O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Borg elite]

Sounds like you and Apple pie would make a good couple drunken sailor.The aptly named Gump could be best man. I thought you said there was something about me you liked ? Was it my silence....

[i961pie]

You spoiled a great post by quoting the BBC.

[BigFatPie]

I was going to, then I thought why get into another pro/anti brexit debate. It's done now.
I thought it was Kate Bingham who Boris appointed and was called a Tory crony that was behind organising and ordering millions of the vaccine? According to what I heard on TV. (mind you it was the BBC).

Yes, correct. Bingham and her team did a great job of procurement, and the NHS has done a great job with the delivery, as it should have done with test and trace.

None of that excuses the other calamities and the resignations/prosecutions which should happen as a result.

[i961pie]

Yes, correct. Bingham and her team did a great job of procurement, and the NHS has done a great job with the delivery, as it should have done with test and trace.

None of that excuses the other calamities and the resignations/prosecutions which should happen as a result.

Not arguing there.

[applepie]

Sounds like you and Apple pie would make a good couple drunken sailor.The aptly named Gump could be best man. I thought you said there was something about me you liked ? Was it my silence....

No thanks. And I think you may have misunderstood my post. I was proving Ayeayeskipper wrong, admittedly a bit childish of me.

[Davy500]

I posted this on the day the US election result was declared back in November:



Must admit I didn't see it get this bad though!

Trump will find himself losing friends quicker than Prince Andrew did in the coming weeks.

Whether you like trump or not he was good for the stock market, in the four years he was president my pension has nearly doubled, so its not all bad

[sidders]

Whether you like trump or not he was good for the stock market, in the four years he was president my pension has nearly doubled, so its not all bad

Deregulation and cutting taxes always works well with the stock market but has serious implications for Joe Public.

[Borg elite]

I'm sorry Apple pie, I thought it wasn't like you, I tend to agree with your posts.👍

[Old_pie]

Whether you like trump or not he was good for the stock market, in the four years he was president my pension has nearly doubled, so its not all bad

There is no convincing case that shows that the Trump period was any better for the US markets than his predecessors (Obama, Clinton).

https://www.marke****ch.com/story/st...on-11611161401

(you know that think you wear on your wrist that tells you the time - well it contains a most of a naughty word FFS!)

Nonetheless the US markets have continued to do well which has been good to for my pension. China has done even better and I'm glad to have hung on to my FCSS holdings (+400% in 5yrs).

[BanjoPie]

The stocks market done well today for me anyway. My main share gone up by 75p a share and have 3600 of them.

[BanjoPie]

Getting back on topic, I do think the Boris has pulled out the stops when it come to the vaccination rollout albeit, it is our beloved NHS that has carried it out but he has facilitated it hasn’t he?

[Elite_Pie]

I wonder if Boris is now regretting lying through his teeth to keep Dominic Cummings in his job?

[piegonk74]

I wonder if Boris is now regretting lying through his teeth to keep Dominic Cummings in his job?

Highly unlikely

[Old_pie]

Getting back on topic, I do think the Boris has pulled out the stops when it come to the vaccination rollout albeit, it is our beloved NHS that has carried it out but he has facilitated it hasn’t he?

I think the vaccine manufacturers, Forces and an army of volunteers plus a number of other organisations eg Swiftqueue have also played a large part. It is the bringing together of this disparate that has been the real feat.

As I understand it this comes under the realm of the relatively unsung Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

But no doubt Boris has pushed in the right areas including encouraging the UK to take the much criticised path at the time of going separately from Europe last summer.

I think he has finally getting it that listening to experts trumps (pun intended) a blustering hope for the best approach.

[BanjoPie]

Do we believe someone who has already proved to be know to be a downright liar!! - not saying that what Cummings is saying is not true but it must be questionable!!