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Don’t know about you but bloody hard to have faith in anything this liar says.

 

PM says coronavirus is now ‘top priority’ - but Cobra won’t meet until Monday

Prime minister Boris Johnson has said the coronavirus is now the government's top priority, despite leaving the convening of the Cobra committee until after the weekend.

theneweuropean.co.uk

oldgroaner

Replying to

@rutakingthep

and

@TheNewEuropean

PM in this case means Prime Malingerer, he's afraid of the job, and that becomes clearer every day

7:21 PM · Feb 28, 2020·Twitter Web App

And in other good news... for the millions of folk sitting at home twiddling their thumbs looking for something to do in their spare time

 

I wonder what happened to Cameron's National Citizen Service (NCS) / Big Society / Volkssturm schemes

 

UK races to find extra 50,000 staff for post-Brexit paperwork

 

A race to hire 50,000 people in the next six months to process Brexit paperwork is under way after the government confirmed they would be needed for border operations.

 

But experts have warned it will be a challenge to train enough people in time to be competent in the complexity of customs declarations and the second layer of red tape involving entry and exit declaration forms that are mandatory for trading with the EU.

 

The Road Haulage Association has warned that the number of declaration forms for tariffs alone will rocket from the current 50m a year to 200-250m a year.

Wot ho chaps! Boris has some really sage advice for you

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus

Boris Johnson advises people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson offers his condolences to the family of the British national who has died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

He says the NHS is making "every possible preparation" to deal with the virus but the "best single piece of advice we can give" is to "wash your hands for 20 seconds or more".

 

 

Halleluya!

This on Twitter

2h

Boris Johnson has told the nation to wash its hands. He's even hosting a Cobra meeting next week. The great man's alive and leading from the front. https://bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus…

 

Replying to @shattenstone

 

Oldgroaner

Is that before or after you kiss your backside goodbye?

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Is there no mechanism to have a Prime minister removed from office because of him going insane?

Wot ho chaps! Boris has some really sage advice for you

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus

Boris Johnson advises people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson offers his condolences to the family of the British national who has died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

He says the NHS is making "every possible preparation" to deal with the virus but the "best single piece of advice we can give" is to "wash your hands for 20 seconds or more".

 

 

Halleluya!

This on Twitter

2h

Boris Johnson has told the nation to wash its hands. He's even hosting a Cobra meeting next week. The great man's alive and leading from the front. https://bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus…

 

Replying to @shattenstone

 

Oldgroaner

Is that before or after you kiss your backside goodbye?

The link doesn't work - needs a space not "...".

 

So it is better to wash hands than avoid coughing over people? We have to assume this advice is based on sound science and the best expert advice.

The link doesn't work - needs a space not "...".

 

So it is better to wash hands than avoid coughing over people? We have to assume this advice is based on sound science and the best expert advice.

It would probably be more effective to keep your fingers crossed and offer sausages to Offler the Crocodile God.

 

Imagine: we are faced with a threat that this so called leader thinks the best he can come up with is to copy

Pontius Pilate

"I wash my hands of this just Pandemic"

And suggest you do the same!

Look who appointed her...

 

Priti Patel is far from the first minister to fall out with a Whitehall mandarin

Chris Mullin

 

Frosty relationshps with civil servants can thwart a minister’s ambitions, as I discovered to my cost

As for Patel, I suspect her problem – aside from allegations of abuse – is that she is simply not up to the job. Not long after she was made home secretary I received an email from a former permanent secretary of my acquaintance who remarked, “I don’t think I have ever seen a secretary of state so completely out of her depths – and so quickly.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/28/priti-patel-fall-out-civil-servants

Wot ho chaps! Boris has some really sage advice for you

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus

Boris Johnson advises people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson offers his condolences to the family of the British national who has died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

He says the NHS is making "every possible preparation" to deal with the virus but the "best single piece of advice we can give" is to "wash your hands for 20 seconds or more".

 

 

Halleluya!

This on Twitter

2h

Boris Johnson has told the nation to wash its hands. He's even hosting a Cobra meeting next week. The great man's alive and leading from the front. https://bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-51682581/boris-johnson-advises-people-to-wash-hands-to-avoid-coronavirus…

 

Replying to @shattenstone

 

Oldgroaner

Is that before or after you kiss your backside goodbye?

...................................

 

Is there no mechanism to have a Prime minister removed from office because of him going insane?

I suspect even less of a mechanism than they have in the USA. And we all saw...

Yet another predictable thing Boris is scrabbling to wash his hands off...

 

Immigration: Conservative MP brands social care advice 'facile'

 

The Conservative MP, Sir Roger Gale, submitted a question to the government asking what plans there are to tackle "potential labour shortages" in the care sector as a result of planned immigration controls.

 

In response, the Social Care Minister Helen Whately said: "We are continually monitoring and analysing the impact on both cost and numbers of staff in the National Health Service and social care sector as a result of multiple changes including the future immigration system."

 

"The changes to the immigration system and the ending of freedom of movement will mean that social care employers will need to redouble efforts to promote jobs in social care to workers in the United Kingdom.

 

But Sir Roger Gale said that care homes were already closing at an "alarming rate" and that it wouldn't be possible to "press gang" people into working in the sector.

 

The MP for North Thanet suggested the government must know councils cannot afford to pay the kind of fees that would enable care home providers to pay higher wages."

Yet another predictable thing Boris is scrabbling to wash his hands off...

 

Immigration: Conservative MP brands social care advice 'facile'

 

The Conservative MP, Sir Roger Gale, submitted a question to the government asking what plans there are to tackle "potential labour shortages" in the care sector as a result of planned immigration controls.

 

In response, the Social Care Minister Helen Whately said: "We are continually monitoring and analysing the impact on both cost and numbers of staff in the National Health Service and social care sector as a result of multiple changes including the future immigration system."

 

"The changes to the immigration system and the ending of freedom of movement will mean that social care employers will need to redouble efforts to promote jobs in social care to workers in the United Kingdom.

 

But Sir Roger Gale said that care homes were already closing at an "alarming rate" and that it wouldn't be possible to "press gang" people into working in the sector.

 

The MP for North Thanet suggested the government must know councils cannot afford to pay the kind of fees that would enable care home providers to pay higher wages."

Well his constituents knew what they were voting for:

 

Leave 65.18%

Remain 34.82%

You can rely on this Government to remain as calm and rational when faced with a problem as Corporal Jones and as optimistic as Private Fraser in Dad's Army

Headline in the Daily Fail

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Thousands of Britons face mass coronavirus testing at GPs - as 'worst-case' Government report warns 500,000 may die in UK amid 'explosion' of infections across Europe

Watch out for Further helpful headlines along the lines of

 

"people on Zero hours contracts are not expected to survive the self imposed quarantine isolation without suffering minor weight loss"

 

"The elderly should put a note on their front door saying how many bodies to look for"

And what's your solution to it?

Each day when some new "Gaffe" emerges from Boris and his flying circus, I can imagine Putin raises his glass of vodka in tribute.

Sky news just announced the first Briton to die of Covid19 on thee Cruise Ship

The virus doesn't care about Boris. It doesn't care about political affiliations. Regardless of what Boris or anybody else does or doesn't do, it'll be coming to your town, and probably a lot closer. Be nice about it while you still can.

There was bound to be some nutter in the Telegraph to try an utterly stupid headline like this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/28/coronavirus-outbreak-shows-real-limits-borderless-eu/

 

The coronavirus outbreak shows the real limits of a borderless EU

headache of a very different sort.

 

Coronavirus threatens not just public health, but also the very fundamentals of the EU system of free movement, and its Schengen Area that – in theory at least – provide for borderless travel across member states.

 

The ever-expanding crisis makes it seem inevitable that border controls will be needed once more.

 

Since when was China in the EU?

Wow! we've got the EU on it's Knees!

In the Express

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Brexit victory: Trade talks to be held in English as EU made to pay for French translation

BRUSSELS will be made to fork out for French translators after Boris Johnson won the race to hold upcoming trade talks in English.

 

 

Make them drink Yorkshire Tea too!

Remember Vote leave saying when we leave the EU there will be less red tape?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/28/extra-50000-border-staff-needed-for-post-brexit-trade-says-gove

 

UK races to find extra 50,000 staff for post-Brexit paperwork

New recruits needed to process millions of extra declaration forms from 1 January 2021

 

Well they did say it would create new jobs!

Even the Sun isn't happy with Boris

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11067371/sun-says-get-a-grip-pm/

THE SUN SAYS The coronavirus crisis has not been Boris’s finest hour… it’s time he gets a grip on the panic

COMMENT

He may have thought staying off TV and radio gave the impression of a statesman working frantically behind the scenes. But it did leave a vacuum.

 

The PM needs to be seen tackling this crisis.

 

He does plan to announce new emergency powers and lead a COBRA meeting on Monday, but some are wondering why he is waiting that long.

 

Coronavirus is causing global pandemonium. Thousands are dead, including the first Brit. Economies are paralysed, stock markets in freefall. The sporting calendar may be binned.

 

 

Britain is spooked. We need to know the risks, the best advice and what our Government is doing to screen all possible victims and minimise infection.

 

Those countries managing to contain the virus best are highly disciplined about testing, isolation, hygiene and so on. We must be too.

 

Our famous stoicism must not become a complacency which spreads the disease like wildfire.

Even the Sun isn't happy with Boris

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11067371/sun-says-get-a-grip-pm/

THE SUN SAYS The coronavirus crisis has not been Boris’s finest hour… it’s time he gets a grip on the panic

COMMENT

He may have thought staying off TV and radio gave the impression of a statesman working frantically behind the scenes. But it did leave a vacuum.

 

The PM needs to be seen tackling this crisis.

 

He does plan to announce new emergency powers and lead a COBRA meeting on Monday, but some are wondering why he is waiting that long.

 

Coronavirus is causing global pandemonium. Thousands are dead, including the first Brit. Economies are paralysed, stock markets in freefall. The sporting calendar may be binned.

 

 

Britain is spooked. We need to know the risks, the best advice and what our Government is doing to screen all possible victims and minimise infection.

 

Those countries managing to contain the virus best are highly disciplined about testing, isolation, hygiene and so on. We must be too.

 

Our famous stoicism must not become a complacency which spreads the disease like wildfire.

That the hand washing advice has only just become something the political people are emphasising suggests two things. (Yes, it has been mentioned in a sort of low key way by journos.) First, they haven't got anything else to give us. Second, they have been extraorinarily slow at getting even that paltry advice out.

 

I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone of the symbolism of hand washing by those in charge...

Guardian has a first person account of covid-19 - from China:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/to-hell-and-back-my-three-weeks-suffering-from-coronavirus

 

I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone of the symbolism of hand washing by those in charge...

By everyone you mean all three current contributors and both readers.

By everyone you mean all three current contributors and both readers.

Feeling grumpy, are you?

You omitted to mention our fans at GCHQ and Menwith Hill

They wont be pleased

Motoring news for a change

 

Makes me feel nostalgic for the "good old days"

Oh sure!

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He now says "I misspoke"

Feeling grumpy, are you?

You omitted to mention our fans at GCHQ and Menwith Hill

They wont be pleased

You really have lost it OG. GCHQ reading your thread? I think you really believe it too. If it keeps you happy I suppose.

You really have lost it OG. GCHQ reading your thread? I think you really believe it too. If it keeps you happy I suppose.

I would expect that these organisations have automated text scanning software reading almost everything published on the web in these user forums. Where other than an obscure little publication dealing with minority interests would one place covert messages?.

You really have lost it OG. GCHQ reading your thread? I think you really believe it too. If it keeps you happy I suppose.

No zlatan while that was intended as a joke, all Internet traffic is monitored

Patel is becoming an embarrassment to Boris, will he ditch the awful woman?

You know those drama series, where an initially believable plot gets extended, perverted, twisted, pushed and pulled beyond the point at which anyone continues to watch unless they have mislaid their remote control? Johnson's so-called government is getting there...

The top civil servant in the Home Office has resigned and said he intends to claim against the government for constructive dismissal.

 

Sir Philip Rutnam said there had been a "vicious and orchestrated" campaign against him in Home Secretary Priti Patel's office.

 

Reported tensions between the pair included claims she mistreated officials - which she has denied.

 

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Philip's move was "highly unusual".

 

Our political editor added: "I can't remember a senior public official taking a step like this."

 

Sir Philip, who has had a career spanning 33 years, said he received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included "shouting and swearing" and "belittling people".