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Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
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On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:35:57 +0100 Graeme Wall wrote: On 21/05/2020 10:01, wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? You voted for him. I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice - but he was a lot less risky proposition than the marxist or the arrogant Jo Swinson. You do our great leader a disservice: have you forgotten the magnificent Garden Bridge that nestles beside Waterloo Bridge? Or the ultimate place to practise social isolation even in normal times, the Thames cable cars from nowhere to nowhere? Then there's the water cannons that have so successfully improved policing in London, at so little cost. And I'm sure even you would enjoy flying from our new Borisport bird sanctuary airport in the Thames estuary? |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
On Fri, 22 May 2020 09:24:59 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote: wrote: I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice - but he was a lot less risky proposition than the marxist or the arrogant Jo Swinson. You do our great leader a disservice: have you forgotten the magnificent Garden Bridge that nestles beside Waterloo Bridge? Or the ultimate place Ah yes, silly me. Still, a lot of planners and designers had a nice xmas bonus that year on the money spent. to practise social isolation even in normal times, the Thames cable cars from nowhere to nowhere? Then there's the water cannons that have so successfully improved policing in London, at so little cost. And I'm sure The Dangleway is popular with Tourists! The ones who forgot to get off the Thames Clipper at Greenwich and ended up at north greenwich by mistake anyway. The water cannon I will give him a bit - Theresa May was just being a bloody minded imbecile not allowing them as a last resort given they're already legal in northern ireland (along with sidearms incidentaly which is never mentioned when the arm-the-police argument rears its head once a year). But then she is the perfect example of **** floating to the top. |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:55:52 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? He's changed a lot since his near-death experience. He was previously a gung-ho risk-taker, but is now a timid, cautious character, at least in this respect. Being a new father (yet again) probably also makes him a lot more cautious. Thats probably true, but he needs to snap out of it and realise the policies are now doing far more damage than the virus. There was some (probably exaggerated) figure of 7 million doctor and hospital appointments backlog. Even if its only 1 million thats a lot of people with potentially serious problems not having them sorted. And god knows how many cancer patients are or will soon be dead due to the NHS focusing on covid. but what can he do if the unions (and apparently loads of parents) are against this plan people can't go back to work unless they can send their kids to school and commute on the train and the unions are doing their best to block those two things |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:35:57 +0100 Graeme Wall wrote: On 21/05/2020 10:01, wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? You voted for him. I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice though that latter items doesn't appear to have been the disaster it was predicted to be. |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
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wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:35:57 +0100 Graeme Wall wrote: On 21/05/2020 10:01, wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? You voted for him. I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice though that latter items doesn't appear to have been the disaster it was predicted to be. True. Both Ken and Boris initially wanted to keep them open, then changed their minds, and as you say, it's worked out OK. |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
On Fri, 22 May 2020 18:27:02 +0100
"tim..." wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:55:52 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: He's changed a lot since his near-death experience. He was previously a gung-ho risk-taker, but is now a timid, cautious character, at least in this respect. Being a new father (yet again) probably also makes him a lot more cautious. Thats probably true, but he needs to snap out of it and realise the policies are now doing far more damage than the virus. There was some (probably exaggerated) figure of 7 million doctor and hospital appointments backlog. Even if its only 1 million thats a lot of people with potentially serious problems not having them sorted. And god knows how many cancer patients are or will soon be dead due to the NHS focusing on covid. but what can he do if the unions (and apparently loads of parents) are against this plan The unions are just sabre rattling and will soon settle down. And I'm a parent and I have no problem with my child going back to school. If others do then thats fine by me - smaller class sizes. people can't go back to work unless they can send their kids to school and commute on the train and the unions are doing their best to block those two things Any government with a working pair of ******** (which rules out the current one) could enact emergency legislation at a time like this to put the unions back in their box by making striking illegal for X months and shutting down any union that proposes it. |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:30:06 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote: tim... wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:35:57 +0100 Graeme Wall wrote: On 21/05/2020 10:01, wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? You voted for him. I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice though that latter items doesn't appear to have been the disaster it was predicted to be. True. Both Ken and Boris initially wanted to keep them open, then changed their minds, and as you say, it's worked out OK. Not a disaster, but go to somewhere like oxford street or victoria during normal times and there'll be a queue of confused tourists waiting to speak to whichever station worker drew the short straw that morning to be Mr Information. There's still the same number of staff except now with some unused office space. What has it achieved? |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 May 2020 18:27:02 +0100 "tim..." wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:55:52 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: He's changed a lot since his near-death experience. He was previously a gung-ho risk-taker, but is now a timid, cautious character, at least in this respect. Being a new father (yet again) probably also makes him a lot more cautious. Thats probably true, but he needs to snap out of it and realise the policies are now doing far more damage than the virus. There was some (probably exaggerated) figure of 7 million doctor and hospital appointments backlog. Even if its only 1 million thats a lot of people with potentially serious problems not having them sorted. And god knows how many cancer patients are or will soon be dead due to the NHS focusing on covid. but what can he do if the unions (and apparently loads of parents) are against this plan The unions are just sabre rattling and will soon settle down. And I'm a parent and I have no problem with my child going back to school. If others do then thats fine by me - smaller class sizes. people can't go back to work unless they can send their kids to school and commute on the train and the unions are doing their best to block those two things Any government with a working pair of ******** (which rules out the current one) could enact emergency legislation at a time like this to put the unions back in their box by making striking illegal for X months and shutting down any union that proposes it. refusing to go to work because your workplace is "unsafe" under H&S regs, is not legally "a strike" |
Coronavirus: TfL reveals 20 busiest Tube and train
wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:30:06 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: tim... wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:35:57 +0100 Graeme Wall wrote: On 21/05/2020 10:01, wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 09:10:48 +0100 "tim..." wrote: "Recliner" wrote in message The number of new cases in London has now fallen to zero in a 24-hour period: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/c...res-decline-ph e-a4446336.html and yet, there will be no regional variation in the rules https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...es-regional-va riation-easing-lockdown-covid/ Given the spinelessness evident at #10 there'll probably be no variation in the rules for weeks even though other EU countries are now all easing restrictions far more than us. What did we do to deserve an ineffectual blustering muppet like Boris in charge at a time like this? You voted for him. I suspect most people didn't vote for Boris, they voted against Corbyn. I had no illusions about Boris being useless - he was mayor here for 8 years and achieved bugger all in that time except some overpriced badly designed buses and closing tube ticket offices against advice though that latter items doesn't appear to have been the disaster it was predicted to be. True. Both Ken and Boris initially wanted to keep them open, then changed their minds, and as you say, it's worked out OK. Not a disaster, but go to somewhere like oxford street or victoria during normal times and there'll be a queue of confused tourists waiting to speak to whichever station worker drew the short straw that morning to be Mr Information. who would have previously been in the long queue for the counter staff what's the difference here? There's still the same number of staff except now with some unused office space. What has it achieved? the opportunity to make a different use of that office space in the future |
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