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

[BigFatPie]

The Grauniad - 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...on2005.economy

Oh, and was Brown the guy who said "I'm going to sell gold" triggering a price drop as investors saw a bargain on the horizon. Very clever - not. Ideological idiots who'd milk a cow to death instead of growing a herd.

I asked you for contradictions to the idea that Gordon Brown handled the 2008 financial crisis well and you link to a 2005 article written by the previous Tory chancellor? Ok.

To be fair, ‘he flogged our gold’ is usually the only response to why the last Labour wasn’t very good economically so you stick with it chief.

[BigFatPie]

Bless...loser.

If you want instructions on how to open the link and want someone to explain the article, just ask.

Thick you are.

[drillerpie]

The line from the outset has been "science-led". Obviously, this isn't an exact science and the strategy evolves in response to the data, but as long as the politicians continue to be science-led rather than media-led they should be okay. The media will respond to any shift in strategy with the usual allegations of "U-turn" and other such phrases, and they will wheel out all sorts of naysayers and second-guessers to snipe from the sidelines about how they would do things differently. However, right now the Government needs to ignore all that noise and listen to their appointed experts, who aren't guaranteed to be right all the time, but have the best chance of being so.

Big fan of science are you Jackal?

[upthemaggies]

Second home owners urged to stay away from North Wales. "A GP said health services have been inundated by people with second homes in Gwynedd looking for medical care."

[jackal2]

Big fan of science are you Jackal?

Still fit and healthy enough to be posting I see!

[drillerpie]

Still fit and healthy enough to be posting I see!

Well spotted. Big fan of science are you?

[upthemaggies]

Good move by Chelsea. They've offered use of their hotel to NHS staff for free, to make life easier for those who have to commute.

[sidders]

I see Banjo is impressed by, among other things, Boris's leadership and Richard Branson. Not the sharpest thingy in the doofer, are you, Banjo?
To be fair, Boris has done all right thus far, but as my co-conspirator and Snobhead Elite says, it's too early to say whether his leadership has been a success. Basically, he's handed over the lead to 'the scientists' which means that if things go 'tits up' he can claim it was no fault of his. However, he has abandoned pantomime mode and managed to keep a straight face and give a credible impersonation of someone who gives a s h i t. However, I do note that Risky Sunup failed to address renters and the poor in society as part of his redress package yesterday.
Banjo, check out Tom Bower's biography of Richard Branson. The man is an a r s e (Branson, not Bower) whose entrepreneurialism owes its success to leeching off the taxpayer, sucking up money from the public sector. He also comes over as not a nice man; someone who owes a great deal to mummy and thought nothing of urinating on those who served him loyally.
Your vision of RB as a man with a mission to create jobs is a romantic delusion.

[drillerpie]

We are already self isolating here in W. Bridg4d, my own health issues & of course Mrs Bridg4d is now on Oral Chemo for six months after her recent successful operation for Bowel Cancer, her immune system currently dictates that we would not have been socialising in the current circumstances anyway.

Donald Trump
Jan 22:
Trump: “It’s not a pandemic”

Feb 26:
Trump: “We’re going down (rate of infections], not up. Substantially down”

Feb 28:
Trump: “This is the new hoax”

Mar 7:
Trump: “I’m not concerned at all”

Mar 9:
Trump: “FAKE NEWS!”

Yesterday: “I’ve always known this is a real pandemic”

The man is despicable. Despite having time to send 10 or 20 tweets a day, play golf at his resort, hold election rallies every week, and so on, he puts his VP in charge so that if it goes tits up he can dodge responsibility.

The other day he was asked why he disbanded the pandemic reaction team in 2018. He called it a nasty question and tried to say someone else in his administration did it without his knowledge.

Video came out yesterday of him in 2018 justifying disbanding the pandemic team saying it was a waste of money and he could un-disband them whenever he wanted.

His management of all this has been pretty much the same as everything else he does - lie, deflect, blame, cover up - and usually it works, because a man who got where he is by bullsh1tting people only needs to carry on bullsh1tting the same people who fell for his BS in the first place.

But unfortunately for him you can't bullsh1t a virus, and I think this might be the end of the road for him. He was odds on to win the next election a month ago, now he's only evens, and the brown stuff hasn't even started to hit the fan yet.

[BigFatPie]

The man is despicable. Despite having time to send 10 or 20 tweets a day, play golf at his resort, hold election rallies every week, and so on, he puts his VP in charge so that if it goes tits up he can dodge responsibility.

The other day he was asked why he disbanded the pandemic reaction team in 2018. He called it a nasty question and tried to say someone else in his administration did it without his knowledge.

Video came out yesterday of him in 2018 justifying disbanding the pandemic team saying it was a waste of money and he could un-disband them whenever he wanted.

His management of all this has been pretty much the same as everything else he does - lie, deflect, blame, cover up - and usually it works, because a man who got where he is by bullsh1tting people only needs to carry on bullsh1tting the same people who fell for his BS in the first place.

But unfortunately for him you can't bullsh1t a virus, and I think this might be the end of the road for him. He was odds on to win the next election a month ago, now he's only evens, and the brown stuff hasn't even started to hit the fan yet.

I really hope it’s the end for him, but you only have to read this board to know that he could, as he said, still shoot people on 5th Avenue and his base would go for it. Plus, Joe Biden isn’t exactly the most inspiring of candidates.