcissism, a troubled upbringing and finally a brutalising private school system. There he is. Our Ex-Prime Minister
This reminds me of reading the book 'Inside the Third Reich' by Albert Speer. Speer describes Generals coming from the Eastern front trying to explain the realities to Hitler and being confronted with emotional outbursts.
Long covid where do they get this from. I think they should all be held accountable for making us prisoners in our own homes. Peoples loved ones dying alone while they had a party. Absolute disgrace. Police literally stopped a man going to work and bullied him into the police car. What a cruel situation this whole lie was. They think we have forgotten well we havent!
I imagine Johnson would have preferred a military crisis to deal with when he could go all "Churchill". However the pandemic required attention to detail , decisiveness and empathy. Johnson failed at these 3 things
Boris, the sort of intellect who can calculate the surface area of a banana, but cannot work out how to peel it. If you paid the educational fees for toffs like BoJo, Sunak, Hunt and Mogg, you would demand your money back. Get them out.
NHS WAS overwhelmed. There were no surgical beds available when my cousin needed emergency bowel surgery…..so she was left on nil by mouth for five days……and died waiting for surgery.
We would be better reviewing how other countries tackled the pandemic and putting together best practice guidance to manage the next pandemic better, in the face of the inevitable uncertainty of how it will play out that haunts the early phases.
All done in the past but ignored by those who follow unfortunately. The new issues need to update the advice but dropping things in preparation of the next one is very common to save money. I studied this long before covid and the science community was already warning various governments they had dropped the ball to save money and would eventually suffer for it.
Ok first step. Modern studies on airborne virus spread.... 28ft minimum safe distance. Not 6ft plucked out of a 1930's study on mucous ejections and modernised with "the warm air will lift the virus away" ..... Indoors? How does it lift it away indoors? Transport: travelling at 15mph a jogger or cyclist leaves a 70ft trail of viral cloud directly behind them. Boris' advice.... Open all car windows while driving. He spread it
Oh how I wish we had professionals of his calibre in the cabinet, instead we have a cabal of middle management bankers and cabinet meetings run like shareholder meetings, and very poorly at that.
if BoJo was so dim witted in science then why didn’t his staff have meetings to prep him before the experts came in to brief him - gads why should the experts have to waste their time essentially trying to teach a 15 yr old - gads - if I were a COVID expert I’d go home with a suitcase full of booze after meeting with BoJo 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
There does seem to be a stark difference between people such as Vallance answering questions as fully as they can and politicians (and to a lesser degree civil servants) employing the 'I don't/can't recall' tactic where they are simply trying to protect their 'reputations' and obfuscate for the errors they made
Confusion and recklessness from the likes of Vallance who had no idea himself. It's astonishing that this guy can sit there and play the Lockdown game without even being challenged. The whole inquiry is depressing and an institutional cover-up. Set up by the establishment to cover up for each other.
Another factor here is the strong possibility that Johnston had an undiagnosed ADHD. Some of his inability seemed like an attention issue but other times it just seemed he was deliberately being provokative or willfully denying the advice. It must have been hard to have worked with him though.
Agreed. He's obviously not too bright, he's obviously a fairly typical right-winger with contempt for ordinary people, but it does seem like a few other things were going on with him. I'd add depression to your points about ADHD and denial. He's also a kind of party boy, isn't he? (I'm not a Brit). Alcoholism?
What I absolutely love about this is that even after discovery of truth there will be zero accountability.
The British are so apathetic, in any other nation (France) there would be riots, marches, and demonstrations against the ruling party. The silence is deafening!
Not necessarily, should things come to light that Plod is interested in, there will be prosecutions
@@swally291 good idea, but they are so legally uncatchable, and they know it, but you app. do not.
Time for this to be reviewed and a new law in..dissolve the Tory party ,they deserve no less.
I hope all those who lost relatives ect act collectively and sue the pants off them for their incompetent
Instead of an Inquiry it should be a Criminal Trial.
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we see the met police arrest us for showing decent to tory rule before they turned on there bread makers the tory .
To right. Over 100000 people and families suffered. He should be nicked and held accountable for his actions and choices.
Yes and proper accountability not some soft touch gesture
Well said ,lock em up including the colluding scientists
Boris missed first 5 emergency meeting of cobra on how to deal with the covid pandemic.
The PM had a book to finish that he’d already had an enormous advance on.
So Boris PM needs come first, he appears to have no concern for people of UK whatsoever!!!!
His book about the first man in England to get the vaccine?
As jokes go, Matt Hancock found it amusing..
Correct.
Still not finished the book. Fact
The good people of the UK DESERVE BETTER.
The current PM isn't much better: he was even happier than BoZo to let us die.
What is utterly appalling and totally mystifying is that there are still millions who will vote Tory next year and some of whom actually want Boris Johnson back in office as PM.
No accounting for looking through the hole n missing the doughnut.
Labour supported every mistake the government made.
@@roamingism Did Labour support the decade long underfunding of the NHS? No. Did they support the scrapping of the pandemic response plan? No. Did they support the granting of funds to provide PPE to VIPs who had no experience in that area of industry? No. Did they support Matt Hancock's plans for limiting testing for COVID? No.
@@Sally237-s4w😂 Well put.
@@roamingism calling bull shit tory.
Having listen to all of this ... I can only come to one conclusion. They were all looking out for themselves ... AND NOT A CARE FOR HOW MANY OF OUR CITIZENS BECAME FODDER ... I will NEVER forgive.
Eugenicists. And putin wanted the west crumbled before his war. Special favors amongst special friends for that special operation.
@luminousfractal420 one big club who are the real players who is been played me you who knows the truth
This “inquiry” looks like some odd caricature of reality. They concentrate on showing how hard it was to get the Prime Minister to believe their fantasies that what they were doing was useful.
Only problem was he didn’t have the self confidence to tell them all to F off
"He gave up science when he was fifteen."
And this was someone saying confidently that we was 'following the science'."
I think you needed to read between the pauses ... 'I have been trying to follow the science but it's very difficult as it involves things I was too lazy to study and sometimes they show me squiggly lines on charts which are sometimes differently coloured and hard to keep up with. Are we finished? When do I get my gin and totty?'
The science isn’t hard to understand, even for someone who gave science up at 15, he just isn’t particularly competent or a particularly good critical thinker.
He gave up everything @15
He would have followed the science if it had either a gin or a skirt. Preferably both.
that was just early-crisis propaganda, to reduce the building questioning of obviously insane/lacklustre govt policy
Tories now: "it's an ongoing investigation so it wouldn't be right for me to comment". Tories later: "this investigation has now finished and it's time to move on".
Sounds about right and don't forget the old lessons learnt bullshit as well as if its just some exam with no repercussions
😂😂😂😂 i loughed so hard m8. So true tho
Labour: zzzzzzz Uh what year is it?
Labour or any other party in power would be no different. Politics is rotten to the core. Unless it is totally overhauled, nothing will change.
This inquiry is a complete and utter farce. They have already prearranged the 'outcome'. More lockdowns, harder, faster and if necessary, longer. Why no questions of why the pandemic happened, origins, Patrick Vallance's collusion with Fauci, Collins, et al. mRNA entering mainstream medicine, cancel culture of experts rather than open debate, etc. All an utter load of BS is this inquiry. Just like the one about the Iraq War. Look where Tony Blair is now. None of these people will be held accountable!!
Imagine if The House of Comedy, sorry Commons was as transparent and professional as this. There needs to be an independent inquiry into the last 13 years of the Tory Government......Period.
I disagree it should be a criminal criminal investigation
This isn't transparent. The source of lockdowns, China, who the world followed created them, not the science. Nobody, except possibly Sweden had the guts to come up with a differe😢nt solution.
@@commonsense9176 met police was part of the problem they aided the tory .punished us tax payers and looked the other way for the tory.how do we deal with the police .they dragged women away from a park due to wiayne couzens and but hurt trying to show who'e boss and pritti patel backed than thanked them the day after a night with the borrises at downing at street.
democide is a thing
Committees are one of the few aspects of Parliament that function as intended. It's a shame committees didn't have more powers to recommend criminal charges.
I always believed Boris was fundamentally stupid (except when it came to lying and saying what was best for him), but OMG he really was thick!
He is thick as mince.
thicker than a boxin' day t # rd
Boris resented only getting upper second class honours with his degree in Literae Humaniores. Hence all the references in his speeches to topics from the 'O' level Latin syllabus.
He could speak the same amount of languages as your average third world taxi driver
I think he still is thick or has that changed? I'd hate to think that someone would view this as he was thick but isn't anymore, so we'll vote for him because some people are somewhat less intelligent than Boris which is frightening
Can all MPs be given basic comprehension, maths and science tests before election?
It's a non starter. They would just reject the premise of every question.
And ethics would be nice too...
Politics, phphilosophy and economics is the benchmark. The economics covers you for stats including graphs and the philosophy does the ethics.
Science isI so specialised it is hard to know which one but an understanding of how science works would help.
I think Blowjob needed one as he is as thick as two short planks. Yet he went to Eton and according to Moggy people who go to state schools are as thick as potted plants. It seems to me they're the thick ones.
...the mps weren't asked. They out sourced all our powers to a small narrow minded comitee some of whom were open communists!!
Fancy schools in most countries tend to make maths and science or biology compulsory. Says a lot about the £100Kpa Eton schooling you get. Trained at bollocks and not much else.
They have lessons in entitlement
@@R08Tam Lessons in self-confidence, which the state system knocks out of your children.
@@jondarbyshire-s7k Arrogance and contempt for people 'less' than you is not self-confidence, its a psychological complex
science or biology? Biology is a science ...
@@clowncarqingdao err.. meant physics and biology
This is the benefits of an Eton education. Every M.P. and minister should be made to pass an exam. Two of the papers should be on ethics and common sense. Failure results in our death.
Eton rifles.
Most of these politicians think Ethics is the county across the Thames from Kent 😂
Maths and science could be a requisite too
@@jedimasterbazz basic information processing should be included, like English comprehansion, and understanding factual data. Even badic stuff like pie-charts or bar graphs.
You have it so wrong. They dont care, they cant.
Look up eugenics london.
Youll find the last 100years of history where darwins insane cousin tried to make his own genetics system to control breeding. It was on par with hitlers.
He started by holding lectures at eton and other universities, as well as writing articles in the papers.
Last forced sterilization was in the 1970's usa (they really lapped it up over there).
They have ethics, it just involves ridding the planet of us lot.
We have to get mental health evaluations in place for government members. And that all needs to be publicly available for scrutiny.
Having purebred psychopaths with a wealth obsession in power left the door wide open for putin.
If sunak said that people should die then he has to resign
He lacks the self awareness to resign. He is hoping his international troll army will make him save face.
Agreed! Will Cummings sink him or lie?
@@dianamincher6479 Both. Cummings will do whatever it takes to sink Sunak, and anyone else, but only for his own pleasure and not for the good of anyone else.
Did he say people should die?? Or was he really saying actually this is just a load of bollocks like most of us thought.
anyone sitting in the cabinet over that period will have to go or the tories will just lose most if not all their seats in the next election
Anyone surprised that loads of people think Boris was thick as? Those voting for him in December 2019 have a lot to answer for too.
He isn't thick. He just doesn't care
@@R08Tam On the contrary, if he was intelligent he'd at least pretend to care.
@@R08Tam He absolutely is thick! When you strip away all the quotes and latin phrases hammered into his head at school you're left with an empty man who knows absolutely nothing..
@@roderickjoyce6716 The UK is so broken he knows he doesn't even have to pretend. He is protected from all consequences by a system that has two tiers
I believe, it's been pointed out. The largest number of volunteers at the time he was elected. Had lower qualifications...a school level
Not sure how many people have clocked on that this is what they'll warn students of politics of in 50 years. It's both enlightening and scary. A lot or us knew what he was, an intellectually challenged personification of Dunning-Kruger, but a lot of people on the same thought level put him in charge
EXACTLY!!
"He didn't really think... " Just stop there. That explains it all. No further explanation or detail required.
he nver had to think for any one but his own self serving interests every in parliment new what he was he been given many jobs before this and either been fired or fucked them up at our cost .EVERY BODY who claimed not to know needs to go too for lying
Neither do the public who vote berks like the ones who constitute the Tory government into power. Who in their right minds gives a pseud like Jacob Rees-Mogg a seat in Parliament?
This is why your cabinet should not just be people with PPE degrees. Not electing total idiots as PM would also help.
Johnson studied classics; at the time it was seen as an easy option.
To win a modern general election you need a media savvy psychopath. As a professional comedian as well as a posh boy Boris was the ideal front man for the Tory party.
The system is good, then look before him
@@traceyomalley3797 Mrs May was far superior to Boris but obviously the Tory Party preferred him because he was better at papering over the cracks.
“The prime minister gave up science when he was 15” no one expected him to be a scientist that’s why he had experts around him. However even for a senior leader in a regular business it is a minimum expectation that they can read and understand data. That is how you measure productivity, output you name it. So one would expect that a “Prime minister” should be able to grasp data being presented to him/ her. This only reinforces his incompetence and lack of suitability for that role. It’s not unreasonable to expect the people running the country to be the best of the best but oh no… only in government…Smdh
It's not has if the pandemic was the only thing that was happening he was trying to deal with the brexit negotiations afghanistan evacuation climate change war in Ukraine etc etc.
Don't you know that being able to quote ancient Greek or Latin authors is the apposite skill for a Prime Minister? There's always some pithy dictum you can quote to convince the hoi polloi that you are destined to be their leader. If that doesn't work, make some fatuous remark about Peppa Pig and chortle. /s
So true. And so many people with less money and power defend them to the hilt. The same people they don’t care about at all.
And no one is an expert in all areas. Their entire job is supposed to be listening to the general opinion and that of experts and making a decision based on that. Which he clearly didn’t have the skills to do.
@@snowyowel7961 Yet, despite all those urgent serious challenges, Johnson was more interested in dealing with his divorce from a wife he cheated on while she was fighting cancer, and trying to write a lazy book about Shakespeare for £500K.
The Nation is now suffering from Long Johnson and Terminal Truss Syndrome.
Ah Boris, "His reach far exceeded his grasp" has never so accurately described anyone (well... anyone British)
I remember commenting at the time that Johnson was completely out of his depth.
Basically Vallance is indicating what we all knew anyway. That Johnson is as thick as four short planks. And he became the leader of our country. Dear me !
The Brexiters knew he was not the brightest spark, so if anyone is responsible it is the Brexiters who promoted him to high office. Not did they promote a buffoon to the highest office in the land, but also created the economic shambles that is Brexit.
*Unelected leader.
This a tory party with only the interests of doners, what else can you expect.
You are giving him far too many planks. One brain cell per plank, remember!
Voted for by those of the same ilk in the general population!
This will cost us Millions of. Taxpayers money And in the end not one of those Scumbags will pay the price they should pay for All those Deaths and Suffering they have Caused Millions ,And continue to. Cause for Many years to come .😊
Exactly. The issue is these clowns Boris, Sunak, Hancock, Williamson, Hunt etc should never have been anywhere Downing Street and Government
I think Boris did more or less the best that he could?
@@dianamincher6479Less.
"He couldn't grasp anything." Sounds EXACTLY like DJT.
No in the end they all pulled together? Playing the fool is part of the act!
He fell short of the old domestos injection trick but I think he was wilfully “unhearing” most of what the advisors were telling him.
It’s pretty clear he wanted the thing to run riot and kill off a load of vulnerable people who would otherwise have been dependent on a functioning nhs and care system.
Johnson is Trump Lite.
Excellent testimony. One of the most thoughtful and sensible speakers so far.
Vallance is a snake.
@@Caesar-3elhow so?
I don’t fully agree - he is reluctant to be frank
Somebody had to do it. Suzanne.
Are you unaware of the video of Vallance declaring that 65% of the population should become infected?
Thw whole lot need to be charged becayse people died due to their actions, from Johnson right down to those who knew all this but decided to keep their mouths shut until now, when lives have already been lost.
Astonishing.
Actually worse, much worse than i had imagined
then you’ve quite clearly not heard the half of it
What’s the point of all this, we all know johnson, sunak, wancock are guilty and have blood on their hands, we don’t need these enquires to tell us, nothing will be done none of them will be held accountable! 😡🤬😡
"Wancock"... About sums him up.
Patrick Vallance also said Scotland did a great job on data analysis "THE UK’s top scientist during the pandemic has praised Scotland’s health data as “brilliant”. “I think Scotland has done over the years a brilliant job of getting health records, both primary and secondary care health records, and linking them and that’s been a piece of work that was done a long time ago and it really came into its own to be able to provide very useful information.” Will we ever hear this in National news? No is the answer because 95% of the news is biased against the Scottish Government. I applaud Mr Vallance for his honesty as a true professional unlike Johnson Sunak and Co. 👏👏👏👏
Really? And the health of the average Scottish person is better as a result how exactly?
Thank you for showing the whole discusiion.
What a boring day with these.
Johnson was useless? Tell us something we DON'T know.
But Rishi Sunak? What's he up to?
the tory and the media with the likes fo mrss kuntburger are as much to blame as a borris for backing lies that cost peoples lives .we cant even say let people die here face book and yout ube would community standards ban us .
They should all be in prison all of them.
Fat chance! Like the NHS, they bury their mistakes.
It's shocking to hear about the incompetence, the negligence, the ignorance, the ignoring of the science . I say shocking ...but not because I'm surprised, but because as I hear the evidence- the truth of their behaviour is absolutely abhorrent.
Although the lawyers are doing an excellent job ...what will the consequences be of all these hearings ? Will it all fade into a forgotten past ...?
I Ignored the science and I've never been more healthy. When are the sheep gonna shut up about "listening to the science?" Morons. Haven't learned a thing about propaganda. Science like cloth masks and avoiding all germs?? Wow.
At the time of the greatest crisis this country has faced since World War Two we needed a great statesman, one with empathy, maturity and intelligence. Sadly, we ended up with Johnson, unably supported by Hancock and Sunak.
Eugenicists. Putins people. And yup, purebred psychopaths.
Sadly, sections of the population looked at Johnson and saw themselves represented. See above.
It seems to have been forgotten that we might have had Jeremy Corbyn musing on how to understand the problem and solution under a 'Socialist' dogma canopy! Margaret Thatcher was that rarity; trained as a scientist, but sadly was not around to apply her mind to the ghastly dilemma.
Look what Trump did
The typical fascist submissive. Always looking for a daddy to hold you when it gets a little scary
You're running a country. Take notes, have somebody take notes for you, speak with experts before and after meetings so they can dumb it down for you. Good lord
I'm also struck by the total lack of understanding of the spread of viruses and the window period required in terms of testing. Here, during a pandemic of C19, there's suddenly a political will to control it or not... rather than the blanket "not" of HIV. Again and again I'm sickened by the handling of this. Johnson needs a giant kick in the arse for his incompetence.
No surprise that for those of us that didn't vote for him this is entirely understandable. Seriously, what were you thinking?
can you ?
Giving up science at 15 is the very reason you should put 100% trust in the scientists and listen to their advice!
Imagine giving up woodwork at 15...but then ignoring the advice of the joiner you'd employed? Ludicrous.
😂🤣😂🤦🏽♂️🥴🤡
yeah ! right on !!! did you mean like the bit when they chanted ‘sAfE & eFfEcTivE & fULLy tEsTeD’ on a daily basis, for months & months on end ?
Its bs. All these guilty fkrs are trying to get away with the "im stupid" excuse. Ok mitch mcconnel went a bit further to escape but its the same shit.
is Bodger losing sleep over this? if he attends the Enquiry, his utter humiliation will be seen by the world and Sunak must be sweating vinegar as well
Bodger won't game a dam....He'll enjoy being in the limelight again.
@@susanmorgan3104 disagree, the worse his humiliation, the less his comedy routine is worth on the speaking circuit. Should be the event of the year.
He will lie his backside off surprise shocker
As someone with ADHD, I'm 100% convinced Johnson blatantly has ADHD. And again as someone with ADHD, the absolute last person you want in control of a country, ESPECIALLY a country going through a major crisis, is a man with a really bad ADHD.
That's being generous. In reality, he's probably just thick as a plank. Most people I know with ADHD are quick witted, just have a short attention span. Allegedly he has a degree from Oxford, so it's a reasonable expectation that he can read complex literature and problem solve, but we've seen no evidence of either in this sorry saga.
I just think he a spoilt brat.
You can;t be sure?
He got by on his Greek and Latin. Still is...
@@andrewclimo5709There are a few programs at Oxford that are infamous of not being competitive (for Oxford standards) in admissions, and Classics is one them.
How nice, polite and kind these solicitors/lawyers are to these people ... when they were totally responsible for the DEATH of hundreds of thousands of unnecessary Deaths!!!
Isn't it their job to do everything to get the answers to their questions and lines of inquiry - how exactly would being impolite and judgmental help that? Even moreso, in this instance, this is, fundamentally, a witness to the chaos rather than a decision maker within it... any ire or judgment would be misplaced.
Agree. Such quiet, deliberate discussion of the death dealing decisions must drive the victims’ families absolutely mad. Definitely need a Nuremberg Trial for the perpetrators.
This guy was a scientific advisor, not a politician. He’s one of the few decent people in this trial.
Johnson was not really interested in doing the work merely wanted the perks. Who knew!!!!
Can I just say how clear and conscious his communication of scientific advice seems to be? I feel I’d be able to follow his advice quite well from this.
😂😂😂
Who'd have guessed that a degree in classics wouldn't have prepared you for having to understand basic maths and science? 🤔
I can just see an entry from a science teacher on BJ's school report; 'he sets himself extremely low targets which he consistently fails to reach'...
The enquiry has shown they are all as thick as mince. They are all trying to justify their actions.
What are they actually teaching at Eton
Sociopathy.
They struggled with him because he is a psychopath.
How to look down on, and ridicule the plebs !!
Privilege
How to be a complete Bell end.
And a set of thieves.
arrogance
After watching this enquiry, ask yourself, will you do anything the government ask you again, if your answer is no, I have hope for the people of Britain
At least it seems more civilised that Cummings testimony!! But still just shows how incompetent Johnson was to lead anything.
Yes it was, with a refreshing lack of Anglo-Saxon swear words.
Johnson and Sunak should be in The Hague.
BoJo was a Bozo?
Quelle surprise! 🙄
he still is a top class Bozo
@@Gerrygambone True. 😔
He couldn't find the runway or the airport building?
@@dianamincher6479 ?
That name is derogatory - Bomboozled Boris (rather than) Bozo is better.
Spaffer was completely clueless, did you expect anything less?
The "letting it rip" argument was just because Boris was tired of it all, and wanted to disappear into the bottle again. Nothing to do with governing the nation.
I'm very confused. What problem do world leaders have with exponential curves?
I'm really struggling to figure out a way you couldn't be taught the core concept in a minute.
Me too, and I'm a humanities graduate!
Can I check - what is the core concept?
@@plumbr13Sure, I'm rusty but heres an example. Imagine a petri dish with some bacterial cells. Everytime they reproduce through mitosis the populations number doubles, resulting in double the new cells from the next mitosis. The time between each mitosis will remain consistent but the population will experience exponential growth. If you plot the total population against the time intervals you will get an exponential curve with points going further and further up until they shoot off somewhere to the moon.
You can also use the graph to produce a equation for the line that represents the rate of exponential growth assuming space and resources were limitless. This has predictive power, based on the interval number you can calculate the total population during that interval.
If we can grasp this the Prime Minister definitely should, especially with repeated meetings like these.
Shocking.
Hard to imagine a more catastrophic failure of a national government’s response to the pandemic. Lacking trust in expert opinion and or inability to understand and act m, even read, such advice must be the eight deadly sin. Unfortunately the deaths that result are of the innocents who elected these ill-equipped ‘decision’ makers.
Thank goodness my late wife and I moved with our son to New Zealand in 1996 and had Jacinda Ardern’s administration, warts and all, to trust in and be kept safe by.
It is quite difficult to warch this. As a kiwi I can only agree with what you have said.
Advice is exactly that, competent people giving evidence based opinion. If those who need to make decisions don’t like that advice they are free to make other decisions AS LONG AS they have the balls to acknowledge that their decisions were theirs and not attempt to hide behind “scientific advice’, ‘expert knowledge’, etc.
The take away from this inquiry is that we need better systems for who we elect to weed out these fantasists. Johnson managed to go through an election campaign without serious scrutiny of his abilities. That’s not good regardless if your on the right or left
They need to be given jail sentences
The clowns appearance before this committee is going to be interesting.
Too damn right it is. The popcorn will be out for that for sure!
A culpable right wing press…
Yes exactly. Like the Daily Heil. That scumbag newspaper should have been abolished after World War II.
@XvonPocalypse you heard him
Who'd have thought it? Being able to quote Latin literature doesn't mean you are intelligent or capable of being prime minister. Sometimes you need a scientist like Thatcher or Merkel. They weren't perfect but compared to lightweights like Johnson, Blair, Berlusconi, Cameron ....
Thatcher may have been a scientist but she was in no way an epidemiologist as the outcomes of her policy choices endlessly show
Huh so Boris didn't get this stuff any better than the average person, not a huge surprise. But most of the governments of many countries not getting even the basics is really disturbing. Don't you need to be able to quickly and fully understand graphs, statistics, models, etc. on a daily basis to have a hope of doing a good job in just about any ministerial role?
Apparently not. It's more about how fast you can grasp "donations" from "free"market billionaires.
The only thing that will come out of this enquiry is the ‘legal teams’ will make a ton of money and no one will be held accountable!
The Prime Minister was baffled by graphs and science. In any business other than politics, that would prevent you from becoming a senior executive. Understanding statistics and trends are vital elements in making strategic decisions. It's no surprise we had one of the worst death rates in the world when an idiot with the mental age of a 12 year old was running the country.
They should be all jailed for the way thee treated the British people. But their still in power. And they got their honors. Sirs and lords now they were rewarded for their crimes against the British people
shame on all of them for not saying any of this at the time as they stood thier with johnson every day in front of the microphones. At any moment they could have spoken the truth - BUT THEY CHOSE NOT TO every single day. they continued with the lies..............
Eton pupils not too bright, then. What a shock.
And these are the people that lead us....remember.....utterly unworthy of our respect .......remember.....this should be on live on TV, in schools etc.......remember....
I listened to it live. Damning of Sunak and Johnson.
Test him for ADHD. That’s not a diss. I have ADHD. It’s also not a statement on whether neurodiverse people should or shouldn’t be in politics and high office. The demographics would almost certainly dictate that a decent percentage of sitting MPs and associated influential job roles would feature neurodiverse people. I’m just saying it’s the most basic assessment of his personality. Coupled with narcissism, a troubled upbringing and finally a brutalising private school system. There he is. Our Ex-Prime Minister
Everyone knew Johnson was thick as mince.. yet he won a landslide ffs 😂
He grasped/grabbed the money fast enough for mates at the public expense
This reminds me of reading the book 'Inside the Third Reich' by Albert Speer. Speer describes Generals coming from the Eastern front trying to explain the realities to Hitler and being confronted with emotional outbursts.
He’s making so many excuses for them!!!
Politicians are not normally like this. That’s not a good excuse to say politicians are just politicians.
Part of the problem in the UK is that humanities graduates are valued more than science graduates.
Especially within the public schoolboy set.
Long covid where do they get this from. I think they should all be held accountable for making us prisoners in our own homes. Peoples loved ones dying alone while they had a party. Absolute disgrace. Police literally stopped a man going to work and bullied him into the police car. What a cruel situation this whole lie was. They think we have forgotten well we havent!
Until parliamentary privilege is reformed this will keep on happening
How can anyone struggle with the concept of doubling times? It’s not difficult
It's not easy to understand a scientist if you drink as much as Boris does
I imagine Johnson would have preferred a military crisis to deal with when he could go all "Churchill". However the pandemic required attention to detail , decisiveness and empathy. Johnson failed at these 3 things
Boris, the sort of intellect who can calculate the surface area of a banana, but cannot work out how to peel it. If you paid the educational fees for toffs like BoJo, Sunak, Hunt and Mogg, you would demand your money back. Get them out.
The point is that Johnson can't work out the surface area of a banana as that involves maths and critical thinking. Try to keep up!
He's no sort of intellect
What is it with him asking about it being “late night” thinking. Does it matter? Also normally people think a lot clearer at night.
When you listen to all of this and realise the truth after 3 1/2 yrs,what is the point?
Johnson needs to be held accountable for his actions and choices.
The reluctance of this witness to call a spade, a spade is breathtaking
sir pat walked away with a cushty job at GSK & a sh*t load of pHARMa shares, he’s set for life, what’s not to like ??!??!?
NHS WAS overwhelmed. There were no surgical beds available when my cousin needed emergency bowel surgery…..so she was left on nil by mouth for five days……and died waiting for surgery.
We would be better reviewing how other countries tackled the pandemic and putting together best practice guidance to manage the next pandemic better, in the face of the inevitable uncertainty of how it will play out that haunts the early phases.
All done in the past but ignored by those who follow unfortunately. The new issues need to update the advice but dropping things in preparation of the next one is very common to save money. I studied this long before covid and the science community was already warning various governments they had dropped the ball to save money and would eventually suffer for it.
Ok first step. Modern studies on airborne virus spread.... 28ft minimum safe distance. Not 6ft plucked out of a 1930's study on mucous ejections and modernised with "the warm air will lift the virus away" ..... Indoors? How does it lift it away indoors?
Transport: travelling at 15mph a jogger or cyclist leaves a 70ft trail of viral cloud directly behind them.
Boris' advice.... Open all car windows while driving.
He spread it
Oh how I wish we had professionals of his calibre in the cabinet, instead we have a cabal of middle management bankers and cabinet meetings run like shareholder meetings, and very poorly at that.
If you thought you couldn’t hate this Tory Government more…
if BoJo was so dim witted in science then why didn’t his staff have meetings to prep him before the experts came in to brief him - gads why should the experts have to waste their time essentially trying to teach a 15 yr old - gads - if I were a COVID expert I’d go home with a suitcase full of booze after meeting with BoJo 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Piss up and brewery come to mind.
There does seem to be a stark difference between people such as Vallance answering questions as fully as they can and politicians (and to a lesser degree civil servants) employing the 'I don't/can't recall' tactic where they are simply trying to protect their 'reputations' and obfuscate for the errors they made
They say that now , but kept silent at the time
All those statements the politicians made that they were ‘following the science’ look like a bunch of lies or are we not allowed to use the L word?
Confusion and recklessness from the likes of Vallance who had no idea himself. It's astonishing that this guy can sit there and play the Lockdown game without even being challenged. The whole inquiry is depressing and an institutional cover-up. Set up by the establishment to cover up for each other.
They should have drawn pictures for Boris.
He couldn't understand the pictures, which is what graphs are!
"2 pints of lager 🍺🍺and a packet of crisps please"
Another factor here is the strong possibility that Johnston had an undiagnosed ADHD. Some of his inability seemed like an attention issue but other times it just seemed he was deliberately being provokative or willfully denying the advice. It must have been hard to have worked with him though.
Undiagnosed narcissism
No ..... just thick !!!
ADHD doesn't make people into arrogant, selfish, entitled pricks though. Often quite the contrary.
Agreed. He's obviously not too bright, he's obviously a fairly typical right-winger with contempt for ordinary people, but it does seem like a few other things were going on with him. I'd add depression to your points about ADHD and denial.
He's also a kind of party boy, isn't he? (I'm not a Brit). Alcoholism?
@@mattgilbert7347 Think ADHD is a huge factor, but also narcissism and complete lack of seriousness. It's really sad the quality of leaders these days
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And these people went to the top universities….
One school within one university. It also seems that they were more interested in the debating society of same university.