Boris Johnson says public 'craved' lockdown rules

In an interview with Sky News, Boris Johnson denied mocking the public by questioning why they "so avidly craved" lockdown rules and obeyed them "like a religion".

[tomjones]

He's a bell end but he's not lying, the public DID want lockdown, people have short memories. I remember being in work and every single person I knew was routing for everything to be shutdown so we could have time off.

[MuggyMeasures]

The media made the public crave it. Sky News were complicit.

[dougblease]

No… people wanted honesty and integrity and community spirit

[casperh]

I am sick of seeing this liar stop giving him air time

[DF-ddnf]

He should be punished for how he damaged Britain. He should not be giving opportunity to promote his book, therefore make money!!!! This is disgusting that multiple media are giving him platform to make money while other people are poor !!!!

[AstralRoblox]

He’s right, I worked in retail back then and EVERYONE who I worked with (who were Gen Z just like me) wanted lockdowns - me being the only person who didn’t, ironically also the person who didn’t vote labour.

[BlackRIP]

This man was the very start of the Tory downfall.

[MrFlamingo]

The worst prime minister this country has ever had, until Truss.

[deanstones]

He knew it weren't that bad they made rules up that were ridiculous just to see who would follow them 🙄🙄

[Imbob]

Of course he's right. I'm a doctor of 41 years experience, and when patients are scared, they crave absolute certainty in the rules they're 'supposed' to follow

[Alexander-xqgr]

He’s right. “Lock me down harder daddy” was the cry from much of the public. Suddenly everyone wanted a totalitarian state. It was bizarre and insane. He should not have kowtowed to it though.

[MichèleNoriega-kd]

Waffle, waffle, waffle.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.

[stevesimpson]

This man should be in prison, did more long-term damage to the UK than Hitler.

[FredGreenGB]

At the start us parents did ask the schools to be shut ....I will say that for Boris.

[HildaDeerfox]

The one thing he was right about: mock the public for craving their freedoms be taken away from them lols

[shabbirvadiwala]

This Narcisist never accepted his mistake. Anyway, he is a proven liar. What's he said? He made a mistake to apologise, which means he lied to the parliament to and lied to people of the UK.

[accomuk]

The answer is simple, people didnt want to die !

[AndySmith-lqdi]

I didn't want guidance I knew it was a crock almost from the start .

[Shankar-Bhaskar]

He is quite right about that. I was in the UK in March 2020 and the British people were indeed craving regulation at that time.
There was a lot of uncertainty and confusion prevailing amongst the people at that time.

[NicholasPorter-pi]

I agree everything Boris said. The British public was actually pathetic