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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited January 2022 in The potting shed
18 didn't last long.😒

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Bojo the Clown's press conference. 
    Um , I tried , um counting the ums but um, I um couldn't um keep up um with, um how many um times he's um said it. 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Try counting Stratton's sniffs.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Try counting Stratton's sniffs.
    at least she's gone
    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Why was she crying? For herself. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited December 2021
    raisingirl said:
    Why was she crying? For herself. 
    the loss of a massive tax payer funded salary.
    £125,000 a year
    https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/who-allegra-stratton-eye-watering-6323072
    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I don't follow why Stratton had to go. If there wasn't a party, then what they did was neither here nor there. If there was a party, then the people at the party, and the ones now covering it up should go. A press secretary rehearsing what might be asked in jokey way seems a poor excuse for resignation in comparison. Makes you think the deflection claim may be true. Have a quick briefing to get Covid front and foremost again and get that on the front pages - announce a press secretary has resigned - and hope that that sacrifice is enough to appease the gullible public.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As Oliver Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.

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





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Just listening to Sajid. The reason why yesterday - basically the rate of infection for Omicron. OK, but what is being said now only echoes what was assumed before - ie that Omicron was vastly more transmissible. On that assumption, you introduce the plan anyway don't you - and then relax if those 'assumptions' are wrong? Why leave it days for the base number to increase - track and trace and stamp on it early. Don't wait for 500, 1000 cases.
    I must be a cynic, but to now allow people to work from home when they can, but to go anywhere else indoors, where food and drink are consumed, and mix without masks (especially in the lead up to Christmas) just seems barking if the rate of transmission is the issue.
    The interviewer is just tackling Stratton's resignation and seems to follow my thought - why resign if no party? I think she's been hung out to dry.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    They were talking to a former MP last night who I think summed Boris up very accurately.  He said basically that Boris has never really grown up and still thinks in the way a child would.  When asked a question where you know you are guilty, simply fib and hope no more questions will be asked.  Everybody else knows you aren't telling the truth, you know you aren't telling the truth, but the matter is dropped.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited December 2021
    I think the frustration is in the mixed messaging more than anything. It was telling at the briefing how Whitty and Vallance reacted on a couple of occasions. When Boris was pressed on office parties he basically said '...yep, keep doing nativities and parties...', but Vallance urged a more cautious approach, saying that vaccines had helped but the other interventions still had an important part to play (paraphrased).
    Yesterday's briefing would have been vastly better for the public if Boris hadn't been there and it would have been more interesting to actually know what interventions the 'science' would be recommending now if the politicians weren't in the way. With Boris, it just became mired in his equivocations. I was quite impressed that he never mentioned Peppa Pig though.

    Edited to add: I know that all policy is based on the advice and the impact of that advice, so is a balancing act. But I would like to know the base recommendations and then to hear what the policy becomes after the politicians take the country's overall state into account.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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