Boris Johnson grilled for not following science on Eat Out To Help Out at Covid Inquiry

The former Prime Minister claims he was BAFFLED to learn Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance weren't consulted on the scientific merits of allowing Eat Out To Help Out to go ahead.
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[@Jon-xw9om]

Perhaps he's finally realised that smirking whilst talking about dead people is not a good look. It's always disgusted me.

[@kevpendle2459]

Yesterday,he could barely stop himself from smirking : what a grotesque little shit. What those bereaved folk must be feeling,watching him smirk.

[@inhale.exhale.2527]

it's an important 'tell', the absence of empathy being a 'red flag' of pathological narcissism and other antisocial disorders.

[@susangreen9166]

He's still smirking

[@clownworld4108]

Narcissist smirk

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

One minute they are mass arresting garden get togethers, and then the next they are stuffing them together in bars and restaurants. Mad idiots, totally illogical.

[@mikeyoung7660]

Plods are complacent in it

[@flumpaustin1994]

Almost as if they're deliberately trying to discredit themselves in order to pave the way for global control.

[@roppa789]

@@mikeyoung7660Freudian typo error ha ha

[@Liverpool1ne]

Back to herd immunity was my assumption when I saw Rishi waiting on tables for the cameras 🦠

[@donincognito189]

A lazy, dilettante PM applying the same degree of casual carelessness to a deadly pandemic as he did to everything else in his life

[@teamdoa]

Maybe why he has 6 kids as well.

[@gazza595]

@@teamdoa6 that he (and we) knows of. However it's been said that he is sexually incontinent so who knows, he probably has no idea.

[@alanbarker2279]

@@musicman920And yet there he sits drawing his six figure salary for 3 hours work a week. He should be in jail - not least for his seemingly treasonous behaviour in ditching his government security detail and partying with a known high ranking KGB operative and then subsequently promoting his son to the upper chamber of Parliament. What other underhand deeds has this excuse for an Englishman perpetrated...

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

Surely Johnson must have known EAT OUT TO HELP OUT was an even bigger Covid disaster waiting to happen! I remember seeing that tv footage of Rishi Sunak in that restaurant bringing those customers their meals, he wasn’t wearing any gloves or face mask and was talking over the food, all this when Covid was so dominant.I just wish these shysters had been hauled up in front of a judge and jury in a high court.Sunak’s up next for this enquiry, and I wonder what sort of excuses he’ll be coming out with and who to blame?

[@robertallardice8119]

Max Hastings did warn everybody about Johnson’s laziness and lack of integrity!

[@brianduguid6721]

He is trying to rewrite history.What else do we expect from someone who has been described by many as a pathological liar.

[@sunnyfairclough2906]

Rockefeller Foundation 2010 LOCK STEP A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback 18 In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain-originating from wild geese-was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers. The pandemic blanketed the planet-though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better-China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post- pandemic recovery.

[@thepm3972]

Rhubarb cake maybe. But he'd probably put other fruits in there...but we'll said my friend

[@joelplank2675]

Not many… everybody ffs

[@Scotland2306]

He’s lied multiple times under oath.

[@Mounhas]

That matters not at all in a post Johnson world. Lying openly is now acceptable.

[@davidrobertson5700]

It is called perjury actually

[@Scotland2306]

@@davidrobertson5700 what’s the definition of perjury actually?

[@Scotland2306]

@@davidrobertson5700 perjury /ˈpəːdʒ(ə)ri/ nounLAW the offence of wilfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath. Actually 🤓

[@davidrobertson5700]

@@Scotland2306 in life it is called lying, under oath it is covered by the perjury act , not the lying act . I think that info may help you with the definition a bit more

[@andrewbravery5114]

The guy asking the questions has the patience of a saint.

[@jamesbagshaw8251]

He also has an incredible skill in making BJ flounder helplessly by gazing calmly at him and with some pity...every single reference and question pre-crafted with finesse

[@noneofyourbizness]

...and the salary of a king. 😆

[@thenefyncat6970]

@@noneofyourbizness Worth every penny.

[@Cancer-bm7zo]

Professionalism and skills at the very best. Respect, QC/KC Hugo Keith. has anyone noticed when Boris called him "Keith", laughable.

[@psyick9543]

@@noneofyourbiznesscompetent people deserve appropriate recompense

[@davidblight7502]

It wasn't me, I didn't see it, I wasn't given it, I wasn't there, I can't remember, that wasn't the advice as I recall.

[@barrygentry5364]

He had meetings with the treasury with no scientific/medical experts there, and he doesn’t understand how they weren’t included in the planning of eat out to help out. 🤔 Why did he not ask, at those meetings, why the experts weren’t there? Why did he not get categoric assurances, in the form of written statements from the experts, to show their support or objections to the scheme? Either way it shows incompetence and negligence.

[@glenmason1876]

He didn't want experts there, he was determined to 're open, and expert guidence would have gone against this, he was only interested in the economy

[@MrScaramoosh]

Only one explanation, they knew it was a Hoax.

[@gary_c2376]

​@@MrScaramooshif that's the one explanation why doesn't it make any sense? 😂😂

[@michaeljust1193]

​@@gary_c2376so you think they believed going to social gathering's was very dangerous ,while going to social gatherings . So therefore professor ferguson believed there was a deadly virus lurking around every corner when he was nipping out to bonk hus mates wife ( without a mask). And matt believe in social distancing while probing his aids tonsills with his slimes lizard tongue . If you believe all that there's no hope . They knew it was a hoax.

[@steveturner6770]

But he stated said it WAS properly discussed. Hes a liar either way.

[@jameskirkbride2032]

So his defence is that he is an idiot, that didn't have a clue what was going on!?

[@vongoethe111]

Pretty much.

[@Drew.P.Todger]

Except he doesn’t think he’s an idiot. He thinks everyone else is. 🤦‍♂️

[@brianferguson1888]

If you look very closely you can tell when he’s lying: his mouth opens……

[@MikeStock88]

He has no qualities of leadership at all His talent is massively over inflating his capability and bluffing his way through

[@inhale.exhale.2527]

question: having called him out way back, before his mayoral display even, how in ...'s name wasn't he seen by everybody for what he clearly is - a pathological narcissist? 🤯

[@davidmcculloch8490]

"It wasn't quite as simple as that!" Johnson had to help his cronies make money from an international disaster, as these b'stards never let a crisis go to waste.

[@mandriod5255]

Working in a restaurant in Cornwall with the opening up and staycation boom of that summer we looked the Eat Out To Help Out scheme and thought it was utter madness that would put our customers and staff in danger we worked 7 days a week through the whole of Covid short staffed delivering to out customers we saw first hand the fear that people had and also how many people were getting infected locally

[@blackheart5258]

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”.

[@nickbarton3191]

It's going to be interesting when Sunak gives testimony.

[@luminousfractal420]

Squeeeeeel squeeeeeel 😂

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Is he the one who looks like Roland Rat ?

[@alasdaircook5673]

Stop waffling Johnson answer the questions.

[@RossAndersonTheOthersAreClones]

He can't stop waffling, it's what he does.

[@bertiemarshall3391]

His lies are filling up his mouth along with the manure

[@Camden0800]

You clearly never heard him in PM questions. Waffle is what Johnson does!

[@chris56269]

"Bah rahahaha arg technical solution eargh erm hmmm yes... ermmm Peppa Pig bawa ahhh Mr Speaker! Something latin garrrrrr Have I Got News For You, mmmmmmmm clap for the bananas - level up!"

[@stuartwells4133]

@@RossAndersonTheOthersAreClonesStill can’t even give a simple straight answer, has to have the same question repeated just to get Boris to give an answer. He’s never changed still trying to waffle on then just answering the questions.

[@chrislaurenceleo]

His defence appears to be he was surprised the experts were not on board with his eat out to help the virus scheme. Was it not his job to check before lying that it had been properly discussed with them?

[@luminousfractal420]

Yeah but putin found the virus favourable.

[@Nick-xf5hr]

Eat out was the other lying idiots idea. He’s now prime miniature.

[@thompsonsj64]

Boris is the worse type of manager. Just assumes people are communicating and then acts surprised when they aren't

[@ND_NB]

A lot of this makes me glad to have lived in a devolved nation.

[@stephenfowlie742]

We should live in an independent nation free from Westminster corruption and incompetence.

[@diabl2master]

​@@stephenfowlie742Them's revolutionary words

[@thepm3972]

I wish I lived in a yellow submarine

[@Liverpool1ne]

@@thepm3972 yellow submarine, yellow submarine 🎶

[@roadiemullet]

​@@stephenfowlie742I'm from the North of England. If you all break free and go your own way, can we in the north come too?

[@Robbbobb91]

"There must have been several meetings..." Maybe you should have gone to some of them. Glad to see this idiot finally being held to account in some degree at least.

[@matthewcook9404]

Not for nothing will he go down in the history books as Boris “The Liar” Johnson.

[@luminousfractal420]

Boris the cold

[@chris56269]

@@luminousfractal420 I wonder if there are any other 4 letter C words that could be used to describe him.

[@BarryAllenMagic]

Oh what a tangled web we weave.....

[@mpe555]

This guy is a proven liar and should face prosecution

[@alisdairmclean8605]

If he can't find his WhatsApp messages because his app crashed, he would surely know with whom he was corresponding. Why not get the WhatsApp messages from them?

[@TheKatLou]

It crashed and came back up again...eh?🤔

[@barbarapascoe2062]

i can't believe his b.s. amazing word salad

[@prideofdurham4776]

What was one of the phrases he used yesterday "Frazzle pioduction" ? or something like that.

[@johnskinner1119]

The man knows no shame. His avoidance of facts is unprecedented.

[@mikkelclemmensen381]

Prefixing each and every answer with 'I don't remember the details of those discussions', 'my recollection is', 'as I understood it', 'I was led to believe', 'I might have been informed', 'I may or may not have been told', 'my recollection is', 'to the extent that I recall it' and lying at every turn.

[@shanellekay8263]

They never thought they would be questioned

[@dav3bassman]

For someone who thinks he is capable of running the 4th richest country in the world he seems to be 'perplexed' by a lot of things. Also seems very forgetful. It's laughable how he is trying to make himself seem so stupid that he did not have any responsibility. Even my outright technophobe father knows what factory reset means...

[@norflandanforevah]

"4th richest country in the world"? What sort of arithmetical gymnastics allows you to say this?

[@dav3bassman]

@@norflandanforevah My mistake, I just checked and we are now 5th, with France right up our arse. Also, we have more billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world, and we likely have more food banks too...

[@norflandanforevah]

@@dav3bassman If we are speaking of "GDP per capita", what an optimistic figure that is when applied to the UK. "Financial Services", (including money-laundering and off-shore-cash-concealment-tax-avoidance) accounts for over 30% of UK totals but does no good to anyone outside of the City. Take away the latter sector and you are nearing third world figures in many area of today's Britain.

[@dav3bassman]

@@norflandanforevah I'm using pure GDP. As for the billionaires a lot of them aren't registered as living here due to non dom, but make no mistake they're here.

[@norflandanforevah]

@@dav3bassman Too right, I used to work for one, for my sins and to my shame. (Miserable sob he was too).

[@oncaphillis]

so this is supposed to be eloquent ?

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

I don't see how this could've been smuggled past the scientists but as PM I didn't check or ensure it was.

[@scottishcontentcreators]

Squirm, it's one Karl Pilkingtons favourite words, gets a good score in scrabble and sums up most of the performances at the enquiry.

[@shirleyn546]

Karl would have made a better PM too, at least he had some common sense!

[@scottishcontentcreators]

@@shirleyn546 couldn't agree more

[@paulmckenzie6039]

Eat out to help out was the craziest idea from the start.

[@clownworld4108]

Is a scotch egg a substantial meal was crazy

[@jamieashton3835]

What can you expect from a pathological lier and a narcissistic sociopath? He should be in jail but they would rathe rarrest arrest a homeless man with a tent

[@JustinTimeEnglishClip]

The scheme was properly discussed with idiots.

[@camf7522]

The problem with Boris’ COVID response was he put ideology ahead of every other consideration.

[@gazza595]

And that ideology being the furtherance, prosperity and position of Johnson himself, corrupt, sociopathic incompetent shit stain.

[@sunnyfairclough2906]

Rockefeller Foundation 2010 LOCK STEP A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain-originating from wild geese-was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers. The pandemic blanketed the planet-though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better-China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post- pandemic recovery.

[@StratsRUs]

That's the problem.Yes.Of course.

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

The problem with Boris Johnson IS BORIS JOHNSON.He’s the problem!😸

[@paulmitchell3131]

He put money for his pals before health

[@manindersingh8385]

I'm surprised he didn't combust when he took the oath to tell the truth

[@paulslater9061]

What a joke how have they got the nerve to call this an enquiry ask the proper questions

[@roppa789]

Such as? Give us a clue or at least a starter question that’s relevant.

[@paulslater9061]

@@roppa789 Try why were we confined to our homes when they were partying every night so they must have known it was safe to do so ?

[@Brez6645]

@@paulslater9061 Spot on, but they will never ask those questions. This is all a pantomime.

[@brianm.9062]

he has forgotten which lies he told to who, a standard fall down of pathological liars.

[@Kian2002]

Twists and turns like a twisty turny thing.

[@Tizzy-s9g]

Anyone waiting for this man to actually feel genuine regret for the deaths of thousands will have a long wait. His closing statement makes it clear that he had enjoyed every minute and therefore any squirming or discomfort was pure acting.

[@michaellamb3731]

I thought he was under oath to tell the truth 🤮 why has he been allowed to come out with this verbal diarrhoea, what a waste of time

[@seanthomas2906]

So when is he going to jail. Along with the rest of them

[@joebarrett4353]

proven liar lies under oath

[@randomdaveUK]

They didn't follow the science.

[@coraltaylor8159]

Just Arrrghh! I am shouting out loud, no longer in my head. I cannot say how I feel about this man without uttering expletives nobody has ever heard me speak. Many of them begin with a ‘f’ 😡

[@noneofyourbizness]

TORY: "We don't follow the science, we follow the money, so we can hand them more, of YOURS."

[@junglie]

As soon as it was announced I was calling it "eat out to die out"

[@666ingz]

Throw this incompetent killer, through negligence, in prison.

[@RossAndersonTheOthersAreClones]

What a tosspot he is. 2m would've been better so would 3 or 5. So would've been staying at home, ffs.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

you could sit down maskless in a busy restaurant and eat but had to wear one to stand up ....nonesense.

[@ianmangham4570]

They could pull the same stunt tomorrow and people would be out clapping in the streets 😮

[@stevebutterworth1937]

The very best speech BJ ever made was “Forgive me… forgive me…forgive me” because he couldn’t find his written text, and then walked off!

[@harrisonandrew]

Look at the dupers delight on his face. I don’t believe a word.

[@ganrimmonim]

Given how much practice he has had at lying, it's a bit surprising that he doesn't do it with more aplomb.

[@johnhodgetts2111]

'I did say that, and that was my belief' seems to be his defence for everything. Imagine a warehouse operative- 'sorry, I thought I'd shifted those things'. How many times do you think they'd get away with that?

[@lindy-loumaddock5979]

He just seems baffled about everything. Just a pure incompetent. Waaaay out of his league. But that never bothered him, did it?

[@benglishman]

It was "well publicised" after the decision was taken to do it... so why is that a reason that it must have been discussed with the scientists before that decision was taken?

[@detritiv0re144]

Piffle and waffle.

[@casey7057]

Liar, liar, liar. Lies, lies, lies

[@philipscott4456]

Let's be clear what the contemporary definition of "the economy means": Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. The real economy of productive "key workers" isn't factored in modern economic theory. Source Michael Hudson.

[@TheKatLou]

Thanks for rec. Going to check out

[@olliefuture]

A blatant blagger, its laughable 😢

[@hairzilla]

Johnson squirms and babbles incoherently? Whats new?

[@ArsenicApplejuice]

It's amazing how this man is apparenlty completely oblivious to the content of his own speech.

[@lorenzobianchini4415]

Opening up hospitalty was itself criminal...economy before people.

[@nickglanville8497]

He should be arrested the moment he steps outside the inquiry rooms This guy is britains biggest criminal and should be behind bars

[@bernieburrows3731]

If only you could speed him up 🤦

[@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329]

You do know you can adjust the speed at which video's play? It should be in the settings. I personally, think it's about the quality of his words, not how fast he spews forth his BS.

[@SteveLawrence-w7c]

Such a friendly barrister he may as well ask the questions and give the answers absolute whitewash

[@emorgan8698]

what a waste of space. and to think he'll get away with murder (literally) is annoying as fu*

[@colintwyning9614]

"to be honest" a phrase that just rolls off the tongue with no actual meaning.

[@Heresstuie]

The Wife loved eat out to help out weeks. Didnt realise it was about going for dinner though

[@billbhein2949]

He was certainly not doing it for the workers.. Pressure from big businesses drove the policies..

[@timsmith2279]

Seems he was punishing us all, lockdown, effective house arrest for everyone else.

[@jefflittle8872]

Completely ignored medical reason...

[@scotthamilton2016]

Given his history it was obvious he would be a disaster of a Prime Minister but the English couldn’t wait to vote him in.

[@timsmith2279]

Election was rigged, voters had little choice but to vote for this coke-head clown.

[@psyick9543]

There were many, many things during covid that made no common sense whatsoever, but eat out to help out was definitely near the top

[@robcoghill1676]

Freak show, none of the real issues being explored, should be criminal preceedings

[@flangeclamp4239]

Keep 'em coming Mr Keith!

[@timsmith2279]

Keith should get Boris’s phone with missing WhatsApp messages, it’s possible to get retrieve anything that was deleted/missing as all the messages are automatically held on a remote computer.

[@thomasquinlan4725]

don't answer the errrrrrr um the questions errrrr

[@TheSphinxProd]

Does Boris EVER comb is hair? 😂

[@anthonygregory3022]

Rotton to the core.

[@Dragonsitter]

He didn’t squirm!!!! HK was TOO SOFT ON HIM

[@chipko]

Alexander de Piffle Johnson was not at all the meetings so how did he know who was there?!

[@RossAndersonTheOthersAreClones]

His defence seems like the new reworked lyric for an old Shaggy song.

[@mikegalway4733]

Criminal incompetence or just criminal.

[@noneofyourbizness]

he's still sporting that toddler's hairstyle....and lying through his teeth. Same old BJ

[@rosemarydudley9954]

FFS, let it all go. What a waste of time and money to carry on with this. What a "Carry On"!

[@jeffmcninch6563]

My aunt died of this dreadful disease in a nursing home, one of the aged class so despised by Johnson. I nursed and lost hundreds in ITU in my job during the shambles that was the pandemic, and he wants t be exonerated for his lies, acts, omissions and parties. I'm sick of his voice and arrogance. My aunt would be proud of you

[@rupertstratton7890]

whatever it was he just said didn't make sense.

[@johngreen6191]

It is very painful to watch and much worse to listen to this fellow.

[@nicholasrupertswainson1168]

How much s..t can a bull hold ?

[@howardspice7150]

Whatever he says now is just impossible to believe. Too many lies told before.....

[@petermorffew9851]

This covid enquiry is putting a ferret right up Johnsons trouser leg.

[@keith890]

Selfish little boy 😮

[@paulhopkins3242]

He's a snake anyway deserves what he gets and more..

[@jamessherburn]

Every time he lies one of his hairs tries to escape.

[@mrstevecox7]

I can only watch these videos of Barmy boris by Right-arrowing repeatedly every time he opens his mouth to spew another lie. Recommended.

[@sandydennylives1392]

All this when the deadly beta variant was giving way to the multi million killing delta variant.

[@StratsRUs]

Emperor Gammon

[@seancobb8853]

The prat’s insane he’s a murderer that’s it

[@seancobb8853]

There never was a pandemic no Covid they faked it all to scare munger the people to take a death jab depopulation research it people

[@nokneedownian8521]

Hands, face ,space was the slogans drilled into the public but obviously not his own party in his own work place