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

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  • #7322
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,930 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


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


    Is he magically now a remainer as well?

    Cummings is notorious for being a c*nt. He's widely despised across Westminster.

    I'm no fan of Baker's but it's nice to see one of them speak sense from time to time.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #7323
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Plenty of Brexit types now see the danger that a rogue SPAD poses to a government and certain the PM of that administration. They fear the ship of state being holed and Brexit being damaged


  • #7324
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    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.

    Does that apply to all people who break the rules they themselves make?

    Thousands of people in Britain have been fined for breaking those rules.


  • #7325
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    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?
    ok maybe not "whole" but i'd say a decent amount of the media impetus is indeed remainer revenge. thats how i read it anyway. i dont believe anyone really gives a f*ck where DC drives his car.


  • #7326
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Is he even doing one at all?? Or is he just taking the piss.


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  • #7327
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Does that apply to all people who break the rules they themselves make?

    Thousands of people in Britain have been fined for breaking those rules.
    So let him be fined


  • #7328
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Is the delay just so that he can avoid questions as the main daily press conference is due at 5pm and he can't clash with that?

    Predicting a swift statement and exit stage right. No questions asked.


  • #7329
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,145 ✭✭✭threeball


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    From memory the rose garden behind no.10 is pretty small as gardens go, its about 20 or 25 metres in length. With 2m social distancing that means each journalist needs 16 square metres of space around them meaning there will be sod all there.

    4qm. A metre in front and behind, a metre to either side. 2m x 2m. Next person has the same so you end up with 2m spacing.


  • #7330
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,169 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So let him be fined


    But they didn't fine him, they said he did nothing wrong and now the incompetent AG has completely clouded the whole thing by basically saying its okay to break the rules if your doing it for your family meaning god knows how many previously issued fines can be appealed


  • #7331
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    ok maybe not "whole" but i'd say a decent amount of the media impetus is indeed remainer revenge. thats how i read it anyway. i dont believe anyone really gives a f*ck where DC drives his car.

    I'd accept a bit of payback involved, Cummings has treated both mirror and guardian journalists abysmally since he got his power. But immaterial really, it's a story of national interest and they served their duty in reporting it rigorously. This is one of the most powerful figures shaping government policy, they had a right to tell the story.


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  • #7332
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    at a time of mass unemployment and spiralling nation debt, i just think the UK has bigger fish to fry. its a sideshow and not a very interesting one.


  • #7333
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So let him be fined

    Yeah, he got away without a fine too......


    Do you see no issue with the people that make the rules being above them?


  • #7334
    Sawduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    I can imagine that behind the scenes its like an episode of The Thick of It


  • #7335
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,727 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    VinLieger wrote: »
    What a sad little strawman you've constructed

    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Did he actually say that? That's not what the linked tweet says.


    https://twitter.com/cristo_radio/status/1264927115746717698


    https://twitter.com/queenchristina_/status/1264936745700900866


    More people pleased about this unexpected briefing. Of course they have no objection to it whatsoever. More than welcome it I'm sure.


  • #7336
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,930 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Here we go.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #7337
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,613 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    This Cummings presser is the most bizarre thing I've seen for a while.


  • #7338
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,069 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    That noise in the background is chronic.


  • #7339
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    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?

    What has that got to do with him breaking the rules that he was part of implementing?


  • #7340
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,169 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    AllForIt wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/cristo_radio/status/1264927115746717698


    https://twitter.com/queenchristina_/status/1264936745700900866


    More people pleased about this unexpected briefing. Of course they have no objection to it whatsoever. More than welcome it I'm sure.


    But thats not what James o brien said which is what your originally claimed.


    Going off to desperately search twitter to find examples that were tweeted over an hour after your original post you falsely claiming its what james o brien wanted is quite pathetic


  • #7341
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Panthro wrote: »
    That noise in the background is chronic.

    Is it a rogue vuvuzela?


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  • #7342
    Ohmeha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭Ohmeha


    Go on Dominic play your little violin


  • #7343
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    This is like the tall tales of Billy Bunter


  • #7344
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Is it a rogue vuvuzela?

    its kind of proving his point about his being a target for unpleasantness


  • #7345
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Seems worrying that the Prime Ministers closest aid cant have a member of the police outisde his door if hes worried about people on twitter that dont like him.............


  • #7346
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    at a time of mass unemployment and spiralling nation debt, i just think the UK has bigger fish to fry. its a sideshow and not a very interesting one.

    And yet you keep posting about it.

    Shame that Dominic and Boris have decided to create this sideshow I guess.


  • #7347
    Enzokk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,051 ✭✭✭Enzokk


    He is doubling down on the advice that few were aware of that if you had a small child you could defy the lockdown rules and guidance.


  • #7348
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Have to give them their dues, some great scriptwriters here.

    But a lot of what he says doesn't add up and he still seems to think that if he has the problems it's okay for him to act a certain way despite the fact that others were told not to


  • #7349
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,930 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    its kind of proving his point about his being a target for unpleasantness

    He's a professional sh*t stirrer. I have no sympathy for him. He's said that it's no big deal if a few pensioners die from Covid-19.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #7350
    maebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭maebee


    He's painful to listen to. Too much explaining from him.


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  • #7351
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    devnull wrote: »
    Have to give them their dues, some great scriptwriters here.

    But a lot of what he says doesn't add up and he still seems to think that if he has the problems it's okay for him to act a certain way despite the fact that others were told not to

    The statement is really irrelevant. The point is to humanise him I guess.


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