Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jebus_lives]

It literally was.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

What do you think?

Hes already hiding.

It's rumoured Boris gave Cumming the all clear to do the journey goat...

 

[Goat]

It's rumoured Boris gave Cumming the all clear to do the journey goat...

Of course he did.

 

[tsubaki]

Spoiler: slight use of a rude word

lol

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It literally was.

This is what's getting on my nerves, it's not that he wanted to care for his children that was the problem, we all would want that, it was that he flouted the rules put in place by the government, yet they're all out defending him for breaking their own rules. This then sends out the wrong message to the public who have been adhering to their rules.

 

[Catfish Blues]

This is the one thing I disagree with in your post - other than the drones we see here and on Twitter, this is going to wind up most people.

Core Toriy voters will always vote Tory, it's ingrained in them. They might be wound up by it, and, along with a fair few Tory MPs who are no fans of Cummings, put pressure on Johnson to get shut, but, regardless of the outcome, they'll still vote Tory.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I fully expect Cummings to keep his job and the government to do a big thing next week about how you can now visit family with minimal restrictions

"Oh no, that's fine now, carry on"

To be honest, though I won't be happy how we've got there, at least we'll have got there

 

[Jebus_lives]

@Barnfred 55

When we were talking yesterday and I suggested that the economy was more important to this Government than saving lives and you said

Let's just disagree on that point

I'm curious in light of Cummings story, given his position as part of SAGE and the PMs special advisor, if you still disagree?

 

[tsubaki]

I fully expect Cummings to keep his job and the government to do a big thing next week about how you can now visit family with minimal restrictions

"Oh no, that's fine now, carry on"

To be honest, though I won't be happy how we've got there, at least we'll have got there

I'd love to think that, but the way they are handling this we could easily find ourselves with two weeks of normality resulting in another big round of infections and deaths.

If that happens, I think all bets are off - the rage that the government will be faced with would (one imagine) be of a scale not seen before in most peoples lifetimes.

 

[DrEFC]

"How would he know? "
To me, talking to a professional in the system in that tone, comes over as arrogant and disrespectful.
What's the point of claiming record funding for the whole organisation when the people on the front line can't get the supplies and materials they need to do their work.

It's fine, it's a distraction technique. He doesn't see what the little cog does day to day, the pressures on limited staff, the effect of a generally poorer populace on their healthcare. Wastage due to crap gowns, gloves and surgical devices (which tbf have been ordered in by procurement to cost cut, so they have to take a portion of blame too)

 

[Jebus_lives]

Core Toriy voters will always vote Tory, it's ingrained in them. They might be wound up by it, and, along with a fair few Tory MPs who are no fans of Cummings, put pressure on Johnson to get shut, but, regardless of the outcome, they'll still vote Tory.

Most of them think the rules apply to others but not them anyway...

The ones that will be baying for blood will be the more moderate element who will have missed birthdays, their grandchild's first steps, had weddings cancelled and possibly even had someone close to them hospitalised or die and been prevented from being there.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Wtf are labour playing at, they should be demanding Cummings goes, ridiculous.

 

[Jebus_lives]

This is what's getting on my nerves, it's not that he wanted to care for his children that was the problem, we all would want that, it was that he flouted the rules put in place by the government, yet they're all out defending him for breaking their own rules. This then sends out the wrong message to the public who have been adhering to their rules.

 

[mill]

It literally was.

If he believed that driving to his parents house to be around family was in the best interests of his own children as he was sick, why wasn’t the government telling everyone else to do the same thing?

You only need to self isolate if you don’t have kids. If you do, then you are totally cool to go wherever you please.

I also like how the government is accusing the police of lying.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Wtf are labour playing at, they should be demanding Cummings goes, ridiculous.

They probably want to hire him themselves