brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Exactly; yesterday was always going to be a win:win outcome.
The Dominic Cummings file
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I think wearing single use disposable gloves would be the most effective measure to prevent the spread of the virus in this case. Just dispose of thoroughly.
maomao
普費斯
Because 60k people have died, the country's response has been one of the worst and most incompetent amongst similar nations and we'd like the carnage to stop.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
it is fun to be watching Chris Benjamin (it whatever his name is, Sargon fella) shit his pants in every video he’s done over the past week or so
They loathe ordinary people so much perhaps they should stay in their country piles or gated communities.
They don’t believe in society.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Gary Gibbon mande an important point on C4 News yesterday...in the present circs of there being only one on-going news story, it's going to be a lot harder for Johnson's regime to hose this story down than it would in a more conventional news mix.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
"the country's response" has been fine. It's the Government that has been shit.
If you are wearing gloves you could roll said brick in dog shit first!
I’m not speaking from experience Of course!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Interesting, has this homeopathic antiviral paste been thoroughly tested?
Mogden
I like tea
News article from April.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
Glaxo in Barnard Castle signed a partnership with Sanofi. It has an debated investment percentage from Republican donor Ken Fisher and makes Plaquenil, the US brand name of hydroxychloroquine, that Trump is telling people to take.
GlaxoSmithKline, in Barnard Castle, enter vaccine collaboration to fight Covid-19
ONE of the region's biggest employers has joined forces with a fellow pharmaceutical company to develop a vaccine in the fight against coronavirus.
Glaxo in Barnard Castle signed a partnership with Sanofi. It has an debated investment percentage from Republican donor Ken Fisher and makes Plaquenil, the US brand name of hydroxychloroquine, that Trump is telling people to take.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Because we've got at least 50k dead from covid, people suffering mental health effects from isolation, rising unemployment etc. I just want it to stop.
I know what I'd like to happen but we all know it's not going to. So I'd settle for them being forced to resign and living out their days as pariahs shunned by everyone.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
True, but even if Cummings were to 'go' in the next hour, the psychopaths will still privilege their resumed accumulation over our lives. The foundations for the second spike were set in the VEday75 week and the R will already have risen (probably now already above 1 = epidemic) and the deaths from early May will likely start to show in the next week or so.
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Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
That sounds interesting. What has happened? (I don't want to have to actually watch the fucker so be glad if you can say).
mauvais
on reddit or something
There's obviously some merit to this but I think it's quite a pessimistic view. You assume that with this one out of the way they will recover, rather than immediately stumbling into some even greater fuckup.
As my grandad once said, whilst it's fun to watch your victims run around screaming and on fire, sometimes you just want to get to the bit with the tigers.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
trump is losing support. Tories are getting flack. He’s not happy.
I'd be amazed if it isn't. If it was genuine they'd have put it front and centre when the story first broke to try and damp things down a bit.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
He stopped uploading videos to YT when they demonetized him, principled patriot, that he is (just went to have a look!).
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
sadly he still has his Akkad daily moan thing.
Steel Icarus
we move
Who the hell was your granddad?
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Amusing piece from The Spectator.
www.spectator.co.uk
It’s not often a politician calls a press conference to sneer openly at the voters but Boris Johnson has always done things his own way. The Prime Minister’s performance this afternoon was a careful, considered declaration of contempt at all those chumps stupid enough to obey the rules he laid down for them. They thought those regulations applied to everyone, regardless of position or connections? What rubes.
Addressing Dominic Cummings’ freewheeling interpretation of lockdown guidelines, the Prime Minister said: ’I believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity, and with the overriding aim to stopping the spread of the virus and saving lives.’
I don’t think for a minute that Johnson believes his adviser was trying to halt the spread of Covid-19, but nor I do think he was lying. A lie is an attempt to deceive and the Prime Minister doesn’t care enough to make the effort. He has decided that he needs the man who devised his Brexit strategy and election campaign and who is now virtually co-Prime Minister. It doesn’t matter whether the punters reckon Dom did the right thing or the wrong thing (they very much think the latter) because what they reckon doesn’t come into it.
This is how elites operate. Rules are for the ruled, not the rulers. The little people have to stay at home, keep their kids away from granny, and see their small businesses tank. Not the clique, though. They are clever enough to slip and slither between the terms and conditions that bind everyone else and valuable enough that, even if they do get caught, they will be shielded from the consequences.
Think I’m being unfair? Confident Boris would view similar actions in a similar light if taken by an ordinary punter? Fair enough. I’m not one to counsel law-breaking but if the Prime Minister says it’s okay to disregard lockdown as long as you believe your reason is really good, then go ahead and disregard lockdown. You may not face the same scenario that Cummings faced but you judge what’s best for you and your family, just like he did. Go down the pub, take the kids to the seaside, or drive to your parents’ house. Don’t worry if you or someone else in your household is symptomatic. Follow your ‘instincts’, not the rules. And if the police hand you a fine, forward it to Downing Street. Boris will sort it for you.
Addressing Dominic Cummings’ freewheeling interpretation of lockdown guidelines, the Prime Minister said: ’I believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity, and with the overriding aim to stopping the spread of the virus and saving lives.’
I don’t think for a minute that Johnson believes his adviser was trying to halt the spread of Covid-19, but nor I do think he was lying. A lie is an attempt to deceive and the Prime Minister doesn’t care enough to make the effort. He has decided that he needs the man who devised his Brexit strategy and election campaign and who is now virtually co-Prime Minister. It doesn’t matter whether the punters reckon Dom did the right thing or the wrong thing (they very much think the latter) because what they reckon doesn’t come into it.
This is how elites operate. Rules are for the ruled, not the rulers. The little people have to stay at home, keep their kids away from granny, and see their small businesses tank. Not the clique, though. They are clever enough to slip and slither between the terms and conditions that bind everyone else and valuable enough that, even if they do get caught, they will be shielded from the consequences.
Think I’m being unfair? Confident Boris would view similar actions in a similar light if taken by an ordinary punter? Fair enough. I’m not one to counsel law-breaking but if the Prime Minister says it’s okay to disregard lockdown as long as you believe your reason is really good, then go ahead and disregard lockdown. You may not face the same scenario that Cummings faced but you judge what’s best for you and your family, just like he did. Go down the pub, take the kids to the seaside, or drive to your parents’ house. Don’t worry if you or someone else in your household is symptomatic. Follow your ‘instincts’, not the rules. And if the police hand you a fine, forward it to Downing Street. Boris will sort it for you.
Boris Johnson's support for Cummings is really a defence of the elite
It’s not often a politician calls a press conference to sneer openly at the voters but Boris Johnson has always done things his own way. The Prime Minister’s performance this afternoon was a careful, considered declaration of contempt at all those chumps stupid enough to obey the rules he laid...
www.spectator.co.uk
bimble
floofy
I still don’t get this. They all drive to a holiday home whilst they were infected with the actual virus. Am just not understanding the relevance of whether their child has autism to the whole story?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
True, but even if Cummings were to 'go' in the next hour, the psychopaths will still privilege their resumed accumulation over our lives. The foundations for the second spike were set in the VEday75 week and the R will already have risen (probably now already above 1 = epidemic) and the deaths from early May will likely start to show in the next week or so.
Yeah I'd actually like to safely see friends and family without worrying about giving them a deadly disease and/or feeling guilty about people who cant do the same though and worrying about what impact it will have on them.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
The autism thing is bullshit cooked up by Twitter bots, in an attempt to deflect and distract.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I want it to stop too.
But Cummings getting/sacked resigning isn't going to help.
Him staying, and being defended, weakens the Government.
But there's no election for 5 years.
They have a majority of 80 that isn't going anywhere.
So, the only thing that will force a significant change in direction is "fear of the mob" and/or a widespread refusal to be "nudged".
Cummings staying, and being defended, might (just might) fuel this.
It's bleak either way.
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