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

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    #7352
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Apparently the whole household isolating if anyone has symptoms doesn't apply to him and he thought he'd be able to return to work even before the trip to Durham.


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    #7353
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Check the eyesight drive for 30km. Lol


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    #7354
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Theres a board on the wall in no10 with strings all over it to connect everything hes done to an excuse.


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    #7355
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,780 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Little Dommy, tell us what you did over the summer.
    Snorefest.


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    #7356
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    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.

    i dont have "sympathy" for him either, i'm just calling the story for what it is, political opportunism.


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    #7357
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,620 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Think hes off the hook now with the child ending up in hospital


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    #7358
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    robinph wrote: »
    Apparently the whole household isolating if anyone has symptoms doesn't apply to him and he thought he'd be able to return to work even before the trip to Durham.

    I noticed that as well, he's also just admitted visiting Barnard Castle Town, by accident apparently.


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    #7359
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Theres a board on the wall in no10 with strings all over it to connect everything hes done to an excuse.

    It will always come back to Pepe Silvia.

    ---

    This is the verbal version of a document dump.


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    #7360
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Good job he brought his wife and child in the car on the test drive to see if he could drive safely.


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    #7361
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Absolutely nothing he's said changes anything about why did he leave London.

    All we have learnt is what his voice sounds like.


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    #7362
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,971 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    i dont have "sympathy" for him either, i'm just calling the story for what it is, political opportunism.

    Nonsense. It's calling out hypocrisy and corruption. It's what the media is supposed to do.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #7363
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    devnull wrote: »
    I noticed that as well, he's also just admitted visiting Barnwell Castle.

    Barnard Castle Town.

    The town is called "Barnard Castle".


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    #7364
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I hope so much that this backfires. But I fear that this will get him off the hook. Boris will not take questions on the matter at his own press conference, will declare the matter closed, and then ride out the 48 hours of newspaper storm. By the time Starmer has a go at him at PMQs, it will be old news


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    #7365
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,224 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    So what hes saying is he broke self isolation. Good man!


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    #7366
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    i dont have "sympathy" for him either, i'm just calling the story for what it is, political opportunism.

    So reporting on someone breaking the rules is opportunism?

    Would you have rathered they ignore the story?


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    #7367
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    i dont have "sympathy" for him either, i'm just calling the story for what it is, political opportunism.

    What political gains are other tories and right wing news outlets making by it?


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    #7368
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭threeball


    This now sounds much worse since he explained it. He was jaunting around the place to local castles and rivers, driving to and fro whilst the rest of the country was locked up and to make it worse he and his wife were both positive for the virus.


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    #7369
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Media questions are stage managed - total sham.

    "I've got a list and to ask in this order."

    Guess who is first?


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    #7370
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    Doesn't seem so competent when he has to go off a script and actually answer questions


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    #7371
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    devnull wrote: »
    Media questions are stage managed - total sham.

    "I've got a list and to ask in this order."

    Guess who is first?

    She couldn't get to the mic quick enough!!!


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    #7372
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,971 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Who'd have thought small children mean that lockdown can be flouted?

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #7373
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,780 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Dom apologies for nuthin!


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    #7374
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    it was a rambling set of excuses and technicalities, be interesting to see if he's done enough


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    #7375
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭threeball


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Who'd have thought small children mean that lockdown can be flouted?

    Should always have one handy. Lockdown evasion, sympathy votes.... double points if the child is under one.


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    #7376
    maebee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭maebee


    LauraK pushing him on "do you regret?". He didn't answer that question.


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    #7377
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,666 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    The delay was probably due to react to the Durham Police added statement at 4pm.

    It seems well and truly gone over by a lawyer, but ultimately it's clear he broke guidelines in multiple places and that's just confirmation really.

    Again, the 'scandal' is why did the Cabinet decide to back an advisor blindly and numerous MPs with copy/paste comments today and now he started by saying he told Boris these details yesterday. Boris heard all this, all the breaches and backed him as doing the right thing....


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    #7378
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,409 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Stuttering and stammering now looking for sympathy


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    #7379
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    Why in the world wasn't he tested?


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    #7380
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,620 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    The guy must have a huge network of friends and family in London. Its simply not credible that he has to drive 260 miles for child care


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    #7381
    Enzokk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭Enzokk


    He has put his side of the story, there are holes in it and it shows he thinks he is exceptional and didn't need to abide by the rules. The PM needs to come back and explain why the rules are changing if you have a child and you are sick.

    Also, who drives to see if it is safe if they are having trouble with their eyesight? And 30 miles away? Really?


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