So it’s a 7 week lockdown for England – will this contain it at last? – politicalbetting.com
So it’s a 7 week lockdown for England – will this contain it at last? – politicalbetting.com
Almost everything, from how long this lockdown will last to what the government’s reputation will be at the end of it, now turns on how quickly the vaccine can be rolled out https://t.co/ERlYOtbODf
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Does he think he's the Queen?
Best thing now would be for the Tories to defenestrate Boris, put in an interim leader prepared to be the wasp cake for all the difficult decisions needed this year, and then claim the credit for sorting it out, with Boris taking the blame for past sins. They retire and someone runs through 2022-2024 rebuilding to the next election.
Once I'd have said that sounds like too many leaders in too short a time... But these days?
And no, he thinks he's Churchill, everyone knows that.
The government’s capacity to endlessly repeat the same mistakes hardly inspires confidence. But for a time-limited period, as the population is vaccinated, it is right to batten down the hatches. Tough as the coming weeks will be, this is not the open-ended nightmare that began to unfold last February and March. It is just a pity that the government did not recognise that changed context and act sooner.
You wouldn't catch Jezza selling out like that!
(I know... but there were a few opened bottles that needed finishing off.)
My guess
Lockdown till first week of March
Tier 3/4 for most of March & April
Tier 1/2/3 for May
Local lockdowns from June
Fortunately I missed it.
The future's Bright (ish) The Future's Orange.
What wouldn't we give to have Tony around now.
He does want to win elections
Blair took the idea and he presented it as his own.
Of course, if Blair wanted to be really generous ... he could have given the idea to SKS to present & popularize.
Starmer on the other hand probably is a phoney doing it unlike them.
We now stand a good chance of coming out of Covid weeks before many EU countries. If Boris pulls that off, there is going to be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth and rending of garments of Biblical proportions....
Even Big G and Carlotta make the occasional criticism.
He has made it poorer, weaker, increased separatist sentiment; and his dithering has probably contributed to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
His "dithering" government has vaccinated more than the rest of the continent put together. Why is that if the UK is dithering?
His "dithering" government has set a rod for 14 million people to have been vaccinated by 14 February; Macron has set an ambitious target for 1 million by 31 January.
Dithering my arse.
Blair could have done SKS -- and by extension the Labour party -- a bit of good, but he chose not to.
It so happens I think Blair has had a good pandemic, but it is foolish to believe that he is mainly interested in anyone or anything other than Blair.
He was late to lockdown in March.
Relaxed too early in June.
Late to respond in November.
All too lax in December.
And here we are again in January; late again.
Jury's out until February/March; but there are plenty here so obviously terrified that he might just pull it off.
"Almost the only people who think Johnson a nice guy are those who do not know him." Max Hastings.
The world's three biggest priorities must be vaccination, vaccination, vaccination.
He's doing a better job than Merkel let alone Macron.
Anyone think Jeremy Hunt might be damning with faint praise ?
https://twitter.com/dannolan/status/1346209193833811968?s=21
But on Covid, he is no worse than many other world leaders - and may yet prove to be well ahead of most. Today should give huge hope for that.
Surely, you want him to be ahead of most world leaders in defeating Covid?
And once more, with conviction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/04/canada-politicians-ignore-holiday-travel-advice
It just surprises me how much Boris cock-smoking there is on this forum in opposition to all evidence (save his continued relative buoyancy in the polls).
Boris detractors are terrified Johnson will be the UK Prime Minister to eventually beat Covid? Clearly we would all prefer to die of Coronavirus to prove him wrong.
Hats off to Johnson for the procurement of the vaccine. Hats off for little else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA
Mwhahahahahaha!
Corbyn looked like he would rather wave the Irish Tricolour or the Palestinian, Cuban or Iranian flags than his own and the voters reacted accordingly and handed him a landslide defeat
You do not secretly hate your country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNUCD4F4T1c
My spite is simply because he’s a terrible leader. He is not even a good campaigner; he spent most of the 2019 election campaign hiding from the cameras and his most notable outing was astride a bulldozer.
He’s a terrible speaker, proverbially dishonest, and famously lazy. Why anyone of at least average IQ has the slightest time of day for him I cannot fathom.