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[Politics] Johnson Enquiry - The poll
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nicko31
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Just wait for the enquiry we need can re-live Johnson's missed cobra meetings, super spreader events, masks denials, care home catastrophes. and more...
He was the worse PM to have at the worst time and we were so unprepared having used up all our oxygen with our self imposed, self harm Brexit tandrum...
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
You sound like a Tory MP.....'just wait for the results of the enquiry'.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
I remember Johnson being in the West Stand at Twickenham shaking hands with the other toffs before England v Wales, the same day Ireland v Italy in Dublin had been cancelled by the Irish government. A month later Johnson was in hospital with Covid-19.
Still, he got all the big decisions right and was only trying his best etc, etc.
Still, he got all the big decisions right and was only trying his best etc, etc.
Corbyn also would likely have exercised the option of delaying the end of the Brexit transition by a year to deal with COVID (an offer made by the EU), a decision we have found out this week Johnson refused to do and which directly impacted our ability to deal with the pandemic because Government was too preoccupied with Brexit to deal withCovid at the start.
Wokeworrier
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clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I suspect it will also come down to the utter state of the care sector. Spread by zero hours workers moving from gig to gig to make ends meet.
After a decade of Conservative misrule we were an open target. Impossible to protect the vulnerable.
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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johnson is destroying the dream of man?
you've finally let go then, good to see you back in sorts
- Oct 17, 2008
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Johnson is the dream of two men, Boris and Stanley. And a nightmare for everyone else
- Oct 17, 2008
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Anyway never mind this bollocks, check the Sussex CCC thread for a moment of absolute brilliance.
rogersix
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and austerity sat the nhs on it's arse
Machiavelli
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You going to provide evidence for either of these claims ...
... stumbles around searching anti-vaxxer sites.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
A week in Tory
A Twitter thread by Russ Jones. Look out for the description of Michael Fabricant. I genuinely laughed out liud
A Twitter thread by Russ Jones. Look out for the description of Michael Fabricant. I genuinely laughed out liud
clapham_gull
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I think that's unfair. A number of things like that will fall out like that (whether the above is valid or not) and we will be surprised.
However, I'll put money on the country not being prepared after savage cuts to vital services being a major factor.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Motogull
Todd Warrior
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It is staggering that she is being honoured. She should be on the backbenches because she should have been removed from her post following that investigation outcome. Protocol required her to resign to spare Johnson the embarrassment of having to follow protocol himself and remover her. What a tawdry mess.'The Shetland pony of the apocalypse' to describe Priti Patel was just as good.
clapham_gull
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Thank you, I often forget that account.
"Sunak, a chatbot with the hair of a Lego Elvis"
It's genius.
And “Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nosferatu attempting to blend in at a Bible Study Meeting” was also unbeatable.'The Shetland pony of the apocalypse' to describe Priti Patel was just as good.
See for yourself:
Not sure you know what an anti vaxxer is ?
FT on sage minutes on the delay and why
Minutes from March 13 noted that “SAGE was unanimous that measures seeking to completely suppress spread of Covid-19 will cause a second peak. SAGE advises that it is a near certainty that countries such as China, where heavy suppression is under way, will experience a second peak once measures are relaxed.” They also noted that while Singapore had had an effective contain phase new cases had since appeared.
https://www.ft.com/content/662a0033-61eb-4b1f-b95c-855a9ef8061f
10 days before lockdown - not talking out against mass gatherings.
On March 10, the group’s 14th meeting, it noted that SAGE believed “public gatherings pose a relatively low but not zero public risk. People are more likely to be infected by people they know, not strangers. But it acknowledged the importance of advice in this area and agreed to review it and to look at different types of gatherings/meetings.” SAGE was to reconsider the situation regarding public gatherings at its March 12 meeting. However, there are no minutes for a March 12 meeting provided. Nor does its 15th meeting on March 13 reference any
A member of sage - didn't have the full details
Asked during an interview on BBC TV what regrets he had about the handling of the outbreak, John Edmunds, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said: “We should have gone into lockdown earlier.”
“The data we were dealing with in the early part of March and our situational awareness was really quite poor so I think it would have been very hard to pull the trigger at that point"
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I'm struggling to find the clip, but one of the sage members, Michael Tidsley I believe?, admitted they had no idea how care homes worked with workers going from site to site.
This was the doubled down in the mass sacking of those who didn't take the vaccine, none wanted to come back when everyone backtracked.