Coronavirus - political views - supporting or otherwise...

[SocketRocket]

I dont.. i stopped watchign a few weeks ago as it is general BS. Over the past few weeks of trying to hunt for dental PPE made me realise how we are yet to fix this massive gap.
(now let me wait for someone to come along and say that the PPE thing is nonsense).. BTW, depending on your treatment, this is how your next dental visit may look like

You look in every crack and cranny for a reason to complain about the Government. Try just a little balance.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Hancock! You had one job.?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273141009019437057

 

[Hacker Khan]

Hancock! You had one job.?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273141009019437057

I'm sure those who were so enraged about a black women possibly not knowing that Churchill was dead will be equally as enraged that one one of the leading politicians in our country does not know the name of one of the most famous people in the UK yesterday in terms of media coverage. After all one is only in charge of our Covid response in terms of health, where as the other is in the powerful position of chair of an independent policy advisory committee in Lambeth .

it is also entirely possible they both made a silly but unintentional slip up live on TV as people always will do. But where's the fun in that narrative.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I'm sure those who were so enraged about a black women possibly not knowing that Churchill was dead will be equally as enraged that one one of the leading politicians in our country does not know the name of one of the most famous people in the UK yesterday in terms of media coverage. After all one is only in charge of our Covid response in terms of health, where as the other is in the powerful position of chair of an independent policy advisory committee in Lambeth .

it is also entirely possible they both made a silly but unintentional slip up live on TV as people always will do. But where's the fun in that narrative.

Said Rashford had done a “terrific” job! and I thought it was the Government’s job to look after the 3.5 million children in poverty! tories should be embarrassed by Rashford needing to get involved.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I'm not saying that there isn't deprivation and that many families need more help, but with due respect Mrs D worked daily in a primary school for 27 years, knew the kids and the parents and there were a fair number on benefits but the parents were not spending the money on their kids and looked for every freebie going and, yes, they did have the things I mentioned. No, not all, not even the majority but then I haven't mentioned the ones on drugs, alcoholics, those who assault their children etc etc!
I suspect when the Chair of Governers visits its like when Ofsted come

About 20 years ago maybe. But times have changed when the chair was usually a member of the local Masons, drank sherry and mostly just proposed a vote of thanks to the head for all the hard work they were doing. Nowadays I get a friendly hello from people in in the school when I pop in but they really do not care. And rightly so.

 

[AmandaJR]

Hancock! You had one job.?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273141009019437057

That explains what Dan Walker was joshing him about this morning. I was going to post in Things That Gladden how refreshing it was to see a journalist and politician having some genuine banter. Hancock's face was a picture as he genuinely chuckled at his faux pas. We so seldom see the human side of politicians and it struck me how we might view them ALL a bit differently if we saw that more often.

Please don't take this as a debate or that we have different opinions!

 

[patricks148]

Hancock! You had one job.?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273141009019437057

look on the bright side at least he didn't give Daniel Radcliffe the credit

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Hancock! You had one job.?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273141009019437057

That explains what Dan Walker was joshing him about this morning. I was going to post in Things That Gladden how refreshing it was to see a journalist and politician having some genuine banter. Hancock's face was a picture as he genuinely chuckled at his faux pas. We so seldom see the human side of politicians and it struck me how we might view them ALL a bit differently if we saw that more often.

Please don't take this as a debate or that we have different opinions!

I saw him on BBC holding his hands up and laughing about this. Nice to see both the interviewer and the politician seeing the funny side, no points looking to be scored, a politician not inventing a feeble excuse. Two real humans at work

 

[AmandaJR]

I saw him on BBC holding his hands up and laughing about this. Nice to see both the interviewer and the politician seeing the funny side, no points looking to be scored, a politician not inventing a feeble excuse. Two real humans at work

It stood out to me as so different from the norm and so refreshing. Dan Hancock (see what I did there!) looked a different man when he laughed - like the weight of the world was briefly lifted from his shoulders.

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Pity a football player can do a better job than the Parliamentary opposition.

Yep that's the take home message from this fiasco?
Still asking for a levy from foreign NHS workers and stopping meal vouchers for kids during the summer has nothing to do with the incumbent governments lack of moral compass and everything to do with the failures of the opposition. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Ha Ha, Diane Abbott made 1 mistake about Police numbers and has been crucified for years! A tory makes a mistake and it’s human and refreshing to see.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Yep that's the take home message from this fiasco?
Still asking for a levy from foreign NHS workers and stopping meal vouchers for kids during the summer has nothing to do with the incumbent governments lack of moral compass and everything to do with the failures of the opposition. Thanks for clearing that up.

10yrs and no tory spotted it! Damn those Labour politicians keeping it a secret.

 

[Mudball]

You look in every crack and cranny for a reason to complain about the Government. Try just a little balance.

i (think) i dont... if you go back to some of my earlier posts, i have been gushing over the financial packages. I think the furlonging approach was very good and measured. Unfortunately, they seem to get more wrong than right. The clinical trials have been fantastic... equally the whole PPE and kids meal is omnishambles.
The PPE is very close to home for me and i can see the frustration first hand. Mrs put in '00s of her own money to order it so she can see her patients. Despite that last night, the guy called to say, he could not source it. They also ordered bulk, and the quality that turned up had to be rejected, incl from so called british manufacturers - some of them are unscrupulously rebranding things from the far east and selling it at a premium. Similarly i have seen some of the kid challenges, so i wont go into that one. Let me not get started on DomCom

Finally, the favorite chestnut, Brexit. Again, i have accepted we are leavers, but lets make it proper rather cheap political wrangling, point scoring and empty promises.

 

[Mudball]

Pity a football player can do a better job than the Parliamentary opposition.

We have got to a stage that we trust footy players more than MPs - on either side of the floor.. that is the travesty rather than calling out Labour or the opposition

 

[Hacker Khan]

We have got to a stage that we trust footy players more than MPs - on either side of the floor.. that is the travesty rather than calling out Labour or the opposition

A result of going into the last election with 2 party leaders with historically low trust ratings so it was mostly who is the least worst. Reap what you sow and all that. Trust does matter but that seems to be increasingly forgotten in the rush to 'not be the opposition'.

 

[rudebhoy]

Pity a football player can do a better job than the Parliamentary opposition.

what a load of drivel. Starmer has been pushing Johnson for weeks to extend the scheme for the school holidays, and Johnson has refused to do so. The fact that he finally caves in after a 22yo footballer embarrasses him into it is hardly Labour's fault.

 

[SocketRocket]

what a load of drivel. Starmer has been pushing Johnson for weeks to extend the scheme for the school holidays, and Johnson has refused to do so. The fact that he finally caves in after a 22yo footballer embarrasses him into it is hardly Labour's fault.

Starmer didnt do a very good job of convincing him then.

While I'm replying, you want to look at your posting style, its becoming very aggressive.

 

[SocketRocket]

i (think) i dont... if you go back to some of my earlier posts, i have been gushing over the financial packages. I think the furlonging approach was very good and measured. Unfortunately, they seem to get more wrong than right. The clinical trials have been fantastic... equally the whole PPE and kids meal is omnishambles.
The PPE is very close to home for me and i can see the frustration first hand. Mrs put in '00s of her own money to order it so she can see her patients. Despite that last night, the guy called to say, he could not source it. They also ordered bulk, and the quality that turned up had to be rejected, incl from so called british manufacturers - some of them are unscrupulously rebranding things from the far east and selling it at a premium. Similarly i have seen some of the kid challenges, so i wont go into that one. Let me not get started on DomCom

Finally, the favorite chestnut, Brexit. Again, i have accepted we are leavers, but lets make it proper rather cheap political wrangling, point scoring and empty promises.

Thanks for the well put reply.

 

[SocketRocket]

Yep that's the take home message from this fiasco?
Still asking for a levy from foreign NHS workers and stopping meal vouchers for kids during the summer has nothing to do with the incumbent governments lack of moral compass and everything to do with the failures of the opposition. Thanks for clearing that up.

Little bit of an extrapolation of my point there.

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Little bit of an extrapolation of my point there.

How is it?