'Not the sort of Boris he used to be': What's happened to the British PM?

[denem]

'Not the sort of Boris he used to be': What's happened to the British PM?

After a summer of political mishaps and whispers about the lingering impacts of his own battle with coronavirus, the future of a Prime Minister who just nine months ago orchestrated a landslide election victory is suddenly a hot topic.

Boris Johnson has lost his mojo. The great showman of British politics doesn't quite look or sound like his usual self. He comes across as unsure, hostage to events and devoid of an overarching strategy. His critics argue that a political animal who spent two decades carving a path to Downing Street now governs like the dog that caught the car.

... Privately, some MPs believe Johnson has not fully recovered from his life-or-death brush with coronavirus in April. The 56-year-old ended up in intensive care at the height of the pandemic but returned to work only three weeks after his admission.

... James Johnson, who ran polling at Downing Street for May, says focus groups had expressed sympathy for the Prime Minister's fight with COVID-19.

"That tends to now have receded a bit and if it is mentioned it's more along the lines of 'he's not the sort of Boris he used to be'," the pollster says.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/not-the-sort-of-boris-he-used-to-be-what-s-happened-to-the-british-pm-20200902-p55ru3.html

[Leghorn21]

1. That Covid can fuck you up head to toe and all in between

Lungs, hearts, kidneys, with a dash of frying your neurological system into little piles of ash

Bad deal, man

[Midnight Writer]

2. Yes, the death count we go by doesn't tell the whole story.

We will be dealing with the consequences of Trump's Covid "policy" for a long time.

[liberalla]

4. A close call, with lingering after effects will make you reevaluate your life... plus a new baby

also makes people rethink choices and priorities. I'm not surprised he seems different.

If he had quickly bounced back 100%, it would be easier to move on and continue as before.

[Buckeyeblue]

15. Agreed. Almost dying and having a new baby in a short span of time is enough...

To change your politics.

[SheltieLover]

6. Kidneys too

But i think his main problem.is kompromat. Have thought that before he took ill with covid.

[JI7]

3. That's what Covid is doing to a lot of people. And our media needs to spend much more time on this

there are many people who have gotten it and recovered from it but they still are dealing with what it did to them.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. Chris Cuomo has been discussing the "long haul"* effects of COVID

since he is another who has been suffering for quite a while now. He mentions often that he doesn't feel sharp, his mind is clouded and he still has difficulty arranging his thoughts and searching for words.

Perhaps this is what BoJo is going through.

*"Long haul" is the terminology now being applied to this syndrome by researchers.

[appalachiablue]

7. A couple days ago a Duer wrote that Boris'

cardiovascular health is wrecked from Covid and it's why he's retiring soon.

[GoneOffShore]

8. Double whammy - Covid and Dominick Cummings

[No Vested Interest]

9. Was there not a new baby added to the Johnson household near the same time the PM

contracted Covid-19?

New babies can change a person's life quite dramatically as well as COVID.
Perhaps the combination of these two major events is overwhelming for Boris.

He's not so young to be adjusting to an infant in his life.
Also not particularly young as a Covid patient.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Yes, though he's fairly used to babies - 4 with his ex-wife, and 1 or 2 from side-adultery

As Wikipedia puts it - at least 6 children:

Johnson has not disclosed how many children he has. He is known to have had four children with his second wife, Marina Wheeler; a fifth child from an extramarital affair with Helen MacIntyre; and a sixth child with his fiancée Carrie Symonds.[2] There have been allegations of another child born from another extramarital affair during his marriage to Wheeler, but Johnson has not commented on these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Admittedly, it is 20 years since he helped bring up a baby.

[RockRaven]

10. He's fucking Trump Minor, a blowhard who got his country into a world of shit but cannot

do the damn job when it comes down to it.

He's going to bail out of the PM job amidst a no deal Brexit which is ruinous to the UK (possibly literally if it leads to Scotland seeking independence so they can rejoin the EU seperately), desperately hoping to blame someone else for the results of his empty promises, selfish shortsightedness, and parliamentary incompetence.

[edhopper]

12. Because it's easier to lob bombs

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than build something. He's another loud mouth with no real ability to govern.

[bottomofthehill]

13. Tip O'Neill was fond of saying

Any Jack-Ass can kick down a barn door, it takes a carpenter to build one.

Britain’s bomb throwing Jack-Ass is showing that to be true

[denem]

14. Kick.