chiefdave
Well-Known Member
Very clear from his performance today why he does his best to avoid PMQs. Without a friendly crowd and being able to palm questions off onto others he was like a rabbit in the headlights.
Very clear from his performance today why he does his best to avoid PMQs. Without a friendly crowd and being able to palm questions off onto others he was like a rabbit in the headlights.I thought it was a much better performance from Ikea Starmer today if I'm honest.
Though he wasn't up against much. Don't think Johnson properly answered one question and eventually, as you say, got goaded into setting another unachievable target on testing.
When all this is done and we start Brexit negotiations we're going to get absolutely rinsed with this mob in charge.
I think we're going to need to be really careful with whom we pick as friends in the playground .
The broader the choice the better .
Can't help but wonder if it is coincidence that on the day Vallance and Davies were saying we were too slow to ramp up testing and that has impacted our response Ferguson gets thrown under the bus. Suspicions that aren't calmed by the fact it was the Daily Telegraph and Spectator that stuck the knife in.And if you want to link it to politics etc- here it is. We got it wrong at the start. And that is the very time that The Spectator, The Telegraph etc along with some people on here, the brexit-obsessed government & 'scientific experts' were all sneering about how the "Europeans have got it wrong", looking down their noses at Italy, slagging off the Chinese, telling everyone that 'Britain Knows Best' and pushing an isolationist approach. Look how fucking wrong they were.
Are we really doing much different to when Johnson suggested we let it work through the country? We've had a minimal lockdown and appear to be preparing to open things back up when there's still a significant number of new cases and deaths daily and we still don't have testing, PPE etc issues resolved.Given some of the views of the advisors in No. 10 there is that nagging doubt in my mind whether or not the care home thing could have been intentional.
Heathrow CEO has told a Commons select committee today that they are going to start trialling temperature checks in one terminal (T2) from next week. Its a joke how far behind everyone else we are.
It's so he can send Hancock or raab to the commons on Monday and he gets to announce but not face the questionsI don't get why any announcements can't be put in front of parliament tomorrow .
What data elements to it are so critical when nothing of significance could change between one day to the next.
Doing it Sunday gives them an extra couple of days to hope a solution accidentally falls in their lap.What? What's Friday got to do with anything?!?
Have a mate who is Australian. He was working in the US but has returned home. Upon arrival it was straight into mandatory government 14 day quarantine. Everyone gets the same treatment irrespective of if anyone on the flight has symptoms or a high temperature. Non citizens aren't allowed in the country at all.This should be something we can control quite well. They have to go through border control so while there get details, intended travel plans etc. They could even enforce isolation if they'd wanted on public health grounds. If a country doesn't like it then ban flights from that country. If you've got people abroad to bring home charter flights specifically for them - not like there isn't spare runway capacity at the moment even without considering the use of RAF bases.
Yep we could and probably should have done the same. I admit I didn’t realise this at the time thoughHave a mate who is Australian. He was working in the US but has returned home. Upon arrival it was straight into mandatory government 14 day quarantine. Everyone gets the same treatment irrespective of if anyone on the flight has symptoms or a high temperature. Non citizens aren't allowed in the country at all.
Last day I can find figures for in Australia is 2 days ago, 26 new cases and 1 death.
Passenger flights are now being used for freight movement I know someone who works for BA and they still have manned cabin crew but they are using them to transport goods
Yes you are correct, there are now passenger planes being used for cargo specifically.
However, there are still a core amount of flights coming in even today from China (as an example), which are scheduled daily services.
With no one being checked it is a total joke.
Amazed nobody is pushing them on this point but I haven't seen a thing?So, with Ferguson being forced to resign and Hancock saying it’s a matter for the police when can we expect Robert Jenrick to resign and the police to visit Stanley Johnson?
China is virus free isn’t it?
Amazed nobody is pushing them on this point but I haven't seen a thing?
There were 18.1 million arrivals into UK passenger terminals- (plane, ferry, land) between January 1st and 22nd March.
Of that 18.1 million, 273 were checked and quarantined.
Whatever is happening now its too late, the damage was already done while we were dithering.
I don't get this 'we've got a cunning plan, but we won't release it until Sunday, so you're all ready for it for Monday'. Wtf is that all about?
IDK is it a matter of presentation and appearing presidential.I don't get why any announcements can't be put in front of parliament tomorrow .
What data elements to it are so critical when nothing of significance could change between one day to the next.
Dave King again today Reiterates this view.The sub-header is "herd immunity again" - i think that's right but it isn't herd immunity again, it's never gone away. Everything is still about trying to protect the NHS whilst generally letting the virus spread, hence why the health authorities are using it to monitor centrally rather than users having sight of their own data. It is disgusting.
IDK is it a matter of presentation and appearing presidential.
Then I look at the use of the force's .
Testing and the Nightingales.
The Nightingales came in at a significant sum and it would have been contractors.
The Army may have been involved logistically .
Then the photoshots of Matt unloading manually a Luton Transit ,not A40 footer full of pallets Rodney .
Just feels a bit like when Blair stuck the tanks around Heathrow.
Dave King again today Reiterates this view.
China is virus free isn’t it?
Yeah I’m not gonna lie. He caved way too easily and it seems his supporters aren’t following him to fall in line this time. Biden said he would veto single payer healthcare even if all he had to do was sign his name-madness
I was just watching Irish news, it said that a guy in France who was admitted for pneumonia on December 27th (before China even notified the WHO of its first case) has since been found to have had COVID-19. So it is now beyond doubt that the virus was circulating in Europe at the back end of 2019. The theory is that this might indicate that we are actually already in the second wave. I have no clue if that theory is realistic or not, but I am guessing it would be good news if so.
French hospital discovers it had case of coronavirus in December
Biden reminds me of the guy who didn’t go to the alien planet in Cocoon.
And what I was looking forward to when Starmer was announced as Labour leader. Boris and his one liners will be struggling.Very clear from his performance today why he does his best to avoid PMQs. Without a friendly crowd and being able to palm questions off onto others he was like a rabbit in the headlights.
So they signed in with your name? OK.
What other countries have been as soft as us?Our lockdown doesn't differ that much from many other countries
What other countries have been as soft as us?
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