Off Topic The Politics Thread

Yep all career and not about the actual job anymore.

 

Brexit is done though. What’s Sir Nige the patriot up to these days?

 

Westminster Council have made street closure orders across Soho specifically to allow what you see there, they can't complain when people do exactly what they were allowed to...

 

Yeah, saw that too. The man is an inconsequence.

 

****ing in your ploughman’s.

 

At last some good news on jobs - the government is hiring an extra 13,000 Jobcentre staff.

Oh, wait a minute...

 

Hope he's in a wetherspoons

 

With all the other plebs? Didn't think that would be Niges style!

 

I thought he campaigned with Tim Martin on brexit and the last election

 

21st Century Hogarth...

 

Leaving out the Barnard Castle stuff because I have accepted that he probably breached recommended regulations there, if he'd been forced to stop on the way up, he could have declared that he believed he had the virus to roadside assistance etc. I feel that if this had happened to anyone else, there would have been sympathy that he was concerned that his young son was looked after by family, if he and his wife were incapacitated by this deadly disease. As it is, those who are politically averse to him (including most of the MSM) did their best to see he lost his job. He was not visiting his second home for recreational purposes. He was not shacking up with someone else's missus.

 

Agree, absolutely pathetic by Davey and the Lib Dems. Imagine having to live next to one

 

****, Watford thought it was Hellmann's

 

Yeah he was visiting to have a family shindig for his wife's birthday.

 

You really are better than this Goldie....being an apologist for Cummings doesn't become you pal

 

yeah thats the exact same reason i will use in the second lockdown. Visiting my mums as i think i might have corona and i'm scaredi might die of starvation due to being incapacitated so she can cook for me. Its okay though guv i will be isolating away

 

Thanks for the advice Steel, but it's the way I see it - and I like to think that if this was another time, and it was Alastair Campbell taking his young son to be overseen by relatives in the same circumstances, I would not want him to lose his job either.

 

Another spin doctor cut from the same cloth as Cummings....and I'm sure Campbell would treat us all with the same contempt as Cummings did.

 

Let me ask you something. Say, you lived in London and the wife of the bloke next door went down with Covid. They had a four year old son, and the neighbour felt he was going to go down with it, and panicked because he had no relatives nearby to look after the boy if he and his wife both fell sick. So he makes a non-stop journey to his parents in the north, and isolates on their property, knowing that his son will be looked after, if he and his wife fall seriously ill or die.

Would you condemn him?

 

No, I'd like to think that I'd offer him my help to save him having to drive the length of the country.

Or maybe, as we are supposed to be mainainting social distancing, and as was suggested by the government in all it's official releases, I'd point him in the direction of the local health service who had contingency plans for such scenarios.