Add Bradford, Barnsley and Rochdale to the list of places to be avoided like the covid. Where else?
You are making some big assumptions there.I'm still hoping I caught the damn thing in March, so I'm waiting for a widespread antibody test to become available. It'll be a big relief if I did as I was categorised as 'at risk'.
That's what happens in PMQs though. Always. Regardless of who is in power. Have you only recently started paying attention to it?Johnson poor on PMs questions again , many MPs saying they did not want bluster but answers !
Of course very few answers and just saying what a good job he has done , REALLY ?
Of course very few answers
STARMER: Why was the government slow to act in Leicester?
BORIS: Nonsense. We acted in good time, from 8th June.
STARMER: Why did the Local authority only have data for Pillar 1?
BORIS: He's mistaken.
STARMER: Does the PM regret being flippant about beaches?
BORIS: Rubbish! I was never flippant. People have to behave responsibly. And seaside towns must be welcoming.
STARMER: How can the PM explain that three quarters of cases are being missed by test and trace?
BORIS: T, T and T is doing really well so shut the fUck up.
STARMER: How many jobs will the PM's announcement yesterday protect?
BORIS: We'll deliver jobs, jobs jobs. (I'm not going to give a figure, what do you expect, you muppet!)
STARMER: Will the PM extend the furlough scheme to parts of the economy at great risk.
BORIS: No.
Not surprised by Bradford. I cycled through it a few times during lockdown and it looked like business as usual in many places. People wandering in and out of corner shops to buy essential foods like cans of coke and Mars bars, and congregating in groups of 8 or 10 outside cafes, houses etc. With this in mind I'll do my essential shopping in Leeds for the next few weeks.Add Bradford, Barnsley and Rochdale to the list of places to be avoided like the covid. Where else?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...us-hotspots-in-bradford-barnsley-and-rochdale
“So far, more Americans have died from coronavirus than in the wars of Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And Brazil and Britain aren’t doing much better. Congratulations those right wing nutjob governments.”
Richard Dawkins (Twitter).
The mask ('scuse the pun)has not so much slipped, as fallen off completely. Not just a troll but a full on toryboy troll.I thought he answered every question Starmer put to him. Have I got it wrong?
Did you read mandryka’s summary of the exchanges? I don’t think his post was entirely serious.The mask ('scuse the pun)has not so much slipped, as fallen off completely. Not just a troll but a full on toryboy troll.
I can't take any of them as entirely serious, if he wasn't interested in hifi I swear he was a CCHQ bot.Did you read mandryka’s summary of the exchanges? I don’t think his post was entirely serious.
Not surprised by Bradford. I cycled through it a few times during lockdown and it looked like business as usual in many places. People wandering in and out of corner shops to buy essential foods like cans of coke and Mars bars, and congregating in groups of 8 or 10 outside cafes, houses etc. With this in mind I'll do my essential shopping in Leeds for the next few weeks.
Britain has arguably had more civilian deaths than from bombing in WW2, I didn’t realise the Brexiteers hankering after the Blitz spirit were going to invoke it by mass killing.
“The British Isles were subject to sustained bombing attack from June 1940 to May 1941 (the so-called ‘Blitz'), then to intermittent raids from 1941 to 1943, then to the ‘Baby Blitz' [Operation Steinbock] in November 1943 to January 1944, finally to a campaign by flying bombs (V1) and rockets (V2) from June 1944 to March 1945. The total deaths in the ‘Blitz' amounted to over 43,000. Total deaths from the different forms of air attack 1940-1945 were around 61,000. Of these approximately 8,800 were the result of attacks by V-Weapons.“
https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/his.../warstateandsociety/projects/bombing/britain/