It is simple schadenfreude mocking the deluded Left. Some of them grow out of it but a few are afflicted for life. Look at that lifetime loser Jeremy Corbyn: all he got out of it was an East German holiday on a bike with Diane Abbott and a courgette patch in Islington. Governments do not trash economies – except left-wing ones that interfere too much despite the overwhelming historical evidence that the state is always wrong. The economy was headed for a recession long before the coronavirus came along. It is a convenient excuse for the meddlers at the central banks to try and wriggle out of their responsibility for ruining the global economy. Of course the Left are so short of brain cells that they could not see that. My analysis was laughably accurate when it comes to the totally brain dead minority that is the left wing of British politics. The hard left took over the Labour Party and installed a lifetime loser as the leader and he continued to lose. Starmer is getting a honeymoon period that may even include not having a Party Conference this year. His problem is that he will end up stuck with most of those rejected Corbyn policies forced on him by the hard left when they eventually get a vote on policy.
Nothing like selective quoting to avoid the context of the point that was being made, but why should I expect anything less from a self-confessed left wing nutter? You implied that office workers would not be returning to their London offices because they wanted to work from home. I avoided the nuance by clearly spelling out why they were not returning to them. You should certainly recognise things being repeated like a parrot because you have been doing your “I hate Boris/the Tories” broken record for a good six months now. You are nailed to your perch but not in a Norwegian Blue way. The other day you were grumbling about the two hour commute and how you were glad to be working from home instead. Of course somebody with more than one brain cell would have resolved this problem years ago by moving away from the most expensive part of the country to somewhere that was only a few minutes away from their job, rather than continuing to be part of the rat race in the nation’s capital that includes spending two hours in a sardine tin on wheels every day.
Clearly you recognised yourself as one of the ‘afflicted for life’. Zimbabwe or Venezuela on holiday this year?
Here's some interesting news. As Melbourne goes into stage 4 lock down and 8pm - 5am curfew, stats released are showing that the virus is now attacking younger people. Of the total new infections, people aged 15 - 40 make up over half the cases.
I don't know Steve, but probably not mate. The underlying fear though is the spread to the younger ages makes for more risks to the elderly and the ill among us. The death numbers are rising again. Victoria has just been classed as a "state of disaster." They're battening down the hatches.
I think young people the world over have had Covid-19 in their millions Cyc. Many don't even notice, some compare it to the flu with mild symptoms and a very, very, very small proportion have complications caused by underlying health conditions (either known or unknown). Nothing new there really.
Best to completely ignore it, Rudey, it is always the same e.g. 'brain dead', 'deluded', etc. If he can upset people he's happy, just ignore it. Not easy, but it can be done.
It was reported a couple of weeks ago that new strains of the virus had been discovered. That is one of the problems with viruses generally: they do not tend to stick to one form so that science can come up with a quick fix. That is why we get influenza coming back annually; and why coronavirus is probably never going to go away. The Chinese let this genie out of the bottle, it is unlikely to go back in but who can profit most from it?
I just find it bizarre how you react over there. Just saw on the news you have had 7 deaths. If we had 7 deaths every day from COVID we would be out in the streets celebrating. Yet Melbourne has declared a state of disaster! we have had more deaths in the past week than you have had during the entire pandemic period!
Front page story in today’s Times: Right-wing academics ‘forced to hide views’ Just the small problem that somebody at The Times is clearly well behind with their reading as the report by the right-leaning Policy Exchange is hardly news. The moralising left have been losing the argument for years, so their solution has become simply avoid the argument. The higher education system has become left-leaning and insular, churning out Mickey Mouse degrees to generate revenue. I do not recall the last time I read of any left-leaning person being no-platformed but perhaps that is simply the right-leaning media not running the stories and the left-leaning media like the Mirror and the Morning Star being too low in the gutter to notice. The hard left of the Labour Party illustrate perfectly their economic incompetence in the Guardian, with Corbynites that have been cast into the wilderness by Starmer backing Len McCluskey’s calls for his Unite union to stop funding the Party because it used their money to settle antisemitism cases. The membership voted for a failed lawyer as leader and he is paying to settle cases out of court rather than fight them – a leopard never changes its spots. When the payouts exceed the money in the bank, the Party goes bust. No mention of SwanHills’ bêtes noires but he will still not be happy (once he has put that into a French translator). I am sure Steveo will not be too bothered about Julie Burchill calling him subservient for his mask fetish. He should have no trouble finding a holiday as a YouGov survey shows that more than half of British, Germans and French asked would cancel a holiday rather than be forced to wear a mask outdoors.
maybe if this incompetent RIGHT WING government had put more effort into organising an effective test, track and trace system instead of focusing on Brexit trade deals with outer Mongolia the country might be getting on a bit better. as it is we face a deadly second wave this winter which will completely destroy the economy.
I've always wondered Toby, what does the H stand for? I could never get those middle names of the US Presidents either
Joyous news - I HAVE A JOB Crack open the champers and hang out the bunting I'll be part of the workforce from 24th August