UK Politics Thread

All that said, actually laughing at the Italians and a seemingly genuine belief in the magic of British Exceptionalism is genuinely quite surprising.

I always assumed his patriotism was yet another affectation.

I suppose it could be worse; he didn't suggest we drink bleach.

I mean.....it's not the stupidest idea that was doing the rounds. In a crisis it's worth not dismissing ideas without consulting people who might have a better understanding, and it was something he'd seen somewhere else rather than some batshit stuff he'd made up. Viruses are fragile and don't survive well at all in an environment they're not suited to. It's also a relative safe intervention, compared to drinking bleach and other outright dangerous things that were being proposed with a straight face. It makes as much sense as vitamin D, tbh. But in an infection that could stand to infect tens of millions nationally, even a fraction of a percentage in improved outcomes is worth angling for.

Man's still a cunt tho, obvs.

There was a senior colleague of mine who was huge on the idea that if you drank lots of cold water it would swill the covid out of your mouth and throat and into your stomach where you would digest the virus without getting sick early in the pandemic

I knew someone as a teenager who thought that crisps were good for sore throats when you had a cold. They help scrape all of the bad stuff off your throat as they go down.

I keep meaning to check what he's up to these days... Probably an MP.

I tend to find crisps make me feel better in most situations

Lucozade is great when you are unwell. Did they try giving lucozade and crisps to COVID patients?

Just seems to be fuelling my mucus production if anything.

I have no doubt the boris and other tories did that before the pandemic (while being choked by escort that they put on their expenses)

Whizzo ignoring Trowel

It wasn't deliberate! Twitter appearing on here can be very slow at times so I didn't actually see the embedded Tweet as I looked through the thread.

It deserves repeating at least, Johnson is a thick cunt, although that's not exactly news.

The Covid inquiry has proved one thing.
That The Daily Star reporting was spot on throughout.

I've got full access to current issues of the daily star online via my local library. Amazing use of my tax dollars at work.

The same issue also contains this little gem of a story:

""
Save me says Owen ‘The Master’ Bates

Daily Star■ by CAMERON WINSTANLEY



DARTS bosses are facing an X-rated headache over the player with the sport’s rudest nickname.
Fans cannot wait to see Owen “The Master” Bates make his debut in the world championships at Ally Pally in north London next month. And they have urged bosses at the PDC not to censor his cheeky tag.
Owen, 20, qualified after finishing second on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
Ranked 125th in the world, his performances over the last year have seen Owen land a place on the biggest stage.
Now darts enthusiasts are pleading for “The Master” to be introduced in all his glory at the showpiece. One wrote on X: “Don’t make him change his nickname.”
A DARTS player called Owen “The Master” Bates has qualified for his sport’s world championships for the first time.
He must be excellent at tossing his tungsten!

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To be overly fair to him, at least he didn't say that shit at a live conference.

But that's just how low Trump has set the bar.