Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
Possibly not defending her actions but certainly deflecting the blame to the paper that reported it rather than the person that ignored the advice.
Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?
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Possibly not defending her actions but certainly deflecting the blame to the paper that reported it rather than the person that ignored the advice.
Who’s to say it was actual reporters on the ground, if I’d recognised her and managed to take a photo, I’d be selling it quicker than randy Andy deleting all his contacts on his phone!
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Whilst I agree with your other points, I have to point out that I haven't called for her to be sacked or for her to resign.Or. We could look at the story from the point of view that she’s been rightly reprimanded by the Police in the same way as many other people are being reprimanded daily. Should all those other people reprimanded immediately resign from their jobs too? Of course not.
People make mistakes, this modern clamour for resignation over any mistake is a political manipulation overriding common sense.
Besides which, everyone is missing the real story in all of this; that Priti Patel somehow pulled off a global pandemic to avoid getting the sack. One hell of a dead cat.
That is a Scottish matter and I have no real interest in it.
My point is she's given all and sundry a get out of jail card.
ColchesterFC
Journeyman Pro
Give it a rest man.…......How do you know that the CMO is not a Tory supporter.
Isn't she Scottish and aren't there only three Scots that support the Tories? If so, what are the odds that someone who has achieved her position in public life is also one of the three Tory supporting Scots?
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
Indeed and I didn’t mean to imply you were calling for her sacking, I was making a general point and your post was a convenient segue.
I do happen to disagree on the get out of jail card though. I view this as the principals of the lockdown being upheld in equity. She made a mistake, was caught, and so others will be.
D
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It’s not deflecting blame at all,just pointing out where the pictures come from.
I've said it a few times she deserves all the criticism that comes her way, that is of no doubt. The calls for her to lose her job or resign is OTT imo.
User20204
Well-known member
Your posts have always come across as coming from an intelligent man, yet trying to compare the CMO who has been live on TV to the nation telling everyone what to do getting caught, twice disobeying the very thing thing she is instructing the nation to do in the same bracket as "others" is almost the ramblings of the insane. It's just not comparable to others doing the same.
Jacko_G
Blackballed
Oooft let's start a GM paparazzi thread see who can get the best or most compromising photograph!
User20204
Well-known member
If the head of the Road Policing unit in the UK was caught speeding, twice while being on tv telling everyone not to speed do you think that individual should resign ?
Jamesbrown
Head Pro
biased, aka ‘doesn’t agree with your view’? Not sure if you’ve noticed, there’s not much golf to chat about currently
I wouldn’t waste your time, it’s usually chaps banging on about ties, sock colours, archaic traditions, HNSP and players asking for advice rather than seeking a professional.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Agreed
But there will, most likely, be many more than there would have been.
Foxholer
Blackballed
'Caught' is probably not the right expression.
Imo, She made a calculated risk that was really a blunder! The press will do their usual and harangue th woman over 1 small, but serious, error! As far as I woulf beam concerned, this simply serves as another warning of how much thought needs to go into everythinh we do to combat this crisis. It's not a time or the blame mentality to come to the foreground!
In fact, heading to the 2nd home (and there'ds probaby envy involed about having one) to prepare for isolation could wel have been part of the purpose - but not the main focus of the report.
Leftitshort
Well-known member
Will always be one rule etc etc, bet the queen isn’t on furlough
Leftitshort
Well-known member
No you are correct, presuming that she’s the best at her job, compromise more lives by impacting on healthcare mechanics than her direct actions will have ever done
D
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Are you really trying to prove a point with a hypothetocal scenario? ??
I’ll answer it though... he should be treated excatly the same as the commander in chief bottle washer who works at the local hungry horse would be.??
funkycoldmedina
Newbie
Boris has been admitted to hospital. I wish him all the best.
harpo_72
Journeyman Pro
Crikey how many pages of this is devoted to the Scottish CMO .. now Boris has gone in for further tests.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
And yet here we are. Two seemingly intelligent people with opposing views about the behaviour of a doctor in the midst of a global crisis in which modern society has been showed to be ill prepared and under great strain. Do you not think, that in exceptional times under great stress and distress, people make stupid mistakes? Is public shaming not punishment enough?
Unlike the braying masses I simply don’t agree that this is a resignation offence.
What’s that saying? Doctors are renowned for it. Goes something like. Do as I say, not as I do?
You know what, I’ve changed my mind. Every doctor should resign immediately. Every smoking, alcoholic last one of them. Obviously can’t do their jobs. Sack them all.
Is that better?
hovis
Tour Winner
with Boris going to hospital, the knob eds going out over the weekend and the good weather predicted next week I predict a propa lock down tomorrow evening!!!