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  1. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    But he followed the ‘grown ups in charge’ roadmap.... he should have romped to victory.
  2. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Let’s say you’re right (and i can’t find much in there to disagree with) then why didn’t the left re-take control in 2015? They did these things you have said... but they went even further behind than in 2010
  3. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    You’re right I don’t like Blair. He did do those things - he was massively helped by begging given a media platform to articulate the vision, show how these could and would work. The ‘left’ don’t have a platform like that any more to articulate the vision and ideas (did they really ever is...
  4. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Yet it means nothing, just a sound bite of words with literally no substance, bit like everything that Boris says.
  5. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The lefts way to address crime and immigration is to try and look at the root causes behind the problem... the populist option is blame the foreigner without ever making any headway to fixing it. We know which way wins however - as per your point about looking like you love other countries more...
  6. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Brexit means Brexit mate...
  7. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I don’t think we will be cruising the avenue between good and bad, but more between bad and absolutely fucking catastrophic.
  8. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I’d say more 5-8 despite them being down to 9 men...
  9. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    If you compare death rate versus ‘tested’ and death rate versus ‘population size’ - we are shit in every regard. It’s not about a manipulation of statistics (although I understand your point) it’s the fact that in any measure we’ve totally fucked it... and as yet there doesn’t appear to be any...
  10. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I don’t know about other countries - may very much depend on how/where they test/trace/track. We as a country have not done adequte testing or tracking of the disease, especially in care homes. It’s not scaremongering is it to suggest that a virus that has killed over 20K in hospital alone...
  11. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Man calling out government should be ashamed.... standard.
  12. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Not really - it seems to be generally accepted that care home deaths would likely double the hospital confirmed deaths.
  13. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    About fucking time - should have happened 3 months ago.
  14. Ian1779

    Quiz Thread

    I’m going Carlisle
  15. Ian1779

    Quiz Thread

    Premier - Furthest Newcastle Championship - Furthest Middlesbrough League 1 - Furthest Sunderland League 2 - Furthest Plymouth or Carlisle
  16. Ian1779

    Death List 2020

    And again the rumours are flying about...
  17. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Is she sure? Her grasp of numbers is not the greatest.... EDIT: I’ve checked - she said it was down seven and twelvty percent to eleventy and three.
  18. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    You’re right.... what time did you log in again?
  19. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    That would actually make sense - McDonalds could go straight away in drive-thru mode for example.
  20. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Thank God for Brexit eh?
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