ChatterBank4 mins ago
Who'd Be The Pm Right?
Lorries backed up at Dover as the rest of Europe close their borders to us
A mutant infection adding to a deadly pandemic
And time running out for Brexit talks
Good luck Boris , no other PM in peace time has dealt with anything so bad
A mutant infection adding to a deadly pandemic
And time running out for Brexit talks
Good luck Boris , no other PM in peace time has dealt with anything so bad
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Boris is carrying the can for every mistake made by previous Governments and Prime Ministers for the last 50 years. They all led us into reliance on people who think nothing, of us and a position whereby we cannot determine our own destiny without punishment and peevish retribution from unelected egoists. The pandemic has brought it all into sharp focus....
19:57 Mon 21st Dec 2020
"We thought we were getting Churchill#2 and we got Mr Bean"
Not often I agree with Khandro but that is pretty much it :-)
Tho why on earth we might think Johnson would be like Churchill is anyone's guess. Churchill stuck to his guns (literally) at the price of his popularity and reputation. Johnson is the exact opposite.
Churchill's patchy political career was rescued by the war, which was exactly his calling. Johson is a PM for good times, not bad.
Not often I agree with Khandro but that is pretty much it :-)
Tho why on earth we might think Johnson would be like Churchill is anyone's guess. Churchill stuck to his guns (literally) at the price of his popularity and reputation. Johnson is the exact opposite.
Churchill's patchy political career was rescued by the war, which was exactly his calling. Johson is a PM for good times, not bad.
"and as i said as soon as we were out of the jaws of war, the country dumped him and chose a so called peace time leader, "
Very much so: people could tell the difference between what was needed before and what was needed then. A 1945 Boris Johnson batting for the Tories with mots of grand schemes might have done the trick, at least during the campaign :-)
Very much so: people could tell the difference between what was needed before and what was needed then. A 1945 Boris Johnson batting for the Tories with mots of grand schemes might have done the trick, at least during the campaign :-)
//A scientist was saying just after he brought Tier 4 in that he had acted very quickly and that this mutation had only recently come to light.//
Then “A Scientist” is telling porkies. The new strain was known about in September and possibly even earlier than that. New infections have been rising steadily since early December. The seven day average had risen by over 40% between 1st December and last Wednesday. There has been plenty of evidence to show that the situation was worsening throughout the last three weeks.
//Surely anyone worth his salt would never,given the number of cases of the virus,ever allowed a five day amnesty over Christmas and even up to as late as Wednesday saying it was still to happen.//
I’m absolutely with you on that score, grumpy. Everybody I have spoken to (and a lot more besides) has said that the idea was absolute lunacy from the start. I am not a fan of the government’s overall strategy with the pandemic, but they have a strategy of trying to keep everybody away from everybody else as far as possible. They’ve been doing that for nine months to a greater or lesser degree. To hide behind the “new variant” is disingenuous to say the least. It’s been known about for ages and I cannot believe that so much new information came to light between last Wednesday (when the five day break was still on) and Saturday (when all the plans that people had made were comprehensively trashed).
Then “A Scientist” is telling porkies. The new strain was known about in September and possibly even earlier than that. New infections have been rising steadily since early December. The seven day average had risen by over 40% between 1st December and last Wednesday. There has been plenty of evidence to show that the situation was worsening throughout the last three weeks.
//Surely anyone worth his salt would never,given the number of cases of the virus,ever allowed a five day amnesty over Christmas and even up to as late as Wednesday saying it was still to happen.//
I’m absolutely with you on that score, grumpy. Everybody I have spoken to (and a lot more besides) has said that the idea was absolute lunacy from the start. I am not a fan of the government’s overall strategy with the pandemic, but they have a strategy of trying to keep everybody away from everybody else as far as possible. They’ve been doing that for nine months to a greater or lesser degree. To hide behind the “new variant” is disingenuous to say the least. It’s been known about for ages and I cannot believe that so much new information came to light between last Wednesday (when the five day break was still on) and Saturday (when all the plans that people had made were comprehensively trashed).
