Coronavirus Thread

[RonnieTodger]

Slimy bastards. Remember how quickly they all leapt to his defence as well. 

[Guest Harrydc]

15 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

If this is floating the idea that the death count from Covid in the UK wasn't nearly so high as thought and the Government were involved in a conspiracy regarding the whole thing for the purposes of power...there is one question.

 

If there was a conspiracy afoot, Why would any government sector let something like this out that would prove it and simply not provide a doctored set of statistics, if that's what they've been doing all along? Why tell the truth now? 

Maybe it hammers down the point that a lot were deaths within 28 days of a positive test for any reason. 

 

This way of counting deaths throughout this last year has been ridiculous. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Anyone sticking the boot in whilst Hancock is down is ok in my book.

[StanSP]

 

 

 

[RoboFox]

Absolutely sensational stuff. 

 

Cummings would rather be remembered as the cvnt who attempted to bring down the government, rather than the cvnt who tested his eyesight by going for a drive to Barnard Castle.

 

Boris Johnson thought COVID was a scare story and wanted Whitty to inject him with it on TV. Johnson is even more of a thick twat than even I gave him credit for. 

 

Also, by referencing it, Cummings has genuinely entered the Spiderman pointing meme into the British parliamentary record. Cross that off your 2021 bingo card. 

 

Edited 26 May 2021 by RoboFox

[StanSP]

5 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Also, by referencing it, Cummings has genuinely entered the Spiderman pointing meme into the British parliamentary record. Cross that off your 2021 bingo card.

Enjoyed that bit

 

[Guest]

Looking forward to the Hollywood adaptation of this with Jason Statham as the Cumdog

[RoboFox]

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Enjoyed that bit

 

He referenced the 14th meeting where they saw that the data was much worse than feared as the "Independence day Jeff Goldblum" meeting.

 

You couldn't make this stuff up. 

[VLC86]

Absolutely on bits at Bojo wanting to be injected with Covid live on TV. What a guy Cummings is.

[leicsmac]

41 minutes ago, Harrydc said:

Maybe it hammers down the point that a lot were deaths within 28 days of a positive test for any reason. 

 

This way of counting deaths throughout this last year has been ridiculous. 

Not the question that was asked, but fair enough.

[RoboFox]

 

 

[z-layrex]

What do you guys think about full size weddings happening? Personally I cannot see it this year.

 

I have 2 sets of friends that postponed their weddings from 2020. Neither couple will even entertain the idea of a wedding with restrictions on numbers etc, both are absolutely convinced their weddings are going ahead this year and won't hear otherwise.

 

I personally cannot see the gov just saying "ok go for it" on the wedding front this year.

[CosbehFox]

I can’t get my head around Cummings motive. 

[Dunge]

8 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I can’t get my head around Cummings motive. 

I think there’s a couple of key things here. Firstly, he was forced out of Downing Street last year after allegedly briefing against Carrie Symonds. So he’ll have revenge in mind against her and Boris for that. Secondly, his own reputation is still in tatters after the Barnard Castle debacle, so he’s trying to salvage it. Is he just trying to present the truth in a visible way for the sake of the public? I’m sure that’s a handy narrative for him to lead with but I have a hard time believing it, particularly since he’s effectively burning some bridges. It looks like he’s trying to settle more scores along the way, too. He hasn’t so much thrown Matt Hancock under the bus as tied him to the road and driven the bus over him repeatedly.

 

All in all, although the revelations are sensational and fascinating, he’s doing pretty much what I thought he’d do: Truth mixed with embellishment and likely some things that are out of place or context, while trying to paint himself as the almost-hero of the tragic piece. “If only I’d acted on my gut,” he paraphrases, “If only I’d been more arrogant and told everyone what I really thought, we could have saved so many lives. But alas, I am but a humble man, always your servant, and ever-so-self-deprecating when I say you deserved better than me. But I was there, which is the incompetent PM’s fault if you think about it, while his airhead girlfriend blustered on trifling matters and his devious Health Secretary lied to everyone while he was on his death bed. They’re the real villains here, you see. Definitely not me. I am an honourable man.”

[LVFox]

1 hour ago, z-layrex said:

What do you guys think about full size weddings happening? Personally I cannot see it this year.

 

I have 2 sets of friends that postponed their weddings from 2020. Neither couple will even entertain the idea of a wedding with restrictions on numbers etc, both are absolutely convinced their weddings are going ahead this year and won't hear otherwise.

 

I personally cannot see the gov just saying "ok go for it" on the wedding front this year.

I'm getting married on the 20th June (Hilarious I know), and overall the wedding industry has been completely forgotten about. Venues haven't been given clear guidance on exactly what can/can't take place, and whilst things are meant to go back to no restrictions on 21st, there has still been no clarification, despite Boris promising that he would give that yesterday.

 

It takes a decent mind shift to be happy with restrictions, but overall I'm happy with 30 people. No chance I was delaying again!

[Guest Kopfkino]

39 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I can’t get my head around Cummings motive. 

Because he thinks the whole thing vindicates what he’s been saying for years, that the whole system of governance in this country isn’t fit for purpose. Hence he said something along the lines of ‘Even if you dropped the most competent people into that situation you would have had a similar outcome’. 

 

People will get giddy about the political angles and that will dominate the coverage but he has essentially said the entire institution isn’t capable of governing a modern day country and we end up with poor talent in key places. 

Edited 26 May 2021 by Kopfkino

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

In normal times not so long ago Cummings testimony alone would bring down a government. But I suspect at best it will be in the news for a few days and then it will just disappear.

 

I can’t believe what he’s saying, and some of it is just unbelievable. Its a lot worse than most feared, and most thought it was a shit show. 

[Dunge]

Is it my imagination, or is he trying to get in with Rishi Sunak?

[filbertway]

This is like the Thick Of It, Cummings is Malcolm Tucker gone rogue

 

[Brizzle Fox]

45 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

In normal times not so long ago Cummings testimony alone would bring down a government. But I suspect at best it will be in the news for a few days and then it will just disappear.

 

I can’t believe what he’s saying, and some of it is just unbelievable. Its a lot worse than most feared, and most thought it was a shit show. 

It won't make a scintilla of difference to the popularity of BoJo and this government.  They're absolutely fireproof. Their poll ratings will probably go up again tomorrow! 

 

The more right leaning press probably won't even have it as a front cover tomorrow... It will all be "phwoar wot a scorcher, Bank Holiday, ice creams, donkey rides etc". 

 

Bloody entertaining though. He hates Hancock soooooo much, which is alright by me.

[Brizzle Fox]

41 minutes ago, Dunge said:

Is it my imagination, or is he trying to get in with Rishi Sunak?

It's an interesting one this and it would seem that way. Although Gove is probably under the desk feeding him lines as well... 

[RoboFox]

18 minutes ago, Brizzle Fox said:

It's an interesting one this and it would seem that way. Although Gove is probably under the desk feeding him lines as well... 

No wonder Cummings is talking so much. 

[Corky]

6 hours ago, foxile5 said:

I'm no fan of the tory government but Cummings is a particularly odious piece of filth isn't he? 

 

Scrambling to place all responsibility at the door of someone else when we know he was involved is a disgusting act. 

 

I hope he suffers. 

Weren't they warned about this possibility when he was brought into the fold a few years ago?

[Chrysalis]

3 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I can’t get my head around Cummings motive. 

Does it matter, do you have a vested interest in Boris keeping his reputation?

 

He either has a guilty conscious and feels he needs to let all this out (he has admitted he was part of some bad decisions as well), or he just wasnt happy with want went down and is on a revenge trip, but this is good for the public.

Edited 26 May 2021 by Chrysalis

[CosbehFox]

7 minutes ago, Chrysalis said:

Does it matter, do you have a vested interest in Boris keeping his reputation?

 

He either has a guilty conscious and feels he needs to let all this out (he has admitted he was part of some bad decisions as well), or he just wasnt happy with want went down and is on a revenge trip, but this is good for the public.

Quite the contrary, I am politically left wing and dislike Cummings. However, he's effectively burnt his career in anything political (at the very least a public perspective of him - particularly towards the cult which follows Boris). Which says a lot given him potentially being behind Gove's attempt at leadership in the future