Diplomatic Language, eh?

"It was the wrong crisis for this Prime Minister's skill set"
from today's Covid-19 evidence

(Lee Cain, the former Downing Street director of communications)

Tosser..commentating on nutha Tosser.

It was the wrong crisis for every nations leader.The UK fared better than most in dealing with it.

evidence please

Number crunching .
£1Bn
Amount Sunak plans to save per year by cutting 66000 civil service jobs.
£9Bn Amount government wasted on unsuitable or overpriced PPE in the first year of the covid pandemic while Sunak was chancellor.

He did not think it worth attempting to recover it!

I missed the Lee Cain cross-examination this morning, but I caught most of the Dominic Cummings examination this afternoon.

My language gets pretty diplomatic at times!

Every few minutes a presenter was interjecting with apologies for the course language.

I don't mind strong language per se, but it hasn't half revealed the lack of respect these people have shown to each other AND TO THE ELECTORATE!

' SOnlyme
Boris was prepared to let the older people die they will die any way that was his response to the medical advice great guy

I wasn't defending Boris or any other politician as i detest them all all.We fared better because we got the vaccine out quicker than the others.Didn't the EU complain that we didn't share quickly enough.

We got the vaccine out, but still clocked up excessive mortality.

So did every other country in the world.

Don't be silly.
"excessive"
ie more than comparable countries

Admittedly USA and Brazil did much worse. The toxic nature of their administrations was even worse than ours.

Ena,don't call me silly.

I didn't, I asked you not to be.

I bow to your superior knowledge of everything in the universe.

Well, I could reply with sarcasm too,
but better to let it drop.
simply not worth the candle.

Lets hope that when inquiry is complete they clarify these issues.

It wasn't sarcasm.I meant what i said.

During the Covid pandemic, nobody died of anything else!

True tonker.The annual thousands of flu deaths vanished.

The goverment
Changed the way they counted deaths in the pandemic from covid deaths to covid related deaths within 28 days that meant you died from some thing else but also had covid so people did die from flu,

sonlyme Not all people die from cancer they may have cancer and die from PNEUMONIA So what did the person die from Cancer or pneumonia?? it's the same as surfer_tom explained..... Only covid deniers explain the opposite.....

sonlyme Not all people die from cancer they may have cancer and die from PNEUMONIA So what did the person die from Cancer or pneumonia?? it's the same as surfer_tom explained..... Only covid deniers explain the opposite.....

Just to add to ENA i thought it was very childish of SKY when reporting the case especially of Dominic Cummings when the legal guy would use and quote a swear they kept interjecting and apologising ,so then one could not hear everything very silly of SKY it's what reporting was supposed to be about. The words are in the English Dictionary aren't they ?????
GB

You can argue about statistics all you like, but the fact was that when Covid got a hold in this country, undertakers were having to hire refrigerated containers to store bodies, the demand for dealing with dead people was so great, whether they died of Covid, Pneumonia, influenza, a lot more folk were dying than usual, and that was due to the pandemic.

GB Some people are not happy with expletives are they.

I don't like to see people employ them in such a way that their speech is intimidating, but do not have a problem with strong language per se.

Once upon a time, I had a post removed on this site, and it was a quotation of what our then prime minister had said.

Find an old paperback copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and the grubby well thumbed pages are those where the four-letter words occur. I could understand if people were just reading the bits concerning sex, in which case his other works (eg 'Women in Love') are probably better, but just seeing the four letter words in print seems to hold an attraction to some. Nowt as queer as folk.

Today's revelation:

Mat Hancock's assertion that he should be the one who decided who should live and who should die!

There must be something severely wrong with us to be electing people who behave in the ways we are learning of.

If the Brexit thing had never happened, or the remainers had won in 2016 and so David Cameron had served his second term has Prime Minister, then it would have been highly likely that the next general election would have been held in May 2019, and I would imagine that the conservatives would have won again, so under that assumption, you would have then had a prime minster in power since 2010 and a purely conservative government since 2015, so David Cameron would have had to deal with Covid, so I wonder how David Cameron and his government would have handled the Covid pandemic ?

Had a close relative in a home in ince she took ill during the height of covid warden sent for doctor who would not pay a visit,because of covid,warden phoned ambulance who came they said she was very ill, but left her in the home saying if they took her to wigan she would just be put in side room till she passd away ,sadly she died .undertaker came all dress in overalls, would not let any body see her they all said it was covid but the post motem result showed no covid just shows how frightening it was

It still blows my mind !! in what other part of society do you give a person a very important job who has no expertise at all.... And then wonder when it all go's wrong......