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Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

12 Jul

Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 18 .... we are all now just poasting through the virus now afflicting this emerald city

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Greater Sydney (~6m) is dead at the moment. The CBD is empty. Unless you want some sort of military regime for S-W Sydney then there is not much else we can do except risk manage this …. Please do not give ABC boomers ideas
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

If you live in/ivo Sydney, you are aware of how many people are recent arrivals & have limited grasps of English. Many come from places you, too, would want to escape. Putting troops on the streets to police them (as seems to be hinted at) is lunacy
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

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Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

12 Jul

https://twitter.com/tommcilroy/status/1414411312482844675

Thread on how Kevin Rudd may have exaggerated his role in our vaccine stocks ….. the online fantasisms of our embittered former prime ministers

https://twitter.com/tommcilroy/status/1414411312482844675

Naturally all the most stupid & vapid people in media believed that Pfizer would deal with the Australian Govt - which operates the lucrative pharmaceutical benefits scheme - not through its local executives but through the intermediary of a former prime minister going mad online

The whole Kevin Rudd / Pfizer miasma struck any remotely sensible person as plainly absurd on reading it & now looks very strange as to how it was rolled out by Laura Tingle etal. The X Files “I want to believe” bar for media on ridiculous stories has been lowered too far now.

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Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

11 Jul

Actually it is probably healthier for all #ThreeLions supporters to just let it all out (thoroughly un English way) …. I will go first. Italy were always a better team as a team & England stupidly tried to defend a lead. Also Harry Kane needed to lead aggressively as Captain.

https://twitter.com/SimonMagus/status/1414357793851707392

This was literally foul but it is gamesmanship especially from Italy and you cannot cry now when England had more than enough time to win #ThreeLions

https://twitter.com/SimonMagus/status/1414357793851707392

Gareth Southgate is all class and the experience will be all to the good for England at the next World Cup #ThreeLions

dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…

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Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

11 Jul

Still surprises me, in the very home of association football, and notwithstanding all the petulant history, esp on the Scottish side, that the four British "home" football associations cannot in 2021 join together to form one "British" football team. #ThreeLions -> Four Lions

Yes I know the history of why .... The Scots, who as Billy Connolly (no relation) said, are the only football side that does a "lap of shame", actually have the most to gain here.

The British Lions in Rugby are a far more interesting team than any of the four British Home unions and there is no reason why a British football team would not also finally achieve the same & be more reliably competitive esp in World Cups. We are a long way from 1872 etc.

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Gray Connolly

@GrayConnolly

11 Jul

Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 16 ....

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

https://twitter.com/ljayes/status/1413987128287981571

This is all great etc but with shutdowns of bars and restaurants, there is a huge casual workforce that lives job to job for rent etc. They will need rent & eviction moratoria as well. These vulnerable have no union or lobby group. Sydney is in a coma.

https://twitter.com/ljayes/status/1413987128287981571

This site in a few days will be media losing it online as to why large groups of young (esp foreigners stranded here on visas) will slyly congregate in Bondi & Manly when they have no money, no sources of support & everything in Sydney is shut down.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

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