We sadly lost the Doris COVID Roadshow, media buddies. I can't help but think that Hancock and the magnetic Baroness Dido have sucked all the news oxygen away, such is their political magnetism, and sheer mystery in the latter's case. Elsewhere, plenty of alternative interest in Prof Ferguson making a comeback and a heroic 'last stand' by Whitty regarding that hugely and horrifically ambiguous colour-coded 'phase' system. Plucky Brits should note that the rest of the world is using phases to denote how much freedom different parts of their territory should enjoy relative to the scale of infection. The UK is waiting for NHS track and test to quarantine 100,000 a day before we get there - Continental clever clogs...
I suppose you could accuse Chope of ' Coming a Cummings' in order not to swear on the internet.
The Cabinet has been re-assembled IKEA style ( as Johnson asks - where did I put the Chinese assembly instructions? ) and as they say in Haynes Car manuals ( only men like me and Jacob will understand this - not Girly Swots ) re-assembly is somply the reverse of dis-assembly.
Personally as a person a bit co-Morbid, due to bad lifestyle choices, despite having never voted Tory since I was eighteen - I will only know that this Covid business is over when the all clear is given in respect of putting my bins out.
Has Matt Hancock got a target ( even a false one ) for that?
With this lot even a false hope is all we've got.
Meanwhile instead of Ask Alexa - Wallmart are selling ' Ask Donald '
All MPs have to carry sunscreen and bottled water to vote.
If it rains, 50% will melt. And it will totally ruin Johnson’s hair.
Rees-Mogg has promised to consult the entrails of a goat every day to predict whether it will rain, however. And pledged that all MPs will get galoshes if that happens.
It will be known as the Gosh, Galoshes! voting procedure.
So your approach to dealing with a deadly virus is to expose yourself to it, and as many other people as possible, because that is the most sensible way... sounds exactly like Brexit. Well done, you.
"Opposition mit Dr. Heiko Schöning" - the title rather gives it away. We've recently had the numbers for suicides until the months of April - spoiler, there has been no increase compared with the last years. Non emergency surgeries are taking place again. But sure, we could have been like Britain and waited until we had 50 000 deaths and the virus had nicely spread around the country.
I am well aware of the misuse of statistics by successive govts over many years but this !ot have really got the current incumbent of the top job chewing the carpet. We need the figures to be compiled and delivered by non-partisan organisations independent of gov't. Fat chance though.
The reality is that if we don't get back to work we will have no viable society to return to. I know its easy to bash those that think of the economy but we are facing major economic difficulties in 4 months once companies start laying off people. Every delay will make it a disaster of epic proportions . The death rate from that will exceed any numbers due to Covid.
'Sad' is that traditionally understated British way of expressing the incidence of tragedy. Frosty and stand-offish, steeped in officialdom, the most the state can concede to emotion while preserving neutrality. I believe the obsession with social distancing over taking personal responsibility for keeping one's germs inside (a mask and gloves) is another manifestation of the British character. The British like to keep their distance from strangers and foreigners, not getting too touchy like the Continentals or even touchy-feely as the American cousins are known to do. We are a special nation and a global exception. Brexit showed that just before.
Tories feeling 'sad' = Tories don't pay for anything, e.g., PPE, hospital beds, ICU spaces, etc. They 'muddle thru' saying 'golly gosh', for decades, and think no one notices (?!). To be honest, I don't think most do. It astonishes me, thoroughly. But, hey-ho ... tomorrow is another day!
"At least the Belgian princeling acknowledged his mistake, regretted it and said he would take the consequences..." Take the consequences by leaving the princething ?
Although a pretty bad indictment on Chope the whole up skirting bill blocking was wildly taken out of context by all the media which made no attempt to explain the real reason behind it instead seduced by the prospect of lurid headlines
'Sadly' died has always been odd, because how often would we think a oerson had 'happily' died? Just shows how insensitively this government has come across, that they can't count on us assuming they would care about such things; and perhaps they don't, and so need the disguising word.
Hyde, don't stand up for the idiots who went to Durdle 'Open' Door in their masses or those who chose to queue for four hours to get into Ikea. Providing folk adhere to social distancing rules we should be allowed out but as is always the case; a mindless minority will spoil it for the majority.
Thank you Marina but just as I thought you had nailed it with …
‘one of nature’s most stunning spectacles: the great migration of the humans across the Ikea car park.’
you give us …
“You are currently number –” “SADLY” “– in the queue.”
and then ...
“We are still at level 4 but we are transitioning to 3.” Is this like when I still haven’t done the ironing but I am transitioning to having done it?
… well I still haven’t done the ironing either but … ‘new joint biosecurity centre’ … ‘’I guess you’d say it would be outperformed by the table’ … ‘Can he not just use a 2-metre selfie stick like any normal committed pervert?’ …
… but Marina ... ‘one does sometimes wonder if the male temperament is quite suited to roles in public life, what with their hormones. Sorry, hormone.’ I give up … if you havn’t read the article, you better do so now
Well I certainly didn’t put them there. Time to switch to proportional representation so might vote might count for something. Solid Tory seat in rural Lincolnshire makes me feel like my vote is wasted.
Of course it's safe to ease lockdown – Matt Hancock is just fixing our alert system
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We sadly lost the Doris COVID Roadshow, media buddies. I can't help but think that Hancock and the magnetic Baroness Dido have sucked all the news oxygen away, such is their political magnetism, and sheer mystery in the latter's case.
Elsewhere, plenty of alternative interest in Prof Ferguson making a comeback and a heroic 'last stand' by Whitty regarding that hugely and horrifically ambiguous colour-coded 'phase' system. Plucky Brits should note that the rest of the world is using phases to denote how much freedom different parts of their territory should enjoy relative to the scale of infection. The UK is waiting for NHS track and test to quarantine 100,000 a day before we get there - Continental clever clogs...
Oh yes -- I found out about locking screws the hard way, too:
Commiserations!
It’s funny how other countries seem to be managing it without the horrendous death toll is it not ?
I suppose you could accuse Chope of ' Coming a Cummings' in order not to swear on the internet.
The Cabinet has been re-assembled IKEA style ( as Johnson asks - where did I put the Chinese assembly instructions? ) and as they say in Haynes Car manuals ( only men like me and Jacob will understand this - not Girly Swots ) re-assembly is somply the reverse of dis-assembly.
Personally as a person a bit co-Morbid, due to bad lifestyle choices, despite having never voted Tory since I was eighteen - I will only know that this Covid business is over when the all clear is given in respect of putting my bins out.
Has Matt Hancock got a target ( even a false one ) for that?
With this lot even a false hope is all we've got.
Meanwhile instead of Ask Alexa - Wallmart are selling ' Ask Donald '
Question: What's the Capital of France Donald?
Answer: Cheese.
It's under the sink in the kitchen now.
There is a health crisis in Parliament.
All MPs have to carry sunscreen and bottled water to vote.
If it rains, 50% will melt. And it will totally ruin Johnson’s hair.
Rees-Mogg has promised to consult the entrails of a goat every day to predict whether it will rain, however. And pledged that all MPs will get galoshes if that happens.
It will be known as the Gosh, Galoshes! voting procedure.
Sponsored by MacIntosh.
So your approach to dealing with a deadly virus is to expose yourself to it, and as many other people as possible, because that is the most sensible way... sounds exactly like Brexit. Well done, you.
AAAArgh auto correct, John Crace, apologies.
Marina, thank you. The skewering that John Grace and yourself can apply is just inspiring.
Hang on.......Yeah she’s not listening
"Opposition mit Dr. Heiko Schöning" - the title rather gives it away. We've recently had the numbers for suicides until the months of April - spoiler, there has been no increase compared with the last years. Non emergency surgeries are taking place again. But sure, we could have been like Britain and waited until we had 50 000 deaths and the virus had nicely spread around the country.
There might be many who approve of your government.
But few who show up here.
I am well aware of the misuse of statistics by successive govts over many years but this !ot have really got the current incumbent of the top job chewing the carpet. We need the figures to be compiled and delivered by non-partisan organisations independent of gov't. Fat chance though.
The reality is that if we don't get back to work we will have no viable society to return to. I know its easy to bash those that think of the economy but we are facing major economic difficulties in 4 months once companies start laying off people. Every delay will make it a disaster of epic proportions . The death rate from that will exceed any numbers due to Covid.
That was a real treat Marina... can't you treat us more often...please... :-)
Couldn't we draft Pennywise in to beef up the virus cabinet. He might be disappointed about the standard of killer clowns he has to work with though.
No society, no State - no present and no future.
?
'Sad' is that traditionally understated British way of expressing the incidence of tragedy. Frosty and stand-offish, steeped in officialdom, the most the state can concede to emotion while preserving neutrality.
I believe the obsession with social distancing over taking personal responsibility for keeping one's germs inside (a mask and gloves) is another manifestation of the British character. The British like to keep their distance from strangers and foreigners, not getting too touchy like the Continentals or even touchy-feely as the American cousins are known to do.
We are a special nation and a global exception. Brexit showed that just before.
Tories feeling 'sad' = Tories don't pay for anything, e.g., PPE, hospital beds, ICU spaces, etc. They 'muddle thru' saying 'golly gosh', for decades, and think no one notices (?!). To be honest, I don't think most do. It astonishes me, thoroughly.
But, hey-ho ... tomorrow is another day!
Marina is utterly brilliant.
You've not got it wrong, we are indeed being terrorised by clowns at the moment
.... and the German car manufacturers will tell Angela Merkel to give the UK a brilliant brexit deal, right?
Constituency to be shortened to "Christ!"
Why when they use the word 'sadly' do I hear the phrase 'tough shit'?
"At least the Belgian princeling acknowledged his mistake, regretted it and said he would take the consequences..."
Take the consequences by leaving the princething ?
Which is why she opens up the comments. Knows she has a captive audience
Yes, but the problem is when the mindless minority get elected.
Oh Marina, you're so funny.
Although a pretty bad indictment on Chope the whole up skirting bill blocking was wildly taken out of context by all the media which made no attempt to explain the real reason behind it instead seduced by the prospect of lurid headlines
Early days yet . Greece will open up to UK tourists in a couple of weeks.
Sweden is still going into recession
It's a bit long for a slogan, but what about "GET IT RIGHT FOR ONCE, YOU MASOCHISTIC MUGS"
'Sadly' died has always been odd, because how often would we think a oerson had 'happily' died? Just shows how insensitively this government has come across, that they can't count on us assuming they would care about such things; and perhaps they don't, and so need the disguising word.
How some other countries got rid of their medieval institutions?
Johnson, Gove, Sharma, Patel, Raab and Hancock - The All-New Goon Show.
“And when did this habit start of the police saying something like 'our thoughts and prayers are with the family'?”
You forgot to add the all-important ‘....at this difficult time’.
Because we elected a Tory government three times in a row.
It'd save her having to follow him around with a shovel.
Is this like when I still haven’t done the ironing but I am transitioning to having done it?
OMG Marina, you hit so many targets in one go. This is just one of many that creased me.
Ecological, although surely at this point it's a moral choice too.
Johnson's government has some killer policies, that's for sure...
Hyde, don't stand up for the idiots who went to Durdle 'Open' Door in their masses or those who chose to queue for four hours to get into Ikea. Providing folk adhere to social distancing rules we should be allowed out but as is always the case; a mindless minority will spoil it for the majority.
Better to see it as the developing fluid that makes it really painfully clear.
Otto von Jizzmark
Please, please, can everyone start calling him this?
Spoiler alert here!!
Thank you Marina but just as I thought you had nailed it with …
‘one of nature’s most stunning spectacles: the great migration of the humans across the Ikea car park.’
you give us …
“You are currently number –” “SADLY” “– in the queue.”
and then ...
“We are still at level 4 but we are transitioning to 3.” Is this like when I still haven’t done the ironing but I am transitioning to having done it?
… well I still haven’t done the ironing either but … ‘new joint biosecurity centre’ … ‘’I guess you’d say it would be outperformed by the table’ … ‘Can he not just use a 2-metre selfie stick like any normal committed pervert?’ …
… but Marina ... ‘one does sometimes wonder if the male temperament is quite suited to roles in public life, what with their hormones. Sorry, hormone.’ I give up … if you havn’t read the article, you better do so now
Nearly all my furniture is discarded Ikea.
What is the problem ?
Well I certainly didn’t put them there. Time to switch to proportional representation so might vote might count for something. Solid Tory seat in rural Lincolnshire makes me feel like my vote is wasted.
He also blocked the FGM bill, because he didn't approve of private member bills
Football speak - brilliant
I may have got this wrong but, I loved the Stephen King/IT reference -
"“Government waves from storm drain at shielders looking for their paper boats”.
Hello Georgie!! Don't you want your boat?
Thank you Marina!
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