This is the same Sir Patrick Vallance who was talking up herd immunity in the 2nd week of March last year, only to reverse that a week later and advise on a lockdown."In a recent interview chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said: "The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.""
Shame Johnson didn't do it. But he did do 'everything possible'.
I've not read the article, but what's happened to "respect the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live"?That really doesn’t surprise me you think that, but let’s take a look.
They’ve sensationalised the opening headline points with :
Then they’ve said Johnson would win the legal case but Sturgeon could progress with an illegal wildcat referendum, if she does this she’s finished not Johnson.
Then it talks about the British government’s response to Covid, failing to mention the great big whopping fact that the SNP have had devolved powers to impose their own restrictions and do what they please in Scotland. In that sense, if Sturgeon had done such a great job that people claim, the SNP would be in a great position, with low deaths and the vaccines being in such great shape in the UK.
Google Business Insider bias, they’re a centre left publication, aligned to the SNP and this, as you’ve said, is a wishful thinking opinion piece, it’s garbage.
Nobody in the UK parliament is signing this off for another decade I don’t think, then who knows how public opinion will change.
I do think Scotland is more of a risk than NI, I debated this with someone recently who said that it can’t be as the PM can just say no, but pressure will build, I just see it being similar to the Catalan issue, where each leader over the next decade just kicks it down the road, there will be peaks and troughs of the movement and it’ll continue indefinitely.I don't they'll be able to avoid it if support in Scotland continues to build at a pace. Guess we'll see for ourselves how it plays out in the coming years.
Makes me wonder of the Boris bots are his doing to fend off a leadership challenge.At PMQ's he is woeful yet again - I note that he has little backing from his own side this week. His every utterance is met with a stony silence. He is done.
At PMQ's he is woeful yet again - I note that he has little backing from his own side this week. His every utterance is met with a stony silence. He is done.
He’s utterly incompetent. This is truly awful viewing.
On the other hand we were on holiday in the Caribbean last March (getting back just before lockdown) and at the resort got talking to the Professor of Medicine at a major British university. He insisted, to our great surprise, not to mention shock, that it was "just flu" and would go away on its own. Just shows how wasteful an expensive education can be and how stupid some people who should know much better can be.My Prof told me last January to stop going to the match and to avoid the pub and places where there will be large groups of people. If he knew what was coming why didn't the Government.
If my Prof who is a Prof of Dermatology knew, then surely other Profs would have been aware of what was coming, especially those whose speciality was in the area of this virus.
The question then is, where these people wilfully ignored or simply dismissed as scaremongers by a Government whose own libertarian leanings where more frightened of curtailing civil liberties than they were of people dying.
He has his hair in that state to try to hide the fact that he's going bald. Vain twat.Surely Boris has got an old school friend he can award a six billion pound contract to source him a comb.
He has his hair in that state to try to hide the fact that he's going bald. Vain twat.
Never understood this. Just get it shaved you ponce.He has his hair in that state to try to hide the fact that he's going bald. Vain twat.
It makes me fucking sick.Operation Poor Boris is in full swing I see.
Bots all over social media and the usual media suspects eulogising him.
Him and his vulture capitalist friends have used the pandemic to get richer and we'll all be made to pay the debts created by his bungs to his mates using our taxes. Also good cover for Brexit fuck ups but that's another thread.
I honestly think he may resign in a few months, he looked like he was teeing it up with his statement the other day about truly sorry etc etc. He has got his beloved Brexit through and he can hand the baton to one of his fellow cunts like Rees mogg.The whole thing has been an absolute shit show. What is more disappointing is that despite this, and the fact so many have died as a result of his incompetence, there's still no pressure on him to step down.
Every single decision they've made has been idiotic. You can say "in hindsight" all you want, but they've lacked an ability to grasp this virus from day 1. Their scientific advisors have been awful as well. The only caveat is we don't know what they've actually advised, only what they claim to have so maybe they're just a scapegoat now.
From the moment he talked about herd immunity and shaking hands with patients on a covid ward, to weeks later looking like he was about to die, he should have known this required much more than his typical half-arsed way of dealing with anything.
Blame has been placed on the public for not following rules. Rules which are unclear and that the police have had no real power, or clue how to enforce. No definition of local. Allowing these "bubbles" which are basically just household mixing. Encouraging people to go eat out to help out and mix. Telling people Christmas is on then cancelling it. Telling kids and parents schools were safe then shutting them the next day.
You couldn't make it up.
You can look at other countries and claim their population densities/age profiles etc are reasons they've handled things differently/better. But truly it comes down to leadership. Those that have acted quickly and clearly have got a handle on things. Our world leading track and trace system never once did what was required. By the time it started working (has it?!) no one bothered using it. The testing was insufficient. Hospitals never imposed proper protocols for dealing with it and still many healthcare professionals remain unvaccinated when they should be the priority as they are at the heart of this.
And the appalling death rates from care homes at the very start of this pandemic... well that's unforgivable. Sending people back without testing them. It's just fucking basic stuff this. Nothing about this virus is hard to understand. They've made it the most complicated thing on earth when it's fucking simple.
I've always had the slimy **** Gove down as the heir apparent to the bumbling ****. Can't see the victorian **** getting the gig but like you say there's no shortage of cunts to choose from.I honestly think he may resign in a few months, he looked like he was teeing it up with his statement the other day about truly sorry etc etc. He has got his beloved Brexit through and he can hand the baton to one of his fellow cunts like Rees mogg.
I've always had the slimy **** Gove down as the heir apparent to the bumbling ****. Can't see the victorian **** getting the gig but like you say there's no shortage of cunts to choose from.