Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

Lobby Akinnola, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign, said: “Matt Hancock isn’t a ‘celebrity’; he’s the former health secretary who oversaw the UK having one of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid-19 while breaking his own lockdown rules.

“The fact that he is trying to cash in on his terrible legacy, rather than showing some humility or seeking to reflect on the appalling consequences of his time in government, says it all about the sort of person he is.”

 

And he has the gall to bring out a book Pandemic Diaries, The Inside story of Britian's Battle Against Covid.
It is not on my Christmas list.

 

It'll be a best seller amongst his MP chums - who'll buy it and charge it to expenses. So we'll end up paying for it.

 

Disgusting

 

The LVA is forecasting that over the next year 70% of pubs in the UK could be forced to close. The three factors involved are, electricity prices that have double or trebled in many cases, lack of available staff, especially chefs, and customers who are unable to spend money going out for meals or a drink. Some of these pubs have been around for two or three hundred years, and in rural areas are sometimes the only place where community groups can meet. Christmas into the New Year is a time when some see their takings improve and will try to stagger on, but there are reports that leases are being handed back to the breweries and doors shut with no notice. Once again small traders are being pushed out by the large chains that will survive, but even they are suffering when you see the balance sheet. The pubs are so much of a tradition in the UK it seems almost impossible to imagine the country without them, and a bit more of the county's fabric being destroyed has to have a government answer some questions.

 

Sunak been a naughty boy? He's on his way home from COP27 already, for no apparent reason.

Maybe just annoyed that he hadn't managed to upstage Nicola Sturgeon.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...6678570120487&referrer=https://www.google.com

 

The only reason he went was because Johnson was going to be there and he didn't want the world leaders think that the disgraced former PM was still in charge.

 

Brilliant stuff from the Marsh Family about Braverman.

"Braverman Shanty" - Marsh Family adaptation of The Wellerman - YouTube

And their update the following day.

"Braverman Back Shanty" - Marsh Family disappointed update of premature first Braverman Shanty - YouTube

 

Looks like Nadine Dorries may have ruined her chances of ermine. Quite right too.

 

So while we have been watching football, Williamson has bowed to the inevitable and resigned. How long before the Home Secretary goes the same way?

 

She'll hang on a lot longer - she's a Braverman than him.

I'll get my coat...

 

This popped up on my Twitter feed...

 

I hadn't seen this before.

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They're not wrong...

 

What the heck??

"All three journalists were arrested under “suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance.” It is a new crime that was brought into law this year through the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and faces prison time of up to ten years in jail."

Ten years in jail because someone thought you were going to do something?

It looks very much like they have copied the Japanese who, in 1911, established the Special Higher Police, a political police force which later became known as the Thought Police. Their remit was to investigate and 'control' political groups whose ideologies were considered a threat to them. That just sounds so Tory...

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/11/...-journalists-speak-out-over-new-policing-act/

 

We have de-facto fascists in government. Rather like the tRump administration did.

 

Bloody brown people ruining our NHS. The Daily Mail interchanges the word ‘migrant’ and ‘foreign’. Notice they are ‘foreign nurses’ not ‘migrant nurses’. And ‘asylum seeker’ seems to have a pejorative tone nowadays. ‘People seeking safety and asylum in the UK from their home countries where they may well be in fear of their lives should they return’. No, ‘asylum seeker’, which your average Daily Fail reader can interchange with ‘burka-clad terrorist’.

And for the majority of Daily Bewail readers who might read only the headline, the generalised point has been made that immigrants will ruin the NHS (in which you will not find a single immigrant, I’m sure).

 

Absolutely despicable......................

 

Not bad work if you can get it - especially when you're supposed to be (and are still getting paid for) sitting on the back benches in Westminster, or helping constituents in your constituency office.

Bufo piger avarus est (if my two years of Latin serve me well).