Daily Covid 19 briefing

[dbboy]

Do these politicians actually think that anyone now listens to them reading a lengthy prepared statement, i.e. Priti Patel this afternoon, with no personality or inflection whilst reading it.

Do others agree that this is becoming a waste of time, they could just as easily post a statement on the Gov.UK website for those interested.

Perhaps to make this time better used they should report anything significant (no lengthy bumbling statements), a summary of the graphic data and worthwhile questions from the press/broadcasters, (not asking repetitive questions or those aimed at attempting to trip up the Government).

[diable rouge]

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...

[dbboy]

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.

[KidKruger]

The problem with the briefings (and with Trump's briefings) is they are not there to provide a service, they are happening to give the impression of providing a service.

A lot of time and effort goes into spinning each briefing, regarding the general public as stupid, carefully ignoring key advice from medical advisors, then presenting fiction as fact in a perpetual homage to Franz Kafka.

What I'D like to know is what is happening with Brexit. Predictably though, it's no-deal via the back door - Covid being the best 'bad news' to bury other issues under.

[diable rouge]

dbboy Wrote:

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> 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...

[dbboy]

Look if you don't like it, to be honest I don't care. Rather than being rude, why don't you come up with some solutions, but then that would be too easy.

[diable rouge]

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]

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........................

[JohnL]

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

[diable rouge]

dbboy Wrote:

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> 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?...

[dbboy]

Nothing like UG

Suggest you champagne socialists go and join corbyn et al on a one way ticket and live under a real socialist society in Russia. There you can live the socialist dream and really experience it first hand(you won't last long and you'll soon be begging to come back realising what its actually like), and with out getting sunk as Corbyn so successfully achieved five months ago with the fourth successive, worst election defeat losing -80 constituent MP's.

[diable rouge]

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

[KidKruger]

"...champagne socialists..." UncleGlen used the same expression yesterday !

Is it supposed to mean that unless you are on the breadline / desperately poor you are not allowed to believe in things being done for the benefit of society ?

[dbboy]

I'm nothing like UG

Where does "everyone's equal but some are more equal that others" originate?

It that applies to both labour wanting a socialist state and the posh boy conservatives. You both want the same thing from different angles.

[seenbeen]

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

[KidKruger]

Do you think perhaps the whole show is stage-managed, which is why there's little depth / originality to the questions asked (or that questions are vetted) ?

[diable rouge]

seenbeen Wrote:

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> 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...

[Blah Blah]

The whole Cummings scandal is turning into a farce. He has to go but he won't. Johnson is standing by him. That pretty much sums up who is in power.

[KidKruger]

Gaslighting the country - been underway a few months now with regard to Covid19, surely.

[diable rouge]

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

[dbboy]

If you are so opposed to this government let me remind you again, five months ago the people of this country made a catergoric decision and elected the current administration by a land slide majority.

Labour got tranched and sent packing with their tail between their legs, your leader (if you can call him that) resigned and even Rebbeca Bailey or whatever her name was has vanished into the mists of time, supposedly being corbyns replacement, but wasn't.

You've got starmer who at least asks sensible questions. Perhaps we'll can now with an opposition we'll get better govt. But then I suppose you won't be happy till you get the red flag flying over no.10, but that ain't happening.

diable rouge Wrote:

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> Indeed, and goes way back into the land that time

> forgot...Brexitania

[Blah Blah]

dbboy - Your responses say more about you than they do about anyone else. Address the valid points being made. Resorting to silly playground sneers undermines any point you are trying to make.

If Labour were the government, they too would be scrutinised in exactly the same way.

Also acknowledge that a FPTP electoral system does not accurately reflect the way people vote. We would need a PR system for that. And under a PR system, you would in fact find that most people who voted (bear in mind a third of the electorate did not), voted for other parties and not the government. This is also precisely why both main parties have never supported any move to switch to PR. Why move away from an electoral system that delivers absolute power without the need for a majority of the electorate to vote for you? So offering any GE result as some kind of mandate for a majority of people is nonsense.

[Paulie herne hill]

I don?t even know why any One entertains D boy ? Either a troll or a crank , the issue is Johnson clearly unable to lead government at present and as for Cumming ? Are we supposed to suffer this fella basically just doing as he pleases? It?s not on

[KidKruger]

? So offering any GE result as some kind of mandate for a majority of people is nonsense.?

As Gil Scott-Heron said,?Mandate, my ass?.

[diable rouge]

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...