The Corona Virus

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Couldn't agree more BT, our woke lefty media should stop trying to politicise it by blaming individual government ministers, and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the organisation responsible for procuring PPE for NHS staff, namely the NHS itself.

Have a ten minute trawl through this lot sinkov and tell me we are not living in a fu-cking lunatic asylum?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...ial-care/about

[Supersub6]

Have a ten minute trawl through this lot sinkov and tell me we are not living in a fu-cking lunatic asylum?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...ial-care/about

The Civil Service has always held sway, as was first publicised by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn when they first aired in 1980 --some 40 years ago! It had been the same for many, many years but they actually showed it for what it was.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's scandalous Supersub6, it really is.

[Supersub6]

It's scandalous Supersub6, it really is.

It has always been like that though. Take for instance the way that every government switches minister around For two years we had Gavin Williamson who was Defence Minister and then Boris gets in and he is Education Secretary. One minute he is professing to know all about the defence of the country and its Armed Forces and the next he is professing to know all about the education system.
The bottom line is that, although they are the minister for this that and the other and known to us as such, they are all being manipulated by the heads of the Civil Service who have been in their respective jobs for years.

I experienced this at close quarters in the 1980s when I was in the RAF ---it was a real eye opener and confirmed that they only tell you what they want you to know. Anything, even slightly controversial, has 'D' notices slapped on it and we will never find out what happened.

[Norder]

Those bloody cameras Norder, that young lad just needed a clip round the ear, but our Bobbies just can't administer rough justice any more, no wonder they get a bit stroppy, who wouldn't ?

most of right mind wouldn't - and shouldn't Sinkov....as for the clip - not sure where your getting that, from your dad perhaps ?....as dont remember any bobby doing that to me or mates when I was a lad - they left you alone mostly - and when called even , it ended up being more banter and a laugh - as for this cop, if he can't deal with a young lad without puffing his chest and threatening to falsify evidence - then the fruitloop shouldn't be on the force - anyway, seems he's been suspended "pending further investigation".....is that code for "until the dust settles" ?....as to me seems bang to rights - he as others, could do with reading Sir Robert Peel's Principles of Law Enforcement...

"The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police existence, actions, behavior and the ability of the police to secure and maintain public respect.
The police at all times should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that - the police are the public and the public are the police"

On the subject of abuse of power, more worrying for me than the occasional abuse of temporary powers by some police officers was the power grab by the lawyers of the Supreme Court, who arbitrarily took it upon themselves, without any precedent whatsoever, to instruct our elected Government and Prime Minister, what he could and couldn't do in the execution of his duties on our behalf in Parliament.

not so difficult...best I can say - they're all a waste of space...the lot of them !

And while we all like a good moan about our local constabulary, yesterday I got an email from my brother-in-law who lives in France, I've copied this straight out of the email, it's obvious we're not as far down the road as our cheese-eating neighbours are.....yet.
"No problems in supermarkets around here. People generally sensible. Except gendarmes who fined a guy in the village for not having an attestation when crossing the road to the public dustbins!"

the French need paperwork....to wipe their arse - Sinkov....you know that.




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Latest News.

Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University has released the results of a serology study done on a sampling of Santa Clara County residents.

The study found that the infection-fatality ratio (IFR) of Covid19 has potentially been substantially overestimated - that it actually falls in line with seasonal influenza.

[sinkov]

First question on the Muppet Show yesterday from the BBC, something about is the government ashamed that some nurses don't have adequate PPE. A strange question, when the public want to get the latest info out of ministers and government, this BBC halfwit prefers to play games. As it's the responsibilty of the NHS, envy of the world, to procure PPE for it's front-line staff, why not address the question to the body responsible for the shortage, the NHS, unless of course the BBC has an agenda.

Does the BBC have an agenda ? Try this....

"Last Friday morning, at 6, 7, 8 and 9 am, the news on BBC Radio 4 led with the story that “The boss of an NHS Trust has asked the BBC to put him in touch with a fashion company making protective gowns, because he fears he’s about to run out.” The reporter, Simon Browning, said that the executive had asked for the phone number of a Burberry factory. The story accused the Government of falling down on PPE “despite assurances from ministers that there’s enough to go round”. The “boss” reportedly described the Government’s claim there was no shortage of gowns as “fantasy”. This sounded odd to me. Was the NHS boss so clueless that he had to ask our national broadcaster how to get hold of Burberry? If so, could one trust him to get PPE from anywhere? I was also suspicious of the fact that the source refused to speak directly and that the Today programme which followed the news did not follow up the report. It seemed sketchy. Later that day, modestly concealed in the Business section of the BBC News website, a “correction” appeared: “We should clarify that the person concerned is not the boss of an NHS trust but is part of a network of organisations helping to source personal protective equipment for some NHS trusts. The mistake was caused by a misunderstanding of the person’s role in the fight against the pandemic.” The correction understated the problem. If the person looking for Burberry was not an NHS boss, but only someone who was helping chase PPE gowns, it was not worthy of the national news at all, let alone the hourly lead. The BBC’s “misunderstanding of the person’s role” collapsed the entire tale.

How did this story get broadcast, then?"

So how did it get broadcast, go back to the start of this post for the answer. That's how the BBC FAKE NEWS factory operates, broadcast the lies, the FAKE NEWS, then when found out, tuck away the retraction where no one will notice it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

In all honesty sinkov, Margaret Thatcher would have had about two dozen of the hierarchy of our Health Services' guts for garters.

I am 100% certain we have the industrial capacity in the UK to sort out this supply issue, but where the fu-ck is the will to do it?

[sinkov]

It gets better BT, Public Health England are getting a bit shirty, they've put out a statement saying they're not responsible for the lack of PPE, it's your old friends the DHSC on behalf of the NHS. Panic buttons being pressed, bucks being passed, 'stand from under' the order of the day ?

"PHE is not responsible for determining what stock is held in the pandemic stockpile. We are responsible for developing the UK guidance on PPE and advising how to keep clinicians safe. The DHSC is responsible for the procurement of PPE on behalf of the NHS, not PHE."

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Like I said sinkov, somebody needs to get to grips with this sh-itfest and soon.

[Claret_Matelot]

Just been for my daily stroll, in Burnley shirt, and a dog walker asked my if it was a Burnley Shirt. His dad was was from Burnley and he played for the Bolton then on to Portsmouth then Brighton. I forgot to ask his dads name but it could have been Brian Bromley...