:covid_19: 😷 🏥 Corona Virus the thread for all your fears ❓

[pap]

Ok, shall we do this Raiders of the Lost Ark style?

• You must take 17, in honour of the age I started working, from 45, in honour of the old cunt I am now.
• You must then take another nine months from this, in honour of the cunt I’ve sometimes been at work and got myself sacked.
• You must add another year to account for the time I spent as a fourteen your old “child labour dishwashing force”
• You must then take off about a year for the first two years of Sotonians, where I spent a lot of time chatting shit on here instead of working.

What’s your tally, Bazza?

[Barry-Sanchez]

[Barry-Sanchez]

Anyway enough of cockwaving, the coronavirus is going to fuck it up for everyone, thats my take, pensions haven’t taken a hammering yet, just wait till they do…

[pap]

Months?

[BaggySaint]

Being an old fart on a pension that is my biggest worry. When the till runs dry there will be no money.

[Cobham-Saint]

I’ll drop this in the Tories In Trouble thread as well

The tide was not turned - now what?

[Nottarf-Krap]

Today’s fuckwittery from our government.
‘Patients needing A&E in England urged to book through NHS111’. Have any of them any idea what happens when you ring this number? I would imagine it will go something like this.
If you’ve been stabbed Press 1.
If you’ve had a heart attack Press 2.
If you’re interested in private health insurance with one of our trusted partners Press 3.

You are caller 486 in the queue. Your call is important to us.
We are being shafted royally by this shower.

[pap]

And here’s the thing. Even if Labour get in there will be no radical reform, just like Blairism was a continuation of Thatcherism with better feels and a bit more long-term international disaster.

All they have to do is do a slightly better job in government and they’ll be golden. The only thing they’re actually qualified for is fighting like rats in a sack.

We laugh at ze Germans for being stupid enough to fall for a strong-man leader who turned out to be a genocidal maniac.

With the absence of any genuine change available at the ballot box, I’m starting to see how countries get there.

[BaggySaint]

Makes you wonder if we should have a different style of electing our government.

[scotty]

@pap

With the absence of any genuine change available at the ballot box,

Not so long ago that’s exactly what we did have.

[pap]

People tout PR as a possible solution, but I’m not sure it’ll do the job. It doesn’t address the problem of the political class and I think that in many cases, it simply exacerbates it.

Perhaps a more radical solution would be to have a People’s Assembly, with representatives selected by lottery, in much the same way we do jury service.

Keep the political bit, but balance it with something real.

[CB-Saint]

Fucking hell, it would be carnage

Have you seen the state of twitter - it would be that but worse

[pap]

Twitter is not real life.

Nothing close.

Our MPs are no longer former miners, competent professionals and are in general, people who have more connection with each other than they do with the general public, and a much higher chance of having done a PPE qualification only to completely fail at the provision of another type of PPE.

Look at these cunts. Labour and Tory. Are you honestly telling me that the general public wouldn’t have a better idea of what the general public feels?

Isn’t that better than getting to a point where democracy cannot release the pressure valve?

[CB-Saint]

Fair point

[Polski_Filip]

@BaggySaint

Makes you wonder if we should have a different style of electing our government.

If only someone on here had been suggesting that for years…

[Polski_Filip]

Benevolent Dictator.

[pap]

I’m not applying for the job, @Polski_Filip, no matter how long you’ve spent in the sandpit.

[Polski_Filip]

Tbh even you could do a better job than the current shower of sh…

[pap]

Yeah, that’s why it’s so fucking worrying.

[Polski_Filip]

I’d get into a debate but

1. Vodka
2. Golf on telly