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  1. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

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

    Quiz Thread

    I’m going Carlisle
  3. Ian1779

    Quiz Thread

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

    Death List 2020

    And again the rumours are flying about...
  5. 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.
  6. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

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

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

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

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Thank God for Brexit eh?
  9. Ian1779

    Proud to work at HMRC

    Thats really good to hear. It makes you wonder why Universal Credit can’t be as simple... (maybe that’s for another day but the point stands)
  10. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Or add #thankgodforbrexit
  11. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Some of his supporters don’t even listen to a word he says just believe it verbatim. I don’t know if you heard his speech earlier in the year on renewable energy/windmills (Michael Spicer does a very amusing voiceover to it) but people were cheering to agree with the utter nonsense he was...
  12. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I think those two are just out of their depth TBH. Whereas Boris is just a manipulator.
  13. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Think it’s harsh on Starmer to be less trusted than Hancock (a serial liar) and Raab (a total fucktard) but it does lend to the point that the incumbent administration will always have an inflated popularity during a crisis.
  14. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Facebook algorithms going in to overtime on your feed.
  15. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I get the point about travel bans being ineffective after the event. But fast forward a couple of months are we really going to allow unrestricted/unchecked travel when we may be most vulnerable to a second wave of infections? Do we really want people from a high-risk country (like the US which...
  16. Ian1779

    New Labour Leader

    He did fine I think. I am a little uncomfortable with the fawning over him by Tories in the media (their definition of a ‘proper’ opposition sounds more like ‘compliant’ to me) but I’m going to put that down to them more interested in petty Corbyn point scoring rather than anything untoward...
  17. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Also the evidence of scores of ‘Bot’ accounts that the government have been using since the referendum might be the reason? Not that G will acknowledge that...
  18. Ian1779

    New Labour Leader

    The way we have seen some of the MP’s behave at PMQ’s over the last 4/5 years is an embarrassment.
  19. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Yeah - the current administration put a stop to it going live.
  20. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Not if the rationale was clear, explained and in this case necessary.
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