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fernandopartridge

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  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,836
Let's be honest the entire crisis has just been an opportunity for a further heist by the Tories and their mates.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,837
fernandopartridge said:
Let's be honest the entire crisis has just been an opportunity for a further heist by the Tories and their mates.
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Let be more honest, the entire Tory party is a set up to steal cash and assets from the public and give them to their mates.

This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
 
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,838
shmmeee said:
Let be more honest, the entire Tory party is a set up to steal cash and assets from the public and give them to their mates.

This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
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Correct
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,839
shmmeee said:
Let be more honest, the entire Tory party is a set up to steal cash and assets from the public and give them to their mates.

This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
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They were once setup to not make it not too obvious and to give the oinks a few crumbs from the table to keep them happy.
That pretence has long gone
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,840
clint van damme said:
They were once setup to not make it not too obvious and to give the oinks a few crumbs from the table to keep them happy.
That pretence has long gone
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Such a long way from the original meaning of the word Tory
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,841
clint van damme said:
They were once setup to not make it not too obvious and to give the oinks a few crumbs from the table to keep them happy.
That pretence has long gone
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Well once they got an 80 seat majority for a decade of crap, ‘Get Brexit Done’ and a fridge hiding oaf as leader they decided there was no need for being sly
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,842
clint van damme said:
They were once setup to not make it not too obvious and to give the oinks a few crumbs from the table to keep them happy.
That pretence has long gone
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Thatcher had to give them houses and shares in public assets, this lot just need to drive a JCB through some styrofoam
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Apr 21, 2021
  • #44,843
India is a basket case. Thought when they let 50000 into the cricket they were taking a massive risk
 

LastGarrison

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  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,844
Sky Blue Pete said:
India is a basket case. Thought when they let 50000 into the cricket they were taking a massive risk
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This really is a heavy read:

‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell

Many falsely believed that the country had defeated Covid. Now hospitals are running out of oxygen and bodies are stacking up in morgues
www.theguardian.com
 
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xcraigx

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,845
LastGarrison said:
This really is a heavy read:

‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell

Many falsely believed that the country had defeated Covid. Now hospitals are running out of oxygen and bodies are stacking up in morgues
www.theguardian.com
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A terrible read. I see this is affecting under 40s quite badly - as the UK have not vaccinated most under 40's why are we pissing about allowing travel from India until Friday? Travel should have been blocked immediately on Monday when it was announced that India would be put on the travel ban list. Have we not learned a damn thing over the past 15 months?
 
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Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,846

No better than looters at a riot, no actually these are far far worse.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,847
Skybluefaz said:

No better than looters at a riot, no actually these are far far worse.
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Tories gonna Tory
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,848
xcraigx said:
A terrible read. I see this is affecting under 40s quite badly - as the UK have not vaccinated most under 40's why are we pissing about allowing travel from India until Friday? Travel should have been blocked immediately on Monday when it was announced that India would be put on the travel ban list. Have we not learned a damn thing over the past 15 months?
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Not to contradict your point but think it's worth understanding the difference in demographics, India has a much younger population than the west (median are 26 compared with 40 in the UK), it will mean that more young people are affected cos there are more young people. Only 6% of ppn over 65 compared with 18% here.
 
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CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,849
fernandopartridge said:
Not to contradict your point but think it's worth understanding the difference in demographics, India has a much younger population than the west (median are 26 compared with 40 in the UK), it will mean that more young people are affected cos there are more young people. Only 6% of ppn over 65 compared with 18% here.
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Good point Fernando. Also some ridiculously highly densely populated, poor areas. It’s been frightening and very sad to see
 

LastGarrison

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  • Apr 22, 2021
  • #44,850
CCFCSteve said:
Good point Fernando. Also some ridiculously highly densely populated, poor areas. It’s been frightening and very sad to see
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Me and the Missus backpacked around India for three months and it is ridiculous how densely populated it is.

You could be walking around Delhi or Mumbai at 01:00am and it would be as busy as Oxford Street on the last Saturday before Christmas!
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 23, 2021
  • #44,851
replied to shmmeee's post in the season ticket thread but decided to delete it and move it here as its in danger of becoming a second covid thread!
shmmeee said:
I can’t see the NHS getting overwhelmed again without a new strain appearing. Seriously doubt we’ll have lockdown in August.
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Think my main concern in the medium term is that we still seem to be slack on border controls and quarantine. Look how slow we've been in reacting to the issues in India. Couple that with track and trace still not being as good as it should be it leaves the window open for variants getting in and then spreading.

There was an article on the BBC website about people trying to get back from India. Considering non-essential travel isn't supposed to be happening pretty much everyone they spoke to shouldn't have been travelling there in the first place. That's the sort of thing we need to get sorted.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Apr 23, 2021
  • #44,852
chiefdave said:
replied to shmmeee's post in the season ticket thread but decided to delete it and move it here as its in danger of becoming a second covid thread!

Think my main concern in the medium term is that we still seem to be slack on border controls and quarantine. Look how slow we've been in reacting to the issues in India. Couple that with track and trace still not being as good as it should be it leaves the window open for variants getting in and then spreading.

There was an article on the BBC website about people trying to get back from India. Considering non-essential travel isn't supposed to be happening pretty much everyone they spoke to shouldn't have been travelling there in the first place. That's the sort of thing we need to get sorted.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh were put on the 'red list' two weeks before India. Even this time they gave too much notice. Been loads of people leaving the country to go to that part of the world and as you say, doubt a lot are actually for 'essential' reasons.

The vaccine should be doing its bit here at the moment, but it does piss me off how some people think the rules don't apply to them, and how the government is so incapable of getting basic tasks right.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,853
Fuck me just seen how bad it is in India

What the hell happened to kick it off that bad?
 
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wingy

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,854
Saddlebrains said:
Fuck me just seen how bad it is in India

What the hell happened to kick it off that bad?
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Not sure and not entirely but religious festival?
New variant?
 
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clint van damme

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,855
Saddlebrains said:
Fuck me just seen how bad it is in India

What the hell happened to kick it off that bad?
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A nation of1billion.people went down the route that some of the silly fuckers on here suggested.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,856
wingy said:
Not sure and not entirely but religious festival?
New variant?
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Their numbers were right down to the point that they started easily restrictions. There was crowds back at the India v England cricket and then not long later numbers were through the roof and everything was back in lockdown.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,857
Where are they in the vaccine stats? Anyone know a percentage?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Apr 24, 2021
  • #44,858
Saddlebrains said:
Where are they in the vaccine stats? Anyone know a percentage?
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Only 10 doses per head, by comparison the UK is 67 and the EU average is 29.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,859
I see there was another mentalist convention in London yesterday. Are they just not watching the scenes in India? There was some proper Qanon placards flying around.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,860
skybluetony176 said:
I see there was another mentalist convention in London yesterday. Are they just not watching the scenes in India? There was some proper Qanon placards flying around.
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Echo chambers and nothing better to do with their time.
 

Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,861
skybluetony176 said:
I see there was another mentalist convention in London yesterday. Are they just not watching the scenes in India? There was some proper Qanon placards flying around.
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Thick twats.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,862
skybluetony176 said:
I see there was another mentalist convention in London yesterday. Are they just not watching the scenes in India? There was some proper Qanon placards flying around.
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Wearing yellow stars. Fucking disgusting.
As bad as the last year has been to try compare it to the holocaust is shameful.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,863
Skybluefaz said:
Thick twats.
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They’re complaining on one hand that MSM and specifically the BBC didn’t report it and then on the other are directing some absolutely horrendous abuse at the BBC reporter who covered it and disputing the numbers that MSM reported as being present at the demo. They abused members of the public who were shopping on Oxford St while wearing face masks, attacked the police etc. Utter morons and on so many levels.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,864
clint van damme said:
Wearing yellow stars. Fucking disgusting.
As bad as the last year has been to try compare it to the holocaust is shameful.
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Haven’t seen that. Disgusting. These idiots are just morally bankrupt.
 
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Skybluefaz

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,865
skybluetony176 said:
Haven’t seen that. Disgusting. These idiots are just morally bankrupt.
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I hope as a country we have bottomed out on these disgusting actions.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,866
clint van damme said:
Wearing yellow stars. Fucking disgusting.
As bad as the last year has been to try compare it to the holocaust is shameful.
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Just looked it up. Apparently some were shouting at people wearing masks calling them Nazis.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,867
All backed by a London Mayoral candidate too. Who happens to be sponsored by some of the people who brought us good ideas like Brexit.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,868
clint van damme said:
Wearing yellow stars. Fucking disgusting.
As bad as the last year has been to try compare it to the holocaust is shameful.
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I agree it's shameful .

However let's curb the outrage when all I ever hear these days on social media is nazi this , fascist that.

And on here too let's not forget

People making shit comparisons for political point scoring is certainly not a new thing , it's rife these days
 
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Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,869
I denounce the protest yesterday , like I've denounced all the protests during this pandemic.

It's utterly ridiculous

However I feel we are only 1 more lockdown off absolute carnage over here , which makes the protests even more annoying
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 25, 2021
  • #44,870
Evo1883 said:
I denounce the protest yesterday , like I've denounced all the protests during this pandemic.

It's utterly ridiculous

However I feel we are only 1 more lockdown off absolute carnage over here , which makes the protests even more annoying
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People really just need to hold their nerve for another few months, get their jabs when offered and that ought to be enough. I for one am desperate to get offered the vaccine so it’s infuriating seeing some in care homes still turn it down after 5 months
 
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