CB Fry

So you catch Covid-19 through over-working now? Going with that angle weakens his little rant quite early on. A lot of The Sunday Times article is all about a lack of preparedness for pandemics in general so all the WHO-bashing guff not really that relevant. Although the ST investigation is a good piece of work, I would say yesterday's Financial Times report on the utter sh itshow that was the government's ventilator strategy is a much more damning piece and much more indicative of the toxic behaviours in action in our current leadership. There will be plenty on that in the public inquiry.

That's nice, dear.

Well he has been given a significant advance by a publisher to write it, so on my planet that's work. He was never doing it as a fu cking hobby.

The "working" he was doing then, as reported by some, was his biography of William Shakespeare.

The virus looks like it is accelerating the inevitable death of the newspaper industry but I don't see how that is particularly positive. Personally I am looking forward to buying a Sunday Times this morning as their investigation into the government's early (non) response to the virus sounds like a great story. Literally "the first draft of history".

If anyone wants to feel nauseous or feverish today, there are glimpses of Ian Branfoot on BBC1 right now as part of the coaching team for Palace versus Liverpool in the 1990 FA Cup semi final.

It is clear there is a massive weapon on this thread.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-staff-no-longer-confident-partys-general-secretary-as-their-safety-as-her-top-priority-after-leaking-of-antisemitism-report Nice to see the actual workers in the Labour Party striking out at the despicable behaviour of the abhorrent Jennie Formby. Her and Uncle Len (with Seamus and Communist Andrew Murray) thought they had the party sewn up in their image but thankfully the membership had other ideas, and it's fantastic that the workers are now fighting back too.

We're only a few weeks away from it going full-on Poppy-mas levels of "look how much I care" one upmanship across the nation. We've painted our entire house like a rainbow etc etc. I don't get why it needs to be every week, especially as it feels like every week it is escalating (various reports of fireworks being set off as well as the images of it becoming like a mini street party in some places). The NHS want the correct equipment and, when thIs is over maybe a bloody pay rise. I am sure people mean well but the clapping is making a virtue of and distracting from the low pay and a decade of chronic under funding in the sector.

Just about to post the same thing. Hasn't taken long for the whole clapping thing to get out of control.

I think there are other slightly more important news stories happening in the UK right this minute, champ. But we know you love being in a cult so good for you.

I wish we were Newcastle.

We know, sweetheart. Well done.

Nice to see the grown-ups back in charge of the Labour Party. He's made a good start in challenging times. The Coronavirus frontline - watch council leaders describe their challenges first hand as ⁦@SkyNews⁩ gets access to Keir Starmer’s meeting with 100+ local government leaders

Its held up well because of the natural instinct to trust leaders (whoever they are) in a crisis. I fully expect the Don to successfully spin whatever the death toll is as being a massive success achieved against the odds. We're two weeks away from him saying in press conference things like "the Democrats were saying five million would die but I've got it down to only 150,000 but no one is giving me any credit". Useful idiots like Guided Missile across the USA will fu cking lap it up.

Brilliant.

If there is one thing I know about Donald J Trump is that he is absolutely obsessed with the ongoing fight to combat larvae based diseases in emerging African nations. It's breathtaking how many speeches he's made on the matter and the funding and support he has released through the federal government to combat the diseases. We could all learn a lot from Trump's selfless pursuit of a solution to this critical issue in the developing world. I would think that it will be his everlasting legacy when people look back on his presidency.

He's just displaying the attitude of total authoritarian socialism - the Dear Leader is in charge and everyone must obey. Explains partly why Corbyn was so utterly pathetic because in this country we don't stand for that and he didn't have the wherewithal to run a bath let alone a political party. Absolutely fu cking terrified to think how they'd have been in this crisis. The only testing they would have focused on would have been political purity tests. The minute any doctor or expert stepped out of line or expressed concerns the Corbynista outsiders would be all over them for being Tories or, even worse, "linked to Israel". They'd be hounded out. And Milne would be using the whole thing to play out his ultimate solution of some Maduro/Chavez superstate. Luckily he was never getting in so never really an option.

Jonnyboy thinks that dossier proves that all the anti-semitism in Corbyn's Labour was all "made up" because that's how they've reported it on Squawkbox. Thick doesn't even begin to cover it.

Jeremy Corbyn was never, ever popular. Never. It doesn't matter what Laura Pidcock and Ian Lavery and Uncle Len Mccluskey say at the Durham Miner's Gala. Never, ever popular. So sweet that you think that this non existent "popularity" could be undermined.

2017 was the worst election campaign ever run by a sitting prime minister in the history of British politics and your twa t still couldn't win. Because he was never popular with enough of the British public, demonstrated by his failure to win where he needed to win to actually govern. May's appalling election campaign = 317 seats Corbyn's glorious victory = 262 seats The fact that you dins go on and about what is actually a pathetic failure shows how utterly out of touch you are. Eventually Corbyn controlled every single lever of the entire Labour party in 2019 and where did it get you? The worst result since the thirties and the least popular leader of the opposition of all time. But yeah, it's all the fault of some back office staff that share the widely held view that Jeremy Corbyn was and is an utter plank. Always the victim, it's never your fault.

Correct. Also worth remembering the culture of the current administration and political discourse. Even six weeks ago folk like Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance - senior civil servants, unelected, bureaucrats, technical, non-partisan - would be described by many as "the swamp" . Ignoring, belittling, dismissing and mocking their advice, their roles and them as people would be celebrated and a badge of honour. Who voted for these *****s? Let's not pretend there was an environment where difficult/uncomfortable advice would be welcomed or acted on. Unlike a country led by, say, a qualified, experienced scientist.

The cretin doesn't need to worry about policies anymore because he will never again be in a position to present any ever again. And what a relief for the poor and disadvantaged who might now get government that helps them rather than a bunch of cranks obsessing about Israel utterly incapable of inspiring the public to vote for them. All those wasted years. Would be hilarious if it wasn't so despicable. Any sign of that groundswell of popular opinion yet?

If a prominent politician comes out of intensive care and your first thought is "how can I turn this into a meme about my hero" then yeah, that feels like a cult to me. Also, those aren't "policies" in his first bit. Just a list of vague "nice" things the messiah will bring upon us all if only we believed in him. You know, like a cult.

What "groundswell of popular opinion" is there about that? Absolutely delusional.