Making the news today....

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

He was probably found not guilty because he was, err, not guilty.

Yip, just as Diff and I just mentioned.  

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Yip, just as Diff and I just mentioned.  

So you did, I raced in before I'd read all the posts.

[eggsarascal]

It's eerie out there.

 

 

[Gary Prentice]

3 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

Nice of them to announce this. I wonder if they will be as lenient on those protecting their property due to their lack of action?

 

Coronavirus: Police will 'ignore low-level crimes' as COVID-19 spread causes officer shortage

WWW.MSN.COM

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Police will be forced to ignore certain crimes as the coronavirus causes officer shortages, it has been reported...

 

Ain't that just business as normal? 

 

Seems like every week there's an announcement about the tasks the police are insufficiently funded/staffed to do anyway.

 

Am I the only one who finds it odd that one force is flying drones around the National Park checking that people aren't walking hand in hand and dyeing lakes black  to discourage visitors while others are are announcing this?

 

Managing P/ups in breweries comes to mind.

 

 

[Mark J]

40 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

Ain't that just business as normal? 

 

Seems like every week there's an announcement about the tasks the police are insufficiently funded/staffed to do anyway.

 

Am I the only one who finds it odd that one force is flying drones around the National Park checking that people aren't walking hand in hand and dyeing lakes black  to discourage visitors while others are are announcing this?

 

Managing P/ups in breweries comes to mind.

 

 

It seems to be the case. Everything about this situation has been handled shambolically. In the end, those responsible should be held to account. In the interim, why aren't they doing more, given the time that's been wasted already?

 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Mark J said:

It seems to be the case. Everything about this situation has been handled shambolically. In the end, those responsible should be held to account. In the interim, why aren't they doing more, given the time that's been wasted already?

 

And if its been handled this badly with whom we have in power now imagine the FUBAR we'd be in with that other rabble? Its really not worth thinking about. 

 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and its the duty of the opposition and all those that have a hard-on for them to constantly speak negativity at the efforts being made. So at least you're holding up your end of the bargain.  

[Mark J]

2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

And if its been handled this badly with whom we have in power now imagine the FUBAR we'd be in with that other rabble? Its really not worth thinking about. 

 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and its the duty of the opposition and all those that have a hard-on for them to constantly speak negativity at the efforts being made. So at least you're holding up your end of the bargain.  

Bollocks. We're faced with what we have, not what we haven't. Suggesting what we've got is 'hey ho bettter than that Steptoe chap' is the behaviour of either a shill or a melt.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

8 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Bollocks. We're faced with what we have, not what we haven't. Suggesting what we've got is 'hey ho bettter than that Steptoe chap' is the behaviour of either a shill or a melt.

 

Maybe if just a few of the 50,000+ 6 figure salaried, shiny assed ‘managers’ in the NHS had actually managed,it wouldn’t be such a cluster now. 
 

Unless the answer really is to simply poor more money into this behemoth of administration malpractice whilst constantly bemoaning any attempt to try and generate some VfM for the taxpayers hard earned. 

 

 

[trigger_andy]

23 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Bollocks. We're faced with what we have, not what we haven't. Suggesting what we've got is 'hey ho bettter than that Steptoe chap' is the behaviour of either a shill or a melt.

 

 

Bollocks. We're faced with an unprecedented situation that admittedly has not been handled in the best way possible, but that in part is not the governments fault and that of the British people. To think that we would respond to direction in such profound disregard for our own health or that of others. The Government has tried its best to not infringe on the liberties of the British people and hoped we'd be fucking adult about it. But clearly we're all total wankers and thats simply not gonna happen. 

 

But what would, in your words, Steptoe do? I seriously think he would use this crisis to further his own Commie goals and a good portion of the wankers in the UK would welcome a drastic and more likely permanent reduction in freedom and a justification to permanently introduce a severe tax increase for everyone other than the utter dross in the country resulting in a mass exodus of those who contribute the largest portion of tax here in the UK. 

 

But who knows? We'd only really know that through hindsight, and thank fuck we'll not have to worry about that for the next 4 and a half years. Another bullet dodged. 

Edited March 30, 2020 by trigger_andy

[Mark J]

4 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Maybe if just a few of the 50,000+ 6 figure salaried, shiny assed ‘managers’ in the NHS had actually managed,it wouldn’t be such a cluster now. 
 

Unless the answer really is to simply poor more money into this behemoth of administration malpractice whilst constantly bemoaning any attempt to try and generate some VfM for the taxpayers hard earned. 

 

 

The fact remains that frontline NHS staff are already running out of PPE - As are support workers across the board. Pandemics are events that should be prepared for.
The gov have wasted weeks by ignoring WHO advice, and going with a program that was designed for a different virus altogether.
Heads should roll when this is over.