Where do we even start…
Boris Johnson – or at least the team that run his social media accounts – are asking you, the Great British people, to send in your questions about the coronavirus.
Yeah, we know, we know.
I’ll be answering some of your questions about coronavirus.
Ask your questions at https://t.co/FBynuacYFP pic.twitter.com/7cw6hbYQp8
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) September 8, 2020
You can submit your questions on the Gov.uk website. According to the website, “if your question is chosen, the Prime Minister will answer it during an event broadcast to the public.”
“An independent polling organisation chooses the questions. The Prime Minister will not see the question in advance. The government is not involved in choosing questions.”
Those who have their questions picked will then have the opportunity to record themselves asking the question for a video that will be played during the public event, or if they are camera shy, just have the question read out by the prime minister.
Wow, this is just like Live & Kicking, isn’t it?
Stumped for what to ask Boris Johnson? Well, here are some suggestions:
- Why are some people in Nottingham being told to go to Dundee for a test?
- Why are you so shocked about the rise in cases when you’ve been urging people to go back to work and go to restaurants?
- Why did you set a precedent for flouting lockdown by not sacking Dominic Cummings?
- Do you think almost 30,000 excess care home deaths is acceptable?
- At what point does the highest death rate in Europe warrant an inquiry?
- Wouldn’t improving the pay of NHS workers and guaranteeing that Donald Trump won’t get his hands on it be a better tribute than clapping?
- Whatever happened to herd immunity?
- Does Number 10 have the fizz and excitement that you get in a really good work place?
Daily infections in the UK shot up to 2,988 on Sunday, the highest figure since 22 May, a week after many children returned to schools. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted the rise was “concerning” but denied the government has lost control over the virus. Asked whether he had “lost control” of the pandemic on LBC Radio, Hancock said: “No, but the whole country needs to following social distancing.”
