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He never said them fings.

What is your interpretation? Are you denying he suggested linking a public health decision and trade negotiations?

Here. "Lots of Spanish people in the last couple of days complaining that Boris has turned the tourism tap off. The amount of noise they're making it almost sounds like they need our money - maybe they should give their negotiators a nudge" I would say 'concentrate and you can do it Wes'. But I'm not sure that's true anymore.

You’d trade infections and deaths for an angle on Gibraltar or rioja tariffs. Interesting.

Is your point is that Spain relies heavily on tourism? (who knew?) or that Covid forms a part of the Brexit negotiations?

Case in point. You don't address the issues you just repeat stock mantras. And I simply corrected a formatting issue, the content didn't change. Is there nothing you can compute?

I know, but he knew at the time he was selectively misrepresenting and he's still posting about how terrible and violent London is, even though it is one of the safest capitals worldwide. Berlin, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam etc all have a higher murder rate than London. The differences are much starker once you get out of relatively safe Europe. Many central and south American cities have rates up to 10-50 times higher than London

How come you are still so breathtakingly ignorant even after four years of discussion? It's mind numbing. Canada, South Korea and Japan have FTAs. Britain is seeking continued access to parts of the single market - the rights but not the responsibilities. A single market can only operate if you have a single set of rules for everybody and a single legal process for resolving disputes. Britain doesn't want to maintain the same standards and doesn't want to have to comply with the legal process. Those demands are deliberately constructed to make a deal impossible but make it look like the EU are being intransigent. And that has been Johnson's plan for at least a year.

New York murders in 2019: 318 London murders in 2019: 149 Knob

how the heck do you delete posts?

The reason his was two thirds empty was because of social distancing.......

The major difference is that the same size impact for the EU is divided amongst 27. The UK will get a mighty big hole blown in its ‘finances’ whilst for for each individual EU country it will just sting a bit

To some extent it depends on what your long term aim is. If you want to suppress numbers for a while then yes social isolation and lockdown works. But when you ease those measures infections start to rebound. Success or failure of a strategy will be measured in deaths over a 2-5 year period, not a few months. Sweden's herd immunity approach may well be the right one if it delivers the same number of deaths but without the economic hit. A lot depends on how immune you can become and how long that immunity lasts - but thats true of vaccines too .

Yep its perverse. The pub is the place where you are most likely to get infected. Talking to somebody face to face for hours whilst drinking and pissed is perfectly set up to catch it from them if they have it. Spending 10 seconds vaguely in the same area as somebody else in the supermarket is almost zero risk, mask or not.

Me too. There is weird subset of Americans who think their 'rights' trump everbody else's. I never wear a mask either as I think picking up loads of small sub clinical doses is the best way to innoculate yourself. But if I have to I will. The idea of storming the barricaded doors of Waitrose to exercise my right to buy coffee mask free is just bizarre.

I think you're probably overestimating the importance of facts and reality to a story compared with a good dose of of hypertension and outrage

Packed by their husbands

The East is drier though....

Congratulations on your ascent to fully fledged caricature.

That's true, but to some extent her shortcomings created the desire for a 180 switch from a charisma free leader to voting in a big personality let down only by zero integrity, morals or management ability. They just swapped out one problem for another, arguably worse and longer lasting. There are still many more rounded and good MPs I could vote for if leader, Tobias Ellwood for example - good on TV, intelligent, politically balanced etc. But they don't do well in the new Tory Party. Corbyn's greatest culpability is not that he failed to get Labour elected but rather he created the vacuum of viable alternatives that enabled a snake oil salesman like Johnson to.

I do like Matthew Parris. He’s the kind of one nation Tory who could persuade me to vote Conservative again. So it’s no surprise to read the contempt he holds Johnson in. I agree many MPs already have developed serious concerns about Johnson’s fitness to lead but they won’t ditch him until all the upcoming shit show elements can. be dumped on his shoulders. But the problem with the Tory party has become more fundamental and systemic than one sub par leader. The party membership and cohort of MPs has changed, there are a lot of unprincipled headbangers,, perhaps more than ever before. There is no guarantee they won’t simply elect someone even more politically out there, just with better management skills

Lets pretend for a moment that you actually think about issues. What have you got against the Kurds? They are trying to rebuild a war shattered territory. Why should they be held back by feeding and containing tens of thousands of foreign IS followers when they care barely care for their own people? Why shouldn't they be sent back to Germany, UK, Russia, US or wherever they came from to be dealt with?

I guess he has rolled back water and electricity consumption standards for appliances - but its such a confused ramble that any point is lost.