Yorkietiger

Yorkietiger

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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Garvan Walshe: We can ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I absolutely agree with you about the mainstream media, their reporting of the pandemic and the draconian measures this lunatic government has imposed is shameful. I am not sure what their motivation for failing to challenge the government's approach or to give air time to those with alternative suggestions has been. Maybe they were concerned that they would have been accused of undermining the government restrictions and eroding compliance and therefore be held responsible for increased deaths and disease.

If that is the case then it is a pretty poor excuse. Indeed allowing a proper debate and challenging government should have allowed the government the ability to clearly articulate the reasoning and evidence that supported its decisions, and if it could not do so, then allow proper consideration of other approaches. This I think would have facilitated better outcomes to have been achieved than the current Covid above all else that has been the mantra thus far.

I think pretty soon it is going to start to sink home to ordinary people's just how much collateral damage has been done. At the moment most people are only seeing the immediate obvious things, like children not in school and the odd shop and pub getting boarded up. Just wait until the support starts being withdrawn and 2m more hit the unemployed list, and fuel tax, income tax start to rise as they surely must to start paying off the huge debts that have been accrued. And that is before we see the effects of NHS waiting lists of 10 million and the deaths that will result from that.

Boris and Hancock may well be basking in the vaccination program sun light just now, but the storm clouds will soon be gathering and chickens will be coming home to roost.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The relaxation of lock... · 0 replies · +1 points

Have you had any experience of health services anywhere else? I have, and it made the NHS look third rate. They may well have done a good job supporting the vaccine roll out, but they did not lead it, that was the Vaccine Task Force and the Army, but even what has been done by them was at the expense of many other things.

I went to see my GP last week, and even he admitted that little other than Covid is getting done. He said every time he chases tests, follow up treatments and the like for patients all he ever gets is excuses always linked Covid.

Going back to the deified NHS service though. I worked in South Africa for many years, there I could ring my GP in the morning, see her the same day, be sent for tests/x-rays the next day and be in hospital being treated the next week. Try that with the NHS and see how far you get!

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Conservative MPs on wh... · 0 replies · +1 points

well useless Boris has surrendered to them thus far, and I am not expecting change soon. I will be very surprised if his 8th March date for school Reopening holds, his sage masters are already warning this is risky. The only thing that might reset things is if the 1922 committee start collecting names to replace him, self preservation might then kick in!

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Conservative MPs on wh... · 0 replies · +1 points

Absolutely these people should not be allowed to talk to the media, and Johnson should prevent them or boot them out if they do. I am not saying open debate should not take place, quite the opposite in fact, however if you are an insider, then the rules of collective responsibility need to apply, otherwise these people start leading the discussion and are no longer just advisors.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Drakeford attac... · 1 reply · +1 points

This is the same useless idiot who had a circuit breaker in Wales that resulted in more cases coming out of it than going in, decided buying black tights in Tesco to go to a funeral in was against the rules, and decided that buying children's clothing in a supermarket was not permitted. What an utter merchant banker, why should we listen to anything he has to say?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Why would a... · 1 reply · +1 points

LK's or any other journalist questions are a waste of time in these sham Coronavirus Briefings. All we get are hand picked members of the public's videos that perform no other function than to allow whichever politician is up to peddle the latest measure they are promoting. That is then followed by questions from the cozy Downing Street Press corp, which are neatly sidestepped by the politician no follow up or comebacks allowed.

Frankly, I have seen Vladimir Putin get a harder time from the Russian Press!

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Why would a... · 1 reply · +1 points

Frankly we could have shielded all the over 70s, provided them with free food dropped at their doorsteps, saved many of the lost lives, stopped the NHS from grinding to a halt, and kept all schools open had we followed a different approach that focussed on protecting those at risk rather than blanket lockdowns.

Had we done that, we would have reduced the cost in lives, societal misery, and economic disaster. We would have spent far less money as well, and been much more able to recover once the vaccine roll out is completed.

Instead we allowed academics and scientists with one track minds to hijack Government and rush in with blind panick measures, that have not been proven to work, and put them in a place where once in a particular hole, they had no choice but to keep on digging rather than facing the embarrassment of admitting they got it wrong and changing the approach.

I am pretty convinced that when the inevitable public enquiry that is going to follow this debacle reports, that it going concluded that the approach we took was wrong, and that as a result much more suffering than was necessary was done. Sadly by that time Bojo, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance and all the rest of them will be long gone, either drawing their gold plated pensions, or writing their memoirs.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Miles Briggs: The pand... · 4 replies · +1 points

Bookmakers, whether online or on the high street are nothing more than parasites, largely preying on people who can ill afford the gambling they indulge in. I hope the Government follow up on cracking down on them, I am fed up of every other advert on the tv being for Betway, Bet365, Ladbrokes and William Hill. They also dominate in sport, half the football clubs are in shirts emblazoned with betting shop names, as are all the snooker tournaments which are sponsored by them.

People may argue that the money they provide cannot be got elsewhere. Well I would beg to differ. It used to be the same with the tobacco industry 30 years ago, when F1 cars looking like cigarette packets on wheels, Benson and Hedges sponsored county cricket, and Embassy the Snooker World Championships. That was all torn down and I did not see any great downside, and I see no reason why betting shops being banned from advertising and sponsorship would be any different.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Bordering on impossible · 0 replies · +1 points

Who mentioned General Election, I did not, I was referring to the locals in May. Any opportunity should be taken to protest at the idiotic policies these lunatics are promoting. As for Brexit, I fail to see why you raise it, and Farage and Tice now lead the Reform Party, and God knows Reform is certainly needed here.

As for the likelihood of Reform winning, I agree it is unlikely, bu the that does not mean I should vote for Dumb or Dumber, just because our useless electoral system pushes this damaging bi-polar nonsense.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Bordering on impossible · 0 replies · +1 points

And of course that is the problem, nobody ever presents the data in a fair way, it is always loaded to support whatever the nutters in Whitehall want to do next. In a similar way if they told people that a consequence of lockdown would be a 10% cut in living standards, not someone else's, but theirs, then that might also solicit a rather different response.