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  1. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It's a pity Zlatan has taken his ball home, he might have been interested in this Covid-19: the UK’s herd immunity gamble cost lives new A year ago this week, as the rest of the world was shutting down, 250,000 people converged on Cheltenham races. In an extract from their book, Failures of...
  2. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't regard this forum existing for the purpose of changing anybody's Minds it's real value is providing information and views 4 discussion, which was the purpose flecc assign to it when he started it and it has done that very well indeed, judging by the number of hits there are many people...
  3. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Oh Dear The Express have turned ugly (In a relative sense , perhaps uglier is more fitting) And they're not helping Fromages image much either! Fishing farce: Boris's deal leaves UK fishermen with LESS quota than before Brexit BRITISH fishermen have access to less quota than they did before...
  4. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The choice is of course yours to make and the reasoning behind it makes sense, I have not exactly been flavour of the month for my attitude to the Government trying to make gambling seem like "following the science" It simply isn't Anyway it's good to hear from you!
  5. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Oh Dear, oh dear! Remember before the Referendum how the German Car manufacturers were going to "Spring to our rescues as they couldn't allow for the loss of car sales? This in the FT "German exports to Britain in January down about 30 per cent year on year, g a trend of declining trade between...
  6. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I hope that all goes well and the Marriage goes as planned!
  7. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nothing unusual there ;)
  8. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't suppose you realise that they would regard "all the longer delay achieves politically is more popularity for a few weeks." As kicking the can down the road when they were in desperate straits? Imagine the relief!! The suckers are bound to fall for it, works every time.. Like for instance...
  9. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    By Jove I think he's finally got it (And didn't even try a sly jab in the process) Now that is progress:cool: I wonder how long it will take for someone to realise he would be better off blocking himself than me? ;)
  10. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wrong again "A scientist who happens to be the chief Medical scientist in this country alone, not the world, and feels desperate times call for a gamble to be taken even though no evidence supports it Unless they gave it best out of three coin tosses? You can absolutely believe anything if...
  11. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well played there "This government certainly has the political intelligence to choose the one that suits them most." Never a truer word spoken! A request for casualty reports to ONS returned this " We are currently analysing data and will include these figures in the Monthly Mortality Analysis...
  12. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Still taking sly little digs hiding behind a block? naughty boy Zlatan, but all of this self congratulation is far too convenient to ring true. Desperate people take desperate measures in the hope of getting lucky, and perhaps they have. Perhaps......
  13. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I agree on the point about intelligence, but then they don't usually employ it in decision making anyway
  14. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They're having a Funny turn at the Daily Mail Strange that this smaller transgression makes such as splash when there far bigger multiple cases of Government corruption currently exist Amazing that a Headline about expensive decor is used to gaslight them, are we supposed to see this as...
  15. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The speed of the vaccine rollout is indeed very good, but the reasoning for interfering with the dosage dates not based on science at the time, it was a political gamble, and as to the reason they chose that course? Expediency much more likely than humanitarian, after all look at the stunts...
  16. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And even at that they have managed some second shots! "A support worker receives her second shot of the Moderna vaccine but less than a quarter of the delivered doses have so far been used " There's a moral there somewhere.
  17. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Very fashionable at one time, so it's very likely We followed the maxim that Ken Dodd once explained "I suffer from Kleptomania, when it gets bad I take something for it!" :D
  18. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Good practice for the high jump! And he is a right bounder anyway :D
  19. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What a school! when it was the Polio vaccination they gave us ours on a sugar lump
  20. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Zlatan's right you know, for once any way :D