O/T:- Impressed with the leadership

[Bridg4d_Pie_]

Typical labour losing comment, I expected no more. I just knew Jezza and Diane would have this sorted by now, shame on you Boris.

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.

[Bridg4d_Pie_]

In the past 24 hours I've noticed a distinct difference between the tone and approach of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. McDonnell (in the interviews I've seen) has adopted a relatively statesmanlike national unity-type stance and moderated his political comment, while Corbyn has been quite sneering and surly. I don't know if it's an intentional "good cop, bad cop" strategy or just a straight difference in how they believe they should approach the issue, but McDonnell has looked the more accomplished.

That is probably bought about because they are in that group of the over 70's or very close to it and anticipate that a change of attitude or outlook will ensure they manage to receive the appropriate treatment, whatever that might be, I suspect.

[Elite_Pie]

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.

Good luck to the pair of you Bridg4d. Hope you've got people to help you out.

[Old_pie]

https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1XV0ZN

1. That note was a joke, and followed a global banking crisis, which I’m sure you well know. How many of those bankers went to prison?

2. Gordon Brown was acknowledged to have handled that crisis very well, unless you have evidence to the contrary?

3. The Tory government has imposed ideological cuts on the most vulnerable people in society. Many of those people have suffered early death as a result. Indeed, life expectancy for the poorest in this country is going down for the first time in a generation. How did you suffer from austerity?

4. As Alexei Sayle said, austerity is the idea that the financial crash was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.

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.

[Elite_Pie]

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.

On a similar note:

"Margaret Thatcher squandered billions from North Sea oil on a short-term consumer boom when she should have invested it, Lord Heseltine told Holyrood last night. The former defence secretary said the focus on personal consumption, fuelled by tax breaks, was a key failing of the “Thatcher philosophy”. He said: “This country over consumes and under invests. If I have a criticism, which I do, of the Thatcher philosophy... they had the incredible windfall of North Sea oil and basically it was spent on consumer boom".

[upthemaggies]

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”

[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.

[drillerpie]

Apologies for quoting Bridg4d Pie!

[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]

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.

All the best to you and Mrs BP.