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All of that is true.

I'm not convinced that Voter ID will resolve the issue but I'm willing to hear the detail before deciding against it...

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This trade deal with Australia is going well

Looking forward to that sweet 0.02% boost to our GDP to come flooding in

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"We should curb tax avoidance by huge companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc..."

<USA> Do it!
<Canada> Go for it!
<Germany> Yes!
<France> Awesome!
<Japan> Sure thing!
<Italy> Definitely!

<UK> ...er

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/uk-lukewarm-and-evasive-over-g7-plan-to-curb-tax-avoidance-by-multinationals-b1853060.html

Waiting on the news that Amazon are secretly paying Boris' £800 a week takeaway bill...


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So, Dominic Cummings is saying everything we already believed to be true, is true.

The problem is that too many people don't care that it's true, which is depressing.


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"So, Dominic Cummings is saying everything we already believed to be true, is true.

The problem is that too many people don't care that it's true, which is depressing."
Is this a case of confirmation bias? 

Everyone was calling him a blatant liar during the whole Barnard Castle episode, so does the explanation he gave yesterday now change anyone's mind on this?

I suspect a lot of it is true, but I don't particularly care as the pandemic is an imperfect event where multiple decisions need to be taken in order to try and mitigate risk/death.

There have been flaws all the way through, some of those flaws can be laid at the door of number 10, some at the Health Secretary, some at the Home Secretary (although I think we may well disagree on some of those), some of those at PHE, some at the NHS, some at SAGE, some at the media, some at celebrities.

There is a natural human instinct to lay all the blame at one door, but life is far more complex than that and this is why (in your own words) why "too many people don't care that it's true" as they understand the complexity of the situation even if they don't understand all of the complexities and how they are all linked.

This is why people also voted the way they did not too long ago...

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Are we really that goldfish-memoried that we needed Cummings' testimony yesterday?

The whole not taking it seriously, herd immunity thing, the whole release the infected into the care homes, the whole PPE debacle, the whole test and trace money pit, the whole lock down too late, open up too early things...

That's all public record. We've all been living through it for the last 15 months!

I have heard Boris Johnson, twice, publicly accept responsibility for the government's pandemic response. We now live in a reality where a man can accept responsibility for tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand needless deaths (if we'd locked down like Australia), and still keep his job.

Half the public, maybe more are still publicly applauding Johnson, saying he's doing a good job. They'd be queueing around the block if Johnson invented a suicide booth.

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"There is a natural human instinct to lay all the blame at one door, but life is far more complex than that and this is why (in your own words) why "too many people don't care that it's true" as they understand the complexity of the situation even if they don't understand all of the complexities and how they are all linked"
I think we have very different ideas of what a competent person is, yes people do make mistakes, but I kind of want the people running the entire country to make less of them than my local supermarket manager.

But maybe I've spent too long working with really amazing smart people, and I expect the same from our supposed "leaders". Ones that made decisions which were right for the country, over their popularity or friends bank accounts would be a nice start.


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"But maybe I've spent too long working with really amazing smart people, and I expect the same from our supposed "leaders"."
And how many of those have stepped up to try and run the country?

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