[davidjay]

Pre-recorded so there are no awkward questions about parties and quizzes.

In effect, a party political broadcast.

Alastair Campbell says there has to be a Labour reply, or the BBC is showing itself to be a government broadcaster...

YeahbutIraq.

[Bones McCoy]

If you know your history.
You will know that only one of England and Netherlands has invaded the other.

[The All New KevS]

[The All New KevS]

We're fucked.

How can anyone expect logistically to go to a million doses a day in 12 hours? It wouldn't surprise me if the army also found out about their involvement at 8pm as well.

It's going to take until Wednesday or Thursday to get up to speed at the absolute earliest. And one would assume that there's now a huge array of people who have just seen their Christmas go up the spout because they'll be being expected to administer vaccines. It's an impossible target. And if it isn't met, bollock brain will blame the NHS and the Surgeries.

We could easily be in five figure territory for new O cases by Friday. It's fucking criminal.

I'd better go and buy the microwavable toast dinner as soon as possible for Christmas Day then, because its looking increasingly I'll be on my own. Again.

[Boiler]

Yep - if I had a fridge/freezer I'd be buying one of those M&S Christmas Dinner For One in readiness.

Jacket potatoes it is then.

[Bones McCoy]

News this morning of walk-ins being turned away from places that were bookings only until that broadcast.

No doubt some gobshite with a JFDI order will be dispatched to each centre - causing further chaos.

[Bones McCoy]

Had Covid eliminated the great British Tradition of the Shit Winter Wonderland attraction.

[Cyclist]

Had Covid eliminated the great British Tradition of the Shit Winter Wonderland attraction.

Nope

‘Even the reindeer were unhappy’: life inside Britain’s worst winter wonderlands

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... onderlands

[The All New KevS]

Goalposts moved. Dept of Health have clarified that what was meant was that all adults will be OFFERED a booster by New Year. Not that they will be given.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

That one again...

[Bones McCoy]

Goalposts moved. Dept of Health have clarified that what was meant was that all adults will be OFFERED a booster by New Year. Not that they will be given.

Offered the vaccine is t pandemics what the five second rule is to food hygiene.

[Rosvanian]

I've more or less stopped listening to talk radio in the mornings as it's not a healthy way to start the day. Unfortunately I broke my own rule this morning and turned on Five Live at about 7.30am, just in time to hear Rachel Burden interview Marcus Fysh on his decision to vote against the government's new anti CV measures this week and his blethering about not wanting us to turn into Nazis. The interviewer asked whether he thought that the vaccinated have the right to their freedom from risk from the unvaccinated and/or those not following the recommendations, at which point Fysh launched a remarkable personal attack on Burden, saying that if she holds "those views" she's not fit to be a BBC presenter. Unlike me, she remained remarkably calm but I didn't, shouting "what a cunt" at the radio and cursing my decision to "turn on this shit". In my view Fysh made a complete and utter tit of himself and I was left wondering if I could despise him and his ilk any more than I do. (I've been asking myself that question for forty-odd years).

[Boiler]

Starmer's turn to address the nation tonight at 19:00.

[Boiler]

I've more or less stopped listening to talk radio in the mornings as it's not a healthy way to start the day. Unfortunately I broke my own rule this morning and turned on Five Live at about 7.30am, just in time to hear Rachel Burden interview Marcus Fysh on his decision to vote against the government's new anti CV measures this week and his blethering about not wanting us to turn into Nazis. The interviewer asked whether he thought that the vaccinated have the right to their freedom from risk from the unvaccinated and/or those not following the recommendations, at which point Fysh launched a remarkable personal attack on Burden, saying that if she holds "those views" she's not fit to be a BBC presenter.

If anyone wants to listen to this deranged cunt (just as the first death from Omicron is announced) the interview is here and is from 1:42:55 - whilst the insult turns up at 1:46:36.

[Arrowhead]

The Lib Dems are still reasonably strong in Fysh's Yeovil constituency (previously represented by Paddy Ashdown and David Laws), fingers crossed this idiot will end up being a surprise Tory loss at the next election if things carry on the way they are at the moment.

[Bones McCoy]

I've more or less stopped listening to talk radio in the mornings as it's not a healthy way to start the day. Unfortunately I broke my own rule this morning and turned on Five Live at about 7.30am, just in time to hear Rachel Burden interview Marcus Fysh on his decision to vote against the government's new anti CV measures this week and his blethering about not wanting us to turn into Nazis. The interviewer asked whether he thought that the vaccinated have the right to their freedom from risk from the unvaccinated and/or those not following the recommendations, at which point Fysh launched a remarkable personal attack on Burden, saying that if she holds "those views" she's not fit to be a BBC presenter. Unlike me, she remained remarkably calm but I didn't, shouting "what a cunt" at the radio and cursing my decision to "turn on this shit". In my view Fysh made a complete and utter tit of himself and I was left wondering if I could despise him and his ilk any more than I do. (I've been asking myself that question for forty-odd years).

I heard it too.
An utter cunt, and a thick cunt too with his "I suppose you'd prefer Hitler" logic.

Unfortunately the creep's fellow travellers were quick on the tweet with their "Saying whet everybody's thinking" bullshit.

Tis a pity Burden wasn't a little quicker on the draw with a:

We don't want to live in a country where the government censors the national broadcaster.

Fysh needs to get in the sea.

[Andy McDandy]

He's got form for that sort of thing:

In June 2020, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found that Fysh should have registered his unremunerated company directorships as interests. The Committee noted: "We do not believe that Mr Fysh has acted in bad faith. He exercised his right as a Member of the House to express disagreement with the Commissioner's interpretation of the rules and bring the matter before the Committee." Fysh was criticised by the Standards Committee for having "adopted a deprecatory and, at points, patronising tone towards the commissioner and the registrar, which was unacceptable, as were his unfounded questions about their objectivity." The committee recommended that the Register of Interests is corrected for Fysh's four unpaid directorships which have continued. It added that he should "make an apology on the floor of the House for both the non-registrations and non-declarations by means of a personal statement." Fysh was also told to apologise to the commissioner and registrar in writing

Source: Wikipedia.

[mattomac]

Had Covid eliminated the great British Tradition of the Shit Winter Wonderland attraction.

Angry people in newspapers Facebook thankly has reported on several awful wonderlands this winter.

[Watchman]

Had a text telling me I need to get my booster, which I had a month ago

[Cyclist]

Listening to the news on Classic FM (Alexander Armstrong is on in the mornings) they said the Man U game tonight has been postponed and a third of Premier League clubs are missing players, because of Covid infections.

This is what happens when the government refuses to take public health seriously and insists everyone should carry on more or less as usual while they (the government) collect more data. Data which other governments didn't think they needed to wait for.

I have no interest in football, as you know, but the players and fans are human beings, and their lives are being put at risk because of the inaction of our government. This is just plain wrong.

How many other unnecessary infections are there because Johnson and Co don't want to be seen as party-poopers?