I can certainly understand a zero tolerance approach, even with someone so inconsequential.
Be interesting to see how many votes he gets...
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Be interesting to see how many votes he gets...
When is the election?
It's not a stereotype, they's all loons on them islands.
May. Can't remember the date I usually just wait until my neighbor starts playing his bagpipes and wanders around the street wearing his "SNP" kilt. And I wish I was joking.
Was trying to figure if he's a loon for Shetland or it's more the Shetlanders as a whole.The Orkney people with elongated feet to climb cliffs and catch birds always sounded odd too.
The Orkney people with elongated feet to climb cliffs and catch birds always sounded odd too.
the only island that doesn't have an evolved/devolved species of humans on it is Islay, but that's they never needed to adapt to their environment. I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure they pacify the frost giants with gifts of whisky, which frees up their time to stare at their boats or throw rocks at fish all day instead.What is ‘SNP?’
Seneschal; Nae Patter.
Which directly translates into English as "Steward of my Great Medieval House; Don't Approach Me To Converse About Mindless Drivel Such As The Quality of Today's Weather."
Or it might be Scottish National Party. I forget sometimes.
I prefer the former, sounds so romantic.
Have you ever been out to Shetland or Orkney?
Orkney. It was a magical place with no trees and the locals spoke in a strange language where every tenth word was English.
If someone is prevented from doing something or going somewhere just because their number hasn't come up on the vaccination list that is unfair and discriminatory.
For someone to be prevented from doing something or going somewhere because they have chosen not to have the vaccine when its been offered, is not unfair and not discriminatory its their own decision and hence their own fault.
For someone to be prevented from doing something or going somewhere because they have chosen not to have the vaccine when its been offered, is not unfair and not discriminatory its their own decision and hence their own fault.
So you think under 18s should be free to buy alcohol and cigarettes?
Pretty sure when pubs re-open again next Monday anyone of any age can go in.....(but as before you have to write down or scan in your details). Government has said it will only consider vaccine passports for mid July when whole Adult population has been offered it so really it's another 3 months of what the situation was between last July up to November when the hospitality sector effectively shut down in majority of country.
I agree. Let the businesses get some money coming in from the people that they can before shutting again
Have we learned nothing about human behaviour? Give the people the power and they will feck it up for everyone.
Compared with what? Giving government the power and they will feck it up for everyone (whilst spending / wasting hundreds of billions in the process)?
You give it to the people and watch a new variant grow. This thing hasn’t gone away
Compared with the government being in control, the Kent variant occuring and spreading across the majority of Europe killing thousands every day? Whilst they spent hundreds of billions on top?
Wow. Just wow.
So just open up is your solution?
I look at the shitshow in the UK and personally can't see how it would or could have been any worse, especially when looking at other countries and regions with less measures but more success (difficult to be any worse).
Hundreds of billions spent, hundreds of billions more stifled, businesses ruined, liberties stomped all over and still one of the worst death rates in the world (before even talking about the physical and mental health epidemic, the educational catastrophe and numerous other issues that we'll be dealing with for decades).
My "solution" is allow people to make their own risk assessment, especially now that so many have been vaccinated. If you're a 90 year old diabetic who refuses the vaccine I very much doubt you'll be going to a night club; and if you do you're consenting to that risk. A 20 year old with no conditions is likely to make a different judgment.
We're able to make our own risk assessments in pretty much every other facet of our lives. In what jobs we do, in where or if we go abroad, in our recreational activities, in deciding whether to seek medical treatment, who are friends are, whether to smoke, whether to drink, in where and how we get around; whether to walk, drive, cycle, skateboard or E-scoot.
Especially at this point in the pandemic I can see no rational argument for government to keep abjectly failing at attempting to limit people's abilities to put themselves at risk (at significant cost).
Amazing that some would want to drive a car over a bridge only 25% completed.
Whilst I agree that this government has been and continues to be a shambles, we are not going to agree on throwing it back into the hands of the public either. You can’t just open up everything all together and hope it’s ok. There has to be a measured staggered approach or you put the last years sacrifice at risk
I know.
The same people would then blame the governmental agency involved in building the bridge for its negligence, even though the agency had barriers up in place to prevent such idiocy.
Given the death toll I can't see how the last year's sacrifices have been anything but history's most exorbitantly costly exercise in futility.
You're right though we're unlikely to agree.
Jesus.
Glad you approve!
Other ideas after ending of lockdown should include;
When everyone returns to work at the beginning of every shift they all assemble outside (whatever the weather) to;
*sing the company song
*sing a version of; "wash your hands, maintain your space and protect the NHS"
and then end
*with the National Anthem and/ or 'God for Boris, England and St. George'
NB Penalty for non-compliance with any of the above is repeated (enforced) visits to Barnard Castle dressed in sack clothe and ashes until restriction is lifted by Dominic Cummings intervention
I wouldn't take that Hartlepool poll seriously as it seems they've asked people from the local communist party.
Would hopefully be a kick up the backside to actually do something but you know they'll just blame Covid and Brexit. The two biggest opportunities for any opposition in modern history but oh well they're untouchable 
Still waiting on that magical unicorn issue where they can challenge 100% risk free.
Still waiting on that magical unicorn issue where they can challenge 100% risk free.
The flaw in your plan is that they arent just putting themselves at risk, they are then potentially spreading the virus after contracting it, in the supermarket, petrol station, etc places slightly more necessary than a nightclub or pub.
isn't nationalisation popular amongst voters across the political spectrum
Our divisions are now cultural, not economic. A slippery slope from there.
Our electoral system means those cultural divisions give the right an even bigger advantage that it does in the US.
The Tories will have a sizable majority for another generation at the very least.
Our electoral system means those cultural divisions give the right an even bigger advantage that it does in the US.
The Tories will have a sizable majority for another generation at the very least.
They're spreading the virus to other people who've made their own risk assessments and have acted accordingly. People who've decided to go to the supermarket rather than have produce delivered. People that have gone inside a petrol station rather than used the outdoor flap.
With the vast majority of the vulnerable vaccinated I don't see how this is any different to driving. The same argument about (non-vulnerable or vaccinated) people contracting Covid at a petrol station is true of potentially being side swiped and killed by an idiot driving out of said petrol station.
We're likely to have thousand of deaths every year for years to come (potentially forever). Likewise we're going to be at risk of a vaccine resistant strain emerging for years, potentially forever. An argument not to open up now is an argument for a lifetime of restrictions.
Totally random thought, but it must be shit to have a minister/shadow minister as your MP. Doubt they give a flying feck about constituency issues, especially if its a safe seat.