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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 9 Oct 2020 16:30

https://tinyurl.com/y3yjk3j7

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 9 Oct 2020 16:51

Something rotten in the state of Denmark, Rollo?

A young relly was telling me this afternoon that she was not waiting with bated breath for Boris to introduce the same measures in Reading that he introduced in Newcastle when covid cases per 100,000 rose.

Could it be that this slowness and reluctance is due to which party the current MP belongs to, she wondered?

A cynic in the making! :-D

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 9 Oct 2020 17:12

Reading has 2 MP's one from each side so that argument doesn't really work.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 9 Oct 2020 18:40

I never checked but I I shall point out that she made the wrong comparison when she was talking about various regulations in different areas.

As at 7 October our little town wasn't even in the top 55 for new covid cases but we were under stricter rules.

It's all changed as hundreds of students have been diagnosed with covid since then. It is the one time I don't think many residents will gripe about students outnumbering residents as they did during the last few years.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 10 Oct 2020 12:05

fwiw I used to live in Canterbury as a student at the uni.
I was there not long ago (pre covid) to view a classic car.
No Lefevres (Debenhams) No Buffs depot, pedestrianised streets
but
my favorite watering hole was still alive and kicking
https://www.thefoundrycanterbury.co.uk/

Back then I had my mini wired up with just a start button on the floor 'cos I was always losing the keys. It was never nicked. The police are up against a wall of indifference at best with more and more people dishonest. Large scale white collar crime is rampant. You cannot arrest your way out of that whatever Priti Patel may believe. Of course honesty in govt would be a good start.

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 10 Oct 2020 12:26

I agree with your sentence about honesty in government. It's a shame that some people decide 'to be honest' only when they're caught out and even then it leaves one wondering what they've got up to previously without being caught out.

'More to be taken into account, Gov?'

I feel it would be better to go for accountability and to dismiss members and advisers who seem to have no conception what the word really means. It just isn't good governance to be excusing bad behaviour constantly.