Translating Boris Speak
Boris is a skilled politician; he’s been the Mayor of London, the Prime Minister of the U.K. and an MP going back to 2001. With a background in writing and editing, he knows how to spin a yarn or two.
What many of his points meant in his testimony wasn’t obvious – so-called Boris Speak.
Translation: The Royal Society review was based on poor-quality observational evidence, and after three years we have no idea whether NPIs work.
Translation: The people in the room weren’t up to the job and weren’t representative of society.
Translation: My advisers had already made up their minds about the policies before the meetings to discuss them.
Translation: My top advisers were panicking and freaking me out.
Translation: Yep, they weren’t up to the job.
Translation: No one had a clue what was going on.
Translation: Even if I could remember, I’m not telling you.
You may want to review the transcript yourself to spot more translation issues. But what matters is not what people say but what they mean.
Prof. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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And what they actually do, in practice. After all, the real outcome of anything is often different from their alleged intention (not just for him, but for any organisation).
Bojo worthy of Alan Greenspan.——–“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.”
It’s astonishing how this entity which seems to be incapable of uttering a single, coherent sentence, managed to be become PM because of this very quality.
In my old RAF days, it was known simply as “Bullshit baffles brains.”
One correction: “non-entity”
Also from Alan Greenspan:
‘If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.’
Doris – didn’t he call himself the Fuehrer. Fake near death experience and resurrection on easter day I recall. He and his chums made a mint off the Rona scamdemic and fascism. Ditto for the illegal invasion and their Serco money. Not to mention the Uke catastrophe they have profitted from.
Rona scamdemic. I see that Walesea and some other worthies supposedly have Rona. Must have blown their nose and taken a fake test. Rona just keeps on going….
It’s amazing that someone who is so fluent with the written word seems to be incapable of actually speaking coherent English.
Not one of his statements is a sentence which is grammatically correct or makes any kind of sense.
I can’t decide if that’s a demonstration that he is extremely clever or he is just trying to bamboozle the QC. Could be both, of course.
https://youtu.be/aJ0nFQgRApY?si=-SxLHRUWrxEYZIxC
He and Trump had their chances and they blew it big time.
If he had listened to his allegedly existing libertarian instincts, he’d be righteously compared with Churchill now, the Tories would lead and win a GE by even more seats than before and/as the country would have far less problems and debts (he’s still an idi*t with regard to Net Zero and war criminal for preventing peace in Ukraine, but that is another story and the latter plays well with his British electorate anyway).
Now, he’s just a pathetic, narcissistic bad loser who brought about unnecessary destruction and harm and his ‘I love you all, please love me’ whinging at the ‘inquiry’ has made that even more clear.
Such people are always unfit for jobs with huge power and responsibility, because they will always want to spend OPM big on a first instinct and can be easily manipulated into doing this and anything the therefore rigged polls will tell them.