Covid 19 Coronavirus

[DavidS]

I would love a proper flat southern pint of bitter but not to the point of heading to a pub yet.

[Asgard]

Funny that, I last went to a barber was 1983 Had dreadlocks through my teens to late 30's ...lopped them all off when I had a bad headlice outbreak and have done me own with clippers ever since

[daveuprite]

Funny that, I last went to a barber was 1983 Had dreadlocks through my teens to late 30's ...lopped them all off when I had a bad headlice outbreak and have done me own with clippers ever since

My vote for 'post of the day'

[garyboy]

try this ...

The last, and only, official haircut i had was about 60 years ago
The local twat cut my neck a bit .. never went again.

Edited .. as too graphic and account

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

There was a (very good) radio programme called 'the history of the world in 100 objects'
I think the above post is 'The life story of Garyboy in 100 haircuts'

[garyboy]

very true Richard ..

[garyboy]

just goes to show wot an effect all this covid 19 coronavirus lockdown has had on seemingly ordinary people ..
(to get back on thread lol

[Jak*]

Obviously a very biased point of view, but this article is interesting and makes some very obvious points about how thing might have been different.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opini ... zbL7AzmaGc

I guess we will never know, but it does seem highly probable that the death toll would have been a lot lower under Corbyn, although to be fair it would probably have been a lot lower with almost anybody else in no.10. (I wouldn’t say in charge, as it is quite obvious now that it is Dom who is pulling the strings).
Cheers

[daveuprite]

Obviously a very biased point of view, but this article is interesting and makes some very obvious points about how thing might have been different.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opini ... zbL7AzmaGc

I guess we will never know, but it does seem highly probable that the death toll would have been a lot lower under Corbyn, although to be fair it would probably have been a lot lower with almost anybody else in no.10. (I wouldn’t say in charge, as it is quite obvious now that it is Dom who is pulling the strings).
Cheers

Interesting article. Highly partisan, but that's not an issue. I don't think the writer should hide behind 'guest contributor' though.

But it's pretty hard to argue against much of the content. It's all supposition anyway. The problem is not so much that hugely better scenarios were possible, but that there are still people who vigorously defend the current shit-shower. That's quite extraordinary. And then they have the sheer gall to pop at Corbyn for theoretical scenarios that never happened! As it says in the article, it's a desperate "look a squirrel" attempt to distract from the only scenario that matters - i.e. the real one actually happening now. It's a particularly poor argument, showing little intellect, to defend a real and present disaster by shouting how much worse it might have been in other circumstances. Trump has built his presidency on this kind of rubbish.

At the end of the day, you can outline as many alternative versions of events as you like, but only one version transpired - and it was terrible. Only one group of politicians was in charge, and they've been terrible.

[Tonibe63]

Pure supposition from the writer known as 'unknown contributor' who clearly has an agenda for writing this story about "oh how different life would be if ......... ".
The only element of fact in the article is that it would have been different under Corbyn. The big BUT here is the fact that he was unelectable and Labour let the people down by hanging on to him for far too long, which is truely a "lamentable missed opportunity".
Mine is not a comment/judgement of Corbyn or his level of care for ordinary people but the article really is clutching at straws in an effort to justify somebody's pay cheque.