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Dido Harding

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 11:45

What is the actual point of her. She's in the news again today saying there was no way to know these new variants are coming. What?? Plenty of scientists were saying just that before it happened.

Why has she not been sacked yet. It's infuriating.

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Frazzled6 · 03/02/2021 11:48

She got all her statistics mixed up this morning. I think it must be a very stressful job though!

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 11:49

Well yes, of course it is a stressful job Confused shouldn't it have been given to someone who was up to it? Her response to everything seems to be "there's no way we could have seen this coming" Hmm

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superfuckinglue · 03/02/2021 11:51

totally unsuitable and not up to the job

Wankerchief · 03/02/2021 11:53

Absolutely nothing to add but i read the title as dildo hoarding and gleefully clicked and got politics instead

ssd · 03/02/2021 11:56

Awful.

ssd · 03/02/2021 11:56

And didnt SAGE not warn about this a while ago?

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 11:57

@Wankerchief

Absolutely nothing to add but i read the title as dildo hoarding and gleefully clicked and got politics instead
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you this gave me a real giggle

Maybe a thread of dildo hoarding would be much better for my general mood 😁😁

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YogaLite · 03/02/2021 12:04

I don't understand why she hasn't been sacked yet, promoted insteadConfused

I guess if u are so titled u can get away with anything. She doesn't come across at all knowledgeable and should go asap.

lunar1 · 03/02/2021 12:06

I don't know where they got her from, she's the idiot that said there was no way to predict the need for more testing in September when schools went back isn't she.

She's on par with Jenny who thinks children can't turn their neck and won't have any interest in each other's packed lunch.

Vicliz24 · 03/02/2021 12:10

She has failed in everything she's ever done and yet somehow manages to fail upwards . She is just ridiculous

PerkingFaintly · 03/02/2021 12:20

She also managed to be surprised when she was CEO of TalkTalk and customers' data got stolen... for the third time in a year.

TalkTalk attack: 'Urgent action needed' on cyber-crime
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34622754

PerkingFaintly · 03/02/2021 12:23

I once saw it said of Princess Diana's father that the only thing he learned from his mistakes, was how to repeat them.

Harding is clearly of the same mould.

Rosehip10 · 03/02/2021 12:26

Dido Harding is an incompetent airhead who messes stuff up and then drones on about "it's not my fault". It's amazing what door open when you are married to a Tory MP.

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 12:31

[quote PerkingFaintly]She also managed to be surprised when she was CEO of TalkTalk and customers' data got stolen... for the third time in a year.

TalkTalk attack: 'Urgent action needed' on cyber-crime
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34622754[/quote]
Yes! Reading about her working life is infuriating!!

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LetItGoGo · 03/02/2021 12:32

It is inexplicable isn't it.

WagnerTheWehrWolf · 03/02/2021 12:34

The only thing that woman does well is exemplify just how corrupt the UK currently is. At the highest level.

PhilCornwall1 · 03/02/2021 12:34

Why has she not been sacked yet. It's infuriating.

She's got something on Johnson. I reckon all of the useless buggers around him have.

If he tells them they're sacked, all they'll probably say is "Really Boris? Wouldn't it be a shame if everyone knew....."

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 12:35

Like I know her (unearned) 'status' and her many posh political/business mates/family/network are the reasons she has had and keeps these jobs...

But how can any of them, even if they are her friends, think she is doing a good job right now?

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Cpl654321 · 03/02/2021 12:36

@PhilCornwall1

Why has she not been sacked yet. It's infuriating.

She's got something on Johnson. I reckon all of the useless buggers around him have.

If he tells them they're sacked, all they'll probably say is "Really Boris? Wouldn't it be a shame if everyone knew....."

Maybe she knows the names of all his 20 million kids Grin
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o8O8O8o · 03/02/2021 12:36

@Vicliz24

She has failed in everything she's ever done and yet somehow manages to fail upwards . She is just ridiculous
She must have dirt on someone important then🤔
mouldygrapes · 03/02/2021 12:37

Absolutely infuriating. She is beyond incompetent and should not be in charge of such an important brief if she doesn’t know basic GSCE level biology (i.e. that viruses mutate!).
Also she has stated today that approx £2.75 million is being spent PER DAY on private consultants.
Link twitter.com/samiraahmeduk/status/1356922351233957888?s=21

Yet actually supporting people (apparently c. 20k people not self isolating as they can’t afford to) would send the wrong message.
I despair

PhilCornwall1 · 03/02/2021 12:37

Maybe she knows the names of all his 20 million kids

She probably owns one or two.

BigWoollyJumpers · 03/02/2021 12:38

@Rosehip10

Dido Harding is an incompetent airhead who messes stuff up and then drones on about "it's not my fault". It's amazing what door open when you are married to a Tory MP.
She and Ursula should have tea together. They have a lot in common Grin.
PerkingFaintly · 03/02/2021 12:43

@WagnerTheWehrWolf

The only thing that woman does well is exemplify just how corrupt the UK currently is. At the highest level.
This.
o8O8O8o · 03/02/2021 12:47

Maybe she just thkweems and thkweams and thkweems until she gets what she wants?