O/T:- Should he stay or should he go? WARNING - POLITICAL THREAD!!!!

[Elite_Pie]

I've just downed my eighth can of cider, but I feel pretty much in control. I am getting a bit bored with staying at home however, so I've decided to drive to Barnard Castle to see whether I'm fit to be on the road. If I drive erratically and get stopped by the police I'll be ok though, I'll just claim that TheBlackHorse told me that the drink drive limit isn't law, it's just advisory.

[upthemaggies]

I've just downed my eighth can of cider, but I feel pretty much in control. I am getting a bit bored with staying at home however, so I've decided to drive to Barnard Castle to see whether I'm fit to be on the road. If I drive erratically and get stopped by the police I'll be ok though, I'll just claim that TheBlackHorse told me that the drink drive limit isn't law, it's just advisory.

Don't forget to negotiate a vaccine deal between a highly discredited UK drugs manufacturer and a French company with links to the Republican party and Donald Trump whilst your there.

[SwalePie]

Glaxo fined £37.6m for 'illegal behaviour' over Seroxat deals "that resulted in higher costs for the NHS."
https://www.theguardian.com/business...aviour-seroxat

Also paid $3 BILLION in a a Fraud Settlement back in 2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/b...ettlement.html

I seem to remember £300m or £400m fine for the China bribery too, if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: Here it is... https://www.policymed.com/2014/09/gs...sentenced.html

[the_anticlough]

Classic.

Must have been so tedious for this lady to be dragged out for an 'eye test drive', and on her birthday at that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_W...d_(journalist)

[crazyfists]

Your comments about me veer from the intolerant to the tolerant so many times that I've learned to treat both imposters the same.

As you know from a Guardian article I suspect you read earlier, the Mail's headline was 'What planet are they on?'. This is quite ironic really, because you would need to have lived on another planet - or certainly not read the Mail in recent years - to realise that changes to their senior editorial team at the Mail have led to some significant changes in their outlook and messaging. Therefore, the Government should not place as much faith in it as a bellwether of Tory support that it might once have done.

Anyway, Dominic Cummings has made a very full statement, wisely or unwisely, and people will draw their conclusions from seeing it, or from the re-interpretation of it subsequently given to them by journalists. One thing I would say about this unprecedented event is that it possibly gave the public greater insight into the fact that (some) journalists are not impartial seekers of truth on the public's behalf, but rather, unelected politicians pursuing their own very determined agenda.

In my view, neither Government ministers nor Mr Cummings should say any more, because it will only feed those who would seek to bring them down.

The only thing we've taken from it is basically do what you want, don't stay at home whilst your parents die on their own, why should you. The Tories looking after themselves as usual, you'd think Johnson would want to keep his newly won northern base but he's nearly lost them all again already with this episode. We don't like being treated like pricks and to come out and say you drove to a castle 30 miles away to test your eyesight is absolute *******s. I might go out on my bike later to test mine, I'll probably end in Sheffield.

Whether people are sour about Brexit is immaterial. He should have resigned or been sacked then everyone moved on, we shouldn't still be talking about this.

[BigFatPie]

Cummings recently doctored the blog he referred to yesterday where he claimed to warn about a pandemic...

https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status...758884354?s=21

These people are just weird. Lying is as easy as breathing. But as we can see from this forum and elsewhere, there’s always enough mugs ready to believe them.

[drillerpie]

Cummings recently doctored the blog he referred to yesterday where he claimed to warn about a pandemic...

https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status...758884354?s=21

These people are just weird. Lying is as easy as breathing. But as we can see from this forum and elsewhere, there’s always enough mugs ready to believe them.

I blame the media!

[the_anticlough]

Just read comments after a piece, so many funny lines I can't decide which is best

- The jokes about Cummings’ eyesight just get cornea and cornea.

- Be right back - just going for a drive to check my eyesight
Be sure to take the family with you. So they can see if you can see if you can see!

- At first I thought how inept are these people that that was the best they could come up
The best they could come up with. Can you imagine what the rejected storylines sounded like?

- Highway Code Question 34
You feel that your eyesight may be impaired and are worried about whether you are safe to drive.
Do you:
A. Get someone else to drive you to see an opthalmologist in order to test your eyes? Or:
B. Load you wife and child into the car and go for a 30-mile drive to see if you make it without crashing?

- Going for a ride to check the eyesight? Next time Dom may be prudent enough to check if the tank is topped up using a match.

- I found it hilarious that on the BBC we had Dom's statement, then Johnson's briefing and then.... Would I Lie To You!

- Sarah Langford (Barrister)
"Cummings is like the nightmare defence client who thinks he’s the cleverest person in court & no matter how strongly u advise him not to go into the witness box insists he can ‘clear all this mess up quickly’ while you sit with ur head in ur hands trying not to look at the jury."
https://twitter.com/wigsandwords/sta...55728349061122

- So let me get this straight.
He goes on a 50 mile round trip to Barnard Castle and (understandably) the wife and nipper need a pee - but he drives 5 times that distance (London to Durham) and doesn’t stop once ?
Yeah, right.

- Cummings' in-laws own an enormous castle just a few miles up the road from us. It's a huge, whopping great pile. Just like the huge, whopping great pile of bull**** he came out with today.

- “Hi there,” he said, when he eventually turned up after a half-hour row with his wife over whether he really needed to change out of his hoodie and put on a shirt.
As my sister noted, the change from his usual thug get-up of scraggy t-shirt and trackie bottoms was incredibly redolent of crims dressing up for court.

- Five Cobra emergency briefings are not worth the prime minister’s time. Two car crash briefings to get his mate out of the **** are worth the PM’s time. The Tories - not for the many, only for the one.

- So, Cummings drove from Durham to Barnard Castle (30 miles) because he was unsure of his eyesight - thus again putting others, including his 4 year-old in the car, at risk. What COVID couldn't do, Mr Magoo could finish…

- Anyone want to meet up in Barnard Castle tomorrow for a spot of eye testing?

- I still can't get my head around what he's trying to explain by travelling to Barnard Castle to test his eyes? Has he misunderstood 'Sight Seeing Spot'?

- just trying to help here, but is it possible the poor eyesight thing could be due to him being a colossal ****er ? I've heard that can happen.

[BigFatPie]

Steady AC, you’ll be accused of harassing him, or of being a bitter remoaner, or some other such bullish!t.

[downunderpie]

As I watched it I could not help remembering the poor Captain of the Costa Concordia who had the misfortune to fall from his ship into the lifeboat some people are just unlucky in seems......