Boris Johnson apologises for UK’s handling of Covid pandemic | BBC News
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- Boris Johnson has apologised, at the UK’s official inquiry into the Covid pandemic, for the way his government handled the crisis. The former Prime Minister said it had "vastly underestimated" the threat posed by the virus.
Mr Johnson admitted that as Prime Minister he should have realised sooner how serious the crisis was. He said he was sorry for the pain, loss and suffering of victims and families.
Mr Johnson has been accused of lying about government decisions during the pandemic. It's accused of failing to protect elderly people in care homes. The UK suffered one of the highest death rates from Covid in western Europe.
Mr Johnson was forced to resign as Prime Minister after it emerged that parties had been held in Downing Street in breach of the government’s Covid restrictions.
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He's apologised. Ah, I feel so much better about my mother dying in isolation because of the ban on visitors in nursing homes, knowing that he and his lot were partying away and laughing at us at the same time: that numerous lives and businesses were completely destroyed and changed forever. An apology from prison might do it - and while we're at it: let's not forget the part that the bbc and other outlets played in this as the governments' press ofiice.
Exactly
Well said there mate. That really hit my heart reading this. I hate this government we got. Its only going to get worse. But sorry you had to go thru that mate. 👊
BBC was doing a campaign to help the Criminal UN and WHO.
Sorry to hear of your loss, how many underlying health conditions did she have.
One word is suffice to show you that Lockdowns were not necessary, and in fact, did more damage than good: SWEDEN.
The Head of the nation of Sweden's response to the pandemic knew that the Covid-19 virus, largely, did not affect over 99% of the population, and actually it was far, far better to follow the Swedish policy of letting the virus sweep through the population so as to let 99% of the population develop enough affective anti-bodies against the Covid-19 virus, i.e.Natural Immunity which has now been shown by multiple studies coming out of Japan and other countries to be far better than both lockdowns and the vaccine; through this Covid-19 enquiry we have learned that the heart of the problem was Chris Whitty's and Patrick Valance's thinking - they did not have the adequate training or wisdom to discern that the policy of herd-immunity would have been a far better response, and would have resulted in a much better result for the people of the United Kingdom, reflecting the good result that Sweden achieved by not locking down except protecting the most vulnerable, and aged of the population, while allowing the healthy majority of the population to just get on and make the wise decisions themselves. This should have been the U.K. 's better response to follow the Swedish policy, instead of relying on Lockdowns and the resultant horrific devastation of over 11,000 students who dropped out of the education system during Lockdowns, as well as spikes in suicides and self-harms, depression etc . Apart from the other davastion and misery visited upon thousands due to not working, and our economies, albeit destroying the hosting and entertainment business. IF WE HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM 2020-2022 Covid-19 pandemic is that, IN THE FUTURE NEVER TRUST ANYONE WHO SAYS THE WORD, "FOLLOW THE SCIENCE" UNLESS THE MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS HAVE COME TO A PEER-PRESSURED CONSENSUS. EVEN DURING THE LOCKDOWNS, THERE WERE OVER 100 OF THE MOST RESPECTED AND HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS WHO WERE FROM HARVARD, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE WHO WERE SAYING LOCKDOWNS WERE NOT WORKING AND HERD IMMUNITY WAS A BETTER POLICY; THOSE 100 EMINENT SCIENTISTS ALL SIGNED "THE BARRINGTON DECLARATION'' SHOWING THAT THERE WAS A SECOND-OPINION WHICH NEEDED TO BE DEBATED AND NOT SHUT-DOWN, YET THEY WERE ALL SMEARED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMEMT - in fact, the Secretary of State used his Parliamentary privilege to call for an emergency-statement and stand up in Parliament, unchallenged, and tell the country that they were all wrong, over 100 doctors and professors from OXBRIDGE AND HARVARD etc, when Mr. Hancock does not have even a certificate from the British Boy Scouts, as far as I know. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT NEXT TIME, WE SHOULD HAVE SCIENTISTS DEBATE FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT. THIS COVID-19 GOVERNMENT RESPONSE WAS AND IS THE GREATEST CATASTROPHIC GOVERNMENT RESPONSE EVER VISITED UPON THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND IN HER HISTORY, WE ALWAYS LOCKED-DOWN THE SICK AND VULNERABLE IN A PANDEMIC OR EPIDEMIC FOR THEM AND FOR THE HEALTHY, WE NEVER LOCKED-DOWN THE HEALTHLY WHICH BORIS AND HIS TWO DOCTOR AND PROFESSOR DRS. DOOM AND GLOOM DID, ALWAYS FALSELY PROPHECYING THE WORST SCENARIOS WHEN THEIR PREDICTIONS ALL TURNED OUT TO BE WAY FROM THE TRUTH AND GROSSLY EXADERATED, AS WAS NEIL FURGUSON'S PREDICTIONS GROSSLY EXADERATED, PROJECTING 500,000 deaths, if we didn’t lockdown. THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ADMITTANCE OF WRONG DECISIONS BOTH POLITICALLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY, AND THE STRIPPING OF A FEW KNIGHTHOODS, as well as a better response plan which has both sides of the Scientific debate listened to and fleshed-out as well as the Media, and Her Majesty's Opposition Parties reflecting this, instead the Mainstream Media of the British Bias Corporation, a.k.a. the BBC, ITV, and Sky News U.K. just acted as Boris' and Dr. Doom's and Gloom's "lap-dog calling for quicker and harder and more frequent lockdowns. I HOPE WE HAVE LEARNED GREAT LESSONS FROM THIS PAINFUL SCHOOL OF IMCOMPETENCY AND IGNORANCE, for the future and our new generations, and future generations.
His tears are of self-pity. He chose to party while good people lay dying.
From what I have seen of the so called parties, they were all very boring gatherings. I had much more fun.
So you think anyone who broke lockdown rules should be in jail?
That is at the heart of his deception, both about his party and himself. Guess what's going to happen next - a very nice "peerage". Sickening, but predictable.
Destroyed careers, destroyed our economy and destroyed the people he served!
Nah dude, I'm pretty sure that his wealthy supporters are quite alright... unless you're naive enough to think he ever served average Joe.
@@firefox3249 just an indented flake from Brooklyn!
That's a bit racist, blaming the blacks.
Water off a duck's back when you work for the global elite. Don't forget how ministers profitted on eye-watering levels from flogging ineffective ppe. They organised the police to stop & fine the public, the Queen quarantined herself at Phillip's funeral while Boris & Co. went on holiday, 'health vacations,' affairs & parties. Blair should be at the Enquiry, he was vocally active in endorcing it in public & behind the scenes. And the BBC did not mention those million people that marched on the capitol then there was Big Pharma look into their accounts. And they will walk away guarenteed
Their choice to get the jabs, I was told I was selfish and nasty and got hate for not getting my jab’s.. he had a party so what I was partying most days during lockdown
I'm Sorry you feel sad isn't an apology. It's something narcissists say when they need to pretend to apologise.
So he shouldn't have apologised?
When they mean to hurt us
He didn't apologise. A real apology sounds like this "I'm deeply sorry that my poor leadership resulted in the suffering of so many people. I will never forgive myself."
An apology doesn’t cut it Johnson - you’ve repeatedly lied which is inexcusable!!
"An apology doesn’t cut it Johnson" unless you accept Johnson is an apology of a human being.
Some people think that Boris Johnson went overboard when locking down and some people think that he didn't lock down in enough. A bit like the Brexit debate it's split pretty evenly.
They all do, none of them are any different, they are playing a part, pretending they are there for our benefit, when no, they are just justifying their existence and ensuring their ability to rinse us all for all our hard earned, whilst they live in decadence and luxury.
Lock me down harder daddy 🙄
@@sebastianguerre6868 he ignored everyone. if you look at the data all the countries who locked down quick had far less deaths.
The UK and all democracies should change their constitution so that a change in a country’s prime minister or president will automatically lead to immediate general election.
100% Parliamentary immunity needs to be review too, they are just lying with almost zero consequences. Imagine the UK government is a private company, I don't think it will survive with so many changes and dodgy dealings going on such as PPE alone.
No 1 =- UK is not a REAL democracy - yup pay attention - UK has no constitution -
@@I_like_YT_lots if a CEO killed 1% of his workforce he would go to prison. tories do it and nothing happens.
even that scenario i wouldnt be 100% sure it would happen, money rules everything they're slip out of that with enough dough @@kanedNunable
That won't work, as failing PMs (or equivalent) simply wouldn't resign. I do agree that something ought to change, though.
He should be in jail for traitorous actions. Against his own people and humanity.
😂😂😂
Yup, just stupidity and false big-up-manship - put a top hat on that, Rees-Mogg! We're going places! The good news is... we'll be back. Truss, Cameron, May, Coffey. Er... Sunak - TBC.
He and Prince Harry need to be exiled to St.Helena
Sorry, my incompetence, childlike entitlement and immense lack of professionalism cost so many paupers their lives. But I'm posh and protected by the media...
Exactly.
The papers don't like him! 😂
The papers were pushing for stronger stricker measures and influencing government
@@yvonnesanders4308 lol, you have no idea. Ask the Russian Oligarch family the Lebedev's who own a decent portion of UK media and got a knighthood for their support...
@@yvonnesanders4308Jesus... Seriously? Wake up ye fool
Is the BBC going to apologize as well?
Are the Chinese going to apologise ? It was their virus.
@@jjefferyworboys8138 True But the BBC were responsible for putting this clown in this position.
You don't know that for sure, you are just echoing what others are saying @@jjefferyworboys8138
Trouble is how do we live our life's now 🤔 the soul has been removed from everything
don't watch the noise, watch the sale(just a proverb)@@jjefferyworboys8138
Arrest the lot of them..
Jesus Christ, that took about almost 3 years for him to apologise
Sorry Very comforting to the dead relatives
Boris Johnson has been saying ‘sorry’ since he started talking as a toddler. He has escaped responsibility and sometimes even rewarded with his apologies ever since so he doesn’t actually know the meaning or significance of an apology. To him, that’s his “get out of jail” card.
Lock him up
‘I never worry about action…only inaction’ -Winston Churchill
There are times when inaction is better.
Preparation is not inaction.
This is particularly good, because Boris is known to have a narcissistic and deluded aspiration that he could be like Churchill. Churchill was a majorly flawed character, but was obviously a man of far greater intellect, importance, and achievement than this bumbling, self-obsessed, compulsively lying half-wit.
200,000 deaths; most of which were entirely avoidable to anybody with a shred of understanding about how viruses spread and how early action is absolutely critical. An island nation that refused to shut down its transport hubs until the virus had already gained far more than a beach-head.
Churchill was a demented scoundrel
And a drunk
Remember when the government advised to eating Christmas dinner outside. I wonder if anyone actually did that lol
Should of never locked down
That's a bingo!
How about the excess death increase ongoing now?
Shhhh mustn't talk about that, you'll break the brainwashed.
Rules for thee but not for me!
The hypocrisy!
A view shared by so many. I largely did what I wanted most of the time.
When just faking an apology does not cut it. He and those who enabled him should be facing criminal charges.
They even had the time to think of and actually having a party while people are dying of COVID-19. That was how "sincere" they were in "serving" the country
I had loads of partys, was great fun
@@Matty-kelly I hope you weren't using cannabis.
@@andrereloaded1425 weed coke mushrooms whiskey 😋
@@Matty-kelly Nice 👍
He will go down in UK history, if it hasn't happened already, as the worst, most conniving and deceitful prime minister ever to bestow such calamity and misfortune on the public he was supposed to serve.
And still, the brainwashed would vote for him again if he stood for election.
He was only put into No 10 only for brexit nothing else and then Covid came along at the same time and he and his party was unfit for the seriousness of the situation that was going on at the time and if you don't plan in advance then serious consequences will happen.
This guy is such a narcissistic! He should go to jail
they knew exactly what they was doing dont believe this bullshit
Youre forgiven, now serve your 15 year prison sentence
never forget never forgive the tyranny
Sorry wouldn’t get me off manslaughter charges?
Oh he's apologiesed SO its all ok now is it,especially with all this stuff,?????????
A message to would be criminals - when you're caught just say sorry and, Bob's your uncle, you're off the hook. 🤦♂️
Too late for apologies! It should be prison time for you, as that’s what you do with criminals!
I dont accept his apology for stopping me seeing my Wife, before she died alone. after 57 years, together.
I think it is funny that some are apologizing for locking down too hard, while others not hard enough.
Look at Sweden, no lockdowns, less deaths, no destruction of the economy.
The reality is that whatever was done, people would still have died. There was no one size fits all, right answer.
derp
@@jjefferyworboys8138 japan, similar sized island and density, had 200x less deaths. simp elsewhere cuckbot
@@kanedNunable Just the sort of well rounded arguement we've come to expect from people who can't tell the difference between a man and a woman.
An Empty apology. LET THE BODY'S PILE I'll repeat. Johnsons own words
Also: “Let it rip … they’ve lived their best innings”
An apology isn't gonna bring my grandad back
From da jab?
ruclips.net/video/WNpBv7VF5O8/видео.html
Your grandad was always going to die.
sadly :(
The data isn't quite clear on this but approximately 60% of British people are criticising Boris Johnson for locking down or locking down too much and about 40% are criticising him for not locking down or not locking down enough. The media tend to be with the authoritarian approach. The question is what will happen if there is another virus?
He’s lying again
Boris is a great SHAME!
Im afraid i have a somewhat different opinion to many on here. When Mr Johnson was elected we all knew he would need 'supporting'. We were told he would have a good team around him to cover his weaknesses. This clearly wasn't the case. So while it is tempting to blame one person, I won't. The system itself failed. There was no plan available, insufficient resources for PPE and other equipment. Insufficient bed space in the NHS. Not enough care home staff. The list is long and it is rather simplistic to blame one man, who get elected in December and was dealing with covid in February.
What’s he mumbling on about Twigs for? This guy messed up 2020 for me and deserves a kicking!
🤬 You will never be forgiven.
Partying, boozing and being a clown doesn't make for a good leader 😂
Well he used to be a member of the Bullingdon club the ones that went round smashing up restaurants and the like.
I think you've answered your own question/statement.
I was in Italy at the time the first lock down was made. It was very clear from where I was standing that the UK was just so slow in responding and the repercussions would be devastating. How can an uninformed 21 year old art student have better judgment than an entire political party with effectively unlimited supposed informed professionals at their disposal?
it was a flu
It's the way this always goes down. The media loves to watch and then cry and investigate like three to five years later. Guess it keeps them busy.
That apology is also a lie
But he's a politician, why would he lie?!
the tears made up for them
😂😂
Why hasn’t an inquiry been done in the United States?
That was joke downlock!!
Trumps diary is full.
apology NOT accepted. Period.
I doubt if he cares if you don't. It's all theatre, nothing more.
now lets see this in court.
No punishment?
The world is a stage
Should be on trial for genocide with all the other pushes!
Sorry doesn't cut it
More than what you'll get from the us
This just shows how out of touch the mainstream media and political parties are...
Boris Johnson was also responsible for Prolonging the Ukraine conflict, Both Russia and Ukraine agreed to a Peace deal in march 2022 this according to Davyd Arakhamia who is a close associate of Zelensky, Johnson prevented that deal on behalf of the Military Industrial complex of America and its allies who wanted to make money by prolonging that conflict.
I am skeptical of this claim that Johnson prolonged the Ukrainian war. Biden has been extremely supportive of Ukraine and both he and Zalensky want a meaningful peace, but not on Putin’s terms. The weapons they are receiving from the U.S. are not the latest and greatest, but rather, surplus and stuff retired by upgraded versions. The forces prolonging the war are coming from Russia and its allies. Boris may be an idiot; I just don’t see him being cunning or motivated enough to meddle with a peace deal for Ukraine at the very beginning of the conflict. That deal would have been for an all-out surrender of Ukraine, and yeah, I hope Boris would have aligned with Zalensky and the western leaders of NATO to vote against that.
I di not accept his apology. If he is sorry, he should do some prison time and pay each and every british person some money.
I doubt if he cares, if you don't. Get on with your life, don't live in the past.
@@jjefferyworboys8138 oh no, he most definitely cares. Hence his current return to his bumbling idiot act and trying desperately to look distraught for the camera. You're aware of the concept of a democracy, right?
No, I won't just get on with my life. He deserves punishment. We punish criminals.
so they managed to force an apology out of him like that will close this chapter
He should have at least got 1 month in jail for what he did it was completely criminal ‼️‼️‼️
All those who lied, government officials, , scientific advisors or "journalists" should apologise We will never forget this overreach. Trust needs to be restored by full transparency.
Google 'Maryam Moshiri - middle finger' - That's what Aunty thinks of you licence paying mugs. Pahahaha...
You know how they say it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? I appreciate that it was unchartered territory, but if you cannot follow your own rules, or enforce them... 🤷♀️
It’s not only about not following own rules. He also is the one who overruled others, saying “Let it rip … they’ve lived their best innings”.
And there were plenty who kept going out to the shops that were open telling me they lived through the war they weren't going to waste what time they had left sitting at home
Wonder how many of you still took the jabs and boosters though.
Everybody who had a relative who died.
A kangaroo court.
Its so easy to look back on something that lets face it, no politician in any country across the world knew what they were dealing with or how to deal with it. Hindsight is a beautiful weapon.
This inquiry us a complete waste to time.
If he spent some time to develop a coherent explanation of things he wishes he had done differently, rather than all his thousand of weasly words, lies, excuses , blaming others and deflections etc. we might be in a better position in the future. His only 'admissionn' was that he didn't phone Nicola as often as perhaps he could have done. As he said himself....bollocks.
I suppose that's that cleared uo then... Sorry because he knows hell never go to jail for his blatant ignoring of the science...
He should be birched
They should do the same in the US. Hold Trump accountable!
...and the bbc's Radio 4 afternoon play broadcasts 'mask of the red death' during the first lock down! Talk about gaslight!
can't imagine if Sunak was the PM during the pandemic
Not accepted
That's where he feels an apology is necessary? How about going to Keiv in April a year ago telling Zelensky not to sign the peace deal, that directly cost the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives?
Yep - that's right: and Ukraine was on the verge of a peace deal that was very generous to them.
That'll be the day, unless he has his boss the demented in chief's permission from the Whitehouse.
Is he going to apologise for all the lies about the efficacy of the jabs and masks and for the terrible toll of the lockdowns especially making people die alone without their relatives?
What a bullshit. No one was thinking about any "peace deal" with russist because it would be pure surrender and death itself for Ukraine. Go and ask Ukrainians what they think about "peace deal" with russia
Playing Churchill !
He didn't apologise!
He done the best he could. He would get criticised what ever he does what so ever.
If that was his best I'd hate to see his worst
His apologies are insincere, his promises are empty. The phrase " an empty vessel makes the most sound fits this most incompetent person
now let him appologize for his bad hair days seperately ;P
any one else catched COVID,I catched the symptoms of covid last Christmas time,It not very nice,Feeling sick,Hot and cold and dizzy and F,Had worse Christmas ever last year,Let alone doing more than social distancing and staying at home again for 2 solid weeks,I try not to let COVID spread
Really it was so obvious in real time- did not really do anything this inquiry ..... what will be the consequence ??? Boris going to pay any price ???
And where is an explanation and an apology from the Chinese? Rather inconvenient to ask, no?
Ping wasn't running the UK when your bozo f@#ked up.
Sorry?
Why don’t they take turns during the dangerous and emergent situations and afterwards they start to blame on others ?
It’s a little late Boris
Only *narcissists* apologise when they are forced to do so with NO REMORSE. Everything is rehearsed including his body language.
His, and ALL other politician's words are devoid of any and all compassion and sincerity.
Not that "sorry's" are even worth anything, but here in Australia we did not even receive that...
Well thats ok then his apologised we're all friends again.
Prime minister should have consultants & votes of different ministries involved in such critical decisions😕he is not working alone.
No
So, Johnson said he cared more for the Bond Market than for people's lives, says it all doesn't it about Johnsons priority's during the pandemic.
Can someone help me understand. Are they saying lockdowns were good and should have been actioned sooner and for longer?
“Let it rip … they’ve lived their best innings” - that’s mostly what they have an issue with, not how long these should of been.
There’s differing opinions but the general message I’m getting form the Inquiry is that because lockdown was implemented so late it had to be a hard lock down.
If measures were implemented sooner eg border control, cancelling super spreader events in Feb and March, discharging people to care homes in early Feb rather than late March, the virus wouldn’t have spread so quickly and the spike on the curve might have been shallower. So a softer lockdown might have been possible as well as fewer deaths.
It seems Covid wasn’t taken seriously enough in early 2020
If anything you want super spreader events whilst shielding the vulnerable.
Community spread builds herd immunity whilst those at risk are protected.
The problem was you had competing agents in government and the civil service and the press whipping everyone up to a frenzy
@@yvonnesanders4308 with respect I have to disagree here. With a novel virus you don’t want super spreader events and a heard immunity approach because you don’t yet know who is vulnerable. We found out later that the elderly and those with pre existing conditions were the most vulnerable groups but the next highest vulnerable group to acute covid were men in their 50s and 60s. And then the most vulnerable group to long covid were middle aged women but this wasn’t properly investigated until a year into the pandemic.
Yes sooner would have prevented the virus ripping though the population out of control
Apologise? What joke That was no apology.
He got away with murder..... literally.
Sorry is not enough
He’s a total liar
Shouldn't have been any lockdown
Imagine me as normale person in this country to break the law ?
Do u think I get way with a sorry ???
Rules for thee not for me!!!
A bit late that, at least he had lots of time to prepare 😂 never trusted a single word this man said, and still don’t, the whole bunch of them is exactly the same he’s just the cherry on a cake
This is like God saying sorry and making a pretty rainbow right after drowning everyone.
Going to give back the money
Its to late, he should be in jail.
How about the conflicts of interests sorry about the First Merge?
BBC used to be my first source for unbiased information. Now it’s all about quotes from Hamas or Johnson. In this video you gave basically 0 time to the victims. The quotes from random people just don’t do it. It’s such a shame to see you fall from this high
Well the victims are likely dead, if you want this inquiry to be about victim impact statements that's fine, most think it should be about how decisions were made and how mistakes can be prevented for future pandemics
They knew what they were doing and they are still trying to fool everybody
Who is going to apologise for the soaring ‘mysterious’ excess deaths…
So is he saying he didn’t lock down soon enough ? Or hard enough ?
There was no one size fits all option, whatever he did or didn't do people would still have died.
And complained and blamed him for everything.
Just look at the people protesting. Half complaining we didn't lock down soon/hard enough. The others complaining that we had lockdowns in the first place
They should change the law so this muppets can go to jail after f...ups like this.