Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Sentinel]

What I'm seeing is fear, ridicule, people who simply don't have the answers and that is understandable.

Putting you hands over your ears and shouting loudly blah, blah, blah isn't going to make this go away.

Clement Attlee was brought into the government during WW2. That is what you do during times of emergency, when you are faced with a crisis all hands are called to the deck.

 

[Paris]

From a friend or mine who works in prisons:

Am awaiting confirmation on these numbers but the number of prison staff off due to Covid is now 8,661 out of 24k. The UK prison system is already understaffed and overcrowded. Yet we aren’t seeing early release/use of tag because the government don’t want it to look like they’ve lost control of the justice system. The self-harm, suicides violence that we’ll see in prison will show that the government have lost control. Few will care about that though.

 

[roydo]

What I'm seeing is fear, ridicule, people who simply don't have the answers and that is understandable.

Putting you hands over your ears and shouting loudly blah, blah, blah isn't going to make this go away.

Clement Attlee was brought into the government during WW2. That is what you do during times of emergency, when you are faced with a crisis all hands are called to the deck.

The NHS says Hi.

Not entirely sure what more MPs would achieve.

 

[peteblue]

Is anybody going to answer the question? Why is a coalition government such a bad idea to deal with this crisis.

It‘s not that it isn’t a decent idea, it’s that you would replace these politicians with even worse politicians. Personally if I were to advocate change, and I’m not at this point, I would bring in Industrial and Military big hitters to replace them....

 

[tsubaki]

These are back of a fag packet figures, but wouldn’t be that implausible given they had 3-4 weeks before it was fully identified, and then another 3-4 weeks before a test and lockdown started in Hubei.

 

[Sentinel]

Not entirely sure what more MPs would achieve.

Clement Attlee was an MP mate and then went on form the welfare state.

 

[Minimeister]

Interesting to hear the Welsh NHS bloke say A+E attendees are down 60% in the last two weeks. Shows that a lot of those visits are absolutely unneccesary and it's those kind of things that put a huge strain on the NHS...

 

[tsubaki]

The NHS says Hi.

Not entirely sure what more MPs would achieve.

Not more MPs, but a less confrontational, more competent government would be in everybody’s interest.

 

[roydo]

Clement Attlee was an MP mate and then went on form the welfare state.

Pretty sure he is dead though.

 

[peteblue]

What I'm seeing is fear, ridicule, people who simply don't have the answers and that is understandable.

Putting you hands over your ears and shouting loudly blah, blah, blah isn't going to make this go away.

Clement Attlee was brought into the government during WW2. That is what you do during times of emergency, when you are faced with a crisis all hands are called to the deck.

Yeah, but Emily Thornberry .......

 

[Sentinel]

It‘s not that it isn’t a decent idea, it’s that you would replace these politicians with even worse politicians.

I get your cynicism, I do but we have to do something. The status quo isn't working.

 

[Sentinel]

Emily Thornberry

Don't knock the woman, she's grand in my book.

 

[Joey66]

I'm wondering what you're going to do after you leave high school.

Are you like Jethro still in the 5th grade

 

[Sentinel]

Pretty sure he is dead though.

I think you're missing the point sir.

 

[Tea_drinker]

I get your cynicism, I do but we have to do something. The status quo isn't working.

So it's clearly time to liberate the realm of politics from the endless careerist public school boys.