Non - Pandemic

wouldn't it be great to see our politicians be able to freely debate issues, sometimes agreeing with people from other parties, sometimes deviating from their own party line, be allowed to say they "don't know" when questioned about something, not be ridiculed if they get some on-the-spot maths wrong, or admit they don't everything about everything, and be forced to make stuff up or guess. never going to happen is it.
 
RobWells said:
wouldn't it be great to see our politicians be able to freely debate issues, sometimes agreeing with people from other parties, sometimes deviating from their own party line, be allowed to say they "don't know" when questioned about something, not be ridiculed if they get some on-the-spot maths wrong, or admit they don't everything about everything, and be forced to make stuff up or guess. never going to happen is it.
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We had it once, he even stood as potential leader of the Tories. No longer an MP or a member of any party.
 
That would be an MP putting the interests of the people of his constituency /country first before party politics or business interests.

Good in theory, but not sure they would let it happen.

Those MP’s who have said they will back the PM tonight, wonder if this from their own personal view or their constituents.?
 
DJ said:
Never ceases to amaze me the stances people take purely to score points against those who don’t wear the same rosette colour.

China style isolation camps during the early days of covid? Well Boris didn’t do it so that must mean we should have…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1533781451115831297
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Dorries now backing what JimnNina has been saying for years, that the Pandemic preparation was "inadequate". ;-)
 
RobTrent said:
Dorries now backing what JimnNina has been saying for years, that the Pandemic preparation was "inadequate". ;-)
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We knew it was inadequate. The point is could it reasonably be expected to be anything else? Given that we have never had adequate pandemic planning in our history and that no other comparable country has either I'd suggest Dorries is simply showing her clueless desperation rather than making a sound point.

;-)
 
SlowDownDerek said:
We knew it was inadequate. The point is could it reasonably be expected to be anything else? Given that we have never had adequate pandemic planning in our history and that no other comparable country has either I'd suggest Dorries is simply showing her clueless desperation rather than making a sound point.

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Probably yes, but hey ho.
 
It's a surprise it's so low. The Office of National Statistics still estimates about 1.4% of the population has covid at any given time, so based on average 100,000 hospital admission per week, we would expect 1,400 admissions with covid even if covid has no adverse health effects at all. 606 is very low.

[Edit] the government dashboard has it at 3,378 in England, which seems more likely. Maybe Mr Johnson was counting daily?
 
dsr-burnley said:
It's a surprise it's so low. The Office of National Statistics still estimates about 1.4% of the population has covid at any given time, so based on average 100,000 hospital admission per week, we would expect 1,400 admissions with covid even if covid has no adverse health effects at all. 606 is very low.

[Edit] the government dashboard has it at 3,378 in England, which seems more likely. Maybe Mr Johnson was counting daily?
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Indeed, “admissions” is a daily figure.
 
dsr-burnley said:
Like every other disease under the sun, its prevalence will either be increasing or decreasing all the time. About 6 months increasing and 6 months decreasing each year. So this isn't really very exciting news.
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I’d be completely reassured if it wasn’t you telling us to be reassured!
 
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