How do you think Boris has handled it so far ? 8th May

[RossyG]

What Boris will now struggle with is the border line racist and xenophobic that edged him into power in the first place. They are starting to turn.

80 seat majority = “edged”.

 

[Motogull]

Poor old Johnson. Undoubtedly the right man to break the May brexit blockage, but now even many of his fans are seeing the pillock his non fans did. Maybe he shouldn't have bottled the election contest with May after all?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

A light hearted summary, click tweet for rest of list :

https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1261815288749850626?s=19

 

[The Clamp]

Looking at the car park at Beach Green Lancing, people seem to assume it’s all over. Personally, I didn’t think Boris’s Stay Alert message was particularly helpful, however my honest opinion is that a lot of people are happy that it was vague. So they have an excuse go bonkers.

 

[Jim D]

Looking at the car park at Beach Green Lancing, people seem to assume it’s all over. Personally, I didn’t think Boris’s Stay Alert message was particularly helpful, however my honest opinion is that a lot of people are happy that it was vague. So they have an excuse go bonkers.

I think that was the reasoning behind it. They wanted people to return to work but they didn't want everyone doing it, so they left it to people's discretion. They knew that plenty would read it one way and many more another way. The end result would be that people who wanted to return would and those that didn't would stay at home. Now they can monitor the state of the pandemic and make decisions based on a much lower number.

 

[dazzer6666]

Looking at the car park at Beach Green Lancing, people seem to assume it’s all over. Personally, I didn’t think Boris’s Stay Alert message was particularly helpful, however my honest opinion is that a lot of people are happy that it was vague. So they have an excuse go bonkers.

Why would using a car park assume ending of social distancing ? Car park I used on the Downs was full when I got back to it this morning, but I didn’t see anyone not keeping their distance all the time I was out or back at the car park. Everyone using their common sense.

 

[Springal]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...ial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/

 

[vegster]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...ial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/

Hardly a " devastating" error. We had to go in to lockdown or it would have swamped the NHS, almost every other country worked out that a lockdown was the most effective way out of the problem. If we had of let things just happen ( Johnson's " take it on the chin") I dread to think what our death toll would be now. Even with the lockdown we have one of the world's worst cases/fatalities ratios!
Remember, dead people don't pay Income tax or spend money or contribute to the economy.

Sure we are in a recession and there will be austerity but that is mostly because of our UK business model of a low wage service industry instead of manufacturing. People will cut their cloth accordingly and make cuts to their household budget but that may not be a bad thing.

This will be my third recession and I might well have my third redundancy too, but, at least I'm still here.

 

[e77]

Hardly a " devastating" error. We had to go in to lockdown or it would have swamped the NHS, almost every other country worked out that a lockdown was the most effective way out of the problem. If we had of let things just happen ( Johnson's " take it on the chin") I dread to think what our death toll would be now. Even with the lockdown we have one of the world's worst cases/fatalities ratios!
Remember, dead people don't pay Income tax or spend money or contribute to the economy.

Sure we are in a recession and there will be austerity but that is mostly because of our UK business model of a low wage service industry instead of manufacturing. People will cut their cloth accordingly and make cuts to their household budget but that may not be a bad thing.

This will be my third recession and I might well have my third redundancy too, but, at least I'm still here.

Bearing in mind wages had just recovered from the last once in a generation crash after the Banking Crisis I am not sure a lot of households have a lot of budget left to cut.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Hardly a " devastating" error. We had to go in to lockdown or it would have swamped the NHS, almost every other country worked out that a lockdown was the most effective way out of the problem. If we had of let things just happen ( Johnson's " take it on the chin") I dread to think what our death toll would be now. Even with the lockdown we have one of the world's worst cases/fatalities ratios!
Remember, dead people don't pay Income tax or spend money or contribute to the economy.

Sure we are in a recession and there will be austerity but that is mostly because of our UK business model of a low wage service industry instead of manufacturing. People will cut their cloth accordingly and make cuts to their household budget but that may not be a bad thing.

This will be my third recession and I might well have my third redundancy too, but, at least I'm still here.

Dead pensioners don’t have to have their pensions paid out of the taxes.

 

[vegster]

Dead pensioners don’t have to have their pensions paid out of the taxes.

That's not an awful amount of cash saved though, is it ?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That's not an awful amount of cash saved though, is it ?

If is when you consider those in care homes or disabled at home with carers coming in. The DWP pays out an average of £120 a week state pension and attendances allowances are on top of that. Multiply that by 20,000 and it adds up.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Dead pensioners don’t have to have their pensions paid out of the taxes.

If Boris Johnson farted near a council estate you'd probably accuse him of gassing the poor!

 

[The Clamp]

If Boris Johnson farted near a council estate you'd probably accuse him of gassing the poor!

As if Johnson would go anywhere near a council estate. Peeeer-lease.

 

[Hugo Rune]

If Boris Johnson farted near a council estate you'd probably accuse him of gassing the poor!

https://youtu.be/Maf6d5G_NpY

Seriously - do you believe that the Government locked down the care-homes before the general lockdown or do you think Boris has been lying?

 

[nicko31]

https://youtu.be/Maf6d5G_NpY

Seriously - do you believe that the Government locked down the care-homes before the general lockdown or do you think Boris has been lying?

Disappointing Hancock has recently well and truly joined the lies brigade,

Thousands dead, if only Johnson addressed the national apologised and said we got it wrong I'd have a lot more respect for him. Instead they just double down and dig themselves a deeper hole.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Seriously - do you believe that the Government locked down the care-homes before the general lockdown or do you think Boris has been lying?

I know for a fact that my mothers care home in Hailsham & mother in law’s home in Sheffield went into lockdown just before Mothers Day, but voluntarily.
There was no government guidance at the time, save clearing out the hospitals of patients without tests.

 

[beorhthelm]

https://youtu.be/Maf6d5G_NpY

Seriously - do you believe that the Government locked down the care-homes before the general lockdown or do you think Boris has been lying?

brave of them to have made those comments, when it was health services in England and the other nations that sent elderly patients to care homes en mass, to clear the decks for expected surge of patients into hospitals.

 

[darkwolf666]

Today's debacle for the government, they claim that young children are unlikely to get or pass on the virus, so it's safe for them to go back to school, then offer tests for all over 5s with symptoms - make your ****ing minds up, do they get it or not!

 

[Billy the Fish]

https://youtu.be/Maf6d5G_NpY

Seriously - do you believe that the Government locked down the care-homes before the general lockdown or do you think Boris has been lying?

My reply was more about TB's inference that pension savings have got anything to do with government policy on covid19