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I’m not enjoying Season 2 of The Coronavirus Show as much as the first season. It’s not as funny. The Dominic Cummings sketch in Season 1 was my highlight, it was hilarious, I really liked it.

The scheduling of Season 2 seems erratic too. I wasn’t expecting the Chris Whitty Unplugged episode this evening.
 
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So why did he stop them?
As to the hard to compute sorrow, how many of his mates have made billions out of the pandemic, do they feel sorrow all the way to their offshore bank accounts?:D
I heard a great quote today which I think can be credited to Alexie Sayle. “The financial crash wasn’t caused by financiers or bankers, it happened because there were too many libraries in Wolverhampton.” When you think about it, that is exactly the sort of garbage that was sold to the British public, and they bought it. Meanwhile the bankers continued to take their pay home in wheelbarrows.
 

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I’m not enjoying Season 2 of The Coronavirus Show as much as the first season. It’s not as funny. The Dominic Cummings sketch in Season 1 was my highlight, it was hilarious, I really liked it.

The scheduling of Season 2 seems erratic too. I wasn’t expecting the Chris Whitty Unplugged episode this evening.
I stopped watching a long time ago.

I never last more than a few episodes into any soap.
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Conservatives broke data law to racially profile millions

The Conservative Party acted illegally in collecting data that inferred voters’ ethnicity and religious background, a Select Committee has heard
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495385/Conservatives-broke-data-law-to-racially-profile-millions

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The independent Information Commissioner recently revealed that the Conservative party had racially and

religiously profiled 10 million voters at the last election. I was shocked to learn that it did this by buying data that

“identified a person’s…ethnic origin and religion based on their first and last name.”

Can the Minister explain to the House why his party does this?

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-12-10/debates/8B2096DB-D940-4BE7-ABFF-8C2F79F234A2/DataProtectionGDPRAndOtherEURegulations#contribution-DB28C8D5-3604-4181-8D3B-EC01C3D61843

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As I recall, the Information Commissioner examined the practices of all political parties and made comments against all of them. However, it did not find that any breaches of the law had occurred.
 
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Only trouble with that is that Campbell's best buddy of old was first one to suggest delaying second jab.. And I can't remember him or any of his cronies actually saying anything at time that strategy was wrong.
Do we actually believe our circumstances would be any different now had Blair, Corbyn, Campbell or anyone from Labour been in charge last 12 months???
Campbell is just jumping on any band wagon that might get his old New Labour back. He didn't do much about Blair and his illegal war to save lives did he. Think he helped perpetuate the lies. He knew full well what was happening.
Campbell has 2020 hindsight... Its easy to develop.
 
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Only trouble with that is that Campbell's best buddy of old was first one to suggest delaying second jab.. And I can't remember him or any of his cronies actually saying anything at time that strategy was wrong.
Do we actually believe our circumstances would be any different now had Blair, Corbyn, Campbell or anyone from Labour been in charge last 12 months???
Campbell is just jumping on any band wagon that might get his old New Labour back. He didn't do much about Blair and his illegal war to save lives did he. Think he helped perpetuate the lies. He knew full well what was happening.
Campbell has 2020 hindsight... Its easy to develop.
Not a word in that tweet about delaying second vaccine injection.

Yes - I do believe things would have been different.

The chumocracy would not have resulted in quite such spectacular trough emptying.

They might have avoided crassly referring to computing the sorrow.
 
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Lest I appear always to post bad news...

New drug may be potent against the coronavirus

Researchers use a chemical compound originally found in a sea creature to stop the virus causing COVID-19 in lab experiments.

By
Chia-Yi Hou | Jan. 26, 2021

The chemical compound plitidepsin (trademarked name Aplidin) was first extracted from a sea organism known as Aplidium albicans, commonly known as sea squirts. Researchers recently published in Science the results of preclinical experiments involving using plitidepsin to treat human and mouse cells infected with SARS-CoV-2. They found evidence that suggests it’s possible this drug can be used as a therapy for COVID-19.

The drug has been used in the past and was approved in Australia as a treatment for a type of cancer called multiple myeloma. But because there are so many potential drug compounds that exist, researchers can screen them for other uses and in this case for the coronavirus.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/535915-new-drug-may-be-potent-against-the-coronavirus
 

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Someone who lives nearby has just gone into hospital as an emergency.

It has come as a bit of a shock to realise that Covid-19 is so deeply entrenched in my mind, I was pinching myself as I realised his issue is nothing to do with Covid-19 at all.
 
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Someone who lives nearby has just gone into hospital as an emergency.

It has come as a bit of a shock to realise that Covid-19 is so deeply entrenched in my mind, I was pinching myself as I realised his issue is nothing to do with Covid-19 at all.
Yes. I had the unenviable task of ringing up my cousin to let her know that my sisters husband had just died. Her immediate response was Covid.. which it wasn't. He died on the table ,three weeks ago having the same procedure .. (angioplasty) as I had had 3 months previously . But it could be Covid related in that he would have been reluctant to go to hospital due to the Covid rates in South Wales , and delayed until after Christmas.
 
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Only trouble with that is that Campbell's best buddy of old was first one to suggest delaying second jab.. And I can't remember him or any of his cronies actually saying anything at time that strategy was wrong.
Do we actually believe our circumstances would be any different now had Blair, Corbyn, Campbell or anyone from Labour been in charge last 12 months???
Campbell is just jumping on any band wagon that might get his old New Labour back. He didn't do much about Blair and his illegal war to save lives did he. Think he helped perpetuate the lies. He knew full well what was happening.
Campbell has 2020 hindsight... Its easy to develop.
Still at it aren't you? of course it would have worked out better under Corbyn and billions of public money would have been kept out of offshore bank accounts.
Why do you persist in this dead end pretence tell me, did anyone on here not protest at the time at the slowness to lockdown?
No they didn't
It not rocket science it's known as thinking
What you are doing is making excuses for failure because you don't like certain people
For your information I don't like any of them, I just recognise those individuals responsible for killing thousands as enemies of the people.
The opinion of the other charlatans isn't really important is it?
Just what is the point of this campaign of yours?
 

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Yes. I had the unenviable task of ringing up my cousin to let her know that my sisters husband had just died. Her immediate response was Covid.. which it wasn't. He died on the table ,three weeks ago having the same procedure .. (angioplasty) as I had had 3 months previously . But it could be Covid related in that he would have been reluctant to go to hospital due to the Covid rates in South Wales , and delayed until after Christmas.
Very sorry to hear your sad news, condolences to you and the family
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Conservatives broke data law to racially profile millions

The Conservative Party acted illegally in collecting data that inferred voters’ ethnicity and religious background, a Select Committee has heard
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495385/Conservatives-broke-data-law-to-racially-profile-millions

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John Nicolson

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The independent Information Commissioner recently revealed that the Conservative party had racially and

religiously profiled 10 million voters at the last election. I was shocked to learn that it did this by buying data that

“identified a person’s…ethnic origin and religion based on their first and last name.”

Can the Minister explain to the House why his party does this?

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-12-10/debates/8B2096DB-D940-4BE7-ABFF-8C2F79F234A2/DataProtectionGDPRAndOtherEURegulations#contribution-DB28C8D5-3604-4181-8D3B-EC01C3D61843

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As I recall, the Information Commissioner examined the practices of all political parties and made comments against all of them. However, it did not find that any breaches of the law had occurred.
See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil still stalk the land eh?
Technically this isn't illegal? it seems nothing is to this government
 

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Yes. I had the unenviable task of ringing up my cousin to let her know that my sisters husband had just died. Her immediate response was Covid.. which it wasn't. He died on the table ,three weeks ago having the same procedure .. (angioplasty) as I had had 3 months previously . But it could be Covid related in that he would have been reluctant to go to hospital due to the Covid rates in South Wales , and delayed until after Christmas.
I’m sorry to hear about your brother- in-law. As you say, he may have had a better outcome had we not been in the middle of this pandemic. When you take into account deaths in these circumstances, the true toll must be very much higher than the headlines tell us.

I hope your sister & family get through it as well as possible.
 
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Despite screwing up everything they touch, I still have to say that the government’s vaccination programme seems to have broken the trend. I know there are isolated cases of people missing their appointment through no fault of their own, but generally I think it’s going well.

I don’t understand why the EU are so upset about a shortage in supply of a vaccine that they haven’t even approved. They are moaning about not having access to a product that they haven’t decided if they want! How mad is that? A certain EU member deliberately published false information about the vaccine too. Why would you do that?

I see Hungry has got pissed off with all the fannying about and broken ranks by ordering the Russian vaccine.

The EU were at least three months behind the U.K. in placing an order with AZ too. If you book a delivery from Tesco on Monday and someone else is fannying around and doesn’t place theirs until Friday, the person late to order can’t expect Tesco to put them at the front of the delivery schedule.

I know this is a global effort and if people in the EU don’t get vaccinated, that has an adverse affect on us here in the U.K. So it is in our interest to ensure that EU citizens are vaccinated, but FFS, they aren’t do themselves any favours complaining. I think they are worried that the U.K. looks fleet of foot on this massively important issue and that might cause discontent with the EU as a whole.
 
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I've just watched a bloke from New Zealand on ITV saying they had a 6 week lockdown after
3 cases of Covid.........3 cases... I know people in this country who won't follow lockdown
rules after 100,000 dead.
The problem we face is that our population generally consists of weak willed idiots. Many will dismiss the 100000 deaths as people dying WITH Covid as opposed to OF Covid.

The government are directly responsible for many of the 100000 deaths, but the U.K. population has to shoulder a good chunk of the responsibility too. Their weakness and stupidity are contributory factors.
 
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Still at it aren't you? of course it would have worked out better under Corbyn and billions of public money would have been kept out of offshore bank accounts.
Why do you persist in this dead end pretence tell me, did anyone on here not protest at the time at the slowness to lockdown?
No they didn't
It not rocket science it's known as thinking
What you are doing is making excuses for failure because you don't like certain people
For your information I don't like any of them, I just recognise those individuals responsible for killing thousands as enemies of the people.
The opinion of the other charlatans isn't really important is it?
Just what is the point of this campaign of yours?
You just don't get it do you. Thick or what.
Campbell / Blair/New Labour/ Corbyn and the rest of the charade we try and call Labour/Socialist are exactly why we have strongest Tory government since Thatcher.
Campbell now spouting after he and his buddy destroyed Labour (admittedly helped by the Marxist take over) leaving us with no option but to support Tories...
Putting faith in Campbell now is utterly ridiculous. He is, along with all those mentioned, exactly why we have a Tory government..
If you are looking for a solution with Campbell, you are sadly mistaken.
Yes, Campbell talks some sense, his mate Blair does occasionaly but holding either in any esteem is as bad as supporting Johnson.
Or are you now a New Labour advocate?
Nobody has criticised Blair and Campbell more than you but now he, s suddenly wise.
He, s rebel rousing and if it carries on we, ll see same as we, ve seen in Netherlands.
 

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The head of AZ has said that all U.K. citizens over 50 will be vaccinated by March. That’s not government PR, this is a third party and what’s even better, it’s the manufacturers of the vaccine. He’s confident that sufficient vaccine can be supplied to the U.K. to meet this target.
 

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Despite screwing up everything they touch, I still have to say that the government’s vaccination programme seems to have broken the trend. I know there are isolated cases of people missing their appointment through no fault of their own, but generally I think it’s going well.

I don’t understand why the EU are so upset about a shortage in supply of a vaccine that they haven’t even approved, and one that a certain country deliberately published false information about. Why would you do that?

The EU were three months behind the U.K. in placing an order with AZ too. If you book a delivery from Tesco on Monday and someone else is fannying around and doesn’t place theirs until Friday, the person late to order can’t expect Tesco to put them at the front of the delivery schedule.

I know this is a global effort and if people in the EU don’t get vaccinated, that has an adverse affect on us here in the U.K. So it is in our interest to ensure that EU citizens are vaccinated, but FFS, they aren’t do themselves any favours complaining. I think they are worried that the U.K. looks fleet of foot on this massively important issue and that might cause discontent with the EU as a whole.
The vaccination program is being run by the NHS
Test and trace under private companies
Why credit the Government for it?
 
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