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Westministender: Amen to that!

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RedToothBrush · 20/09/2020 20:52

On the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Johnson went to Westminster Abbey and was trolled. Its almost divine in its irony.

In a week where just about the entire right wing press has turned on him, for being... well shit... They have the dawning realisation that yes all those annoying lefties were right all along when they said he was full of nothing but hot air. He's been ridiculed for being paid £150,000 a year and not being able to feed his 5000 kids and the pictures to mark the anniversary of him becoming PM do little more than look like a man who couldn't tie his own shoe laces without a nanny to help him.

But its not really a laughing matter. This man doesn't understand what legal agreements he's signed so his solution to his ineptitude is to throw his toys out of the pram together with the rule of law. Which he also does not understand.

Johnson is also ever increasingly keen on ripping up inconvient human right and workers right and he has ample opportunity to do all this in the middle of a pandemic.

Unfortunately the hypocrisy of his cronies isn't exactly helping the behaviour of the public and you have to pity the poor behavioural scientists who have to tell him that 'of course the public are going to give you the vs when you tell them you shouldn't do this when your chief advisor claims to be maybe going blind'.

It seems the whole government strategy on managing the virus seems to be falling flat on its face rather sooner than planned cos they stuck Dildo in charge who wouldn't know her Rs from her elbow if it hit her in the face. And we've got Hancock going full on 1984, telling us not to believe the reports that no one can get a test because its all lies - except half the country has either first hand experience of the travesty of Track and Trace or has a close mate who they know is a hell of a lot more reliable than any of these fuckwits when it comes to telling the truth.

Meanwhile in America Bader Ginsburg has managed to die at possibly the most inconvient and dangerous time possible just as the future of democracy in the US is clinging on by its finger nails.

And yes. Money laundering. Haven't we talked about that a lot on these threads. Its almost as if FinCEN was predictable...

Taking back control was always about the elite taking back control from the masses. But if you've managed to keep following all this time, we've been saying that since April 2016 and no one listened then, so why would they start listening now?

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Darker · 23/09/2020 11:38

I had the flu jab last year because I'm asthmatic and got very ill after Christmas anyway (coughing like I've never coughed before. Exhausted. taste and smell ok though). Definately having the jab this year.

SabrinaThwaite · 23/09/2020 11:38

Boots has “paused” flu jab bookings for the under 65s due to an extra demand this year.

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/22/boots-stop-taking-flu-jab-bookings-under-65s-stock-run-low-coronavirus

pointythings · 23/09/2020 12:04

The Express is just recycling the shitty 'Blitz Spirit' trope - their readers love it.

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 23/09/2020 12:05

pretty I'm not far from you as the crow flies. DH, just turned 65, got his first flu jag invitation in the post yesterday. He'd rather it went to someone who needs it.

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 23/09/2020 12:07

Did anyone else hear Johnson speaking in Hoc yesterday? Without a trace of irony, he said he understood how frustrated the majority feel when a few people don't comply with the rules.

SabrinaThwaite · 23/09/2020 12:14

PMQs just now - Johnson’s answer to every question is that Starmer should stop criticising and should instead be congratulating the Government / Dido Harding / the NHS / teachers and schools / etc. It’s just pathetic.

QueenOfThorns · 23/09/2020 12:23

My flu jab (paid for - I’m self employed, so need to work to earn) is booked with Boots for a week on Saturday, so let’s see whether it gets cancelled...

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 23/09/2020 12:23

BJ has coined another new word: he says govt's support for the economy is "unexampled" anywhere in the world.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2020 12:25

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst

BJ has coined another new word: he says govt's support for the economy is "unexampled" anywhere in the world.
Well that's one thing he is certainly bang on the money with, depending how you hear it.
Sostenueto · 23/09/2020 12:30

Boris has lost any sort of credibility. He surely expects to be questioned on his Governments failings. It is the oppositions duty to do so. I'm so fed up with all of this.

TheABC · 23/09/2020 12:40

@Sostenueto, agreed - he has. However, he has a policy of never apologising (cf: cummings). So, everything must be ignored or waffled over.

I am on another thread, where a single parent is trying to work out what to do as the school bubble has closed and she can't wfh or afford two weeks without pay. Elderly parents, no childcare. Repeat by thousands, up and down the country.

We are headed for another widespread lockdown and/or more deaths because isolation and bubbles are not working without an effective track and trace system.

I truly hope Johnson gets fucked over by the Covid-19 mess; the rest of us are!

TheMShip · 23/09/2020 12:48

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst

BJ has coined another new word: he says govt's support for the economy is "unexampled" anywhere in the world.
Sorry, it's a real word. Just Boris being a posh twat.

Definition of unexampled
: having no example or parallel : UNPRECEDENTED
his ardent attachment and … unexampled passion
— Jane Austen

Sostenueto · 23/09/2020 12:48

Currently Dgd at uni and she says she's lucky as flatmates have all decided no parties in flat. But others are not so good. She has to be so careful because she had auto immune blood disorder.

SabrinaThwaite · 23/09/2020 12:49

I am on another thread, where a single parent is trying to work out what to do as the school bubble has closed and she can't wfh or afford two weeks without pay. Elderly parents, no childcare. Repeat by thousands, up and down the country

Starmer brought up this exact situation - and Johnson just said there’s very little transmission in schools (so by default, what’s the problem?).

He really has no idea how a large proportion of people struggle through every day.

pointythings · 23/09/2020 13:09

Sos my DD1 has just moved into an off campus house with four of her friends - none of them are party animals, which is a load off my mind.

dontcallmelen · 23/09/2020 13:10

@Sostenueto I feel exactly the same, blanket gaslighting I’m so sick of it glad your dgd is feeling reasonably safe though.

ListeningQuietly · 23/09/2020 13:16

One of my children moves into halls at the weekend.
Its all so surreal.

Levels of personal resilience are running low.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2020 13:17

Starmer brought up this exact situation - and Johnson just said there’s very little transmission in schools (so by default, what’s the problem?).

Which makes getting us all to live in schools the only logical option.

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 23/09/2020 13:39

I stand corrected, MShip!

Jason118 · 23/09/2020 13:40

Here's an interesting proposal to possibly fine HGV drivers £300 each time they turn up at Dover with incorrect paperwork.
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enforcing-operation-brock-plans-in-2021/proposed-legislative-amendments-on-enforcing-operation-brock#fn:1

Apologies if already posted, I missed it during August.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2020 13:44

@Jason118

Here's an interesting proposal to possibly fine HGV drivers £300 each time they turn up at Dover with incorrect paperwork. www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enforcing-operation-brock-plans-in-2021/proposed-legislative-amendments-on-enforcing-operation-brock#fn:1

Apologies if already posted, I missed it during August.

DW and I were chatting over lunch, and she wondered if lorries refused entry to France will be returned on the next ferry back at the ferry operators cost ?

Am I right in my memory that this is a world-beating paper-based exercise ? So ultimately no matter how right you are, you'll still be wrong. And liable ?

12 months my arse.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2020 13:47

Levels of personal resilience are running low.

Chez Rossetti they must be higher than I imagined. On the basis I haven't yet found myself sourcing an RPG to take Boris out at the next opportunity.

Mind you I have (re) researched Winthropping (and that noise you heard is GCHQ coming online Smile)

ListeningQuietly · 23/09/2020 14:13

DW and I were chatting over lunch, and she wondered if lorries refused entry to France will be returned on the next ferry back at the ferry operators cost ?
At present the French border is in Dover and Folkestone so they would not get onto the boat or train
BUT
if the UK does not play ball with the French, it could get rather messy.

In the 1980's one driver in a strop brought two loading ramps to a standstill with judicious use of a dead man's handle
It took many hours to bring in a vehicle to move it.

Peregrina · 23/09/2020 14:14

The Express is just recycling the shitty 'Blitz Spirit' trope - their readers love it.

That must fit their demographic i.e. the readers must nearly all be over 85, and even then precious few 85 year olds will remember much of the blitz.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2020 14:15

@Peregrina

The Express is just recycling the shitty 'Blitz Spirit' trope - their readers love it.

That must fit their demographic i.e. the readers must nearly all be over 85, and even then precious few 85 year olds will remember much of the blitz.

If you were a child in the war, then you were a drain on resources and effectively fighting for Nazi Germany.

Is one way of shutting their traps ....

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