Westminstenders: Magical Thinking

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This week has seen reports of the government editing footage of Johnson to avoid embarrassing questions about the early government response.

We've been asked to accept that the rules were different to what we were told to excuse the law breaking behaviour of a senior government advisor. As Johnson said he was being a responsible father (as if Johnson knows what this is) and it wasn't as if he was visiting a lover (this Johnson would know all about). Let's be honest Johnson is the master of brazening out controversy.

We also have the ERG complaining they were lied to by Gove about the new Withdrawal Agreement and the border in the Irish Sea which surprises precisely no one else.

They appear to be a little upset by the Cummings debarkable too.

Seems to me that coming out of lockdown us now a real rush. It's as if they had no real plans....🤔

[quote QuestionMarkNow]@MagisCapulus, how did you quote a poster like that?[/quote]
There's a new function next to report etc.

Drove through the forest for work today
multiple rental camper vans
large multi family groups in the tourist towns
BUT
really effective social distancing (to about 1m) by the vast majority
THEN AGAIN
apparently big problems with people sitting in pub gardens on the coast with carry outs yesterday

I'd guess that the hold Cummings has over him is to do with money / corruption / selling the UK off?

I wondered if Johnson was allowed to get rid of Cummings.

He's obviously much more than a common-or-garden SPAD, or he'd have been out on his ear by now.

tee hee

Yes I suspect Cummings knows the deals with US and possibly China that might overlap, certainly things the GB public would like to know about private healthcare contracts...

Also he may be privvy to Gove and others who are quick to back him having had part of their lockdown unlocked too? Gove and a mistress? Drugs? Could be a lot of things he is aware of seeing as how he has kept them all so close - remember the Leave campaign where he said he loathed them all for jetting off skiing and not working? That hasn't gone away.

There's a new function next to report etc.

Oh yes. I am not sure that it's working for me.

Nope, it didn't. I wonder what I did wrong.

@Peregrina

There's a new function next to report etc.

Oh yes. I am not sure that it's working for me.

I was looking for that button but couldn’t see anything

It’s working for me Peregrina.

Has it worked this time? I just clicked on Add Message.

@Peregrina

Nope, it didn't. I wonder what I did wrong.

Oh this is a fun new game!

@Peregrina

Has it worked this time? I just clicked on Add Message.

Oh I see now, a new one at the Right hand side called quote

But it wasn't there for honeysuckle's post of 21:21 but had turned up for LQ's quote of 21:24 - which is why I didn't see it at first.

I don't have any new buttons
< sulk >

Oh, it's on Safari only

@BigChocFrenzy

Oh, it's on Safari only

No it's on Chrome too.

@BigChocFrenzy

Oh, it's on Safari only

And Chrome ;-)

thats a chunk of a thread merrily distracted

Was this a major part of the plot line from 'Years and Years'???!

Chrome is a step too far

It looks as if you can quote one post, but then your post with that quote in cannot also be quoted, IYSWIM. Maybe to avoid huge long screeds of multiple quotes?

And ........

Back to Brexit
my fave FB page has had rather an internal falling out
grab your popcorn

www.facebook.com/britainbitesbackofficial

@BigChocFrenzy

Chrome is a step too far

It works on Firefox.

We'll get tired of this game soon...

We have local lockdowns in Germany - any area with total new cases > 50 / 100,000 pop in 7 consecutive days

iirc some other European countries use aa similar principal.

However, so far that's been used for a handful of care homes, meat plants, a geriatric hospital a DPD depot,
possibly their surrounding town or district

Funny that in the UK the headline is about housing estates
when they are a lot less likely to be tested, probably just collatoral damage in a localised lockdown

collateral