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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I have very often disagreed with Starkey but he quite often speaks well and pertinently. As here.
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Towards the end of that article, it says: After the uncertainty of the bug itself, we emerged from quarantine into the almost comical uncertainty of London lockdown. Which reads to me as track covering by giving every impression that their quarantine ended in London. Or admission that they...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The BBC have reported the police bit like this: A spokesman for the force said officers made contact with the owners of the address who confirmed the individual in question was present and was self-isolating in part of the house. Which means that number 10 is trying to squeeze the meaning -...
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Entertaining the peasants is a (literally) noble tradition for holidays such as this weekend. In the absence of bear trainers and such like, the J & C show might have some entertainment value. :)
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Looks like there is more to come out... New witnesses cast doubt on Dominic Cummings's lockdown claims Exclusive: eyewitness says top No 10 aide left isolation to go 30 miles to popular tourist town Devastating new claims have emerged that Dominic Cummings further breached the lockdown rules...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    As I understood, the should was in order to allow things like driving to a hospital or testing facility. Not to make it entirely optional.
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That is a long time. But he can't claim ignorance. Coronavirus: Cardiff man jailed for spitting at police officer A 53-year-old man has been jailed for 26 weeks for spitting at a police officer after claiming he had coronavirus. Darrell Glen Humphries, from Canton, Cardiff, admitted assaulting...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Surely doing their job is against the rules for this government?
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The Guardian has added quite a bit about their background of the Cummings issue. I'd add, did he only travel once? Or did he return to London and then go back again? Or what? Lockdown row: key points Cummings and Johnson must address As demands grow that the PM sack his chief aide, both men...
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just when you thought is was safe ... Johnson's promised Brexit border in Irish Sea 'will not be ready in time' Influential thinktank warns that UK will need to extend transition period in wake of coronavirus or risk very hard border...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There is no exemption button for someone who is infected.
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You don't think that, just possibly, the number of people both willing and able to afford one has gone down recently?
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just bear in mind that if the house he went to had been in Wales, the police have every authority to stop him, fine him, and turn him round back out of Wales. And her. The claim is that the only thing done by family was deliver things. What was so incredibly difficult to organise about that...
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which further undermines whatever credibility they have left.
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The Egyptian method: Denial. Looks bad that the Guardian has known since 5th April. (And I do remember some story about number 10 refusing to say where he was.) It surely makes it even worse that they have been covering up for many weeks. The Guardian first approached Downing Street for a...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A future without Honor: Boris Johnson forced to reduce Huawei’s role in UK’s 5G networks PM set to shrink Chinese firm’s involvement to zero by 2023 after caving to backbench pressure Boris Johnson has been forced to cave into to Conservative backbench rebels opposed to the presence of Huawei...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Sack him. Police spoke to Dominic Cummings after Durham trip in lockdown Exclusive: PM’s adviser was with parents away from London home when he had coronavirus symptoms https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/22/dominic-cummings-durham-trip-coronavirus-lockdown There's no cause for me...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Please let it be so. As a one-off, fine. The media have blown it out of all proportion. Let's stop clapping for the NHS, says woman who started the ritual Dutch national living in London fears Clap for Carers during coronavirus lockdown has become politicised...
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    He has proved beyond all doubt that is not true.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    o_O The virus couldn't fathom it out?