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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 17, 2020 11:52:23 GMT
In Spain we clap every night to show the health workers that we are thinking of them and thanking them, we also use as a mark of respect for those that have died. Meanwhile in the UK...
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 17, 2020 11:57:53 GMT
I stand corrected!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 12:38:11 GMT
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 13:00:06 GMT
We're f***ed, mate. This lot have taken those two elements to whole new depth.
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 16:01:06 GMT
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/boris-johnson-and-coronavirus-inside-story-illness"Johnson won the 2016 EU referendum by combining support for the NHS – the UK’s unofficial religion – with soft nationalism and Brexit. Whatever mistakes have been made over the pandemic, Johnson now has another winning political formula to silence his critics: without the NHS I wouldn’t be here." What a complete crock of suck up bullsh*t. That's The Guardian now off my reading list.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 17:01:46 GMT
"Whatever mistakes have been made over the pandemic, Johnson now has another winning political formula to silence his critics: without the NHS I wouldn’t be here."
Not quite sure what the purpose of that last line was tbh. Other than that I found it interesting, particularly the part in which minister's were clearly telling porkies about the state of spaffer's health. Almost Pravdaesque and then a little later, a suggestion by a medical expert that well actually, the whole thing may have been exaggerated somewhat.
If nowt else it says much about the (low) quality of the rest of the ministers of state if so much reliance is placed on one man, a proven and demonstrable liar, a man prepared to throw the prosperity of the entire country under the bus to further his own ambition, a man suffering delusions of Churchillian grandeur, a serial waster of vast amounts of public money, a man sitting on a report into foreign, mostly Russian interference in the referendum, a man who for reasons unknown still has not been investigated for some suspected dodgy dealings with Jennifer Arcuri, a man with a penchant for casual racism, did I mention one sacked twice for lying? A man who clearly spends too much time thinking with the contents of his boxers, who since his affianced is 24 years his junior appears to be having some kind of mid-life crisis and one who very recently and publicly stated that he was prepared to jeopardise the health of millions because of his belief in laissez-faire politics.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 17, 2020 17:35:46 GMT
Having read a few of your posts I’m still not sure how you feel about Boris NYE...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 18:59:53 GMT
Having read a few of your posts I’m still not sure how you feel about Boris NYE... I do like to try and keep it impartial
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 21:41:29 GMT
Having read a few of your posts I’m still not sure how you feel about Boris NYE... Yeah come on, Yorks - cards on the f***ing table now ey?!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2020 4:30:59 GMT
Having read a few of your posts I’m still not sure how you feel about Boris NYE... Yeah come on, Yorks - cards on the f***ing table now ey?! You’re right, I wouldn’t p**s in his gob if his teeth caught fire because I don’t fall for the amiable buffoon act, It’s an elaborate charade constructed around the breathless adoration of a right-wing press desperate for some kind of working-class style tell-it-like-it-is hero without actually supporting one because that might be too, well, Labour. And yet in his youth whilst at University this hero was a member of the Bullingdon Club, an organisation known for smashing restaurants up, burning money in front of homeless people, “pleb” taunting in general and an air of thuggish disregard for anyone they considered below their own exalted status. Decent people don’t behave like that, nor do heroes. His subsequent career has done nothing to dispel the idea that he is anything other than an indolent lout who has never had to graft for anything he wants from life. Don’t believe me? Conservative home, a website for Tory groupies and fanboys lists one of his achievements as “Flew to Beijing Olympics by economy class and gave a wonderful motivational speech”. I jest not. We all make mistakes and Governments are as prone to make them as any other organisation, perhaps more so given the complexity of the task but it’s important to distinguish the difference between something that happens in error and something that has happened because a conscious political decision has been made. A simulation of the present crisis was carried out in 2016 and its findings and recommendations were ignored by the present Government. Despite fatuous promises of additional money to the NHS its budgets have been continually cut and large parts of it privatised. People have and continue to die because this Government cannot provide front line workers with the basics like protective clothing, face masks, oxygen, ventilators, intensive care beds and no amount of clapping on a Thursday night makes any difference. And who is going to lead us out of this? A man whose insouciant attitude to it led him to contracting it himself. The same man who flatly refused to put laissez-faire political dogma onto one side until it was too late. So, instead of clapping on a Thursday night, people should be filling the Government’s MP’s inboxes with complaints about how their attitude exacerbated this situation and questions about how they intend to ensure it doesn’t happen again. As this country extends its lockdown by another 3 weeks, other countries in Europe are emerging from theirs and restarting their economies, something else at which we’ll be playing catch-up so yes, you’re right, I can put up with mistakes, they’re a fact of life but I don’t like fakery or charlatanism because it leads to passing the buck and cover-up, something that is already beginning to happen from a Party who in its current incarnation is built in the image of its leader.
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Post by gazz on Apr 18, 2020 9:54:03 GMT
I don’t fall for the amiable buffoon act, It’s an elaborate charade constructed around the breathless adoration of a right-wing press desperate for some kind of working-class style tell-it-like-it-is hero without actually supporting one because that might be too, well, Labour. All of your post is right on the money, mate, but that ↑↑↑ in particular is as succinct as you can get.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 18, 2020 14:02:09 GMT
Yeah come on, Yorks - cards on the f***ing table now ey?! I wouldn’t p**s in his gob if his teeth caught fire Disdainful put-down of the year so far!
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 18, 2020 14:12:10 GMT
NYE for President, come the revolution.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 18, 2020 22:06:00 GMT
I wouldn’t p**s in his gob if his teeth caught fire Disdainful put-down of the year so far! agreed maccy. there's a much more well-used version that doesn't have the brilliant specificity of it being his teeth on fire. also very impressed with how after that dismissal, NYE then settled down into a laser-focussed deconstruction which was right on the money.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 18, 2020 22:07:13 GMT
...because there isn't a bumping elbows or nodding from two metres smiley yet...
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