Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire

Ex-Supporter and activist of The Independent Group for Change in Basingstoke and North West Hampshire, deciding next steps.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

Let’s give him a chance. If he kicks Tony Blair out of the Party by Monday, I’ll come on board.

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

A problem with the latest news that panic buying has resulted in an extra £1bn in our cupboards. That’s £15 per person, or 3 or 4 modest priced items each, an understandable and modest reaction at an individual level. Real issue is just in time supply chains are very vulnerable.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

All property is theft and therefore we should steal the private beds from the hospitals the elite use.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

As the horror that is a Tory majority government unfolds, I hope voters now realise the huge mistake they made not electing Jeremy. Sadly, Keir Starmer won’t be the opposition leader that Jeremy was.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

We are going to miss Jeremy’s forensic demolition of Johnson at every PMQ’s.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

As a lifelong socialist in my 80’s, like Jeremy I voted Leave to counter the foolish love of the capitalist cartel that is the EU amongst the young. So it is an outrage they now put ME at risk by cavorting in public, just because the virus is unlikely to hurt them. So unfair.

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

Erm...

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

Brilliant idea to dish the Blairites. No one can handle leadership and PMQ’s like Jeremy can. Let’s keep him there for ever. Like Putin.

[Flag Waver #FBPE @Flagwaveruk]

In case anyone does want to read why the Government had got it wrong and have changed tack, this is the Imperial College paper. Its 20 pages long and goes on a bit, but basically says we were heading for 250k deaths as we'd have too many people needing ICU beds. (1)

[Flag Waver #FBPE @Flagwaveruk]

@BethRigby @Peston @bbclaurak will you be asking at what level the government will trigger Social distancing and school/university closure - 60 ICU cases a week? 400? What is the number currently? Page 13 of the Imperial College paper says this is a key factor for total deaths.

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

@nurse_marcus Also Russia took action to close the border with China and imposed isolation on people returning from many countries. https://t.co/q6B2f8urmY

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

@nurse_marcus actually they do report having a small number, 17 cases no deaths. But it’s surprisingly low.

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

@MissLauraMarcus (2:2) after 1985 my company introduced an intranet (before the internet). Working late I had a message from NZ about a customer with a subsidiary there. I replied - 2 minutes later a reply came - ‘thanks’. So impressed when I got home I told my wife all about this amazing event.

[Centrist in Basingstoke & NW Hampshire @ChangeUK_NHants]

@MissLauraMarcus I used to have to send a (hand written!) memo to about 100 salesmen at a time. I was still doing this as late as 1985. It was supposed to be done by carbon copies but I cheated and got access to a photocopier. (1/2)........

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

As cases of coronavirus head towards 1000 in South Korea, is it time to reflect that there have been no similar reports from North Korea or Venezuela?

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

Enough criticism of academy educated, ex solicitor Becky for saying she’s working class. Everyone has the right to self identify.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

A reminder there’s only one gritty northern lass standing for Leader. And it’s not that bloody Tory who should do one and join Johnson.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

110% agree. There are NO circumstances in which any trade union could strike, no matter for how ill judged the reasons, no matter how severe the public harm, that I would ever want a single word of criticism to be uttered. They should have a completely blank cheque.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

Nandy can DO ONE too. There’s only room for one gritty northern lass on the block.

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

Deeply discouraged that, while the wrong gritty northern lass Nandy was co-chair of the Owen Smith campaign to undermine Jeremy, she met with Blair - proving she should already have been deselected. What could any true Labour member hope to learn from 3 times GE winner Blair?

[Peregrine de Lucy, Class Warrior #JC4PM #GTTO @DePeregrine]

I’ll shed no tears we’ve left the EU, as all tears should be saved to bemoan the passing of the greatest leader Labour has ever had.