in_the_top_one
Vital Football Legend
I see we have imposed travel restrictions on SA on account of their new virus strain. Can't believe this gov would stoop so low as to play political games just to punish the good people of South Africa.
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Woanz
Vital Football Legend
We might be fucked as an economy, be totally divided as a country & be a rain soaked plague island but we are bloody brilliant at queuing still. Makes you proud to be British
mao tse tung
Vital Champions League
Surely that Marie Antoinette quote has to be apocryphal.
Gateau is French for cake, and MA is alleged to have said “Qu'ils mangent de la brioche”
Brioche includes yeast and has to be proofed; does that not make it a bread?
Granted, it would be a Bread made from pretty expensive ingredients, but would still surely be a Bread.
in_the_top_one
Vital Football Legend
I thought that as I was writing it.
I like donkeys.
I don't like corrupt Jenrick though. He can go &$£% himself.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Or that they have done this AFTER the virus has already come into the country.
But hey, at least this is brexit in action; we have shown that we can take control of a border we always had control of anyway
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
It is apocryphal and if it was said at all she would have been referring to bread, which was the French staple at the time and whose prices had risen exponentially because of her husband's lack of control of finances.
mao tse tung
Vital Champions League
What a cheap lousy Political trick to play; is there an Election on the horizon?
Its also extremely racist; do you think for one minute Boris would have imposed such draconian restrictions if F W De Klerk was still in power?
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
On another note, from what they are saying it feels like for the first time there is a real possibility that they will close the secondary schools again for a bit. Can't believe we are back to that shite.
Calvin Plummer
Vital Football Legend
Sure Stret will be along to criticise the government shortly.
Forest-England
Vital Squad Member
But surely by now people are being tested at the airports.....
in_the_top_one
Vital Football Legend
If it has only just arrived in the country the numbers will still be small and our world-beating a Test and Trace system will cope easily.
Forest-England
Vital Squad Member
We knew this was coming. It was known that covid thrives in cold weather. Without this new covid variants.
And now the media going to be how amazing Johnson done to get a deal.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Until Farage tells them all it's not really Brexit....
Our drivers have got the luxury of giving up and going home, plus I guess UK drivers wouldn't be heading out of the UK in trucks just before Christmas. Macron will mainly be upsetting foreign drivers attempting to head home for Christmas, just as he has managed to shut the Toyota plant in France too, along with the UK plant.
in_the_top_one
Vital Football Legend
Phew. Glad to hear there was no lorry trouble on the French side of the water.
This is true...Ronnie the Rocket is a good example of this as he is equally good left and right handed and is the current world champion chap.
Maybe Mao would like to expand on the UKs "pathetic" vaccinations, and tell us how the EU is getting on with theirs. People on here panned the government for not being part of the EU response. They have bought 300 million French vaccines which they think will be ready by October(possibly end of next year) , They have backed the wrong horses by not purchasing much from Pfizer or Moderna, and will probably need the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccination to bail them out.
From the daily telegraph
The Commission’s insistence that all EU states should then launch the vaccine at the same time after Christmas has lost yet more critical days. Germans have been subjected to the surreal spectacle of trial drills by their well-organised vaccination machine when they could have been doing the real thing. They cannot yet receive a jab made by their own start-up group BioNTech.
“Germany has bet on Europe, and lost heavily (krachend verloren),” was the headline across Die Zeit, with a pointed picture of a woman in Cardiff being vaccinated while along with a caption declaring that Germans must wait such deliverance.
The Netherlands has compounded the error by so mishandling its software preparations that it will not start vaccinating until Jan 8. If you think Boris Johnson has had a bad pandemic, take a look at Dutch wunderkind Mark Rutte. Listen to the volcanic exchanges in the Tweede Kamer.
But these delays pale compared to what is coming next year. The European vaccine alliance has failed in its one overriding purpose: it neglected the job of acquiring vaccines. Germany has just 400,000 doses of the BioNTech jab and may not receive more than 3m or 4m by late January, rising to a total of 11m to 13m by the end of March. Berlin has taken matters into its own hands and belatedly ordered more for the future but the damage is done.
From the daily telegraph
The Commission’s insistence that all EU states should then launch the vaccine at the same time after Christmas has lost yet more critical days. Germans have been subjected to the surreal spectacle of trial drills by their well-organised vaccination machine when they could have been doing the real thing. They cannot yet receive a jab made by their own start-up group BioNTech.
“Germany has bet on Europe, and lost heavily (krachend verloren),” was the headline across Die Zeit, with a pointed picture of a woman in Cardiff being vaccinated while along with a caption declaring that Germans must wait such deliverance.
The Netherlands has compounded the error by so mishandling its software preparations that it will not start vaccinating until Jan 8. If you think Boris Johnson has had a bad pandemic, take a look at Dutch wunderkind Mark Rutte. Listen to the volcanic exchanges in the Tweede Kamer.
But these delays pale compared to what is coming next year. The European vaccine alliance has failed in its one overriding purpose: it neglected the job of acquiring vaccines. Germany has just 400,000 doses of the BioNTech jab and may not receive more than 3m or 4m by late January, rising to a total of 11m to 13m by the end of March. Berlin has taken matters into its own hands and belatedly ordered more for the future but the damage is done.
Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
Have you been vaccinated yet? Or has anyone on this forum?
Woanz
Vital Football Legend
Yeah because they are going to be driving to Europe with empty lorries & won’t have contracts or agreements to deliver things on time, also the people on the other end will absolutely use that firm or self employed driver again so work should be easy, it’s not like supply chains are actually quite breakable either I’m sure everyone has a massive stockpile of everything.
You really are a fucking idiot most of the time but this one is whole new levels of stupidity
