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Post by hatter_in_macc on Sept 20, 2020 11:54:55 GMT
I'm not sure I'll have many clean pairs of trousers left at this rate... and, yeh, that did sound better in my head than it looks on screen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 13:24:26 GMT
I'm not sure I'll have many clean pairs of trousers left at this rate... and, yeh, that did sound better in my head than it looks on screen. That's an image I'm quite keen to banish asap
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Sept 20, 2020 13:40:35 GMT
Me too, if I'm being honest these days!
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Sept 20, 2020 13:42:25 GMT
Surely he got married to find a new housekeeper ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 13:50:20 GMT
Surely he got married to find a new housekeeper ? Especially if they double up as baby machines
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Post by dudleyhatter on Sept 20, 2020 14:50:51 GMT
Good luck guys! I am currently working on my Irish passport application, I have zero faith in that shower of numbskullic sociopaths to achieve any kind of acceptable outcome from Brexit. Truly a shower to paraphrase the thread title
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2020 4:30:54 GMT
Just in case anyone is interested and can still find the enthusiasm to get annoyed at this venal, increasingly opaque and frankly corrupt Government Last night, in his address to the nation, Boris Johnson cited ‘Operation Moonshot’ as a cornerstone of the Government’s response to coronavirus. It’s the Government’s latest plan to expand the national coronavirus testing programme and provide rapid turnaround tests. The programme is estimated to cost more than a staggering £100 billion to deliver - and is based on technology that does not even exist. Despite this enormous sum of money, approaching £2,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country on initial estimates alone, we are being kept in the dark about ‘Operation Moonshot’. After being questioned by lawyers acting on behalf of Good Law Project and EveryDoctor, the Government has refused to provide information on who made the decision to spend this sum, or who they are spending it with. What we do know about ‘Operation Moonshot' gives serious cause for concern. Dido Harding, responsible for the failing Test and Trace programme, has revealed that even if these tests become available, they will not be provided free. Instead, the same taxpayers who have funded them will then have to buy them. This is already quite a shift from the original idea of universal provision. We don’t know how any revenues, accruing from public investment, will be shared with the private sector. And we don’t know what this two-tier NHS means for other health services - but we’re the very opposite of complacent. We also don’t know who stands to profit from this taxpayer-funded gravy train. It has been reported that Serco, Deloitte and G4S are involved and that Boris Johnson’s half brother, Max, is trying to elbow his way to the front of the line. But, for us, the most worrying thing of all is the complete absence of any Parliamentary scrutiny of this decision to spend a sum higher than our annual education budget on a programme that includes technology that doesn’t yet exist. We do know that Dominic Cummings makes life impossible for anyone - even the Chancellor - who gets in his way. Could one man have decided to do this, with no meaningful scrutiny or challenge at all? That is exactly what we fear. There must be transparency and there must be proper governance around ‘Operation Moonshot’. We do not live in Saudi Arabia where things happen on the whim of an unelected King. Along with EveryDoctor, we are taking legal action to preserve what remains of good governance around these huge sums of money. Incompetence and cronyism have become hallmarks of this Government’s response to coronavirus. We cannot let this go unchecked. Please, support the legal challenge here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/operation-moonshot/ Thank you, Jolyon Maugham QC
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 13, 2020 15:36:19 GMT
What he said
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Oct 13, 2020 17:01:07 GMT
Another peach of an assessment by Marina Hyde:
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Oct 13, 2020 17:52:25 GMT
She's always on the mark, bless her. (no family connections, sorry to say).
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Post by gazz on Oct 14, 2020 4:11:51 GMT
This country is finished.
There's nothing more to say.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Oct 29, 2020 10:50:39 GMT
Shouldn't surprise us with this shower in charge - but, quite seriously, a new low here...
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Oct 29, 2020 11:00:02 GMT
How come I am not surprised by this. I should be horrified but it is just what we have come to expect.
I hope the so-called Red Wall Change Voters can sleep in their beds at night. Sadly, I am not sure that Labour under JC would have made a better fist of it.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 30, 2020 23:05:20 GMT
How come I am not surprised by this. I should be horrified but it is just what we have come to expect. I hope the so-called Red Wall Change Voters can sleep in their beds at night. Sadly, I am not sure that Labour under JC would have made a better fist of it. Although that is purely hypothetical, and I understand your reasoning, that is the same line as will be trotted out by all Boris supporters. There is no need to mention Corbin as no one else is responsible for this mess other Johnson and his acolytes and simply by mentioning Corbin the red wall voters will say it would have been worse. We have no idea and never will. It is similar to those who say we should never have had a lockdown as people are still dying. We don’t know and will never know how many might have died. Let’s deal with what we have, which is a cheating, lying, thieving, conniving, privatising, dehumanising, self serving bunch of wholly under qualified, out of their depth inept morons intent on destroying the country.
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Post by gazz on Oct 30, 2020 23:39:54 GMT
Sorry, Gaffer, but Duds is right here.
Corbyn's role in allowing these horrors into Downing Street should never be forgotten and be there as a lesson to any potential Labour leader, but how he would have dealt with this is just not relevant here.
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