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Attorney at Funk
Jun 3, 2008

...the person who says honestly that he despairs is closer to being cured than all those who are not regarded as despairing by themselves or others.
johnson can die if gove replaces him. if it's gonna stay raab he should have to persist in the doomed world he created instead

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DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Fried Watermelon posted:

There are no codes
00000 is still a code

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
I heard being stuck halfway down a zipline in the middle of london was a good cure for the covid

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

wait a sec, your argument is that boris johnson needs to quickly recover so he can lead the country and resolve the crisis. because if he wasn't around, no decisions would be made nor policies enacted. boris johnson. that guy.

The alternative is Dominic Raab.

Snail Information
May 29, 2010

Snailmancy
The BBC wouldnt lie right? Boris is fine jus needs a little extra care and a harmless oxygen mask, right?

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
https://twitter.com/punishedzizek/status/1247515626526162944?s=19

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Sneak Lemming posted:

The BBC wouldnt lie right? Boris is fine jus needs a little extra care and a harmless oxygen mask, right?

In the ICU, with all the other 'rona patients. Just as a precaution. It's not like they shove you in there as an absolute last resort because once you're there it's nearly 50/50 of ever getting out.

Snail Information
May 29, 2010

Snailmancy
but the finest doctors are keeping him in good spirirts! And Not On A Ventilator

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

wait a sec, your argument is that boris johnson needs to quickly recover so he can lead the country and resolve the crisis. because if he wasn't around, no decisions would be made nor policies enacted. boris johnson. that guy.

i just want literally any government response.
the gov has basically been torn between ad-hoc recreating the central govmt they spent the last decades dismantling, or doing nothing and shrugging while calling it a herd immunity strategy. they deseperately want to do the latter because the UK has no central government and making one is hard work, and parliment doesnt really want to do anything.

in the UK and in other hosed places the only real hope is to wait until the first wave is over and things have stabilised before you catch the roni. every week of dither just adds another week before we're safer.

bojo dying or being coma'd is extremely likely but it means adding another month or two onto that time

so its not that i want him leading the crisis, its just his death throws them ever furhter into disarray and they're already still at the "do we know whose job it is to even phone the people to preorder masks?" stage

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




boris is dead and raab has declared the nhs superfluous to the progress of britain

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


and besides the point but bojo isnt anywhere near the worst tory.

he doesnt give a gently caress about anything and is a oval office and thug but everyone else in the tory is a oval office and thug who gives a LOT of a gently caress about austerity and killing poors.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Fried Watermelon posted:

There are no codes
IDBEHOLDL

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

DACK FAYDEN posted:

00000 is still a code

no like apparently we don't have a US-style nuclear football; there's no authorisation from boris thinking 'gently caress, we need to finish off those people we deported wrongfully to jamaica', there's pre-written orders

little unclear what the article actually refers to but it's such a great image of the top tories squabbling for nuclear access

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

An entirely plausible but very low chance scenario can occur now:

-BoJo and Raab die
- UK Navy so underfunded and short on manpower due to plague stop broadcasting overnight
- Someone at the BBC4 radio station forgets to queue up the program schedule, causing dead air
-The British sub captains take a long sip of their coffee and run their usual checks to see if the UK government is still functioning

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

HiHo ChiRho posted:

An entirely plausible but very low chance scenario can occur now:

-BoJo and Raab die
- UK Navy so underfunded and short on manpower due to plague stop broadcasting overnight
- Someone at the BBC4 radio station forgets to queue up the program schedule, causing dead air
-The British sub captains take a long sip of their coffee and run their usual checks to see if the UK government is still functioning
Plot twist: their sealed orders are to nuke the UK.

Pipski
Apr 18, 2004

Attorney at Funk posted:

johnson can die if gove replaces him. if it's gonna stay raab he should have to persist in the doomed world he created instead

Gove is self-isolating now too, because someone in his family became symptomatic.

Attorney at Funk
Jun 3, 2008

...the person who says honestly that he despairs is closer to being cured than all those who are not regarded as despairing by themselves or others.

Pipski posted:

Gove is self-isolating now too, because someone in his family became symptomatic.

that's purely for appearances' sake, the right honourable member for innsmouth is biologically incompatible with the virus

Snail Information
May 29, 2010

Snailmancy
RTE Radio (irish bbc) has people on talking about how terrible it is for BJ to be so ill, and then moving quickly on to making GBS threads all over UK policy and they might as well be reading posts from here, the schadenfreude is hot and heavy

Snail Information
May 29, 2010

Snailmancy

HiHo ChiRho posted:

-The British sub captains take a long sip of their coffee and run their usual checks to see if the UK government is still functioning

Do you think there are subs out there that don't know about the virus

Dravs
Mar 8, 2011

You've done well, kiddo.

Pipski posted:

Gove is self-isolating now too, because someone in his family became symptomatic.

Not family, I think the correct term is 'nest' or 'colony'

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Communist Thoughts posted:

and besides the point but bojo isnt anywhere near the worst tory.

he doesnt give a gently caress about anything and is a oval office and thug but everyone else in the tory is a oval office and thug who gives a LOT of a gently caress about austerity and killing poors.

IDS is loving this, if it wasn't tory on tory his response to bojo dying of roni would be loving chilling

There's a man who I genuinely think has dead prostitutes buried in his expansive back garden

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


gf put the news on and i dont really watch telly, holy poo poo the BBC and channel 4 are like North Korean news shows. its hilarious.
its blatant comedic propaganda about how wonderful boris is and then occasional cuts to childrens tv level explanations "a hospital is a big building where poorly people go"

saw Kier Starmer talking in motion for the first time since being leader. this is their saviour? lmao

also IDS genuinely looks undead but he also coughed

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

he probably didn't even have anything to do with their deaths. he just really likes dead sex workers

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Kier Starmer is a loving great name, such a shame.

literally all he is is a haircut and a Sir

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:

Sneak Lemming posted:

but the finest doctors are keeping him in good spirirts! And Not On A Ventilator
it's not a ventilator

it';s technically a lifeglug

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




he likes dead workers, regardless of industry

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

and now you seem to be exhibiting faith in the british press. are you doing okay?

Was the guy chasing him around not associated with the press? Whatever flag that dude flies under, those are the people I'm rooting for.

HiHo ChiRho posted:

An entirely plausible but very low chance scenario can occur now:

-BoJo and Raab die
- UK Navy so underfunded and short on manpower due to plague stop broadcasting overnight
- Someone at the BBC4 radio station forgets to queue up the program schedule, causing dead air
-The British sub captains take a long sip of their coffee and run their usual checks to see if the UK government is still functioning

How often do those checks happen? 'Cause if those are their metrics, places should have gotten nuked ages ago.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
I just looked at the bbc news front page and am pretty much convinced that boris died this morning.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009



he’s been dead for days

also jfc “pregnant partner” as the name for a woman that is horrible

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

why would the quean send a message to his family if he was OK?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

euphronius posted:

why would the quean send a message to his family if he was OK?

As an expression of sympathy. Royal sympathy, mind you, not actual sympathy.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




dead is a condition that is stable and does not demand ventilator support

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Can he get it over with and die already? I'm kind of on a tight schedule of :justpost:ing and I have a quota to fill.

Attorney at Funk
Jun 3, 2008

...the person who says honestly that he despairs is closer to being cured than all those who are not regarded as despairing by themselves or others.
how long do you think the british government could plausibly conceal that the prime minister had died

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
UK Politics thread: The Prime Minister is believed to be conscious NO VENT

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Attorney at Funk posted:

how long do you think the british government could plausibly conceal that the prime minister had died

a week ?

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Attorney at Funk posted:

how long do you think the british government could plausibly conceal that the prime minister had died

they couldnt. heres my official release on the matter: he is dead. biologically inert. his mortal spark has flickered its last. he is most accurately described using the past tense, as he now exists only as remains and memory

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

Born on the bayou
died in a cave
bbq and posting
is all I crave

euphronius posted:



he’s been dead for days

also jfc “pregnant partner” as the name for a woman that is horrible

Hang in there Boris! Stiff upper lip and all that! Remember the Blitz!

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Another Bill posted:

Hang in there Boris! Stiff

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Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Squizzle posted:

they couldnt. heres my official release on the matter: he is dead. biologically inert. his mortal spark has flickered its last. he is most accurately described using the past tense, as he now exists only as remains and memory

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