Well I can tell you... in Govt they will be evaluating every day.... otherwise could be disastrous............
superhorns said: ↑ I repeat, It is far too early to evaluate the pandemic until it is well and truly over. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=62nqXpnrC4PRxgO37J2gDw&q=evalating the government performance pandemic dail mail&oq=evalating the government performance pandemic dail mail&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoICCEQFhAdEB46BwghEAoQoAE6BAghEBVQtCZYjVhgk1toAHAAeACAAZgCiAHXIZIBBjAuNC4xNpgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjZjMT1xYnqAhWDqHEKHTd2B_QQ4dUDCAs&uact=5 Here is a google result of your favourite paper The daily mail.... critiquing the govt...
Labour showed their true colours by trying to steal Rshfords thunder by trying to claim the victory as theirs No mater how low the Tories sink Labour will always manage to crawl below them I am so glad I have never voted for either of them
The only problem is that it will be well and truly over in many other countries before that is the case in the UK, and for that we can only hold the government responsible.
I am afraid that SH is just an oddball. Read all the posts and you will see that that nearly everyone is not quoting party politics, but are expressing humanitarian views. It is obvious by just looking at the daily figures how badly wrong the government have got their timing, and when questioned try to hide behind science. Even now the experts have refused to back them as they try to twist the facts. We have done this and done that better than anyone else in the world is quite laughable, designed to appeal to the £25 members, but not believable to an objective outsider. Let's kick the question into the long grass like so many other things. Yes, the old tactic used by all parties for as long as I can remember. Today the country is faced by the biggest crisis since WWII, yet Johnson is quite happy to see the breakup of the country just because he thinks it helps his popularity. He will have to have a rethink because he cannot be seen to be openly lying about his boss Cummings and continue bumbling along like this. We can all see how his poll ratings have dived, something that his backbenchers are starting to moan about. Time to stop trying to be loved Johnson, and start acting for the good of the country.
I hadn't spotted that, but it doesn't surprise me one little bit. What I did notice, and it annoyed the hell out of me, was Channel 4's Claire Fallon claiming that both the Scottish and Welsh governments had buckled to Rashford's pressure too. I can't speak for the Welsh, but Scotland's policy on this issue had been known for some time before this week's nonsense happened. It's bad enough having politicians make things up as they go along, but in my book it's unforgivable when the media start doing the same - it's their role to inform the public, not to promulgate misinformation.
Without trying to defend them, Starmer did ask the question about feeding children through the summer at PMQs a week ago. It is also noted frequently how well Scotland's First Minister has dealt with the problem. Big difference between her and Johnson is one of honesty. While she has been prepared to admit to getting it wrong from time to time, Johnson claims a perfect record. If people understand that this is new territory for all politicians, that they will get it wrong sometimes, then they will cut some slack, but to try and make out that you are always right is plain stupid.
You are clearly the oddball with a strange need to justify your move to France by daily denigrating the UK. It is silly and boring.
I don't need to justify my move to France as it was a move that I was happy to make at the time, and have never regretted. I only say what I see, such as the government here looking after the population better than the UK government is doing to those that live over there. Do you deny that the policies of the French government have resulted in less lives being lost than in the UK? Do you never think why all of the countries in Europe have seen less people dying because of their policies compared to the UK. Why do you jump onto defending a government policy that is so bad that by lunchtime it has changed? I have an interest in the UK as I have children and grandchildren living there, two of whom are at risk. Do you expect me to say that Johnson and his government are doing a fine job? I just find it very sad to see someone put party loyalty before people, their ability to survive and feed their children.
I find it very odd that somebody has moved to another country for a better life then wastes large chunks of each day criticising his former country, very strange. Surely you can find more positive things to do? It must be very dull there.
There is nothing strange about this at all SH. I can only answer for myself here and not for Frenchie. When you are living abroad you often develop a wider perspective regarding your own country because you are viewing it from afar - maybe if you are standing outside the forest then you can see the whole thing, whereas from within you can only see the next tree. You also have a daily point of comparison with how things work in your adopted country. A further point is that you cannot discard your nationality - whilst I have the German nationality and the British, my real passport is in my speech, for although my German is fluent I still have an English accent which anyone can hear. So you walk around as a representative of your country, whether you like it or not, and you would like to feel proud of it - but you can't. It's hard to watch your own country going downhill from a distance.
Sums it up very well cologne. I would add that if I was trying to defend a political party and the way it behaves, then I would attempt to answer questions rather than keep side stepping the issues raised.
You actually get an even better perspective when you return to live back in the UK and realise how good it is compared to the alternatives.
I would have thought if you move to another country it is better to immerse yourself within that culture and not spend lots of time whinging about your old country. When I lived in France I did not feel the need to have so much contact with the UK as there was plenty to do locally to be involved with. I suppose it helped living in a vibrant town then in a village near bustling Toulouse.
And something to complement it... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-vietnam-how-some-countries-kept-covid-at-bay "When you have any country with a weak leadership then people get confused. They’re not sure what to do and who to believe, and then you legitimise ignorance” Vietnam - population 96 million - zero deaths Cambodia - population 17 million - zero deaths Thailand - population 69 million - 58 deaths UK - population 66 million - 42.5K deaths (apparently) One of those four obviously has weak leadership - no prizes for guessing which.
I should add that being able to fully compare life in two countries it is necessary to be fully bilingual - you cannot understand France without being able to speak good French. In your case it may well be so that it is better to be in the UK - people around you do, at least, understand your mumbling, which the French (luckily for them) mostly don't
Angela Merkel has criticised the response to the pandemic by EU governments as being nationalistic rather than European. There has been further strong statements by the so called 'frugal four' against a bailout for the most effected Southern countries. A compromise is looking most unlikely on Friday when the recovery fund and long term funding without the UK's contributions are discussed.
