Apparently the UK has lifted travel restrictions to a number of European destinations in order to save the tourist industry for this coming summer season - apparently this will boost the UK economy more than if the same people spent their holidays in the UK ! They have listed European destinations in green and red zones (red meaning dangerous) and, apparently Portugal is red - just a reminder that Portugal has had 1,555 deaths compared to the 43,414 in the UK ! But apparently, despite this journey into real statistics which the UK government doesn't like doing, Portugal is classified as dangerous ! If Portugal is 'dangerous' then the UK must be an absolute death trap using this logic - at any rate I don't want to see British tourists bringing their diseases anywhere near Cologne in the near future !
Starmer overtaken Bojo in popularity ratings and majority believe Labour would handle the pandemic better than the Govt acoording to Opinium poll this morning....
Sadly, the UK govt ceased being rational in regard to the crisis some time ago. I think the countries that are in the red zone will breathe as huge sigh of temporary relief that the British disease (or is it several British diseases) are less likely to rock up in their nation. Especially if the saw the beach antics this last week. Portugal has a sixth of the UK population, and 28 times less Covid deaths.
whoopee, the first time since 2015.......... Meanwhile, the Tories remain the favourite political party.
The tide is turning........... But again this is not abut one upmanship party politics, most people on here are so much more intelligent than that, but about the shocking perfomance of the PM in this time of crisis.... BoJo models himself on Churchill... sadly he is not in the same league..... I wathed a great film recently of WCs hands on behaviour in the war cabinet in the crisis......
A recent poll showed the opposite, Starmer's popularity reducing and Bojo's increasing. There will be no election for years so don't get too excited.
What is good to see is grown up politics in Ireland. With no one party having more than 50% of the vote, after lengthy talks a compromise has been found with the role of PM being shared over this period of government. In the UK you would have to go back to 1931 to see the only time that a government of any party had over half of the vote.
It also stops the school play ground I am better than you behaviour that two party democracies are blighted with
https://www.opinium.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Opinium-Political-Report-25th-June-2020.pdf Here is a link to the poll.... The facts are all there......
Apparently there were 180 reported deaths yesterday from Covid 19 in England but zero in Scotland. 800 new cases in England but only single figure results from Scotland. Scotland could actually be completely free of this disease by the end of the summer - then the challenge will be to stop it at the border !
There is talk about having to lockdown Leicester again after a sudden surge in cases there. Quite how you manage such a thing is interesting. “Locking down at the regional level would be seen as unfair or worse as Leicester city has really very little to do with rural Lincolnshire. People do not identify with their regional boundaries and many would not actually know where they are.” “Urban sprawl has allowed towns and cities to expand resulting in these areas often joining other areas who identify differently and do not see themselves as part of the expanding town or city."
Strange, first poll not going your way, and you dont want to engage with it. Boris unpopular, untrusted, the people not satisifed with his govts handling of the pandemic. And how long has he been in office????
That poll shows the public prefer the Tories to Labour. UK governments are often 20 points behind mid term but still win the next election. Your excitement is premature.
