CB Fry

Here is Mrs Dominic Cummings describing how their child was present when she was sick on the floor, and also in attendance when Dominic was lying in bed barely able to breath. Not clear whether this was Durham or London but either way the child was present during the time they were both ill, rather than being cared for by someone else. Quite difficult to work out when exactly the trip up North took place and for what reason.

You've got it down to an art form, I'll give you that.

Well I had Steven Kinnock and Premier League footballers on my Whataboutery bingo card this morning. What do I win? Funny you haven't mentioned Professors Ferguson and Calderwood whose positions in government are far more similar to Cummings rather than, say, er, Kyle Walker.

I think it is important to get things in a sensible perspective. The flouting of the rules by a symptomatic senior government official and participant of SAGE is a trivial matter when compared to the horrific spectacle of Steve Coogan telling his gardener not to work, or something something what about Wales something something Kier Starmer.

Let's say instead of Dominic Cummings it was Steve Coogan or Mark Drakeford or Anna Soubry. Just imagine the response of the Guido-ettes on here.

The person who instigated the Thursday clap thing is now saying next week should be the last one. Sounds sensible to me.

Coronavirus and this thread has been running for a long time now. If you haven't heard of the term "excess deaths" by now then I can't help you.

How about the undeniable fact that you are a massive bellend?

Another Guido Fawkes disciple. Paul Staines as usual desperately trying to pretend that there's been a "U turn" when there's nothing Starmer said then that he wouldn't say now, especially as the TES article you and Guido have got all animated about (from April 15th FFS) clearly shows Starmer saying track-and-trace is vital. Track and trace is clearly what the government have royally fu cked up the execution of, the app isn't ready. They're recruiting call-centre staff, not enough of them, not with the skills. They've fu cked up being ready for June 1st. But yeah, let's blame Kier Starmer for everything that has gone wrong on Coronavirus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/england-find-coronavirus-cases-and-deaths-in-your-area?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tapatalk_Pro This is interesting to play with. Where I live it looks like new cases are much less than ten a day, sometimes one or two. Southampton slightly higher but in May every day less than ten. I think the government has done a fantastic job of scaring people and it has clearly worked. The adherence to the lockdown has been impressive. But I also think the government are a little too scared themselves of being clear that, with some sensible distancing in place, it is safe to go back to work or school. It's not like every other person you brush past has got it. It's clear the conditions are correct to move to track/trace so it is a failure in government that this is not ready because I think that clearly is the unlocker. The people need something that feels like they have some control.

55,000 excess deaths and you're posting shi te like that.

BuT JeMerY CoRBin wAs sO pOpuLaR wIV tHe pUBLic

God thought of everything, didn't he?

"You did not answer the question to a conclusion on Noah's Ark". SaintsWeb in lockdown May 2020.

Absolutely. I am happy to make it crystal clear that I'm not defending Coogan either. But it is nice to learn that Duckhunter and Guided Missile believe that millionaires furloughing the personal staff is a terrible, disgraceful thing for people to do. I look on with interest in seeing which other rich people they single out for criticism.

Suck it up snowflake x x x x x x

We all know that The Sun, Guido Fawkes and you remain absolutely passionate supporters of the free market right to hack the mobile phones of murdered teenagers so not a huge surprise that you are lining up with them to berate Steve Coogan for something that every single millionaire in the country has also done.

For the first time in my life I can genuinely say "I wish we were Everton". Would absolutely love a Hummel kit.

Starting to think I might get a call up to speak for the government at the Downing Street press conference one day soon. I'm a white man in his 40s and I'm not the Home Secretary so I feel I'm in with decent chance.

The press conference was slightly more interesting today. Today's boffin Angela McClean (who always comes across well anyway) was in absolutely no mood to be seen as a government lackey. She pointedly said that the early testing decisions were driven by capacity, that the schools reopening should happen when there is adequate test-and-trace in place, not on some arbitrary deadline. She made it very clear that any balls-ups on the execution of the field testing was an operational not scientific issue. Lastly was full of praise for South Korea and the Germans, rather than the usual woolly "well, we can't really compare with others etc etc". There's been a bit of nitpicking of the scientists recently (yesterday's slip about February dates being a good example) and it felt today that the scientists are going to show a little more than just social distance between them and the ministers from now on.

Jesus wept.

And the Premier League results are in. Tests: 768 Positive for Covid: 6 Clubs impacted: 3

But he hasn't got the balls to actually confront them directly. Absolutely crystal clear.

It's interesting you think the WHO are so supremely powerful that it would take "balls of steel" for the leader of one the world's greatest economies to confront them. Bizarre.

I saw some of those reports. In summary "I can't believe that all these other people came to the same place that we all decided to go to".