Britain - The Official Thread

[adamp93]

He said he acted responsibly and legally. He also admitted to driving to Barnard Castle as a test drive because his eyesight was affected by his illness. That sounds like an unnecessary journey which is definitely against the rules and putting your child in the car when you're unsure if you're fit to drive is in no way responsible.

 

[Scaff]

Say wha?

Don’t, that ones an anti-vaxer with a very, very poor grasp of science.

 

[Dotini]

The BBC America overnight radio have characterized the Cummings imbroglio as class warfare; one rule for the rulers, another rule for the ruled.
Over here we might call it rued, screwed, blued and tattooed.

 

[Scaff]

Gove has backed DC by saying that he has also gone for a drive to see if his sight is good enough to still be able to drive!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...stCpwBQIa3L_YtcenH9xrDj9arAcfHWDFPa7BslpyjRug

The highway code is quite clear that both of them have now admitted to committing a motoring offence.

https://www.gov.uk/driving-eyesight-rules

Oh and I forgot to mention, DC's claim in the press conference to have 'predicted' Covid-19 in his blog is utter ********, it was edited to add that bit over the course of the last month, seems he's not aware of the waybackwhen website.
https://www.newstatesman.com/scienc...onference-blog-predicted-covid-19-coronavirus

 

[Liquid]

Boris Johnson also claims he hadn't "worn glasses in years" prior to covid affecting his own eyesight. This appears to be at odds with comments he made in 2014 (to the Heil, no clicky but I read the article) that he is so blind that he needs glasses to see anything around the house.

If he is so short sighted that he needs glasses to see things in his own home, why hadn't he worn them in years until now? He's worn them as recently as last year.

At worst, it's an outright lie but at best, it's a needless exaggeration clutching at straws.

Excuse me whilst I drive to football training tonight without my own glasses. Just to double check how bad my eyes really are.

 

[adamp93]

Oh and I forgot to mention, DC's claim in the press conference to have 'predicted' Covid-19 in his blog is utter ********, it was edited to add that bit over the course of the last month, seems he's not aware of the waybackwhen website.
https://www.newstatesman.com/scienc...onference-blog-predicted-covid-19-coronavirus

If he could have predicted it coming and the severity of it then that makes their handling of the crisis even worse. These are calculated lies that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

 

[Dotini]

If he could have predicted it coming and the severity of it then that makes their handling of the crisis even worse. These are calculated lies that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Was there a time in history when liars had their tongues removed?

 

[Submerged]

Gove has backed DC by saying that he has also gone for a drive to see if his sight is good enough to still be able to drive!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...stCpwBQIa3L_YtcenH9xrDj9arAcfHWDFPa7BslpyjRug

The highway code is quite clear that both of them have now admitted to committing a motoring offence.

https://www.gov.uk/driving-eyesight-rules

Oh and I forgot to mention, DC's claim in the press conference to have 'predicted' Covid-19 in his blog is utter ********, it was edited to add that bit over the course of the last month, seems he's not aware of the waybackwhen website.
https://www.newstatesman.com/scienc...onference-blog-predicted-covid-19-coronavirus

Boris Johnson also claims he hadn't "worn glasses in years" prior to covid affecting his own eyesight. This appears to be at odds with comments he made in 2014 (to the Heil, no clicky but I read the article) that he is so blind that he needs glasses to see anything around the house.

If he is so short sighted that he needs glasses to see things in his own home, why hadn't he worn them in years until now? He's worn them as recently as last year.

At worst, it's an outright lie but at best, it's a needless exaggeration clutching at straws.

Excuse me whilst I drive to football training tonight without my own glasses. Just to double check how bad my eyes really are.

Digging a very large, large hole comes to mind.

I just don't understand why they are protecting Cummings as nothing makes sense and it is damaging the government's reputation.

The consistent previous message of "stay at home" left nothing in doubt that everyone was expected to do as the best they could to keep themselves isolated, rather than going out and about, even though in an isolated metal can, was a cause for police interest and action to getting fined and/or reported on.

Of course, neither Cummings OR Gove is going to be getting a visit from the police to highlight the fact that they both just admitted, on national TV, that they committed an serious traffic offense, as well as legitimising it for anyone else to do the same!

Personally, it just makes it feels like that lockdown enforcement is a sham and what's stopping anyone in the UK from disregarding the need to be alert and keep social distincing and just go back to normal? Well, the case numbers are going down.... deaths are going down....

Government cocked it up with this situation..... they are all bark and no bite.... Yeah, lets just go back to normal and disregard everything we did for the past 9 weeks.

So disappointing

 

[Touring Mars]

Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ers-stop-dominic-cummings-trending-on-twitter

I'm guessing it's because of his surname, but possibly also because he is a 🤬

 

[polysmut]

Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ers-stop-dominic-cummings-trending-on-twitter

I'm guessing it's because of his surname, but possibly also because he is a 🤬

This bit

Bizarrely, the shortened hashtag #cumgate has also trended, since the first word of the sentence is not included in Twitter’s filter list, apparently in an attempt to avoid the Scunthorpe problem applying too broadly – for instance, by blocking words such as “scum”, “cumbersome” or “cumulative”.

reminded me of the Susan Boyle album launch hashtag.

 

[Dotini]

From a distance, Cummings would seem by far the most important man in the realm. He's the focus of all the buzz. He's the genius spider at the center of web. His slightest motions are scrutinized in the greatest detail. He's THE man charting the course empire takes. The PM is a helpless, pitiful baby without him. The fate of every man, woman and child rests solely upon his exertions. Clearly he is the most influential, most dangerous unelected leader since Cromwell nearly four centuries ago.

 

[polysmut]

From a distance, Cummings would seem by far the most important man in the realm. He's the focus of all the buzz. He's the genius spider at the center of web. His slightest motions are scrutinized in the greatest detail. He's THE man charting the course empire takes. The PM is a helpless, pitiful baby without him. The fate of every man, woman and child rests solely upon his exertions. Clearly he is the most influential, most dangerous unelected leader since Cromwell nearly five centuries ago.

Just based on non-scientific guesswork I'd say he's less influential than Rupert Murdoch.

 

[Scaff]

From a distance, Cummings would seem by far the most important man in the realm. He's the focus of all the buzz. He's the genius spider at the center of web. His slightest motions are scrutinized in the greatest detail. He's THE man charting the course empire takes. The PM is a helpless, pitiful baby without him. The fate of every man, woman and child rests solely upon his exertions. Clearly he is the most influential, most dangerous unelected leader since Cromwell nearly four centuries ago.

You're bloody obsessed with Cromwell.

 

[Lizard]

You're bloody obsessed with Cromwell.

I lived in a cottage Cromwell stayed a night once.

Am I cool now? @Dotini

 

[polysmut]

I lived in a cottage Cromwell stayed a night once.

Am I cool now? @Dotini

How was he?

 

[Barra333]

You're bloody obsessed with Cromwell.

Based on the anecdotes @Dotini shares in the motorsport trivia thread, I believe they may be contemporaries.

 

[Lizard]

How was he?

He was good. We enjoyed a pot of tea together.

 

[Roo]

He was good. We enjoyed a pot of tea together.

Did he send you a Christmas card?

 

[TexRex]

This bit

reminded me of the Susan Boyle album launch hashtag.

 

[Lizard]

Did he send you a Christmas card?

He sent me the king's head as a gift.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I had never realised the hidden implications of Scunthorpe. Mind blown.

 

[Submerged]

... Did anyone catch the Liaison Committee that Boris Johnson just did?

As well as the Coronavirus press meeting after?

Matt Hancock saying that the public can and will do their part to stop the increase of the virus by following the rules and at present, it will be voluntary seems excessively short sighted to say that.

And Boris Johnson did not come across at all that well in terms of being able to ask certain questions and didn't seem to be able to take good control of his words itself (Which is understandable if you hadn't actually prepared for some questions clearly).

It just seems all a little disorganised.

 

[Liquid]

From a distance, Cummings would seem by far the most important man in the realm. He's the focus of all the buzz.

He's no Malcolm Tucker.

For Johnson, Cummings is the heat magnet. Cummings doesn't care if people don't like him but Johnson does care if people don't like him.

 

[Famine]

I had never realised the hidden implications of Scunthorpe. Mind blown.

One of three football teams with expletives in their name, you know.

 

[adamp93]

One of three football teams with expletives in their name, you know.

I can't believe I'd never heard that one before. For anyone else, language warning (obviously):

Spoiler

 

[Dotini]

He's no Malcolm Tucker.

For Johnson, Cummings is the heat magnet. Cummings doesn't care if people don't like him but Johnson does care if people don't like him.

Yes, Cummings is very much a real-world figure, highly sought after and influential without holding public office. Johnson, on the other hand, seems like an amiable bumbler, and perhaps he hasn't quite recovered form his illness. He's expendable.

 

[Famine]

I can't believe I'd never heard that one before. For anyone else, language warning (obviously):

Spoiler

I love Stephen, but it is and always has been Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and ****ing Leeds.

 

[Liquid]

Yes, Cummings is very much a real-world figure, highly sought after and influential without holding public office. Johnson, on the other hand, seems like an amiable bumbler, and perhaps he hasn't quite recovered form his illness. He's expendable.

If you've never watched it or heard of it, I think you would really, really love the English political sitcom Yes, Minister. The basic dynamic is that the elected politician is a here today, gone tomorrow expendable whereas the civil servant permanent secretary is the unelected true power manipulator.

You will cream yourself when you get to know the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby.

 

[polysmut]

I love Stephen, but it is and always has been Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and ****ing Leeds.

It's always been 🤬 Hartlepool.

 

[Lizard]

I love Stephen, but it is and always has been Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and ****ing Leeds.

Should have been there last time we were all in Leeds having a drink. Some guy came to me going on about how great Leeds FC are. I have 0 interest in football so I just went yeh yeh yeh.