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The Sun on Sunday's interview with the prime minister yields details about his personal experience of coronavirus in intensive care.

The paper says Boris Johnson "welled up" as he relived an "extraordinary two weeks" that saw him nearly lose his own life before recovering in time to see the birth of his son.

 

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Glad you are ok Boris and fully recovered

 

And so am I - would not wish it on anyone

 

4 days after it was declared a global health concern by the WHO, Boris talking about being "superman" and carrying on anyway for the good of the economy. Seems like he had already decided that a herd immunity approach would be the way forward without any instructions from "the science".

 

The decision has been taken but not announced or promulgated that the economy is now more important than deaths due to covid 19...

 

Boris addresses the nation

 

Another MP at it f ucking leaches the lot of the bastards.

 

Speaking to Sky News, shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves said Labour "absolutely do not want" the UK to end the transition period in December without a deal and urged the government not to "rush this".

"The last thing our country and our economy needs at the moment is a further shock that could put jobs and livelihoods at risk," she said.

Meanwhile MPs from the other opposition parties, including the SNP, Lib Dems and the Green Party, have written to Mr Barnier expressing their support for an extension to the transition period.

The letter said there was "significant opposition to the UK government's extreme position", adding that an extension would "enable these detailed and defining negotiations to be conducted at a time when, we hope, the efforts of national governments and the European Union will not be engaged solely with dealing with the dreadful Covid-19 epidemic".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52697977

Talk about a load of Lilly livered barstewards!

Thank the heavens that NONE of these cowards has any form of meaningful voice in negotiations for anything more relevant than the size of their next benefit cheques - and they have no say in that either!

 

More 'good news': Brexit that's been out of the MSM spotlight, -The social -media chatter it seems that the HMRC are now gearing up for a no-deal scenario ...


Once Brexit is done and corona virus has decimated many businesses the country will be left broke and the enablers of this ****show can waltz off into the sunset with their billions...

 

It looks as though the "seppos" are about to allow massed rallies in the lead up to the elections. Maybe as soon as next week. I wonder if it'll ramp up the virus deaths to any great extent?

114,000 already.

 

I understand that Ian Duncan Smith MP, that stalwart representative of the working class is agitating for the current two metre distance limit to be reduced to enable more businesses to operate.

I have an idea.

Re-open Parliament to Members.
Insist that each member sits in The House for, say, three hours a day at a distance of, say, half a metre. This will enable the Business of the House to be carried out more efficiently.

IF at the end of, say, one month, no Member has caught anything, the rest of the Country can do the same.

Using MP's as Guinea-Pigs rather than workers or children seems like a good idea to me.
After all, they do tend to claim that they are only doing the job out of a wish to serve and be useful.

 

I have another Idea. As a great Statesman and patriot Iain Duncan Smith could volunteer to be injected with a live strain of the virus to test the efficiency of any possible "cures". In the unfortunate event of this causing his death the fact that his wife Betsy Fremantle's ancestral stately home has already been "donated" to the care of the Conservative party means his heirs could avoid any inheritance tax incurred in the unfortunate event of Iain's demise. Everyone's a winner. Come on Iain lead by example.

 

Post of the decade.

 

What many have been saying appears to be confirmed in this article.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/dysfunctional-toxic-culture-led-to-labour-defeat-major-report-finds/ar-BB15G8tU?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

At some stage, the Labour Party WILL BE BACK, the Tory Party will see to it by doing what every Party has done and becoming too complacent.

But Party Members and activists will need to get a grip and stamp on the extremists who have turned so many of their former voters away from their natural home.​

 

Posted earlier this morning on the corona virus thread that a Labour Party group has said one man doesn’t make a government and the Labour Party don’t stand a chance of turning it round by the next election on the bbc this morning.

 

I believe that it was Harold Wilson who said that a week is a long time in politics.

With Boris leading the Tory Party there is always the possibility of some huge clanger being dropped, but so far he has seemed to be covered in Teflon.

Yes, it looks like it's going to take the Tories to lose an election rather than Labour to be able to win one.

 

The Labour Party if it is going to have a majority of UK seats in Parliament, needs to win seats off the SNP.

If Scotland gets independence, getting a Labour majority is even more difficult!

 

Well they are going the right way but if the Labour boys don’t think they have done enough already god help them, have to catch Boris with a kkk hood on to have any chance.