BFTD Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: 10 Downing Street is stuffed with art, the government's collection overfloweth in storage, he could borrow any number of artworks from the collections of every museum in Britain (within reason). It's a horrendous look when you're cutting a pissant £20 from the deserving poor. There's no chance that any of this cabinet consider anyone poor to be deserving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Staff at UK medicines regulator express alarm at plan for budget cuts MHRA set to make up to a quarter of its personnel redundant despite ‘phenomenal’ contribution in battle against Covid-19 https://www.ft.com/content/8ef390b4-2d57-42fa-9ac6-88c08307eade?shareType=nongift Tories don't give a shit about you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Staff at UK medicines regulator express alarm at plan for budget cuts MHRA set to make up to a quarter of its personnel redundant despite ‘phenomenal’ contribution in battle against Covid-19 https://www.ft.com/content/8ef390b4-2d57-42fa-9ac6-88c08307eade?shareType=nongift Tories don't give a shit about you.Taking a year to approve a vaccine while thousands died. Aye, phenomenal. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FortescueFotheringhamSmyth Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 8 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: 6 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: Staff at UK medicines regulator express alarm at plan for budget cuts MHRA set to make up to a quarter of its personnel redundant despite ‘phenomenal’ contribution in battle against Covid-19 https://www.ft.com/content/8ef390b4-2d57-42fa-9ac6-88c08307eade?shareType=nongift Tories don't give a shit about you. Taking a year to approve a vaccine while thousands died. Aye, phenomenal. There are sound scientific reasons why vaccines & medicines generally take several years before being approved for general use, as any flid ought to know. **See what I did there?** 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 There are sound scientific reasons why vaccines & medicines generally take several years before being approved for general use, as any flid ought to know. **See what I did there?**If you have to point out your jokes it really lessens their impact.There's a huge difference between approving another painkiller or steroid cream which will have marginal gains and save zero lives and approving a vaccine for a virus which is killing millions worldwide and crippling our economy.We sat on a hugely effective tool for a year whilst people died. Plenty of other regulations were broken (including arguably the convention on human rights) but not the one which is actually getting us out of the situation.The regulatory state has once again massively failed us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 3 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: 9 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: Staff at UK medicines regulator express alarm at plan for budget cuts MHRA set to make up to a quarter of its personnel redundant despite ‘phenomenal’ contribution in battle against Covid-19 https://www.ft.com/content/8ef390b4-2d57-42fa-9ac6-88c08307eade?shareType=nongift Tories don't give a shit about you. Taking a year to approve a vaccine while thousands died. Aye, phenomenal. Yes, they shouldn't have had any trials and just released it onto the populace willy nilly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Yes, they shouldn't have had any trials and just released it onto the populace willy nilly.Aye, because those are the only two options. Primary school thinking there from you. You're better than that. It still amazes me that in the UK the only people taking flack for the handling of coronavirus are elected politicians. Everyone else is not only blame free but a hero/heroine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 1 hour ago, DiegoDiego said: Aye, because those are the only two options. Primary school thinking there from you. You're better than that. It still amazes me that in the UK the only people taking flack for the handling of coronavirus are elected politicians. Everyone else is not only blame free but a hero/heroine. I can't stop reading this part. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Johnson and his attempt at gravitas with respect to Afghanistan. Thing is, he and his comedy hair are wearing thin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 17 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: Aye, because those are the only two options. Primary school thinking there from you. You're better than that. It still amazes me that in the UK the only people taking flack for the handling of coronavirus are elected politicians. Everyone else is not only blame free but a hero/heroine. Because politicians are to blame. The folk on the street aren't fucking responsible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Coronavirus thread for this pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, GordonS said: Coronavirus thread for this pish. Johnson has f**k all to do with it, eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 8 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: Johnson has f**k all to do with it, eh? With most of what's being talked about here, yes. For example, surely nobody could suggest that a prime minister circumvent the regulatory process to approve a vaccine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 On 14/08/2021 at 19:26, DiegoDiego said: On 14/08/2021 at 13:26, Baxter Parp said: Staff at UK medicines regulator express alarm at plan for budget cuts MHRA set to make up to a quarter of its personnel redundant despite ‘phenomenal’ contribution in battle against Covid-19 https://www.ft.com/content/8ef390b4-2d57-42fa-9ac6-88c08307eade?shareType=nongift Tories don't give a shit about you. Taking a year to approve a vaccine while thousands died. Aye, phenomenal. Recommending an untested vaccine against a low risk of dying from Covid would have been hugely irresponsible and could have destroyed trust in vaccines permanently. The Australian vaccine was only found to be faulty in the final stages of stage 3 testing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Recommending an untested vaccine against a low risk of dying from Covid would have been hugely irresponsible and could have destroyed trust in vaccines permanently. The Australian vaccine was only found to be faulty in the final stages of stage 3 testing.Come on, I'm not saying it should have been untested and you know that.It's the greatest health crisis of this century so "low risk of dying" doesn't mean much when it's far higher than the illnesses which the vast majority of drugs treat and would have ripped through the entire society without an economically crippling lockdown where thousands upon thousands lost their jobs.Despite being warned of this situation for years there was nothing in place for speeding up the regulatory process, not even something as simple as putting the application to the top of the pile. If people still want to think they did a "phenomenal" job then that's up to them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Spotted this on twitter 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 16/08/2021 at 10:44, GordonS said: With most of what's being talked about here, yes. For example, surely nobody could suggest that a prime minister circumvent the regulatory process to approve a vaccine. I assumed "Taking a year to approve a vaccine while thousands died. Aye, phenomenal." suggests something like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Quote Boris Johnson today told MPs that the Taliban “will be judged on actions not words” Just the Taliban - not members of the UK Cabinet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 I shall judge YOU, the Taliban, by your actions not your uppity words. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/19/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection Guards at Kabul embassy told they are ineligible for UK protection Exclusive: 125-strong team hired through outsourced contractor given informal notice they no longer have jobs Tories are scum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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