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Tony, I’m really not interested in the technicalities, and I’m really not interested in whether he stays or goes. He’ll only be replaced by the next one on the conveyor belt, jobs for the boys type, and inevitably worm his way back in a few months anyway...It’s the rank hypocrisy that stinks to me.

 

Not safe to go to school is it

 

The hospitality sector is being thrown under the bus to make it look like those in charge are doing something.

The 10pm curfew has no effect on the rates, there is no scientific evidence behind it, it's simply plucked out to make it look like something is being done.

The rule of six could be a rule of four, five, seven, eight, etc. It's just a figure plucked out of the air to make it look like things are being done. How can a rule where someone could have 5 other household within their home be seen safer than a family of 4 meeting up with a family of 3 at a park to play football and ride their bikes. Call it out for what it is, it's bollocks.

The new Scottish Rules which idiots like the cabinet will be discussing right now will lay waste to the hospitality sector in north. Before schools and universities went back the highest rates in the UK were comfortably under 100 per 100k. Now schools and universities are back rates are over 500 per 100k in parts of the UK. So where is the science to suggest a rule of six, a 10pm closing or the hospitality sector play any part in these rates?

I don't blame the schools or universities and I believe that education should be prioritised but lets not thrown a whole sector under the bus as a distraction for what is really causing the spike. Instead of shuting the whole hospitality sector wouldn't it be a good idea to have home based learning at universities instead? Who sanctioned the universities going back with thousands of students moving but appears to take no blame for what is happening.

The governments and ruling parties in Scotland, Wales and England are directing the blame to an easy target and have let it roll from there. It's one of the reasons they keep throwing out there for not allowing fans back into football grounds, because as far as they are concerned, everyone who enters a football ground is a hooligan who has spent all day in the pub and is tanked up, which is utter rubbish.

We are allowing the government to run the agenda no questions asked and focusing in the wrong areas. This is a great diversion from the complete cluster feck of losing 16k test results.

The leaders in the north led by Andy Burnham are starting to call out this for what it is, a bingo machine full of policies with no scientific basis in order to apply restrictions that don't work with no end game.

We have had restrictions in Bradford applied when the rate was 54 per 100k, about 80% of the country is way above that but are under no lockdown, and we aren't going to be coming out of lockdown at all as things stand and for what cause? We are told 80% of transmission is via household mixing, that is banned and has been banned since July, so this stat is garbage, and if it isn;t where is the proof? Hancock's never line of defense is to not let the virus rip as a way to deflect the Shizzle policies that are having no effect.

The people are no longer on board, and when you lose the people you quickly lose power. If the government can't back up their actions or won't back up their actions with facts everything will soon be ignored.

 

Forget giving the MP’s a 3 grand pay rise. A hearty thank you, a green badge and a banging of a pan on a Thursday night should be enough.

 

We can go on being ultra cautious but with most of us jabbed up I think we have to learn to live with it like we do with Flu and measles. Let’s get us all back in the ground next season.

 

If their name starts with Oscar and ends with Threlkeld I would say so.

 

Thats the problem isn’t it? Why do they have to buy it in such bulk. An extra pack of this here and there but not this ridiculous nuclear bunker style shopping list they seem to go in with.

 

The media are the proper twats in all this.

First question after the closing of schools. When is the underground shutting.

This creates panic and the feckwittery we see manifesting itself in supermarkets, etc.

 

I must stress not to panic buy, is helps no one. Panic buying causes more problems. For example.

 

@Onside you good? You coping. Just checking up on you.

I know @Bronco and @Park bantam are good as I have seen them post recently. So pleased about that.

@Bronco check in on @RonnieBrown when you can mate. Thanks pal.

The bantams family have to come together in dark times like this. Supporters need each other but what would I give for a bit of football even if behind closed doors right now.

 

Crises do bring together a real sense of community spirit though. I nipped out to put the bins out, around 8ish , just a mundane task but the whole street came out to applaud me.

I felt quite emotional tbh

 

I'm pretty comfortable with the embarrassment levels each of should probably feel on this topic Fordy. As ever, you lack any sort of self awareness. I haven't 'defended this government'. I've openly said that mistakes have been made. Mistakes will still be made. But I'm tolerant to a point and mindful of the massive challenge we face. The Chief of the UN is now on record as saying that this is the 'biggest global crisis since world war 2'. You apply none of that context to your moaning. You just throw stones at every possible thing you can - all of it is reactive to try and prove a point you think you're making, but none of it is proactive, none of your points offer specific solutions, you flip flop depending on the latest easy target you can go after, you offer no credit to the amazing work we're doing to combat this problem in various areas - or the help the government IS trying to offer and you laud other countries without any real sense of wider context or understanding of their issues and challenges. Whilst the rest of the world laughs at Trump for talking non-stop shite throughout this whole thing, with his own State Governors pleading for help, you're holding him up as a beacon of positivity that we should be aspiring to!!

You call out a criticism of why 20K ventilators weren't put into storage after earlier reviews. But you're the sort of person who, if that had been done, before February you'd have slaughtered the government for a horrendous waste of cash. And without any sense of irony at all, you say we should've learned from China? Maybe if they hadn't try to cover this up, murdered whistleblowing doctors and destroyed test samples - we could have done!

I don't think you realise the extent to which you've become a parody of yourself Fordy.

 

Hang on, you want London to fully lock down on this post but on other posts you want us to go back to normal. You're all over the place.

 

I think Boris is doing a decent job and trying his best to do everything possible to help everyone out .
Certainly helped my family in this desperate time.
He's a prime minister not a Dr or scientist!
So glad Boris is in charge rather then Theresa May or that prick Corbyn .

Think Fordy has made himself look at right Twit throughout this thread and I normally chuckle and enjoy reading his babble

 

I’d be quite happy if their names were taken and put on a list / register that denies treatment on NHS in the event they require it.
The world is full of self entitled wnkers who need a shock.

 

It’s poor when people’s political bias gets so blatantly brought into it, and it’s be the same if Corbyn had it from some on the other side. He’s still a human with a child on the way, hope he makes a speedy recovery. It also brings it home that if the leader of a first world country can get it and be seriously effected then anyone can, stay safe.