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BORIS JOHNSON DOES not believe the UK is a racist country – but acknowledges that discrimination is an ongoing problem, Downing Street said.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the Government was not complacent about the need to do more to tackle racism.
The spokesman said: “The PM doesn’t doubt that there continues to be discrimination and racism, but does not agree that this is a racist country.
“We have made very significant progress on this issue, but there remains more to do and we will not be complacent in our efforts to stamp out racism and discrimination where it happens.”
Johnson has condemned the “thuggery” which marred anti-racism protests triggered by the death of George Floyd.
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Scotland Yard said 36 people had been arrested during protests in London on Sunday, and 35 officers reported suffering injuries.
In Bristol, protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and tossed it into the city’s harbour. Johnson’s spokesman hit out at the incident.
“People can campaign for the removal of a statue, but what happened yesterday was a criminal act and when the criminal law is broken that is unacceptable and the police will want to hold to account those responsible,” he said.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was “completely wrong” for the statue to be removed in that way, but told LBC Radio the monument to a slaver should have been taken down long before.
Johnson received an update from Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick on Sunday night.
“They have our full support in tackling any violence, vandalism and disorderly behaviour,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.
“It is completely unacceptable they were subjected to attacks over the weekend.”
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There is nothing unreasonable about that. It’s actually the most common sense measure we can take to protect ourselves. The longest period for Incubation of ebola zaire subtype is 21 days. So to be on the safe side that count should start on the date of entry and they should be released on day 22/23
Mary do you know anything about why it is spreading in West Africa? It’s because it’s in the third world with no education, access to information or modern medicine, which means people substituting all that with medieval beliefs, doing stuff like hiding the bodies in their homes in case they get hauled away. None of which would happen here. We are safe. Please relax and stop watching so many movies and / or Fox News!
Em @neal…. I have a degree in biochemistry, and an MSc in Pharmacology.
I’m not some hysterical housewife worried about the end of the world because I watched too many Netflix re-runs.
I am an educated, perceptive individual who made a remark that by the WHO’s standards is reasonable. So take your somewhat snotty attitude and shove it up ur hole!
Journal says we should be worried about Ebola not for ourselves but for Africa. We should be greatly concerned for ourselves. Infected aid-workers & immigrants coming here are real cause for that concern. Aid money, aid workers, we can’t do enough for them but still we dare consider ourselves. It would be “racism” to do so.
The aid workers are getting blood tests before they come back, so they and the doctors coming home are the LEAST at risk of spreading it.
The odds of someone getting past all the exit screening OR a time fluke like the US guy where he goes to the exit screening without showing up as infected and making it through…the odds of that happening again and on top of that it coming here are incredibly low. There has only been one case of European ebola in human history and it was outside the EU.
Since there are no direct flights, the only possible route now are refugees or economic migrants. The former coming from that region should be disallowed totally, and everyone else should be subject to a time quarantine from the time they get into the country to the time the virus takes to incubate (assuming infection on the date of entry just to be safe). We should be making a deal with the UK to prevent anyone from the region coming here to begin with.
“The aid workers are getting blood tests before they come back,”
No they are not being tested.
The virus does not show up unless a person is showing symptoms, when the viral load in blood increases. Testing people who are incubating Ebola will give a false negative result, Dr Kent Brantly tested negative at first and then later tested positive when his condition deteriorated.
“When Specimens Should Be Collected for Ebola Testing at CDC”
“Ebola virus is detected in blood only after the onset of symptoms, usually fever. It may take up to 3 days after symptoms appear for the virus to reach detectable levels. Virus is generally detectable by real-time RT-PCR from 3-10 days after symptoms appear.”
I’d be more concerned about these do gooders carrying the virus back to Ireland with them. I personally think that any aid worker who visits the hot zones where this virus exists should not be allowed to travel back to Ireland until the full incubation period has passed. If they do get infected, no repatriation should be made.
”DO GOODERS?” you mean those incredibly brave, selfless medical professionals to are going over and risking exposure to a nasty and deadly virus to help stop innocent people (including CHILDREN) from dying a horrible death?
Cop on to yourself mate, those people are the best of what humanity has and they are doing an incredible wonderful thing. They are taking every precaution under the sun to avoid gettin infected. They are wearing full PPP suits most of the time ffsake. They are getting blood tests etc before they come back and any one of them coming back infected have been flown back under a full isolation set up.
Luckily the rest of us are not cold hearted monsters.
Do you know what this virus does to you? It turns your organs into pulp and you die of internal bleeding and multiorgan system failure it’s one of the most painful deaths imaginable, you’re ok with that happeing to innocent children and for the rest of humanity to sit there and do nothing to help them?
It’s easy to say all this from a keyboard when you don’t have to set eyes on the victims of this thing, maybe if you had you would not be so cold.
We can drop anywhere we want throughout the world, but when it comes to doing something positive western governments are very slow to react. This epidemic will come to haunt us if we do not do the right the right thing. The WHO are screaming out for funds and government personal…..boots on the ground…..to help resolve the crisis. Yest there seems to be little happening. Meanwhile, as we see in this report, thing just get worse. Africa’s plight is the world’s shame.
It’s indeed disheartening and annoying to see reactions like that, I have to admit when I saw that some of them had murdered doctors who came to help them I began to think ‘f—k them maybe we should leave them there to die’ but think about it:
1. A great deal of those dying are children, and they should not be left with no hope
2. We should not let the few morons prevent the rest getting help
3. Most of the conspiracy theories causing those reactions you cite above are coming from western websites some of which are frequented by a few of our nuttier posters on this site.
George
€700 million a year in foreign aid, billions of Irish aid to Africa throughout the decades as well as Irish volunteers going over to build their medical, educational & engineering works, contradicts your assertion we are very slow to help these people, we have done nothing but help them & are called racist as a thank you.
“the west has been trying to help them for decades. They destroyed the Ebola centre in Liberia within two days. They need to help themselves too.”
Very true. And ironically, the holding centre at West Point, Monrovia, Liberia, was ransacked because people thought Ebola was a hoax, a hoax that started by the corrupt Liberian government in order to attract foreign aid. They are as sick of foreign aid as we are.
President Sirleaf of Liberia made 2 of her sons ministers in the government and made another son Vice President of the Central Bank, they then sold 25% their forests to foreign logging companies; Norway recently bribed them not to cut down their forests.
It was deforestation, human encroachment and the bush meat trade that likely caused this Ebola epidemic.
Block everything from Africa stop shipping containers leaving stop people travelling out of Africa quarantine all of Africa from the rest of the world so it doesn’t become world wide and I look out for myself not Africa…..
Just like other African exports such as AIDS, tuberculosis, Leprosy (yes, remember the 2 cases of that last year!) etc all reintroduced/massively increased thanks to wide open mass immigration from the dark continent (and other third world places) Ebola will find its way here eventually to add to the diversity of unwanted diseases in Ireland.
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