I know it can disturb the balance of a lefty's mind, tip them over the edge even, but some of these fruitcakes are seriously into Tin Foil Hat territory.
"Who would be a conspiracy theorist in this day and age?"
"The prime minister’s hospitalisation may have been a chilling moment for many last week, and not because he is necessarily well-liked. Boris Johnson is nothing if not divisive, but if nothing else, he is probably the most famous person in the UK after Her Majesty the Queen. It brought home to many the reality that the coronavirus disease Covid-19 is a danger, capable of striking down people of all backgrounds. Even those who dislike the PM would not have wished him ill. Well, most of them, for of course, there are plenty who would — and several, so blinded by their loathing of the man, that they are prepared to entertain some pretty wild ideas.
This afternoon, the anti-Brexit campaigner Marcus Ball announced to the world that he had submitted a Freedom of Information request to St Thomas’s NHS Trust in London, where the PM was recently placed in an intensive care unit, to confirm Boris Johnson's condition. Ball claimed that the timing of the PM’s hospitalisation was “too perfect” and that he believed Johnson was “dodging responsibility by becoming a victim.”
Sadly, Ball’s was not an isolated opinion. “The official secrets act” began trending in Twitter, because of a rumour, started by a blog post, that medical staff at the hospital had been forced to sign it, hinting that the prime minister wasn’t even ill.
An editor at the Economist tweeted that he felt the whole episode was far too suspicious. Carole Cadwalladr, meanwhile, hinted that the whole thing was a diversionary tactic, accusing the Mail on Sunday of running the story of Johnson’s “near death experience” through the words of “unnamed friends” whilst “ignoring All The Deaths,” before demanding to know what was happening at NHS Nightingale.
The idea also abounded that the whole thing was an exercise in creating a ‘cult of personality’ around the PM. AC Grayling, still somehow considered a thinker of repute, took to Twitter with his usual linguistic panache to label Johnson ‘Boris the Butcher of Downing Street,’ whilst Frances Coppola suggested that Johnson had been discharged from hospital on Easter Sunday in order to draw direct comparisons with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
With their imaginations inflamed to such an extent, one might almost think they were worried about something. And worry they might — if the polls are anything to go by, the man so many have forged careers on the back of hating might just have the public’s sympathy. The most recent Opinium opinion poll puts the Tories on 55 percent — an unprecedented peacetime figure for a government, and at the exact moment that a country that so recently voted for radical pro-liberal causes had so many of its liberties suspended, and saw its economy placed in an induced coma to cope with the coronavirus crisis."
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