One of the benefits of being stuck this week is that I’ll get to watch Johnson being questioned in the COVID enquiry.
I’m considering starting a sweep on how long it takes him to crack under sharp questioning.
What I’ve watched so far has been an education in precise, incisive questioning to expose information and I pray that I’m never in a place that I’m being questioned by a KC.
I notice he turned up 3 hours early to avoid being greeted by the families of the bereaved. He really is a despicable piece of shit.
He’s said about ten words and I’ve used about 5 swear words in the same time 
He will probably just do what he always does bluster, go off on tangents, bluster, throw everyone under the bus, ummmm aaaaaa, it was everyone else’s fault, bluster, I just about died with COVID, bluster, ummmm aaaaaa, it wasn’t me, I was at a party so it wasn’t my fault, bluster, I was at another party, bluster.
I don’t think I missed out anything major 
I have no doubt he’ll try that but I really don’t think he’ll be able to pull it off under these questioners.
It’s not like PMQs or Newsnight where he waffles and they move on, they’ll persevere until he cracks.
I’m sure Hugo Keith will be prepared for this. From what I’ve seen of him so far, he doesn’t suffer fools gladly (and God knows he’s interviewed a lot of fools already!)
He’s looking pretty haggard, much more than his usual burst couch look.
First question: in your witness statement you offer your apologies for mistakes that were made. Which mistakes exactly?
BJ: umm, erm, ah
Had he not been such a coward, this is the message that Johnson would have been greeted with:
It reads “The dead can’t hear your apologies”
Edit: Correction. Just seen that these are the people who were kicked out of the hearing room at the beginning of the session.
Does anyone know why he is climbing into a fridge? 
He was reported to have hidden in a fridge to avoid answering questions, some years ago.
If anyone was in any doubt why Johnson didn’t want to hand over his WhatsApp messages…
This is the stuff the inquiry has got access to, imagine what else was being said!
I could only stand ten minutes of it this afternoon, he was doing my head in by sitting there lying his head off as if it were another jolly jape. Did you notice how he kept answering with the same rehearsed responses and turning them around and around? He should be in prison where he belongs along with the rest of the lying scumbags. Entries in Valance’s journal proved what he was saying and doing.
The majority of people in the UK aren’t interested in the Covid enquiry, the country has moved on and Johnson lying is yesterday’s news.
What is most important is that the UK will be better prepared should another pandemic hit.
And how does one do that without an inquiry to understand what went well, what didn’t go well, and why?
You don’t need public enquiries lasting months/years to put plans in place to deal with a possible future event. If the government of the day had followed the recommendations following various planning exercises then it would have been better prepared.
It all sounds so simple that you wonder why it wasn’t done that way, how would you suggest we find out?
