Double Standards by Aussie Govt.re Djokovic

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Our only hope is that Boris admits that there has been a campaign waged against the public in the attempt to deal with covid. It seems obvious that the campaign was based on a clever slogan Saving the NHS and those in the decision making circles did not think the rules applied to them.
The powers to act have helped to create the vaccines and get supplies of PPE but they are no longer required. Boris needs to explain to his troops that they are all in trouble and he thinks it is essential to return decision making to Parliament. I can't see Starmer or the Lib Dems voting against such a move and by getting the experts back in their boxes he can point to his being on the side of the voters. Saviour of our way of life.
Not happy with some of my choice of words but basic principle Boris advocates return to prepandemic political arrangements and wrong foots everyone.

Boris should not be in any position to advocate or explain anything - he needs to go and he needs to go soon.

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Our only hope is that Boris admits that there has been a campaign waged against the public in the attempt to deal with covid. It seems obvious that the campaign was based on a clever slogan Saving the NHS and those in the decision making circles did not think the rules applied to them.
The powers to act have helped to create the vaccines and get supplies of PPE but they are no longer required. Boris needs to explain to his troops that they are all in trouble and he thinks it is essential to return decision making to Parliament. I can't see Starmer or the Lib Dems voting against such a move and by getting the experts back in their boxes he can point to his being on the side of the voters. Saviour of our way of life.
Not happy with some of my choice of words but basic principle Boris advocates return to prepandemic political arrangements and wrong foots everyone.

And this means removing these powers from the devolved parliaments.

I'll say it again, I don't like Doris, he's not a leader but I do think controlling people is not his natural instinct unlike sturgeon who thinks it's her right to control and interfere in people's lives as does most of her executive.

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Boris should not be in any position to advocate or explain anything - he needs to go and he needs to go soon.

I was next on radio Scotland phone in yesterday.....but didn't get to me on time b4 prog finished

They basically had an hour of Boris bashing....as is their want......rolled out Brian fat dab Taylor at one point.

Anyway when I spoke to the researcher she was a wee bit stunned as I said I was non plussed he had the parties as it confirmed to me that nobody in Govt really took the illness that seriously and if you had no underlying the chances of you getting really seriously ill or dying were remote and wearing masks etc a complete waste of time.

I may as well have said I wanted to eat her babies ......but but but but you can't support that.

Wuda been good to get on.

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Honesty is not the best policy obviously. Should have said you were fed up of hearing criticism of Nicola most of which was phoney! Go off piste once you were on the mike'😇

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Lived in WA for 20 years lads, telling lies on you Visa application is the reason?

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Lived in WA for 20 years lads, telling lies on you Visa application is the reason?

Never a good thing to do

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Australian work colleague of mine went home in 2020 never having had a vaccination because there was no vaccine at the time - he spent four weeks in a hotel room, literally in a hotel room, not in a hotel but in a hotel room having food delivered to him, laundry picked up and delivered back etc. He was not allowed to step outside the room. I'd imagine that when Graham Dorrans was granted his visa a similar quarantine period will have been required of him.

There was no vaccine at the time so the Australian government implemented that precaution on nationals travelling from abroad into the country. There is now a vaccine and the Australian government have different rules and precautions based on the availability of the vaccine.

I'd love to know where you get the idea that Graham Dorrans was allowed into Australia under the same restrictions as Novak Djokovic was denied. How could the government deny Dorrans entry on the basis that he wasn't vaccinated when there was no vaccine?

Djokovic didn't take the vaccine, his choice and I respect that, but he knew it was a condition of entry that he should be vaccinated or hold a medical exemption. As it happened he messed up his exemption and was deported - quite rightly.

I suppose what I'm saying is you're comparing apples with pears.

I read an article over a year where an Australian citizen was unable to leave Australia to attend her Father’s funeral in the U.K. This lady had asked if she could travel back to the U.K. to see her father one last time as he was dying from terminal cancer. The Australian authorities said no and she was also refused permission to travel to the U.K. to attend his funeral. Meanwhile this person was complaining that sports stars and celebrities were able to enter Australia but Australian citizens could not leave the country. Putting people in a quarantine ‘hotels’ in Australia has not made a jot of difference stopping the spread of the Covid-19 virus and today it was mentioned in the media that the number of positive Covid-19 cases are increasing in Australia.

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Not that it matters but how do you think our restrictions compare to those in other say European countries?
And are all these leaders similar to Sturgeon re the "power" in your opinion?
Macron seems a tad worse and some are restricted more.

Last month (December 2021) Macron blamed the U.K. for not preventing the increased number of positive Covid-19 but he has suddenly gone strangely quiet after the number of positive Covid-19 cases in France reached almost 280,000 in a day.
Yet another bampot politician who blames everyone else for his one failings.

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Our only hope is that Boris admits that there has been a campaign waged against the public in the attempt to deal with covid. It seems obvious that the campaign was based on a clever slogan Saving the NHS and those in the decision making circles did not think the rules applied to them.
The powers to act have helped to create the vaccines and get supplies of PPE but they are no longer required. Boris needs to explain to his troops that they are all in trouble and he thinks it is essential to return decision making to Parliament. I can't see Starmer or the Lib Dems voting against such a move and by getting the experts back in their boxes he can point to his being on the side of the voters. Saviour of our way of life.
Not happy with some of my choice of words but basic principle Boris advocates return to prepandemic political arrangements and wrong foots everyone.

Starmer is not exactly ‘squeaky clean’ as a photograph has very recently come to light showing Sir Keir Starmer having beer with colleagues in a Durham constituency office last May (2021) when he was up there campaigning in the Hartlepool by-election. https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...-rule-breaking

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I was next on radio Scotland phone in yesterday.....but didn't get to me on time b4 prog finished

They basically had an hour of Boris bashing....as is their want......rolled out Brian fat dab Taylor at one point.

Anyway when I spoke to the researcher she was a wee bit stunned as I said I was non plussed he had the parties as it confirmed to me that nobody in Govt really took the illness that seriously and if you had no underlying the chances of you getting really seriously ill or dying were remote and wearing masks etc a complete waste of time.

I may as well have said I wanted to eat her babies ......but but but but you can't support that.

Wuda been good to get on.

The BBC News will have a big problem if Boris Johnston resigns as Prime Minister as they will have no news to report. Their well paid journalists will have to get off their backsides and go looking for news to report.