O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

OK, being constructive instead of just dissing your stance: tell us what you would have done with the 15 million jabs that have been at the gift of the UK government over the past twomonths, if you were in charge instead. For info, and I have thought about it, I would do just about exactly what HMG HAVE done (and intend to do)

Not sure what your point is. I haven’t criticised the vaccination programme over the last two months. The only possible ‘fine tuning’ I’ve suggested is that those in the front line might have been given greater priority. That’s just opinion.

[Andy_Faber]

Not sure what your point is. I haven’t criticised the vaccination programme over the last two months. The only possible ‘fine tuning’ I’ve suggested is that those in the front line might have been given greater priority. That’s just opinion.

I think you misunderstood my comment about the French - IMO their 'spinning' was desperate, not their vaccination situation.

[ramAnag]

I think you misunderstood my comment about the French - IMO their 'spinning' was desperate, not their vaccination situation.

Again Andy, I don’t see the relevance of your response to my comment you have chosen to quote.(#1201)

My reaction to your earlier vaguely triumphalist anti ‘frog’ comment was that I hoped we’d progressed from those sort of times.
Being born nine years after the end of WW2 I remember all too well a ’school playground world’ where the wartime hangover still described ‘the only good German as a dead German’, the French were ‘cowardly frogs’, the Italian tanks had ‘one forward gear and five reverse gears’ and the ‘Blacks and Irish’ were regarded as being on a par with dogs.

I hoped we’d left those days behind and just as I don’t want the Brits to be stereotyped as a bunch of arrogant ‘island monkeys’ I don’t see how such nationalistic - or patriotic if you prefer - name calling helps anyone.

P.S. On a lighter note...hope that wasn’t MA, on Sky News, crashing through the ice in his underpants on a frozen Amsterdam canal!
Looked like it stung a bit.

[Andy_Faber]

My reaction to your earlier vaguely triumphalist anti ‘frog’ comment was that I hoped we’d progressed from those sort of times.
Being born nine years after the end of WW2 I remember all too well a ’school playground world’ where the wartime hangover still described ‘the only good German as a dead German’, the French were ‘cowardly frogs’, the Italian tanks had ‘one forward gear and five reverse gears’ and the ‘Blacks and Irish’ were regarded as being on a par with dogs.

I hoped we’d left those days behind and just as I don’t want the Brits to be stereotyped as a bunch of arrogant ‘island monkeys’ I don’t see how such nationalistic - or patriotic if you prefer - name calling helps anyone.

It doesn't help anyone, and it's not name calling, its a term of endearment like Rosbifs the other way, Poms, Jocks, Taffs, etc. The point of my post was the cheap shot taken by the French to excuse their dreadful Covid vaccination but you appeared to miss that in your chordatan outrage