Coronavirus

[C8RKH]

We need more free stuff. Free stuff costs money. So we print more money. We get more free stuff.

Then when we've printed too much money we need to pay for it so we tax all the higher rate taxpayers even more, attack the pensions they've saved for, as they're all rich c**ts anyway and that way we can keep giving free stuff out whilst we pay for some of the money for the free stuff 

Welcome to the circular economy of free stuff 

[ramjet]

Does all that free stuff come with a lunch?

[Barrykearley]

Who said free stuff? Let me at it

[mayevora]

[SFO]

5 hours ago, C8RKH said:

We need more free stuff. Free stuff costs money. So we print more money. We get more free stuff.

Then when we've printed too much money we need to pay for it so we tax all the higher rate taxpayers even more, attack the pensions they've saved for, as they're all rich c**ts anyway and that way we can keep giving free stuff out whilst we pay for some of the money for the free stuff 

Welcome to the circular economy of free stuff 

except that the whole circus is accompanied by hyper inflation and free stuff eventually dries up

[C8RKH]

Yup, but only after higher tax rate payers have been fleeced....

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Our “lovely” neighbours have got some friends or relatives round for a barbecue in their tiny back garden. Also my boys have just seen some school friends out playing together. Looks like the wheels are starting to come off the lockdown. Still, probably following their instincts, so that’s OK then.

Edited May 25, 2020 by LotusLeftLotusRight

[Barrykearley]

I shall blame the bbc - no one else - after all the crap they have been reporting recently.

 

you can’t blame anyone else - as no one can possibly be held liable for their own actions !!

[Sparky]

Carnage round my manor due to park visitors whose distancing appears to be very, very social. Car park maxed, council-contracted marshals too busy checking their FB feeds to do anything useful, roads now badly blocked with poor parking. No way is any emergency vehicle able to attend the park.  This is just as busy as any sunny Bank Holiday. Sitting in the garden with gin, listening to drivers gobbing off at each other!

[Bazza 907]

Wasn't thinking of going for a drive until my eyesight took a turn for the worse.

Might need to go for an hour test drive to a local beauty spot just to check its ok.

 

 

[910Esprit]

TBH this media hysteria is beyond ridiculous now.  Fake outrage feeding frenzy....     

[PaulCP]

Media are just a set of cnuts, like to sensationalise everything and then keep banging on about it and then analysing their analysis of the analysis by keep asking different “experts” the same question over and over again.
I only heard a bit of the Cummings session but what I did hear was journalist   reporter after reporter asking the same questions 

Time to cut their air time on TV down to 30mins total per day like it used to be. Won’t do that though because it’s cheap TV but think of all the salaries they can save.

Fcuking weather forecasts these days take longer than the news programmes in the 60’s did 😠

 

 

 

BTW, if you haven’t guessed it yet.       —      I’m not too fond of the media 

[mayevora]

^
That could have been me writing that.

“Tune in tomorrow for the next instalment of CummGate”

[march]

Well - did anyone believe what Mr Cummings said?

With regards to the press - how can they even contemplate taking the high ground when they do this and consider it meeting government guidelines:

 

[Barrykearley]

Frankly I couldn’t give a toss what he’s done or not done.

ive tried to follow the guidance as best I could - so have most other folks.

the bbc and left wing stinking media are whipping up a shitstorm over this and will be responsible for the relaxation of many whom are too stupid to realise the consequences of their own actions. 

[mg4lotus]

I think I agree with Barry, Cummings must have been stupid if he didn't realise the consequences of his own actions.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

When the people left the barbecue hosted by my neighbours today, the male neighbour accompanied them back to their parked car and wished them “a safe journey home”. FFS!

[Bibs]

Ouch - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808927

McLaren set to make 1,200 of their 4,000 workforce redundant.

[Neal H]

BBC News app currently has 10 separate articles on Cummings on their front page. They really don’t like him very much do they!

[Bibs]

That is a bit strong, but I think with good reason. Beggars belief that he's still got a job the cretin! 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I’m counting 6 or 7 BBC News Homepage website stories on DC, not 10. Plenty of others on rival News websites, so BBC not particularly unusual. It’s big news at the moment, so not unexpected.

[Alfa2Evora]

I've just been back past the location where the local Covidiots had their party on Saturday and it now looks like this,  .......................

Just before we went into lockdown, a group of us (dog-walkers) tidied-up the whole woodland area, in the run-up to the Great British Spring Clean, as it was beginning to show evidence of the passage of some of the untidier members of our community. We thought it was bad enough then with the odd discarded water bottle or crisp packet to contend with, but this takes it to a whole new level. How can a dozen kids create so much mess in one night? 

Oh well, I suppose that gives us an activity to look forward to once we can all get back together again. 

[C8RKH]

The OP was talking about the "App" which is not the same as the "homepage".

 

It's big news but shouldn't be. It's big news because the BBC and other media hate DC and sense blood. It's big news because there is fcuk all else news! It's big news because when the story first "broke" the media were so lazy they hadn't even got their basic facts correct, they were more interested in the headline and the "gotcha"

 

Personally, I think DC has been a complete shite over this. I think he should go. But it does not need 6, 7 or 10 news stories on the BBC FFS.

[PaulCP]

I  think that there is now one big reason why he shouldn’t go.

Irrespective of his transgression and partly weak explanation that one reason is that no professional body, in this case the Govt, should allow the media to dictate the fate of someone that they want to get their teeth into. It has clearly turned into a witch-hunt and the one thing I would have loved Cummings to have done yesterday was to ask the journalists  useless reporters one by one if they had bothered to read the published 50 page document, and when they say “no” then ask them how they can have an opinion when they haven’t taken to effort to do the research.

Time has come to hit the media back hard, they get away with far too much Not one of them have bothered to explain whether they had asked to members of the public who dobbed him in why they were at Barnard Castle on the day & how far they had driven hence the overly biased reporting yet again.

 

[Bazza 907]

Clearly DC should go but he has no intention to unless there is continued press/negative public sentiment towards him. Personally I hope the press keep on at him until Boris is forced to do the right thing.

If DC's actions lead to people ignoring Govt advice, and they will, then I think the press are absolutely right to keep hounding him.

If we are locked down again what's the excuse for going out for a little drive.."Oh, officer, I was just checking my eyesight in case I need to drive somewhere, I have an important job dontcha know.." 

 

@PaulCP - It was a jogger out exercising and, as an aside, I doubt they were instrumental in forming the cover-19 restrictions.