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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Johnson's sister doesn't agree much with him. I don't think a person's politics is always a genetic problem but there are some excellent examples which would prove me wrong.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Yes, yes and yes in my opinion, but each to their own. I should think right now the UK electorate hold most of the EU leaders in contempt and distrust - what a right mess they've made of their vaccine roll out, talk about sheer incompetence and grandstanding. All this fuss about Astra Zeneca is to hide their inept bungling from their citizens.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited March 2021
    KT53 said:
    Corbyn may have denied that Covid19 existed.  That's what his brother believes.
    And then again he may not. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53846319

    One cant choose our relatives and cant be blamed for their follies . I understand the feelings towards Jeremy Corbin from some on these forums, but if one looked at the policies and not the personality he had a perfectly viable plan for the country which would have made those at the bottom a lot better off than the Eton toff now running the country for his and his mates own ends.

    Thatcher destroyed the manufacturing base in the country especially in the north and yet they keep voting in the very people that treat them with contempt and destroyed the very means of their livelihoods in favour of finance and low paid service industries.

    I simply don't understand how the English electorate think .Are they really so naive as to keep voting the very people in that make their lives worse year in year out... to me It seems so.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Lizzie27 said:
    Yes, yes and yes in my opinion, but each to their own. I should think right now the UK electorate hold most of the EU leaders in contempt and distrust - what a right mess they've made of their vaccine roll out, talk about sheer incompetence and grandstanding. All this fuss about Astra Zeneca is to hide their inept bungling from their citizens.

    I was just reading that the over 80s in Germany have to fill in multiple forms and then apply on line to get the vaccine.  If they then turn up with any of the forms missing or incorrectly completed they are refused the vaccine.  Under 10% of the population done so far!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Kili said:

    I simply don't understand how the English electorate think .Are they really so naive as to keep voting the very people in that make their lives worse year in year out... to me It seems so.
    I haven't seen any Government in the UK do a particularly great job over the past couple of decades.  Most politicians seems to be more interested in what they will get out of it when they retire than anything else.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Blair was the last good PM, and yes I do mean that.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    He had his squirm inducing moments and he sucked up to the Americans and looked silly in a cowboy hat but you're probably right @punkdoc
    Cheri's supermarket sweep was cringe- making too.
    But when all's said and done, was there ever a political leader who managed to have a bit of class all the time?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We'll have to agree to differ on that one Punkdoc.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I believe Disraeli was a very pleasant gentleman. 
    My RTBC is good weather forecast for next few days. I have a meal planned with friends on Tuesday and we won’t have to freeze hopefully! 
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