Ireland closing golf courses but allowing GAA to continue, sounds logical and not at all political.
Ireland closing golf courses but allowing GAA to continue, sounds logical and not at all political.
This is all so ridiculous now that it might be a good winter to just end it all.
Right now, I honestly cannot envisage a time when the madness all ends.
Making things up and then getting angry at them. You really are well on the way to the angry divorced dad stereotype.
Give him another 3 years and he'll look the spitting image of Alan Brazil.
One doesn't even need to make things up where this is concerned.
Our current approach, exacerbated by each of the home nations (+ the North) ever increasing desire to gain political capital through looking the most responsible, is thoroughly unsustainable if a vaccine takes longer than a matter of months from here. Hell, it's probably unsustainable already. The level of personal debt on pause at the moment, mental ruin and other illnesses running riot, must be astronomical.
You can close the bar at golf courses without closing the golf course.
Is it not only elite level GAA that's still going?
Given you're meant to stay at home and not travel beyond 5km, I think closing golf clubs is fine.
If your starting point is 'shut everything down and make people stay at home' then pretty much anything is fine.
I'm just going off Irish Twitter (or Irish Golf Twitter, perhaps) who are all talking about driving their kids around the country to GAA games.
Nothing is going ahead except the first team adult championship behind closed doors as a “morale boost” to the country. Personally I think all sport should go by the wayside and testing could be better used elsewhere but it’s not exactly the same as 4 mates meeting up to hack a ball around for 4 hours.
We'll be all tier 3 at some point.
This Marcus Rashford stuff is the same absolutely brain dead lack of political skill as they lacked around the Barnard Castle stuff. Just sign off on the fucking meals, end the story, come out looking alright and who gives a fuck about dependency ffs.
Poor children should be working at this point imo.
They should weigh the parents first, and sniff them for any tobacco residue.
Sad thing is you believe that.
If children don't want to starve to death they should try being born to richer, more responsible parents. idiots.
I think a better idea would be some sort of regular payment to support people with children. A child benefit, if you will.
A final solution?
Watch what you say Spikey. If a Deloitte consultant suggested that we'd have the trains running on time for the first time ever within the week. The only downside would be where the trains destination is.
Bit busy with the second half about to kick off so I'lll come to back Lewis up in the fight against the scum in 45 mins. Hold tight.
Get on BBC News at 10. Some 83 yo saying we need to open the clubs
From a "how could you do something so cruel to a baby" kind of angle?
I've done a lumbar puncture on a baby.
We all need hobbies I guess.
Positioning a baby for a lumbar puncture actually feels worse than doing one IMO. You basically have to fold them in half. The amount of force you have to use feels so wrong.
Stop saying words.
I don’t follow him so I mostly read it through the news reports but whoever is running this whether it’s him or his people are so, so, so good at this. Constantly ignoring the politics of it, rising above it and cutting through the noise. Never taking a side that isn’t ‘This is the most effective way to get kids fed’. The message is ‘we can feed the poor, we choose not to. Please help me find a way to feed them.’
It’s an incredibly tight campaign.
Just how do you come back at him and not look like a knob. Perfect.
I am a big Dom Cummings fan as is well known, and his strength is/has been in exposing the flagrant hypocrisy and self-serving bullshit that has propped up the London wanker class's supremacy over the last 20 years. However he (if it is him, I don't really know the inner workings of No 10) seems to try and apply this logic to everything, including things (like free school meals) which are nothing to do with the bleating London wanker class and, in fact, primarily affect many of the working class people whose flipped votes got them their majority at the election. There are political basics which they don't seem to grasp at all - Barnard Castle was a prime example, you can't break your own rules (however justified it may or may not have been) because people will think you are a tit.
You cannot - ever - do politics based on theory or ideology or how things should be. That is why morons like Jeremy Corbyn get shown up. You have to be pragmatic. Yes, in an ideal world maybe the state wouldn't need to provide free school meals and certainly not during the holidays - but it isn't an ideal world, we're in a pandemic, this has popped up with a strong media figure and therefore a large chunk of public opinion on their side, and it isn't that expensive, so as a government you have to be politically savvy enough to just pay for the meals, get it off the table and move on. Instead they've randomly given him an MBE which is about the fucking stupidest thing (not that it isn't deserved, but did they think that would shut him up or what?) and the issue isn't going away.
A large part of the problem, as always happens with the Tories especially into their second and third term, is that there are just far too few of them that have any personal experience of any kind of adversity whatsoever (this also happens with Labour governments but in a slightly different way).
I'm sure he's being advised to some extent, but the tweets and statements come across as being those of a nice young man who genuinely has no truck with anyone, is remarkably self-aware for a footballer, and just wants to feed kids - PR people don't normally think that way, they're all about skewing and dressing up, so I reckon it's mostly him.
He’s deffo tory
I'm a twit
This is exactly right.
The Conservative MP for my constituency (Jacob Young) voted against the free school meals. Regardless of his beliefs, this is a serious error and local opinion in this area has shifted against him. If the Tories want to retain their seats in the north, they need to be much more careful with things like this. It always surprises me in situations like this that politicians are so bad at politics and are completely lacking in self awareness.
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It's bizarre that politicians wind up so encased in a bubble.
We all do. Is there a job on earth where the people doing it don't start thinking about it in 'us and them' terms? Retail is the prime example, you probably run into one or two dickheads a week, but it's enough to make you hate every cunt that steps through those doors.
It isn't really - regardless of background they all end up spending their lives in the HoP/Portcullis complex and surrounding establishments - they eat, drink, screw and do everything within the same mix of people, all of whom (whether MPs, spads, journos, lobbyists, hangers on) share the defining characteristic that they wanted to get into politics. This is how groupthink happens and this is why they all had such a profound psychological shock at the EU referendum, because in their world nobody would vote to leave the EU or indeed for any kind of profound change - I mean, things are good as they are, aren't they?
The problem is that their world has very limited horizons and this is what someone like Cummings with (genuine) maverick tendencies was able to see and tap into. The odd exception to the rule like Dennis Skinner or someone is a very valuable thing - I bet he could have told them that Leave was going to piss it, but why would they listen to an old dinosaur like him.
When an eloquent footballer marches in with a campaigning issue (and I keep saying this but do not underestimate how much political people do not understand sport) they don't have a clue what to do.
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Phonics was bang on with his comments on that Rashford tweet. It's outstanding.
I have utter disdain for Engish footballers in the main, and it's even got me thinking he's a complete gent.
Rashford for PM
Government isn't about morality, it's about administration.
Yeah that post is about you in a nutshell.
Jimmy going full Korean.