Johnson's incompetent leadership helped send Covid victims to early graves

[silver fox]

"Blaming Johnson is a bit lame he was a bit busy when this started rumbling"

And the 'Better Blame Boris' brigade?

The buck stops with your beloved. He's a snivelling little coward who disappears when there is work to be done, or he's required to answer for his actions. Or inactions.

He's a gutless $h!t that hides in fridges. That hides from the media unless it's a carefully managed interview, where even then the gutless POS comes up with "I've given you the most important metric which is, never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes, look at wage growth."

He was missing at he start of the pandemic, he's been missing all the way through the pandemic. And when his own MP's inquiry was ready to be published, the yellow-bellied **** ran away to Spain. The craven gobshite knew he'd have to face the country, so off he scuttled like the feeble, thin-skinned poltroon he is.

Though I suppose when you're also so thin skinned you need to remind yourself almost daily that you've 'won' something because you voted the same way as just over half the population, and such a POS you look down on 'social housing' tenants, I guess it's easy to see why you're so besotted.

Thin skinned doesn't come close, I notice Tory lovies have been complaining to the BBC over Andrew Marr's show last Sunday, apparently Marr pulling Johnson up over a statement which was patently untrue, was biased and aggressive, so even political interviewers are supposed to let false statements just wash over without comment, where Johnson is involved.

[Toodles McGinty]

With the UK persistently having the 2nd highest daily case rates of Covid in the world, and with those rates increasing, and with a virulent and early flu season widely predicted, it's becoming increasingly dull listening to senior Conservatives banging on about office-working.

I was thus somewhat sceptical when reading this story...

‘People were left to the Taliban who could have been saved’: Ministers’ fury that, with four out of five working from home, civil servants couldn't access secret documents and wasted critical days during Afghan exit as UK citizens
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ers-claim.html

Conceivably true, but interesting how Raab's failings are being buried under a new yet familiar Government narrative of blaming the homeworkers.

Another dead cat. Quite the feline graveyard, this government.

Just a normal day in England. The BBC will have a documentary about the Great British Autumn, the Daily Mail something about the PM being Churchill reincarnated, the Sun will celebrate the Blitz spirit even though during the blitz people basically shat themselves in underground tunnels, and the Daily Express will have something about aliens in Brussels.

Just don't mention the 'B' word.

[Toodles McGinty]

Thin skinned doesn't come close, I notice Tory lovies have been complaining to the BBC over Andrew Marr's show last Sunday, apparently Marr pulling Johnson up over a statement which was patently untrue, was biased and aggressive, so even political interviewers are supposed to let false statements just wash over without comment, where Johnson is involved.

The media are complicit in the destruction of this country.

We've a government who have allowed the pandemic infection rate to rise to become the highest in western world, fuel pumps are running dry, food costs soaring, the cowardly PM goes on holiday instead of facing his own MPs and there’s an admission the central proposition on which they were elected was a total lie. And the media are silent.

I'm guessing they know that a word against Adolf Johnson-Trump means they'll be out in the journalistic wilderness for years. They must only write 'good old Boris', 'he's trying his best' and feign adoration at the odd, completely superfluous Latin phrase or classical reference. Although a reference to with Nero fiddling while Rome burned are apt. As are the words: Nero lost all sense of right and wrong and listened to flattery with total credulity. It explains the Cabinet.

The EU are now bending their own rules to accommodate the idiot Frost and his idiot demands over his idiot deal. Seems the only line in the sand, for both sides, is the EJC. Frost grimly determined to squirm away. I hope the EU are equally determined to keep deals within the jurisdiction of the ECJ. If Johnson doesn’t accept the EU offer with no quibbling about the ECJ, this will confirm he signed the deal in bad faith. Which would be treachery beyond even my worst suspicions prior to this week. And prove, without a shadow of doubt, this was always all about keeping obscenely rich people's money squirreled away from the law.

And the idiots led by the most contemptible, degenerate, self-serving wretch know they've been lied to, they simply don't care. There is an ignorant, vicious vein of xenophobia running through this country.

Throw another sovereignty log on the fire to keep the poor dolts warm. Eat a slice of sovereignty pie.

[Desert Region]

Another dead cat. Quite the feline graveyard, this government.

Just a normal day in England. The BBC will have a documentary about the Great British Autumn, the Daily Mail something about the PM being Churchill reincarnated, the Sun will celebrate the Blitz spirit even though during the blitz people basically shat themselves in underground tunnels, and the Daily Express will have something about aliens in Brussels.

Just don't mention the 'B' word.

Furthermore, the Government's more recent pronouncements about wanting people to reject the new normal of homeworking ridiculously came during a fuel shortage. And I'm not really feeling any stirrings of a national duty to save coffee shops and sandwich bars.

The BBC leans to the left so I wouldn't list that along with the Mail, the Sun, etc. The Express is laughable. That and the Independent can be unintentionally amusing. There was an Express front page last week that was a comedy corker.

[local]

The media are complicit in the destruction of this country.

We've a government who have allowed the pandemic infection rate to rise to become the highest in western world, fuel pumps are running dry, food costs soaring, the cowardly PM goes on holiday instead of facing his own MPs and there’s an admission the central proposition on which they were elected was a total lie. And the media are silent.

I'm guessing they know that a word against Adolf Johnson-Trump means they'll be out in the journalistic wilderness for years. They must only write 'good old Boris', 'he's trying his best' and feign adoration at the odd, completely superfluous Latin phrase or classical reference. Although a reference to with Nero fiddling while Rome burned are apt. As are the words: Nero lost all sense of right and wrong and listened to flattery with total credulity. It explains the Cabinet.

The EU are now bending their own rules to accommodate the idiot Frost and his idiot demands over his idiot deal. Seems the only line in the sand, for both sides, is the EJC. Frost grimly determined to squirm away. I hope the EU are equally determined to keep deals within the jurisdiction of the ECJ. If Johnson doesn’t accept the EU offer with no quibbling about the ECJ, this will confirm he signed the deal in bad faith. Which would be treachery beyond even my worst suspicions prior to this week. And prove, without a shadow of doubt, this was always all about keeping obscenely rich people's money squirreled away from the law.

And the idiots led by the most contemptible, degenerate, self-serving wretch know they've been lied to, they simply don't care. There is an ignorant, vicious vein of xenophobia running through this country.

Throw another sovereignty log on the fire to keep the poor dolts warm. Eat a slice of sovereignty pie.

More verbal diarrhea, no matter how many ways you torture the English language to vent your bile, this time with Lord Frost, you have to realise it takes two us and the EU.

It doesn't matter about you being unhappy because Frost has made a perfectly reasonable case to look at the Irish problem and the EU yes that's the EU agrees.

And it will be revisited a few times in the future.

Or is that your problem the grownups are sorting it out?

The hypocrite Barnier has gone and a new wave of realism is in the EU most sensible people celebrate their newfound realism.

[Snig's foot]

None of our resident experts have yet told me what to prepare for next has Said hijacked your accounts?


Its obvious to you all just share it.

Ooh, a challenge! OK. Buy candles! (And thermal blankets.) The recent mini-energy crisis in September when we struggled to provide enough electricity, and gas demand sent prices soaring should serve as a warning of future crises.
Although wind power has been providing increasingly significant proportions of our electricity supply, when the wind doesn't blow (as it didn't in September) then we fall back to gas (and a little bit, coal) to fuel electricity generation. If this had happened in really cold weather in winter then we would have struggled to keep the lights on AND supply enough gas.

[Snig's foot]

Something the report does not address is how spectacularly bad the NHS was at keeping you alive if you were hospitalised with COVID (in the early stages of the epidemic). The death rates were comparable to those of central African countries, most western European countries were much better at keeping you alive compared to the UK.
It does seem that lessons have been learned, we are much better at treating patients now.

[Desert Region]

There was an Express front page last week that was a comedy corker.

Marvel should sue.

[salus.populi]

Furthermore, the Government's more recent pronouncements about wanting people to reject the new normal of homeworking ridiculously came during a fuel shortage. And I'm not really feeling any stirrings of a national duty to save coffee shops and sandwich bars.

The BBC leans to the left so I wouldn't list that along with the Mail, the Sun, etc. The Express is laughable. That and the Independent can be unintentionally amusing. There was an Express front page last week that was a comedy corker.

Indeed. Don't recall any calls to save the coal mines for the sake of the businesses in the communities that were destroyed by their closure.
No business or organisation is going to keep the expense of office accommodation for all their staff if most of them can do their work just as effectively at home.
Where people work is down to their employer, not controlled by the state.

[local]

Ooh, a challenge! OK. Buy candles! (And thermal blankets.) The recent mini-energy crisis in September when we struggled to provide enough electricity, and gas demand sent prices soaring should serve as a warning of future crises.
Although wind power has been providing increasingly significant proportions of our electricity supply, when the wind doesn't blow (as it didn't in September) then we fall back to gas (and a little bit, coal) to fuel electricity generation. If this had happened in really cold weather in winter then we would have struggled to keep the lights on AND supply enough gas.

There is enough gas it's just very expensive, the one-man OPEC Mr Putin has a lot of power.

Our rush to fake green has left us exposed.

Still I would love to know how to prepare for the next catastrophe to hit mankind and when would be handy.

[Toodles McGinty]

Marvel should sue.

Iron Man? Hysterical.

Mind you, the Express is even further up Johnson's derriere than our own forum 'Carrie', if that's even possible.

I think Jennifer Arcuri's description of a 'cowardly wet noodle' and a 'binbag full of custard' is far more accurate.

Having said that, when (particularly) the elderly are drowning in that kind of propaganda, and that and Facebook are their only source of news, then it's easy to see how they've fallen for the lies. How easy it is to convince them to act against their own interests by demonising the EU and persuading them to commit economical suicide.

Hence the fingers in the ears and refusal to hear the truth, even as their pensions are frozen. Gullible fools. Blue rinse 'winners'.

Shame really. Imagine if the media were forced to print the truth?

[Toodles McGinty]

More verbal diarrhea, no matter how many ways you torture the English language to vent your bile, this time with Lord Frost, you have to realise it takes two us and the EU.

It doesn't matter about you being unhappy because Frost has made a perfectly reasonable case to look at the Irish problem and the EU yes that's the EU agrees.

And it will be revisited a few times in the future.

Or is that your problem the grownups are sorting it out?

The hypocrite Barnier has gone and a new wave of realism is in the EU most sensible people celebrate their newfound realism.

Frost negotiated an international treaty, Johnson signed it, in the full and certain knowledge they intended to rip it up.

Immoral, weak, dishonest.

On the world stage that makes us liars. Con artists. Untrustworthy.

As for 'torturing' the English language, I'll keep it real simple then: f~(k you, Carrie.

[local]

Dam those blue rinse silver surfers spending their days on bookface.

Lapping up Tory Propoganda.

It appears Said has another personna on the forum

[Toodles McGinty]

Dam those blue rinse silver surfers spending their days on bookface.

Lapping up Tory Propoganda.

It appears Said has another personna on the forum

'Damn'. 'Propaganda'. 'persona'.

Don't torture the English language, Carrie.

[Alikado]

There is enough gas it's just very expensive, the one-man OPEC Mr Putin has a lot of power.

Our rush to fake green has left us exposed.

Still I would love to know how to prepare for the next catastrophe to hit mankind and when would be handy.

There would have been plenty of gas if all the gas storage facilities hadn't been demolished which has left us at the mercy of the 'spot markets'.

The preparations for the next disaster are always ongoing or they where until Thatcher was elected and disposed of 'Civil Defence' and stockpiles, much may have been for a 'Wartime' era' and outdated for modern day disasters but the whole lot including systems and protocols was disposed of. The 'Wargaming' they did produced 'Lessons Learned' which they didn't act on - another lesson learned - the hard way!