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That’s a long recharge time

That’s a long recharge time

That’s a long recharge time

That's perhaps the most disappointing thing I've ever seen you post, Sage. This Week was a glorious political show on the BBC for many years, rating into the millions at midnight, until it was cancelled by the Beeb. Last night it was recreated to an extent, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer being grilled by the nation's most forensic interviewer for 20 minutes and then his responses being dissected by an expert panel including Michael Portillo. Real in-depth thoughtful useful and important TV. I learnt stuff.
It's so frustrating people just want to sit in their bubbles and denounce stuff when they don't know what it is. While the Twitter hate mob calls for it to be cancelled and boycotted because they're terrified they'll hear things that might challenge them and make them think.

Same here. Lots of the "motivationally challenged" are very concerned about all the latest covid developments with regards to their workplace, but a quick glance at their facebook page reveals no such paranoia in their personal time. I wish I could say it was a shock, but I could've hand picked the people who would behave this way.

I know a few people that act differently from when they are at work to when they are out drinking socially. 
 
Double standards have been applied to many things Covid related. 

I’ve had enough now. July finish or I ignore it. We are frightened of our own shadows now.. 

It’s a point that has interested me for years ,  crime sanity etc , I’ve reached the bottom line of no one who does something like that is sane , it’s just splitting hairs on sentencing issue, for me it’s matters not your just too dangerous to ever be released?‍♂️

Is the mythical R number making a comeback? Vanished off the face of the earth for a while now it’s back as the poster boy?

You "know" that do you? Do you also "know" that the news outlet that made that claim later retracted it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56810371
Perhaps you should consider adding some additional sources to your news aggregation? I hear GB news is good.

In the main I don’t , that’s why I don’t have the kind of mob views on immigration being the cause of all our ills and immigrants being scroungers bleeding the country dry rather than enhancing it , staffing the nhs and the like ,, my worry is how fast people who should know better succumb to it when it’s normally the total opposite of who and what they are ,,,,,, project fear?‍♂️

Rare I agree with you @Angry Ram, but fair do's you've hit the nail on the head. Yes, there's an element of the loony left that does this, and wants to organise against businesses or organisations that don't fit with their world view. The problem is, once you start down that road you end up so fragmented it's like in the Life of Brian. The People's front don't agree with the popular front because of their views on Trans rights, or sustainability, or positive discrimination, or a million and one other things.
I like a broad church. We don't have to agree. I don't agree particularly with JK Rowling's views, others probably will. But she's allowed to think it and speak it, even if people disagree. 
Having an opinion is perfectly acceptable. Even when it's wrong.

Let’s watch how it plays out with gov, media and general public,
it’s already for some get jabbed or lose your job, these people were on the frontline with no jabs through the worst of it and at the shat end of little or no ppe,
clap for carers turns to sack for carers
without speaking to everyone of them I have no clue why they may not want to be jabbed,
by the same token I have no clue why they would have risked their lives and the lives of their families to care for others this last year and a half?‍♂️

Can see the point , but would also like us to spare a thought these include the people that only a short while ago were hero’s putting their lives on the line to care for and nurse our old people , frontline risking their own lives for others ,
how quickly we forget our debts??‍♂️

Kate Andrews is now much better since she left IEA which frankly is a hyper-ideological, yet populist organisation. Andrew Pierce winds me up to no end but so does everything the express writes. 
Boulton and Burley are the worst on there...
I mean i don't think time will tell, I think it told you it's standpoint before it's launch. 
Sky was far more anti-brexit than the BBC. In fact the BBC are the mouthpiece for pro-gov policy through Laura K, shown through the Cummings revelations the other day. 
The BBC and all 'MSM' get accused of this every time there's a protest. There are protests literally every weekend in central London. 
What news is that? Banging the drum and blowing whistles over right wing talking points which are discussed on talkradio/lbc/in the tabloids every day? 
Anyway veering in to politics now but I'm just sick of the right wing commentators are silenced narrative.. 

As an industry we have been lobbying our local MPs on and off for 14 months. 
Generic responses and regular refusals to provide any evidence requested to support the measures in place.
Just 'we've seen the evidence to support our stance' type responses. 

Is that any different from labelling people right wing , racist , homophobic and the like , sad state of affairs really ,which came first the chicken or the egg??‍♂️, seems we are stuck with it and maybe it is social media , in all reality I’m pretty sure that there’s people on here that  would seem very different to each other in a proper sat face to face conversation 

We're all having a conversation on here and most of the time despite strong disagreements, its in good faith ?
'Woke loonies' are the idiot twitter minority that try to cancel things before they have even aired a minute of content or go after advertisers when thay doesn't work.  
If you are going to engage in adult conversation you can be as far left or right as you want, not only will I be happy to have a chat, but I will be respectful doing so. 
If you are going to try to cancel someone for simply having a different opinion to you, or attempt to use quite nefarious methods to prevent those opinions shared at all, then yes I'm going to call them woke loonies as we'd have no starting point for a conversation anyway.

I personally think anyone saying that we should continue with lockdown is very selfish and only thinking of themselves (And probably because it doesn't materially affect them).
Also - why do we think opening up will create more cases, especially at the rates that SAGE think. Lockdowns have shown around the world they don't always work, multiple countries including us have shown mask mandates don't work - I'm not convinced the numbers would materially change if we opened up 100%.
What I do know is that the Million on furlough and the industries that are desperate may stand a fighting chance of survival. 40,000 businesses went bust in Q1 this year (Maybe that's 100k jobs) and from July onwards this number in my opinion is going to really start to hit home. Imagine being told that in July, if you're an events business, or a hospitality business, or a nightclub or a travel company, or an airline, or a company making meals for air line companies (I could go on and on) that you will need to start contributing to the furlough payments yet you cannot even legally open? Just imagine that - it may not affect you personally, but put yourselves in the shoes of that business owner who is probably desperate to support his and her employees and the stress it'll be causing them...
Then, the 5 million on waiting lists for operations, the 10,000 people less who have not had breast cancer screenings (against 2019 numbers), the 40,000 less who have not had cancer referrals (against 2019 levels) and so on. The NHS isn't shut - I get that - but the fear culture, the do everything at arms-length culture, the stress (I've had anxiety which I've sort medical help for - thankfully its only mild), the mental health of people.
All for what? I get the other side of the argument - but the constant stream of lies just makes me angry. The constant stream of SAGE forecasts which are so far off the mark its just laughable. The decisions made by ministers and government scientists whose jobs are safe, no matter how wrong their predictions are, their share options in companies who are making a fortune, whilst single parents with children are wondering how they will support their kids because they're on 80% wages. It makes me furious.
The 3 deaths we saw yesterday, the average death count being around 10 a day now, 10!!! out of 1000 plus who die every day, that's 1% of deaths are covid - and guess what - a number of these people still have underlying conditions anyway! 
Honestly - it infuriates me the sheer hypocrisy. I actually want to see Boris and his G7 chums having a BBQ with no masks - that's normal - that's relaxing, that is the atmosphere we want, but then to not allow the rest of the country to enjoy it, that's not right. 
I hope the tide turns, I hope people rally, I hope there are peaceful protests, I hope as of the 21st June people do start to rebel. These politicians and ministers (Not all of them) need to wake up and smell the coffee. It does make me angry.
Sorry - Rant over.

Ah there you go , same old stereotypical assumptions ,suppose it’s just easier that way?‍♂️

Isn’t space on the red list? The Venus variant being of concern 

Projecting much?
I imagine a lot of people just want to hear the news and not be spoonfed a narrow selective version of it - after all one of the core principles of GB News was to bring the full picture. 
Straight away we have Andrew Neil slagging of Boris, covering a demonstration outside Downing Street then qualifying it with most people are supportive of an extension.  Thats infinitely better than the BBC and Sky who almost completely ignored literally tens of thousands of people 'Marching for Freedom' through London the other week ?
And for what its worth, the real 'perpetually enraged' you talk of are still trending on twitter this morning - still trying to organise people to stop buying products from companies that advertise on GB News ? Why is it always lefties that not only don't want adult discussion, but also don't want you hearing about alternative opinions in the first place? 
My wish is that one day Google or Intel advertise on something they despise and they have to pack up using their PCs etc and we won't be subject to their inane ramblings for a bit.  Ah well, in the meantime there is always #gowokegobroke 

Isn’t space on the red list? The Venus variant being of concern 

New news channel starts tonight , will we get a breath of fresh air or will it be the same old stale garbage that churns out garbage and challenge s nothing?

Isn’t space on the red list? The Venus variant being of concern