How to Make Yourself Popular
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:50 pm
That was my first thought yesterday when I saw it too!Bryn Mawr wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:50 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180
Eighteen months? It should not have taken that long.
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Asked whether Brexit was to credit for the world-first, Williamson told LBC radio station on Thursday: “Well I just reckon we’ve got the very best people in this country and we’ve obviously got the best medical regulators.
“Much better than the French have, much better than the Belgians have, much better than the Americans have. That doesn’t surprise me at all because we’re a much better country than every single one of them, aren’t we.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ll-of-them
I could approve a vaccine in ten seconds and I’m certainly not the best man for the job.spot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:37 am Perhaps I could borrow the thread title?
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Asked whether Brexit was to credit for the world-first, Williamson told LBC radio station on Thursday: “Well I just reckon we’ve got the very best people in this country and we’ve obviously got the best medical regulators.
“Much better than the French have, much better than the Belgians have, much better than the Americans have. That doesn’t surprise me at all because we’re a much better country than every single one of them, aren’t we.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ll-of-them
What a cringe-making embarrassment Gavin Williamson is.
Gavin Williamson is sufficiently often foot-in-mouth that I occasionally suspect him of starting life in the SAS but no, that's one of the others. Looking down the ministerial Front Bench I can't find any I feel sympathy with or even sympathy for, they are an uninspiring bunch of self-centred clods with, in some instances, predilections toward bullying, back-stabbing and evangelical motherhood. As a class they could be described as insensitive, pitiless, callous, heartless, inhumane, unfeeling, unmerciful, compassionless, desensitized, unsparing and, in Gavin Williamson's case, inescapably attracted to inept utterance. Rather like Michael Gove in that regard, on reflection.Bryn Mawr wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:48 pmI could approve a vaccine in ten seconds and I’m certainly not the best man for the job.spot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:37 am Perhaps I could borrow the thread title?
The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has claimed the UK was the first country in the world to clinically approve a coronavirus vaccine because the country has “much better” scientists than France, Belgium or the US.
Williamson said he was not surprised the UK was the first to roll out the immunisation because “we’re a much better country than every single one of them”.
Asked whether Brexit was to credit for the world-first, Williamson told LBC radio station on Thursday: “Well I just reckon we’ve got the very best people in this country and we’ve obviously got the best medical regulators.
“Much better than the French have, much better than the Belgians have, much better than the Americans have. That doesn’t surprise me at all because we’re a much better country than every single one of them, aren’t we.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ll-of-them
What a cringe-making embarrassment Gavin Williamson is.
This is among the most filthy and deliberate instances of misogyny in public print. It is a shocking and personal attack and I don't give a damn whether Joseph Epstein ends up apologizing for it or not. This is a spectacular own goal, and not one to brush under the carpet or forget. Why the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch, prop.) thinks it can just wash its hands of the piece I have no idea, but - "a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter" - they can "forthwith drop" their contributor and deny him further use of their pages for his debility. The article is as bad as anything News Corp has previously foisted on the world, it confirms the Wall Street Journal occupies the same gutter as the National Enquirer and the News of the World. In a word, it stinks.Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the “Dr.” before your name? “Dr. Jill Biden” sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title “Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs.” A wise man once said that no one should call himself “Dr.” unless he has delivered a child. Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith drop the doc.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a ... 1607727380
And that was two years ago.spot wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:04 am Gavin Williamson is sufficiently often foot-in-mouth that I occasionally suspect him of starting life in the SAS but no, that's one of the others. Looking down the ministerial Front Bench I can't find any I feel sympathy with or even sympathy for, they are an uninspiring bunch of self-centred clods with, in some instances, predilections toward bullying, back-stabbing and evangelical motherhood. As a class they could be described as insensitive, pitiless, callous, heartless, inhumane, unfeeling, unmerciful, compassionless, desensitized, unsparing and, in Gavin Williamson's case, inescapably attracted to inept utterance. Rather like Michael Gove in that regard, on reflection.
I'll not quote.
Gavin Williamson dramatically quit Rishi Sunak’s cabinet on Tuesday night after the Guardian revealed claims that he told a senior civil servant to “slit your throat” while he was defence secretary.
The Cabinet Office minister stepped down after the former Whitehall aide put in a formal complaint to parliament’s Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), piling more pressure on Sunak over his decision to reappoint his ally.
Williamson’s fate appeared to be sealed after further bullying allegations from his former deputy chief whip, who criticised his “unethical and immoral” behaviour and claimed he used “leverage” and threats to control MPs and instil a culture of fear in Westminster.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... williamson
MoneyWhy he isn't simply retiring from public life I have no idea