O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Geoff Parkstone]

Who’s ‘whingeing about it’? This is a forum discussion about the Government’s handling of Covid and making a critical comment about that subject isn’t ‘whingeing’.
One can only ever try and change what you now accept is wrong by drawing attention to it. Whether there remain sufficient readers on here to make a difference is debatable, but this thread has attracted over 40,000 ‘visits’ over the last sixte en months.

I can't help but feel that 25,000 of those 40,000 visits were you 😀

[Andy_Faber]

Who’s ‘whingeing about it’?

post 2322. That's whingeing

I'm not even disagreeing with your point, but it was a whinge.

Edit, my comment about whingeing wasn't actually addressd at you but at whingers in general

[ramAnag]

Totally disagree. It was an observation about the state of UK politics and politicians today.
Critical? Yes. Whingeing? No...unless, in your book, every criticism of anyone on here, from Johnson to Starmer, Morris to the EFL and Roos to Rooney is a ‘whinge’.

[Andy_Faber]

Totally disagree. It was an observation about the state of UK politics and politicians today.
Critical? Yes. Whingeing? No...unless, in your book, every criticism of anyone on here, from Johnson to Starmer, Morris to the EFL and Roos to Rooney is a ‘whinge’.

I do find it odd that you critique my contributions so devoutly yet have allowed to pass, unremarked upon, someone else's comment earlier that compares excusing a bit of alleged boozing and fumbling with the attempted destruction of an entire race. Its quite a while (ie a few weeks0 since he last pulled that card but its still inexcusable

[swaledale]

I do find it odd that you critique my contributions so devoutly yet have allowed to pass, unremarked upon, someone else's comment earlier that compares excusing a bit of alleged boozing and fumbling with the attempted destruction of an entire race. Its quite a while (ie a few weeks0 since he last pulled that card but its still inexcusable

OMG are you actually for real? Or is it just your method of hiding your own intellectual inadequacy that you deliberately (and not for the first time) misinterpret what I posted?

I suggest you put on your reading glasses, because you clearly can't read and look at that post again.

I referenced Hitler's support by "good Germans" not in relation to a bit of actual (theres nothing alleged here it happened and the evidence is there)boozing and fumbling, but as a direct rebuttal to your view that it was insignificant and there were more pressing matters to attend to.

On the basis that as I explained clearly, this is how authoritarian governments gain power, people overlook the small transgressions on the basis that the government is attending to the "big issue". Not that in any reasonable and half sentient persons view, a government passing legislation, strongly criticising anybody attending a banned gathering and fining the organisers £10,000 yet at the same time doing exactly that which they had banned is a small thing.

This is just one example, the Owen Patterson affair, not sacking Patel when she had been found to have broken the ministerial code, not sacking Cummins when he broke lockdown rules, handing out contracts to contacts etc etc. If this was going on in another country those same politicians and the media would be howling about corruption and the moral vacuum of the state.

And you wonder why sometimes I post a load of swear words? I like a debate but when the other person seems unable to grasp simple concepts, it gets rather boring.

[ramAnag]

I do find it odd that you critique my contributions so devoutly yet have allowed to pass, unremarked upon, someone else's comment earlier that compares excusing a bit of alleged boozing and fumbling with the attempted destruction of an entire race. Its quite a while (ie a few weeks0 since he last pulled that card but its still inexcusable

I’m not sure what, or who, you’re actually talking about here. Probably Swale because that’s what you do...but I ‘critique your contributions so devoutly’...what does that even mean, where is your evidence?
For the record...I find the level of double standards and hypocrisy, that we see from this Government on an almost daily basis very alarming. The fact that supposedly intelligent and socially aware people such as yourself seem to want to turn a ‘blind eye’ equally so.

No one has compared ‘excusing a bit of alleged boozing and fumbling with the attempted destruction of an entire race’ and to suggest that they have is, frankly, ridiculous. People, Swale and I on here, and numerous political commentators elsewhere, are simply drawing attention to levels of hypocrisy that are unacceptable.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Yawn.......

[ramAnag]

Yawn.......

Then don’t ‘reply’...simple as that. It’s a thread that has attracted a lot of comment...not least from yourself.
Maybe the fact that your ‘side’ is rapidly losing the debate and ‘team Boris’ becoming discredited has something to do with your latest two comments.
Would be interesting to know if you and AF will also be suggesting the turning of another ‘blind eye’ to the allegations of increased drug (cocaine) use in Parliament over recent years or is that okay too?

[Ramshank72]

I miss the days when politicians were shamed for simply visiting special dungeons in Soho Square. Question time would probably be more interesting if they're smacked out of their faces on the white stuff!

[ramAnag]

I miss the days when politicians were shamed for simply visiting special dungeons in Soho Square. Question time would probably be more interesting if they're smacked out of their faces on the white stuff!

Lol...indeed, might even explain the Justice Secretary’s bizarre claim about criminal investigations yesterday morning.