Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

Strange goings on in Scotland.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/...r.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

I'm not sure that a substance-affected Gove surrounded by young men qualifies as strange anymore...

 

That does nothing to reinforce the Union, does it?

 

To be honest, there's not a lot could.

 

Sure, but sending Gove as some sort of Dance Envoy is questionable.

 

Whether he would have been able to ‘throw shapes’ like that without the use of a defibrillator is what has me wondering.

 

I guess it answers the question of what his title will be when he's elevated into the old boys club that is the HoL - Lord of the Dance.

 

Enough said...

 

Nothing of course to do with the COVID pandemic and spending billions to try and keep businesses intact and the cancellations to operations while treating COVID victims

I repeat I HAVE NEVER ever voted Tory and I voted to remain but it is just too easy to sit on the sidelines and make comments without out ACTUALLY being involved so you know what really happened

 

Sitting on the sidelines and commenting is actually all the vast majority of citizens can do - and that is made all the easier when the government of the day displays:
Incompetence - think Grayling, Patel, Harding, Hancock, Raab and Johnson, none of whom should be anywhere near the positions of power they have been given and abused.
Corruption - think PPE contract scandals - the pocketing of taxpayer cash by themselves and their friends - for which the government has been taken to court, the offshore tax havens they protected by introducing Brexit, and now the NI scandal in which they are protecting their own by forcing the cost of future social care onto those who can already ill-afford it - all whilst not paying a share themselves.
Propensity to lie - in parliament, in the media, to the public - and even to the monarch.
A callous disregard for the health & wellbeing of the poor, sick, elderly, disabled and now the unemployed & underemployed as well as pensioners.

No-one has said that being in government is an easy job, and, yes, the current one have had the misfortune of a pandemic occuring under their watch - but that doesn't excuse them one little bit. For one thing, they knew full well what the consequences of Brexit to the UK would be - they have admitted that - and hid them from the public. Possibly their most unforgivable action was to press ahead with that in the face of the pandemic, even refusing to countenance the offer of a delay.

 

I think that you forgot this prime example BB.

'Has Gavin Williamson ever met Marcus Rashford? “We met over Zoom and he seemed incredibly engaged, compassionate and charming". Later Williamson’s team tell me he actually met the rugby player Maro Itoje, not Rashford.'

 

Didn't forget it - just never knew about it.

And whilst I'm here, have you seen this? An Early Day Motion tabled by Labour MP Dawn Butler - aimed at getting Johnson to stop lying in Parliament. A tall order I suspect.
I'd contact my MP about it but he's a Tory and it would would be a waste of my time - he rarely responds to written mail/email and never holds surgeries in the constituency.

 

Priti Patel is threatening France with withholding £54m, if they don't stop migrants from entering Britain's Border. Can someone please break it to Patel, that the precious Brexit she voted, campaigned and worked for, means that Britain and Britain ALONE must control its borders. Asylum seekers are doing nothing wrong in going to Britain. Legally, they are at liberty to do so.
Has she twigged what might happen if she doesn't pay them? Thankfully Global Britain has failed to 'take back control' of the French.

 

An interesting take on the pro & anti vaccination argument. Lifesavers in NSW have been directed to 'return to the beaches', but some are refusing because vaccination levels in NSW are too low, meaning the risk of infection for them is too high. I honestly can't say that I disagree with them.

What I find interesting is the idea that those upon high think they can issue directives to volunteers and expect them to be followed.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09..._news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf249315297=1

 

I have to say that I think this is little short of criminal. It's so bad that even Iain Duncan Smith is up in arms over it.

 

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What is the UK doing that others aren't to create this situation?

 

It’s not like we’re on an island with no land bord....
Oh.

 

Maybe this article explains why I feel happier about where I live these days. Compared to giving people a clap, then taking away their tiny pay rise with a tax increase, this gesture is actually meaningful.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/09/france-grants-citizenship-to-12000-covid-frontline-workers

 

Prince Andrew in trouble - 21 days to respond or face a default judgement.

I'm off to buy a supply of popcorn...

https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/10/prin...paperwork-in-sexual-assault-lawsuit-15240872/

 

So vaccine passports being scrapped.

Another Government policy in the bin then having probably cost millions to set up .