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Alternate reality: Coronavirus arrives in the UK in Oct 2019

Started by Shoulders?-Stomach!, April 02, 2020, 02:26:51 PM

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Shoulders?-Stomach!

Interesting to wonder what would have changed in the UK but for a few months.

Perhaps the election would have been cancelled.
Nearly all Brexit talk would have been obliterated. People wouldn't be able to go outside. Parties wouldn't be able to campaign.

When the UK recovered it would have only been through a Tory abandoning of their rhetoric in spending and following a socialist approach to shoring up the economy which looked in some ways eerily like a Labour Party manifesto.

Would Boris be hailed a hero for getting Britain through it, or would the obvious flaws in planning and investment be laid bare in the aftermath? The NHS would have been under greater strain through the winter months and the death toll could have been dramatic.

Could Corbyn have triggered an early spring election Labour may have won or at least done well in? Is triumphalism an electoral strategy?


Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: idunnosomename on April 02, 2020, 02:35:35 PM
Christmas cancelled

No Christmas or Brexit under Boris

Kissing on the cheek now Punishable by taser

'Free broadband looking pretty good now eh you fucking stoma of cack', insists Corbyn as polls soar.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Corbyn wins the election, responds to the pandemic with lockdown and economic policies to protect people's income. Gets ripped apart by the press for exploiting the crisis for his own commie ends.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on April 02, 2020, 02:43:32 PM
Corbyn wins the election, responds to the pandemic with lockdown and economic policies to protect people's income. Gets ripped apart by the press for exploiting the crisis for his own commie ends.

Yes, but I guess the election wouldn't be held under the current conditions would it, it'd be postponed, like a Champions league fixture.

El Unicornio, mang

A lot of things which were considered newsworthy would go by unnoticed, like Philip Schofield coming out. Hard to think of a time now when that was the actual main news headline of the day.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on April 02, 2020, 02:49:41 PM
Yes, but I guess the election wouldn't be held under the current conditions would it, it'd be postponed, like a Champions league fixture.
True. It's an idle thought I had a week or two ago, that I've even more idly transposed into this scenario.

EasyToType

I would say that the election gets postponed, and if the death toll was comparable to other European counties, Conservatives would win by a greater margin. Probs

Zetetic

Corbyn dies in critical care, November 5th. I've run the numbers.

Election conducted by postal vote and constituency announcements by Zoom.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on April 02, 2020, 03:06:24 PM
A lot of things which were considered newsworthy would go by unnoticed, like Philip Schofield coming out. Hard to think of a time now when that was the actual main news headline of the day.

Someone mental should come out mid-Corona. Lineker. The Chinese President. Someone dead.

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on April 02, 2020, 03:06:24 PM
A lot of things which were considered newsworthy would go by unnoticed, like Philip Schofield coming out. Hard to think of a time now when that was the actual main news headline of the day.

The worst thing is, now he's out he can't even get out there and enjoy himself. He's gone from being metaphorically trapped in his marriage to being literally trapped in his marriage.

"I'm going to Sainsbury's to do the shop, is there anything you want, Phil?"

"A big fat cock."

"Sigh."

El Unicornio, mang