Did anyone see the RTE 6 o’clock news this evening as the presenter asked leading WHO doctor David Nabarro “Will we be allowed have Christmas this year?” – almost like he was seeking out approval from the Vatican.
“I’m not sure” said Nabarro, “what we need is some way to bring normality back to the different aspects of our lives such as work, education, entertainment, etc”
Meanwhile across the water Boris has been taking about a “freedom pass” which will let the the British public return to a pre-Covid normality:
“Mass testing could see people given a “freedom pass” to go about life as normal, safe in the knowledge they are not infectious with Covid-19, the Prime Minister has said.”
I said it before and I’ll say it again I strongly suspect we are being conditioned for mass uptake of these “digital health passports” or “freedom passes”. Fear of a “second wave” will continue to be hyped for the foreseeable future, Restrictions might get lifted briefly only for new ones to be imposed again. In the end we’ll be so weary and confused by it all that most will gladly consent to opt in to this new digital system combined with mass on-the-spot testing if it promises a way back to “normality”.
But really Western global policy makers are using the pandemic as a pretext to begin to implement a major new system of governance in a similar vein to China’s social credit system and at the same time perform a “Great Reset” of world economies (as they dubbed it over at the World Economic Forum) in order to keep pace with China geopolitically.
Our government have likely been convinced that this is coming anyway and so are now on board. Anyway, ever since making the disastrous blunder to shut down the economy and their failure to adequately protect those in nursing homes, they’re desperate to protect the credibility of their narrative so why fight the tide of this major social engineering project by western elites? To admit they got things wrong at this stage and face a public inquiry would be political suicide.
Steph Pinker
‘To admit they got things wrong at this stage and face a public inquiry would be political suicide.’
That’s a nice succinct conclusion which is applicable in many aspects, including Ireland. I admire your apparent lack of cynicism, f-lawless; notwithstanding, keep it lit :)
M
+1
Brother Barnabas
“In the end we’ll all be so weary and confused…”
a state that arrives sooner to some than to others
Cian
@f_lawless
The other possibility is that there is a real global pandemic and each governments is trying to do its best.
You asked me to define a “second wave”, which i did; can you tell me at what stage you will acknowledge that there is a “second wave” (or a continuation of the first wave, or however you want to call it)? At how many cases/hospital inpatients/ICU beds/deaths/excess mortality will you take this seriously?
You mentioned ‘excess mortality’ as a measure – what is your threshold?
A second wave- why would this virus behave in such a manner when all others did not? This insistence of a second wave is not supported by the science.
Surely if there was to be a second wave it would start where the firs initial infection began- meaning Wuhan- in which case, we will have plenty of warning.
TypeONegative
>Surely if there was to be a second wave it would start where the firs initial infection began- meaning Wuhan- in which case, we will have plenty of warning.
Thats not how outbreaks work at all! A potential second outbreak would occur wherever measures are lax enough for it to spread exponentially.
sidhe
it’s genuinely worrying that he thinks that at all
viruses don’t work like that, and for all of the reading and vids he’s watched and information he’s taken in, you’d think he’d understand
SOQ
My rational is based on the fact that so far this thing represents as a classic Gompertz curve- like all flu like viruses.
We already know that Sars-Cov-2 was in the sewage of certain places months before their outbreaks so there appears to be something else which triggers it, and that is most likely a seasonal factor.
Cian
You are assuming that COVID is totally exhausted and the “classic Gompertz curve” has peaked.
If lockdown has limited the spread then there is still huge percentage of the population that were neither exposed to the virus nor immune. What happens if we drop masks, social distancing, lockdown, etc? These people will get infected and start a second peak – not quite a second Gompertz curve because there are now people that are (presumably) immune so we aren’t starting with a fully infect-able population.
Cian
A second wave because we stopped the first wave with lockdowns, social distancing, working from home, closing pubs etc..
I know you don’t believe in a second wave, but have you considered the possiblity that you are wrong? Humour me. At what stage (cases/hospital inpatients/ICU beds/deaths/excess mortality) will you acknowledge that there is a second wave.
For what its worth there are 68 Confirmed Cases in Hospital today; 11 in ICU yesterday. These numbers keep rising.
SOQ
Cain if masks and lockdowns work then why are countries which never lockdowned not off the scale? This is a belief not borne out by the facts.
Nobody is saying it has gone but nobody is saying last years flu has totally gone either. Of course there will be incidences of it but how many are in hospital right now for last year’s flu or pneumonia?
The singular reporting on this thing is highly questionable.
As for today’s figures- 12 into hospital, 7 discharged and 2 into ICU. How many of those people are commodities btw? But, the positive test % results is 1.8, same as yesterday- with 11 555 people tested.
Cian
@SOQ
Will you answer the question? At what stage will you admit that there is a second wave?
If you are genuine don’t understand why you are avoiding answering this?
Either there will be second wave (my belief) or there won’t (your belief). So lets agree the threshold for the wave.
SOQ
There is no metric for a second wave because it has never happened before.
Why are you so certain that a virus which is 80% the same as previous Coronas is going to change history?
People build up community immunity to a virus which prevents it’s spread again- this is the way it has always been. Pockets and low number may appear afterwards but by in large it has gone.
How the hell did we get to this point where expecting our immune systems to do what they are programmed to do- has become a conspiracy theory?
Cian
Why won’t you define a threshold for your acceptance that you might be wrong and there is a second wave?
If you truly believe that there won’t be another wave – what is the problem?
What about: 100 deaths in a 7-day period? 50 people in ICU? 250 people hospitalised? Would exceeding that count as a second wave?
SOQ
And once more for Jesus- why are you so certain that a virus which is 80% the same as previous Coronas is going to change history?
You are the one arguing against the empirical evidence here Cian so please explain why.
Cian
You are saying “there won’t be a second wave” but you are unwilling to define what that a “second wave” is? Regardless of what happens you can pretend you are right?
I am looking at the Irish data. Not youtube videos and twitter.
– Number of cases in was below 50 for all of June and July. Those numbers have been growing for the last seven weeks.
– Number in hospital has been growing steadily for the last five weeks; now 68
– Number in ICU is growing. There are now 13 people in ICU – the highest since June
The question is – why are you denying this?
SOQ
So you can’t answer- because there never was one before. Why? Because when community immunity reaches a certain threshold there is not enough hosts to propagate it- as it has always been, and always will be.
You are making the exact same mistake as Ferguson and his lot- the assumption that this is an entirely new virus when it fact, four fifths of it have been flying around for years, and a lot of people already have responsive T Cells.
Cian
“Because when community immunity reaches a certain threshold […]”
I totally agree with this. The difference is that I’m not convinced we have reached that threshold. And the data currently supports this. Is the data wrong?
Why won’t you tell me want you mean by “second wave”? What are you afraid of?
SOQ
What am I afraid of? LOL I am not one denying the science Cian. History will judge.
Prof. Richard Enos & Prof. Beda. M. Stadler
Positive tests are not #CovidUK infections
“Media are scare-mongering for a second wave, when there’s no evidence for one”
“So much testing, causing so much nonsense and panic!”
You’re ignoring the numbers.
– Number of cases in was below 50 for all of June and July. Those numbers have been growing for the last seven weeks.
– Number in hospital has been growing steadily for the last five weeks; now 68
– Number in ICU is growing. There are now 13 people in ICU – the highest since June
Charger Salmons
Any news on how that Tory MPs rebellion is going ?
They surely must have been bolstered by the war criminal Tony Blair complaining about the breaking of international law without a hint of irony.
Or perhaps it was the intervention of legendary ex-Prime Ministers May and Major which put fire in their bellies.
Even Call Me Dave was in on the act although,reliably,the BBC carefully edited his words. https://mobile.twitter.com/DefundBBC/status/1305462825515704320
So over now to the Commons and our BBC correspondent Lefty Woke for a news update.
” Er,it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong here Quentin.
Lucky old Boris the Bounder has only gone and passed the first hurdle with a majority of 77.
No sign yet of that mass rebellion we’ve been confidently predicting for days.That definitely wasn’t in the Politburo-approved script we wrote.”
” Er, thanks Lefty and I’ll leave you to head off and find an obscure backbencher willing to say what you tell him and if not that pompous,long-winded bore Ian Blackford is always good for a Boris-bashing turn ”
Marvellous stuff and there’s still another three months of Boris and Dom playing them all like fools.
Otis Blue
Here’s Ed Milliband in the best substitute appearance since Olly Solksjaer slipper the ball beyond Oliver Kahn in the 1999 Champions League Final.
Ed Miliband ( just the one l ) is not even the best politician in his own family.
Bacon sarnie anyone ?
Otis Blue
I know, I know…
Which just makes it worse. Poor Borat.
Bad and all as that was it was only the second worse political humiliation of the week. Here’s Boris’ and Dom’s pal, Vlad in a masterclass schooling Lukashenko.
How was Boris humiliated when he won the vote last night with a handsome majority ?
His backstop idea has caused the very outrage it was intended to.
You think he cared that Miliband was spluttering away across the Despatch Box ?
Blair,Major, and May pontificating was manna from heaven for Boris.
Failed politicians trying to prevent Brexit and siding with the EU against Blighty ?
Perfect optics for the negotiations as they enter the.critical stage.
You’ve got a lot to learn about politics lad if you’re getting tumescent over a speech by Ed Miliband ( just the one l )
Otis Blue
Sure, Borat looking like a real winner there. Looks like he might have soiled himself too, though it’s hard to tell these days.
Btw, nobody is looking to prevent Brexit. It’s done. The UK is out. The Brits just need to own it now.
Arlene was on the ball …. The EU “needs to stop using Northern Ireland to get their own way” ….we are “not the plaything of the EU”.
Charger Salmons
News just in – a seance has been planned by the BBC so that Ted Heath can give his views on the Internal Market Bill.
Pat Mustard
Will his best mate Jimmy Savile be in attendance?
Charger Salmons
There won’t be room.
Not with all those Irish priests there as well…
Brother Barnabas
Bring back Hammock
Janet, dreams of big guns
Charger does seem very grumpy he can’t use another username, how many others did it try out before BS lost their patience ?
Papi
His last tantrum lasted six months. What joy it was.
GiggidyGoo
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter level 8.4
Tsk tsk
Papi
“Please revert to your regular user name” didn’t like getting his wrist slapped.
Was it terribly humiliating?
GiggidyGoo
Heh heh heh
Joe F
Any chance of you “debating” your pal Bozo breaking laws old boy? From Britain rules the waves to Britain waives the rules. That’s today’s debate topic. Oh I forgot, your pal is faultless. Silly me.
He’s wasting his time
The Shinners will be in power after the next election.
Then it’s time to lay your hands on the biggest box of popcorn you can find.
What a show that will be.
GiggidyGoo
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter level 9.2
Brother Barnabas
mary lou in the hot seat within 2 years, by which time Britain will be a pariah state – with boris begging mary lou to put in a good word on the international stage
GiggidyGoo
That’s if he’s around that long. He is a magnified Nigel Farage personality with a majority at the moment, but his own (the ones that can think for themselves that is) are turning on him.
Charger Salmons
The Irish Republic of Venezuela has a nice ring to it.
Free stuff for everyone while paying back the bailout, finding the €17.5 billion for the EU budget and then the small matter of the colossal debt racked up by stupid Covid-19 travel restrictions, pub closures and the bottomless hole of Unemployment and PUP expenditure and it’ll be back to eating raw turnips and getting the cheapest flights to Blighty to find work.
We’ll look after you though lads.We always do.
And when the Shinners get the keys to the files of Irish Intelligence ( stop sniggering at the back ) the mayhem will be a joyous sight to behold.
I’m genuinely looking forward to voting SF again just for the lolz.
Heh x €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
sidhe
what an embarrassing rant
isn’t there a cloud or some poor bystander you can direct your ire at?
GiggidyGoo
9.8 on the Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter Charger. At this rate you’re going to break the dial.
GiggidyGoo
Yes, the campaigning is off the a flying start. Yesterday it was some Z-list senator to try a SF attack.
Yesterday as well it was ‘Ah sure Michilín will hope that his record on opening the schools will count a lot for FF’s vote.
Today, it’s a go at the Greens and their adding to the cost of car purchase
Varadkar obviously believes the polls (like he did in the run up to announcing the last election – that worked out dandy for him….noooot)
george
That’s what you do? As Tanaiste? Months after forming a government? No.
Its the great equaliser
and it doesn’t discriminate
Meanwhile, feel free to invite me to your own Christmas doodle
Charger Salmons
The Boris Backstop is a thing of beauty which has caused exactly the ripple effect that was intended.
The bed-wetters should familiarise themselves with the ECJ ruling in the Kadi-Barakaat case.
Just to remind the yellow mattress brigade the ECJ ruled that the EU should disregard the UN Charter, the highest text of international law, if the Charter is at odds with the EU’s internal constitutional order.’
There was also another interesting ruling by the German Constitutional Court earlier this year which set the cat amongst the pigeons.
Barnier is sweating like Big Phil in the K-Club sauna after a round of golf and a feed of pints.
Um, sorry.
‘The ice shelves of the Pine Island glacier and Thwaites glacier have begun to fracture, according to a new study published today. These are, quite simply, the most important chunks of ice in the world, and they will likely determine (in part) the fate of our civilization.’ https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1305718688042156032
(Scroll down for links.)
Fred
Just listening to mehole
He really is clueless
Now we are hearing varadkar
I honestly think the plug will be pulled before the end of October
As a staunch anti leftie I believe that anything is better than this shower that are seriously inept a Sinn Fein leftie government is preferable
Get ready for the next election
Charger Salmons
The most important chunks of ice in the world are the ones currently chilling my Bombay Sapphire and tonic
Marvellous.
Nigel
I”d say they are, yeah.
Janet, dreams of big guns
you do realize any credibility this particular persona you had fleshed out ( pun intended) is shot to merde.
Papi
Hammock Salmons hasn’t realized anything since Nanny told him she’s not his real Mummikins.
Did anyone see the RTE 6 o’clock news this evening as the presenter asked leading WHO doctor David Nabarro “Will we be allowed have Christmas this year?” – almost like he was seeking out approval from the Vatican.
“I’m not sure” said Nabarro, “what we need is some way to bring normality back to the different aspects of our lives such as work, education, entertainment, etc”
Meanwhile across the water Boris has been taking about a “freedom pass” which will let the the British public return to a pre-Covid normality:
“Mass testing could see people given a “freedom pass” to go about life as normal, safe in the knowledge they are not infectious with Covid-19, the Prime Minister has said.”
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/09/09/operation-moonshot-mass-testing-could-create-freedom-pass-for-close-contact/
I said it before and I’ll say it again I strongly suspect we are being conditioned for mass uptake of these “digital health passports” or “freedom passes”. Fear of a “second wave” will continue to be hyped for the foreseeable future, Restrictions might get lifted briefly only for new ones to be imposed again. In the end we’ll be so weary and confused by it all that most will gladly consent to opt in to this new digital system combined with mass on-the-spot testing if it promises a way back to “normality”.
But really Western global policy makers are using the pandemic as a pretext to begin to implement a major new system of governance in a similar vein to China’s social credit system and at the same time perform a “Great Reset” of world economies (as they dubbed it over at the World Economic Forum) in order to keep pace with China geopolitically.
Our government have likely been convinced that this is coming anyway and so are now on board. Anyway, ever since making the disastrous blunder to shut down the economy and their failure to adequately protect those in nursing homes, they’re desperate to protect the credibility of their narrative so why fight the tide of this major social engineering project by western elites? To admit they got things wrong at this stage and face a public inquiry would be political suicide.
‘To admit they got things wrong at this stage and face a public inquiry would be political suicide.’
That’s a nice succinct conclusion which is applicable in many aspects, including Ireland. I admire your apparent lack of cynicism, f-lawless; notwithstanding, keep it lit :)
+1
“In the end we’ll all be so weary and confused…”
a state that arrives sooner to some than to others
@f_lawless
The other possibility is that there is a real global pandemic and each governments is trying to do its best.
You asked me to define a “second wave”, which i did; can you tell me at what stage you will acknowledge that there is a “second wave” (or a continuation of the first wave, or however you want to call it)? At how many cases/hospital inpatients/ICU beds/deaths/excess mortality will you take this seriously?
You mentioned ‘excess mortality’ as a measure – what is your threshold?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/09/13/mondays-papers-49/#comment-2239644
A second wave- why would this virus behave in such a manner when all others did not? This insistence of a second wave is not supported by the science.
Surely if there was to be a second wave it would start where the firs initial infection began- meaning Wuhan- in which case, we will have plenty of warning.
>Surely if there was to be a second wave it would start where the firs initial infection began- meaning Wuhan- in which case, we will have plenty of warning.
Thats not how outbreaks work at all! A potential second outbreak would occur wherever measures are lax enough for it to spread exponentially.
it’s genuinely worrying that he thinks that at all
viruses don’t work like that, and for all of the reading and vids he’s watched and information he’s taken in, you’d think he’d understand
My rational is based on the fact that so far this thing represents as a classic Gompertz curve- like all flu like viruses.
We already know that Sars-Cov-2 was in the sewage of certain places months before their outbreaks so there appears to be something else which triggers it, and that is most likely a seasonal factor.
You are assuming that COVID is totally exhausted and the “classic Gompertz curve” has peaked.
If lockdown has limited the spread then there is still huge percentage of the population that were neither exposed to the virus nor immune. What happens if we drop masks, social distancing, lockdown, etc? These people will get infected and start a second peak – not quite a second Gompertz curve because there are now people that are (presumably) immune so we aren’t starting with a fully infect-able population.
A second wave because we stopped the first wave with lockdowns, social distancing, working from home, closing pubs etc..
I know you don’t believe in a second wave, but have you considered the possiblity that you are wrong? Humour me. At what stage (cases/hospital inpatients/ICU beds/deaths/excess mortality) will you acknowledge that there is a second wave.
For what its worth there are 68 Confirmed Cases in Hospital today; 11 in ICU yesterday. These numbers keep rising.
Cain if masks and lockdowns work then why are countries which never lockdowned not off the scale? This is a belief not borne out by the facts.
Nobody is saying it has gone but nobody is saying last years flu has totally gone either. Of course there will be incidences of it but how many are in hospital right now for last year’s flu or pneumonia?
The singular reporting on this thing is highly questionable.
As for today’s figures- 12 into hospital, 7 discharged and 2 into ICU. How many of those people are commodities btw? But, the positive test % results is 1.8, same as yesterday- with 11 555 people tested.
@SOQ
Will you answer the question? At what stage will you admit that there is a second wave?
If you are genuine don’t understand why you are avoiding answering this?
Either there will be second wave (my belief) or there won’t (your belief). So lets agree the threshold for the wave.
There is no metric for a second wave because it has never happened before.
Why are you so certain that a virus which is 80% the same as previous Coronas is going to change history?
People build up community immunity to a virus which prevents it’s spread again- this is the way it has always been. Pockets and low number may appear afterwards but by in large it has gone.
How the hell did we get to this point where expecting our immune systems to do what they are programmed to do- has become a conspiracy theory?
Why won’t you define a threshold for your acceptance that you might be wrong and there is a second wave?
If you truly believe that there won’t be another wave – what is the problem?
What about: 100 deaths in a 7-day period? 50 people in ICU? 250 people hospitalised? Would exceeding that count as a second wave?
And once more for Jesus- why are you so certain that a virus which is 80% the same as previous Coronas is going to change history?
You are the one arguing against the empirical evidence here Cian so please explain why.
You are saying “there won’t be a second wave” but you are unwilling to define what that a “second wave” is? Regardless of what happens you can pretend you are right?
I am looking at the Irish data. Not youtube videos and twitter.
– Number of cases in was below 50 for all of June and July. Those numbers have been growing for the last seven weeks.
– Number in hospital has been growing steadily for the last five weeks; now 68
– Number in ICU is growing. There are now 13 people in ICU – the highest since June
The question is – why are you denying this?
So you can’t answer- because there never was one before. Why? Because when community immunity reaches a certain threshold there is not enough hosts to propagate it- as it has always been, and always will be.
You are making the exact same mistake as Ferguson and his lot- the assumption that this is an entirely new virus when it fact, four fifths of it have been flying around for years, and a lot of people already have responsive T Cells.
“Because when community immunity reaches a certain threshold […]”
I totally agree with this. The difference is that I’m not convinced we have reached that threshold. And the data currently supports this. Is the data wrong?
Why won’t you tell me want you mean by “second wave”? What are you afraid of?
What am I afraid of? LOL I am not one denying the science Cian. History will judge.
Prof. Richard Enos & Prof. Beda. M. Stadler
Positive tests are not #CovidUK infections
“Media are scare-mongering for a second wave, when there’s no evidence for one”
“So much testing, causing so much nonsense and panic!”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1305841040998322181
You’re ignoring the numbers.
– Number of cases in was below 50 for all of June and July. Those numbers have been growing for the last seven weeks.
– Number in hospital has been growing steadily for the last five weeks; now 68
– Number in ICU is growing. There are now 13 people in ICU – the highest since June
Any news on how that Tory MPs rebellion is going ?
They surely must have been bolstered by the war criminal Tony Blair complaining about the breaking of international law without a hint of irony.
Or perhaps it was the intervention of legendary ex-Prime Ministers May and Major which put fire in their bellies.
Even Call Me Dave was in on the act although,reliably,the BBC carefully edited his words.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DefundBBC/status/1305462825515704320
So over now to the Commons and our BBC correspondent Lefty Woke for a news update.
” Er,it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong here Quentin.
Lucky old Boris the Bounder has only gone and passed the first hurdle with a majority of 77.
No sign yet of that mass rebellion we’ve been confidently predicting for days.That definitely wasn’t in the Politburo-approved script we wrote.”
” Er, thanks Lefty and I’ll leave you to head off and find an obscure backbencher willing to say what you tell him and if not that pompous,long-winded bore Ian Blackford is always good for a Boris-bashing turn ”
Marvellous stuff and there’s still another three months of Boris and Dom playing them all like fools.
Here’s Ed Milliband in the best substitute appearance since Olly Solksjaer slipper the ball beyond Oliver Kahn in the 1999 Champions League Final.
Poor Borat.
https://youtu.be/QG71rhV9ocI
Ed Miliband ( just the one l ) is not even the best politician in his own family.
Bacon sarnie anyone ?
I know, I know…
Which just makes it worse. Poor Borat.
Bad and all as that was it was only the second worse political humiliation of the week. Here’s Boris’ and Dom’s pal, Vlad in a masterclass schooling Lukashenko.
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1305508283927736320?s=20
How was Boris humiliated when he won the vote last night with a handsome majority ?
His backstop idea has caused the very outrage it was intended to.
You think he cared that Miliband was spluttering away across the Despatch Box ?
Blair,Major, and May pontificating was manna from heaven for Boris.
Failed politicians trying to prevent Brexit and siding with the EU against Blighty ?
Perfect optics for the negotiations as they enter the.critical stage.
You’ve got a lot to learn about politics lad if you’re getting tumescent over a speech by Ed Miliband ( just the one l )
Sure, Borat looking like a real winner there. Looks like he might have soiled himself too, though it’s hard to tell these days.
Btw, nobody is looking to prevent Brexit. It’s done. The UK is out. The Brits just need to own it now.
Arlene was on the ball …. The EU “needs to stop using Northern Ireland to get their own way” ….we are “not the plaything of the EU”.
News just in – a seance has been planned by the BBC so that Ted Heath can give his views on the Internal Market Bill.
Will his best mate Jimmy Savile be in attendance?
There won’t be room.
Not with all those Irish priests there as well…
Bring back Hammock
Charger does seem very grumpy he can’t use another username, how many others did it try out before BS lost their patience ?
His last tantrum lasted six months. What joy it was.
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter level 8.4
Tsk tsk
“Please revert to your regular user name” didn’t like getting his wrist slapped.
Was it terribly humiliating?
Heh heh heh
Any chance of you “debating” your pal Bozo breaking laws old boy? From Britain rules the waves to Britain waives the rules. That’s today’s debate topic. Oh I forgot, your pal is faultless. Silly me.
…those priests aren’t dead yet…they’ve just been moved to other parishes…
Was always thus, listen to the Irish history podcast ‘a very Irish murder in cincinati’
https://castbox.fm/x/id65
Varadkar will now say anything to try keep in the spotlight. He’s making a right dope put of himself in the process.
He’s campaigning
Thats what you do
Making the most of his locum cover
In fairness
He’s wasting his time
The Shinners will be in power after the next election.
Then it’s time to lay your hands on the biggest box of popcorn you can find.
What a show that will be.
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter level 9.2
mary lou in the hot seat within 2 years, by which time Britain will be a pariah state – with boris begging mary lou to put in a good word on the international stage
That’s if he’s around that long. He is a magnified Nigel Farage personality with a majority at the moment, but his own (the ones that can think for themselves that is) are turning on him.
The Irish Republic of Venezuela has a nice ring to it.
Free stuff for everyone while paying back the bailout, finding the €17.5 billion for the EU budget and then the small matter of the colossal debt racked up by stupid Covid-19 travel restrictions, pub closures and the bottomless hole of Unemployment and PUP expenditure and it’ll be back to eating raw turnips and getting the cheapest flights to Blighty to find work.
We’ll look after you though lads.We always do.
And when the Shinners get the keys to the files of Irish Intelligence ( stop sniggering at the back ) the mayhem will be a joyous sight to behold.
I’m genuinely looking forward to voting SF again just for the lolz.
Heh x €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
what an embarrassing rant
isn’t there a cloud or some poor bystander you can direct your ire at?
9.8 on the Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter Charger. At this rate you’re going to break the dial.
Yes, the campaigning is off the a flying start. Yesterday it was some Z-list senator to try a SF attack.
Yesterday as well it was ‘Ah sure Michilín will hope that his record on opening the schools will count a lot for FF’s vote.
Today, it’s a go at the Greens and their adding to the cost of car purchase
Varadkar obviously believes the polls (like he did in the run up to announcing the last election – that worked out dandy for him….noooot)
That’s what you do? As Tanaiste? Months after forming a government? No.
But more importantly
Bake off news
Meet Dave
https://twitter.com/BritishBakeOff/status/1305778379178737671?s=19
yippy
keep following that tweet Janie
They’re releasing each baker one by one
so far there are TWO Accountants, one Student studying, Accounting (& Finance)
and one Paddy
So far the one who produces Pantos
Lottie
is making good ground to being my fav
BACK 22nd September – set the Timers
TWO Accountants and one Paddy- sez the Paddy Accountant. LOL
Accountants go wild over baking.
You can imagine what a barrel of fun the office Christmas party is.
two for one Same’Oh
And Charage
All walks of life Bake
Its the great equaliser
and it doesn’t discriminate
Meanwhile, feel free to invite me to your own Christmas doodle
The Boris Backstop is a thing of beauty which has caused exactly the ripple effect that was intended.
The bed-wetters should familiarise themselves with the ECJ ruling in the Kadi-Barakaat case.
Just to remind the yellow mattress brigade the ECJ ruled that the EU should disregard the UN Charter, the highest text of international law, if the Charter is at odds with the EU’s internal constitutional order.’
There was also another interesting ruling by the German Constitutional Court earlier this year which set the cat amongst the pigeons.
Barnier is sweating like Big Phil in the K-Club sauna after a round of golf and a feed of pints.
I’d say he is, yeah.
(¬‿¬)
With people like Sam McConkey around we are truly doomed
Ed Miliband ( just the one l ) is not even the best politician in his own family.
Bacon sarnie anyone ?
A touch of antisemitism there. I guess that such prejudices are never far away with John Bull.
Anti-Semitism ?
You’ll have to tell me what part of the post triggered your woke-ometer.
This’ll be interesting.
Don’t be shy.
You tell me. What is it with Cons and pigs?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/david-cameron-piers-gaveston-society-what-we-know-oxford-secret?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I dunno flake.
You claimed anti-Semitism.
I’m calling bullpoo on it.
Your move dunderhead.
‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
Desperate for something vaguely optimistic and not unpleasant?
Swedish Company Unveils A Wind-Powered Car Carrier Ship That Uses Wings, Not Sails
https://jalopnik.com/swedish-company-unveils-a-wind-powered-car-carrier-ship-1845027646?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_twitter
That’s a really cool idea for Ferry transport.
I love the idea of a return to sail power.
Said Vivian from The Young Ones as he stirred his mung bean stew.
Aw. Bless.
I love the idea of building everything out of fungus.
https://futurism.com/living-cocoon-coffin-fungus
Um, sorry.
‘The ice shelves of the Pine Island glacier and Thwaites glacier have begun to fracture, according to a new study published today. These are, quite simply, the most important chunks of ice in the world, and they will likely determine (in part) the fate of our civilization.’
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1305718688042156032
(Scroll down for links.)
Just listening to mehole
He really is clueless
Now we are hearing varadkar
I honestly think the plug will be pulled before the end of October
As a staunch anti leftie I believe that anything is better than this shower that are seriously inept a Sinn Fein leftie government is preferable
Get ready for the next election
The most important chunks of ice in the world are the ones currently chilling my Bombay Sapphire and tonic
Marvellous.
I”d say they are, yeah.
you do realize any credibility this particular persona you had fleshed out ( pun intended) is shot to merde.
Hammock Salmons hasn’t realized anything since Nanny told him she’s not his real Mummikins.
Garçon Harmless