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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • As I said ... they're all keeping their distance for fear of being tainted by association with Boris ... when he crashes he'll try to take them all down with him ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They'll be hard pushed to find anyone we've ever heard of to replace him. They've all got a whiff of one or more scandals about them.
    Because this is the RTBC thread, I'm going to say there might be a talented MP, pure of thought and deed waiting quietly in the background to take over the reins and lead us all to health and prosperity and save the planet while they're at it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Called Parcifal.....or is that Fancifal?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    steveTu said:
    Called Parcifal.....or is that Fancifal?

    or just farcical? 
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They all know exactly what’s going on,  Boris only came into the job to ‘get Brexit done’. He doesn’t want the rest of the job.
    No doubt end up in the House of Lords at some point. 
    Just another thing to get people riled up. 
    Can’t  fault them on the vaccine roll out though.  Well, I can’t, I doubt anyone else in here will think he did well in that.
    I’m just thankful it wasn’t that dreaded Corbin running the show. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I am no supporter of Corbyn but how do we know that he would have been worse?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    That's always been my attitude with any decision. If you make a decision for 'the right reasons', then it is always the best decision as it was the decision you made at that point in time. Looking back and playing what if just doesn't work as you tend to always look at the alternatives  through rosy coloured specs.
    The country chose conservative and the conservatives chose Boris. We can only ever judge on their performance.

    I'm not sure that the vaccine rollout was, in the long run, any/much better than other comparable countries. It went off very fast, but then slowed. And isn't any uptake based on the public anyway? People in this country seemed to want the vaccine - that's half the battle won isn't it? But the mantra has been based on Brexit and get it done. And that is what Boris wants to be remembered come the election. They're the part that gets things done - Brexit/vaccine - whether those things are good or bad is neither here nor there - it's that repeated mantra that they want in your brain.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    steveTu said:

    People in this country seemed to want the vaccine - that's half the battle won isn't it? 
    And the other half?   Getting the supplies maybe? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Fine, but it was the NHS and volunteers that got it into the peoples' arms - the praise so far, to me, is to be given to the poor sods in the NHS and support staff who have worked tirelessly throughout this mess under extreme conditions. 

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Think I need a cheer folks. Just changed the filters on my water system. It's a job I hate doing with a passion - a hands and knees type of job and then grab hold of something to get up. I'm cheerful now.  o:)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
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