Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36031394)

What's going to be interesting is what politics looks like after this crisis. The economy is going to be very badly hit, on a scale that we've never seen before in our lifetimes. How people feel generally will be interesting as well, this might do a number on a lot of people and change them.

One thing's for sure if NHS wasn't already the national religion it will be now. It'll be untouchable with big political cost for not giving the staff pay rises, not increasing the budget beyond what was already planned by the current government and those new hospitals will have to be built (one should be called Nightingale too in tribute to this crisis).

Personally I also think any NHS/Key worker who worked though this crisis and is on a visa should be granted indefinite leave to remain if they want it and citizenship if they want that too.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36031398)

So to actually quote the first one, the (single) hedge fund made its profit betting on a stock market collapse.

Lucky for them, the bet worked out, Still, I'm sure everyone would have been equally 'angered' if they had lost the bet :rolleyes:


... and wait, another firm plans to make a profit ? Wow !
Newsflash for you - all firms plan to make a profit, and plenty are.

Oh, and of course ;

Did you miss that bit ? or did it just not suit your rant.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36031406)

You reduce this to banal cliches: "all firms plan to make a profit". You think that when so many firms are facing collapse, so many people are losing their jobs that it is morally acceptable for the wealthy to actively exploit this for their personal gains.

"I was only following orders" is not a defense. This is about a moral position, especially relevant at Easter when the the Archbishop of Canterbury warns of dangers of inequality after coronavirus.

If some think that criticising profiteering during a national crisis is 'ranting' then you need to grow up ..

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36031418)

:tu:
Notice Rees Mogg has done his disappearing act again, too busy cashing in.... To reappear when he's had his private vaccine no doubt.
Sir Keir will wipe the floor with these leaches.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36031424)

Whilst the nation focused on Boris Johnson's plight, how is Dominic Cummings getting on? He self-isolated at the end of last month so I assume he's not been as stricken with the virus as Boris Johnson was.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36031429)

Nobody cares Andrew, not even Boris.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36031432)

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36031475)

True. This may be food for thought.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-scandal.html

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36031475)

True. This may be food for thought.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-scandal.html

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36031480)

If it's the DM it's more like something to use instead of loo roll.

They are really getting desperate.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36031482)

Sadly like the vast majority of British newspapers be them politically left or right they have become political propagandist's mouthpiece's.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36031480)

If it's the DM it's more like something to use instead of loo roll.

They are really getting desperate.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36031481)

The changes that were introduced by the Conservative Government of the day, when the Justice Department was lead by Chris Grayling?

Wonder why they don’t want an apology from him, or from Dame Alison Saunders, who was the DPP when the investigation into Paul Gambaccini was undertaken?

Or perhaps Bernard Hogan-Howe, who was the Met Police Commissioner at the time - it was his officers who interviewed Mr Gambaccini.

A small point, but a very important one - the CPS (whoever is in charge) does not decide who gets investigated; the Police do that.