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      They had already voted for him. At that point, they’ve fulfilled their use, and if anything he’d probably be quite happy to off a few of them.

      He was never a party man. His entire cabinet would happily see the Conservative party burn once they’ve got their money and power out of the public.

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      He was also significantly over weight during this period with little exercise and, in a high stress job (not that it stopped him from his afternoon naps).

      He also caught COVID quite early on (Late March), which was no surprise as he liked to attend parties when all this was going on, and was hospitalised for one on one care early for preventative care including oxygen back when oxygen was being restricted for preventative care.

      I am not suggesting the PM shouldn’t have had the best care available, more that hes proven to lack empathy of anything he hasn’t experienced himself, so is highly unlikely to understand just how overloaded the NHS was at this point and that his experience was anything other than privileged.

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    Does he not realize that he’s pretty much in that group now? And a massive chunk of his voters already are? Is he saying he thinks mother nature has it out for him?

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    Which only supports my notion that he is terminally stupid. Those “old people” are their primary voter base.

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      Meh, attacking pensioners’ livelihoods never cost Tories votes, why should attacking their actual lives?

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    Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

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    He’s not entirely wrong…we’re due for a population correction of some sort.

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      We aren’t due for anything. This is the gamblers fallacy. No one is sitting there and keeping track ready to swoop in and decimate the population.