Posted on 01/04/2021 3:57:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England is adopting a national lockdown that he hopes will be tough enough to contain a new, highly contagious variant of Covid-19.
People can only leave their homes to shop for essentials, work if they can't from home, exercise, go to the doctor's and escape domestic abuse, he said in an announcement Monday evening. Primary schools, secondary schools and colleges will also move to remote learning Tuesday, except in rare cases, he said.
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Hey, the last lock down was a complete failure but let’s try again and if that fails, maybe the third time will actually be the charm.
There are still people alive in England?
Does the exercise part include 16 oz curls?
For some people, this list pretty much covers why anyone goes out, anyway.
What are you saying? There must be bodies everywhere?
“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
Boris Johnson is an overbred twit who is the biggest disappointment to everyone who voted for him. You elect a member of the aristocracy, you get the aristocracy.
Oh, this will end well...
He’s forcing people to lose theirs, that’s for sure. Folks are just not taking this well, children especially.
Katie Hopkins on Parler is calling Boris “the potato in a blonde wig.” What a disappointment of a “conservative” he’s been.
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All these politicians and doctors making these decisions have no real skin in the game. They keep their jobs and s as lariesxand perks. They need to not get paid until everyone is vaccinated. That would be yet another reason not to get the vaccine.
Boris an aristocrat? That’s a new one. What makes you think that?
He has the pedigree of the modern aristocrat: father was a knight/lawyer/banker who worked with the World Bank and involved with think tanks on population control, mother from an Oxford family of leftist intellectuals. Boris went to elite boarding schools, hunted foxes, went to Eaton and Oxford. Read the following for the very definition of the modern aristocrat:
Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, to 23-year-old Stanley Johnson, an Englishman, then studying economics at Columbia University, and his 22-year-old wife of one year Charlotte Fawcett, an Oxford-born artist from a family of liberal intellectuals, and a daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a barrister(lawyer). Boris's parents had married in 1963 before moving to the US, where they lived opposite the Chelsea Hotel. In September 1964, they returned to England, so that Charlotte could study at the University of Oxford; during this time, she lived with her son in Summertown, a suburb of Oxford, and in 1965 she gave birth to a daughter, Rachel. In July 1965, the family moved to Crouch End in north London, and in February 1966 they relocated to Washington, D.C., where Stanley had gained employment with the World Bank. A third child, Leo, was born in September 1967. Stanley then gained employment with a policy panel on population control, and in June moved the family to Norwalk, Connecticut.
In 1969, the family returned to England and settled into West Nethercote Farm, near Winsford in Somerset, Stanley's remote family home on Exmoor in the West Country. There, Johnson gained his first experiences of fox hunting. Stanley was regularly absent from Nethercote, leaving Johnson to be raised largely by his mother, assisted by au pairs. As a child, Johnson was quiet and studious and suffered from deafness, resulting in several operations to insert grommets into his ears. He and his siblings were encouraged to engage in highbrow activities from a young age, with high achievement being greatly valued; Johnson's earliest recorded ambition was to be "world king". Having few or no friends other than their siblings, the children became very close.
After Stanley secured employment at the European Commission, he moved his family in April 1973 to Uccle, Brussels, where Johnson attended the European School, Brussels I and learned to speak French. Charlotte suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised with clinical depression, after which in 1975 Johnson and his siblings were sent back to England to attend Ashdown House, a preparatory boarding school in East Sussex. There, he developed a love of rugby and excelled at Ancient Greek and Latin, but was appalled at the teachers' use of corporal punishment. Meanwhile, in December 1978 his parents' relationship broke down; they divorced in 1980, and Charlotte moved into a flat in Notting Hill, west London, where she was joined by her children for much of their time.
Boris Johnson gained a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College, the elite independent boarding school near Windsor in Berkshire Arriving in the autumn term of 1977.
Johnson won a scholarship to read Literae Humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford, a four-year course in the study of the Classics, ancient literature and classical philosophy. Matriculating at the university in late 1983, he was one of a generation of Oxford undergraduates who were later to dominate British politics and media in the second decade of the 21st century; among them David Cameron, William Hague, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt and Nick Boles all went on to become senior Conservative Party politicians. To his later regret, he joined the Old Etonian-dominated Bullingdon Club, an exclusive drinking society notorious for acts of vandalism on host premises.
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Balliol College, Oxford
Boris Johnson was groomed to rule. His background assured him high office, power, and prestige yet it also assured that he would be disastrous for the vast majority of UK citizens.
As for 'breeding' - given that his great-grandparents, as well as English, were Turkish, French, American and Jewish, that's hardly symptomatic of a lack of exogamy!
I am not buying it.
Boris is descended from the Pfeffel family (ennobled as von Pfeffel) is a German and Bavarian family originally from Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria. Some family members were ennobled in Bavaria in the 19th century.
Boris is the great-grandson of Sir George Williams who was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1884.
On his father's side he is descended from Karolina von Rothenburg (born in the Free City of Frankfurt on 28 November 1805; died in Frankfurt on 13 February 1872), herself said to be the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg by Friederike Porth (the fourth child and second son of King Frederick I and his wife, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.)
On Boris's mother side his grandfather is Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett DSC QC (16 April 1913 – 24 June 1991) was a British barrister. He was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, and its president from 1972 to 1981, and was knighted in 1984.
With kings, duchesses, princes, and knights in his family tree Boris Johnson is damned aristocratic.
The Queen made him do it
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