Current Affairs Coronavirus Politics Thread

[LinekersLegs]

not looking well tonight:

He really doesn’t, politics aside don’t think he should he working.

 

[Tea_drinker]

So the tories are confident that they've found a way to manipulate the figures so it looks like 100,000 tests are going ahead every day.

I'm amazed that they dont get bored of their own constant nonsense and bu££$hitting.

 

[Billy Dean]

He really doesn’t, politics aside don’t think he should he working.

Unfortunately Iain Duncan-Smith declared him fit for work.

 

[ramacca]

So the tories are confident that they've found a way to manipulate the figures so it looks like 100,000 tests are going ahead every day.

I'm amazed that they dont get bored of their own constant nonsense and bu££$hitting.

They hired Del boy who found 30 000 'tests' that fell off the back of a lorry.

 

[Billy Dean]

they just can't help themselves

 

[tsubaki]

they just can't help themselves

what a fraud that man is

 

[tsubaki]

they just can't help themselves

Some of the comments under Hancocks original tweet are incredible. I’d say they were bots but even they aren’t that mindless.

 

[dannyboy]

Just looking at the front page of the Mail today and remembering how supporters of the Labour Party were called cultists for supporting their leader over the last 5 years...

I honestly think if Corbyn had overseen this crisis in the way Johnson has we'd be on the verge of a military coup.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Like this little dig by Wales & Scotland

 

[Blue 1]

There seems to be some sort of "brave hero" narrative being built around Johnson, judging by today's media. Never mind that he contracted the virus due to his usual cavalier attitude that he has towards everything and the litany of screw-ups from Jan-March.

Gross.

 

[Minimeister]

Not at all, a friend who works for the NHS and had some involvement told me it wasn't possible to staff them. I've posted some of the companies involved later in the thread, you can spend the next little while looking into their links to the Tory party. I'm fairly sure you haven't got much to do at the moment.

This simply sin't true. They were going to staff it with airline staff lol

 

[davek]

There seems to be some sort of "brave hero" narrative being built around Johnson, judging by today's media. Never mind that he contracted the virus due to his usual cavalier attitude that he has towards everything and the litany of screw-ups from Jan-March.

Gross.

When all this subsides there'll be two giant facts that cant be spun out of existence:

1/ which European country lost most lives in actual and proportionate terms
2/ when did each European country make the decision to lockdown

The answers to those two questions will be utterly damning for Johnson and his gang of butchers. There will be no hiding place.

 

[tsubaki]

When all this subsides there'll be two giant facts that cant be spun out of existence:

1/ which European country lost most lives in actual and proportionate terms
2/ when did each European country make the decision to lockdown

The answers to those two questions will be utterly damning for Johnson and his gang of butchers. There will be no hiding place.

TBF I’m sure they’d think that them getting savaged over just those two would be a victory; they are probably more worried about getting savaged over the years of neglect, cuts, “bonfires of red tape”, ideological attacks on the NHS specifically and public health systems generally and so on that led to this.

 

[Billy Dean]

Some of the comments under Hancocks original tweet are incredible. I’d say they were bots but even they aren’t that mindless.

Yes unfortunately the reality is that a lot of Brits still think they're doing a great job.

I did enjoy this reply though

 

[davek]

TBF I’m sure they’d think that them getting savaged over just those two would be a victory; they are probably more worried about getting savaged over the years of neglect, cuts, “bonfires of red tape”, ideological attacks on the NHS specifically and public health systems generally and so on that led to this.

...and that'll be all part of the critique. That weakening of the NHS and social care sector, the reliance on overseas producers of PPE and the mothballing of UK diagnostic labs were the reason they thought it'd be best to let the virus rip through.