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How can you be so stupid with one head?Originally Posted by xsnaggle
He made changes to the lockdown rules on that day because that is the day after they have to be reviewed by law, as the law was passed on a Thursday. But the 3 week lockdown was begun on the Tuesday before the law was passed and is renewed on the Tuesday 3 weeks hence. Which is today!!
I'm sure you'll scour to find something wrong but you should realise by now I don't really care. you're obsessed.
Antibody samples have suggested that 7% of people in England have previously been infected with the virus according to the ONS. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52837593
Similarly, antibody tests found 7% of people Massachusetts also tested positive for antibodies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=broo...hrome&ie=UTF-8
Tragically 90% of the deaths in Sweden are the over 70's
I still think they got it wrong and threw the aged under the bus to save the economy.
Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?
Not sure where he's got that from. The Private Eye article is saying that the Ł35m 'all in, all together' advertising campaign that the government ran was meant to be helping all the newspaper industry but the money ended up going to the fat cats rather than independent publishers. You can read in between the lines of that, of course, but it's quite a leap to say the government were sponsoring favourable editorials.
Remember when they spent Ł200k on this campaign?
What do you call an advert dressed as a 4-page investigative report about Universal Credit? Lies and #fakenews. DWP have no shame.
— Ben Claimant 💚 #joinaunion (@imajsaclaimant) May 22, 2019
What you can do - Join the #DumpMetroDwpLies campaign. From today onwards grab what Metro papers you can and dump them in the bin. pic.twitter.com/UjIgtlvka9
I certainly wasn't trying to defend the government, it was just that I had that Private Eye article to hand so I felt able to answer TOBW's question. I thought the headline of the article EC put up was a bit misleading and the use of 'appears' three words into it probably wasn't the best way to back it up. He's got a masters in journalism though so what do I know?
Private Eye were completely cynical about the government campaign and, I'm sure, will have more to say about it next time round. They do that kind of stuff really well, there's no need to sex it up.
More about politics and self preservation than helping the country, everyone should be disgusted at them.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dai...ping-them.html
In fairness to the big papers they are at least flagging it as 'sponsored' and mentioning the government.
I believe that's required under Advertising Standards.
Funnily they take slightly different approaches. The mail makes it crystal clear, the sun not so.
What is not clear about "Produced in partnership with the UK Government"?
If the article makes it plain that it is sponsored by or on partnership with the government I can't see a problem.
Can't see the problem with the government wasting millions on what equates to a party political broadcast during a global pandemic where 60,000 people in the country have died?
There is at least one poster on here who thinks the virus has not really hit Wales that much - perhaps a look at the cases by local area figures here will change their minds;-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...in-each-region
You don't think it is a problem that the gov is spending taxpayer money on what is essentially a propaganda piece?
I think it is just slightly less clear than sponsored by. One implies money has the changes hands and the other doesn't. I think I know which one the government would rather they wrote.
Is anyone surprised?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...itain-lockdown
It’s all a front with this government, they’re making positive noises to us yet pissing in the wind behind the scenes.
Like football its all about results...and they have been awful in UK...highest death rate in Europe.
Wales has some of the highest incidences in UK with hot spots in South East Wales and lately North Wales. So, the answer from Professor Drakeford seems to be to allow up to meet up locally within our hotspots which must mean a higher chance of us spreading it around.
Everything about our handling of this has been pretty pathetic when compared to most other countries. I sometimes think things like the Dominic Cummings trip are done deliberately to divert attention from the mess we've made of it.
Our handing of this pandemic hasn't been pathetic. Our government's handling of it has.
The Cummings saga isn't some sort of attention-diverting ploy by the crafty Tories. It's just another glaring example of their hopeless incompetence. Boris and his minions wanted to 'take back control'. People like you helped to give them that control and we're all now dealing with the consequences.
He’s hardly alone though, labour got there arses handed to them in a plate last election, hugely embarrassing for them with some of the seats they lost. I won’t comment though, I hate the stuff.
If they wanted to divert from covid, they would probably choose something non-covid.
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