Arrogant, Ignorant, despicable, disrespectful Boris

The scumbag-in-chief has managed to abuse each and everyone of the grieving families who have over this past year lost relatives to the Coronavirus.


Boris Johnson 'offended bereaved families of Covid victims with childish joke', claims Keir Starmer

Yahoo Staff Writer
Jan 27th 2021 11:15AM
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the Prime Minister offended bereaved families of coronavirus victims with a childish joke.

During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Starmer claimed Boris Johnson had angered mourning relatives with a gag he made about "Calvin Klein briefs" in the Commons last year.

In July after saying he mourned the loss of the victims of Covid, the PM accused Starmer of continuously changing his mind on whether he backed government programmes to tackle the pandemic.

He said: "He needs to make up his mind which brief he's going to take today because at the moment, Mr Speaker, he's got more briefs than Calvin Klein."

On Wednesday, Starmer told the PM bereaved families were unhappy with his words and he would again be speaking to them.

He added: "The last time I did this I asked the Prime Minister what he would like me to say to them on his behalf. He replied with a pre-prepared childish gag.

"I can tell the Prime Minister just how badly that went down with those families when I spoke to them later that afternoon.




"So I'll ask him again and I hope this time he will have the decency to answer them properly."

Johnson responded by saying he was grateful for Starmer meeting the families as he and other MPs had done.

He said: "The message I'll give those families is the same I have given everybody I've met is that I of course deeply, personally regret the loss of life, the suffering of their families.

The PM said the best way they could honour the dead and their families was "to work together to bring this virus down" and keep it under control.

He then accused Starmer of continuously trying to score political points throughout the pandemic and changing his mind on key issues.

Tricia Barnett, whose brother Laurence died of coronavirus last March, said Johnson had shown families "huge disrespect" when he made the comments at PMQs last year.

At the time she told the Islington Gazette: "When you have someone who has died, what he said is not just shocking.

"It's disgraceful, and it becomes personal.

"His comment is outside the boundaries of acceptability, and shows him as a man without any comprehension of empathy or any sense of responsibility."