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I've been quite sympathetic when she's got dogs abuse from certain people on twitter in the past but she's certainly been terrible during this especially. Most inane and simplistic questions ever.

It's a bit mad isn't it. A country of millions and those are the two best candidates they can muster.

If you go out and drive for non essential reasons then you run the risk of a fine at the discretion of the police. I'm perfectly happy with that and everyone else should be too.

Abd they've obviously modelled what people should do and this is what they've come up with. It's jot perfect but why people can't just comply for the relatively short period that they are asked to do it rather than being difficult for the sake of it I do not know.

Exactly. I'm not sure why this is even being argued.

Peston, Laura kuenssberg and Sam Coates asked the stupidest questions today. We actually got a couple of good ones including one on serology which was half decent and not from one of the usual lot.

It means that if you plot a graph from day one of i believe its the first death, we currently have less deaths than Spain and France had at roughly the same point.

Well it's clearly had quite a big effect. The question is if it's had enough of an effect. The graph today seeemed to suggest we were tracking behind France and Spain who seem to have a much stricter regime in place so I'm not sure how much difference anything stricter would have. The lockdown isn't to prevent the virus, it's to spread the virus at a slower pace.

Yep absolutely fed up with that. And they only reason they want to know is that when they miss the self imposed deadline they can moan at them. It's ridiculous.

No it isn't at all. You've been told not to do something by the government in order to get the lockdown finished as quickly as possible. If you choose to ignore that then you should be fined and punished. It really is that simple because if everyone decided to drive 200 miles it's very likely that this would get a hell of a lot worse.

You got absolutely no idea if that's true. None at all.

It's pretty simple. We've been told not to travel hundreds of miles from our home to prevent the spread of the disease. If you travel hundreds of miles under those restrictions and without a proper reason then don't complain if you get fined. If you're dumb enough to do it despite the warnings then you deserve everything you get imo. I'll leave it to others to argue about how infectious one course of action is over another as it's not really relevant.

Here's an idea. How about the people driving hundreds of miles simply stop doing it then the size of any punishment becomes a moot point.

It's your party. The internecine warfare in the Labour Party isn't that interesting unless you're on the far left.

Would anyone other than MLG be bothering with this if they weren't shut indoors with nothing to do?

Oh right because that's definitely the line you would take if someone linked to spiked or the daily mail...

Like I said earlier it's pretty slim pickings. He's certainly a better pick than the other ones I already highlighted.

Prole star??? Stop it you're killing me.

I quite like him I didn't say I wanted him to be Labour leader. Quite liking someone doesn't mean you want them to be in charge or agree with some of the things they have done.

Additionally many have already pointed out how that sort of thing takes a similar form to religion.

I quite like Ed. He's certainly improved since he decided to actually be himself rather than be frightened to show any personality. The point is though that there are plenty of reasonable labour MPs that would make Labour more electable and who don't have the baggage and horrible personalities of jess Phillips, Naz Shah, Emily Thornberry or David Lammy. All of them are terrible choices who are obsessed with identity politics and I don't want them anywhere near government. Like it or not, personalities count for a lot probably even more so than policies and that lot are very easy to dislike.

Starmer seems like the best choice for leader out of the candidates. I thought Lisa Nandy was a good public speaker with some interesting ideas even if she crashed and burned over the whole trans thing. Liz kendall has been alright in the past and Andy Burnham has earnt a lot of my respect with how he has handled himself. Ian Murray seems like a good bloke. That's just off the top of my head though, I'm sure there are a lot more. Edit: I forgot Alan whitehead is a great guy. I've had many dealings with him and he's genuinely a good bloke. I like him a lot. It's not hard to find lots of Labour politicians who would be better than many of the people now in the shadow cabinet and I say that even if I disagree with some of their politics. All they have to be is not be dislikable, race baiters, snobbish or not obsessed with identity politics. Admittedly that does rule out a lot of Labour MPs.

Jess Phillips probably worse. Diane is more amusing than anything.

Yes I think it's pretty amusing too how badly they failed.

Literally any other labour mp than David Lammy as shadow justice Secretary. Blindfold someone and get them to throw a dart at every Labour mp on a board and you'd get a better candidate.