Another new coronavirus variant seen in the UK
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It has similar mutations to the South Africa variant, so how worrying is it?
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Mr Angel
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BBC News, now trusted less than ITV, Channel4 and even Murdoch...
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And, of course, I should believe Mr Angel about this, should I?
Watch out for the Glasgow variant. Additional symptoms are bleeding nose and watery eyes.
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I'm Glaswegian and please accept my apologies for offering light relief to a horrendous situation in advance.
Close the borders. Stop foreign nationals and cut immigration. Too many people in this little island. Stop people coming in. I read somewhere that 3 million Chinese people are coming to the UK once Covid measures are eased. What was once a great country now a parasites playground.
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When did your on forebears decide they were no longer foreign and not of immigrant stock?
Hi there Mr Fartage
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BBC are keen to give the virus geographical names, Kent, Brazil S, Africa etc except when its the Chinese parent version, when are they going to stop submitting to the CCP?
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If there ever was a time to panic, this is it.
Close the borders. Stop foreign nationals and cut immigration. Too many people in this little island. Stop people coming in. I read somewhere that 3 million Chinese people are coming to the UK once Covid measures are eased. What was once a great country now a parasites playground.
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Always wonder if the dopes who come on here to slag down the BBC every time are as critical of the scaremongering of more sensationalised and wildly innacurate media outlets, Telegraph, Times, Mail, Sun, Express for example. I doubt it.
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Kent must pay for this.
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Watch out for the Barnard Castle variant. Additional symptoms include failing eyesight (testable by driving) and a heightened sense of entitlement.
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Give it a rest for goodness sake.
I agree but I try to see this from the perspective of many people in this country who are suffering from mental health issues, particularly anxiety. The way some news outlets sensationalise and use word like may, could, possibly is not reporting fact but conjecture.
The deliberate maintenance of high levels of infection caused by government policy (they avoided taking measures to bring it down) is the most effective way of promoting new variants of the virus. Well done Boris you are on your way to a 2nd 100000 dead.
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Silly comment! Remember HYS moderators, I said the COMMENT was silly not the OP.
Haha, I made the comment further below: when will the remoaners come here blaming the new variant on Boris. Right on cue. Zzzzz
House rules- "You must not post material that: Is defamatory (damaging to someone else’s reputation)".
BY THE BBC'S OWN HOUSE RULES, this post is defamatory, since it claims the British Government is DELIBERATELY causing Coronavirus to spread in order to kill as many of its own citizens as possible.
Is there an Ombudsman I can contact to take this complaint further?
BY THE BBC'S OWN HOUSE RULES, this post is defamatory, since it claims the British Government is DELIBERATELY causing Coronavirus to spread in order to kill as many of its own citizens as possible.
Is there an Ombudsman I can contact to take this complaint further?
Grow up
OK how old are you?? have you gone through the AIDS virus, SARS, Bird Fle? Probably not so stop spouting Cr4p
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No, because naturally acquired immunity works too.
Do we vaccinate everybody for flu, or for colds?
Did you know that already 4 coronaviruses that circulate freely within the human population and have done for several generations?
They rarely cause bother except in very elderly / sick, for others its a cold / cough, maybe a touch of fever, but we all get exposed to these every few years. Removed
Do we vaccinate everybody for flu, or for colds?
Did you know that already 4 coronaviruses that circulate freely within the human population and have done for several generations?
They rarely cause bother except in very elderly / sick, for others its a cold / cough, maybe a touch of fever, but we all get exposed to these every few years. Removed
Watch out for the Barnard Castle variant - additional symptoms include poor eyesight (testable by driving) and a heightened sense of entitlement.
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Oh for Pete's sake, enough of variant scaremongering. Time to get on with life. The end.
The UK appears to be very good at provoking these viral mutations. World beating, one might say.
Give it a rest for goodness sake.
They will still be harping on about it long after the EU has broken up! The EU's disaster with the vaccine roll out is just one of their many problems. Even Brexit was just one of many major problems for them. Covid and the appointment of Ursula Von de Leyen (EU's answer to Dido Harding!) shows just how ridiculous the EU is.
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Actually it shows how ridiculously speculative and pointless your comments are.
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You've been saying at least since 2016 if not longer that the EU was about to 'break up' but if you took your head out of the sand you'd see the EU is not only still here, it's now - thanks to Brexit - winning business away from the UK and has overtaken London as the continent's main share-trading hub. Look what you won!
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Deflect deflect deflect - that's all you Brexiteers ever do, without mentioning ONE single positive outcome for the UK that benefits everyone.
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They will still be harping on about it long after the EU has broken up! The EU's disaster with the vaccine roll out is just one of their many problems. Even Brexit was just one of many major problems for them. Covid and the appointment of Ursula Von de Leyen (EU's answer to Dido Harding!) shows just how ridiculous the EU is.
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They will still be harping on about it long after the EU has broken up! The EU's disaster with the vaccine roll out is just one of their many problems. Even Brexit was just one of many major problems for them. Covid and the appointment of Ursula Von de Leyen (EU's answer to Dido Harding!) shows just how ridiculous the EU is.
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You've been saying at least since 2016 if not longer that the EU was about to 'break up' but if you took your head out of the sand you'd see the EU is not only still here, it's now - thanks to Brexit - winning business away from the UK and has overtaken London as the continent's main share-trading hub. Look what you won!
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Now we have left the EU, our next task it to break it into little pieces. :-)
Covid crisis has put its ineptitude in focus. if you read Politico.EU, you will see many other major issues that are prizing it apart. Opposition to it is growing by the day, and many member states can see how weak the EU is and just ignore its rules and do their own thing. EU is crumbling. Removed
Covid crisis has put its ineptitude in focus. if you read Politico.EU, you will see many other major issues that are prizing it apart. Opposition to it is growing by the day, and many member states can see how weak the EU is and just ignore its rules and do their own thing. EU is crumbling. Removed
They will still be harping on about it long after the EU has broken up! The EU's disaster with the vaccine roll out is just one of their many problems. Even Brexit was just one of many major problems for them. Covid and the appointment of Ursula Von de Leyen (EU's answer to Dido Harding!) shows just how ridiculous the EU is.
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Black / Minority Ethnic population not taking the vaccine, nobody wants to talk about this but there is also plenty of studies of low IQ in non white races, and high IQ in far Eastern where compliance has been far higher.
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You've been saying at least since 2016 if not longer that the EU was about to 'break up' but if you took your head out of the sand you'd see the EU is not only still here, it's now - thanks to Brexit - winning business away from the UK and has overtaken London as the continent's main share-trading hub. Look what you won!
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Now we have left the EU, our next task it to break it into little pieces. :-)
Covid crisis has put its ineptitude in focus. if you read Politico.EU, you will see many other major issues that are prizing it apart. Opposition to it is growing by the day, and many member states can see how weak the EU is and just ignore its rules and do their own thing. EU is crumbling. Removed
Covid crisis has put its ineptitude in focus. if you read Politico.EU, you will see many other major issues that are prizing it apart. Opposition to it is growing by the day, and many member states can see how weak the EU is and just ignore its rules and do their own thing. EU is crumbling. Removed
Dream on.
UK Column News. Real News for the average person, and more accurate. 2 decent guys who are on weekly:
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Yes, if you like a news channel that is based on absolutely zero science but pure opinion from Covid deniers....
Funny, you putting up a link to a website, when your name contradicts your actions. Hinge and Brackett were better.
Cars have mutated since forever. They keep getting faster and faster, bigger and heavier, killing more and more, and they kill not just those with one foot already in the grave, but everyone regardless, even kids and their parents. So lock down all the roads and ban all cars.
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How do I drive my fire engine then?
This is worrying -
First response in a pandemic - repay party-donors with billions from Public funds, at cost to our lives and welfare.
Tories vote down protections for NHS in trade deals on deadliest day in pandemic:
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tories-vote-down-protections-for-nhs-in-trade-deals-on-deadliest-day-in-pandemic/19/01/ Removed
First response in a pandemic - repay party-donors with billions from Public funds, at cost to our lives and welfare.
Tories vote down protections for NHS in trade deals on deadliest day in pandemic:
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Dominic Cummings’ plan to test millions of people a day for coronavirus led the government to spend over £800m on quick turnaround tests that were later found in a pilot to give the wrong results as much as 60% of the time, the Guardian can reveal. Innova Medical Group is now believed to be the largest single recipient of payments from UK government contracts during the pandemic.
The government's decision to hire a firm with links to the PM's ex-chief adviser Dominic Cummings has been challenged at the High Court.
Campaign group The Good Law Project has complained of "apparent bias" in the decision to recruit Public First for Covid-19 opinion polling last year.
But Mr Cummings said the £540,000 contract had been "entirely justified".
Campaign group The Good Law Project has complained of "apparent bias" in the decision to recruit Public First for Covid-19 opinion polling last year.
But Mr Cummings said the £540,000 contract had been "entirely justified".
"Take note remainers. Free monement[sic] in Europe brought it here."
Noted, but not the first illiterate comment from a Brexiter I've seen.
Noted, but not the first illiterate comment from a Brexiter I've seen.
Oh my goodness what a lame excuse, totally unfounded comment.
Perhaps purchase an atlas too?
You might find that South Africa is not in Europe. ??
You might find that South Africa is not in Europe. ??
Can someone explain how these new vaccines they are working on for possible use in winter will be given in time We still wont have finished this years useless vaccinations by then
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"No one is vaccinated until everyone is vaccinated."
No, No one is as safe as possible until everyone is vaccinated.
Any vaccination will improve everyone's chances and universal vaccination will, hopefully, leave the virus with no hosts to infect.
Unfortunately there will always be a few for whom the vaccine doesn't work or who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. They need to be protected.
No, No one is as safe as possible until everyone is vaccinated.
Any vaccination will improve everyone's chances and universal vaccination will, hopefully, leave the virus with no hosts to infect.
Unfortunately there will always be a few for whom the vaccine doesn't work or who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. They need to be protected.
another 'variant'to ramp up fear. Ask why Chris whitty, an expert on ivermectin has never mentioned this as an effective treatment when studies have shown that it is, or how Fauci wrote a paper of HCQ as an effective treatment against coronavirus, yet it was supressed. all to force the population to have an unlicensed mrna injection that doesn't stop you catching or transmitting the disease
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No money to be made from cheap drug treatments, but billions to made by Big pharma led by Bill 'Depopulation 'Gates from World Governments. People need to look at the adverse reaction statitics for these various ''vaccines'' The amount of deaths and severe reactions are horrific.
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Inhaled Budesonide has far fewer side effects than the drugs you mention. Being used by certain doctors with massive success, only they cannot get a voice here. They did a youtube thing as nowhere else to go last summer. Now "Oxford" have done a study, it has been taken more seriously after umpteen thousand unnecessary UK deaths.
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Anyone complicit in this crime against humanity will get their comeuppance, that includes you shysters that work for the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation. None of you are innocent!
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Strange then that it was recently reported that it is the Telegraph that has been directly funded by the Chinese Communist Party.
I spot a Russian bot and claim my five pounds. Change the screen name, eh, Ivan. That was too easy.
Are you on the correct medication?
another 'variant'to ramp up fear. Ask why Chris whitty, an expert on ivermectin has never mentioned this as an effective treatment when studies have shown that it is, or how Fauci wrote a paper of HCQ as an effective treatment against coronavirus, yet it was supressed. all to force the population to have an unlicensed mrna injection that doesn't stop you catching or transmitting the disease
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Look like the world in the future be so clean just like the bathtub in Schindlers List..
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Opinions, opinions, opinions :from armchair scientists, strategists, non-decision making experts. Ho Hum! For us in Scotland , the only decision is the right one in May. Get rid of SNP who are habitual moaners going around with their ungrateful hands out. This will probably be removed because it's insulting to the SNP . What a world we live in.
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Opinions, opinions, opinions :from armchair scientists, strategists, non-decision making experts. Ho Hum! For us in Scotland , the only decision is the right one in May. Get rid of SNP who are habitual moaners going around with their ungrateful hands out. This will probably be removed because it's insulting to the SNP . What a world we live in.
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All viruses mutate - fact. They always have and they always will. Sensationalist reporting is the problem and is causing unnecessary worry to many. As viruses mutate, so do vaccines- the flu vaccine evolves every year. Please stop reporting variants in such a sensationalist way BBC and other major networks
lay off the red bull.. and Decaff
You utter moron
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Not just Africa. European Countries have fallen for this already.
"Africa's tribal dictators are selling out to China"
No doubt
But it's not as if anyone else, including the UK, is making them a better offer
They are not patriotically obliged to watch their people suffer and die in order to stop China's power and influence growing
Their past colonialists were patriotically obliged to help them develop their exploited countries
And did not
No doubt
But it's not as if anyone else, including the UK, is making them a better offer
They are not patriotically obliged to watch their people suffer and die in order to stop China's power and influence growing
Their past colonialists were patriotically obliged to help them develop their exploited countries
And did not
Why was that stupid person from Brazil giving the thumbs down from her nice hotel? If it were down to me it would be a month in quarantine, make a few quid for the hotel, then send her back to Brazil with a big exit stamp on her passport saying, "**** you *******", with an Arnie emoji.
Whilst there are people getting sick with a respiratory illness, everything else is a corrupt scam. Even if you believe the dubious numbers, 64 million people in the UK have manged to avoid this virus ... & for that, the government has ruined millions of lives. I for one will not be paying the ransom of having an experimental gene therapy in order to have my rights & freedoms restored.
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I don't know if you noticed but we've been in lockdown. Maybe you're one of the selfish lot that ignored it so don't factor it in to your "thinking"
Toby, Toby, Toby, You're getting yourself all wound up over nothing. No-one can make you take anything. And you'll get you're freedom back same time as everyone else. Have a drink or take a chill pill.
The great reset has begone .. first get rid of the populists through mental torture and isolation
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cancel culture is allowed but bullying not welcome to 2021 where words are twisted and arrogance is on the uprise.. Remember the Bathtub scene from schindlers list ?? this where we are headed 100 %
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True and the more idiotic the countries leaders were, Trump and Uk's mini johnson Trump, that let the virus in through every border available, then on to Cheltenham and liverpool, have managed to magnify the mutations, due to being toatl imbeciles.
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UK aka GB is very much a nation that starts with a wrong conclusion and works backwards to prove it true.
As seen by
Johnson and the dubious science of Covid and Brexit
Spies propaganda prejudice bias and warmongering
400 years of white supremacy racism
Lack of truth in media
Meghan treated like dirt Kate treated like teacher's pet
As seen by
Johnson and the dubious science of Covid and Brexit
Spies propaganda prejudice bias and warmongering
400 years of white supremacy racism
Lack of truth in media
Meghan treated like dirt Kate treated like teacher's pet
Me no yank Homie
Me British
but Brits like to think Americans are more racist than them
when they are much worse and more sly and covert
racism was justification for colonialism and slavery
robbery with aggravation
the pirates of capitalism
cheating to win
without a level playing field
whenever UK starts to lose it changes rules
400 years of practising bad ways
Me British
but Brits like to think Americans are more racist than them
when they are much worse and more sly and covert
racism was justification for colonialism and slavery
robbery with aggravation
the pirates of capitalism
cheating to win
without a level playing field
whenever UK starts to lose it changes rules
400 years of practising bad ways
The Tories NHS U-turn won't undo all the damage THEY inflicted over the previous nine years.
We are in lockdown to protect an NHS that is short staffed and under funded by tens of billions.
Average increase per year in NHS spending -
5.0% under last Labour government.
1.3% under this Tory government.
Since WW2 its been 4.1%.
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We are in lockdown to protect an NHS that is short staffed and under funded by tens of billions.
Average increase per year in NHS spending -
5.0% under last Labour government.
1.3% under this Tory government.
Since WW2 its been 4.1%.
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Party political claptrap. Not removed because the moderator does not think this not relevant to the article about a new variant.
The building of Nightingale Hospitals was the biggest clue
Nursing staff was 50,000 short at the start of the C19 Pandemic. It's now 80,000 short
Where are you going to get ICU staff to work in Nightingale Hospitals if you have a National Shortage of staff?
How are they going to staff 6 new hospitals, let alone the 40 that were promised in GE 2019, when there are no staff?
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Nursing staff was 50,000 short at the start of the C19 Pandemic. It's now 80,000 short
Where are you going to get ICU staff to work in Nightingale Hospitals if you have a National Shortage of staff?
How are they going to staff 6 new hospitals, let alone the 40 that were promised in GE 2019, when there are no staff?
PS Bursaries
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Thegreatconmorelike
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let us hope Britain has an opposition strong enough and celver enough to get these Tory tyrants out Pronto
not with first past the post
fanzine press
52% either gullible, too dim, or cult of bozo i fear
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let us hope Britain has an opposition strong enough and celver enough to get these Tory tyrants out Pronto
not with first past the post
fanzine press
52% either gullible, too dim, or cult of bozo i fear
So they think they have Carte blanche, the Mad Scientists to dictate to us how we should all live our lives from day to day? "Someone needs to put the scientists in their place", said one MP a few weeks ago. Who will be brave enough to tell them to stuff it and stop the daily dose of psychotic control freakery?
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Your evidence for them being 'mad' is what exactly? That they are saying things you dont like & dont understand, or have you just watched too much cheap cinema? From where does the diagnosis of psychotic come from, do you even understand what it means? Amuses me that those like you who mocked EU leavers for wanting to go back in time now cant face the idea your 'golden age' is probably gone.
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Ever seen the Office US? Think of how Dwight says "idiot" then look in the mirror and say it to yourself.
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Yet another clear indication that UK is now operating under better conditions, free from the shackles of the dictatorial eu.
Brexit just keeps on giving.
Brexit just keeps on giving.
I for one will not be paying the ransom of having an experimental gene therapy in order to have my rights & freedoms restored.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t coronavirus so dangerous to humans because our immune system Had never encountered anything like it before.Now we have the vaccines even if it mutates wouldn’t our immune systems have at least Have had some exposure to it
I give in ...... i give in i shout .. on day 178 ...... you win BBC . i give in to your Propaganda... -.... i wait for your next command Sire !
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This is becoming obsessive. Think how many variants of a cold virus there are? Note the word now is variant not coronavirus; it could be any number of viruses they are tracking and I’m sure there are countless. Time to move on; protect the vulnerable; focus on treatments and at getting our citizens healthy. Unfortunately it’s those that don’t take care of themselves that are becoming sick.
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And this is why I do not want lockdown to end soon. Variants need to die off if possible, so vaccines don't become ineffective and lives are not lost due to simple measures not being taken / taken too late.
Some people are just too impatient to get back to "normal" and carry on as if no one matters to them but themselves.
Some people are just too impatient to get back to "normal" and carry on as if no one matters to them but themselves.
It’s just boring now. We need our courts to step in and make a legally binding end to these stupid restrictions. The virus will never go away.
Let me guess, you’re a free loading benefit scrounger that wants these restrictions to continue for ever? Some of us want to get on with our lives.
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The covid vaccines do not meet the accepted scientific definition of a vaccine. They are instead a form of gene therapy.
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Bilge....
Pfizer and Moderna perhaps.
Astra Zeneca and Sputnik are more traditional vaccines.
Astra Zeneca and Sputnik are more traditional vaccines.
i wonder who those 6 work for that voted against you and most probably me . ???
The root cause for the spread of this is multi-culturalism. The planet's become a heinz 57 mongrel nation. Whereas previously there were pockets of infectious diseases which erupted and infected locally, especially in insanitary communities, nowadays global travel and mixing aids the spread worldwide.
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Is it sounding like mass euthanasia in U.K. due to the new damning evidence on survival rates for anyone sick? Sick disabled people are nearly three times more likely to die compared to healthy individuals.
A commission needs set up to look at the mess this government has caused?
A commission needs set up to look at the mess this government has caused?
Yet more project fear, non reporting by the BBC. Not a single word in the guts of the article supports the scare mongering first paragraph.
End the licence fee now to make this “information” juggernaut accountable.
End the licence fee now to make this “information” juggernaut accountable.
We would never have been told all this information in the past and nobody would have wanted to know the weekly/monthly death rate! Our nation has to stop feeding this info out every single day. BBC this means you also. Causing hysteria and scare tactics come to mind!
Thegreatconmorelike
"Maybe Corybn was not a bad choice after all"
He would have tried to do the right thing
Tried to alleviate suffering and injustice
He may well have failed disastrously
But he would have tried
Tories try to do the opposite
Labour tries to help and usually fails
Tories try to harm and always succeed
"Maybe Corybn was not a bad choice after all"
He would have tried to do the right thing
Tried to alleviate suffering and injustice
He may well have failed disastrously
But he would have tried
Tories try to do the opposite
Labour tries to help and usually fails
Tories try to harm and always succeed
To all you types who say 'wheyy, enough is enough gov, get the pub open cause me old man fought in the wooorrr and I pay me taxes' please keep commenting you will make my day