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Nev

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I know someone else currently in intensive care with Covid, he had one vaccine jab and was shortly due to get the second jab but he caught the new delta variant. He has had an operation to relieve a blood clot in his leg but he has multiple clots in his lungs. He is responding well to treatment and it looks as though he got into hospital just in time.
I may have spoken to soon about this person doing well, I have just had a phone call to say that he has been induced into a coma, I can't imagine the Hospital would do that if he was getting better, that seems rather serious to me.
 

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We didn’t need to wait very long for the test & trace debacle to be overtaken by events. Along comes Matt Handcock and his wayward penis to steal all the attention. And this too will be overshadowed by something else by this time next week.

Boris Johnson won’t do the right thing and sack Handcock, because he can’t. Whatever anyone does, Johnson has done it to a greater extent and more frequently. Therefore, he had no basis on which to discipline his cabinet members. They can simply point to Johnson having done exactly the same thing multiple times over, and survived. It’s depressing.
Your absolutely right, governments tend to take their lead from the person at the top, everyone knows Boris is a liar and a cheat and it doesn't seem to have done him any harm so why would his underlings act any different?
 

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We didn’t need to wait very long for the test & trace debacle to be overtaken by events. Along comes Matt Handcock and his wayward penis to steal all the attention. And this too will be overshadowed by something else by this time next week.

Boris Johnson won’t do the right thing and sack Handcock, because he can’t. Whatever anyone does, Johnson has done it to a greater extent and more frequently. Therefore, he had no basis on which to discipline his cabinet members. They can simply point to Johnson having done exactly the same thing multiple times over, and survived. It’s depressing.
I quite like that about boris. He makes the hypocrisy, lies at the heart of conservative politics visible for all to see. And it's a bit like watching populist conservatism sink in slow motion. Better than titanic (the movie)
 
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We didn’t need to wait very long for the test & trace debacle to be overtaken by events. Along comes Matt Handcock and his wayward penis to steal all the attention. And this too will be overshadowed by something else by this time next week.

Boris Johnson won’t do the right thing and sack Handcock, because he can’t. Whatever anyone does, Johnson has done it to a greater extent and more frequently. Therefore, he had no basis on which to discipline his cabinet members. They can simply point to Johnson having done exactly the same thing multiple times over, and survived. It’s depressing.
I have a cunning plan he could use
He could say he was the only one able to break the law using the "Queen's Prerogative"
 
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I honestly can't see how we can remove all the covid related restrictions in July.
The number of positive cases and deaths are increasing 50%-55% a week.
 

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I may have spoken to soon about this person doing well, I have just had a phone call to say that he has been induced into a coma, I can't imagine the Hospital would do that if he was getting better, that seems rather serious to me.
The pandemic is a 100% hoax. Delta variant is total
B.S
 
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The pandemic is a 100% hoax. Delta variant is total
B.S
still, 110 people died of it in hospital last 7 days. Next week, that number is going to rise to 170, then 260 the following week and 400 the week after. About one third of the dead have been vaccinated.
That's when BJ will have to decide to remove covid restrictions.
 

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still, 110 people died of it in hospital last 7 days. Next week, that number is going to rise to 170, then 260 the following week and 400 the week after. That's when BJ will have to decide to remove covid restrictions.
The pandemic is a 100% hoax. Delta variant is total
B.S
 
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News UK asks govt to scrap Murdoch restrictions on Times/Sunday Times editorial independence

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-sunday-times-1981-restrictions/

The very next day, The Sun, part of the dirty digger’s empire, lobs this Hancock affair story.

Could DD have some more heavyweight stories and this is just a warning shot? Scrap the restrictions or find out what else we have got. (Whether they have the stories or not, there will be some seriously worried politicians.)
 

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What a beautiful day for knocking on the door of the Russian Embassy and saying 'Is Len in'?

And bung me that Hancock video while you are at it.

You have to be gentle on Hancock. He's under a lot of stress. Oops, I mean Tress.
and her brother's a director at Partnering Health. really hope boris has to hold on to hancock as long as he had to cummings. This is going to require a mega bucket of popcorn
 

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What a beautiful day for knocking on the door of the Russian Embassy and saying 'Is Len in'?

And bung me that Hancock video while you are at it.

You have to be gentle on Hancock. He's under a lot of stress. Oops, I mean Tress.
Fess up! how did you know the password? :oops:
(I think we've found the mole)
 
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oldgroaner

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News UK asks govt to scrap Murdoch restrictions on Times/Sunday Times editorial independence

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-sunday-times-1981-restrictions/

The very next day, The Sun, part of the dirty digger’s empire, lobs this Hancock affair story.

Could DD have some more heavyweight stories and this is just a warning shot? Scrap the restrictions or find out what else we have got. (Whether they have the stories or not, there will be some seriously worried politicians.)
I thought this was hilarious
"He said it “seems an anachronism” for the Government to have a role in a free press. "

As against it all being owned by an Aussie Right wing nutter?
 
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oyster

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One of the issues about Profumo was that he was susceptible to blackmail.

Not only regarding his affair with Christine Keeler but, much later evidence suggests, with a German Nazi spy in the 1930s.

Whilst we might not think that Russia or China is involved, even a company wanting a contract has the ability to apply pressure if they know something, like this Gina Coladangelo affair. Subtle intimations that, if they don’t get what they want, somehow the public will find out.

That is justification enough to require his resignation.

Ten front pages for tomorrow. Not one supporting either Hancock or Johnson.

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