Brexit, for once some facts.

[tommie]

Happy Birthday Her Majesty!
94 years young!
Our Queen has been an ever present and reassuring figure in times like these.
Long may she reign over us!​

 

[flecc]

Its currently the only place in the British Isles or as we prefer Islands of the North Atlantic (IONA) where we can guarantee CV19 free.

Skomer Island is probably also Covid-19 free, since it was promptly closed to visitors.
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[wheeler]

My brain immediately thought of Johnson being made PM of Rockall and living there...

Poor fish and birds.

He should be PM of **** all.

 

[wheeler]

Happy Birthday Her Majesty!
94 years young!
Our Queen has been an ever present and reassuring figure in times like these.
Long may she reign over us!​

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Strange that you are happy to be reigned over by an extremely rich, highly privileged, unelected individual who only has that position through inheritance, and yet you complain about "unelected faceless bureaucrats" in Brussels.

 

[oldgroaner]

We have a weekly airliner to and from the Falklands, carrying among others, members of the armed forces, civil servants and Falklanders secondary school children who school in other countries. Plenty of transmission oportunities.
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I wouldn't have taken a genius to insist people were tested before being allowed to travel, would it?

 

[oldgroaner]

One of the Fake @DHSCgov.uk accounts
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tNt_cteDB-4J:https://twitter.com/nhs_susan

 

[oldgroaner]

Strange that you are happy to be reigned over by an extremely rich, highly privileged, unelected individual who only has that position through inheritance, and yet you complain about "unelected faceless bureaucrats" in Brussels.

Especially when she is in fact of German descent!

 

[oldgroaner]

The Government announced that the impersonations on Twitter were
untrue and posted this

I asked if this was a new badge for Ministers

 

[Wicky]

One of the Fake @DHSCgov.uk accounts
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tNt_cteDB-4J:https://twitter.com/nhs_susan

yes very dodgy - hopefully questions will be asked at the presser - scandalous if this had been directed from govt.

Looks like he pic used isn't a 'jnr Doc Susan' but an image of a staff nurse* nicked off a UNISON website

Mia Magklavani, a paediatrics staff nurse from Greece

NHS staff shortages increase | News | News | UNISON National

'Ongoing understaffing means we are more dependent than ever on the goodwill of health workers'

www.unison.org.uk

West Herts Hospital: Starfish ward. Starfish is a 20-bed general paediatric ward caring for children and young people up to the age of 16 years.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Strange that you are happy to be reigned over by an extremely rich, highly privileged, unelected individual who only has that position through inheritance, and yet you complain about "unelected faceless bureaucrats" in Brussels.

Her Majesty doesn’t govern us or make any laws at her own discretion. She is a figure of stability, and a datum. At a time like this it’s good to hear words of wisdom rather than the shite spewed out by our ******* useless **** politician. They are a bunch of useless ******* wankers, so we do need someone as a figurehead.

 

[oyster]

Skomer Island is probably also Covid-19 free, since it was promptly closed to visitors.
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Possibly not!

Coronavirus: Skomer man self-isolates on island with just five people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52152960

I haven't looked for, nor have I seen, any updates on this.

 

[oyster]

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak



https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1252602413598617605



Just spoken to Keir Starmer on PPE problems - 'what we’re seeing here is an increasing gap between what the government says or thinks is happening and what the frontline are telling us'

 

[oldgroaner]

Her Majesty doesn’t govern us or make any laws at her own discretion. She is a figure of stability, and a datum. At a time like this it’s good to hear words of wisdom rather than the shite spewed out by our ******* useless **** politician. They are a bunch of useless ******* wankers, so we do need someone as a figurehead.

You mean reassuring platitudes of course

 

[oyster]

Another permanent under-secretary on his way out?

Staying out of EU ventilator scheme was 'political decision', not email error, says Foreign Office chief

Patrick Wintour

UK ministers took a political decision not to be involved in an EU ventilator scheme, Sir Simon McDonald, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary said today, so challenging previous claims that the UK did not take part due to missed emails.
McDonald was asked by a Labour MP, Chris Bryant, at the foreign affairs select committee whether the ventilator scheme was put to ministers. He said:

It was a political decision. The UK mission (UKREP) briefed ministers about what was available, what was on offer and the decision is known.

His remarks appear to blow a hole in the case originally made most prominently by the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.


McDonald also said the prime minister will consider in the next few weeks whether to go for an extension of the deadline for EU withdrawal date beyond December. He said he was stressing the theoretical possibilities, and added he believed the prime minister will confirm the existing timetable.

 

[wheeler]

Her Majesty doesn’t govern us or make any laws at her own discretion. She is a figure of stability, and a datum. At a time like this it’s good to hear words of wisdom rather than the shite spewed out by our ******* useless **** politician. They are a bunch of useless ******* wankers, so we do need someone as a figurehead.

Those "words of wisdom" remind me of Old Mr Grace of Grace Brothers who was wheeled out to encourage the staff.
"You've all done very well, now feck off back to your work."

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

You mean reassuring platitudes of course

Maybe, but if it comforts some people, which it does, particularly for the elderly, what’s the harm?

She’s not a politician, just a figurehead.

 

[oldgroaner]

Maybe, but if it comforts some people, which it does, particularly for the elderly, what’s the harm?

She’s not a politician, just a figurehead.

And surplus in this day and age, though quite a formidable character.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

And surplus in this day and age, though quite a formidable character.

In your opinion, maybe. There is many who will disagree with you.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Human vaccine trials starting Thursday. Volunteers wanted. Any takers on here?

 

[oldgroaner]

Human vaccine trials starting Thursday. Volunteers wanted. Any takers on here?

I'll have a large one, as soon as I contract the Virus