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Ive seen that most of the media have jumped in the bandwagon of bash Cummings. Non are entertained by Cummings, he does it completely differently to anyone before him.
He will hopefully sweep away past traditions of civil service, media involvement and government.
That is a seriously disturbing post! What you appear to be condoning is a government which doesn't face media or public scrutiny! Without the media, the public wouldn't have a clue what the politicians are upto! You also appear to be advocating a government run by an unelected, private individual. Boris as prime-minister is nothing more than figure-head to cumming who is running the show. Cummings is not part of the civil service, he's not elected, he's not even a member of the Conservative party, yet he is defacto running the country at the moment! Can you really not see a problem with that?
Originally Posted by lockheed
I would agree with this assessment .
Mr Cummings is a patronising tit ….. but I would rather have him in my tent pissing out than be in the hard left tent pissing in .
From what I can see most of the lefties on here live in Germany , so why would you make comments here on this thread. the phrase sell outs comes to mind
As far as I know, only Wurzel and myself are the only two ex-pats living in Germany so I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that most of the "Lefties" are in Germany!
Wurzel expresses pretty much zero political opinion, either on here or in real life, although I can confidently say as a proud ex-services man, he is very far from being a "Lefty". As for me, I'm also a long way from being a "Lefty". I have never in my life voted for a left leaning party - not even centre left or verging on the right in Tony Blairs case! Just because I disagree with Brexit and I find Boris too much of a clown to be a serious politician, that doesn't make me a "Lefty". So in reality, there is only one Brit on here living in Germany engaging in political discussion (me!) and you have completely misjudged my political leanings!
The problem is some people have become so right wing, they can no longer see reason and reject anything and anyone that doesn't fit their narrative. Labeling someone as a "Lefty" because they don't agree with your extremist opinion, doesn't make them a lefty, it only shows how narrow your own political spectrum is!
He went to a place where his family members could help if it became imperative to intervene. He kept social distance from family and the public. Yes he was fortunate to have such a sanctuary but that's just luck on his part.
The media have spun it so much that the facts were ignored
He didn't get off? He broke the rules, the police said so, they won't take it any further, others got fined, so explain why you think he didn't get off with it? Being hassled by the press is not 'not getting off with it', that's just part of public life.
Also, he's just a blatant liar. He drove to Barnard Castle to 'test his eyesight'. That raises so many obvious questions, why drive 25 miles to a beauty spot when driving a few miles round the ring road would have done? His wife, who won an award for her article about her road trip across America, driving hundreds of miles a day, and who, I imagine, must have recovered from Covid19 otherwise she shouldn't have been out, why didn't she just drive? If he really thought his eyesight wasn't good enough, hardly a good idea to test it out with your kids in the car! And all on her birthday, how convenient
And this is, let's not forget, a man who has altered his blog in retrospect to make it look like he predicted this!
Well, that is technically correct, but they also did not exonerate him! They could easily have said he didn't, unequivocally, but I imagine they are a bit too busy to go and look at this in retrospect, they will be too busy trying to police all the people who are breaking the rules because he did
It's like 'not proven' in Scottish law
Good to see you are happy to support someone who has been caught lying about his predictive abilities
Sutton Park was utterly packed to the rafters today.
Think Brighton Beach x 20.. Cars triple parked. Just wanted a quiet walk with the dog. Not one piece of grass free. Picnics with wine, tents up. Utterly crazy. Seen nothing like this in 4 decades of living next door to the park. Was like Benidorm on steroids
Talk of football coming back, yet on the 35th anniversary of Heysel what were they talking on about? Cummings and easing of lockdown MSM reporting really has gone to Shyte!
Almost as bad as the fair weather bikers on some days
Flight Radar doesn't give you any information about the reason for a flight or who is on board.
What for an observer on the ground looks like a scenic tour, could be a police aircraft, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring, air pollution monitoring, RAF flight training etc.
Most light aircraft can be operated completely alone, that is, the pilot wheels the aircraft out of a hanger, fuels the aircraft then takes to the skies all on his own with no direct contact to anyone else.
Another important point to consider is the need for flying hours. If a pilot does not obtain enough hours in a given aircraft type, then they will lose the type approval for that aircraft and would have to restart their type training from the beginning in order to fly again. I was actually speaking to a 737 pilot on the weekend on this very subject - he had to fly an empty 737 around in circles for a couple of hours to keep his type approval for the 737. Can you imaging the **** storm when travel restrictions are eased if nobody could travel anywhere because there were no longer any licensed pilots?
Flight Radar doesn't give you any information about the reason for a flight or who is on board.
What for an observer on the ground looks like a scenic tour, could be a police aircraft, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring, air pollution monitoring, RAF flight training etc.
Most light aircraft can be operated completely alone, that is, the pilot wheels the aircraft out of a hanger, fuels the aircraft then takes to the skies all on his own with no direct contact to anyone else.
Another important point to consider is the need for flying hours. If a pilot does not obtain enough hours in a given aircraft type, then they will lose the type approval for that aircraft and would have to restart their type training from the beginning in order to fly again. I was actually speaking to a 737 pilot on the weekend on this very subject - he had to fly an empty 737 around in circles for a couple of hours to keep his type approval for the 737. Can you imaging the **** storm when travel restrictions are eased if nobody could travel anywhere because there were no longer any licensed pilots?
First. Police aircraft aren’t on flightradar24 and flights for observation, transport, weather etc are usually aircraft that show as being owned by an aviation company and are usually newer, larger aircraft.
Second, this was occurring throughout lockdown where advice was to STAY at HOME. Doesn’t matter if you can fly alone, it’s not essential travel.
Third, you can track the route of the craft and they were in circles; A quaint round trip is obviously not transporting goods or people unless doing air drops over Malvern.
Fourth, these ‘pleasure flights’ were only in fair clear weather...not a small aircraft anywhere when it was dull or cloudy.
Fifth, Losing flying hours in a Cessna isn’t going stop you flying a 737 and most pilots that fly for a living don’t fly twin seaters, so again not essential.
Almost as bad as the fair weather bikers on some days
There was clear guidance for GA and other than maintenance flights - which required booking in - it was not allowed. I wasn't allowed to fly my Paraglider/Paramotor for the same reason.
With the numbers observed, there couldn’t be that many mechanics still working at the time and needing to do post-maintenance flights.
Granted anyone flying from a small airfield in the Midlands is more likely to fly West as it’s prettier in that direction, which ‘may’ explain the congregation over the welsh boarders, but that is pure speculation. It would be a interesting coincidence that so many maintenance/post maintenance flights took place at the same time and consistently throughout lockdown.
Of course proof of the pudding is logging the tail numbers. I logged some to pass the time....no trains to spot round here.
It’s been interesting to see where all the unwanted cruise ships and others have been anchored up to save money on the ship equivalent trackers , and some posh yachts traveling up channel here somehow getting around the rules on not being allowed to visit foreign harbors .
zoom out even a month ago it’s just mind boggling the number ships plying trade , like you could walk across the ocean on the dots
So we're enforcing quarantine , whilst we are the Home of corona in Europe
While the rest of Europe have been enforcing quarantine since the beginning of the crisis and are now easing quaratine restrictions, although not from the UK where the infection rate is still too high!
First. Police aircraft aren’t on flightradar24 and flights for observation, transport, weather etc are usually aircraft that show as being owned by an aviation company and are usually newer, larger aircraft.
Second, this was occurring throughout lockdown where advice was to STAY at HOME. Doesn’t matter if you can fly alone, it’s not essential travel.
Third, you can track the route of the craft and they were in circles; A quaint round trip is obviously not transporting goods or people unless doing air drops over Malvern.
Fourth, these ‘pleasure flights’ were only in fair clear weather...not a small aircraft anywhere when it was dull or cloudy.
Fifth, Losing flying hours in a Cessna isn’t going stop you flying a 737 and most pilots that fly for a living don’t fly twin seaters, so again not essential.
Keep up trying though
Skies have gone crazy now lockdown has eased;
I feed in to 360, freedar and ADS-b exchange, and there is not much on my feed that can't be identified these days. The police are now running fixed wing out of Donny and they show up and are identifiable. Of all the things that fly over my house, it's mostly some of the F15's out of LH that don't show. Typhoons, F35's, pretty much everything else flown by the RAF, Army, Navy and USAF show up and are named. Having to filter gliders out now on a nice day as they clutter the screen up. But if anything doesn't have a transponder fitted/turned on, then they won't show on anything but primary radar and even that's not guaranteed.
A few years ago, someone was running drugs in to the airfield up the road, I think they'd done 1-2 trips before they got busted. Flow over to Holland, hopped around there and maybe in to Belgium, flew back. Probably the most stupid thing they did was fly low level and turn off the transponder. Reading between the lines, they were tracked by the RAF/NATO reconnaissance aircraft that circle over the North Sea for hours on end. Special Branch were waiting for them when they landed.
So, are people generally confident things are calming down/getting better?
I think this year is a write off.
Oh, and who are all the people gagging for McDonalds and KFC? Lol
I can't see anything involving stadiums, arenas etc. going ahead this year, so footy, rugby etc. will all be behind closed doors. It's impossible to keep people apart. We've got tickets for Elton John backed of this year - it ain't happening. I mean, I'm uncomfortable sat in those places anyway because everyone is on top of each other, so with the risk of a virus being about, it's just a no brainier that it will be cancelled. (and Elton's old.....)
Cinemas and theaters; can't see how they can get going either. You could take out a row of seats I suppose, but what if someone needs a jimmy half way through?
I think it will burn itself out over the next year or so with localised outbreaks, but as a species, if you've not had it, then you'll have to accept that you may pick it up at some point and end up ill, ill in hospital or dead.
Agree on the Maccy thing - I drove past one in Bury last night and they had lanes for queuing..... it's not like they are even doing the Sausage & Egg McMuffin, so it's not worth going at all
Everyone with a smartphone preinstalled with facebook already has track and trace! (disclaimer: amongst other apps ) Hell, a few years back when they did an OS update on their iPhones some may have missed it automatically enabling contact sharing; And anyone that agreed to their updated terms of service means they log all sorts of usage...same with instagram, iMessenger and potentially Whatsapp.
FB knows my phone number without me ever giving it to them ( as people I know already shared their address book), it knows my location via GPS, IP address and possibly wifi credentials. And it’s proven to me it knows who I have been in proximity to by friend ‘suggestions’ of people that I know that have no relation to me via my contacts or anyone who is ‘friended’ on there.
For example the waitress that serves me in the Italian Restaurant I often frequented in Spain...the only thing we shared are the WiFi and GPS locations...and yet FB suggested her. Yeah, tin foil hat moment! And instances like this have happened a number of times until I shut down the app on iOS (just login via web now)
So just commandeer Facebook and its affiliates and use them to track and trace! Job done!
28 May 2020, 10:13 PM
