It is not inflammatory to request you have a more balanced approach rather than the same old Guardian whinges.
Yes but you love to vilify eh: oppressive crooked socialist totalitarian regime macron boy lefty mob our lefty university breeding ground your constant anti UK government whinging the Macron boy and his battered bunch bully boy China. same old Guardian whinges ....and that is since midday yesterday!!!! That is not a standard to use in debate......Seems to have a personal element that is unnecessary.
There is not one political unit on this planet which does not have assisted areas, and other areas which grumble about paying up to help them SH. Actually 6 of the ten poorest areas in Northern Europe are in the UK - and I guess that the affluent Home Countries grumble about paying for Cornwall or South Wales - yet this is not a sign of the imminent collapse of England and Wales. I am sure that California is also doing imminently better than Missouri or Mississippi but is the USA breaking up because one subsidizes the other ? Bavaria subsidizes Berlin, Bremen and NRW and grumbles about it as well - just as West Germany grumbles about paying a solidarity tax for the former East Germany. This is a way of life - from each according to his ability to each according to his need - the taxman performs this function as well. So why should all this be different for the EU ?
Poor old George Eustace really put through the wringer tonight. His problem was that Prof Dame Angela McLean refused to spin. She confirmed what I have believed all along that the advice given was nothing to do with what was the right thing, but how to get by with the minimal resources available. Q: In February a WHO report said community tracing was the best way to combat coronavirus. So why was that not followed? And who takes ultimate responsibility - the politicians or the scientists? McLean says the advice in March was based on the testing capacity available. It was not acceptable not to test people in hospital, she says. Q: So are you saying that the advice given in March was the best advice possible in the context at the time. McLean says that is what she is saying. McLean says it is important to have a rapid and reliable testing system. Q: Are you confident that we have got one? It is getting better, says McLean. Q: Can you understand why teachers don’t trust the government on the safety of re-opening schools? Eustace says he does not accept that the government has mishandled the crisis. Q: Track and trace won’t be in place by 1 June. Does that affect the decision? McLean says there will be an update on Thursday as to what will be in place (in terms of track and trace) and when.
Brexit fan boy George Eustice, pleading for furloughed workers to help with the harvest, should've guessed what would happen if agricultural grafters didn't come to the UK before he sold quitting the EU as a good idea. Seems that the UK only has 30% of the normal numbers turn up. In his coronavirus conference he was pointing the way to a new website that you can go to to sign up. Shame that like most government IT projects it is not working. I wonder why a person who comes from the family Trevaskis Farm goes on national TV to plead for workers?
Quitting the EU was not a good idea, it was an excellent one. Due to the coronavirus there is a temporary shortage of desperate EU citizens coming to the UK for work, this is also happening in the EU with its shortage of cheap labour from Morocco and other North Africans. I do not envisage a labour shortage in future in the UK. there will be so much poverty in Europe labourers will jump at the chance of short term contracts in the UK.
You may not have realized it but most EU countries are coming through the Corona crisis far better than the UK is doing and, when it is all over, the EU will be able to set up a collective package to kick start the economy again. Britain will take longer to get a grip on this virus and will be alone after it - and you may have noticed that free trade deals with the likes of China and the USA are not without problems.
Please SH, that is so funny. I have had a hard day so cannot be bothered to reply something quite so delusional. Maybe you should be more attentive to a government minister trying to shift the blame for the failure to provide testing onto the shoulders of the experts this morning and one of the experts getting their revenge by refusing to support a different minister. That is the real story of the day, the EU fiasco is just a sideline worth a small chuckle. As the Chancellor said today the economy is in a total mess, and it will take years to recover. A sharp rise in income tax, a large hike to large home council tax are all under consideration. If the logical result of what he is saying is a tax on the wealthy then that will take the UK along the same route as most other countries who didn't fail so badly on protecting the population.
I'm not sure you should be chuckling about the hardship being suffered in many EU countries. The already high levels of unemployment in these countries is about to go through the roof. Unfortunately several EU member states have not even managed to solve the problems caused in 2008, this pandemic being worse, it could be 20 years before they recover. Italy has already realised its best chance is to follow the UK out of the EU. You should have listened to the PM the other day to have gained any insight into the UK government's fiscal direction. Thankfully the UK population is much more sophisticated than where you live. We accept we live in a democracy, allowing the government to govern without chronic social disorder which is par for the course in France.
Have you not seen the news? EU members cannot agree on even a very modest package. Then it has to pass the agreement of the German court, it is all getting a bit messy over there.
Which day was that as Johnson has been in hiding since he was humiliated at the last PMQs. While I was weeding this afternoon I seriously did wonder if the man was still ill. If he is I wouldn't wish him harm, but there is something quite ominous about the way that Gove is circling.
The problem you have in limiting your UK news intake simply by reading the Guardian is that you are often left in the dark about current affairs. I'm sure Boris is fighting fit but the Conservative cabinet is stuffed with so much talent. You can sleep easy tonight in the knowledge that at least our government has a massive majority to rely on.
My daughter used to reply to people from all over the world who had ordered rare books from her company, and wondered where their order had got to. Sometimes she could track and trace them and let the client know on the spot what was going on. Other times she had to say that she would have to make some phone calls, but would email them back later the same day. Unfortunately Amazon took the company over and said that she was being too helpful, and all she needed to do was choose one of the set answers to a question, and it would mean that she could reduce her hours. She reduced her hours 100%. I have told you this because your rather repetitive replies remind me of it. Nothing original. Strangely enough I see far more than you as I watch both French and UK TV. Did you see poor old George get duffed up by the dear lady who refused to back him up? Did I read how the Telegraph was non too happy with the government today? Do I at least see a President taking the flak as well as the praise while the UK leader is nowhere to be seen? When your government catches up with many others around the world in its response to this crisis come back with something rather more constructive.
Those around poor old Macron are deserting him in droves, he really is in trouble. Oh how he would love a stonking majority like Boris's. You know the riots will begin again in France as soon as the police stop fining those considered breaking the law. Is it 1.2 million fines yet? The French government must be really desperate for cash for it to target its own citizens.
See what I mean? Just regurgitate the same old, same old, same old, nothing. You should get onto the website that gives you the saying of the day, and ask them to come up with something new. It would be far more interesting if you could watch news from around the world as it might expand your outlook on the world.
It is just too difficult to hide the many problems facing your adopted country. I've just spoken to some English friends who have returned from Toulouse to live back in the UK. They were so pleased to have sold their hotel before the pandemic broke. Their numerous contacts in Toulouse are all distraught about the huge number of job losses there. It will set the city back years.
Oh dear. All is well with the UK at this time because you have a government that has a missing leader, a Chancellor who has talked about hitting the rich to balance the books, an airline that has admitted that the credit card details of 9M passengers have been hacked, a health secretary at war with his advisors, and teachers and doctors saying that the government is not to be trusted. Job losses in the UK just starting to be counted, the home office saying that the NHS workers can have have their Thursday clap, but must pay for it if they come from abroad. I have friends in the UK who have sold their house and cannot wait to get out and make their home in France their main residence. It works both ways.
