The sewer press must move on. Murdoch has done his globalist best to throw shit at Boris, after it became clear that having already left the EU we would not extend the transition period. Only the dawning of 1st January 2021 will convince the globalists and remainers that we've really left. The remainer dags on BBC, ITV and C4 - Peston, Kuenssberg, Bolton, Beth Rigby, Newman, Burley and the rest - must now crawl into even more latrine pits to find material with which to attack the government. I predict Peston, having demonstrated before millions that he doesn't know the difference between an antigen and an antibody, will instantly now become an expert on the difference between antigenic shift and antigenic drift as talk moves on to vaccine development.
Meanwhile there will always be those who look to the make the best of a crisis. Amongst them are those seeking to drive a wedge between China and the states of Africa. Africans, it appears, have had first hand experience of their Chinese overseers already and it has not been positive. Now it's emerging that the Wuhan virus is racist, killing people of colour to a disproportionate extent, the wedge-drivers are using social media to squeeze out videos of black people being abused and victimised by the Chinese and even one alleging to show a mob of Nigerians torching a Chinese factory. Whether these come from the CIA, FSB or just opportunistic sources, the effect is the same - they help to undo the billions spent by China in Africa as part of the belt and road drive.
And finally of course Boris's illness also seems to have provoked hope in the hearts of ambitious Tories. As Boris came close to death, our MPs asked desperately who could possibly replace him, and for at least one Tory MP the answer it seems was 'Me!'
So here's your quiz question for the week. Which Tory MP whom you've probably hardly noticed in the past has been all over social media and the less-demanding broadcast media this week? Also with an article in the Sundays. A couple of clues. He's an obedient soft remainer and is possibly the most tedious and soporific writer and speaker in the parliamentary party. The man is living Ritalin. He could put an entire remedial class of ADD delinquents to peaceful sleep.
19 comments:
"He's an obedient soft remainer and is possibly the most tedious and soporific writer and speaker in the parliamentary party"
That describes about 200 Conservative MPs.
*chuckle*
There's hundreds of marionettes in the Tory Party. You'll have to narrow it down a bit more Raed.
Darn - I was up too late......
Tom Tugendhat?
Name your prize, DJ - damn, I thought this would take at least until noon ...
@Raedwald
No prize required ;) I just think he is one of these almost dangerous politicians that the leadership like to keep close.
Well done DJ. I would ahve put the number higher than DeeDee's 200 but hey-ho.
Tom T he of "community conservatism"...his TA MI experience will come in handy!
Well done DJ, I'd heard the name but wouldn't have been able to recall it, even if you told me his initials are TT and his surname rhymes with "twat".
Of interest:
An Italian doctor who's performed hundreds of autopsies says COVID-19 victims are dying of pulmonary artery thrombosis. That is why hydroxychloroquine works in the first phase of the disease but less so in the second phase. There is a strong suspicion that ventilators are actually doing more harm than good because the wrong area is being targeted when breathing becomes difficult. The use of Heparin injections is indicated together with positive air pressure (PAP, CPAP) where needed.
Steve
"There is a strong suspicion that ventilators are actually doing more harm than good because the wrong area is being targeted when breathing becomes difficult"
At least two doctors agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elgct0nOcKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlEUAVjxV8
The UK has left the European Union.
It is the right wing, nationalist, isolationist lunatics who keep insisting that it has not.
It is not those who campaigned for Remain.
We are in transition and are still bound by their restrictions.
They are frantic for an extension so they can try and drag us into - by possibly as much as 30 billion reichmarks - the futile attempts to revive the corpse known as the eurozone.
So remainiacs don't want an extension but leavers do?
Come on troll, make an effort!
Plainly our government is in a tricky position. But how might this have played back in 1968 when we had a flu outbreak that carried off about 80,000 people. I don't remember any great fuss, too busy drinking beer and chasing girls.
In that pre internet time it seems possible that even the government did not really know what was going on. The newspapers may have had some idea. Perhaps they did but an idle trawl of the Daily Mirror archive did not show up much. So is our present trouble really the fault of the internet. The web almost tells us too much, prevents governments covering much up or pleading ignorance. We for our part play the 'something must be done' schtick. Perhaps Sir Humphrey would have advised a little more ignorance.
Now today's governments cannot shut down the web. Doing a D Notice is a joke. So could any credible government have devised a better communications strategy pre pandemics to minimise the fuss and palaver. In short to lead us into meekly accepting a widespread pandemic.
Or are we now always forced into lockdowns. Could for example the need for lockdowns have been publicised before any pandemic arrived. Some kind of pre-emptive toughening us up. Seems to me the effect of the web was/is largely forgotten in the planning.
You say we've left the EU?
Why is the National Farmers' Union suggesting that Ministers discuss a scheme to compensate farmers for drops in (milk) production with the European Commission?
Didn't Boris send everybody a letter?
All that PPE coming from Turkey. Help from Boris' relatives? Nigel won't be chuffed!
UK firms exporting PPE because Boris and gang haven't tackled local sourcing.
Export opportunities are a Brexit upside aren't they?
And what was supposed to be the upside of being in the EU?
@Mark
Less red tape for starters. No need to spend taxes on 50000 staff pushing Brexit red tape
Benefit from competent management - not much evidence of that from Boris, Gove, Pritti etc. who seem to have gone into hiding. Boris would not be convalescing if he had demonstrated basic 'handshaking' sense (also, not a great idea to advertise his stupidity). Nightingale hospitals without staff. Respirators built to wrong spec. Failuer to engage with PPE producers in the UK (who then took to exporting) ...
etc. etc.
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