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Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And another thing. He claimed yesterday to have > predicted the pandemic last year, in a blog he > wrote in 2019. It's been proven that he edited his > blog in April this year to add this prediction. > > https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/126501172411101 > 1845.html Only a psychopath could do that - even if your blog was read by members of the EDF only. Imagine the derision if someone did it on here :)

Did anybody else notice the smirk from Cummings as he walked away (I've conned you all), coupled with him being late (the late Dominic Cummings as my teacher would say) makes him look a little of a psychopath. This morning on Kay Burley, on criticism from a Bishop all Gove could say was "I wish the Bishop well" - is it me or could that be a threat (only half joking :) - another creepy man) - just saw this - "Bishop of Worcester John Inge tweeted that he received an email warning ?stay out of politics or we?ll kill you? Actually Burley made mincemeat of Gove this morning which I didn't expect - but she's combative at the moment.

People don't like Cummings - even if you don't know his background you can feel he's pretending to be something he isn't. He will fall, maybe not this time, maybe another, It might be satisfying to keep him on a string for a while. I can't forget the way he fired that girl and when he's on the way down he can expect to be treated the way he treated people on the way up.

Shaggy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, lockdown is over, because after today the > ?rules? have become more of a set of guidelines > that you should break if you love your children > enough. No children No parents But I still keep to the rules. Didn't realise that Cummings was aristocracy but not surprised. Let us eat rather nice sour dough bread.

I notice the tweet was from an iphone - probably a burner phone and long chucked :)

Just for a second a little mob is formed as Cummings strolled past

Still can't do pics lol - but apparently this was the real civil service account https://twitter.com/ali__samson/status/1264603567991730176

Brilliantly played by the media. They allowed all the government to come up with excuses as to why Cummings was in Durham. Then release that he did it agin 2 weeks later for the Sundays. Well Played.

There was a brother in law in London - support was available much closer to home. Rumours of a death in the family in Durham too. Finally his wife wrote a piece in the Spectator about what they dd when they suffered from COVID-19 - but nothing about Durham mentioned - why ? Shapps didn't seem to be able to answer much - a lot of "I don't know" and tried hopefully to talk about an upgrade to the A66 or some such.

Guardian getting the correct question that the political correspondents seem unable to ask "Among them, why is Cummings being excused for reportedly breaching lockdown rules due to needing help with childcare, when for the last nine weeks parents up and down the country have struggled without help while they suffered symptoms because they didn?t feel they could seek or accept help because it was against the rules? And if it was indeed fine all along, why wasn?t clear guidance on this subject given to the broader population?"

65 ;)

The smirk comments seemed to knock her back - not the same since.

I think they got the year wrong :) "Unfortunately and against all our efforts, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the fifth edition of GALA to the Bank Holiday 29th & 30th May 2021 in our beloved Peckham Rye Park."

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > diable rouge Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > For me it's the lack of recognition from the > Gov > > that they've made mistakes, spinning > yesterday's > > U-turn on the NHS surcharge as a sign of > Johnson's > > 'strength', being typical. > > This from former diplomat Peter Ricketts... > > > > The Government would win so much respect if > they > > admitted, just sometimes, that they had made a > > mistake and were correcting it. That would be a > > sign of strength not weakness. > > If corbyn had removed the surcharge it would be > evidence of awesome he is. > > Now that Boris has...it's a U-turn, or he's been > 'forced" into it..... > > Government has done something that the left wants, > and the left still find a way to have a go... That's the culture of British politics

Didn't Charles take over a lot of the Queens duties recently - now if he sacked Boris that would be controversial. I think it already happened in House of Cards however :)

Bus fares on routemaster buses to be reinstated on May 23.

You can blame any slurred speech in meetings on Virgin Media :)

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PnB Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > If i had witnessed this he would be leaving in > an > > emergency services vehicle, but would be going > to > > Kings rather than the nearest cop shop. I do > not > > understand why people stand by and do nothing > when > > these incidents occur, this man clearly needs a > > bit of a kicking to keep him in line. > > Those were the days- the deterrent of a kicking IN > the cop shop!! It was in the Black Maria in Swansea :)

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sephiroth Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > It's a horrble situation for any government to > > face but the notion that noone could have done > > better than Johnson beggars belief, frankly > > > Although this discussion is all based on > speculation and theory as no one else is actually > prime minister so it's easy to point fingers at > Boris. If someone else was prime minister my > feeling is that they would make just as many , but > possibly not the same ones But he was very divisive on his way to power - but then Theresa May also ended up being divisive by being indecisive. DO we have any leaders who could being consensus?.

I used to love downdetector but not so good these days (maybe it's me). But they see VM troubles in London and Croydon https://downdetector.co.uk/status/virgin-media/

Wow yes - they do seem to throttle after you use a certain amount - in the US anyway but I bet it's the same here. https://www.androidcentral.com/when-do-carriers-start-throttling-you-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

We don't know that much about the advice given or whether it was followed as it's secret https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/18/sage-advice-britain-coronavirus-science-government-policy

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If Corbyn had been in charge, we'd be in exactly > the same situation. The only difference is that my > social media would be full of posts praising our > PMs leadership, compassion, etc... There are a few on mine who consistently praise Boris. I remember a government minister (could be Cleverly) a few years ago mentioning that a load of pro government twitter accounts would be coming online the next week - which makes me suspect there's a government bot factory out there :)

Not all people will objectively calculate risk (people still had unsafe sex in the 1980s) others calculate risk and think 'I'm alright jack' - judging the risk to themselves not society. Others have financial or other interests - many people still claiming the herd immunity agenda is still there.

chris_i Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Using a mobile hot spot is a good idea if you have > unlimited mobile data. > > Otherwise if you're having a lot of conference > calls or using other data heavy apps/processes you > might find yourself running out pretty quickly! Yeah - that 100GB I never use but pay for came in useful for once :) Work phone has 5GB and I suppose technically once that's gone you could ask your employer for more or work offline. A home line is not a business line and is not guaranteed the same levels of support - I'd expect an office circuit (pt2pt or ia) to be back up in hours or a day at most - home broadband has much lower levels of service guarantee.