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The UK response to Covid-19 [MOD WARNING 1ST POST]

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  • #7292
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Laura K and a few other sycophants.


  • #7293
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Ah please let Beth Rigby sink her teeth into him, no other juorno needs to be present.


  • #7294
    swampgas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭swampgas


    bilston wrote: »
    Sorry, but this I don't agree with. I have little time for the man, but harassing him outside his own home, where his kids live is crossing the line.

    There are far more important lines being crossed right now by Johnson, the cabinet, and Dominic Cummings. He can hardly whinge "not fair!" about being shouted at when he's literally risking killing people with his actions.

    It's a typical case of one rule for you (be polite and don't shout at me) and another rule for me (I'll break all the rules and conventions I like).


  • #7295
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,439 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    Laura K and a few other sycophants.
    I'm no fan of hers but I think that the piece she had today on the BBC website was hardly supportive:
    Rather than acknowledging a tiny iota of conflict or fraction of fault, instead Mr Johnson seemed to double down on what many people see as a double standard.
    But this time, the misdemeanour goes against the grain of what millions of people were putting up with in lockdown at Boris Johnson's own instruction. Many of them are understandably angry.
    Did the prime minister manage to shut this mess down today? Not even close.


  • #7296
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    The only person other than the PM that should be holding personal press conferences from No.10 is Larry the Cat, and possibly the guy who stands behind the door permanently waiting to open it for everyone upon his retirement.

    WTF is an advisor doing getting to dress themselves in the trapping of the PM's office for holding a press conference about his personal misdemeanours?


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  • #7297
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The whole Dominic Cummings furore boils down to Remainer revenge. BoJo can do no right in the eyes of the bbc and guardian.


  • #7298
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    devnull wrote: »
    It will be cherrypicked journos that's for sure.

    Sky just showed what looked like journos walking in, about 8 or 10 by the looks of it


  • #7299
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Seems The Mirror will be there anyway:

    https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1264916089701634048?s=19


  • #7300
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    The whole Dominic Cummings furore boils down to Remainer revenge. BoJo can do no right in the eyes of the bbc and guardian.

    and the notoriously left wing remainer paper the mail


  • #7301
    Mike3287
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭Mike3287


    Pinky and the brain up now


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  • #7302
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I await the statement of the real Prime Minister


  • #7303
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    The whole Dominic Cummings furore boils down to Remainer revenge. BoJo can do no right in the eyes of the bbc and guardian.

    It really doesn't. But don't let reality get in the way.


  • #7304
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,825 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Water John wrote: »
    Ah please let Beth Rigby sink her teeth into him, no other juorno needs to be present.
    Beth is in there according to Adam Boulton


  • #7305
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    and the notoriously left wing remainer paper the mail
    yes they've took agin him too

    Boris post covid looks a broken man to me


  • #7306
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Beth is in there according to Adam Boulton

    Didn't sound.sure she would get r question though.


  • #7307
    Mushy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,213 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Bit late, wonder did he misjudged the traffic coming down from Durham


  • #7308
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,701 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Well at least ye got out from under the thumb of those powerful unelected Bureaucrats lads! :)


  • #7309
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,825 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    devnull wrote: »
    Didn't sound.sure she would get r question though.
    If you were DC, would you let her ask a question?


  • #7310
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    It really doesn't. But don't let reality get in the way.

    do you deny that DC is a hate figure who is seen as a driving force behind a hard brexit and a threat to the BBC's licence fee?


  • #7311
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Jon Craig on sky there saying Cummings divides the tories - remainers hate him and brexiteers love him. Pretty poor analysis that i think, brexiteers hate cummings as much as remainers. Did he not listen to Steve Baker yesterday. I'd bet outside of Johnson and Gove, no-one would shed a tear to see the back of Dom.


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  • #7312
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Jon Craig on sky there saying Cummings divides the tories - remainers hate him and brexiteers love him. Pretty poor analysis that i think, brexiteers hate cummings as much as remainers. Did he not listen to Steve Baker yesterday. I'd bet outside of Johnson and Gove, no-one would shed a tear to see the back of Dom.
    apparently he's a right arsehole. he's messed up here and his many enemies smell blood in the water but the actual offensive itself (breaking restrictions) is a storm in a tea cup.


  • #7313
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Pologise dom.
    Apologise.


  • #7314
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    do you deny that DC is a hate figure who is seen as a driving force behind a hard brexit and a threat to the BBC's licence fee?
    That's moving the goalposts a lot. I douby anyone will deny he is a figure of hate amongst Remain voters.

    But you literally said 'the whole Dominic Cummings furore boils down to Remainer revenge'.
    So how come arch-Brexiteer MPs are also on his case?


  • #7315
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    do you deny that DC is a hate figure who is seen as a driving force behind a hard brexit and a threat to the BBC's licence fee?

    Nobody should even know who he is. He made himself a public figure.


  • #7316
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    If you were DC, would you let her ask a question?

    If I were Rigby I'd give someone else the question! And coach them on the best type of follow up if they get the chance.


  • #7317
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Wondering how this will go. He is not a polished politician who is experienced with the rough and tumble of a press conference. Plus he has a disdain and contempt for the media as well as him having a temper. If he gets angry and loses his cool this could be a car crash.


  • #7318
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    apparently he's a right arsehole. he's messed up here and his many enemies smell blood in the water but the actual offensive itself (breaking restrictions) is a storm in a tea cup.

    I dunno, if i was a parent or sibling who wasnt able to attend a loved one's funeral or see them on their death bed because i followed the rules, i doubt I'd be able to see it that way.


  • #7319
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,169 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    do you deny that DC is a hate figure who is seen as a driving force behind a hard brexit and a threat to the BBC's licence fee?


    Explain Steve "Brexit Hardman" Baker, Deputy Chair of the ERG coming out publicly against cummings


    Is he magically now a remainer as well?


  • #7320
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    apparently he's a right arsehole. he's messed up here and his many enemies smell blood in the water but the actual offensive itself (breaking restrictions) is a storm in a tea cup.

    It's a much bigger storm in a much bigger teacup than the Scottish CMO or the professor.


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  • #7321
    helpful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭helpful


    Making people wait is really helping his case.


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