UK Conservatives declare "hold my beer" to GOP wrt covid response

[mikeymikec]

Here's a timeline of the third occasion the UK Conservative party fucked up their covid response, in pretty much exactly the same way as both times before:

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Delta Farce: How Boris Johnson's incompetent handling of the new variant extended lockdown. (Want to see more work like this? Become a Led By Donkeys...

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If you don't want to watch the video, here's a very short summary:

Starting April 2021: India sees a surge in cases, other countries add India to their red list. UK declares everything is fine, doesn't add India to red list (possibly because it wants to do a Brexit trade deal with them), we'll relax UK restrictions in June. India/Delta variant takes hold in the UK, army deployed to help increase vaccine take-up in key areas of the UK, but we still haven't added India to the red list. UK figures continue to climb through May, Delta variant is identified as being in 75% of new covid cases in UK, and the figures start getting really fucked up in June. For at least two weeks I've been seeing the news each morning and wondering why the fuck we haven't locked down yet.

The last part of that video ought to say that Boris is now thinking about delaying the relaxation of restrictions, aka. still procrastinating.

 

[K1052]

UK really needs to close the time gap on 2nd doses and get after the kids where Delta is exploding. The data seems pretty clear.

I expect we'll see the same here in states with low vax rates soonish.

 

[nakedfrog]

This is what I see for your link, BTW:

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[Matt390]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

 

[mikeymikec]

This is what I see for your link, BTW:

The link you posted worked fine for me in my 'clean' browser I've updated the OP with a YouTube clip which I think is a match for what I posted.

 

[dank69]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

Go jerk off on Frank with that shit.

 

[soulcougher73]

He really doesn't want to deviate from that road map. Broken record.

 

[MrSquished]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

The party of the right which won brexit by playing on xenophobia and racism is more the non racist party?

Not to mention, why would they have to try so hard to prove that they are not racist by not banning flights from a major hot spot. Methinks thou dost protests too much.

As usual, projection from a resident P&N racist and mysoginist pig.

 

[pmv]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

On the 'stopped clock is right twice a day' principle, I didn't think Trump's ban on flights was necessarily wrong in effect if not in motivation.

The Tories are of course, supremely racist, but they also represent the interests of the better-off who like flying back-and-forth to places on a frequent basis, plus the very well-off who own the airlines and whose profits depend on people continuing to do that.

Despite coming to power largely on the basis of a promise to 'control the borders' (the main issue of Brexit) they have thus consistently failed utterly to do that when it actually mattered. Both back at the start (when all the bourgie types were flying off to Italy and Switzerland for ski-ing holidays and bringing the virus back with them), and now, when Brexit itself meant it was impossible for them to risk doing anything to upset Modi.

I would just about concede that liberals can be as bad as conservatives when it comes to making an untouchable fetish out of international travel - largely because they are also affluent types who, just like Tories, love jetting off on 'city breaks' at every opportunity. The distinction between 'liberals' and 'conservatives' has always been partially a fiction - they tend to be drawn from a similar demographic and share a lot of interests.
(This is why I will never, ever, vote Lib Dem).

 

[nickqt]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

On the 'stopped clock is right twice a day' principle, I didn't think Trump's ban on flights was necessarily wrong in effect if not in motivation.

The Tories are of course, supremely racist, but they also represent the interests of the better-off who like flying back-and-forth to places on a frequent basis, plus the very well-off who own the airlines and whose profits depend on people continuing to do that.

Despite coming to power largely on the basis of a promise to 'control the borders' (the main issue of Brexit) they have thus consistently failed utterly to do that when it actually mattered. Both back at the start (when all the bourgie types were flying off to Italy and Switzerland for ski-ing holidays and bringing the virus back with them), and now, when Brexit itself meant it was impossible for them to risk doing anything to upset Modi.

I would just about concede that liberals can be as bad as conservatives when it comes to making an untouchable fetish out of international travel - largely because they are also affluent types who, just like Tories, love jetting off on 'city breaks' at every opportunity. The distinction between 'liberals' and 'conservatives' has always been partially a fiction - they tend to be drawn from a similar demographic and share a lot of interests.
(This is why I will never, ever, vote Lib Dem).

Trump didn't stop any flights. The airlines did.

 

[UNCjigga]

Looks like the state of Missouri is mimicking the UK spread of Delta variant. Of course this follows 10-14 days after massive parties over Memorial Day weekend.

Springfield ICU beds are filling up fast.

Delta variant blamed for southwest Missouri virus increase

Health officials in the Springfield area say the faster-spreading Delta variant is the primary cause of an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the region.

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[Fanatical Meat]

They took a page out of Democrats books. Banning flights from Asian countries were virus mutations originate is racist. So of course the non-racist tories wouldn't ban flights.

I hear this all the time from deplorable mother fuckers and it is always the same, I’ll try here.
Please point me to a Democratic National Politician that said banning flights from Asia while a pandemic was happening claimed it would be racist.
Surely you can point me to a clip where one of the supposed many have said this?

 

[Jhhnn]

I hear this all the time from deplorable mother fuckers and it is always the same, I’ll try here.
Please point me to a Democratic National Politician that said banning flights from Asia while a pandemic was happening claimed it would be racist.
Surely you can point me to a clip where one of the supposed many have said this?

"Democrats" means some guy on social media. As we've seen, banning flights from anywhere is pointless unless you can ban flights from everywhere like New Zealand.

 

[Matt390]

I hear this all the time from deplorable mother fuckers and it is always the same, I’ll try here.
Please point me to a Democratic National Politician that said banning flights from Asia while a pandemic was happening claimed it would be racist.
Surely you can point me to a clip where one of the supposed many have said this?

President Biden tweeted this the day after Trump announced his ban.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1223727977361338370

 

[Fanatical Meat]

President Biden tweeted this the day after Trump announced his ban.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1223727977361338370

and exactly how does that statement correlate to “banning flights from Asia is racist”?
That statement is clearly about the former President

 

[brycejones]

L lol

"Democrats" means some guy on social media. As we've seen, banning flights from anywhere is pointless unless you can ban flights from everywhere like New Zealand.

The so called ban had more holes than a black target at a police shooting range. We let thousands of people into this country without testing from Asia.

 

[Matt390]

and exactly how does that statement correlate to “banning flights from Asia is racist”?

The timing. It was in response to Trumps most recent action regarding corona which was his China flight ban.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The timing. It was in response to Trumps most recent action regarding corona which was his China flight ban.

I performed an edit. I’ll repeat it.
I am not sure if English is your first language. That statement is clearly about the former President, if we cannot agree on basic and accepted grammar this is a pointless discussion.