Westminstenders: The Final Week

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Our final week in the EU...

Listening I tend to watch the news on the TV, listen to the radio and read newspapers. I don't have a mobile device so no apps

I think there's going to be a lot of quiet backpedaling. For example on aviation regulations. I can't see those jettisoned in a hurry. Grounded planes? It's bad enough when you get a few hours delay at the airport. The headlines if it goes on for longer will be epic.

Meanwhile government seems to be fumbling, like a man who has taken Viagra, but can't find a willing partner. He has an 80-seat majority and no opposition! It honestly will never get better than this. So why the flip-flopping around by ministers?

Frumpety
Ah, I've given up on TV and radio news
and I'm a magazine fan
but there is LOTS of news - its just not as "in your face" as it was !

After next Friday we are in transition. I do realise you all know this but some think it's all over at 11pm on the night of 31/1/2020.

Idiots. Sorry now.

Your last post made me laugh ABC, about the man and viagra.

I just dipped into the thread where they asked what we will be doing on Friday. Thankfully, I will be out of the country. I am glad that I won't be able to see pictures of light shows in Downing Street, or hear the Brexiters of MN crowing their heads off. What will happen at the end of the year will be the key question, but despite his 80 seat majority and lack of opposition, Johnson has plenty of leeway to slip up and make a complete mess.

I am quite looking forward to hearing Leavers whine about lack of Drs appointments, and waits in hospitals, and telling them in puzzled tones that this was what they voted for, and then changing the subject. I don't know all that many Leavers but some I will be ready to drop.

Feels like we're heading for a perfect storm.
We have an NHS on its knees moving into the peak of winter pressure. We have social services/external support stripped to the bone.
Sometime in the next 2-3 weeks the coronavirus will hit here - when we will have zilch extra capacity for quarantine or even diagnosis.

I leave it to you to determine whether a cull of the old/weak is good or bad.

(feels like the four horsemen are mounting up)

But if the coronavirus is like the 1918 Spanish flu, it could cull the young and supposedly healthy.

I’ve just watched the BBC programme about a variety of not very well adapted couples aspiring to win some cabin in the Alaskan arse-end-of-nowhere in order to Go It Alone And Make It A Success.

Is it just me or is this just an enormous Brexit metaphor?

Mockers “ In other news, Priti Patel, who once wrote a paper saying lazy British workers should work Indian hours for Indian wages now says we cannot rely on cheap labour to build the post-Brexit economy.”

Is this what the book said? I suppose I’ll add it to my TBR.

Peregrina Didn’t Prince Philip want to be reincarnated as a deadly virus?

Perhaps nature is finally fighting back against overpopulation. I just want to be spared in time to see the Brexit 50p.

Thanks Red. Can't believe it's come to this...

Agree, Frankiestein.

Apparently the virus is contagious before victims feel any symptoms, making it really difficult to contain. They hope to build a new hospital in Wuhan in six days (work has already started).

phase 1 Brexit was the easy bit.

Dies laughing...

Didn’t Prince Philip want to be reincarnated as a deadly virus?

He allegedly complained one time that he was nothing more than a bloody amoeba.

DofE has a strange obsession with microorganisms.

math I just looked that up

Seems to be about surnames. Not sure what he was expecting, marrying the Queen!

Right, so Johnson needs to get stuck in and bring some Chinese over to build his 40 hospitals. Even if they overrun and take 7 days to build, he should get them all built in 9 months.

But I really don't expect that to happen - I expect in five years time to see the big fat total of 0 actually built, but ££££££ spent on management consultants.

ListeningQuietly which thread is that. I could do with a laugh?

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But if the coronavirus is like the 1918 Spanish flu, it could cull the young and supposedly healthy

I think the issue with the Spanish flu was that it was a mutation of a flu virus that had been around before. So the older generation were able to withstand it to a degree. The younger generations hadn't seen it before and their immune systems couldn't cope.

This virus is new to everyone, so it could hit everyone, or "just" those who are otherwise vulnerable in some way.

Following as always. Thank you to RTB and regular posters.

We could just all pull together and positively emote to overcome the new virus. And, if that doesn't quite work to prevent infection, we could simply make the best of acute respiratory failure.

31 is going to be annoying but I'm in the "let them have their fun" camp. We predict celebratory fireworks round our way. Not much I can do about them. Let's see how much celebration there is a year from now - unless we get a transition extension .

I think the best thing, come 1st February, is simply to say that Brexit has happened. Bump into a Brexity friend ? Say straight off how glad you are Brexit is all sorted. Thank goodness we won't hear any more about it now it's sorted.

Agree that remainers were hysterical, and hammer home how they were worrying over nothing, after all, Brexits happened, and not much has changed.

In other words, troll the fuck out of them. And keep trolling. Will it let up. No, it will not. I will spend the next 10 years trolling you. With glee.

(I may have been watching too much Stewart Lee these past years).

I'm with DG although on a slightly different tack. I will be going full-on for the pull together meaninglessly and emote positively and make the best of it rhetoric, no matter what is being discussed; job problems, medical issues, cold weather, cake recipes, pruning of fruit trees...

I am planning to go for, "but it's what you wanted" when the Leavers start complaining. For those old enough to have already said " but we managed in the War", I will be able to append, "but you managed during the War."

Might as well have some fun with them, when they have potentially dropped us all in the shit.