Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (109 Viewers)

[Ring Of Steel]

Deflect avoid avoid - at least I tried

No you didn't- you've just asked loads of questions, you have not made any statement on what you think should happen, you have asked multiple leading questions geared to try and make people feel stupid for the choices they have made, & for some bizarre reason to manipulate teachers into thinking they're skiving because the risk is actually non-existent.

As you are so insistent that schools should return, and that the risk is actually non existent- does this mean you still think its just the "social media hyperbolic machine" in full flow?

 

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[hill83]

Starmer isn’t asking anything. It was a sleepy performance

Apart from the list of questions he asked. Calmly and simply. So you are correct. He isn't asking anything at all other than the questions he asked.

 

[Grendel]

He is utterly incapable of answering a question.

With Starmer's background this is going to be a regular thing. In fact it will happen every Wednesday - he will pick apart Johnson's bluster with ease.

Johnson's style doesn't work so well with an empty chamber, he needs the braying Tories in the background for the full affect. Without them he just looks like a bumbling drunk.

It’s the first time I’ve seen Starmer. He looks like a dull zombie whose thrown the towel in already - lazy and limp I’m afraid - I expected better

 

[PVA]

Starmer isn’t asking anything. It was a sleepy performance

What the hell is wrong with you?

He literally asked for clarification on 5 or 6 things around the lockdown, about quarantine, etc.

Boris didn't answer a single one of them.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

That’s the point of making. Everyone on here is mindlessly ranting and not offering any thoughts on a way forward

There are people are saying it's time for change. Moving away from economic factors as the main (almost only) measures that are given any importance and using a more rounded way of measuring the performance of the nation, including health metrics (physical and mental).

Giving less weight to financial services and more onto health and social care means the pressure to put yourself at risk by going to work is offset by the improved health of the people if they stay at home.

 

[Grendel]

What the hell is wrong with you?

He asked for clarification on 5 or 6 things around the lockdown, about quarantine.

Boris didn't answer a single one of them.

You I suspect would vote labour if a blob of jelly was there. He’s not going to convince fringe voters with a limp performance kine this. It’s early days I guess

 

[PVA]

You I suspect would vote labour if a blob of jelly was there. He’s not going to convince fringe voters with a limp performance kine this. It’s early days I guess

You suspect wrong.

I have voted Labour, Tory and Lib Dems in the past.

You are utterly deluded., you think Starmer didn't ask any questions. He asked 5 or 6, and received nothing but waffle, not a single answer.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Some reports say a third of pubs will go under. Many businesses relying on the tourist sector will be dead if they can’t open - the airline industry is screwed anyway I’d guess as if the travel industry in general. Debt will be as a % of GDP higher than ever and this is a best case scenario of recovering some semblance of normality in the relative near future across the whole of Europe. That’s austerity with a capital A

Option b.

Be dead from the virus and none of the above matters anymore to you anyway.

 

[Grendel]

Also let’s be real here. Even if Starner iOS his game in Parliament in means nothing. Hague and actually Corbyn often dominated PMQ and still lost and lost again

 

[PVA]

Oh look, he didn't answer any of Blackford's questions either.

 

[Grendel]

Option b.

Be dead from the virus and none of the above matters anymore to you anyway.

It’s a death rate if the likes of Ebola - sorry I wasn’t ware of that

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Also let’s be real here. Even if Starner iOS his game in Parliament in means nothing. Hague and actually Corbyn often dominated PMQ and still lost and lost again

Can't argue with that. Hague was superb in PMQs - bugger all people voted for him!

 

[David O'Day]

Apart from the list of questions he asked. Calmly and simply. So you are correct. He isn't asking anything at all other than the questions he asked.

Grendal is an even bigger joke these days

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[Grendel]

Oh look, he didn't answer any of Blackford's questions either.

Rigor Morris set in. What a corpse Balckford is

 

[wingy]

Freeport's.
British Common sense
Bulldog spirit.

 

[Grendel]

Can't argue with that. Hague was superb in PMQs - bugger all people voted for him!

He tore Blair apart time and time again. Even Corbyn was pretty good often against Cameron

 

[PVA]

Rigor Morris set in. What a corpse Balckford is

He might not be very charismatic but he asked some valid questions and was ignored.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Johnson insists his advice is good for the whole UK's population despite Scotland, Wales and NI rejecting it. Your posh accent and gesticulations may fool Grendel and some others but not all of us

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Are you watching it? He’s nervous had no eye contact shuffling his script like a back bencher. Johnson is cool accomplished and dominating the conversation

Bit weird for a man of your age to have developed this level of hero worship towards a politician tbh. Usually associate it was 8 year olds and their favourite footballers.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Ed Davey looks like the ultimate hippie yoga instructor-how has he got a knighthood?

 

[PVA]

"Keep Britain flying and er... get Britain flying again"

Fucking waffle.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

This is what I don't really get. We were later closing and, tbh, I'm still sympathetic to that. Having bought into the same kind of pattern as other countries however, why rush to catch them up in the same stages? We actually, potentially, have an advantage over other countries in watching and learning.

At the start it was all about ignoring what other countries had done because they were doing so badly. Now they can't wait to follow others (even though places that have dealt with it far better like Korea and Germany are seeing increases after easing lockdown).

If we'd used that lag time and the island advantage early on, rather than trying to use it for short-term economic benefit while others closed, maybe we could have looked at easing sooner and not be lagging behind. Now we're going to find ourselves at a massive disadvantage because others will be opening up while we're still dealing with this (though I expect they'd rather take the hit in terms of deaths than economic performance and will open up regardless).

 

[hill83]

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING BARNET

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

"Keep Britain flying and er... get Britain flying again"

Fucking waffle.

He thinks he can soundbite his way through with a well timed 'BAH!' for good measure

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING BARNET

It's Paul McCartney in 30 years

 

[Grendel]

Michael Fabricant is Jimmy Seville’s love child

 

[Sick Boy]

Johnson is almost like something from Blackadder

 

[Grendel]

Blimey old Gezza has been dug up

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Even Jezza is asking solid questions

 

[David O'Day]

Bit weird for a man of your age to have developed this level of hero worship towards a politician tbh. Usually associate it was 8 year olds and their favourite footballers.

He's also talking utter nonsense. He's lying because that he is saying did not happen.

I'm glad he's on ignore if this is the level he is at now.

Johnson was so bad he came up with nonsense like so gloriously simple there will be complexes.

Black Ford and Saville-Roberts skewered him as well.

Grendal is a sad man who pretends to be successful online. We all know this but at the moment I am genuinely worried about him.

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

Questions from Tory MPs should be banned unless they're going to be actual questions rather than softballs down the centre of the plate

 

[Grendel]

Questions from Tory MPs should be banned unless they're going to be actual questions rather than softballs down the centre of the plate

Have you never watched PMQ?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Grendal is a sad man who pretends to be successful online. We all know this but at the moment I am genuinely worried about him.

Spot on

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Have you never watched PMQ?

Yep and I think it's BS then. Using up PMQs to just praise the government without asking meaningful questions is a waste of everyone's time

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Dave's only honest act was to resign after losing the referendum. Boris should surely recognise he has failed his duties and let one of the few remaining Tories with a brain take charge for the rest of the term

For Boris it should be more "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200k."