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Let’s stop this faux outrage over Boris being seen cycling 7 miles from Downing Street – politicalbe
Let’s stop this faux outrage over Boris being seen cycling 7 miles from Downing Street – politicalbetting.com
There’s been a lot of fuss over the past 24 hours over the PM being spotted cycling near the Olympic park which is about seven miles from Downing Street. LAB MPs and those opposed to him have accused Johnson of following a “Do as I say not as I do” approach to the lockdown restrictions.
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4th in the world on vaccines per capita, behind two small nations and one tiny one, and well ahead of all the G20 and EU27 nations.
Sadly, good news doesn’t generate clicks or sell papers.
"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55620138
There are plenty of things to be irritated with the Government about. Boris' cycling trip shouldn't be one of them.
The reporting seems to imply he's gone to a different planet or some such.
I'm just wondering:
What's the dope on Israel & the jab? In particular:
Which flu jab do they use?
What percentage so far are covered?
What's the timing & how is their infection rate now? By age?
They appear to be following a focussed coherent policy do they not?
Footnote: it looks like Bojo is getting his mojo back. Better that than the other possibility I reckon.
They’re up to 21% of the population so far (although some will have had two jabs).
They’re prioritising elderly and vulnerable groups, but allowing others to queue up.
Their infection rate is around the same as the UK, and holding steady.
The govts message jars when they are trying to sell stay local, dont condemn a police force charging people for being 5 miles from home that has to rescind its illegal fines, and then the PM is cycling about town and travelling to Bristol.
Nothing wrong personally, but not exactly joined up govt communication and the criticism was entirely predictable, even inevitable, if unfair personally.
All to deliver the message, STAY AT HOME.
https://twitter.com/eurodre/status/1348831731218960386
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
https://twitter.com/sciencecohen/status/1348831712227201026
https://twitter.com/StephenMcDonell/status/1348871905789399040
Imagine what it must feel like for those who'll lose their livelihoods so he could fulfill his ambition or those who've lost their cultural future so he could become Prime Minister or those sleeping in lorry parks so his band of English exceptionalists could get blue passports or the ethnic minorities used as cannon fodder in the same chase?
If you think It's his fat bum in lycra that's pissing everyone off you're looking in the wrong direction....
Some authority, whether it be state, county or city, needs to set up a priority list and secure access to the vaccines themselves - but that requires funding and political will.
For those in the market for something a little more potent - try Bagehot column entitled "The British right needs to come clean about its links with Trumpism".
However, even if he was more suitably dressed, I stick by my first conclusion; in current circumstance 'it was a damn' fool thing to do!'
However, if I were a Tory today I'd much rather the focus was on Johnson's cycling than on the disgraceful £5 food packages private contractors are sending out to vulnerable kids at a cost of £30 per package to the taxpayer. That is a genuine scandal.
Can't help feeling that it needed a trigger warning for @Dura_Ace though.
There's more tokenism in that photo than the 'burning the midnight oil' ones fed to and gobbled up so often by the Telegraph.
https://twitter.com/RoadsideMum/status/1348646428084760576
F1: Imola back on the calendar, Oz and China delayed.
https://twitter.com/LukeSmithF1/status/1348902882523930624
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home
Stratford is not in the same part of London as Westminster.
So first, it is politically stupid. Second, it is naive to think there would not be questions so the Press office should have been briefed. Third, and most important, is the restrictions are too vague if the Prime Minister, his police protection officers, and pb's OGH (and several commentators below the line) do not know what is what.
It is the same with the women fined for drinking coffee up north or sitting on a bench down south. The rules are too vague and incoherent for police, public and politicians to understand and follow.
"I see we are back on to ludicrous rules-shaming, this time with Boris, who apparently broke rules by going on a bike ride.
I mean, FFS, who cares? The amount of energy that has been wasted on tea-drinking blondes, bike-riding premiers, and weak-bladdered newswomen is beyond ridiculous. One day, when we look back on all this, history will read as farce."
https://twitter.com/Munchbunch87/status/1348747916563918849?s=19
If they spent £30 on that, they must have had it delivered in a gold truck.
I’m not even sure that’s worth a fiver. I think I could get everything in that photo for about £3.50.
If the rule was "You can exercise on foot or by bike for N hours" or "at a distance of X", then I'm absolutely in favour of Johnson being able to do exactly that without anyone hassling him. But the position is unclear and the PM and his spokespeople are evasive about it, which absolurtely encourages people to do the sort of dodgy compromise with the semi-formulated rules that is perpetuating the pandemic longer than necessary.
Personally I favour a limit of say 4 miles, and if you want to exercise more, you can go round again. That's boring, someone might say? Don't waste our time with piffle - people are putting up with much worse. But any reasonable, clear rule would also be fine.
I regret to say that some officers have not covered themselves in glory and such poor policing damages the trust between the wider public and the constabulary.
Shouldn`t we focus on basement parties and covert bars - you know, those indoor groupy things?
OLB's point is well made although I can see Boris thinking I'm setting an example by taking exercise in a non-toff (ie Green/Hyde Park) area.
Better people think oh the PM is exercising I should also. Those who think right that's it I'll travel 2X miles to do so? Less of a risk.
Within 2 miles of your home seems about right.
I`m doing it ...
But what the PM does or doesn't do is not affecting my behaviour. I am locked down because right now its dangerous out there. Its that simple.
This policy is by contrast just a joke.
The simple rule in Ireland hasn't stopped them from having a worse infection rate, though. I'd rather the media were putting time and attention into the issue of schools - are the numbers at school still high enough to be a large source of virus spread? - and doubtless other more important issues I haven't heard about.
Even covering the vaccination progress as good news would be worthwhile. It would give people hope that a modest period of self-restraint would be a step towards ending this thing.
To reinforce the STAY AT HOME message...
So there must be chaff thrown out, to hide the positive. Even at the cost of being made to look total pillocks. Retaining ther reputation doesn't matter. Trashing the PM's does.
They are going to totally lose their shit when the voters mark his Covid scorecard: "Good start, lousy middle, strong finish."
Because now all she’s done is introduce a second loophole.
Go from the back door instead...
If it's a complex gearing system, that said, perhaps leave it.
https://twitter.com/MarcusRashford/status/1348740116701970439