30-07-2022, 22:24
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Some? Nearly 200,000 now.
If we'd locked down sooner like other countries thousands more would have survived and we not have had the highest number of deaths in Europe. Our Govt. let us down, but scientists dug us out ( and still get abuse from right wing nutters).
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Everything in that post is incorrect.
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31-07-2022, 09:52
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Fair enough, but Whitty was there, on camera, when Boris made that announcement. From my recollection, he didn’t demur.
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I think this is a great example of why it's always a good idea to support assertions with links.
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31-07-2022, 10:37
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Re: Coronavirus
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I think this is a great example of why it's always a good idea to support assertions with links.
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I think you should watch the clip. The two were in agreement. It should still be on You Tube - I saw it just a few months ago.
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31-07-2022, 10:40
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I think this is a great example of why it's always a good idea to support assertions with links.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I think you should watch the clip. The two were in agreement. It should still be on You Tube - I saw it just a few months ago.
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Oh, the irony…
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31-07-2022, 10:43
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Re: Coronavirus
What's happened has google gone offline
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31-07-2022, 10:44
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Re: Coronavirus
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Oh, the irony…
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Oh, the pettiness. Please, let's move on.
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31-07-2022, 10:49
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
What's happened has google gone offline
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It must have done, along with OLD BOY’s browser history…
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31-07-2022, 10:53
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Re: Coronavirus
Was that meant to be in the irony thread
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31-07-2022, 11:28
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Re: Coronavirus
Stop sniping and stick with the topic.
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31-07-2022, 19:16
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Re: Coronavirus
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UK acted unlawfully in appointing Dido Harding to key Covid role, judges rule
High Court finds government broke equality laws during coronavirus response
The UK government acted unlawfully and breached equality rules in appointing Baroness Dido Harding and businessman Mike Coupe to top jobs in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the High Court ruled on Tuesday.
Two judges found that the then health secretary, Matt Hancock, did not comply with public sector equality duties in the government’s decisions to appoint Harding as interim chair of the National Institute for Health Protection in August 2020 and Coupe as director of testing for NHS Track and Trace in September 2020.
The court ruling followed a legal challenge brought by the Good Law Project, a campaign group, and the Runnymede Trust, a race equality think-tank, who had raised concerns that individuals with political links to the government were appointed to key positions during the pandemic.
The groups claimed that the recruitment process was not “fair and open” and ignored the government’s public sector equality duty, which requires it to eliminate discrimination and ensure fair access to opportunities.
Harding, the former chief executive of TalkTalk, is a Conservative peer who is married to Tory MP John Penrose and worked with Coupe when they were both at supermarket J Sainsbury.
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31-07-2022, 19:40
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Re: Coronavirus
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So what? It was an emergency. Remember?
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31-07-2022, 20:05
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So what? It was an emergency. Remember?
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True. So what?
Our Govt doesn't believe in following the law, so anything goes. The plebs however had better do as they are told.
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31-07-2022, 21:15
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Re: Coronavirus
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So what? It was an emergency. Remember?
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No need to be rude.
An emergency requires the best talent. Not the last person who WhatsApp'd you.
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31-07-2022, 23:22
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Re: Coronavirus
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No need to be rude.
An emergency requires the best talent. Not the last person who WhatsApp'd you.
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It wasn’t rude, Andrew. I’m asking why you are so exercised about a decision that had to be taken without delay. Lives were at stake.
I suppose you expected them to do a time consuming tendering process! My God!!
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31-07-2022, 23:46
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It wasn’t rude, Andrew. I’m asking why you are so exercised about a decision that had to be taken without delay. Lives were at stake.
I suppose you expected them to do a time consuming tendering process! My God!!
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This was a national emergency. Yet judging by the way you're happy for the roles to be recruited, you judge them as being equal in skill to pulling the winning raffle tickets out at the village fair!
Headhunters move rapidly and would doubtless have pulled out all the plugs for Hancock had he been less corrupt and used their services. There's no reason apart from cronyism not to be professional in recruitment of such important roles.
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