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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Oborne condemns Johnso... · 0 replies · +1 points

Boris is capable of admitting he's wrong. He's not scared of a screeching u-turn. I cant recall a government thats made so many in so short a time.

Boris is not a person who seems to have a lot of beliefs or values. He seems to need someone to provide him with ideas and a moral compass. In the beginning that was Cummings et al but now it seems to be Carrie Symonds.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Robert Halfon: I'm not... · 0 replies · +1 points

At present we dont really have a lockdown anything like the first other than in the hospitality, travel and entertainment industries. Over half the children in my local schools are still attending as their parents are now classed as key workers. Road travel in rush hours is near what it was before covid and people are going about their buisiness.

There are lots of holes in the rules and how they are interpreted. As you rightly point out about the plans for Local Elections or the relaxations for Christmas.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: At Prime Minist... · 0 replies · +1 points

You'll be aware of course that Laura Kuensberg has been visciously attacked by the left for being supposedly biased towards the Conservatives and they even started a poll to complain.

She has consistently been accused by the left of misreporting news to favour the Conservatives so I am surprised that you view her as being a 'leftie' but I suppose it depends on where you personally sit on that spectrum I suppose.

I think Boris is not the right man for this situation but thats not his fault. He flips and flops too much. Whats the current betting on him announcing measures identical or similar to those Sturgeon has just announced for Scotland in the next 2 days?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Starmer attacks... · 0 replies · +1 points

The guidance for individuals is evident to me - your local area, town or village.

The guidance to the Police in enforcing this is different and does not set a limit. Therein lies the problem as people tend to push at boundaries even in the best of times.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Starmer attacks... · 0 replies · +1 points

I can only look at things locally to me. Half of all the primary and secondary school pupils are now at school as their parents are keyworkers. This was not the case in the first lockdown. Not nearly so much of a lockdown there.

Driving on the road in rush hour is about the same as pre covid. Clearly lots of people are doing what they normally did before covid. During the first lockdown the streets and roads where virtually empty.

For a lot of reasons lockdown mark 3 is very different to lockdown mark 1. I think its legitimate for the media to question if this is the case nationally and why this is.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Starmer attacks... · 0 replies · +1 points

They shouldnt favour anyone and the fact they have the right on one side accusing them of bias to Labour and the left on the other accusing them of bias to the Conservatives would suggest they have it about right.

Unfortunately asking questions of ministers the 'other side' would ask and pressing them for an answer is part of that. I dont particularly like the confrontational approach taken by the modern media buts thats the way now I guess, particularly since Paxman.

I get that a lot of people would like the whole media to publish their unabused version of the Truth. You can go live in countries where that happens but they aren't free democracies.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Starmer attacks... · 0 replies · +1 points

I tend to think May would have been much better. If you look at female leaders throughout this crisis they tend to have better records than their male counterparts.

May was also a details person in a way that Johnson just isnt. She would have been on top of her brief and able to question her advisors where Johnson just looks like he is reluctantly following the advice because he has been told he has no choice but is unaware of why.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gareth Lyon: We need a... · 0 replies · +1 points

What if the marxists came into power? This law would not allow any public servant or publically funded body or charity to criticise or offer any alternative view, even privately or on their own social media presumably.

It would give said Marxists the power to have their own private police force to root out subversives expressing an alternative political view to them and subject them to who knows what tyranny because they once expressed support for right to buy......

Presumably this would also stop people in public services being able to run for political office which would rule out that well known marxist Liam Fox who I have it on good authority was once a Dr. Or the MPs who served in our armed forces like the well known socialist Winston Churchill.

Be careful what you wish for old chap. There are much worse things than people holding a different political view to you and one of them is a poorly thought out law.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gareth Lyon: We need a... · 1 reply · +1 points

Because the conservative party is none of those things. To accuse the current cabinet of being a left wing tyranny is like accusing Jeremy Corbyn of being a neoliberal populist dictator.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gareth Lyon: We need a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your aware, presumably, that the Conservative party is a right of centre political party which has been in power since 2010? It might not be as rightwing as you would like but to accuse it of being woke or whiffing of communism is a bit hyperbolic.

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