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| Quote ="WIZEB"The likes of wire-quin will be proud of Nige.
He's fighting them on the beaches.'"
He's only fighting those who dont look English so, it's ok
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| Well done Rishi & HMG. The furlough scheme now extended to the end of October, with flexibility from August to bring people back part-time and still participate in the scheme, with the employer also contributing.
Outstanding levels of support. Fantastic. Although it's likely most mortgage holidays will end within this period, this again helps protect and save millions of jobs and homes.
Any sniff of appreciation or gratitude from the left?
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| Are you going to apologise for the many errors made by the government and the excess deaths this will have caused.
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| Quote ="Cronus"Well done Rishi & HMG. The furlough scheme now extended to the end of October, with flexibility from August to bring people back part-time and still participate in the scheme, with the employer also contributing.
Outstanding levels of support. Fantastic. Although it's likely most mortgage holidays will end within this period, this again helps protect and save millions of jobs and homes.
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Wouldn't have needed to extend the furlough had Bungle Johnsons' right wing nutty Tory government acted when they were advised to.
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| Just had a chuckle that the Chancellor has rejected claims that people could get 'addicted' to furlough.
Good to be back at work.
No office staff, most of the bigwigs are working from home.
Just the troops on the ground making the most of 'toss-off' central.
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| Quote ="Cronus"Well done Rishi & HMG. The furlough scheme now extended to the end of October, with flexibility from August to bring people back part-time and still participate in the scheme, with the employer also contributing.
Outstanding levels of support. Fantastic. Although it's likely most mortgage holidays will end within this period, this again helps protect and save millions of jobs and homes.
Any sniff of appreciation or gratitude from the left?
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Yes, brilliant, well done Bojo and Rishi.
They still havent got to grips with the situation but, it's brilliant.
Incapable of a coherent plan but, could you just imagine for one moment if a Labour government had been running the show with the exact same scheme and try to be honest.
The broadsheets and other Tory rags would be in anti communist overdrive.
Ultimately, if the government are preventing people from working, there has to be something in place and lets face it, with no end in sight for the pandemic, NOBODY knows if Bojo & Co are doing the right thing or not - it certainly cant continue indefinitely and the longer it goes on, the more businesses will call it a day, this is scary stuff and not getting better and I'm talking the virus not the political side of things.
As I say, I dont know if you actually can say well done, because the truth is that nobody knows if the current actions are the best route.
Sweden have gone an entirely different route, although there are plenty of social distancing rules but, they haven't shut down their ecconomy, certainly, they look better placed for coming through the other side and I accept that their population is significantly different to our own.
So, well done ? I think we need to wait and see where we are heading, dont you ?
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| Quote ="wrencat1873"Yes, brilliant, well done Bojo and Rishi.
They still havent got to grips with the situation but, it's brilliant.
Incapable of a coherent plan but, could you just imagine for one moment if a Labour government had been running the show with the exact same scheme and try to be honest.
The broadsheets and other Tory rags would be in anti communist overdrive.
Ultimately, if the government are preventing people from working, there has to be something in place and lets face it, with no end in sight for the pandemic, NOBODY knows if Bojo & Co are doing the right thing or not - it certainly cant continue indefinitely and the longer it goes on, the more businesses will call it a day, this is scary stuff and not getting better and I'm talking the virus not the political side of things.
As I say, I dont know if you actually can say well done, because the truth is that nobody knows if the current actions are the best route.
Sweden have gone an entirely different route, although there are plenty of social distancing rules but, they haven't shut down their ecconomy, certainly, they look better placed for coming through the other side and I accept that their population is significantly different to our own.
So, well done ? I think we need to wait and see where we are heading, dont you ?'"
Fantastic work financially (although how much of it is a smoke screen to deflect away from inadequacies in other areas I'm not sure).
However, as you say, none of this means anything to the potential 40k that have lost loved ones etc.
How many more deaths have been avoided by the actions the government took? Unknown and debatable
How may have died that didnt need to? Unknown and debatable and questions need to be asked.
With regards to Sweden I agree, however I heard a stat yesterday and still cant get my head round it.50% of the households in Sweden live alone?
And x amount more are married without kids and very rarely to peoppenover 25 live at home.
If that's the case then that completely changes their demographic to ours?
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| Quote ="Cronus"Well done Rishi & HMG. The furlough scheme now extended to the end of October, with flexibility from August to bring people back part-time and still participate in the scheme, with the employer also contributing.
Outstanding levels of support. Fantastic. Although it's likely most mortgage holidays will end within this period, this again helps protect and save millions of jobs and homes.
Any sniff of appreciation or gratitude from the left?
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I think Sunak has done an entirely adequate job as Chancellor so far.
Want to mildly criticisize Gove for having a Holocaust denier’s book on his shelf, as a bit of quid pro quo?
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| I saw on twitter that Rishi Sunak has now announced more spending in three months as Chancellor than Gordon Brown did in 10 years.
If even right wingers now regard this as a policy to be applauded it shows how much Corbyn and McDonnell shifted the argument.
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| Quote ="sally cinnamon"I saw on twitter that Rishi Sunak has now announced more spending in three months as Chancellor than Gordon Brown did in 10 years.
If even right wingers now regard this as a policy to be applauded it shows how much Corbyn and McDonnell shifted the argument.'"
It's got rock all to do with shifting the argument.
This really is needs must and plugging holes to prevent drowning.
As I mentioned in a previous post, just imagine the absolute outrage from the right wing politicians had Labour been in power at these most testing of times.
People are saying that Starmer should go along with the government and offer unequivocal support but, I stagger to think of how things would be the other way around (politically speaking).
Having started the furlough scheme and with lockdown not yet lifted for the vast majority of the population, Sunak had no choice here and the fiscal hole grows ever larger.
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| Oh yeah, if Labour were in power now doing the same thing, the Conservatives would be giving no end of lectures about "mortgaging our childrens' future" to create a weird society where the state actively pays people to stay indoors apart from a ritual every Thursday where they are encouraged to come out and clap for the NHS.
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| Quote ="Mild Rover"I think Sunak has done an entirely adequate job as Chancellor so far.
Want to mildly criticisize Gove for having a Holocaust denier’s book on his shelf, as a bit of quid pro quo?'"
Nope. I have a book written by a Nazi on my book shelf, a fact I'm sure the mob on here will love.
Albert Speer's 'Inside the Third Reich'. Fascinating read, even if he does bend the truth to minimise his culpability.
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| Self preservation even applied to some of Hitler’s inner circle. This is different to a book that tries to say that the holocaust never happened. What would you say if the same book was in the possession of Corbyn, not so understanding I bet.
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| Quote ="Scarlet Pimpernell"Self preservation even applied to some of Hitler’s inner circle. This is different to a book that tries to say that the holocaust never happened. What would you say if the same book was in the possession of Corbyn, not so understanding I bet.'"
I'm no expert on David Irving, but my understanding is that the book on Gove's shelf (The War Path) doesn't contain any element of holocaust denial, even if it does attempt very slightly to reduce some of the commonly held 'raving lunatic psychopath' element from Hitler's character. Most reviews seem to cast it as a decent if unremarkable 2nd part to the biography. And it seems his views on the holocaust only turned idiotic after this was written.
The criticism aimed at Gove is petty. It was largely driven by Owen Jones ffs, which should tell you a lot. Another pathetic example of "It Really Doesn't Matter". Many, many people have Mein Kampf on their shelves, Mao's Little Red Book and feck knows what else. I almost exclusively follow left-wing media online, and only a couple of right-leaning media. It gives me a wide view of how events are perceived.
Had I seen it on Corbyn's bookshelf I'd dismiss it in the same fashion. I dislike Corbyn's views for many reasons, but reading a biography by someone who later became a holocaust denier wouldn't be one of them. It's a bit like watching a Harvey Weinstein movie and enjoying it, or singing along to 'Another Rock n Roll Christmas'.
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| Quote ="Cronus"Nope. I have a book written by a Nazi on my book shelf, a fact I'm sure the mob on here will love.
Albert Speer's 'Inside the Third Reich'. Fascinating read, even if he does bend the truth to minimise his culpability.'"
I’ll take your word for that.
However, I do think Journey to the End of the Night is a brilliant novel, despite the author’s antisemitism. And I still try to enjoy the work of the Smiths despite the lyricist’s conversion from contrarian to nasty bellendery. Y’know, for Johnny Marr’s sake.
The issue is that Irving is known primarily for his holocaust denial. It is good to read or converse with people you disagree with, but there’s a point at which it starts to look a bit icky and suspect. Tbf, Gove looks icky and suspect to me anyway. I take the point about this book possibly having been written before Irving went full blown loon, and it is possibly a difficult book to take to a charity shop. Corbyn would have been metaphorically eviscerated for similar and it’d be a real wtf for Starmer... tbh, I even think better of Johnson than that, despite the non-rejection of Tommy Robinson’s endorsement.
All that aside, what do you make of Gove?
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| Quote ="Cronus"Many, many people have Mein Kampf on their shelves, Mao's Little Red Book and feck knows what else.'.'"
Do they? I mean, don’t get me wrong I’ve read biographies of Stalin and Mao, but I’ve never had any interest in reading their writings. It’s not like these (e.g. Mein Kampf) are books that you stumble across in Waterstones or that normal friends and family get you for your birthday.
While historians with a interest in the area have legitimate use for it, who else is reading Mein Kampf? Apart from the obvious, but even now I’d like to think there aren’t many, many of them.
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| Quote ="Mild Rover"Do they? I mean, don’t get me wrong I’ve read biographies of Stalin and Mao, but I’ve never had any interest in reading their writings. It’s not like these (e.g. Mein Kampf) are books that you stumble across in Waterstones or that normal friends and family get you for your birthday.
While historians with a interest in the area have legitimate use for it, who else is reading Mein Kampf? Apart from the obvious, but even now I’d like to think there aren’t many, many of them.'"
I've read it, a friend's copy. And yes I've seen it on many bookshelves. With a modern mindset I found it cliched and dull. It was purely out of historical interest - around the same time I read Speer's book, and many more by the likes of Martin Gilbert, Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, James Holland and others. I tend to go through phases - WW1, WW2, Victorian Britain, ancient Britain, ancient Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, etc, etc... There are some truly wonderful historical books out there. Some less so.
The point is that having a book written by someone who later became a bit nutty is only worth commenting on as a matter of interest: "didn't he go a bit batsht loony?". Unless you genuinely think Gove saw it and thought, "great stuff, he's now a holocaust denier, I could get on board with that"?
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I’ve seen my share of bookshelves but I don’t ever recall seeing a copy anywhere other than in news reports. And I feel like it is the sort of thing I would recall.
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Albert Speer's 'Inside the Third Reich'. Fascinating read, even if he does bend the truth to minimise his culpability.'"
I knew there was a reason that you voted Brexit
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You'll be telling us that, it's got nothing to do with Brexit and finding something or someone else to blame, just as I said you would
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Anyone been looking back at the Prof. John Ashton timeline of events?
He basically said exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation. They also got him on the old 'labour activist' smear when he appeared on Panorama.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
Here are some tweets from the show on March 12. Have a look at some of the replies. It's 'the public have had enough of experts' in a nutshell. Also check out Fiona Bruce's face of disdain when he mentions care homes in the second tweet's video.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 9689631745
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 8089369601
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Anyone been looking back at the Prof. John Ashton timeline of events?
He basically said exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation. They also got him on the old 'labour activist' smear when he appeared on Panorama.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
Here are some tweets from the show on March 12. Have a look at some of the replies. It's 'the public have had enough of experts' in a nutshell. Also check out Fiona Bruce's face of disdain when he mentions care homes in the second tweet's video.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 9689631745
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 8089369601
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Quote ="King Street Cat"Anyone been looking back at the Prof. John Ashton timeline of events?
He basically said exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation. They also got him on the old 'labour activist' smear when he appeared on Panorama.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
Here are some tweets from the show on March 12. Have a look at some of the replies. It's 'the public have had enough of experts' in a nutshell. Also check out Fiona Bruce's face of disdain when he mentions care homes in the second tweet's video.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 9689631745
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 8089369601'"
As requested.
I remember his appearance and he was absolutely correct. But hindsight is a wonderful thing. I was well aware of the effect of CV19 around the world from the get-go as I was dealing with the effects of travel/border restrictions every day and watching as country by country the situation deepened.
It's worth recalling that even in early March, many eminent scientists still viewed this as another SARS/MERS - nasty but possible to contain and eliminate fairly successfully. We easily forget this is a new virus. Antigen and antibody tests barely existed, certainly not in large number, and those that did were often not accurate enough. The nature of the virus was largely unknown. We didn't know exactly what it did or exactly how infectious it was - something underestimated globally due to the fact people can be shedding whilst asymptomatic, unlike SARS/MERS. There's still a lot about it we don't know.
The West hadn't experienced SARS/MERS, unlike many countries in Asia, who therefore had responses and facilities in place for precisely such an event. Leaping into action wasn't as simple for us. That said, I've said before we were too late locking down and we could have done more.
I have no particular love for Fiona Bruce but you're seeing something that's not there. She simply looks at her notes and the audience and gives a little sigh. It's certainly not aimed at the mention of care homes.
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Quote ="King Street Cat"Anyone been looking back at the Prof. John Ashton timeline of events?
He basically said exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation. They also got him on the old 'labour activist' smear when he appeared on Panorama.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
Here are some tweets from the show on March 12. Have a look at some of the replies. It's 'the public have had enough of experts' in a nutshell. Also check out Fiona Bruce's face of disdain when he mentions care homes in the second tweet's video.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 9689631745
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcquestiont ... 8089369601'"
As requested.
I remember his appearance and he was absolutely correct. But hindsight is a wonderful thing. I was well aware of the effect of CV19 around the world from the get-go as I was dealing with the effects of travel/border restrictions every day and watching as country by country the situation deepened.
It's worth recalling that even in early March, many eminent scientists still viewed this as another SARS/MERS - nasty but possible to contain and eliminate fairly successfully. We easily forget this is a new virus. Antigen and antibody tests barely existed, certainly not in large number, and those that did were often not accurate enough. The nature of the virus was largely unknown. We didn't know exactly what it did or exactly how infectious it was - something underestimated globally due to the fact people can be shedding whilst asymptomatic, unlike SARS/MERS. There's still a lot about it we don't know.
The West hadn't experienced SARS/MERS, unlike many countries in Asia, who therefore had responses and facilities in place for precisely such an event. Leaping into action wasn't as simple for us. That said, I've said before we were too late locking down and we could have done more.
I have no particular love for Fiona Bruce but you're seeing something that's not there. She simply looks at her notes and the audience and gives a little sigh. It's certainly not aimed at the mention of care homes.
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I don't think she's showing any targetted disdain towards care homes. Remember this is nearly 2 weeks before lockdown. She just looks like she's thinking, "here we go again! He's banging on about care homes now". I just find that particular clip very prescient now we know the extent to which it has ripped through care homes.
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I remember his appearance and he was absolutely correct. But hindsight is a wonderful thing. I was well aware of the effect of CV19 around the world from the get-go as I was dealing with the effects of travel/border restrictions every day and watching as country by country the situation deepened.
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You could always do a cummings and predict it coming, by doctoring your posts, when it was already upon us.
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