greenone
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He won't care if it helps in the run up to the council elections. If they do badly in them then he'll get the boot.
Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?
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Blue in Munich
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Can I respectfully suggest you are confusing “proper work” with “work of his choice”? There was, as I understand it, plenty of proper work available, but not apparently the preferred choice of work.
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bobmac
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GreiginFife
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A little decision tree to help... 
That’s how you read it. I didn’t read it like that at all.
But you’re sadly mistaken if you think deliberately misquoting something as you did is anything other than underhand.
RichA
Well-known member
I don't really care anymore, but I'm struggling to see what difference the question mark makes to the overall tone of the statement / question.
What are you? Some kind of idiot?
reads much the same as,
What are you? Some kind of idiot
which is how the person targeted by the post could easily have interpreted the original lines.
What are you? Some kind of idiot?
reads much the same as,
What are you? Some kind of idiot
which is how the person targeted by the post could easily have interpreted the original lines.
Ethan
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Guys, can we stop all this? I like a bit of back and forth banter as much as the next guy, but this has been going on waaaaaaaay too long.
There are people I expect never to persuade and people who expect never to persuade me, and that is OK.
There are people I expect never to persuade and people who expect never to persuade me, and that is OK.
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But I didn’t interpret it in a bad way, I took it as a generic statement.
RichA
Well-known member
Sorry. I was referring to the criticism of the poster whose omission of the question mark was raising questions, rather than the poster of the post that raised the response with the question mark.
SocketRocket
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I didn't misquote anything and certainly wasn't being underhanded.
If someone only poses a question then it would be phrased :
"How long should Covid regulations be maintained? "
If the question is followed by something like:
"untill there is zero Covid?".
This is suggesting the answer the person expects you to make and as such the question then becomes rhetorical and an accusation. The question mark is grammatically correct but due to it being accidentally missed in the cut and paste takes away nothing from the meaning.
I accept that the reply was to a post made to @paulj42 and not myself.
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
You think so…as for others who really have no idea so should keep your own counsel.
drdel
Tour Rookie
Its a thread on a hosted forum, so within the rules anyone can contribute.
Some content may be inane, OTT and boring. Nobody is forced to read and /or respond so if you're annoyed by the commentary why not simply stop reading and posting rather than highhandedly dictating to others.
Ethan
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Err, aren't you highhandedly dictating to me?
PNWokingham
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because that is the direction of travel, because we are vaccinated, because the NHS has coped with the massive spike in infections and most who are critical are unvaccinated and/or vulnerable, beacsue treating covid is way more advanced than it was, because restrictions cost the economy a lot of money, because servicing our national debt is becoming a lot more expoensive, because incomes are being squeezed and declining in real terms, because we need to maximise economic growth to pay for all these things and pump billions into the NHS, because for 99% of the poulation covid is not a killer or the big worry that is was this time last year, because restrictions have taken 2 years of our lives (or rephrase that been around to a greater/lesser degree for 2 years), because it has deeply affected our children's education and mental health, because we want to stop debating covid and restrictions. And this, unfortunately means that, round the margins, removing restrictions will still inconvenience a very small % of the poulatioin a bit longer (and maybe a bit harsher) - but, without being seen as unkind or uncaring of the vulnerable, that is what the majority of the poulation would want
Foxholer
Blackballed
'dictating'?! It was a relatively polie request imo!
'highhandedly'? Pot and Kettle springs to mind!
I can't imagine opinions of the main participants in the this particular area changing, so it certainly makes for rather dull reading of updates!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
It’s what YOU and some others on here want. I suggest that it’s not for you to presume that you speak for the majority when you don’t know. As it happens you may be right. That a small percentage of the population may suffer significant inconvenience does not it seems bother you that much as long as you don’t have to wear a bleedin mask, and take an occasional test. And yes…of course…the economy. Well I cannot comment further on that.
I would have fewer concerns were I to hear Whitty and Vallance look me straight in the eye down the tv camera lens and tell me that they agree. But I haven’t. And for very obvious and incontrovertible reasons I doubt the true motives of those behind what is happening and what is proposed.
And that is, I am afraid, the bottom line. Trust or lack of it.
Foxholer
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England numbers for Sunday sneak back over 1000. Wales and NI figures, but none availble for England/Scotland still suggest 'reporting delays' mean figures possibly aren't absolutely reliable. Good trend over last week though!
You have drawn the conclusion from a starting point of your own bias.
Swango1980
Well-known member
I think that is incredibly unfair.
You keep suggesting that people that are happy for restrictions to be lifted are not bothered about a small percentage of the population. And, there was no "?", so you definitely seemed to be suggesting that is how you feel. What about people that have vulnerable family members, who are happy about easing restrictions? Do they not care about their own family?
And, we just keep spinning around here. How long do you want the state to order us to wear a mask, given Covid will exist in some form or another for a very long time? And, we'll always have people that are vulnerable.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
I could accuse you of the same.
I've drawn them from a starting point of my understanding of the context.
This going on about whether a question mark was missed on purpose is now getting silly and completely out of context. I've finished discussing it now so you are at will to draw your own conclusions.
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