Coronavirus

I know mate, I was just being tongue in cheek.

I might be back to voting for Labour soon, depending on what I hear from Keir. He sometimes has a slight smugness about him, he deffo sniffs his own farts after ripping one, likes to sample if it tastes of last nights dinner. But he seems the best candidate Labour have had for a while.

 

You’re on a roll

 

Politics again... Archie do you ever talk about anything else?

 

I didn't start it. I never do.

 

I was hoping you’d say Hummus... disappointed.

 

It is a big grating when it becomes a political point scoring exercise.

Would the labour (or any other) party have been better prepared? No.
Would they have acted any better or more decisively? Probably not, they'd have listened to the science as well.
Would they gave reacted more decisively financially? No.

Would they have a magic warehouse full of ppe? No.
Would they produce a vaccine or tests quicker? No.

What's the point?

Yes, Tory austerity (in reaction to a labour induced recession) has caused the NHS to have been downgraded way too much but even so, there wouldn't be a load of empty hospital beds waiting for a crisis under labour, sorry.

I just don't see this world wide disaster as a political nit picking issue myself.

And no, I don't vote Tory.

 

But Amazon.

 

Yes they would and you know it.

I'm not a labour supporter but it's obvious that a better funded NHS would have a greater capacity to be pro active in the way Germany have been.

 

I don't see it.

We know who the labour leader would have been, the argument pretty much ends there for me.

 

Anyway, I'm not keen on having a political argument that ends in me being labelled a racist by anyone, cheers.

 

Oh politics, wonderful. Will check back in a few hours.

 

Did you steal those use of words from the Comm vocabulary

 

Better spelling

 

It certainly made @Suckmyklopp eyes water when he stuck one up his jap's eye.

Likewise to say it was a labour induced recession is no better than saying it's a tory induced pandemic.

 

Is that **** still around?

 

That's how it works though, right?

It's the one in powers fault.

Although no one could seriously blame the Tories for causing it, they are certainly getting the blame for not sorting it all out to everyone's satisfaction.

 

I don't really see what either of the parties could have done, the election was literally a few months ago. Both parties stated an increase in spending, especially in the NHS, was a top priority throughout the cycle.

Blaming Johnson and his cabinet for the actions of Cameron and Osborne is to me no different than if Corbyn was prime minister today and everyone blamed him for an underfunded NHS.

 

There are some things we could've done better when compared with other countries but I would've said that whoever the government was if they were doing the same tbh.

 

It's been an evolving situation, some steps taken look slow in hindsight but at the time they clearly thought it was the right way to go. They aren't setting out to deliberately kill people.

I'm fairly sure Johnson isn't just making decisions loosely in the way Trump does, he'd have been taking scientific advice along the way.

A lot of the 'look what happened to that other country' rhetoric is exactly that, hindsight.

It'll be the same with loosening the lockdown, whatever is done won't be right.

 

When China built that hospital on the quick the rest of the world had a chance to get things moving.
They didn't......big ****ing mistake.