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  1. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Do you mean Nadia Whitmore?
  2. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    It was a legitimate criticism of Labour that their Brexit policy was driven from London-esque metropolitan areas - that’s why it lost the North and a lot of Wales. Starmer has to change that perception and approach to win them back.
  3. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    My concerns with Starmer will be the people advising him and driving his policy - not him as a leader.
  4. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Labour are in a state - primarily because of the factions within the party. I hope they may have turned a corner in 2017, but they fucked it by getting the biggest issue in the country horrifically wrong and handing the Tories a huge majority. Now the people in charge of Labour make me feel like...
  5. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I have to shield my daughter for 12 weeks from mid-April. But if I wasn’t I still wouldn’t send either of them back to school any time soon.
  6. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    They can’t if they are planning on adhering to any kind of social distancing....
  7. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Biden reminds me of the guy who didn’t go to the alien planet in Cocoon.
  8. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Don’t think that’s crazy to be honest. I still think he will win though.
  9. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I hope - another 3 weeks of lockdown. There might then be some kind of gradual return.. not sure which sector you begin in though. There is talk about schools starting to re-open which is ludicrous IMO. Impossible to socially distance in them and would probably be front and centre in causing...
  10. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Let’s be honest - once they get to a care home it’s unlikely they’ll be voting anymore - they can become obsolete then in the eyes of a Tory... plenty more to recruit from Facebook to fill their place.
  11. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I’m going with the other half
  12. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    He has a point though - the only people that are talking about ‘punishing China’ are idiots, populists and fascists..... which would make an interesting Venn diagram.
  13. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Bet Mexico can’t wait for Trump to proclaim they have to pick up that bill too.
  14. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The Empire was glorious and beyond reproach.... honestly.
  15. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    You didn’t say children to be fair. You said migrants..... assuming that there are never any child migrants....
  16. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The more people die - the more statistically likely that one of us, our kids or our parents get it and get it bad.
  17. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    50000 reasons tell me good is not the right way to describe it. Encouraging, welcoming, a relief - absolutely.
  18. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    It’s encouraging news that we may be moving to a less tragic position. Good is about as insensitive as heralding a success right now.
  19. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Tell you what mate - you go pass on that ‘good news’ story to a family that’s lost someone to Cov-ID 19.
  20. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Wait till they pedal that as a narrative for not funding properly in the future....
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