Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Gallant Pioneer]

1 hour ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:

She enjoys it, she speaks like it is her own words. She did well. Worth the suspension. Took one for the team etc.  

It is her own words, she is not just a presenter but is part of the editorial team. 

[superbigal]

Englandshires track and trace doesn't really start tomorrow. Apparently the phone crew numbers up and completely running is less than 100.

Wife is waiting on her (honestly) about 18th email link to password changes etc. She is now beyond the criminal checks and is set up with Amazon workplace. Still got webinars, 8 hours paid training and probably another 15 email links to do before getting anywhere near calling some virus affected citizen.

 

 

[Kneal Down Caster]

Englandshires track and trace doesn't really start tomorrow. Apparently the phone crew numbers up and completely running is less than 100.

Wife is waiting on her (honestly) about 18th email link to password changes etc. She is now beyond the criminal checks and is set up with Amazon workplace. Still got webinars, 8 hours paid training and probably another 15 email links to do before getting anywhere near calling some virus affected citizen.

 

 

Same with my Mrs. Logged on for past two weeks and not made a call ! Goalpost appears to be continually moving.

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

It's amazing how quick the Beeb are to punish their staff when they upset the Tories.

The likes of Sarah Smith and Laura K are free to continue to pump out government PR on a daily basis though, with the odd clarification of what their sources  really meant to say.

[Mark Connolly]

2 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

It's amazing how quick the Beeb are to punish their staff when they upset the Tories.

The likes of Sarah Smith and Laura K are free to continue to pump out government PR on a daily basis though, with the odd clarification of what their sources  really meant to say.

This tweet sums it up

 

[Ludo*1]

6 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

It's amazing how quick the Beeb are to punish their staff when they upset the Tories.

The likes of Sarah Smith and Laura K are free to continue to pump out government PR on a daily basis though, with the odd clarification of what their sources  really meant to say.

I don't know what's preferable. If they genuinely are bias or if they're just shit scared the Tories will cut all their access to funding with the license fees being scrapped.

[Ludo*1]

1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:

This tweet sums it up

 

Imagine the furore if they'd done that to Paxman. The auld c**t must be glad he packed it in.

[Todd_is_God]

I know Mahou is fairly potent, but @JMDP only just waking from his stupor is surprising

[Todd_is_God]

@Snafu you've no chance with that POV. Even if masks were proven to work they would be A too scary for us Brits and B "tAkE AwAy FRoM tHe NHs", which is another way of Gammons saying "i'm not wearing a mask"

Edited May 27, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[Diamonds are Forever]

Although most sane people knew this already, what Johnson's performances at PMQs, daily briefings and today's committee expose is just how utterly clueless and out his depth he is when expected to answer straight questions and cannot fall back on his playing to the crowd and all the jeering morons in the background egging him on like the class clown. Starmer has had him on toast so far and if the reduced attendance at PMQs continues he will continue to do so. Starmer is decent at asking proper questions and with no audience/atmosphere there Johnson has to actually try, and fail, to answer them. His usual shtick doesn't wash. Whereas in the normal tribal chaos of PMQs he is able to wing it.

It is genuinely incredible and terrifying that so many people in this country thought him fit to run a country. He also looks absolutely horrendous at the moment. I'm sure he still has some after effect from Covid, added to the realisation that he is completely out his depth.

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/27/boris-johnson-showman-out-of-his-depth-john-crace

We’ve reached the point where the only way to understand the state the country is in is to realise that it has become a banana republic.

A failed state run by a bad joke of a prime minister, who prioritises the job security of his elite advisers over the health of millions. A man who sees no need to be across the most basic points of government policy and is so inarticulate that he can’t even start a sentence let alone finish one.

It’s normal for a prime minister to appear before the liaison committee – the supergroup of select committee chairs – at least three times a year. This was the first time Boris Johnson had bothered to turn up in more than 10 months. And you could see why. Even with Dominic Cummings sitting just off screen – Boris’s eyes kept darting to the right, desperate for help – holding up placards with something approximating an answer, Johnson was lost for words. The great populist who doesn’t even realise he has long since lost the support of the people. A mini-dictator surrounded by yes men locked inside the No 10 bunker.

What made this even more pathetic and desperate a spectacle was that Boris clearly believed he had prepared thoroughly. If he had, then his short-term memory is completely shot. More likely though, Boris’s idea of preparation is just a quick 10 minute skim of a briefing note.

Boris is the supreme narcissist – the apogee of entitled arrogance in which other people are there only to serve his needs. A fragile ego, disguising an absence of any self worth.What’s more, you sense he knows it. That in the wee, wee hours he looks through a glass darkly and sees the blurred outlines of his limitations and failure.

The session started with questions from committee chair, Bernard Jenkin, and Boris was clearly expecting friendly fire. Only to many people’s surprise – possibly even his own – Bernie turned out to be no patsy. Instead he went straight to the point. Why was there to be no cabinet secretary inquiry into Dominic Cummings’s clear breach of the government coronavirus guidelines.

“Um... er... well,” Boris blustered looking frantically to Classic Dom for help. Up went the placard ‘It’s time to move on.’ “Um... er... well... I think what the country wants is to move on,” he said.

What the opinion polls have clearly shown is that at least 70% of the country think that Laughing Boy is basically taking the piss – one rule for the elites, another for the little people. Only Boris somehow ignored that, believing that he knew better what the people really thought than they did. Who would have guessed that Boris would have ascribed to the Marxist idea of false consciousness?

Six times Boris insisted that the country wanted to move on. Something I’m sure the families of those who have died – not to mention the many thousands who could yet die as the prime minister trashed his own public health message to protect a chum – must have been delighted to hear.

Pete Wishart, Meg Hillier and Yvette Cooper all went in for the kill. Had Boris actually seen the evidence that Cummings had provided for his special and different Covid-19 fortnight away on his father’s estate? Boris nodded fiercely. He had.

And the evidence was that it was Dom who was running the country and he didn’t have the power to sack him.

Nor could he explain the difference between deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries’s clear instructions to stay at home and the supine advice of several cabinet ministers who had insisted that maybe having to look after your own child constituted exceptional circumstances. Boris’s best guess was that maybe Harries hadn’t been as clear as he would have liked her to be and he hoped that she would come on message in the near future.

He ended the section on Cummings by insisting that all the stories that Dom had corroborated in his rose garden press conference were essentially false.

Things didn’t improve when Jenkin moved on to other areas of the government’s handling of the coronavirus. Boris had only the sketchiest idea of how the new track and trace system that was meant to come in to operation the following day would work. A nation panicked. He even said he was forbidden from making any promises on dates for reaching government targets. Let that sink in. The prime minister is forbidden from making his own policy. If we had been in any doubt who was running the country we weren’t any more.

Boris didn’t even know the basics of how his own benefits system operated. This was Government 101 and the prime minister was still out of his depth. During the worst health crisis for a century we are lions led by dead donkeys.

 

Edited May 27, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Good to see the Track and Trace is in safe hands. I’m sure forcing folk to have the app and fine them if they haven’t downloaded it is definitely fine.

 

[Todd_is_God]

8 minutes ago, Snafu said:

No one looks after you better than yourself and if you want to learn from anyone with experience take advice from those who know how to get through a crisis like this, such as those with previous experience which is not our UK government. I'm not listening anymore to their advice and I'm going to use my own common sense and look towards the likes of South Korea and Taiwan as the best examples.

Its up to the gammons and their ilk if they don't want to wear a mask, they've proved themselves Darwin award potential up to now and they won't change their ways ready for the next coronavirus outbreak and next time they will be older and less able to fight of the virus, understand the meaning of the word conservative. Those that wont or don't adapt in nature to change eventually die out.

Mate i'm with you.

If wearing a face covering in the short term means I can see my friends and family and / or do something that's not WFH or furlough then i'd be down. No questions asked tbh.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[HeartsOfficialMoaner]

15 minutes ago, Snafu said:

No one looks after you better than yourself and if you want to learn from anyone with experience take advice from those who know how to get through a crisis like this, such as those with previous experience which is not our UK government. I'm not listening anymore to their advice and I'm going to use my own common sense and look towards the likes of South Korea and Taiwan as the best examples.

Its up to the gammons and their ilk if they don't want to wear a mask, they've proved themselves Darwin award potential up to now and they won't change their ways ready for the next coronavirus outbreak and next time they will be older and less able to fight of the virus, understand the meaning of the word conservative. Those that wont or don't adapt in nature to change eventually die out.

At what age to we become Tories? How long have you got to go? 

[8MileBU]

5 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Mate i'm with you.

If wearing a face covering in the short term means I can see my friends and family and / or do something that's not WFH or furlough then i'd be down. No questions asked tbh.

100% this.

[Florentine_Pogen]

7 minutes ago, Zen Archer Esq. said:

 

 

Hmmmm.........confusing.  Somebody is at the madam.......

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/27/bbc-switches-emily-maitlis-in-newsnight-episode-over-cummings-remarks

[Granny Danger]

14 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Good to see the Track and Trace is in safe hands. I’m sure forcing folk to have the app and fine them if they haven’t downloaded it is definitely fine.

 

She’s a baroness apparently.

Baroness Dildo Harding, sounds like a right stuck up c**t.

 

[Wile E Coyote]

10 minutes ago, Zen Archer Esq. said:

When was Katie asked to present tonights show. Presenter rotas are made up weeks in advance. If Maitlis was meant to present tonight unless she is ill or unable to appear for other reasons she absolutely has been suspended

 

 

[Todd_is_God]

12 minutes ago, Snafu said:

I've just bought a couple of washable face masks and I have plenty of material to make my own. When the shops open and public transport gets back to next to normal I shouldn't have a problem getting about.

Maybe the first steps getting our football back with supporters at games is supporters using masks instead of having to distance.

I bought one. It's very fashionable...

Club branded masks would be an excellent revenue stream.

I love how Bundesliga headcoaches are allowed to not wear masks so long as they don't go within 1.5m of another member of their coaching staff.

The opposing head coach appears fair game though

You can see the restrictions becoming more blurred and comfortable as games go on on. This is a good thing IMO.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Todd_is_God