machel posted:At least another 3 weeks 😱🤬😥🤪
It’ll soon pass by 😳🤣
Tobias Ellwood is in cuckoo land - and not the Black Forest.
Discussing business, the hospitality area and the lockdown he patronisingly alludes to the local pub in his mother's village thinking out the box and doing food deliveries. Alright for Mrs Ellwood.
Well...I'd like to see the menu and prices for these enterprises. Because we're all in this together aren't we? Except those who haven't received any promised Govt. financial aid yet, those who have been caught between a rock and a hard place and have nout, those on the nightmare universal credit, those facing unemployment and those who don't live in villages with the disposable at this moment in time for a takeaway to support the local publican. And we can't all get our daughters tested because we know Whitty - can we Gove? Same for Johnson. Shameful. All in it together.....pull the other one.
If one good thing comes out of this in future years I hope it's the us and them is smashed to pieces for good. I sense change is on the cards - if there's an after this. Tolerance is being tested from inept leadership to attention seeking celebs from A to Z - lest we forget them. And all self- satisfied, self-serving I'm alright Jacks in between.
Here's a comparison I did today. Look up Kuenssbergs twitter feed and look up Beth Rigby's. Just for fun like. Beth dishes it out, Laura doesn't. Is she muzzled?
Murdoch made a mistake with Johnson, now he's got the dagger in, it's behind a paywall but I am sure it will be reported in full elsewhere. The enormity of the situation made much worse by so many incompetent people 
Absolutely damning report in tomorrow's Sunday Times:
"Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives."
this from the New Statesman, even the Tory rags have had enough
Remarkable from senior No 10 adviser: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends ... There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared”
Dame_Ann_Average posted:this from the New Statesman, even the Tory rags have had enough
Remarkable from senior No 10 adviser: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends ... There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared”
Which explains his every absence when things go 'tits up' eh?
Sprout posted:Dame_Ann_Average posted:this from the New Statesman, even the Tory rags have had enough
Remarkable from senior No 10 adviser: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends ... There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared”
Which explains his every absence when things go 'tits up' eh?
Throw in he's got a book to write. Publishers may accomodate.
velvet donkey posted:Sprout posted:Dame_Ann_Average posted:this from the New Statesman, even the Tory rags have had enough
Remarkable from senior No 10 adviser: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends ... There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared”
Which explains his every absence when things go 'tits up' eh?
Throw in he's got a book to write. Publishers may accomodate.
machel posted:At least another 3 weeks 😱🤬😥🤪
..... and I don't think that'll be anywhere close enough!
Gavin Williamson 
Feck. They don't know who to put up next.
We all need an angle eh? He's got a Tarantula in his office. Well, I hope it goes rogue.
I'd like to see The Comic Strip Presents covering this.
Meaningless graphs.
Like being back at school in geography. Still, it wastes time. Give me the Boards of Canada. Dunno if anyone remembers these days. Public information films. Unlike this.
EC'll get that!
velvet donkey posted:Gavin Williamson
Feck. They don't know who to put up next.
We all need an angle eh? He's got a Tarantula in his office. Well, I hope it goes rogue.
I'd like to see The Comic Strip Presents covering this.
Spitting image would think all their Christmas had come at once 😂😂
Up to 40% of students have no computer at home or have a difficult environment to work in. How can the government prevent them falling behind while schools are closed?
Mr Williamson says the government is helping disadvantaged children "to really succeed" and will do "absolutely everything" to stop them falling behind during the coronavirus crisis.
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What a NOTHINGY response!!!!! 
Jam tomorrow. Or the morra.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
velvet donkey posted:Meaningless graphs.
Like being back at school in geography. Still, it wastes time. Give me the Boards of Canada. Dunno if anyone remembers these days. Public information films. Unlike this.
EC'll get that!
Everything You Do Is A Balloon.
I wonder if this was made prior to lock-down for other purposes or for lock-down?
Piers Morgan is the only journo taking it to them over here.
Like him or loathe him.....it's a fact.
Well, tv anyway. The BBC are neutered.
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson fears second peak from relaxing lockdown
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Earthshattering news! - NOT!!!!!!!
Who'd have thought of such an occurrence?
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Coronavirus: Boris Johnson fears second peak from relaxing lockdown
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Earthshattering news! - NOT!!!!!!!
Who'd have thought of such an occurrence?
That is just saying "we will have an extended period of lockdown stretching into May". Doing the groundwork for the next announcement in 2 weeks time.
Roxan posted:Since I have been so angry in my recent posts, I thought I would share a nice story. The staff at an animal shelter in Miami are celebrating because for the first time ever, they have found homes for all of their dogs!
Anger is better out than in but that is a lovely story 😃
People wonder why so many more men are dying of COVID-19
I'll tell you - arrogance
Men think they're above it all
Even the elderly have walked right passed me while in the garden - one saying a cherry 'hello'
Zero attempt at social distancing - many times
@Saint posted:People wonder why so many more men are dying of COVID-19
I'll tell you - arrogance
Men think they're above it all
Even the elderly have walked right passed me while in the garden - one saying a cherry 'hello'
Zero attempt at social distancing - many times
I often sit on a bench near my front door just to say hello to anyone walking past, however they are about 3 metres away!
@Dame_Ann_Average posted:
They are fast
@Former Member posted:Do you remember when this thread opened? Did anyone think it would get this bad?
With the narcissistic and crazy antics of the president I am losing hope. We are going to be stuck with this here for years..
A journalist asked him a question about the number of deaths here and the strategy to reopen the economy. His response... “A lot of people love Donald Trump you know, a lot of people love me. “
Don't even have the energy to be angry any more.
Oiiii!!! Be angry. Never give up. We never give up on this forum 
Trump types come and go but we, the masses, will be here forever
@Former Member posted:Do you remember when this thread opened? Did anyone think it would get this bad?
With the narcissistic and crazy antics of the president I am losing hope. We are going to be stuck with this here for years..
A journalist asked him a question about the number of deaths here and the strategy to reopen the economy. His response... “A lot of people love Donald Trump you know, a lot of people love me. “
Don't even have the energy to be angry any more.
When I made this thread I never thought that we would be in this situation, I was just concerned about my granddaughters school x
Donald Trump🤬🤬🤬🤬
Moonie there with a rallying call to arms before forming his new cult
Think he's calling it The Moonies 
@Former Member posted:Do you remember when this thread opened? Did anyone think it would get this bad?
With the narcissistic and crazy antics of the president I am losing hope. We are going to be stuck with this here for years..
A journalist asked him a question about the number of deaths here and the strategy to reopen the economy. His response... “A lot of people love Donald Trump you know, a lot of people love me. “
Don't even have the energy to be angry any more.
Looking back on my early posts, I'm sorry to say that I rather did.
if anything, I was concerned I was over-reacting. I didn't post on this thread until a few days in for fear of coming across as a bit of a doom-monger, but the early claims that people weren't showing symptoms till nearly a fortnight after being infected really worried me as it suggested the extent to which the disease had already spread was being under-estimated. Then I saw a documentary report on a doctor working in Wuhan... That, coupled with the breath-taking arrogance and incompetence of Trump, convinced me this wasn't going to end well...
That said, the one thing I did underestimate was just how badly New York would be hit. Given that the first US cases were in Washington State, I was more concerned for our GaGa friends over there: it didn't occur to me that the East Coast would be hit much, much worse...
Deaths now over 20,000 but we know from most data that it's double that. Priti Patel announcing shoplifting is down and Euginist Dominic Cummings sitting in the Sage meetings and my jaw hit the floor, Herd immunity worked out quite well didn't it Dominic!
What an absolute shitshow, the two most useless leaders in the world have the highest death rate so far. Three holiday Johnson and Detol Trump ...how the hell did we get here.
I know governments make mistakes but in times like this, you would normally think they would follow the countries that have managed and contained it the best, not the opposite. We are still allowing flights into the country and people walking out of the airport, no test, no temperature checks, and now talks of easing lockdown...
Keep safe folks 
John Lydon summed up Pretty Patel well.
In fact that Pistols album sums up this whole mob even better!