ROFL.

Where does the baby fit in? 😉

[I sense I might regret asking that question...]

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Say it in the style of Austin Powers.

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😀

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Malta reported it's first Covid death today

Trump's latest comment on BJ

“But certainly he’s had a tough bout and he’s still going through a tough time, but he seems to be doing better and that’s good"

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Surprises me but Conservative voters give the thumbs up to a government of national unity* by 54% to 30%. 

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/04/08/almost-two-thirds-brits-support-national-unity-gov

*that term is maybe a little vague to some people but the question defined it as where 'representatives from all the main political parties form a government together, for the duration of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis'

 

...... or they might take the view thank God we are in the EU and have the potential to get aid to recover our economy with money that we certainly don't have ourselves?

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Yep, I agree with all of that (always a first!) and I think that is the common sense view.

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Where is the money coming from?

i honestly think this thing has opened up plenty of fissures within in the EU. That doesn’t necessarily mean that countries will leave or the thing will collapse, but there is a lot of repair work to do. Let’s hope they put pragmatism before le project...

All 3 have had military on the streets or in control at various points throughout their recent history. We are not used to seeing lots of police around, let alone soldiers on street corners "show me your documents"

 

 

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As long as his legendary manhood is still functioning, I would imagine he will be keen to get balls deep in a nurse before discharge

 

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Covid-19 is transient; leaving the EU would not be.

If they left the EU there would only be one loser and it wouldn’t be the EU. 

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Tricky with all that protective equipment and the need to stay two metres apart.

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The strongest minute of current affairs TV since #Corona19 started. Well done @maitlis and all at #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/SJaqAvFpF0

— Gareth Noble (@GarNob) April 8, 2020

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He can pass on his immunity to the nurse?

and perhaps child No 9 or 10 (minus the aborted ones)

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Let's just slam the door shut on what is happening here. Some people are, unashamedly, politicising this pandemic.

We don't need a government of national unity (Labour woefully unprepared and out of power for a long while now), there would be too many squabbles. What we need is the current government singing from the same hymn sheet.

On the subject of the EU, I'm not averse to an extension to trade negotiations but the fact is we have left and will carry on foraging forward regardless. This pandemic should not be sieged upon by remainers as some kind of proxy to try to undermine (once again) the original vote.

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I assume this was aimed at me. What i did was comment on how many Conservative supporters thought that members of the opposition should be brought into the government. Opposition party supporters thinking that doesn't surprise me but that many of the governing party agreeing with reaching across the aisle does. FWIW, i think that the current political situation is ok, Johnson and co got elected so they should get on with it while other parties are able to criticise their plans. I suppose that if the government was to fall for whatever reason then that could change but it doesnt look like doing so.

The reason for such a high % agreeing with a GNU may be that national unity sounds good at a time like this but i am not sure the two main parties wouldn't trust each other not to be trying to lay the blame with the other, so there may not really be much unity in such a national government.

 

 

Sooooo, what country has more problems with "authority", the country that needs  armed military on the streets or a country that, by and large,   has an unarmed civilian  police force ?

 

 

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Countries with economies largely dependant on tourism, such as Spain, Greece and Italy are going to take a big hit from this for some time and will need a lot of EU support.  I wonder if they’ll have enough resources.

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It's relatively recent though. For example, my TV (which works fine) was made in Wales in 1999. It'll only get replaced when it breaks and it shows no signs of doing so. It was expensive (£700 for a 28-inch, bottom-of-the-range Sony Wega) but it's proved excellent value for money.

The factory's still going, too, but I've no idea what it makes these days!

https://www.wales247.co.uk/manufacturing-soars-to-6-4-million-products-at-sony-in-pencoed/

You can still buy quality goods made outside of China too. Our CPUs in our PCs aren't made in China, for example, although the motherboards they sit in usually are. Memory isn't made in China either, and the keyboard I'm using (5 years old) was made in the USA on the same production line that IBM used.

The snag with all of this is that "not made in China" goods carry a premium. People will have to get used to paying a bit more if we're to wean ourselves as a society away from China.

 

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