XXL
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8 hours ago, Butter9 said:
The Cummings interview I found very insulting . The fact that he didn't even have to hold that stupid press conference but he did and chose to insult the public's intelligence
Exactly
Double the offence
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8 hours ago, Butter9 said:
The fact that they had to buy sub-standard PPE kits from Turkey says it all.
The Cummings interview I found very insulting . The fact that he didn't even have to hold that stupid press conference but he did and chose to insult the public's intelligence
with the most ridiculous lies is pretty shocking . The eye sight test drive being the worst . I mean you have covid-19 so you decide to go for a test drive with your wife and child presumably
as crash dummies ?
I lived in UK and mostly London for 20 + years and I love the UK but I don't recognise it anymore .
Brexit was a real shocker to me because the Leave campaign was based on big fat lies and people kind of bought into it .
Amen to all
It's almost frustrating
Even if you're not a British citizen
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On 5/28/2020 at 9:30 AM, Butter9 said:
The castle looks so much better when you have Covid-19 and while you're driving to test your eyesight with your wife and child as crash dummies .
That interview he gave made the whole thing worse
Absolutely
Talk about clutching at straws. Talk about lying through your teeth. That Scummings press conference was comic and painful to watch at the same time
They must think people are stupid or something. They are trying their best to silence the whole thing. But it will inevitably come back to haunt them and bite them in the ass. Very very soon.
Particularly because over three months since the start of the emergency the UK still has the highest rate of infections and daily deaths in Europe and after the US is the second most
affected country in the world, proportionally it's actually the first
Yet they'd rather open everything now because they are panicking about the economy, an inflated economy whose bubble is about to explode, and that would have happened even without this latest global sanitary emergency
The UK doesn't produce anything anymore (thanks to people like Thatcher and Blair), it is not an industrial power in Europe, the only thing they have is the City of London, but that only works within a EU membership scenario.
Anyone who voted leave has basically contributed to bringing in the final death knell for the economic outlook of the country without realising it, and there's no trade deal with either the US or former colonies that's going to save it, contrary to what many people think
Why do you see those prices in terms of rent and buying in London? Not just because it's "a big city that everyone flocks to". It's one gigantic bubble waiting to explode
England as a whole is however a very different story from London. So much poverty that has accrued over the years
I'm glad that so many local authorities in other parts of England are opposing and challenging N10 over Monday's reopening of primary schools
As @Kim says, the people running the show right now are incompetent bastards and that is all there is to say about them. They make Theresa May's government seem shiny and new
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5 hours ago, GOD said:
Nope they should just cancel them and do a new line up, and not repeat the 2020 lineup, they missed their chance sorry next
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1 hour ago, Kim said:
Well, good luck at school on Monday kiddies
Indeed
Poor children
Used for political purposes
So pathetic
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On 5/30/2020 at 9:17 PM, Kim said:
I wish I knew what their end game is...
Certainly some of the latest lockdown announcements were rushed out to try and quell the Cummings controversy - one man's job over the health of a country.
The major issue is that the cabinet is made up of a bunch of incompetents who are unprepared for governance - who got their jobs solely based on being part of the vote leave brexit campaign and a Boris supporter.
The old guard of the tory party (they were horrible cunts but at least they had some sense of duty and some experience in civil service and running a country) are all gone. Some of this lot were even fired from cabinet under previous administrations for national security breaches but Bozo brought them back
Yes, I've always had the impression that compared to these clowns even Theresa May and ministers from her government, from the health secretary to the head of the foreign office were much more prepared and professional than this crazy bunch now in power. And that says it all
I just don't understand why Conservatives won again in December and even won the vote of usually Labour supporting voters, and won after three years of a Tory led parliament squabbling over Brexit with zero tangible results and international ridicule
I cannot believe they overwhelmingly voted for Bozo because people in the UK are overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit getting done
Was Corbyn's rep tarnished by Labour Party's anti-Semitic "scandal", was he just too weak to counteract Tory policies and their "vision" for Britain?
I thought many of his foreign policy ideas were largely valid and on point, in that the UK should not be the US lapdog venturing into endless wars etc
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1 hour ago, Kim said:
I wish I knew what their end game is...
Certainly some of the latest lockdown announcements were rushed out to try and quell the Cummings controversy - one man's job over the health of a country.
Totally
Pretty scary when you think of it
You'd believe stuff like this with zero accountability and outright lies and big fuck yous to the public belonged to uncivilised countries not to the nation that has birthed the Magna Charta and the first parliament in European history some 800 years ago
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On 5/29/2020 at 5:27 PM, Msig said:
Thanks
Most of my colleagues have opted to keep working from home 2-3 days a week for the next few months, but I need an ergonomically correct workstation, which I don't have at home.
Btw, the Danish government just announced a partial reopening of our borders. From 15 June, Denmark will open its borders to tourists from Iceland, Germany and Norway if they can prove that they have booked a minimum of six nights at at a hotel, holiday house or campside outside Copenhagen. Tourists from Finland and Sweden will most likely be allowed to enter Denmark later this summer, but tourists from other countries won't be allowed to enter Denmark until 31 August at the very earliest.
Similarly, Danish authorities no longer advice against travelling to non-urban areas in Iceland, Germany and Norway. However, until 31 August, Danish residents travelling to any other country will still be urged to self-quarantine for 14 days after returning to Denmark.
Very wise arrangements
You just gotta laugh when you hear the British government justifying its preposterous idea of reopening primary schools in two days citing Denmark's school reopenings as an example of something that works when there couldn't be any two more different situations structurally and in terms of size
Using other people's successes as an excuse to do what you should not be doing given they haven't made an effort to get things done right in the first place
Meanwhile diminishing other countries successes when it suits them, and the rate of infection has picked up again
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23 minutes ago, horn said:
Does he REALLY care for the Hong Kong protesters? or just simply one of his strategy to win the trade war? Why didn't he say anything about Catalonia independence? Why didn't he care about human rights in Africa/Middle east? Why is he always on China's back?
The sad part is Dumpster minion Boris Johnson, Scott Morisson will support whatever Dumpster do
Sharply on point
Of course he doesn't
Western hypocrisy pure and simple. Just like the hypocrisy on the whole Middle Eastern situation which the United States governments over the years are hugely responsible for under the excuse of 9/11 and way before that and - blasphemy alert - the utter hypocrisy over Russia and what would mean for "the West" to gain total control of it and its immense natural resources. Both Napoleon and Hitler tried before, but miserably failed
Everyone should be watching Australian multi award winning investigative journalist John Pilger's documentary "The Coming War on China"
And yes they all act so concerned with HK student protests but they are way less bothered by their own funnelling of billions of dollars into rogue countries such as Saudi Arabia that de facto do nothing but continuing to breed fundamentalism and to export terrorism everywhere
And don't get me started on the whole Israel Palestine issue. Guess what, Israel is a big friend of Saudi Arabia, pathetic
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3 hours ago, horn said:
Just ONE DAY, national guards have been deployed to suppress these "domestic violence".
As compare to Hong Kong "domestic violence" that has been ongoing for > SIX MONTHS, not a single army deployed from China government till now.
Dumpster said Hong Kong protestors are fighting for their rights and deserve to be treated humanely whereas when it comes to Minneapolis protestors, he called them as "THUGS" and suppress them without mercy.
All the media from Europe/Australia/South America/Canada/Taiwan, who criticized China & Hong Kong government on the HK protest incident even calling out China's prime minister Xi Jinping, none of them has the balls to call Dumpster out.
Fucking hypocrites.
Fucking disgusting.
And that is because the US have their own little agenda against China to begin with, geopolitically and economically speaking and the Hong Kong situation is the perfect excuse. Never mind fixing the domestic societal and cultural mess they themselves have fed for decades, first.
Obviously with a vulgar demagogue in the WH it's even easier for the real powers that be to achieve their goals on the global chessboard
Transatlantic hypocrites indeed, I'm ashamed of EU foreign policy as well by the way, always playing the lapdog game.
Shameful and in the long term rather counterproductive for citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. The western media is by and large responsible for giving a falsified version of events
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2 hours ago, Kim said:
I see more and more scientists and health advisors to the UK govt are admitting that infections are still too high to ease the lockdown so soon. 8k a day in England alone. The govt have decided to go ahead anyway.
This should be interesting...
I truly wonder what the UK leadership are thinking at the moment. Perhaps they are not thinking at all. Perhaps they are incapable of thinking altogether. I say the UK but maybe I should only say one quarter of it, England
They seem to be pressed for children to go back to school on Monday so that mummy and daddy can concentrate on their jobs, under the pretext of "children from disadvantaged backgrounds with no tablets being hurt the most" while they're stuck at home
As if they cared to begin with.
They talk about lifting the lockdown but the curious thing is that they never had a proper lockdown in the first place, in England for sure (parks open, no mandatory masks, front line workers with no PPE, the elderly sent back to care homes to infect staff members and other guests) on top of having brought it in three weeks late and having allowed flights in and out of Britain till almost mid March when most other countries in Europe acted mid to late February on this front and as far as flights from China go, even late January. Ludicrous
I still cannot get my head around the fact that those so called medical experts comprising Johnson's team were initially saying that they thought other European countries' approach to this emergency was wrong and that they'd rather wait for some sort of peak
Squandered time. And these are the results, yet with this kind of infection data coming in they still have the nerve to talk about easying the lockdown and to justify and act so smugly about the entire Cummings affair. Branding it as a politicised controversy, never mind the total lack of transparency and accountability
A utter insult to people who are already suffering for several reasons on multiple fronts and that in the vast majority of cases acted in compliance with the rules THEY set out for them
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3 hours ago, LSD said:
Fucking scum host
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7 hours ago, Msig said:
We obviously have lots of safety measures in place. For instance, meetings are to be held online or outdoors, multiple employees aren't allowed to use the same work station, and the canteen currently sells only food served in portions (no buffet)
Congratulations on your first time back to your office! This is the way to do things properly unlike other countries that have dealt with (and still are) the health emergency recklessly
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8 hours ago, Junior said:
Can’t say I’m surprised
Scary as hell
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10 hours ago, IsaacHarris said:
Another day in AmeriKKKa
The officers involved are obviously despicable, but police forces ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY need an overhaul! This is the 1,000,000th example of excessive brutality when handling "certain suspects" and though it's tough to watch I think everyone should watch the video in it's entirety to see exactly what we've been talking about FOR YEARS: Black people are handled differently in the criminal justice system, from arrest to sentencing. & if anyone is still under the ILLUSION that these violent acts are isolated, please read "Breaking Rank" by Norm Stamper, former Seattle chief of police who states that many racist pigs become cops JUST to abuse their power without consequence.
It's really shameful that in 2020 we are still at this level. We should have gone past the cave society mentality ages ago
Any act of violence should be condemned, firmly dealt with and persecuted by any respectable country referring to themselves as a democracy, particularly those acts stemming from racism, xenophobia and crazy hateful behaviour or doctrine of any kind
That somebody who's in theory serving their country and whose job is to protect any citizen from criminal or harmful offenders, to be or become the offending party and on top of that be able to get away with it with total impunity should not be acceptable anywhere, let alone in a supposedly free and democratic country where the law is actually the law and if you cold bloodedly murder someone you go to prison, you don't simply get fired or removed
And by the way the issue of gun control is closely interlinked with that of racism
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Cummings telling reporters "It's not about what you think". What a fucking sad arrogant prick
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Conservative lawmakers such as the veterans Steve Baker and Roger Gale who have called for Cummings to be sacked are painfully aware that if their party is to emerge from the pandemic in a position of strength, there can be no further undermining of the "all in this together" spirit which held in the early days of the outbreak.
The consequences could be even more serious if a mass loss of faith in both the Johnson government and his lockdown results in the public breaking the rules just at the moment the Prime Minister is urging them to stand firm. -
Cummings is another matter. A controversial figure who relishes his role as an outsider, he also has a common touch when it comes to distilling a message with a brilliance complemented by Johnson's own flair for capturing the national mood. So while it was Johnson, then-Mayor of London, who in 2016 sensed an appetite for leaving the EU which his more senior colleagues missed, it was Cummings, head of the Vote Leave Campaign, who boiled it down to the simple and devastatingly effective slogan of "Take Back Control." (In a 2019 TV movie about the Brexit referendum, Cummings was played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch.)
As senior adviser since summer 2019 when Johnson became Prime Minister, the notoriously prickly Cummings has rubbed many Downing Street denizens the wrong way. But when coronavirus hit, it was he who crafted the message, "Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives," which has come to define Britain's battle against the virus and the protective shield the country threw around its beloved health service.
While many have expressed surprise Cummings has not quit over the scandal, there is in his Downing Street a Trumpian antipathy towards the media, which he appears to blame for the row, at one point berating journalists who gathered outside his door: "It's not about what you lot think." For his part, Johnson has said he will not "throw [Cummings] to the dogs."
Regardless of the position of the media here (who seem to be more united than usual in their assessment that Cummings must go), the story is not going away, and the evidence suggests it is hurting both the government's reputation and, potentially, its effectiveness.
The hitherto wildly popular Johnson's favorability ratings have begun to slip while a recent poll by YouGov found 49% disapproved of the Prime Minister's path out of lockdown compared to 36% who supported it.
The former Chief Constable of Durham Police, Mike Barton, has warned that Cummings' behavior, and the Prime Minister's defense of it, will make attempts to enforce the lockdown impossible, potentially endangering the slow but steady progress the UK has made in reducing the spread of the virus.
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....... At the start of the lockdown, Dr. Catherine Calderwood, Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, fell on her sword after admitting two overnight visits at her seaside holiday cottage, having fronted the campaign urging Scots to stay home. Though Calderwood apologized for her actions and initially said she planned to stay on in her post, she later released a statement that she had quit and acknowledging that the "justifiable focus" on her actions could pose a distraction to the response to the pandemic.
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