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Post by julesdad on May 23, 2021 15:33:40 GMT
A level reading "Humans, how we F****d it up" by Tom ELLis
Good read and quite amusing
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 8:56:30 GMT
We have a journal article entitled "The community impact of football pitches: a case study of Maidstone United FC" if you want something really boring! It's from 2016 so already semi-obsolete. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 10:19:17 GMT
We have a journal article entitled "The community impact of football pitches: a case study of Maidstone United FC" if you want something really boring! It's from 2016 so already semi-obsolete. No thanks, if I want to read something terrible I still have a Martina Cole novel on the shelf. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2021 6:49:42 GMT
BBC News - Covid: Eight Covid areas should avoid indoor gatherings www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57232728Worrying proof that there are fuckwits in government who still just don't get it. Apparently, warnings not to meet indoors, or travel into and out of places like Bolton, Blackburn, Leicester etc went on the government website on Friday, but no one thought to announce it to the general population, or more importantly, the local ones. At the moment, we still have Boris suggesting 21/6 is going to be ok, but then this comes out. If the Covid thing does go tits up again, the government only has itself to blame. Again. Really hope we don't have another wave, but zero confidence still in this bunch of clowns to get it right. All their bets are on the vaccines, with heads buried in primary orifices for everything else it seems. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2021 8:38:53 GMT
13,000 cases a day in France, 7,000 in Germany, 2,300 in the UK. We're really f**king it up aren't we. All this relying on a vaccine nonsense, whatever next.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2021 7:40:27 GMT
3000 cases yesterday and rising, the good thing so far is that hospital admissions and deaths are staying low.
However, the poisonous revelations from Cummings paint an appalling picture of how this government runs things. Is he simply out for revenge? Obviously. Is what he is saying true? Given what we already know about the initial chaos and the failure to lockdown early both last spring and autumn - absolutely. Has the government learned from its mistakes? Doesn't seem like it to me.
Countries like Australia and New Zealand, who have stuck rigidly to their isolationist policies still show single digit cases of Covid. The UK meanwhile is
finally planning to keep red list arrivals separate from everyone else from next week. The devil is in the detail and Boris doesn't do detail. Not hard to imagine him offering to be injected with Covid live on TV, or the chaos with the three way panic over Carrie Symonds's dog, Covid and Trump's idea of a bombing raid. Batshit mental is a term that springs to mind.
Arguable that we could have and should have suffered only half the deaths from Covid. Whether you can hold individuals accountable for this is debatable, but whether they should be allowed to still run the country certainly begs the question, have they learned anything from the experience? Not seeing many signs of that at the moment, methinks.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 11:45:16 GMT
13,000 cases a day in France, 7,000 in Germany, 2,300 in the UK. We're really f**king it up aren't we. All this relying on a vaccine nonsense, whatever next. The number of new cases has been going up more or less constantly for three weeks now, and has doubled over the last week. With pandemics, it's not so much the number that's important, it's the rate of increase. 3,000 cases doubling each week is 50,000 in a month's time. Of course cases are only increasing in a few areas and vaccinations are continuing apace. But since when has the virus conveniently stayed in isolated hotspots? And the numbers vaccinated in the key groups are still a long way from anything that will stop a third wave, especially in those areas. Johnson knows only too well by now, that lockdowns are the only way of controlling the spread of the virus. And he also knows that we're still too early in the vaccination programme for that to have much effect, especially in the hotspot areas. But another lockdown will be political suicide for him, especially after Cummings' revelations. So, what does he do? My guess is that he will act true to character and delay as much as he can - and then take the minimum possible action. The full relaxation of the lockdown on 21/6 will be postponed (he's already hinting at this), then, if the cases continue to increase, we will go back to the tiered system of local lockdowns. And we all know how well they worked... |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 12:43:38 GMT
Good to see that people are believing every word Cummings says, rather than seeing it for what it is, the bitter lies if a man desperate for revenge. Cummings was responsible for the government's approach to the pandemic so it's a bit rich blaming everyone but himself for what happened. Everyone know mistakes were made, but the biggest one was relying on the advice of a man even more self serving, narcissistic and egotistical than Boris.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 18:06:22 GMT
Good to see that people are believing every word Cummings says, rather than seeing it for what it is, the bitter lies if a man desperate for revenge. Cummings was responsible for the government's approach to the pandemic so it's a bit rich blaming everyone but himself for what happened. Everyone know mistakes were made, but the biggest one was relying on the advice of a man even more self serving, narcissistic and egotistical than Boris. Who relied on Cummings advice? |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 7:29:54 GMT
All that the Cummings testimony proves is that only Michael Gove and cockroaches will survive a global thermal nuclear war.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 9:50:34 GMT
If so, he will be perfectly content among his own kind. Or is that being unfair to cockroaches?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 14:57:00 GMT
Good to see that people are believing every word Cummings says, rather than seeing it for what it is, the bitter lies if a man desperate for revenge. Cummings was responsible for the government's approach to the pandemic so it's a bit rich blaming everyone but himself for what happened. Everyone know mistakes were made, but the biggest one was relying on the advice of a man even more self serving, narcissistic and egotistical than Boris. Who relied on Cummings advice? Clearly the person who appointed him. It is def not Cummings who was responsible for the government's approach, is was Boris for God's sake. It is the Prime Minister who is accountable for government policy not his adviser. To believe that Cummings lied about everything now, implies that Boris and Matt have performed superbly and honourably at every turn. After all it is beyond incredulity that either of these upstanding individuals could themselves have told any porkies |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2021 22:07:56 GMT
So third wave underway before the lockdown has even finished...
With most people under 40 yet to be vaccinated.
I'm afraid it's starting to look like Johnston's gamble has failed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 5:41:14 GMT
Who relied on Cummings advice? Clearly the person who appointed him. It is def not Cummings who was responsible for the government's approach, is was Boris for God's sake. It is the Prime Minister who is accountable for government policy not his adviser. To believe that Cummings lied about everything now, implies that Boris and Matt have performed superbly and honourably at every turn. After all it is beyond incredulity that either of these upstanding individuals could themselves have told any porkies This is spot on the answer. The poster in question did not reply I note. Probably, in embarrassment that they had swallowed a media implanted thought to blameshift |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 7:28:18 GMT
So, Gibraltar - a bit like Sheerness, with a big rock, some monkeys and more sunshine - is now the only viable place for a summer holiday abroad. Lovely.
A crystal ball not necessary to see that coming, because the situation around the world remains tenuous at best. Throughout the pandemic, the government has been keen to appease the various lobbyists to open pubs, shops, travel etc, but not always in line with data. Foreign travel always going to be a tough one, but few places around the world are Covid safe yet and those that are either don't want us, aren't exactly holiday resorts or are dangerous for other reasons.
Hence, as before, the government (and especially much of the media) is guilty of raising people's expectations, when really they should be doing the opposite.
Currently, the picture is a real mess. Vaccinations are going well for sure, but not well enough yet. Mutations are popping up all over the place, with seemingly no firm data on how effective vaccines are against them.
Everyday life certainly feels better than just a couple of months ago, but the Sword of Damocles still hangs by a thread over how things are going to pan out. We certainly ain't there yet.
Education plans still a mess too - is there really nobody better that Gavin Williamson?
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