Chris Whitty for PM

Always think Chris Witty looks like he needs looking after. I imagine him trudging home after his news conferences to a lonely bachelor flat, and boiling an egg for his supper.

I almost spit out my tea laughing as I read this. I know that wasn’t the intention, but the image of the poor man with his boiled egg was too much.

I feel a bit sorry for Chris Witty. He has been catapulted into the limelight and given Rock star status in a sciencey sort of way and he looks a tad uncomfortable about it all. I have said this before two years ago only his colleagues, the people at Whitehall he advised and his family knew who he was, now the world knows who he is definitely Cool. He will inspire loads of kids to take a greater interest in science at school. Research is now a cool career choice. So there are some areas of winners in this Pandemic.

I’m also voting for Iam64’s Labrador.
I can’t begin to describe my utter disgust for Johnson.
Perhaps if there is anyone on here whose happy enough to admit to supporting him could explain why.

If you want a plain speaking scientist as PM then Jonathan Van Dam is your man. He speaks plainly and directly and is widely trusted by those of us who watch him at news conferences.

Those members whose sole take on politics is that the Conservatives are hopeless and useless should vote Labour. They are deluded if they believe the Lib Dems will win a general election. They are very good at local govt in my experience but not nationally.

If you want a plain speaking scientist can we have Jocelyn Bell Burnell please? Or Anne Glover?

I love and respect Chris Whitty, he is so knowledgeable and can speak in simple terms, catching the audience attention.I dont think such a sensible person would want the job of PM.I love the Deputy Medical officer John Van Tham he gets over what is to be said and people listen, well I do anyway.
I admire scientists.

Calendargirl

Always think Chris Witty looks like he needs looking after. I imagine him trudging home after his news conferences to a lonely bachelor flat, and boiling an egg for his supper.?

(I think he’s not married, but could be wrong. He probably has a wife and several children!)

Just looked him up. No mention of wife or children.

Agree here.

Mr Whitty or Van Damm:. principled honest people.

The only trouble is that once the political machines got going on them, they'd be mincemeat.

Alegrias1

We don't have to envy him to wish that he was doing a better job.

Well said.

Don’t wish that on him, he is a genuinely nice man.

Good grief, I can't believe I've just read Whitty for PM.
As one respected journalist put it yesterday.....

Chris Whitty, a man with the funereal demeanor of a pox doctor's clerk.

And I agree. Was there ever a more bland, emotionless, doom-laden man.

Oh yes indeed naughtynanny - endless possibilities to fit your category. Not Chris Whitty though - a gentle, intelligent, genuine, decent and honest man.

Iam64

Oh yes indeed naughtynanny - endless possibilities to fit your category. Not Chris Whitty though - a gentle, intelligent, genuine, decent and honest man.

Here here

Well naughtynanny what I want is a leader and if he or she is boring, bland and dull then so be it. If I wanted to hear or see a clown I would go to the circus,

'boring. bland and dull' as definitely not what makes a good leader.

I am amused by the way Chris Whitty is collecting a collection of devoted acolytes. Some of you almost sound as if you will burning candles for him soon.

No, definitely not Prime Minister material.

Too intelligent, too good, too honest.

He is like all the poiticians, clever but not intelligent. If he wasn't good at politicing he wouldn't be in the job he is in.

Not intelligent

??? Really?

*Callistemon. He is a very clever man, as are most of them, but intelligence is more than just being very clever. It means understanding how people work, to have a far wider view of life than just the facts and almost by definition, any one flying high, whether in politics or heading any government department, is as clever as a cartload of monkeys, but intelligent? no.

I think it's the other way round.

I'd say he is highly intelligent, highly educated and able to use that in his chosen field.

I would put Johnson in the category of clever, remembering and using facts from a classical education but not applying his cleverness in an intelligent way.
Jokes are made about people being clever - Clever-clogs, Clever-Dick etc.

Chris Whitty has too a miserable face for me.

Whatever his personality or looks like doesn’t matter, so far he has appeared honest and truthful, more than can be said for our current leader.

Granless

Chris Whitty has too a miserable face for me.

Oh yes, he should be grinning and smirking when he delivers the facts, shouldn't he.

I can too.