:covid_19: 😷 šŸ„ Corona Virus the thread for all your fears ā“

OH COME ON!
:man_facepalming:
SRSLY?

BBC News - Bird flu: Russia detects first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans

An unsurprising response to Marr earlier

So kids dont get it spread the virus?
But for the 3rd time daughter has been sent self isolate for the 2 year old following a +ve test on a classmate
She is going nuts. Full time wfh on a huge IT Project, 6 year old home school & hyperactive bored 2 year old.

She’s gonna throw a fit when we post our holiday snaps this week :rofl:

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This chancer was handed 30 mil, apparently his paper cup manufacturing company had assets of minus 150 grand when he landed that one.
We are being governed by grifters.

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Surely the fact it is being investigated is very good news?

This is very interesting…backs up the UK Vaccination regime and shouts a wake-up call to the rest of the world…first 7 minutes…

Accountability in the mother of all oligarchies:

The UK government’s failure to provide protective equipment to all health staff treating coronavirus victims prompts questions over whether ministers are legally culpable for failing to prevent deaths. But ministers routinely act with impunity and every prime minister since 1945 has been complicit in deaths abroad.

Crown immunity

Yet Britain’s unwritten constitution is still permeated by the concept of Crown immunity. This doctrine, which surely should not have escaped the Middle Ages, deems that ministers cannot commit a legal wrong and do not act as persons but as agents steeped with Crown authority, and are therefore untouchable under the law.

If a minister breaches the criminal law outside of his public duties, she is subject to criminal law like anyone else. But if she makes decisions as a minister, however reprehensible or incompetent, these are considered as acts of government and not for the criminal courts.

Whether it’s war crimes by a prime minister, a minister’s complicity in torture and rendition or catastrophic health and social policy decisions, accountability, we are told, is meant to come through democracy and parliament. But it doesn’t.

Public inquiries tend to take years and can embarrass ministers but invariably fail to formally censure them, let alone hold them legally accountable. The common law offence of misconduct in public office sets an impossible threshold, even if it could be applied to ministers. The process of judicial review can sometimes act as a check on ministers, but the limitations are also stark.

For example, the Court of Appeal ruling in 2019 that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia were unlawful, while important, required only that the government’s arms export decisions be reviewed. It was a million miles away from holding ministers individually culpable for the deaths of thousands of civilians in Yemen.

The failure to hold ministers accountable for contributing to deaths at home or abroad is one of the biggest gaping holes in the contention that British governance is democratic in a meaningful sense. If the rule of law is not made to apply to decision-makers with enormous power over life and death, but just to everyone else, what kind of a democracy is that?

Why do we allow this to continue?

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Because the majority of the electorate haven’t a clue?

You ask why do ā€œweā€ allow it to continue.
Sadly the answer is ā€œweā€ can do sod all about it.
You think ANY snout in trough politician is going to vote to remove it?
Unfortunately they wont.

Many other Nations including many deemed " not up to UK Standards" do have anti-corruption laws and do charge people

That’s certainly the way a lot of the people seem to see it, but there are non violent options available:

Never going to happen. The sheeple have been trained to not give a fuck.

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I tend to agree. The people of this country have been well and truly broken in.

However, the full repercussions of the pandemic and even Brexit are as yet unknown and those things could yet make people stir.

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It’s a big problem with social media @Donkey_Schlong posts that but ignores the fact 30m people think Boris et al are doing a good job
#lookatvaccinerollout

Doesn’t mean 30m people know their arse from their elbow tbf

Not the point though is it?
Will MP’s vote for chaange? - Don’t be so fvcking naive
Will the public revolt? - Oh come on
Fact is every time someone like Baz applies Brit standards to the world, the world looks back and says
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Nope

Nope & I’m not that stupid thanks

Course they won’t :roll_eyes:

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From the BBC

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