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Post by vandycandy on Dec 13, 2021 15:50:45 GMT
A segment of the lunchtime news I caught today: Reporter: You've said you think Boris Johnson has many attributes that make him a great leader at this time. Can you give me some of these attributes? Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: Well, he's the democratically elected leader of the United Kingdom. Reporter: That's not an attribute. I asked for some attributes. Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: (repeats the same answer again) Honestly, it makes me want to scream. All he's being asked to do there is "say something good about Boris Johnson" and he couldn't do it, and he supports him! I hate his guts and I'm pretty sure even I could blag a better answer than that! Why why why do people vote for these idiots? Who would you like to see become prime minister? Like it or not you're stuck with these idiots for the foreseeable. We live in sad times currently. |
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Dec 13, 2021 16:15:46 GMT
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Post by Lobster on Dec 13, 2021 16:15:46 GMT
A segment of the lunchtime news I caught today: Reporter: You've said you think Boris Johnson has many attributes that make him a great leader at this time. Can you give me some of these attributes? Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: Well, he's the democratically elected leader of the United Kingdom. Reporter: That's not an attribute. I asked for some attributes. Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: (repeats the same answer again) Honestly, it makes me want to scream. All he's being asked to do there is "say something good about Boris Johnson" and he couldn't do it, and he supports him! I hate his guts and I'm pretty sure even I could blag a better answer than that! Why why why do people vote for these idiots? Who would you like to see become prime minister? Like it or not you're stuck with these idiots for the foreseeable. We live in sad times currently. The ideal candidate isn't there, but you still get at least four options in any constituency. I just don't get how anyone other than a complete nutcase can look at some of these characters and thing "yep, he's got my back!" |
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Dec 13, 2021 18:45:58 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 13, 2021 18:45:58 GMT
A segment of the lunchtime news I caught today: Reporter: You've said you think Boris Johnson has many attributes that make him a great leader at this time. Can you give me some of these attributes? Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: Well, he's the democratically elected leader of the United Kingdom. Reporter: That's not an attribute. I asked for some attributes. Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: (repeats the same answer again) Honestly, it makes me want to scream. All he's being asked to do there is "say something good about Boris Johnson" and he couldn't do it, and he supports him! I hate his guts and I'm pretty sure even I could blag a better answer than that! Why why why do people vote for these idiots? Because they are told to, under this veiled guise of democracy. |
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 13, 2021 18:51:39 GMT
A segment of the lunchtime news I caught today: Reporter: You've said you think Boris Johnson has many attributes that make him a great leader at this time. Can you give me some of these attributes? Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: Well, he's the democratically elected leader of the United Kingdom. Reporter: That's not an attribute. I asked for some attributes. Leader of the Scottish Conservatives: (repeats the same answer again) Honestly, it makes me want to scream. All he's being asked to do there is "say something good about Boris Johnson" and he couldn't do it, and he supports him! I hate his guts and I'm pretty sure even I could blag a better answer than that! Why why why do people vote for these idiots? Because they are told to, under this veiled guise of democracy. Most Tory voters are brainwashed simpletons. Bit like the Manson family, minus the warmth and humanity. |
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Post by superman on Dec 13, 2021 21:18:28 GMT
A lot of traditional socialist voters voted Tory at the last election, what does that make them? Gullible simpletons perhaps? Or did they vote for the least worst option? Boris or Jezza. Some choice hey.
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Dec 13, 2021 21:34:31 GMT
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Post by Lobster on Dec 13, 2021 21:34:31 GMT
A lot of traditional socialist voters voted Tory at the last election, what does that make them? Gullible simpletons perhaps? Or did they vote for the least worst option? Boris or Jezza. Some choice hey. Anyone who thinks they're a "traditional socialist" and voted for Boris Johnson ahead of Corbyn is on another planet. I'd say the same is true the other way the other way around, just for fairness. |
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Dec 13, 2021 21:43:06 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 13, 2021 21:43:06 GMT
Socialism is the opposite of fascism. No true socialist would vote for a fascist Party.
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Dec 14, 2021 7:03:14 GMT
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 14, 2021 7:03:14 GMT
A lot of traditional socialist voters voted Tory at the last election, what does that make them? Gullible simpletons perhaps? Or did they vote for the least worst option? Boris or Jezza. Some choice hey. They may be gullible simpletons but they are definitely not socialists. |
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Post by superman on Dec 14, 2021 10:15:28 GMT
A lot of traditional socialist voters voted Tory at the last election, what does that make them? Gullible simpletons perhaps? Or did they vote for the least worst option? Boris or Jezza. Some choice hey. They may be gullible simpletons but they are definitely not socialists. Probably right there. There has definitely been a shift from “I vote labour because I always have, because my dad and grandad did before me”. One might reasonably question their reasoning but probably refreshing that they haven’t blindly followed the expected norm. Personally I always look to support who I think is the best candidate for the constituency that I live in. The current “socialist” incumbent is excellent so got my support. If they were in my opinion crap then my vote would have gone elsewhere. Can’t be doing with dogma, need to look beyond that in my opinion. |
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 14, 2021 13:02:31 GMT
They may be gullible simpletons but they are definitely not socialists. Probably right there. There has definitely been a shift from “I vote labour because I always have, because my dad and grandad did before me”. One might reasonably question their reasoning but probably refreshing that they haven’t blindly followed the expected norm. Personally I always look to support who I think is the best candidate for the constituency that I live in. The current “socialist” incumbent is excellent so got my support. If they were in my opinion crap then my vote would have gone elsewhere. Can’t be doing with dogma, need to look beyond that in my opinion. I think a lot of it can be blamed on Facebook. I’ve got a couple of elderly relatives, working class Labour voters all their lives. One was even a TAGWU Convenor and committed Bennite in the 70s. Both are now Brexiteers, Tory voters and keen Farage enthusiasts and their drift to the right began when they opened Facebook accounts. The amount of far-right propaganda and misinformation on there is incredible and clearly has an effect on peoples’ thinking (look at all that Cambridge Analytica algorithm stuff around Brexit). It’s very disingenuous to say Labour, under Corbyn, left these people behind, as the very opposite is true. |
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Post by Lobster on Dec 15, 2021 8:58:40 GMT
Sums up the Tories that they can muster more of a "revolt" against vaccine passports than they could against letting kids starve.
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Dec 15, 2021 13:26:54 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 15, 2021 13:26:54 GMT
Sums up the Tories that they can muster more of a "revolt" against vaccine passports than they could against letting kids starve. Claiming human rights and civil liberties 😂 The absolute brass neck of these bastards. |
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Post by Lobster on Dec 15, 2021 16:10:01 GMT
Sums up the Tories that they can muster more of a "revolt" against vaccine passports than they could against letting kids starve. Claiming human rights and civil liberties 😂 The absolute brass neck of these bastards. They're objecting purely because these measures are a minor inconvenience to them personally, whereas they don't consider child poverty to be an inconvenience to them at all. Heard someone say yesterday why are they bothering to oppose the rules when it's not like they're going to follow them anyway? |
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 20, 2021 15:14:42 GMT
The Treasury are now acting as a loan shark, suggesting the Welsh government may have to pay back funding they’ll receive to fight the Omicron variant of the virus.
Erm isn’t that how our taxes work? Of course not for this criminal cabal.
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Dec 28, 2021 22:05:15 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 28, 2021 22:05:15 GMT
I really think the key is in the term “restrictions” - ithey should be referred to as “public health measures (to protect the public)”. Would like to think that would make a difference to responses we are seeing from most of the general public.
Record numbers of cases daily now. Scary and you fear for our NHS.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 29, 2021 9:18:43 GMT
I really think the key is in the term “restrictions” - ithey should be referred to as “public health measures (to protect the public)”. Would like to think that would make a difference to responses we are seeing from most of the general public. Record numbers of cases daily now. Scary and you fear for our NHS. There's been a lot of questionable language used right from the start I think. I've never got over the stupidity of popularising the term "social distancing". To bombard people with a frightening and unfamiliar term like that was really foolish I think, and only added to the sense of fear and isolation people felt early on. It wasn't even accurate as socialising was very important - "physical distancing" would have made more sense. |
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 29, 2021 12:44:46 GMT
No PCR test slots available anywhere in England as the £37bn Track and Trace money laundering operation for a criminal cabal in Westminster collapses again.
£37bn would pay for a 15% payrise for every single NHS employee until 2058.
NASA’s brand new James Webb Telescope, 100 times more powerful than the Hubble, only cost £10bn.
Meanwhile the government are refusing to look into ventilating English schools because they can’t find an existing party donor to take up the contract.
If none of the above makes you angry you aren’t paying attention.
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Post by blaconboy on Dec 30, 2021 9:21:04 GMT
No PCR test slots available anywhere in England as the £37bn Track and Trace money laundering operation for a criminal cabal in Westminster collapses again. £37bn would pay for a 15% payrise for every single NHS employee until 2058. NASA’s brand new James Webb Telescope, 100 times more powerful than the Hubble, only cost £10bn. Meanwhile the government are refusing to look into ventilating English schools because they can’t find an existing party donor to take up the contract. If none of the above makes you angry you aren’t paying attention. There are in Suffolk |
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Post by Lobster on Dec 30, 2021 11:03:20 GMT
No PCR test slots available anywhere in England as the £37bn Track and Trace money laundering operation for a criminal cabal in Westminster collapses again. £37bn would pay for a 15% payrise for every single NHS employee until 2058. NASA’s brand new James Webb Telescope, 100 times more powerful than the Hubble, only cost £10bn. Meanwhile the government are refusing to look into ventilating English schools because they can’t find an existing party donor to take up the contract. If none of the above makes you angry you aren’t paying attention. There are in Suffolk Great, I'll just pop down there! |
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 30, 2021 20:25:06 GMT
Wales are loaning 4 million lateral flow tests to England. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
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Jan 1, 2022 10:26:25 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Jan 1, 2022 10:26:25 GMT
Wales are loaning 4 million lateral flow tests to England. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Sajid Javid claimed the problems were due to a global shortage 😂😂😂😂 unreal isn’t it. Amazing how people just accept a criminal cabal laundering billions and billions and billions of public money. |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 1, 2022 11:40:12 GMT
Wales are loaning 4 million lateral flow tests to England. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Sajid Javid claimed the problems were due to a global shortage 😂😂😂😂 unreal isn’t it. Amazing how people just accept a criminal cabal laundering billions and billions and billions of public money. I worry there's nothing they can do that will lead people not to vote for them. There were patently obvious reasons in 2019 why we shouldn't have voted for them, but people overlooked them and continue to do so. Even now you hear people readily make excuses for them about the "unprecedented" nature of Covid and Brexit, even though Brexit was their idea and pretty much their sole policy. |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 4, 2022 12:27:55 GMT
I fear that home schooling will be returning soon - if not because of restrictions then because of teacher shortages.
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Jan 9, 2022 11:35:29 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Jan 9, 2022 11:35:29 GMT
The government is going to end free Lateral Flow testing kits in an effort to save money. The government also said that contact tracing by Dido Harding’s £37 billion Test and Trace project is also likely to be scaled back.
Why couldn’t they just spend less than 1 billion on the Test and Trace project (like Germany and most other countries) and spend the other 36 billion on the NHS, and keeping lateral flow tests free?
Ending free lateral flow tests will just mean people will not get tested, and continue the spread of the virus.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 9, 2022 15:14:16 GMT
The government is going to end free Lateral Flow testing kits in an effort to save money. The government also said that contact tracing by Dido Harding’s £37 billion Test and Trace project is also likely to be scaled back. Why couldn’t they just spend less than 1 billion on the Test and Trace project (like Germany and most other countries) and spend the other 36 billion on the NHS, and keeping lateral flow tests free? Ending free lateral flow tests will just mean people will not get tested, and continue the spread of the virus. In a long line of stupid Covid decisions from the government, this could be the stupidest yet if true. |
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Jan 9, 2022 19:53:23 GMT
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Post by Firestick Frank on Jan 9, 2022 19:53:23 GMT
Thing is they’re not even “free” - we pay for them out of our taxes. Where has the £37billion of OUR money gone?
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Post by luke90 on Jan 10, 2022 12:39:27 GMT
The government is going to end free Lateral Flow testing kits in an effort to save money. The government also said that contact tracing by Dido Harding’s £37 billion Test and Trace project is also likely to be scaled back. Why couldn’t they just spend less than 1 billion on the Test and Trace project (like Germany and most other countries) and spend the other 36 billion on the NHS, and keeping lateral flow tests free? Ending free lateral flow tests will just mean people will not get tested, and continue the spread of the virus. I know they've been out denying it over the last few days, which usually means it is true. If they do this, it will be suicide for them. |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 10, 2022 12:50:39 GMT
The government is going to end free Lateral Flow testing kits in an effort to save money. The government also said that contact tracing by Dido Harding’s £37 billion Test and Trace project is also likely to be scaled back. Why couldn’t they just spend less than 1 billion on the Test and Trace project (like Germany and most other countries) and spend the other 36 billion on the NHS, and keeping lateral flow tests free? Ending free lateral flow tests will just mean people will not get tested, and continue the spread of the virus. I know they've been out denying it over the last few days, which usually means it is true. If they do this, it will be suicide for them. I don't think the public will accept it. They'll do yet another U-turn on it.
It's a classic example of Tories knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Post by luke90 on Jan 10, 2022 12:55:20 GMT
I know they've been out denying it over the last few days, which usually means it is true. If they do this, it will be suicide for them. I don't think the public will accept it. They'll do yet another U-turn on it.
It's a classic example of Tories knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Where has it even come from? All I've heard is them denying it, another leak? |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 11, 2022 7:57:23 GMT
45,000 deaths could have been prevented if these Tory bastards had locked down just a week earlier. 45,000 nans, grandads, mums, dads, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters. What will it take to get people angry? It turns out that the night before you posted this, 100 people were invited to "bring their own booze" to No. 10, 30 of them turned up and the PM won't confirm whether he was one of them. People are rightly angry that they were constantly ignoring the rules the rest of us were trying to live by, but that's not really even the real reason we should be angry. How much traveling and meeting constituents did these people do, and how much did they spread the virus at a time when we didn't even have an accessible way of testing for it, let alone a vaccine? |
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