I am not naive, not for one minute ta. Politicians lie, we know they all do at times. Sometimes for personal, sometimes political, but pictures do not lie. Those images of him clapping on the doorstep before he went in and his last video address before that showed a man everyone was thinking looked really ill. He was a fool not getting treatment sooner. On discharge a couple of weeks later giving his podium address, he still looked quite quite poorly still, it was clearly not an act.
I get most on here are not fans of him or the party, i am not myself, but papers are going to want to interview him. Of course the Government would have had to prepare in case he died, if they didn’t and he had, everyone would use it as another criticism. Governments should plan for several eventualities, a lesson this one has learned a little late in the day, granted.
He really can not win. If he says nothing, he is accused of holding back info that the public have a right to know, if he speaks out he is spinning.
The truth is people will always believe what suits their personal agendas and suits their own political narrative. He is here to stay, as is this Govt. for now so lets just roll with how things progress. Time will tell if it has or has not affected his thinking. We all need to hope it has. If it hasn’t then his verdict will be handed out by the people in a few years time.
sorry but I don’t buy it - he was ill yes 
but gravely ill ? 
. It took away my fear of death, and the strangest thing was knowing I had little chance of making it but accepting it, a feeling of happiness inside on how fantastically lucky I was to have met and had been in the presence of some of the people who were in my life or who had been.
