Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Meanwhile, today's formal announcement of pursuing a herd immunity strategy will have many consequences:

- it will kill any incentive to get vaccinated stone dead;

- it will likely force the cautious (and the extremely vulnerable) amongst us to retreat into isolation once more;

- it will spawn new variants; imagine something as virulent as Omicron, as deadly as Delta and vaccine-resistant too - then what?

I'm sure others can be thought of, but I am tired.

John Major giving Johnson a sound kicking in his speech, as well as Dorries, Patel, and, hooray, the Mail.

Suffice to say the Tufton Street bots are out in force saying, "Ah, but what about Edwina Currie, eh? EH?"

Full text only seems to be available at The Telegraph and The Times so far, I'm afraid.

Whoever thought we'd look back upon John Major as a statesman?

Whoever would've thought during the Major era that we'd be saddled with Johnson as PM?

I'm reminded of Biden's inauguration, and past presidents from Carter to Obama lining up to congratulate him. And thinking "at least you knew where you were with old Dubya".

Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:27 pm Whoever thought we'd look back upon John Major as a statesman?

He was never the worse, though unnecessarily grim on public spending. Then again Tories were generally, unlike Republicans, who always pursue electoral Keynsianism.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:47 pm

Full text only seems to be available at The Telegraph and The Times so far, I'm afraid.

An abridged version is now at The Guardian.

In normal circumstances, news like this shouldn't be linked to the PM, but in this case...

Something has clearly happened. I know she’s inept, but going from no to yes in an afternoon with no obvious reason suggests there may be some news to come.

Khan asked her to get a grip.
She said she didn't plan to.
He flushed the turds.

Kudos to Sadiq Khan for putting this contemptible individual in the bin.

I wonder if Sadiq had an inside track she was considering it? Otherwise, it was very risky. Very easy for the Tories to support her and say Labour was trying to influence the Partygate investigation.

Still, well done.

Did we have this cracker from earlier? This is who goes out to bat for Bozo.

Oh look who else is on Bozo's side. It's not anti-democratic to campaign against an earlier vote. Never stopped Enoch Powell, Bill Cash and all.

Mr Embery, 33 million people may well have voted in the EU referendum, but trying to overturn a "mandate" stemming from a majority of just 4% is hardly attempting to destroy democracy, is it.

Ms Allan, Johnson may well have had a large personal mandate in 2019, but trying to remove a Prime Minister who lies and breaks rules, and who may well have committed criminal offences while in office, is hardly "subverting democracy".

What a pair of twats.

Lucy Allan likes her "subverting democracy" line. Note when Cummings was lying on the bus, that wasn't subverting democracy. But when he tries to bring down Bozo by... using things that Bozo did, that's bad.

Cyclist wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:24 pm Mr Embery, 33 million people may well have voted in the EU referendum, but trying to overturn a "mandate" stemming from a majority of just 4% is hardly attempting to destroy democracy, is it.

Ms Allan, Johnson may well have had a large personal mandate in 2019, but trying to remove a Prime Minister who lies and breaks rules, and who may well have committed criminal offences while in office, is hardly "subverting democracy".

What a pair of twats.

Yep.

"Vote for me and I'll run another vote on the terms" is democracy, isn't it?

Also, Lucy Allen-Braun was part of the multiple efforts to junk Theresa May.