Someone has issues with hints

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  1. As a German who does not like him or his policies, I still have to ask, do people really think this low effort joke is funny? Like, are you 5 years old, guys?

  2. It doesn’t even change anything. You can put random animal on his place and it will change nothing. Corporations and banks owns the world not politicians.

  3. The outrage over this incident is somewhat surprising consider the conduct of his ministers previously. Kinda ironic the coverage this is getting. If I were him I would just power through the coverage, apologise and keep being prime minister.

  4. I don’t actually know how it works in the UK but it’s a democracy still, right? People elected him there, didn’t they? They can un-elect them. Or what, are you saying the people might be *unable* to do that? Why would that be.

    Edit: by “un-lecting” I mean they can make a difference with their vote.

  5. people also wanted the Brexit and look where they are now

    probably at home because they cant buy fuel for their cars

  6. “Your opponents want you to” is not a reason for resigning. (Including internal opponents.)

    The issues dogging Boris are trivia. Civil servants and special advisers accused of having drinks in the garden when they shouldn’t. “Russia is about to invade Ukraine and there will be another war in Europe” matters. The vaccine rollout matters, The need to properly distance from the EU so that the NIP does not permanently remain a lever they use to manipulate UK policy matters. That the global economy is shifting from one where money printing was effectively free to one where there are real inflationary risks again matters. “Dominic drove to Barnard’s Castle”, “Martin let staff have drinks in the garden”, etc., is office soap opera trivia.

    Realistically, I’m encouraged to hear that they *didn’t* enforce the rules too strictly internally. Doing so would have made staff and advisors more reluctant to strict rules because of how it’d affect their own working day. I would much rather they broke the rule on social gatherings at the workplace than that they shirked from setting them on the grounds that they couldn’t always keep them all personally. Government was already reluctant to impose lockdown, so trying to run a tighter enforcement regime around the office (making people even more reluctant to impose rules) could have cost lives.

    I also don’t care if my doctor drinks more than *his doctor* recommends or is overweight. I only care about their advice, vision, and policy direction, not how fastidious they are in their own lives.

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