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Just now, Bjornebye said:

I don’t think shocked is the right word. Anyone with half a brain will know they would find ways to profit for them and friends of the party. The word you should use though is outraged and I’d be shocked if anyone wasn’t outraged anyway. 

Hang on offie..... office or offy? 

Off licence.

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Just now, Section_31 said:

Yeah agree that it's important the news is out there, but I'm always shocked that people are shocked. It'll be doing the rounds on social media as scandal of the century. 

 

"Can you believe the Tories funneled off public cash and gave it to their mates?" 

 

"Well, yeah." 

I don't know how many people (especially politics nerds) are shocked by the dynamics of what's going on, but the sheer scale and brazenness of it, during a global health crisis the likes of which most of us have never seen, is pretty jarring.

 

Anyway, hopefully one of the few positives to come out of all this is that more people become aware of exactly what the Tory party represents, and that their MO doesn't change even at a time like this.

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Surely there must be a way to deep freeze all the oldies, sorry Stringy?

Put them all in massive warehouse freezers and thaw them out when the virus has vanished

If some of them don't make it then that's a price they'll just have to pay so we can all get back to commuting 2 hours a day, spending cash on overpriced shit at Costa and not having to wear a mask for 5 minutes, which, is the worst thing in the world and an affront to all our hard earned liberties

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3 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Surely there must be a way to deep freeze all the oldies, sorry Stringy?

Put them all in massive warehouse freezers and thaw them out when the virus has vanished

If some of them don't make it then that's a price they'll just have to pay so we can all get back to commuting 2 hours a day, spending cash on overpriced shit at Costa and not having to wear a mask for 5 minutes, which, is the worst thing in the world and an affront to all our hard earned liberties

 

This guy gets it

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1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 people on different political spectrums are more interested in making sure they or their side are correct that they are ignoring facts put in-front of them.

 

Nearly a quarter of Republican supporters say Donald Trump’s campaign messages are ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ based in fact.

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To be fair in all this its not just the inconvenience of wearing a mask or following rules being a pain. People are losing their livelihoods, their business's, their lifes work. Im not saying that's more important than human life but its not a case of people whining over a small inconveniences.

 

I read people online  saying "so what you can't go the pub boohoo" like the pub is just an entity that exists as a leisurely pursuit and no one relies upon it, the pubs don't just employ bar staff, the entire supply line is absolutely massive from delivery drivers, to breweries, bottling plants, warehouses, factories, tonnes of things all connected and then theres business's that thrive alongside the pub trade. Its a completely blinkered view to look at anything in this pandemic like its a mild inconvenience other than the basic hygiene rules.

 

This regional tiered lockdown feels like they decided the fix things by just breaking everything, fuck it, we will use the North to keep national numbers down. A  national circuit breaker with furlough for 2 weeks used whenever numbers get too high seems more sensible than this unknowable purgatory, no order or sense just the whims of Dominic Cummings and his toffs who care only for how much money they can rinse from the public purse during this time. There is no perfect solution the result is going to be shitty no matter what but those bastards in charge now don't care either way because they won't feel the impact of their decisions in any meaningful way, more money in the bank, lots of shares and loads of cash on the speech/bribes circuit when they have had their fill of politics.

 

 

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1 hour ago, 3 Stacks said:

It's the easiest thing in the world to put them all in solitary confinement, whilst healthy people continue living their lives as normal. Why hasn't anyone thought of that idea?

It’s borderline insulting it hasn’t been implemented already, given its well known they’re exempt from any mental health difficulties previously healthy members of the populace are now suffering due to far less severe restrictions than those in the shielding group have faced for 6 months plus. Also, they can clearly be locked away indefinitely without ever needing to urgently access the likes of hospital services which are now a risk to their lives, due to others manfully going about their daily business like freedom fighters and spreading the fucking thing.

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2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

To be fair in all this its not just the inconvenience of wearing a mask or following rules being a pain. People are losing their livelihoods, their business's, their lifes work. Im not saying that's more important than human life but its not a case of people whining over a small inconveniences.

 

I read people online  saying "so what you can't go the pub boohoo" like the pub is just an entity that exists as a leisurely pursuit and no one relies upon it, the pubs don't just employ bar staff, the entire supply line is absolutely massive from delivery drivers, to breweries, bottling plants, warehouses, factories, tonnes of things all connected and then theres business's that thrive alongside the pub trade. Its a completely blinkered view to look at anything in this pandemic like its a mild inconvenience other than the basic hygiene rules.

 

This regional tiered lockdown feels like they decided the fix things by just breaking everything, fuck it, we will use the North to keep national numbers down. A  national circuit breaker with furlough for 2 weeks used whenever numbers get too high seems more sensible than this unknowable purgatory, no order or sense just the whims of Dominic Cummings and his toffs who care only for how much money they can rinse from the public purse during this time. There is no perfect solution the result is going to be shitty no matter what but those bastards in charge now don't care either way because they won't feel the impact of their decisions in any meaningful way, more money in the bank, lots of shares and loads of cash on the speech/bribes circuit when they have had their fill of politics.

 

 

and getting out of this shit, i have been using pubs/coffee shops/restaurants to meet clients and try and keep my business going because lots of people don't want to go into the office or get on public transport. and it was working too till the latest lockdown changes - I haven't left the house this week and it has been shit. although there seems a school of thought that you can now conduct business meetings in hospitality venues in tier 2 & 3 areas. The chart below is from UKHospitality

 

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18 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Surely there must be a way to deep freeze all the oldies, sorry Stringy?

Put them all in massive warehouse freezers and thaw them out when the virus has vanished

If some of them don't make it then that's a price they'll just have to pay so we can all get back to commuting 2 hours a day, spending cash on overpriced shit at Costa and not having to wear a mask for 5 minutes, which, is the worst thing in the world and an affront to all our hard earned liberties

Well, there are tons of jets lying around airport hangars doing nothing, and there is a place called NZ with basically no cases and you can behave as normal, and it's summer there.

 

Free holidays for the over 60's for the next 5 months, would help out the nZ economy, and would sort our problem out a lot, and would rescue the airlines. 

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2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Sun beds shops are where the smart money goes. 

Used to have a work colleague whose brother was a parish priest. He was in the pub with him and the brother mentioned in passing how many suntanning parlours were in his parish. My mate was a bit baffled and said to him ' Well, they're just money laundering aren't they '?  When he explained a bit further and the penny dropped he said his brother went into a physical shock a bit like that Larry David gif and had to be sat on a stool.

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Haha, fucking hell - late night phonecalls agogo. Toe the line and get your reward, turn on your neighbours and we'll look after you. 

 

Greater Manchester’s only Conservative-run council has begun negotiating a bespoke deal for its hospitality workers after the communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, invited the region’s leaders to come forward individually to claim their share of a £60m coronavirus relief package they all rejected on Tuesday.

Bolton’s leader, David Greenhalgh, infuriated his Labour counterparts after breaking ranks to say he was “willing to look at” a Bolton-only package.

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They only vote Tory in Bolton because it's gammon central and they view it as an inherently racist bulwark against the Asian community, which they associate with the local Labour party. It's the absolute arsehole of planet Earth and has spawned more annoying celebrities than anywhere else in the world. 

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Maybe the country just gets what it deserves.....How the fuck have these cunts improved by +3 ?

Like in Day of the Triffids when the aliens make everyone blind with a meteor shower they’ve managed to this time lobotomise everyone 

 

 

 

@Politics For All

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 42% (+3)

LAB 36% (-3)

LDM: 8% (+1)

Via @SavantaComRes, 16-18 Oct. Changes w/ 9-11 Oct.

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2 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Maybe the country just gets what it deserves.....How the fuck have these cunts improved by +3 ?

Like in Day of the Triffids when the aliens make everyone blind with a meteor shower they’ve managed to this time lobotomise everyone 

 

 

 

@Politics For All

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 42% (+3)

LAB 36% (-3)

LDM: 8% (+1)

Via @SavantaComRes, 16-18 Oct. Changes w/ 9-11 Oct.

Would help if their was an effective opposition.

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21 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Maybe the country just gets what it deserves.....How the fuck have these cunts improved by +3 ?

Like in Day of the Triffids when the aliens make everyone blind with a meteor shower they’ve managed to this time lobotomise everyone 

 

 

 

@Politics For All

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 42% (+3)

LAB 36% (-3)

LDM: 8% (+1)

Via @SavantaComRes, 16-18 Oct. Changes w/ 9-11 Oct.

Before the Manchester debacle looking at the dates mentioned. 

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36 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Before the Manchester debacle looking at the dates mentioned. 

I’d like to think that will make a difference but over 60,000 excess deaths, constant lies and a test and trace that cost £12 billion and isn’t fit for purpose hasn’t up to now 

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Maybe the thing of becoming becoming a tory as you get older is realising the English are arseholes so you think fuck them and look after yourself. Thats how they get you, its like cigarettes they taste like shit so think you will never get addicted but over time they've got you. How any working class person can vote Tory blows my mind.

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