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Post by dogbot on Aug 11, 2023 12:34:43 GMT
They're now emptying the barge as it's full of legionnaires disease. It must be hard work to be this incompetent all the time. I feel like certain areas of British society have made an art form of it. World leading indeed.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 13:03:17 GMT
I guess they stopped a big boat rather than the small boats then.
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Post by JuniorFE on Aug 11, 2023 13:11:47 GMT
You've just got to build a big wall dam to stop the boats from crossing the border channel and make the Mexicans Europeans pay for it /s
I know I keep harping on about it, but they make the comparison way too easy, UK Tory politics are just US Trump politics on a slight delay...
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 13:13:56 GMT
The world broke in 2016 and we're still feeling the effects.
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Post by sport✅ on Aug 11, 2023 13:27:56 GMT
The world broke in 2016 and we're still feeling the effects. It was actually broken in 2010 as that's when the first collisions were achieved at the LHC.
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Post by simple on Aug 11, 2023 13:29:11 GMT
Its amazing how expensive and inefficient all these strongman policies turn out to be. Looks like just not being an arsehole is actually the fiscally conservative option. Who knew? At this rate it’ll be cheaper just to buy them all fully furnished central London apartments.
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Post by simple on Aug 11, 2023 13:31:28 GMT
The world broke in 2016 and we're still feeling the effects. It was actually broken in 2010 as that's when the first collisions were achieved at the LHC. I think there’s a pretty strong case for Western society being in various trajectories of decline from the high water mark of The Matrix
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Post by zephro on Aug 11, 2023 13:34:05 GMT
It's just pointless zombie government. Nothing is actually practical legislation or governing. It's also almost entirely performative as it's all illegal, impractical to actually implement or too expensive so nothing actually happens.
Really feels like the last days of Major, but while still having a majority somehow. Rather than something particularly new.
I've taken to just functionally ignoring most government policy positions lately.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 13:50:21 GMT
They're just hanging around waiting to lose power, like someone who is working their notice period and no longer has anything much left to do, they're not even bothering to tidy their desk, they don't give a shit.
They need to be gone.
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Post by sport✅ on Aug 11, 2023 14:01:52 GMT
They're going to be unbearable as the opposition though.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 11, 2023 14:03:35 GMT
Isn't the NHS, relative to many other countries spending on healthcare, an absolute bargain?
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 14:05:09 GMT
They're going to be unbearable as the opposition though. Given current polling at least they'll be a far smaller group of twats.
According to the BBC testing for Legionella had been done before anyone had been moved onto the barge, the Tory cunts decided to not wait for the results. They really are fucking idiots.
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Post by askew on Aug 11, 2023 14:14:53 GMT
Who actually makes that call: does it really go back up to a minister's desk, or is this dealt with similarly-aligned advisors, or is it civil servants who are being heavily leant-on?
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 14:31:00 GMT
I've never been a member of the civil service but I imagine they'd punt that up to the top rather than make any decision like that, asylum seekers being hurriedly shoved on the boat was a political decision.
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Post by Danno on Aug 11, 2023 14:42:07 GMT
There's no scenario in which senior advisors don't flag up the tests, the results and the decision to ignore that as an inconvenience at the top level and cover their arses by minuting everything.
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Post by Dougs on Aug 11, 2023 14:45:11 GMT
Civil servants will have been leant on to give an earliest date, but they will have flagged that results would not be back (and other issues) and Ministers will have given the final sign off.
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Post by X201 on Aug 11, 2023 15:12:32 GMT
They're going to be unbearable as the opposition though. Given current polling at least they'll be a far smaller group of twats.
According to the BBC testing for Legionella had been done before anyone had been moved onto the barge, the Tory cunts decided to not wait for the results. They really are fucking idiots.
That's the problem with this lot, their great ideas tend to stink up the country for years after they've gone.
The public accounts committee was highly critical of the repeated governance and financial failings at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which was set up with great fanfare under Boris Johnson.
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Post by zephro on Aug 11, 2023 16:56:47 GMT
Like this whole small boats week has involved a minister admitting they'd not used their power from last year, the ship being evacuated, they're expensive drone crashing into the sea and Lee Anderson saying they'd fucked everything up.
Even amongst cunts that want to be shit to asylum seekers I doubt this PR blitz will have convinced even them. As they're not even competent at being awful cunts. They're just risibly useless.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 11, 2023 17:05:35 GMT
More "Small Boats Wank" than "Small Boats Week" eh?
I'll get me coat.
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Post by X201 on Aug 12, 2023 18:59:27 GMT
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Post by dfunked on Aug 12, 2023 19:00:09 GMT
Let the bodies pile high... Again.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 12, 2023 19:55:24 GMT
They don’t give a fuck, they all have one foot in the beach
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Post by JuniorFE on Aug 12, 2023 20:24:57 GMT
And their heads in the sand... (the Tories that is)
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Post by Vandelay on Aug 12, 2023 21:28:34 GMT
Any particular reason why they can't offer jabs to younger and non-vulnerable people willing to pay for it? Is it that much harder to produce than flu jab that they wouldn't be able to produce enough?
I often mean to get the flu vaccine, albeit I normally never get around to it. I would also happily never get around to getting the Covid jab if I was able to have the intention of getting a paid for one.
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Post by technoish on Aug 12, 2023 21:38:15 GMT
As set out in the article, you can pay for the flu jab.
You can't for COVID.
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Post by Vandelay on Aug 12, 2023 21:42:49 GMT
I know. That's why I'm asking is there any particular reason why they can offer flu for a fee, but not the Covid one.
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Post by X201 on Aug 12, 2023 23:06:55 GMT
People under 60 are more likely to not vote Tory. If they die before the next election = win
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Post by Lizard on Aug 12, 2023 23:44:08 GMT
Plus I bet more than a few Tory MPs stand to profit in some way
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Post by Danno on Aug 12, 2023 23:45:55 GMT
Any particular reason why they can't offer jabs to younger and non-vulnerable people willing to pay for it? Is it that much harder to produce than flu jab that they wouldn't be able to produce enough? I often mean to get the flu vaccine, albeit I normally never get around to it. I would also happily never get around to getting the Covid jab if I was able to have the intention of getting a paid for one. WE DO NOT HAVE TO PAY THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF THE NHS
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Post by Dougs on Aug 13, 2023 6:30:44 GMT
It's all so short sighted. Flu vaccines in particular have an impact on reducing spread. Less spread, less pressure on the NHS = money saved. I usually qualify for a free one (and if not, work reimburse any paid) but was rather looking forward to not having to argue the toss with the pharmacist as a soon to be over-50! Will probably be on the list for COVID too but usually in the 2nd wave.
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