Covid inquiry

gant said:
Ah the days of gena millar, Anna soubrey the squeaker of the house John bercow,
The breakaway group led by chuka umanna.
Where are they now?
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You forgot Dominic Grieve mate. Nonetheless, they're all gone, faded into obscurity, drowned in a sea of irrelevance and disappeared, like tears in the rain.
Brexit's done.
 
Dominic Grieve how could I have forgot him.
Another one sent off on his way was Ken Clarke the 'Father of the House' lol
 
fillyboy said:
Brexit's done.
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Still evolving.

Britain has postponed checks on food and fresh products FIVE TIMES since leaving the single market, due to worries about the impact and cost of living crisis etc. There's a lot more Brexit misery to come in 2024 boyo.

Brexit continues to be and always will be - total pile of shít.
 
Notch7 said:
As Italy took the drastic step of imposing a nationwide lockdown in early March 2020, senior officials in Downing Street sat “laughing” as Britain’s European neighbour desperately tried to contain the spread of Covid-19.

The revelation came as a series of damning testimonies to the UK’s official pandemic inquiry this week laid bare a “toxic” and “macho” culture at the heart of government that hampered Britain’s response to the health crisis.

In the weeks before the UK’s first lockdown, with the country unprepared for the pandemic, then prime minister Boris Johnson, other ministers and Whitehall mandarins went on holiday, the inquiry heard.
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It's a pity they didn't heed Eli Lifland, a 2020 economics and computer science grad at UVA now attempting to forecast AI progress, got his start predicting Covid-19. 2020 was in some ways a banner year for forecasting: Superforecasters were predicting that Covid would reach hundreds of thousands of cases in February of that year, a time when government officials were still calling the risk “minuscule.” Users of the forecasting platform Metaculus outperformed a panel of epidemiologists when predicting case numbers. Even in that company, Lifland did unusually well. The fast-moving nature of the pandemic made it easy to learn quickly because you could predict cases on a near-weekly basis and quickly realize what you got right or wrong.

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Even with all the data available at the time Boris prevaricated, pontificated and piffled his way into an unecessary crisis by not enforcing a lockdown at the beginning of March 2020. Then he made things worse by telling Handcock to clear hospital beds and clutter up care homes with no thought to how staff would cope without adequate preparation and protective clothing.
 
fillyboy said:
they're all gone, faded into obscurity, drowned in a sea of irrelevance and disappeared, like tears in the rain.
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You never did get over Boris being sacked and humiliated. Fret not, hid dreadful legacy lives on as a reminder.

Brexit - just as shít today as it's always been.
 
fillyboy said:
You forgot Dominic Grieve mate. Nonetheless, they're all gone, faded into obscurity, drowned in a sea of irrelevance and disappeared, like tears in the rain.
Brexit's done.
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Not yet it's not.

So many people easily fooled
 
The impact of austerity and Brexit on the UK’s readiness for Covid will be spelt out at noon on Thursday when the statutory public inquiry into the pandemic gives its first verdict on the country’s response. Politicians including David Cameron, George Osborne and Matt Hancock are braced to face criticism about their decision-making and priorities in the years running up to the arrival of Covid in early 2020 sparking a pandemic that claimed at least 230,000 lives across the UK.

Senior health officials will also be held accountable for a strategy that focused heavily on pandemic flu. Heather Hallett, the former court of appeal judge chairing the inquiry, is likely to draw conclusions about the lack of transparency over pandemic-planning exercises in the years before Covid, including one into pandemic flu which warned: “The UK’s current preparedness … is not sufficient to cope with the extreme demands of a severe pandemic.”

The Guardinia

Bre*it and Covid all in one day. Oh joy, oh jollity. Happy day.
 
Brigadier said:
Sun's out in sunny Staffs though, and the golf is on :cool:
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Sunny days in D.shire, too. Even Troon can look forward to warm weather. The Scots will be wandering around wondering what on earth to do with it all.
 
Odds said:
Sunny days in D.shire, too. Even Troon can look forward to warm weather. The Scots will be wandering around wondering what on earth to do with it all.
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According to yesterday's R5L, it is supposed to be slashing down up there, for the entirety of the Open.

Shame, as the Open needs to be played on biscuit-coloured, sun-baked links. In my opinion anyway (y)
 
Brigadier said:
According to yesterday's R5L, it is supposed to be slashing down up there, for the entirety of the Open.

Shame, as the Open needs to be played on biscuit-coloured, sun-baked links. In my opinion anyway (y)
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I dunno, it lends an authentic charm to see highly paid pros flailing away at the ball in a flurry of rain, against a driving headwind.
 
There will be a lot of mone-ing about the interim covid findings. Everyone is wise after the event. It will continue to be that way until we get politicians who aren't accountants or from a PR background.
 
Biden's had to cancel an event as he's tested positive for Covid - poor old sod can't catch a break.
 
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