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Looking for a positive view

interviewing in brighton so i'm really probably going to get one answer so i'd like to try and have some sort of devil's advocate role in this and i just want to see if there is...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Opinions on Boris JohnsonSubtitles: en

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i'm

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interviewing in brighton so i'm really

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probably going to get one answer so i'd

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like to try and have some sort of

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devil's advocate role in this and i just

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want to see if there is any positivity

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that came out comes out of him being in

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charge oh being in charge i mean there

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are some positive attributes to boris in

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that he can be very entertaining but

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then you don't want an entertainer is

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your prime minister no boris johnson in

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charge is only a one-way street to doom

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despondency despair and collapse

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okay

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is there a positive

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like let's say you may not agree with

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brexit or you agree with it but has he

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handled it well has he delivered

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anything

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i think that he just blasted his way

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through brexit

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i don't think he had any direction

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his main purpose was to leave the eu

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and think about it later

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that's my view yeah

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let's try and like make a positive

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comment is there anything you say he's

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done like with the kovid pandemic

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forgetting the parties and all this the

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way that he's sort of helped guide the

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uk through the pandemic is that

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would you say he's done that quite well

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or is anything you think is managed

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quite well i don't think he's managed it

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well at all he's taken all the glory

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that the health service have put in

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um and the

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and the scientists

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and it's

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