Matt Hancock hung Professor Neil Ferguson out to dry when he breached the lockdown rules. Dominic Cummings' position should now, in a rational, logical and consistent world, be utterly untenable. #CummingsResign
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 22, 2020
It's odd how Cummings has so many "friends" willing to make fools of themselves to defend him, but none to help him with childcare.
— Chris Dillow (@CJFDillow) May 23, 2020
Some of the US networks long ago lost patience with Trump's lies. The BBC should stop pussy-footing around: the facts here are that Cummings *did* break the lockdown and that Hancock's and Harries' claims to the contrary are incorrect. There's no unfairness in reporting facts.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
Unbelievable. They are literally changing the guidance live to accommodate Cummings’s violation. In front of our eyes. Amazing.
— Nesrine Malik (@NesrineMalik) May 23, 2020
Neil Kinnock once said: "I would die for my country, but I would not let my country die for me." Cummings is letting his country die for him. If the lockdown rules have to become meaningless just to get himself off the hook, that's what'll happen, no matter how many people die.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
It's not just the synchronised dishonesty, it's the sheer vehemence with which they said something they knew to be untrue - presumably scripted. Jenny Harries joining in was unforgivable. This is not what a functioning democracy looks like.https://t.co/iGiEc4IKCk
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
If it now emerges that Dominic Cummings ran around the streets of Durham licking random pensioners, Cabinet ministers will queue up tomorrow to tell us that licking pensioners was the only right and decent thing to do, and that those of us who didn't do it are morally bankrupt.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
STAY ALERT > LICK A PENSIONER > PROTECT YOUR KID
— DevoForIndy (@DevoForIndy) May 23, 2020
I wish the government had explained to us that self-isolation could take the form of a city break. Lockdown could have been great for tourism.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
Re: Dominic Cummings and his corona carrying 250 mile trip. Is anyone reminded of that bit in animal farm when the rules start to get amended in the dead of night to suit the pigs and the animals are mostly too daft to notice.
— Richard Nicholson (@ShowFarmBaron) May 23, 2020
March 2020: "The government has one simple instruction - you must STAY AT HOME."
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 23, 2020
May 2020: "When my adviser caught coronavirus, he didn't stay at home like some layabout. He got on his bike, and looked for childcare..."
Scottish Tory Twitter Watch (update).
— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) May 24, 2020
Zero tweets from:
Jackson Carlaw for 38 hrs
Ruth Davidson: 40 hrs
Murdo Fraser: 41 hrs
Annie Wells: 36 hrs
Adam Tomkins: 83 hrs
Jamie Greene: 34 hours
David Duguid: 33 hours@ScotTories: 40 hrs
The extraordinary behaviour of Cabinet ministers yesterday (not to mention 'adviser' Jenny Harries) was strikingly similar to what you'd expect if a Mafia boss was pulling the strings.https://t.co/R9aLvyR2ag
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
Does anyone feel foolish for asking Dominic Cummings to resign now that we know he acted "legally and with integrity"? I'm surprised the Pope hasn't been in touch about sainthood, quite frankly.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
Is this the new Get Out Of Jail FREE CARD.
— jimtlogan (@loganjimt1) May 24, 2020
“You can’t arrest me officer I was following my instincts.”
Heaven only knows why the anti-lockdown nutters have been whingeing about "house arrest" for weeks. According to the govt, we were always always able to go wherever we wanted, see whoever we wanted, do a spot of sightseeing...oh, and any rules were entirely optional anyway.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
I spent this weekend refining our contact tracing analysis. One of the things that’s always stood out is that for these targeted measures to work, we need public adherence to isolation/quarantine to be very high. But I fear it’s now going to be far more difficult to achieve this.
— Adam Kucharski (@AdamJKucharski) May 24, 2020
The huge problem for PM Johnson is that he has driven a cart and horses through any contact tracing programme. Why will contacts contacted by SERCO call centres self-isolate for 14 days rather than 'follow their instincts'?
— Anthony Costello (@globalhlthtwit) May 24, 2020
Just seen the UK government's ad on Facebook for anyone with symptoms: "Do not leave home, except to get tested." Surely it's got to be updated to say: "Follow your instincts, but do not drive further than 300 miles."
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
Who is really running the country?
— Devi Sridhar (@devisridhar) May 24, 2020
To slightly misquote Mrs Thatcher: "Advisers decide and ministers comply."https://t.co/VRyCQSFWPp
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
Cummings clearly been in Downing Street all afternoon telling @BorisJohnson what to do. We are living in a state run by an unelected political adviser who has made the PM his puppet & operates above the law. Really. Quite. Frightening
— Joanna Cherry QC (@joannaccherry) May 24, 2020
The Conservatives effectively lost the 1997 election in September 1992, because of Black Wednesday. They may have just lost the 2024 election. They may also have lost Scotland forever.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 24, 2020
Johnson looking really weak right now. If he doesn't even have the guts to sack an aid that steps well out of line, causing a big scandal, then there's no way he can lead the UK out of the EU.
ReplyDeleteGrant Schapps made an arse of himself this morning. Johnson follows suit this evening.
ReplyDeleteBritnats are diddies but Brexiteer Britnats are gold standard diddies. They made the UK an international laughing stock in series 1 called Get Brexit Done. More laughs in Series 2 called The Pandemic but with the added black comedy of thousands of unnnecessary deaths.
People in Scotland who vote for these murdering clowns should be ashamed - but they won't - a sense of shame is not in their make up.
Gavin Williamson made an arse of himself this morning. Up next is Cummings?
DeleteLaid bare here is a fantastic example of the hypocritical quagmire the Scottish tories are in.
ReplyDeleteThe cognitive dissonance they are able to achieve in 'holding the SNP to account' while not applying the same standards to the actions of the UK Government is ridiculous
I'm biased, but hard to imagine how this cuts through to their softer tory base as not being ridiculous
The night and day reaction between Calderwood/Cummings just heightens that
These people are off the scale liars and hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteI'm even more ashamed to be part of the shit heap that the uk had become.
The day it is safe let's get those YES stalls on the streets and let's leave this corrupt and collapsing dung heap for good.
We are through the looking glass...
ReplyDeleteSaid on the Guardian this morning that I thought Cummings would pull a Trump, declare it all fake news and ban any annoying journalists from future briefings.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised at the outcome. Think Johnstone will aim to ride it out to keep his main man. 5 years to an election and a big majority he can probably do it at this juncture.
The real reason for the attack on Cummings is he intellectually destroyed the remainers. He made you all look like pure mugs. You were beaten and cannae stomach defeat. The man will have helped save billions of taxpayers money scheduled for the EU Mafia.
ReplyDeletePoor Nutt zis, insufferable in defeat, more to be pitied than scolded.
ReplyDeleteJohnson's statement was so perfectly crafted and delivered, its almost as if he had help writing it.
ReplyDeleteI thought that all politicians had aide de camps (advisors paid for by the taxpayer) who polished their shoes, wiped their bums and wrote their speeches for idiots like you to believe them.
DeleteThe new Parcel of Rogues in our Scottish Nation are the Nationalists who want to line their pockets in the EU.
ReplyDeleteIndefensible. Untenable.
ReplyDeleteWell, DomCom just couldn't resign. He has to be kept securely in place to deliver Brexit, come what may. International big money depends on it.
ReplyDeleteIf you thought that there was no damage that the current Tory party wouldn't be willing to inflict on the UK to "get Brexit done", you clearly didn't anticipate the half of it. (But who in the circumstances possibly could? No-one could have foreseen the degree of insouciant self-serving indifference the lot would demonstrate while ruling at the very heart of the worst crisis encountered within living memory. It requires a breathtaking combination of wanton destructiveness and indifference not seen since the days of Nero.)
The real eejits are the politicians who tell us to STAY ALERT yet catch the virus themselves, passing it on to UK ministers and their own wives and families.
ReplyDeleteJohnson's speech exonerating Cummings for a clear breach of the lockdown rules that everybody else has to follow
- or face a fine, was obviously agreed with Cummings beforehand.
Johnson demeans the office of prime minister.
Scottish Independence cannot come soon enough.
Who are, who are, who are we, we are Huawei and we've got 5G. Firebomb 5G now. Protect yourselves from corona.
ReplyDeleteThe poisonous idiot GWC does his monkey dance on Cummings and Johnson's organ again.The 'intellectual achievement' of Brexit was to stimulate enough jingoist, xenophobic racism to blind a narrow majority into voting against their own best economic interests. It's not surprising that our resident monkey likes that. He's one of those to whom a racist, religious sectarian future appeals. Go blow your wee whistle with the rest of the brain dead you medieval primitive.
ReplyDeleteYou remainer sirry irriots lost. Your self declared superior intellect has cost the UK billions in payments to the EU corrupt mafia. You prefer to hand our money to those who do not need it in preference to helping your fellow countrymen. Perhaps having food banks in Scotland makes you feel good and charitable.
DeleteWell said Alt Clut. I am not surprised that people in England vote for tossers like Johnson but for Britnats who try to tell themselves they are Scottish to vote for someone who published an article saying Scots are vermin, Scotland is like an interment camp and Scots should be exterminated like the vermin they are shows just how ignorant the Britnats are or lacking in any pride - HOUSE JOCKS they are. No doubt about it now.
DeleteMind you, as England in Unionist speak is a Home Nation was Cummings not obeying the STAY HOME message at least as much as Charlie Windsor who had the virus but travelled to stay AT HOME in Scotland. A bit of a stretch mind!
ReplyDelete60% of care homes, 60% jeez!
ReplyDeleteThe spread of coronavirus in care homes is "heartbreaking" and "will haunt a lot of us for a long time", Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Cases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.
Ministers have come under pressure over why hundreds of hospital patients were sent to homes without being tested.
Ms Sturgeon said her government had "done what we thought was best based on the knowledge that we had at the time".
But she said applying "hindsight" and "knowledge we have now that we didn't have then" would lead her to "a different conclusion".
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said there should be a review of social care in Scotland in the wake of the pandemic, as it had "shone a light" on areas that needed to be improved.
60% is remarkably low for such high multi-occupancy environments. If hotels, student residences, cruise ships etc were still open, we could expect infections in close to 100% of these; certainly the larger premises.
DeleteOf course we've shut all these down and sent people home for this reason; it's nearly impossible to contain in such environments. What with people living in close quarters, lots of people coming and going etc (care staff, medical staff, residents in and out of hospital). Care homes are like a hotel / restaurant / large gathering all rolled up into one. But we can't close them down of course.
Sad truth of the matter. Seasonal flu does the same, but at least we have a vaccine.
Does again show why the Scottish government were wrong to follow the UK one nation plan though, with hindsight. Taking a different testing path could have helped here, at least a little.
If they are haunted then that is an admission of failure and they are responsible for unnecessary deaths. They should consider resigning. After all Cummings only drove to Co Durham in the interest of his child his decisions killed no one.
DeleteYou believe the UK government should resign GWC? They are responsible for the one nation policy approach which you insist is what Holyrood is following in lockstep.
DeleteActually I do not think any of the Govs should resign. But if one does they all should. They were all aware from the end of January 2020 what was going on in China. They ordered the freeing up of beds in hospitals of the elderly and we know the consequences. It is you Nutt sis who are trying to distance yourselfs from the part you played in the decisions made. The witch hunt against Cummings is purely political because he is the man more than any who delivered Brexit. The Sunday Times did a virus timeline yesterday and if the politicians who made the decisions read it their erses will be squeaking.
DeleteBut the virus could only have arrived in the UK via migration, which is a reserved matter.
DeleteSame for internal migration amongst the UK nations; Scotland could not stop arrivals from hotspot England in the same way Norway and other countries could by tightening borders.
You seem to want to have your cake and eat it.
Cummings is an unelected bureaucrat dictating laws to us while milking the taxpayer's purse.
DeleteIt is not Boris who should decide his fate, but us voters. I give him a thumbs down.
The Scottish Government showed no concern about migration including international flights directy into Scotland.
DeleteThe German Health Minister broke ranks against Trump yesterday and said Trump had a point about the WHO. However he did urge the USA to contribute.
Scotland being ruled by London has since 1707 always resulted in unnecessary deaths in Scotland through British state violence, The Clearances and enforced poverty. The pandemic deaths due to being in the UK is just more of the same. As long as there are Britnats in Scotland to vote for Scots to die then this will continue.
ReplyDeleteThe British did a good job at Culloden and the Clearances gave people a new life away from feudalism and fighting for Clan Chiefs.
DeleteWhat are the bets that Cummings's interview goes down as well with the public as Prince Edward's?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that he's doing it shows his breathtaking arrogance. It's like he sees himself as PM or something.
The guy is an unelected bureaucrat with way too much power it seems. No wonder GWC is such a big fan.
How many highly paid beaurocrats, advisors,speech writers etc does the Scottish Gov employ over and above the over abundance of MSPs.
DeleteThe Holyrood advisers that broke lockdown rules have resigned.
DeleteUnionists are crushed and yet still they resort to whataboutary insults and bigotry which compounds and enhances their incompetence and dependence
DeleteThe behaviour of so called Scottish Unionists is the worst and most foul of the breed, cowards and gutless whores every last one of them demonstrating no backbone of their own, it's no wonder they hang on to Englands coatails like frightened children who can't stand on their own two feet
It wouldn't be so bad if it got them somewhere, but England has no time for them and would get rid of them as quickly as it would those of us who have grown up hormones
The so-called united kingdom continues to disintegrate. Many thanks to unelected Cummings, liar and coward Johnson, the scummy English/British nationalist media et al.
ReplyDeleteUnionist politicians in Scotland are under threat, and it could be an extinction event, please send £3 per week if you want to save this species from extinction
ReplyDeleteYeh GWC - and that nice mr Hitler built some lovely autobahns. You're even more stupid than I thought. Can you dress yourself without a diagram ?
ReplyDeleteYeh and you Nutt Zis would have helped Adolf build more in the UK.
DeleteCovidia the Britnat si would have thrown its own grandmother under the bus to earn brownie points from the Gestapo.
DeleteThe British State has confirmed you can act on instinct, ignore laws to protect your children.
ReplyDeleteTime for Nicola Sturgeon to do the same. Ignore sect 30 to protect the future of Scotlands children.
David Cameron came up with that little section 30 legality to prevent her doing just that and Alex Salmond agreed to it after he had announced the 2014 referendum
DeleteSo who was the real impediment to Scotlands Independence, the man who agreed to Westminsters interference by allowing the BBC to take control of the agenda against the regulations of the UN
All the moaners want Nicola Sturgeon to ignore all the rules that Alex Salmond agreed to but seem to forget he set them up and he lost, now he's dumped it on her, and these idiots want Salmond back, well no thanks I don't believe these people, they don't want to win a referendum they just want to have another glorious loss
They'll be wanting to bring back Kenny Dalgliesh to play for Scotland next
Anonymous - lost count of the number of times you have posted these comments. Sturgeon was party to all of what you say in 2014. So you are posting mince.
DeletePs you spelt Dalglish wrongly.
What a joke the whole Cummings affair is.
ReplyDeleteIt is appropriate that the Northumberland police say they contacted the family on 1st April but did not speak to them about breaking the rules in travelling from London to Durham knowing at least one of them had the virus.
Piers will lie.
Does the wife of Cummings never/unable to drive?
ReplyDeleteDrove 30 miles to 'test his eyesight'.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Heard it all now.
Was a Specsavers open in Barnard Castle?
DeleteMary, I think I'm going blind. Chuck junior in the car and I'll drive us to Barnard Castle for a picnic.
DeleteDominic Cummings is not a danger to the public says Dominic Cummings😂😂😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteLiers will lie.
You are a danger to yourself.
DeleteCovidia represents no danger to anyone. It's as harmless as it is clueless and obedient.
DeleteThe Johnson& Cummings set love the wee Tory Covidias of this world. They're like Annie Wells or Ross Thomson, never realising their social superiors are laughing at their obedience.
DeleteIf I go for a drive during lockdown while infected with covid, can I give the police the excuse that I'm just out testing my eyesight?
ReplyDeleteHe's not remotely sorry; says he does't regret a thing.
ReplyDeleteThat translates as 'Shut it you serf scum; don't you know who I am!'.
He's laughing in the faces of real british families.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52798032
Dominic Cummings row: The families who stayed away in lockdown
Scraping the barrel Nutt Zis. That Alt Clut seems bit of an anti English anti protestant bigot. Sounds like someone whose underwear was tampered with.
ReplyDeleteIt's you that's anti-English. You can't stand English people, hence you are against them having their own independent country.
DeleteThey have independence in the Union as Scotland does
DeleteCovidia knows its place. It is obedient. Staunch.
DeleteYoung James/Skier you could dae wan ae they crowdfundedthingies and take Cummings tae Court for breaking the law. We know how much Nutt sis love the law and the democratic process.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe Cummings story.
ReplyDelete10 Downing st was infected with the virus and he thought I'm out of here for a 2 week hol over Easter and hopefully Downing st will be cleared up by the time I get back. Just my opinion.
If that is true then it was wise to do a runner.
DeleteNobody is saying Cummings is stupid (unlike you GWC) just a Britnat liar which is pretty standard for Britnat turds.
DeleteWho would have thought that two right wing parties would be in power in the UK and Scotland for the last decade. Tartan und Blue Tories respectively. The rich and ruling classes sleep easy in their beds.
ReplyDeleteCovidia obeys its Tory overlords in all matters except one:
Deletepickforbritain.org.uk
It's not funny ,but it is.
ReplyDeleteThe question nobody is asking.
ReplyDeleteWho authorised Cummings Cross Channel appearance on live TV?
Who had most to gain?
Remember Cummings was elected by nobody. If he goes Johnson will be a lame duck PM.
It's sink or swim for the Tories and their precious Union.
Jaiket, Peg, Shoogly.
Poor Jocko Nutt zis, the James V1 Witchhunt failed against Cummings. Just suck oan yer Buckfast dummy tits and think again.
ReplyDeletepickforbritain.org.uk
DeleteTo the fields, Covidia! To the fields! Join all the other angry ultra-right-wing Britnat sis in patriotic duty!
Get these Britnat turds on the fields. Dung is always appreciated by farmers on their land.
DeleteThe difference in how well the UK and Scottish governments are thought to have handled the coronavirus crisis is remarkable.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, they have both faced very similar criticisms, including too little PPE, too little testing and too little care and attention to the needs of care homes.
Yet according to Ipsos Mori's research for BBC Scotland released on Tuesday, 82% of Scots think that Nicola Sturgeon has handled the crisis well, while almost as many (78%) say the same of the Scottish government as a whole.
In contrast, only just over one in three (34%) believe that the UK government has handled matters well, while even fewer say the same of Boris Johnson (30%).
Downing Street has suffered its first ministerial resignation in protest at accusations Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules by travelling 264 miles across the country.
ReplyDeleteDouglas Ross, minister for Scotland, has announced: “I haven’t commented publicly on the situation with Dominic Cummings as I have waited to hear the full details. I welcome the statement to clarify matters, but there remains aspects of the explanation which I have trouble with. As a result I have resigned as a government Minister.”
I cautiously give credit to Ross for this.
DeleteHowever, I'm always suspicious of Tory motives in such matters.
The attitude of Downing st and Cummings to Ross resigning will be:-
Delete"Who gives a f***k - plenty more House Jocks in Jockland "
The only thing Douglas Ross has trouble with is that he only has a majority of 513 in his seat and he has probably had more than that number of constituents saying they won't vote Tory again in his email inbox.
DeleteWhen you don't have Westminster in charge.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52801791
Coronavirus: No new deaths in Republic of Ireland
This is how the BEEB tried to explain that Nicola had a posative +75% net rating and Boris had a negative -17% rating a net lead of 92%.... Totally unheard of lead when Landslides are founded on leads of between 5% and 10%.
ReplyDeleteSo how do they deal with this "bad news" well hide it under a bland headline, "Coronavirus lockdown: Scots' concerns over UK response"
A tsunami of rejection is just a "concern"!
But it has to be explained so they turn to one of their pet Professors to explain this anomaly.
Analysis
by Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University
The difference in how well the UK and Scottish governments are thought to have handled the coronavirus crisis is remarkable.
After all, they have both faced very similar criticisms, including too little PPE, too little testing and too little care and attention to the needs of care homes.
In part, the explanation lies in long standing differences in attitudes towards the two governments. Ever since the advent of devolution, voters in Scotland have been inclined to evaluate the Scottish government more highly than its counterpart in London, whatever the issue at stake.
The Scottish government benefits from a halo effect whereby credit for what is done well in Scotland is attributed to Holyrood and blame for poor performance is laid at the door of Westminster.
Meanwhile many voters will be viewing the two governments through a partisan lens. And it also looks as though the Scottish government is closer to the public mood as to how the lockdown should now be handled.
So nothing to see here, both goverments struggled and the reason for a 92% point lead for Nicola is the "Halo Effect", Clanish voting habits, xenophobic hatred of Westminster. Silly Jocks just don't get it, as from a Unionist perspective Nicola cannot legitimately have done, just let me think... Better!
And it is not just us Jocks that think so, A nice English Doctor in Durham was being interviewed and said she was following Nicola's advice rather than Boris's. That Partisan Halo Effect is strong in that Nicola!
Mr Kelly can you get the Data from that Poll? It would be interesting to see if other Questions were asked and your thoughts on it!
ReplyDeleteThe UK is an international laughing stock.
ReplyDeleteSee this 2 week quarantine on arrival in the UK thing...
ReplyDeleteGiven the UK is one of the worst affected countries globally, surely it would make more sense to instead quarantine native Brits for 2 weeks and let arrivals from low infection rate countries wander around freely?
In terms of preventing infection, statistically it's a no-brainer.
A low infection still means infection exists. So what if one of those from a low infection country has the virus and spreads it. I think you have temporarily lost your brain. People coming to this country should be isolated in their own country then tested before departure. That I suggest is a no-brainer.
DeleteErm, you don't get statistics do you.
DeleteIf someone is from a lower infection rate country, they present a lower risk of infection than a local brit. Ergo, to prevent infection, it is better to quarantine the brit.
To prevent infection best to quarantine everyone, which is why everyone coming into the country Brit or otherwise has to quarantine. Quite simple to understand really.
DeleteYou don't understand either. I have more chance of catching covid from Bob getting off the train from Birmingham than from Olaf getting off the plane from Oslo. So, it makes more sense to quarantine Bob.
DeleteNope it makes more sense to quarantine everyone. Unless you can guarantee that there is no chance of Olaf is not infected then there is still a risk, therefore he should be quarantined, the same as Bob.
DeleteIt's about risk management. Both could be quarantined if that was deemed wise, but obviously Bob crossing the border at Gretna is higher risk than Olaf arriving from Oslo because Norway is less infected than England. That was my point, which can't be disputed.
DeleteHave you evidence for that. England infection rate is 0.25% from the latest statistical figures. I'm sure you have the same information available for Norway so we can make a comparison?
DeleteDuring that press conference on Monday, Dominic Cummings claimed that he had been worried about a pandemic for some time and that last year he had written about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Jens Wiechers, a data scientist, put Cummings’ blogpost mentioning coronaviruses through the Wayback Machine – a digital archive – and found that the relevant paragraphs had been added on 14 April – the day Cummings returned to work after the trip to Durham.
Barely anything in it, new figures published on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics which show that 42,173 deaths involving coronavirus occurred in England and Wales up to May 15 (and had been registered up to May 23).
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the latest figures from the National Records of Scotland, published last week, showed 3,546 deaths involving Covid-19 had been registered in Scotland up to May 17.
Compared to NI, doesn't look great
And the latest figures from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, also published last week, showed 664 deaths involving Covid-19 had been registered in Northern Ireland up to May 20.
3.5k is a crap load less than 42.3 k, which I'm very thankful for.
DeleteN. Ireland has had the benefit of not being directly connected to England, but the Republic. It didn't get the flood of campervan and holiday castle owners that Scotland and Wales did.
If Scotland could have closed the border when England refused to lockdown the Wuhan that London was, we'd be looking at similar numbers to Norway, Denmark etc.
Skier your comments about quarantine are formed by your ant English/Brit hatred. All it takes is one infected person to cause havoc. A sensible person above suggests everyone coming or going should be quarantined. For instance if your frog wife leaves for frog land she should be quarantined in the UK and tested before travelling. The same routine on return.
DeleteThe UK government is talking about travel bridges for less infected countries. The fact you attack their idea shows your anti-English hatred.
DeleteIf you multiply 3.5k by 11.5 to give a per capita figure you're not far off.
DeleteBut per capita figures are meaningless for such low death rates.
DeleteBy that measure, the 42 dead in San Mario is somehow much, much worse than the nearly 100k dead in the USA. 42 = worse than 100k? Okey dokey.
Highlights the idiocy of per capita when dealing with localised, early stage epidemics which have not spread through the entire population.
It's why the news focus is on total deaths primarily. That is the tragedy and lives affected.
LOL.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52802057
Coronavirus: Scots Tory leader joins call for Cummings to quit
Tory Tank Commander and Tartan Tory Irish Skier have love in.
DeleteThe actual mortality rate in England has been estimated at 51 thousand by the time the hidden care home figures and deaths attributed on death certificates are released making England per capita the highest mortality rate so far in the world
ReplyDeleteNear 60k in the latest figures.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/uk-coronavirus-deaths-weekly-covid-19
It has also been estimated to be about 60k deaths.
DeleteLiz Loyd is the best Chief of Staff in the UK.
ReplyDeleteHa ha only joking just testing when James allows you to say Liz Loyd.
DeleteJackson Carlaw says Cummings must go.
ReplyDeleteCummings say who the f**k is Carlaw.
Ruth Davidson says to her Tory colleagues "I'm going to resign in protest at Cummings actions".
ReplyDeleteTory pals " Em Ruth you've already done that and no one cared in London"
House Jocks despised in Scotland and London.
Wee Jock McFurloeh the remainer who has been living it up on taxpayers money says if I could only drive 500 miles a wid dae in Cummings. Screw him and his English family we are living in hell up here in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteAye Jock ah agree ah hid tae staun oot side ASDA fur 10 mins tae get ma weekly booze ration. That is longer than standing in the brew fur ma milk tokens. We need independence now.
DeleteAmazing to see those on the left of the Labour party loose their shit over the fact that someone they think is too 'right wing' has been elected as the general secretary.
ReplyDeleteGuys, Corbyn lost. No only did he loose he managed to turn a nineish point lead in the polls at this point last year into one of the worst Labour defeats ever.
If they continue to snipe and moan from the sidelines then they will rapidly undo any gains that are made. Sometimes think some on the Labour left would prefer not winning an election rather than winning with a leader /party hierarchy they think is too far to the right.
The labour left are moaners and do not want power. Winning means responsibility.
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