diable rouge

I watched Independence Day recently and I was *really grateful* that earth wasn't being invaded by sociopathic advanced weaponry-toting alien life forms...

If you're bored of the daily briefings, why not have a bet to see who's next to exercise their obfuscatorial qualities. Despite the short odds I'd rule out Shapps, he was on the morning shift and by lunchtime he'll be safely ensconced in his pied a terre slowing banging his head against a wall. So my money is on Jenrick...

I hope the Sunday Times' investigation into the Gov's dithering that led to so many avoidable deaths, doesn't get lost in the Cummings feeding frenzy. Utterly damning...

Indeed, and goes way back into the land that time forgot...Brexitania

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's also a big gamble by ministers to publicly back Cummings > today, because if there's more to come out in the > following days it would bring the Gov down... And here's the list of those that did and didn't. Johnson in the No camp, so hiding in fridges has it's uses, who knew!...

This must be why it was billed as a joint investigation by different newspapers. 3D chess...:)

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Today's briefing - what a joke after the third > media rep. asked the same question that had been > asked and answered twice already I switched off > with full admiration for Grant Shapps and Jenny > Harries for keeping their cool. If these briefings > have shown us one thing it is that REAL journalism > is DEAD A shame you switched off, you would've heard Shapps saying Cummings stayed put. They are now gaslighting the country in real time...

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ?Clearly if you have adults who are unable to look > after a small child, that is an exceptional > circumstance,? she said. Well it's certainly exceptional to be unable to look after a child yet clearly be able to drive a car 250+ miles on a 5+ hour journey. > I'm sure Boris will appear to talk to us about > something soon. This is like when he didn't visit > flood areas...the people who lived there didn't > care as he is not an expert on floods I hear he's been spotted at Currys...

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, what's it to you where he is or what he's > doing, he's possibly still recovering, enjoying > being a father supporting his partner, oh and > don't forget it's a bank holiday weekend, so maybe > he's at Chequers this weekend. Is that OK with > you? Good point, wish I had thought of all that, let me send Covid-19 a memo to take the bank holiday weekend off...

Johnson missing again, everyone check their fridges...

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cummings has to resign, but he won't. I don't think Johnson et al would let him resign even in the unlikely event he offered to, because they are complicit in that they knew what he had done, yet at the same time they kept telling the rest of us to do the opposite. It's also a big gamble by ministers to publicly back Cummings today, because if there's more to come out in the following days it would bring the Gov down...

There's so much stinking, rank hypocrisy in what Cummings did it's hard to know where to begin, but rather delicious learning that one of his undoings is his wife's 'London Lockdown diary' for the Spectator...

He never retracts either...separated at birth :)

It's not (or at least it shouldn't be) about right v left, rather right v wrong. And it's those that are in the wrong that invariably give it the political culture war spin...

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hahaha, > Keep ignoring the actual question, but that's very > corbyn/momentum, keep trying to pick holes and > exploit them as much as possible. This is getting > BORING........................ Surprise!...another wrong assumption, we've got ourselves an Uncleglen Mini-Me with his 'when all else fails, play the corbyn/momentum card'. I don't need to pick holes, your 'solutions' are great gaping holes. Ever thought about retracting them?...

I'm sorry, I don't have a solution for why everyone doesn't have internet access, but then again, I wouldn't have made such a stupid assumption in the first place...

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seems we will never agree, based on your previous > posts you're ever the critic without offering > solution's (reminnds me of a number critical of > this administration. If you've got nothing > constructive to add, to take a turn of phrase, jog > on. True to form, doesn't want the Gov to come under scrutiny and doesn't want his inane ramblings scrutinised either...

Cat does a U-turn about the U-turn...:)

A useful insight into dbb's world. He doesn't realise that everyone 'interested' might not have access to the internet. He thinks questions should be vetted so as not to be critical of the Gov...

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.

Cooeeeee!...

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Cat is many things. But anywhere close to > being a momentum supporter? As if > > What a post glen. Amazing. (Not in a good way) Unc is so wrapped up in his racist/xenophobic culture war that any post he perceives as being negative to 'his side' must automatically be on the 'other side'. Subjectivity has long since left the building. In 20 years time he'll be discovered ranting away in some dark, dingy corner of the web, like a 21st Century version of a holed-up Viet Cong hiding in the jungle still fighting the Americans...

He's clearly struggling post infection but ''Where's Boris'' was a thing well before the crisis when he buggered off on holiday and also missed 5 consecutive Cobra meetings in the build-up to the crisis. His PMQ performances have always been just that, performances, except he hasn't got the braying support of his public school entourage behind him. He also can't handle someone like Starmer who deals in detail and asks pertinent questions rather than the edited viral soundbites Corbyn would go for. Johnson has never liked scrutiny either, witness his refusal to be interviewed by Andrew Neil. He's been found out to be the poundshop Churchill he is...

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So once again, as usual, your assumptions are > wrong.. And calling Khan a disgrace for the suspension of the Freedom Pass was wrong. He had no choice, Gov insisted that he did or else no bailout to cope with the effects of the pandemic. Feel free to retract...