XXL
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19 hours ago, Kim said:
Bozo can't exactly fire his own boss, especially one that has about 10 yrs of dirt on him and the rest of the Tory scum running the country.
I wonder what he's got on Johnson to make him so protective of him in spite of the press and public reactions. The way he handled reporters outside his London home alone ...
So arrogant, "I don't have to explain anything, hey, you're not staying two meters apart"
I fucking can't, honestly this type of behaviour of people not resigning in the evidence of wrongdoing is more characteristic of an Italian parliament member, I would never have thought to see British politics in this dire, disjointed and pitiful state
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19 hours ago, Kim said:
Anyway, Bozo, in the most excruciating press conference, has just put his full support behind Cummings in a very risky move. Even the most compliant of British sheep aren't all that happy to see that while they've been holed up for weeks following the rules, the ones making said rules have been flouting them with no consequences.
Agreed
This story is not going to go away and it is certainly not going to go down well with most of the papers, BBC or not, but most of all with the public and anyone who's made an effort to stay put and cooped up and it's probably going to lose their job or at the very least face hardships in the near future
The sad excuse of his four year old son is utterly insulting and pitiful, there are people who haven't been able to say goodbye to their parents or grandparents or care for their children, normal people (just like in Italy where you couldn't celebrate funerals) who certainly don't have Dominic Cummings resources yet they would have never dared to drive out of London for 260 miles
I think if this government that's barely five months into its legislative run doesn't disown Cummings asap it will massively hinder its popularity with part of the electorate even pro Brexit that has put their trust in them
If the UK standing in Brussels talk about a deal were already fragile now it's hanging on a very thin thread
Trying to get a US deal with the other
will soon be top of the agenda, Johnson is already committing to reviewing China's involvement in the British 5G infrastructure development (yet another clumsy U-turn), knowing that Trump opposed to the entire project from the start, so fucking transparent
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10 hours ago, Kim said:
A few weeks back when Italy had those big numbers it was all we heard, about what a huge catastrophe it was - the minute Britain hit those numbers (and beyond)...nothing.
The day after the UK recorded the highest death toll in Europe, the govt stopped publishing the daily international comparison numbers and everyone was told to not 'politicise' the pandemic and that any inquiry will have to wait till it's all over.
I've noticed that too
Pathetic
I was like WTF
As @Raider of the lost Ark was saying in the Corona thread the BBC in particular has gone into overdrive trying to minimise other European countries successes in the fight against the pandemic
What is even more striking is that they are talking about a phased reopening of schools in a week time when there is so much internal and external divide on this particular issue, especially considering five and six year old have no understanding of social distancing etc, and talking about a phase 2 or phase 3 when in fact not only the UK was the last European countries of the big ones to introduce a lockdown (losing a good three weeks edge on countries like Italy where the infection struck earlier and quite strongly) but also that it was never a proper lockdown to begin with, unlike in Italy, Spain and France or even Germany
Parks open, masks not made mandatory from the start, laughably loss of smell and taste symptoms being added to the official list last week when it's been on the WHO list for the past three months
And as for the comparison with Denmark and their reopening of schools, what a joke, Denmark is way smaller than the UK, structurally very different and it's probably run in a much more orderly way than the UK, no one rule for thee and one for me bullshit
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From the other thread
This is a huge story right now and doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon. Cummings is of course not just an adviser, he's more or less the de facto PM and makes all the big policy decisions with Bozo as the public face. His biggest claim to fame is as the architect of the whole 'vote leave' Brexit campaign (and all the illegality surrounding it) It'll be interesting to see where this one goes, but even if he does 'resign', he'll still be in the background running the show
Totally
It's curious how the British media are being so slow, almost reticent to call out the Johnson's government handling of this emergency, as slow, reckless and ineffective as the handling of it itself, particularly the BBC of course
It seems though that the papers media seems more up in arms about this latest development and other recent government evident failures than the major TV broadcasting press
I hear this Dominic Cummings story was broken by a collaborative effort between the Guardian, the Mirror and the Observer
What I find telling about all of this is that even Brexiteer Tory MPs that have called the lockdown measures dystopian and dictatorial (Steve Baker) are now jumping at Cummings throat demanding that he goes and that the story should not be Cummings but the pandemic and the various social and economic negative ramifications it will have on the public
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15 hours ago, Junior said:
Truly awful
Same thing with what's going on in South America right now, mostly Brasil, shameful
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Coronavirus: Tory MP Steve Baker calls for Dominic Cummings 'to go'
A prominent member of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs has called for Dominic Cummings “to go”.
Steve Baker, the Tory MP for Wycombe, told BBC Breakfast the allegations that the PM's chief adviser broke lockdown rules is causing the party harm.
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Conservative MPs urging Dominic Cummings to resign immediately
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38 minutes ago, Bitch I'm Christian said:
Welcome to conservative government. Rules for thee, not for me.
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Reuters - Prime Minister Boris Johnson resisted calls from opposition parties to sack his adviser Dominic Cummings after he traveled to Northern England while his wife showed COVID 19 symptoms
Lecturing reporters waiting for him outside his London home about the 2 meters distance rule
Meanwhile it has emerged that while this Cummings guy was 260 miles away from London after having driven there breaching security dispositions that any other citizen would have had to abide by, he also had trips to other places from there back in March
And what's worse is that the government knew about this all along
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The House LiveOverseas NHS and care home staff to be exempt from health surcharge after U-turn by Boris Johnson
The U-turn comes after a host of his own MPs pressed the Prime Minister to make the change, along with the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons.
At PMQs Mr Johnson said he had “thought a great deal about this”, after criticism of the charge - which is also due to increase from £400 to £624 in October.
He said he had been a “personal beneficiary of people who’ve come from abroad and frankly saved my life”, but said the levy raises about £900million, adding: “I think that is the right way forward.”
And earlier on Thursday Downing Street doubled down on the commitment to the policy, despite a former Tory party chairman calling it “immoral”.
The PM’s official spokesperson said the Government had given a “very clear manifesto commitment” to increasing it.
They added that the surcharge “goes directly back into the NHS to help save lives”.
But just hours later a spokesperson for Number 10 said: “The PM has asked the Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care to remove NHS and care workers from the NHS surcharge as soon as possible.
“Work by officials is now underway on how to implement the change and full details will be announced in the coming days.
“As the PM said in the House of Commons, he has been thinking about this a great deal.
“He been a personal beneficiary of carers from abroad and understands the difficulties faced by our amazing NHS staff.
“The purpose of the NHS surcharge is to benefit the NHS, help to care for the sick and save lives. NHS and care workers from abroad who are granted visas are doing this already by the fantastic contribution which they make.”
Downing Street said the change will apply to all NHS workers, including porters and cleaners, as well as those in social care.
But they confirmed the NHS surcharge remains in place for other categories of visa applicants and will increase in October, as planned,
It is the second U-turn in as many days after Priti Patel announced families of NHS care workers and cleaners who die on the coronavirus frontline will be allowed to stay in the UK on Wednesday.
The major climbdown from the Home Office came amid anger after it emerged those relatives were exempt from a bereavement scheme, with the offer of indefinite leave to remain only applying to certain occupations including nurses, radiographers and biochemists.
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David Cameron talks book deals and regretting Brexit
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1 hour ago, Rebel Saviour said:
He's acting like a major cunt against Italy right now
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I fucking can't
So, while UK citizens are being asked to stay home (or were asked, now they are asked to "stay alert", in England at least, whatever nothing it means) this Boris Johnson's aide travels 260 miles by car out of London with his wife who had COVID symptoms, after the lockdown had already been imposed, and Boris Johnson and his shambolic pathetic government still excuse him in front of the public
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On 5/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, Kim said:
It's staggering the disparity between what's reported within the UK about the UK compared with reputable sources from outside looking in. Staggering and scary.
Scary indeed
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On 5/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, Kim said:
I mean even today, the news is on right now and 20 seconds was given over to the fact old bozo the clown (who was caught giving out freebies and cash to the whore he was fucking at the time (while his wife was battling cancer no less)) is inexplicably escaping any criminal investigation into misconduct in public office.... followed by a 5 minute piece about the terrible situation facing the makers of the UKs soap operas as episodes begin to run out during lockdown
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22 minutes ago, karbatal said:
Spain has imposed the quarantine too but I think it'll be lifted once summer holidays begin. You can expect tourists to come and spend 14 days in a room
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On 5/21/2020 at 3:11 PM, Raider of the lost Ark said:
And watching BBC International often feels like watching state television of the Tory government. It's borderline propaganda. Not that they hype the UK but their reporting always seems to leave out the positives and success of other countries.
They are not telling the full story. But why? To hide that the UK is in a shitty place with Covid-19 and being finally out of the EU at the end of the year without having any major trade deals with the EU and the US?".
Totally and always
About any trade deal with either the EU or the US or whomever, if the Johnson Cabinet are going to handle it like they have been handling
virus (Corona means crown) for the past three months, and I strongly suspect they are, God save the Brits (and fuck the Queen, who certainly doesn't need saving).
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On 5/21/2020 at 3:11 PM, Raider of the lost Ark said:
I'm glad, I'm not the only one who thinks that something strange is going on in the UK. Ever since the decided to leave the EU, they basically became the lapdog of the U.S.. And watching BBC International often feels like watching state television of the Tory government. It's borderline propaganda. Not that they hype the UK but their reporting always seems to leave out the positives and success of other countries. They are not telling the full story. But why? To hide that the UK is in a shitty place with Covid-19 and being finally out of the EU at the end of the year without having any major trade deals with the EU and the US?
And don't get me started on those pharma companies. Have you realized how recently some of them have all those good news about a vaccine (in phase 1 of testing, which basically means nothing). Maybe someone should investigate what's going on at the stock exchange whenever those news break. I would not be surpised if this is all used for market manipulation. "Blue Horsehoe loves Anacott Steel".
Every day there's a new and "interesting" twist there confirming what you said, something's off, really off
This Conservative Cabinet is making look Theresa May's Conservative Cabinet like a blessing from God.
Seriously, they act and talk like a bunch of pampered fools who have no idea about what they are doing and are constantly lying and clumsily trying to cover up the obvious. It's too embarrassing for a country like the UK, whose political and many times intellectual class love to pontificate to other countries
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Home Office Minister and immigration point-based system genius Priti Patel has announced that all people travelling to the UK from abroad will have to self-quarantine for two weeks upon arrival on UK soil, France threatens to do the same with incoming British tourists or the tourists of any other country that imposes self-quarantine to French travellers (and rightly so)
Starting from June the 8th tourists arriving on UK soil from overseas (bar Ireland or medical teams) would have to fill a form where they declare the address, phone number of their physical destination and expect their mobile phones to be tracked by the police to see if they're actually there during their stay
Never mind that by the time they get to that address they will have used the entire public transport system. Makes a lot of sense
Why was the UK the last country in Europe to impose a lockdown to begin with and left all airports open to international travellers till the last minute?? Now doing this, it's beyond ridiculous
Talking about preventing a second spike Priti? You're not through the first one yet when you still have the highest average of daily deaths in Europe after three months. Nasty hypocrite
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On 5/21/2020 at 4:23 PM, karbatal said:
Agree 100%
In fact one of the reasons why the EU reacted so late is because of the big fat scandal profiteering from the last pandemic in 2009. We've already commented it here. The money earned by the pharmas was MONUMENTAL
European Parliament to Investigate WHO and "Pandemic" Scandal
by F. William Engdahl
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma's industry's influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry.
The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a "Golden Triangle" of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.
The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the Health Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current "pandemic" Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century."1][1]
The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, "In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The "bird-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies."1][2]More to read: https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/european-parliament-to-investigate-who-pandemic-scandal.html#
Well well well
This is very interesting!
Sad
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On 5/21/2020 at 2:52 PM, Raider of the lost Ark said:
And it all goes back to the faulty construct of the Euro. Against all economic and financial wisdom the Euro was introduced for political reasons. The shady and downright criminal things that went down back then are numerous. But has there ever been consequences? No. Now we are all in a dire financial situation. Mechanisms that worked in favor of Southern Europe harmed Northern Europe. Mechanisms that worked for Northern Europe harmed Southern Europe. And I'm talking about the European citizens. Not European companies and banks. They have done very well ever since. Another proof that so called trickle down effects do not work. And don't get me started on Brusells and the ECB. What excactly are they doing for the European people? It's hard to figure out. Which means they either don't do anyting or they have a communications problem. Even worse, they do not seem to care about treaties and laws anymore. When was the last time they read the Maastricht treaties? The content might come as a bad awakening for them. Especially the part that deals with the financial liabilities of the Euro member states.
And Macron? You think he is altruistic? Well, have a look who is holding hundreds of billions of Spanish and Italian debt. He is merely saving the french banks.
I think it is time to realize that the Euro has failed. It simply does not work with how economies and social systems in all the different member states are set up. As said above, everyone knew about this from the beginning. Now it is just a question to find a way to get away from the Euro. It is not going to be nice, that's for sure. But the longer it goes on, the worse it gets. People say the solution is a common European household, common European taxes, a common European social and pension system. That probably looks good on paper, but in reality the idea is simply delusional. Knowing this will never happen, I wonder how Long they want the drag on. That said, the EU existed Long before the introduction of the Euro and has done tremendous things. We should concentrate on that. On everything we can find common ground, on things that are really in favor of each of the EU countries. This is how a strong EU should look like. Economy and finances are obviously none of these things and I'm highly pessimistic for the future.
I agree with you on the common currency, the way it was built and groomed was a curse from day one. The original European project and the noble ideals of the 50s sustaining it were very different from the kind of final kiss of death the 90s political class gave to it
Aside from the fact that a system of countries with a common currency but with 27 different fiscal structures, income brackets, political situations etc is doomed to short circuit at one point or other to begin with, the EU has become entrenched in its nasty vision for austerity and in criminally seconding the financial and banking sector at the expense of taxpayers livelihoods and sacrifices
What the IMF and the EU etc did to Greece ten years ago is simply disgusting. The Greek people were not responsible for the holes left by a corrupt political class conniving with big finance, yet they have been punished and made to pay the price for crimes others committed. And Greece is historically the cradle of European culture and civilisation. It's such an insult to our cultural roots
The fact that small countries and worldwide renowned tax havens such as the Netherlands are actually threatening to halt help to Spain, Italy and Portugal or oppose this idea of a common fund for recovery not meant as a loan but an interest free liquidity injection to prevent the worst effects of the looming massive recession is simply ludicrous
Italy is the third industrial and economic power within the Eurozone after Germany and France.
If Italy collapses the whole European project collapses. And not just in economic terms but also from a geopolitical perspective given the Italian position in the Mediterranean, everything that's going on in Libya and the Middle East and the myriads of NATO bases we have on our soil
Meanwhile FCA, meaning the newly born automotive conglomerate Fiat/Chrysler/Peugeot are asking the Italian government for an extra €7bn, amid this kind of emergency which will have, is already having in fact, awful consequences for so many households in Italy and all over the world, while they have their legal and fiscal HQs, guess where, in the Netherlands
This is one example of what's gone wrong with this flawed political construct called EU.
That said, it doesn't mean I'm suddenly for Brexit which simply stems from a misplaced nostalgia for an imperial past that doesn't exist anymore.
However if Brussels etc don't start calibrating their aim and getting their shit together ASAP, I doubt the EU can survive another ten years, maybe not even five
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2 hours ago, ULIZOS said:
And this is just one of the reasons why he'll win again
Don't say it too loud. Maybe there's still hope. That a second Trump tenure won't start. And WW3 with it
He's completely deranged, ignorant and frighteningly unpredictable
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Brilliant!!