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Why do you need their confirmation? Just do it...

Cat, try forgetting all this noise about narratives etc, and ask yourself what one thing can you do in the real world to make a positive contribution to anti-racism. Then do it...

I was being kind calling Johnson a Poundshop Churchill, when in fact he's a Poundshop Arthur Daley...https://twitter.com/hughwhitfeld/status/1273163100817162252

Just like the buses, nothing for ages then loads turn up. Week 26 fixtures... Wednesday 17th June Aston Villa v Sheffield United Manchester City v Arsenal Friday 19th June Norwich City v Southampton Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United Saturday 20th June Watford v Leicester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Arsenal West Ham United v Wolverhampton Wanderers AFC Bournemouth v Crystal Palace Sunday 21st June Newcastle United v Sheffield United Aston Villa v Chelsea Everton v Liverpool Monday 22nd June Manchester City v Burnley Tuesday 23rd June Leicester City v Brighton & Hove Albion Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United Wednesday 24th June Manchester United v Sheffield United Newcastle United v Aston Villa Norwich City v Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers v AFC Bournemouth Liverpool v Crystal Palace Thursday 25th June Burnley v Watford Southampton v Arsenal Chelsea v Manchester City

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why else are they trying to impose > restrictions on a sovereign power? Sovereign nation(s) imposing restrictions on another sovereign nation(s) as part of a trade deal. Welcome to the world of trade deals keano...

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cue typical EU fudge around Christmas time. Would that be the same festive fudge Johnson chomped on when he threw the DUP under Santa's sleigh by agreeing to a border down the Irish Sea?...

Enjoy the fuckwittery of your average conspiracy theorist...

A couple of months in the QAnon rabbit hole is a couple of months too long. Robbie ain't coming back...

Rarrrrebits...

SnakeFilth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We hear that Coronavirus affects the BAME community > disproportionately higher, with behaviour such as > this protest, you can begin to see reasons why. You're twisting logic here, the reasons why the BAME community has been disproportionately affected by Covid up 'til now is for social reasons, such as many are key workers, nothing to do with the protests which only started yesterday. Will protesting without social distancing increase the chances of protesters catching/passing on the virus? Of course, but that's not what you wrote. It should also be noted that the protesters weren't exclusively BAME...

Accidents happen outside of the home too, so another false equivalence. But good to see the false equivalencers have upped their game, at the start of the pandemic it was more people die from drowning than Covid. Ignoring the fact that drowning isn't a highly infectious disease. Ignoring the fact that society tries it's best to prevent death from drowning by taking preventative measures (swimming lessons for school children, lifeguards at pools, barriers along seafronts etc). Social distancing is one of the few preventative measures we have against this virus until a working vaccine is found, but hey, you carry on in your selfish little world...

*Quids enters the room* Boooooooooo!...:)

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Too much time on your hands obvs! Always find time for you sweetie...

No it's not, they're on the dark side... :)

Starministas? Have you just come up with that or is that a thing?...

ianr, I've looked through my browsing history and there are numerous links to Twitter accounts, which are not prone to show up in generic Google searches. The bit of an article that I read that stuck in my mind referred to him being the mastermind behind the original lockdown slogan, and cited his part in the Leave campaign and their slogans, in particular 'Take Back Control'. Therefore I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to say that Cummings would've played a big part in the lockdown campaign and slogan. And judging by the reaction of the PM and his cabinet in trying to save his job, he obviously carries a lot of sway for them to risk all the political goodwill which they have. If it bothers you so much I'm quite happy to change ''his'' to ''the Gov's'', bearing in mind that the point I was making still stands, that is, by his actions he has been a hypocrite...

Neither am I yours...

I've seen it referenced in journalistic articles since the story broke. Feel free to do further research...

It's a pointless exercise unless your end point is a beauty spot whereby you can all sit down by a river, relieved that you didn't end up in A&E or worse. It will also add to the occasion if the day of travel coincides with your wife's birthday...

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My next door neighbours upped and left on 19th > March fyi,and have not been back. And your point is? They left before the lockdown was implemented, Cummings left after. Total false equivalence. > Also, if he had > stayed at home and they had both got too sick what > was going to happen to the child? Do they get a > stranger in to look after him and subject that > person to the virus in their home? 'If' is doing a lot of work here. That 'if' was made by every parent in the country, even more so by single parents. The vast majority of them stuck to the guidance and rules as laid out by the Gov of which he is a major player in. So for Cummings it was 'do as I say, not as I do'. > I cannot > understand how the DC detractors do not UNDERSTAND > what he did....as a parent I understand and if my > kids were small I would have had to do the > same....my sister lives miles away- and if she was > ill I'd allow her kid to come to me or I'd have > picked her up....it's what families do and he did > not have contact with anyone else- unlike the > hordes in the park and on Alleyns field. Cummings is a very well-off, well connected man, has close family in London, and a large network of close friends, work colleagues and neighbours. The rule was simple, if someone in a family shows symptoms, self-isolate at home for 14 days. As I've mentioned before in a previous reply to one of your posts, he lives in a large house and there would be no problem for his wife to have self-isolated. The whole premise of going to Durham was for childcare reasons. He failed that several times. Firstly, the science clearly shows that driving in a car with an infected person for a long period of time, in this case around 5 hours, is high risk in terms of passing on the virus. Far greater than one person self-isolating in a bedroom. He would've known this having attended SAGE meetings and hearing all the scientific advice and what was the best way to deal with containing the spread. Secondly, according to his wife's diary for the Spectator, while Cummings lay ill in bed they allowed their son close contact with him, playing at doctor and offering him a medicinal Ribena. So much for childcare and minimising the risk of their son catching the virus. Then there's the latest bizarre revelation that Cummings drove his car knowing he had problems with his vision while his son was a passenger. What an irresponsible thing to do to put a child's life at risk like that. No common sense for the safety of the child whatsoever. > Would he have risked foisting the child onto > social services? Well, would you- I certainly > wouldn't- by the time they turned up he and his > wife would be in hospital and then been prosecuted > for leaving a 4 year old on their own at risk! For reasons stated above this is a nonsensical premise. Completely irrelevant and not based on the reality of Cummings' lifestyle. > Just because he showed common sense and remember > he did NOT meet anyone else...unlike the groups of > teens and young men hanging around the back > streets and playing footie in ED.... Yet more pointless false equivalence. As for common sense, he clearly put his child's health at risk by the actions he took. The sensible thing to do was to self-isolate as the guidance and rules which he helped draw up stipulated. The slogan 'Stay Home' was his. It's this hypocrisy that people are rightly angered with. > > This demonisation of Dominic Cummings is purely > political- you only have to see the body language > and tone of voice of the press vultures to see and > hear where they are coming from....and I daresay > 80% of the posters on the ED...if not more. People of all political persuasions are angry at what he did. Conservative MPs have called for his resignation, and at the time of writing a minister has resigned. This is not about right versus left, rather right versus wrong...

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 According to a later Tweet from Faisal Islam, the edit for the blog has now been specifically identified as being made on the evening he returned to London from Durham. You know, that journey he just had to make because he had such important work to do in London...

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live apart from my family and thought about what > I would do if I was DC with a four year old > child....I would have done the same thing. Suffering with eyesight problems, would you have willingly driven a car for over an hour with your wife and young child as passengers?...

From Twitter...I feel sorry for that Professor who lost his job for shagging during the lockdown. He should've just said he was worried his penis had stopped working and he wanted to double check. :) :) :)

Mr Cummings goes for his yearly eyesight check...

Dear apologetic Tory MPs, any chance we can have an apology from the heart rather than a copy and paste job?...