Jeez. £1.7bn of taxpayers money to keep bulb running.
Outrageous.
The solution is simple. Ditch the cap to keep these companies solvent. If the govt is going to spend money, it should be on protecting the poorest via UC, not directly subsidising energy bills.
I think that Bulb has £1.7m customers, so that is about £1k per customer.
£1.7bn is the max cash requirement. The cost to the taxpayer will be far less.
Cost at the moment is expected to be 40% of that (I posted the figure yesterday) - so it's currently £700m.
And remember that the existing companies are having to sub that £400 from their reserves so don't expect prices to fall at any point in the next few years (there is a lot of debt to be made up).
Even that £400 both does depend on how winter plays out and how the market changes - you best bet long term is to get as energy efficient as possible.
In future the regulator needs to ensure energy firms have sufficient capital to match their number of customers and hedging risks. It is crazy to allow limited companies a hugely leveraged free bet on energy prices subsidised by taxpayer (and industry competitor) implicit backstop guarantees.
What is the point? Get rid. Nationalise the lot.
Do you not remember British Telecom, when it would take them three months to install a line, it would likely end up being a DACS line, and you’d better be damn grateful that they were kind enough to provide you service in the first place?
The solution is a number of companies, competing to provide service over a single infrastructure. But regulators need to ensure that these companies are sufficiently capitalised and with guaranteed supply at the prices they are selling, and not simply marketing operations placing a one way bet playing the energy markets.
So how is Openreach any better? We replaced a public monopoly with a private monopoly. The reason why the government(s) are having to intervene with things like fibre broadband is because Openreach simply won't do it.
My bit of Teesside was a prime example. Openreach surveyed in 2004 and began FTTC installs. My housing estate started construction that autumn eventually growing to 1,300 homes. No fibre broadband. When you ask why its due to not enough demand shown on the survey. More incredulous prodding and I had it in writing that as the hundreds of homes of demand do not exist on their rollout map there will be no FTTC. Despite Openreach having installed phonelines to them.
Eventually Virgin media decided to install FTTP. Except that they only did the main streets and not the various 3 / 4 house cul-de-sacs. If you live on one of those you got missed, with no appeal and no option other than Starlink if you want faster than 2MBps.
Talking about one's jab reaction certainly beats the weather.
Now a modest proposal: why not replace our anti-vaxers, one for one, by vaccinated immigrants who, as immigrants usually do, will contribute to the nation ?
I know, I know. But we all have a bit of fascism in us.
Anyway, today is Elimination of Violence Against Women Day, I am told.
I am not, on the whole, a fan of all these "Days".
But it is worth remembering that, as of today, in Britain so far this year 127 women have been killed.
328 days of the year. 127 women killed.
1 woman killed every two and a half days.
Most do not even make the local let alone national news. If this number were killed in one go, we'd never hear the end of it. But one here and there all over the country every few days, most in domestic settings, most by people known to them, overwhelmingly by men - well they just become routine, part of the daily background, unknown, forgotten and not cared enough about for anyone to do anything effective to understand why this happens and what can be done to change it.
And this rate of killing is broadly the same year after year.
Let's compare it to the 20 years the British Army spent in Afghanistan - a largely pointless undertaking, mostly remembered for the sad convoys through Wootten Bassett and people paying their respects.
457 soldiers killed, 405 through enemy action. Ca. 23 a year.
I do not diminish their sacrifice or the loss their loved ones suffer.
But these women too have a name and people who loved them and miss them and this weary acceptance of their deaths really will not do.
Still, we have a "Day", I suppose. Must we be content just with that?
How many men have been killed in the same period? I am not trying to be crass. Every murder is horrific in its own way, whether it is a knife fight among gangs, or a murdered wife at home. How about an Elimination of Violence against people day instead?
All killings are awful. We largely ignore killings unless, for some reason, they make the news. See the killings of teenage - largely black boys - in cities, for instance.
But if you and @DavidL want to focus on the elimination of the violence, then we need to focus on those doing the violence. And they are overwhelmingly men. It is men killing women. It is men killing other men.
Why is that? And what are men going to do about it?
Rather than have "Days" or men making making obvious but trite points, perhaps they might ask themselves this.
Or are we just going to get the usual "well it's all very complicated" and "it always happens" and "it's not all men" etc.
Not getting at you or @DavidL personally. But these killings are done by people, overwhelmingly male people. That would be a good starting point if we want to try and eliminate it.
I don't disagree. It is also overwhelmingly a small minority of men that do this. I've never had a fight with anyone (closest I have come was being punched while playing rugby). I was well brought up. Too often the problem men have had very poor starts in life. The cosy middle class up bringing of love and cuddles from a supporting family just isn't there. How do we fix that? How do we also stop some people opting for crime as a life style to get what they want if they are not educated enough or able enough to do it through work? Minimum wage jobs are not that appealing when someone offers you a quicker way to get money.
I am increasingly conscious of how women, especially lone women, see the world. Last night I was out for a run, and came up behind a young women on a stretch of road with only one pavement. I genuinely thought of crossing to the other side, that had no pavement, but the risk of being on the road put me off. In the end I passed as wide as i could, but wanted another way to inform her that I wasn't about to attack her, and I was panting heavily because I'm unfit. I want to do the right thing. But me doing the right thing won't stop some of the shits out there doing the wrong thing, and for them, I don't know the answer.
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
What is interesting is what happens when politicians/civil servants get tempted by the consumer oriented view of service provision.
You may remember the "Make public services like John Lewis" thing that pops up from time to time.
This falls over, when the horrifying reality of changing things to priorities the user of the service vs the producers of the service becomes apparent.
Imagine if the benefits system ran like... say Revolut?
“ The growth of the welfare state spawned a new bureaucratic class that reproduces itself and conflates its own interests with those of the country. This elite is far less impressive, open-minded, knowledgeable or efficient than its private sector counterpart because it lacks the same disciplining and feedback mechanisms. Bad decisions don’t lead to bankruptcy, but to promotion. Risk-aversion is rewarded, and thinking differently penalised. Entrepreneurship is anathema. There is no real management, no true accountability. In time, the Civil Service merged with the elites in academia, the charity industry, the cultural institutions and now even parts of the private sector to form a super-class, a new, enlarged Brahmin Left, and has now adopted, as an ethical self-justification, the woke ideology.
“Johnson now has a choice: he can go back to war with this elite class, which will require rebuilding No 10 and taking extremely tough decisions; or he can allow the bureaucrats slowly to drain the life out of his government. If he chooses the latter, not only will it be a betrayal of the very voters who gave him his majority, he will have handed power over Britain back to the Blob.”
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
Caught a clip of Starmer on the One O'Clock News. He said something along the lines of "I don't know why those arrests couldn't have been made last week. The only thing that changed yesterday was that lots of people died."
There are many arguments to be had about the migrant crossings, but Starmer is spot on with that comment.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Ooh, a two-race engine. That’s going to be even faster than Lewis’s three-race engine.
It was clear earlier in the year, that Mercedes were doing experiments with Valtteri and his many engines. This is going to be the culmination of their work, producing engines that are physically identical (they are homologated designs) but with wildly different power outputs controlled by software.
They still have the 'party mode' (as do the other teams, though Honda don't believe they can get so much benefit), and will have calculated how close they can get to it. The difference is that under current rules, if they use it, they have do do so throughout the entire race as well, which tends to do bad things to engine life - and the power output drops off quite quickly as the engine wears.
And of course engines are outside the budget cap. Though customer teams would still have to pay, which I guess is not worth their while.
Yes, the Mercedes ICE is engineered differently to the Honda engine - it produces more power initially, but quickly loses power with mileage. The original target was three per season, which is roughly 6,000km per unit. A two-race engine is going to do around 1200km, and the three-race engine 1800km. They’re going to very much be in “party mode”.
It’s ironic that the drop in the reliablility penalties was put in place to try and help Honda, as was the ban on the qualifying engine modes, but now Mercedes are using both of these against Honda, and I’m expecting LH to walk the last two races, as he has with the previous two.
He has first to stay out of the wall in Saudi. Particularly at the first corner.
Also at least one safety car looks very likely. So the luck of the draw on pitstops will also come into it.
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
I think the main reason the UK is so attractive to migrants is probably the fact we don't have ID cards. And most people don't want to introduce them, so that pull factor isn't going to change.
Caught a clip of Starmer on the One O'Clock News. He said something along the lines of "I don't know why those arrests couldn't have been made last week. The only thing that changed yesterday was that lots of people died."
There are many arguments to be had about the migrant crossings, but Starmer is spot on with that comment.
Not if the arrests are for manslaughter
I guess our police could say the same as to why they didn't arrest Wayne Couzens days before he kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered Sarah Everard.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
Ooh, a two-race engine. That’s going to be even faster than Lewis’s three-race engine.
It was clear earlier in the year, that Mercedes were doing experiments with Valtteri and his many engines. This is going to be the culmination of their work, producing engines that are physically identical (they are homologated designs) but with wildly different power outputs controlled by software.
They still have the 'party mode' (as do the other teams, though Honda don't believe they can get so much benefit), and will have calculated how close they can get to it. The difference is that under current rules, if they use it, they have do do so throughout the entire race as well, which tends to do bad things to engine life - and the power output drops off quite quickly as the engine wears.
And of course engines are outside the budget cap. Though customer teams would still have to pay, which I guess is not worth their while.
Yes, the Mercedes ICE is engineered differently to the Honda engine - it produces more power initially, but quickly loses power with mileage. The original target was three per season, which is roughly 6,000km per unit. A two-race engine is going to do around 1200km, and the three-race engine 1800km. They’re going to very much be in “party mode”.
It’s ironic that the drop in the reliablility penalties was put in place to try and help Honda, as was the ban on the qualifying engine modes, but now Mercedes are using both of these against Honda, and I’m expecting LH to walk the last two races, as he has with the previous two.
Yes, though with Arse still being largely useless I hope that Red Bull can snatch the constructors championship. I know that Hamilton is a divisive figure because of his outside interests. But you cannot pull him apart on his driving - he is a phenomenon. Nor can we dismiss it as "just the car" - as Bottarse so regularly demonstrates.
Caught a clip of Starmer on the One O'Clock News. He said something along the lines of "I don't know why those arrests couldn't have been made last week. The only thing that changed yesterday was that lots of people died."
There are many arguments to be had about the migrant crossings, but Starmer is spot on with that comment.
Not if the arrests are for manslaughter
I guess our police could say the same as to why they didn't arrest Wayne Couzens days before he kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered Sarah Everard.
That's not fair.
They had all attended their Awareness and Diversity courses.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Mr. Sandpit, probably going to be afk for a bit now, but I don't want to spoil the very exciting conclusion to an opinion piece. I may check that motorsport link a bit later.
I think the main reason the UK is so attractive to migrants is probably the fact we don't have ID cards. And most people don't want to introduce them, so that pull factor isn't going to change.
Also, the English language: a massive draw. We are paying a price for the global supremacy of our glorious mother tongue
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Their consensus is that Perez will outscore Bottas, but I disagree with that. In my mind LH is 2/3 and Mercedes 5/11
The simulator guys reckon the corners will not reward late braking (which tends to be Max's style). A Mercedes front row looks possible, with the Dutchman well positioned for an absurd gamble at the first corner.
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
You never lose the scientific training.
You know a junior asked me earlier this year whether or not I thought my degree was useful, I was going to say "not really" as always but actually after having a short think about it, I think it is pretty useful. Not the chemistry because fuck that noise, but the methodology of being a scientist and being open to any and all criticism of a theory, idea or model. I think a lot of our more public scientists, especially those in iSAGE, seem to have forgotten that a big part of science is having regular retrospectives on current theories vs real life data. It's something I've noticed myself doing over the course of this pandemic, go back on old ideas and make sure they are still relevant.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
So you're on the side of those in favour of cancellations?
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
It is genuinely fascinating how Woke is infesting the Christian church. And again it is an uncanny echo of Christianity's own genesis
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
I think the main reason the UK is so attractive to migrants is probably the fact we don't have ID cards. And most people don't want to introduce them, so that pull factor isn't going to change.
Has there been recent polling on ID cards ?
I think most Tory MPs & newspaper columnists don't want them, which is what counts in the immediate future but I suspect the general public is extremely ambivalent about them now.
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
I had similar with Pfizer after AZ x 2. It will be very time limited though. You'll be fine tomorrow.
Ta. I am reassured
It's an odd feeling, like waking up with a really bad cold except no sneezing, runny nose, sore throat. Just the malaise. All I wanna do is crawl back into bed
Also like waking up after Mike Tyson, in his peak, punched you repeatedly in the upper arm as you slept
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
Assets they're currently using to extract vast amounts of wealth from the young.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
You just don't want to admit you made a crass schoolboy error with your stats.
Time to see a nice Deltic photo, I think.
No error at all.
45% of all voters voted Yes in 2014, only 40% of all voters back Yes now amongst all voters, a disaster for Sturgeon
So 55% of all voters voted No in 2014, only 45% of all voters back No now amongst all voters, so disaster for Boris?
No as Boris can and will refuse indyref2 forever as long as he is PM.
The only way that might be even a slightest risk to him is if say 60% of Scots back independence, with just 40% of Scots backing independence Boris can easily ignore Sturgeon for the rest of his premiership with no major threat of unrest in Scotland
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
Caught a clip of Starmer on the One O'Clock News. He said something along the lines of "I don't know why those arrests couldn't have been made last week. The only thing that changed yesterday was that lots of people died."
There are many arguments to be had about the migrant crossings, but Starmer is spot on with that comment.
Not if the arrests are for manslaughter
I guess our police could say the same as to why they didn't arrest Wayne Couzens days before he kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered Sarah Everard.
What - the crime hadn't occurred yet? Seems fair enough.
What do you think the police should have arrested people for? Catching a boat from France to England probably isn't illegal, so probably neither is supplying the boat.
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
Assets they're currently using to extract vast amounts of wealth from the young.
They aren't particularly. They also paid NI, even now most of the young are not graduates but amongst the older generation barely any had the chance to go to university let alone pay fees and most started work at 16 if not earlier
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
So you're on the side of those in favour of cancellations?
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
It is genuinely fascinating how Woke is infesting the Christian church. And again it is an uncanny echo of Christianity's own genesis
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
Leaving aside the George Floyd Jesus it is a good thing there are more black Jesus images, especially as the average Christian worldwide is more likely to be black than white now in the 21st century.
Jesus himself was Middle Eastern not European of course
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
So you have 2 French policemen and 30 refugees carrying a boat - what exactly can those 2 policemen actually do?
Walk up to boat, draw guns, back the refugees away, shoot the engine, shoot the boat to puncture it on the beach so it can’t go in the sea, return to call and radio in a report….!
Not overly serious but If the French govt is about to pay French fishers who haven’t been given licences €60m to compensate them then maybe instead they could hire them to patrol the coast and radio in if they see dinghies on the beach so the French navy/coastguard can intercept them in time….. as there are apparently so many French fishermen unable to fish then between them covering the 200 mile coastline isn’t much of an ask.
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
So you have 2 French policemen and 30 refugees carrying a boat - what exactly can those 2 policemen actually do?
Walk up to boat, draw guns, back the refugees away, shoot the engine, shoot the boat to puncture it on the beach so it can’t go in the sea, return to call and radio in a report….!
Not overly serious but If the French govt is about to pay French fishers who haven’t been given licences €60m to compensate them then maybe instead they could hire them to patrol the coast and radio in if they see dinghies on the beach so the French navy/coastguard can intercept them in time….. as there are apparently so many French fishermen unable to fish then between them covering the 200 mile coastline isn’t much of an ask.
The videos - multiple - of armed French cops in numbers doing sod all as tiny children are loaded onto these boats are absolutely appalling, in retrospect. How is that not manslaughter by negligence?
They can stop the boats and save innocent lives, they do not. Surely that is a crime?
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
To be very polite HYUFD, but you are sort of making the point it was the generation who wore the money tinted spectacles. “Tell Sid he can have council house virtually given to him, he only has to apply.” Up goes property prices. Sing we are in the money. How did that turn out? For the better?
Has there been any thought or care in all that for the following 18-40 generation today?
Utilities were privatised in a particularly way for producers to also be suppliers, as my dad explained (and he’s a capitalist and Conservative) it’s not Capitalism to knowingly create cartels.
And that’s before we get started on what the outgoing generation is leaving us with polluted oceans, air, no lungs of the earth or ozone,
It needs a reset. There’s no such things now as this way or the socialism way type party political broadcasts, there’s different types of capitalism and smarter ways of doing it. It needs a reset.
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
So you're on the side of those in favour of cancellations?
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
It is genuinely fascinating how Woke is infesting the Christian church. And again it is an uncanny echo of Christianity's own genesis
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
To be very polite HYUFD, but you are sort of making the point it was the generation who wore the money tinted spectacles. “Tell Sid he can have council house virtually given to him, he only has to apply.” Up goes property prices. Sing we are in the money. How did that turn out? For the better?
Has there been any thought or care in all that for the following 18-40 generation today?
Utilities were privatised in a particularly way for producers to also be suppliers, as my dad explained (and he’s a capitalist and Conservative) it’s not Capitalism to knowingly create cartels.
And that’s before we get started on what the outgoing generation is leaving us with polluted oceans, air, no lungs of the earth or ozone,
It needs a reset. There’s no such things now as this way or the socialism way type party political broadcasts, there’s different types of capitalism and smarter ways of doing it. It needs a reset.
Absolutely for the better, sale of council homes expanded property ownership to levels never seen before.
This generation of 18-40 year olds don't know how lucky they are. More of them have had the chance to go to university than any generation before them, more of them will live longer than any generation before them (and it is of course the older generation most hit by Covid), more of them are in work than most previous generations and more of them have more choice in what they buy and use and where they buy it and in what they watch for entertainment than any generation before them. Even in my day we only had 5 channels as teenagers. On top of that most of them will inherit a sum previous generations could only dream of!
So no I will have no whinging from young people today, a century ago many of their great grandfathers went down the pit as teenagers and were dead by 50. Many of their great great grandfathers would be dead by 25 in the trenches in WW1. Today of course too renewables in the UK certainly are more plentiful than coal mines
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
You never lose the scientific training.
You know a junior asked me earlier this year whether or not I thought my degree was useful, I was going to say "not really" as always but actually after having a short think about it, I think it is pretty useful. Not the chemistry because fuck that noise, but the methodology of being a scientist and being open to any and all criticism of a theory, idea or model. I think a lot of our more public scientists, especially those in iSAGE, seem to have forgotten that a big part of science is having regular retrospectives on current theories vs real life data. It's something I've noticed myself doing over the course of this pandemic, go back on old ideas and make sure they are still relevant.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
I'm a recovering former scientist, and what is notable is that science works more on a collective level than on an individual level.
Individual scientists are human, and most of them become wedded to particular ideas and find it hard to abandon those ideas. The hardest thing in science I had to do was to abandon months of work that just wasn't working as I'd hoped it would. If it had initially worked well enough to publish a paper on it I would have found it a lot harder to give up on it later.
But collectively science works because other scientists don't share the emotional attachment and cognitive biases that have individual scientists stick to a dead end, because they don't have the history with that idea. They'll get attached to some other ideas in time.
So I have a lot of faith in Science, but am more wary of individual scientists.
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
"Chris Philp @CPhilpOfficial · 5h I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
What utter rubbish, no more than to be expected from some on the left.
Scotland has its own Parliament, unlike England, for most of its domestic policy AND elects MPs to Westminster. As Leon correctly states.
In 2023/4 it is not impossible England could vote Tory but get a Starmer government propped up by the SNP with no parliament of its own.
Chrissy Pagel is almost as excited by this new Gauteng variant as she was by the new series of Love Island.
It is unsettling news. Twitter seems divided on its potential danger. Looks like it might evade vaccines, but has low transmissibility, so Delta Plus should outcompete?
But does Delta Plus provide immunity against this new strain?
FFS. If we get a nasty new variant, that's it. Humanity is done. Switch off the sun
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
No, their future in the union can only be changed if the BRITISH parliament - including Scotland - agrees. This is far from impossible, it happened in 2014. I am sure it will happen again, at some point, just as it did in Quebec
But a generation needs to elapse. The fundamental structure of the nation cannot be constantly menaced
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
No, their future in the union can only be changed if a majority of UK MPs agree. That has been the case since 1707
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
No, their future in the union can only be changed if the BRITISH parliament - including Scotland - agrees. This is far from impossible, it happened in 2014. I am sure it will happen again, at some point, just as it did in Quebec
But a generation needs to elapse. The fundamental structure of the nation cannot be constantly menaced
Of course the future can be constantly menaced every time we have an election. That's democracy. We don't wait a generation between elections, we wait no more than five years as a maximum.
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
Yep. You can have whatever you want if we agree with you. If we disagree you can do one.
When the union was formed it was mutual - like a marriage. What Leon and HYUFD are saying is that Scotland can't have a divorce unless the husband agrees.
When I think about the old British Rail, I am reminded of the story about how the flamboyant advertising executive Peter Marsh (who was once married to the actress Pat Phoenix) pitched for the BR account. Executives from BR turned up at the ABM (Allen, Brady, Marsh) offices to be met by a bored looking receptionist, who told them to wait. The waiting room was filthy with dirty coffee cups and filled ashtrays. Just as the BR executives got tired of waiting and were about to leave, Peter Marsh burst in and said: "Now that you've seen what people think of BR, let's discuss how we can change your image."
Great story. Did he win the account?
Yes.
And did he choose Jimmy Savile to present the adverts?
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
That's true as long as its a voluntary union.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
Scotland can vote itself out of the union by persuading MPs at Westminster, which is Scotland's own sovereign, shared parliament, where Scotland is equally and fully represented, that Scotland needs an indy referendum
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
48 of the 59 MPs Scotland elects were elected on a manifesto of having another referendum. That is a very clear overwhelming majority of their MPs in Westminster.
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
Yep. You can have whatever you want if we agree with you. If we disagree you can do one.
When the union was formed it was mutual - like a marriage. What Leon and HYUFD are saying is that Scotland can't have a divorce unless the husband agrees.
Chrissy Pagel is almost as excited by this new Gauteng variant as she was by the new series of Love Island.
It is unsettling news. Twitter seems divided on its potential danger. Looks like it might evade vaccines, but has low transmissibility, so Delta Plus should outcompete?
But does Delta Plus provide immunity against this new strain?
FFS. If we get a nasty new variant, that's it. Humanity is done. Switch off the sun
Don't worry about it, I think the key thing to remember is that any variant which has sufficiently diluted binding efficiency to antibodies will also have extremely diluted binding efficiency to the ACE-2 receptor making it much less effective.
Mr. Pulpstar, ages ago I used to watch the paper review on Sky News.
There was a wonderful moment with an older present and guest, and a younger guest. The younger guest made some comment about evil Tories and Thatcher being a milk-snatcher, which made the two older guests reminisce about how much they hated the milk, being either freezing cold or warm and horrid, at which point the youth performed a swift u-turn and declared he was too young to remember it.
Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again.
LOL is this a pastiche of a Tory election ppb you have seen? 😄
I am thinking of voting Labour Grandad. Oh. Oh dear. Let me tell you about what it was like before you were born.
You do realise, if the Conservatives adopt such a “ Luckily, we have history to teach us how stupid some things (like socialism) are, without needing to undergo the atrocity of inflicting them on the human race ever again” message there won’t be a single Conservative voter left in fifty years?
Why? Because it’s Patronising. 18-40s. are intelligent and sentient too, we can work things out for ourselves from the evidence for and against.
How do you think this older generation today is going to be remembered in the future? Abysmally. As they who presided over decline, ruin and bad decision making. On the watch of today’s older voters, what a complete mess has been made of everything!
So it’s the one older generation of all most least in position to patronise anyone.
The same older generation passing on more assets than any generation before to their children and grandchildren?
To be very polite HYUFD, but you are sort of making the point it was the generation who wore the money tinted spectacles. “Tell Sid he can have council house virtually given to him, he only has to apply.” Up goes property prices. Sing we are in the money. How did that turn out? For the better?
Might have turned out fine, had local authorities been allowed to invest the proceeds in new housing stock.
Instead, it was the start of the long drawn out evisceration of local government finances.
Without wanting to repeat the tiresome oh yes it is oh no it isn't bullshit about HYUFD's unique perspectives on democracy, the "you can't have it" approach to independence only strengthens the likelihood that when there eventually is another referendum that it votes to leave.
Have the vote now - there is a clear democratic mandate for one. Write into the legislation that if the vote is no that a suitable period has to pass before the parties consider having another one. No will win and it will be legally agreed that there can't be a 3rd one quickly.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
A poll by YouGov for The Times finds that 40 per cent of people say they would vote yes in another referendum, a drop of one point compared with the company’s last survey in May.
The proportion of people who would vote no remained at 46 per cent, while 9 per cent said they were unsure, up by one point. The remainder would not vote or refused to say.
Astonishing that despite Brexit and PM Boris Sturgeon has actually managed to see Yes fall by 5% below the 45% it got in the 2014 referendum.
No wonder Salmond and Alba are so furious and of course no prospect of a legal indyref2 under this Tory government either
The actual Yes figure is 46.5% - which is above the 2014 referendum figure.
But of course you are muddling figures which include and which exclude DKs.
Professor Curtice would not be impressed.
It is 40% including DKs, so in terms of all voters below the 45% from 2014 as I said
Here we go again. So you agree that a majority do not explicitly support the Union?
The majority explicitly supported the Union in 2014 in a once in a generation referendum and this Tory government as long as it remains in power will not allow another indyref2 for at least a generation until 2014 has elapsed
So democracy doesn’t apply to Scotland. The very essence of colonialism.
No, colonialism is when a foreign power occupies your land, without your permission, and then rules it without giving you equal representation in the legislature
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
Golly, never mind make yourself cry, you've brought a tear to my een.
Chrissy Pagel is almost as excited by this new Gauteng variant as she was by the new series of Love Island.
It is unsettling news. Twitter seems divided on its potential danger. Looks like it might evade vaccines, but has low transmissibility, so Delta Plus should outcompete?
But does Delta Plus provide immunity against this new strain?
FFS. If we get a nasty new variant, that's it. Humanity is done. Switch off the sun
Don't worry about it, I think the key thing to remember is that any variant which has sufficiently diluted binding efficiency to antibodies will also have extremely diluted binding efficiency to the ACE-2 receptor making it much less effective.
Just reading a Twitter thread saying exactly that.
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
You never lose the scientific training.
You know a junior asked me earlier this year whether or not I thought my degree was useful, I was going to say "not really" as always but actually after having a short think about it, I think it is pretty useful. Not the chemistry because fuck that noise, but the methodology of being a scientist and being open to any and all criticism of a theory, idea or model. I think a lot of our more public scientists, especially those in iSAGE, seem to have forgotten that a big part of science is having regular retrospectives on current theories vs real life data. It's something I've noticed myself doing over the course of this pandemic, go back on old ideas and make sure they are still relevant.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
I'm a recovering former scientist, and what is notable is that science works more on a collective level than on an individual level.
Individual scientists are human, and most of them become wedded to particular ideas and find it hard to abandon those ideas. The hardest thing in science I had to do was to abandon months of work that just wasn't working as I'd hoped it would. If it had initially worked well enough to publish a paper on it I would have found it a lot harder to give up on it later.
But collectively science works because other scientists don't share the emotional attachment and cognitive biases that have individual scientists stick to a dead end, because they don't have the history with that idea. They'll get attached to some other ideas in time.
So I have a lot of faith in Science, but am more wary of individual scientists...
The medical establishment seems particularly susceptible to unjustified attachments to dogma, for some reason.
Without wanting to repeat the tiresome oh yes it is oh no it isn't bullshit about HYUFD's unique perspectives on democracy, the "you can't have it" approach to independence only strengthens the likelihood that when there eventually is another referendum that it votes to leave.
Have the vote now - there is a clear democratic mandate for one. Write into the legislation that if the vote is no that a suitable period has to pass before the parties consider having another one. No will win and it will be legally agreed that there can't be a 3rd one quickly.
Saying that the Scots, having voted for a referendum can't actually have one . . .
. . . is as self-defeating and stupid as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg etc saying that despite having been elected promising an EU referendum, we can't actually have one.
All its doing is building up the grievance to the point that eventually the dam will break.
I expect HYUFD to be so silly as to not understand that - I'm surprised though that Leon can't grasp the concept since he can see it so clearly with Europe.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
So you're on the side of those in favour of cancellations?
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
It is genuinely fascinating how Woke is infesting the Christian church. And again it is an uncanny echo of Christianity's own genesis
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
Leaving aside the George Floyd Jesus it is a good thing there are more black Jesus images, especially as the average Christian worldwide is more likely to be black than white now in the 21st century.
Jesus himself was Middle Eastern not European of course
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
He used to post here, thank f*** he took his stories of Thai hookers and Delancey St pubs somewhere else.
Yes, an unsavoury individual, with few redeeming features. But handy with the words
I understand he now lives in a mansion on Victoria Island, British Columbia, where he rules a sex commune of nubile Corbynites
But rumour has it that he had to marry the lot of them, before they would give their consent. Lucky Sean T is a wealthy man, as well as a successful writer.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
You never lose the scientific training.
You know a junior asked me earlier this year whether or not I thought my degree was useful, I was going to say "not really" as always but actually after having a short think about it, I think it is pretty useful. Not the chemistry because fuck that noise, but the methodology of being a scientist and being open to any and all criticism of a theory, idea or model. I think a lot of our more public scientists, especially those in iSAGE, seem to have forgotten that a big part of science is having regular retrospectives on current theories vs real life data. It's something I've noticed myself doing over the course of this pandemic, go back on old ideas and make sure they are still relevant.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
I'm a recovering former scientist, and what is notable is that science works more on a collective level than on an individual level.
Individual scientists are human, and most of them become wedded to particular ideas and find it hard to abandon those ideas. The hardest thing in science I had to do was to abandon months of work that just wasn't working as I'd hoped it would. If it had initially worked well enough to publish a paper on it I would have found it a lot harder to give up on it later.
But collectively science works because other scientists don't share the emotional attachment and cognitive biases that have individual scientists stick to a dead end, because they don't have the history with that idea. They'll get attached to some other ideas in time.
So I have a lot of faith in Science, but am more wary of individual scientists...
The medical establishment seems particularly susceptible to unjustified attachments to dogma, for some reason.
One of my wife's friends is in obstetrics/gynaecology and she was over recently lamenting the militant attachment that midwives in this country have got to natural birth, often to the detriment of the mother. She's had to step in multiple times and recommend a c-section and fight the midwife on the reasoning, even though she's got 7 years of medical training and another 5 years experience being in the field she's being countermanded by someone who simply can't see beyond "yeah but natural birth is better". She was saying the whole profession has been completely and totally captured by this thinking.
Chrissy Pagel is almost as excited by this new Gauteng variant as she was by the new series of Love Island.
The last couple of series of Love Island haven’t been worth the wait IMO. Maybe it proves an adage like, you can take the lovers to the sun but can’t guarantee the chemistry, or something?
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
So you're on the side of those in favour of cancellations?
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
It is genuinely fascinating how Woke is infesting the Christian church. And again it is an uncanny echo of Christianity's own genesis
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
Leaving aside the George Floyd Jesus it is a good thing there are more black Jesus images, especially as the average Christian worldwide is more likely to be black than white now in the 21st century.
Jesus himself was Middle Eastern not European of course
SOCIALISM = RELIGION
therefore:
RELIGION = SOCIALISM!
What utter rubbish, when the main socialist nations left on earth eg North Korea, China and Cuba are headed by atheists and religion actually means less reliance on state welfare with more religious provision instead.
Socialism is state control of most of the economy, please check your definition next time, it has zilch to do with religion
So... the people tasked with tax enforcement are to be housed in a building owned by major Tory donors via a shell company registered in a tax haven. They're just trolling us now, aren't they?
Anyway, today is Elimination of Violence Against Women Day, I am told.
I am not, on the whole, a fan of all these "Days".
But it is worth remembering that, as of today, in Britain so far this year 127 women have been killed.
328 days of the year. 127 women killed.
1 woman killed every two and a half days.
Most do not even make the local let alone national news. If this number were killed in one go, we'd never hear the end of it. But one here and there all over the country every few days, most in domestic settings, most by people known to them, overwhelmingly by men - well they just become routine, part of the daily background, unknown, forgotten and not cared enough about for anyone to do anything effective to understand why this happens and what can be done to change it.
And this rate of killing is broadly the same year after year.
Let's compare it to the 20 years the British Army spent in Afghanistan - a largely pointless undertaking, mostly remembered for the sad convoys through Wootten Bassett and people paying their respects.
457 soldiers killed, 405 through enemy action. Ca. 23 a year.
I do not diminish their sacrifice or the loss their loved ones suffer.
But these women too have a name and people who loved them and miss them and this weary acceptance of their deaths really will not do.
Still, we have a "Day", I suppose. Must we be content just with that?
How many men have been killed in the same period? I am not trying to be crass. Every murder is horrific in its own way, whether it is a knife fight among gangs, or a murdered wife at home. How about an Elimination of Violence against people day instead?
All killings are awful. We largely ignore killings unless, for some reason, they make the news. See the killings of teenage - largely black boys - in cities, for instance.
But if you and @DavidL want to focus on the elimination of the violence, then we need to focus on those doing the violence. And they are overwhelmingly men. It is men killing women. It is men killing other men.
Why is that? And what are men going to do about it?
Rather than have "Days" or men making making obvious but trite points, perhaps they might ask themselves this.
Or are we just going to get the usual "well it's all very complicated" and "it always happens" and "it's not all men" etc.
Not getting at you or @DavidL personally. But these killings are done by people, overwhelmingly male people. That would be a good starting point if we want to try and eliminate it.
I don't disagree with any of that but I do have reservations about victims of violence being more deserving or important or shocking if they are female. The obsessive focus on violence directed towards women, abhorrent as that is, actually misses the point and the bulk of the lethal violence in our society.
We need to focus on the tolerance of violence in society generally. If we succeed women will be amongst the beneficiaries. As will men, of course.
"Students at Washington’s Catholic University of America seek to remove George Floyd Jesus"
"Students at a Catholic university are petitioning to remove a “heretical” painting that depicts George Floyd as Jesus.
"Mama, by Kelly Latimore, shows Floyd being cradled by a maternal figure and evokes Michelangelo’s Pietà sculpture of Mary and Jesus after the crucifixion."
Without wanting to repeat the tiresome oh yes it is oh no it isn't bullshit about HYUFD's unique perspectives on democracy, the "you can't have it" approach to independence only strengthens the likelihood that when there eventually is another referendum that it votes to leave.
Have the vote now - there is a clear democratic mandate for one. Write into the legislation that if the vote is no that a suitable period has to pass before the parties consider having another one. No will win and it will be legally agreed that there can't be a 3rd one quickly.
Saying that the Scots, having voted for a referendum can't actually have one . . .
. . . is as self-defeating and stupid as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg etc saying that despite having been elected promising an EU referendum, we can't actually have one.
All its doing is building up the grievance to the point that eventually the dam will break.
I expect HYUFD to be so silly as to not understand that - I'm surprised though that Leon can't grasp the concept since he can see it so clearly with Europe.
Unlike Nat appeasers like you who would give the Nats a referendum on independence every year until they get the result they want I and Leon fully support telling Nats they had their once in a generation referendum and lost so can suck it up for a generation!!
No means No! At minimum they can wait 15 years for their second like Quebec (which was still a No by the way), Leavers had to wait 41 years for their second EU referendum after the 1975 EEC referendum
Pretty bloody ropey after my Moderna booster jab. Seriously sore and frozen arm, general malaise and fatigue. Much worse than AZ, which caused a tiny bit of tenderness in the shoulder...
That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID.
I am now near-certain that I did have Covid way back in January 2020, caught in Thailand. That's what Public Health England thought, that's why they sent me to be tested in UCLH, tho a SNAFU prevented any actual test
It would also explain why I haven't caught Covid since, despite taking many risks in recent months: pubs, bars, restaurants, planes, the works
"That's a sign that you've probably previously had COVID."
Is it? First I've heard of that idea.
Yes it has been punted before, by proper scientists, tho there are also other explanations, ofc
Hey, my Chemistry degree still just about qualifies me as a "proper scientist" just not a practicing one.
You never lose the scientific training.
You know a junior asked me earlier this year whether or not I thought my degree was useful, I was going to say "not really" as always but actually after having a short think about it, I think it is pretty useful. Not the chemistry because fuck that noise, but the methodology of being a scientist and being open to any and all criticism of a theory, idea or model. I think a lot of our more public scientists, especially those in iSAGE, seem to have forgotten that a big part of science is having regular retrospectives on current theories vs real life data. It's something I've noticed myself doing over the course of this pandemic, go back on old ideas and make sure they are still relevant.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
I'm a recovering former scientist, and what is notable is that science works more on a collective level than on an individual level.
Individual scientists are human, and most of them become wedded to particular ideas and find it hard to abandon those ideas. The hardest thing in science I had to do was to abandon months of work that just wasn't working as I'd hoped it would. If it had initially worked well enough to publish a paper on it I would have found it a lot harder to give up on it later.
But collectively science works because other scientists don't share the emotional attachment and cognitive biases that have individual scientists stick to a dead end, because they don't have the history with that idea. They'll get attached to some other ideas in time.
So I have a lot of faith in Science, but am more wary of individual scientists...
The medical establishment seems particularly susceptible to unjustified attachments to dogma, for some reason.
One of my wife's friends is in obstetrics/gynaecology and she was over recently lamenting the militant attachment that midwives in this country have got to natural birth, often to the detriment of the mother. She's had to step in multiple times and recommend a c-section and fight the midwife on the reasoning, even though she's got 7 years of medical training and another 5 years experience being in the field she's being countermanded by someone who simply can't see beyond "yeah but natural birth is better". She was saying the whole profession has been completely and totally captured by this thinking.
Its the same with breastfeeding.
My wife really, really struggled to feed both our children. It happens to a certain proportion of women but there is so much dogma attached now to "breast is best" that when faced with the need to go for an alternative, it is very hard to get objective information on what alternatives to go for etc
We found there is very little in the way of support for people who can't breastfeed - and immense pressure of "oh you just need to keep at it" as if we hadn't tried that already.
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My bit of Teesside was a prime example. Openreach surveyed in 2004 and began FTTC installs. My housing estate started construction that autumn eventually growing to 1,300 homes. No fibre broadband. When you ask why its due to not enough demand shown on the survey. More incredulous prodding and I had it in writing that as the hundreds of homes of demand do not exist on their rollout map there will be no FTTC. Despite Openreach having installed phonelines to them.
Eventually Virgin media decided to install FTTP. Except that they only did the main streets and not the various 3 / 4 house cul-de-sacs. If you live on one of those you got missed, with no appeal and no option other than Starlink if you want faster than 2MBps.
Now a modest proposal: why not replace our anti-vaxers, one for one, by vaccinated immigrants who, as immigrants usually do, will contribute to the nation ?
I know, I know. But we all have a bit of fascism in us.
I am increasingly conscious of how women, especially lone women, see the world. Last night I was out for a run, and came up behind a young women on a stretch of road with only one pavement. I genuinely thought of crossing to the other side, that had no pavement, but the risk of being on the road put me off. In the end I passed as wide as i could, but wanted another way to inform her that I wasn't about to attack her, and I was panting heavily because I'm unfit. I want to do the right thing. But me doing the right thing won't stop some of the shits out there doing the wrong thing, and for them, I don't know the answer.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/24/blob-taking-back-control-destroying-boris-johnsons-premiership/
“ The growth of the welfare state spawned a new bureaucratic class that reproduces itself and conflates its own interests with those of the country. This elite is far less impressive, open-minded, knowledgeable or efficient than its private sector counterpart because it lacks the same disciplining and feedback mechanisms. Bad decisions don’t lead to bankruptcy, but to promotion. Risk-aversion is rewarded, and thinking differently penalised. Entrepreneurship is anathema. There is no real management, no true accountability. In time, the Civil Service merged with the elites in academia, the charity industry, the cultural institutions and now even parts of the private sector to form a super-class, a new, enlarged Brahmin Left, and has now adopted, as an ethical self-justification, the woke ideology.
“Johnson now has a choice: he can go back to war with this elite class, which will require rebuilding No 10 and taking extremely tough decisions; or he can allow the bureaucrats slowly to drain the life out of his government. If he chooses the latter, not only will it be a betrayal of the very voters who gave him his majority, he will have handed power over Britain back to the Blob.”
Is the painting woke?
Or are those "cancelling" it woke because it upsets them?
Particularly at the first corner.
Also at least one safety car looks very likely. So the luck of the draw on pitstops will also come into it.
"Chris Philp
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I’m deeply concerned by this photo of French law enforcement officers standing by doing nothing while migrants embark on a dangerous, illegal and unnecessary Channel crossing - putting lives at risk as we tragically saw yesterday"
Headline: Why Didn't France Stop Them
The migrants are actually carrying a toddler. Les Gendarmes do F all
https://twitter.com/CPhilpOfficial/status/1463789440468410373?s=20
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=228&t=1961489
Their consensus is that Perez will outscore Bottas, but I disagree with that. In my mind LH is 2/3 and Mercedes 5/11
Fuckit. Pub.
So clearly those trying to cancel it are the "woke".
To cancel interesting and thought-provoking artwork because it offends you is terrible and I can see why this cancellation is bothering Leon.
They had all attended their Awareness and Diversity courses.
And Lessons Will be Learned......
Woke is becoming a religion. There was an excellent essay on this exact phenomenon in the Spectator, quite recently
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-if-wokeness-really-is-the-new-christianity-
Cancellation culture is good now?
I am shocked! Shocked! At this revelation. 😱
@washingtonpost
Here's what we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy caused by a SUV.
Too many of the public scientific advisors aren't doing that exercise right now. Just today I read that some SAGE scientists are calling for the immediate implementation of plan b, despite there being not very much evidence to support that. They're stuck in a timeloop of a political agenda that lockdown measures are the only way to combat this. I'm sure when Germany, France and other major European countries go into a full lockdown in two weeks those same voices will condemn the government as irresponsible and callous for not doing the same here and in the process completely ignore the available real world data on infection rates, testing and hospitalisation.
When the early Christians wished to convert some heathen tribe, they often kept the pagan shrines intact, and simply imposed their own symbols and buildings thereupon, thus absorbing the spiritual power of the Old Faith into the New. That's why so many churches in the UK and beyond are built on pagan sites, which can sometimes still be recognised - yew trees are a telling presence. The same happened with Gods - Isis nursing Horus became Mother Mary nursing the baby Jesus.
See here, the exact same iconography
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545961
Turning George Floyd into Jesus is Wokeness doing to Christianity what Christianity did to Zeus, Woden, Osiris and Valhalla. A pleasing symmetry, but a menacing development, which completely vindicates the prediction made in that superb Spectator essay by an ex PB-er
Say it ain't so
I think most Tory MPs & newspaper columnists don't want them, which is what counts in the immediate future but I suspect the general public is extremely ambivalent about them now.
ZA getting excited about hypermutated variant
The story mentions suspect/driver by name and age, but it's the SUV that does the damage.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1463686399123730443
Bethany : Wait a minute. Christ. You know Christ?
Rufus : Knew him? Shit, N***** owes me 12 bucks!
The only way that might be even a slightest risk to him is if say 60% of Scots back independence, with just 40% of Scots backing independence Boris can easily ignore Sturgeon for the rest of his premiership with no major threat of unrest in Scotland
What do you think the police should have arrested people for? Catching a boat from France to England probably isn't illegal, so probably neither is supplying the boat.
IDEA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmkT8YU4jH8
And there are other images of multiple French cops - not just 2 - looking on and doing zip
https://news.sky.com/video/migrants-french-police-watch-on-as-migrants-cross-channel-12429301
Jesus himself was Middle Eastern not European of course
He used to post here, thank f*** he took his stories of Thai hookers and Delancey St pubs somewhere else.
Well, his dad was, anyway.
I understand he now lives in a mansion on Victoria Island, British Columbia, where he rules a sex commune of nubile Corbynites
Not overly serious but If the French govt is about to pay French fishers who haven’t been given licences €60m to compensate them then maybe instead they could hire them to patrol the coast and radio in if they see dinghies on the beach so the French navy/coastguard can intercept them in time….. as there are apparently so many French fishermen unable to fish then between them covering the 200 mile coastline isn’t much of an ask.
The videos - multiple - of armed French cops in numbers doing sod all as tiny children are loaded onto these boats are absolutely appalling, in retrospect. How is that not manslaughter by negligence?
They can stop the boats and save innocent lives, they do not. Surely that is a crime?
“Tell Sid he can have council house virtually given to him, he only has to apply.” Up goes property prices. Sing we are in the money. How did that turn out? For the better?
Has there been any thought or care in all that for the following 18-40 generation today?
Utilities were privatised in a particularly way for producers to also be suppliers, as my dad explained (and he’s a capitalist and Conservative) it’s not Capitalism to knowingly create cartels.
And that’s before we get started on what the outgoing generation is leaving us with polluted oceans, air, no lungs of the earth or ozone,
It needs a reset. There’s no such things now as this way or the socialism way type party political broadcasts, there’s different types of capitalism and smarter ways of doing it. It needs a reset.
It sounds like evolution to me.
Scotland willingly entered the Union with England, and it is fully represented at Westminster, as WELL as having highly significant autonomous powers at Holyrood. Indeed Scots are able to vote on some English laws when the opposite is not the case. If there is any hint of colonialism here, it is Scottish power over the English
This generation of 18-40 year olds don't know how lucky they are. More of them have had the chance to go to university than any generation before them, more of them will live longer than any generation before them (and it is of course the older generation most hit by Covid), more of them are in work than most previous generations and more of them have more choice in what they buy and use and where they buy it and in what they watch for entertainment than any generation before them. Even in my day we only had 5 channels as teenagers. On top of that most of them will inherit a sum previous generations could only dream of!
So no I will have no whinging from young people today, a century ago many of their great grandfathers went down the pit as teenagers and were dead by 50. Many of their great great grandfathers would be dead by 25 in the trenches in WW1. Today of course too renewables in the UK certainly are more plentiful than coal mines
Individual scientists are human, and most of them become wedded to particular ideas and find it hard to abandon those ideas. The hardest thing in science I had to do was to abandon months of work that just wasn't working as I'd hoped it would. If it had initially worked well enough to publish a paper on it I would have found it a lot harder to give up on it later.
But collectively science works because other scientists don't share the emotional attachment and cognitive biases that have individual scientists stick to a dead end, because they don't have the history with that idea. They'll get attached to some other ideas in time.
So I have a lot of faith in Science, but am more wary of individual scientists.
If Scotland can not vote its way out of the union, it ceases to be voluntary.
We know this works because the Scots thus persuaded Westminster in 2014. A referendum was granted, the Scots said No, that is the end of the matter for a generation UNLESS Westminster can be persuaded, again. Perhaps the Nats should try that instead of moaning
(I know they're not all Muslims)
Scotland has its own Parliament, unlike England, for most of its domestic policy AND elects MPs to Westminster. As Leon correctly states.
In 2023/4 it is not impossible England could vote Tory but get a Starmer government propped up by the SNP with no parliament of its own.
But does Delta Plus provide immunity against this new strain?
FFS. If we get a nasty new variant, that's it. Humanity is done. Switch off the sun
Unless you're saying it doesn't matter a jot what the Scottish voters say, their future in the union can only be changed if the English MPs agree. Is that what you're saying?
But a generation needs to elapse. The fundamental structure of the nation cannot be constantly menaced
When the union was formed it was mutual - like a marriage. What Leon and HYUFD are saying is that Scotland can't have a divorce unless the husband agrees.
Instead, it was the start of the long drawn out evisceration of local government finances.
Have the vote now - there is a clear democratic mandate for one. Write into the legislation that if the vote is no that a suitable period has to pass before the parties consider having another one. No will win and it will be legally agreed that there can't be a 3rd one quickly.
Anyway, I've had absolutely no reaction to any of my jabs. Does this mean my immune system is not working or fantastically strong or am I just lucky?
. . . is as self-defeating and stupid as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg etc saying that despite having been elected promising an EU referendum, we can't actually have one.
All its doing is building up the grievance to the point that eventually the dam will break.
I expect HYUFD to be so silly as to not understand that - I'm surprised though that Leon can't grasp the concept since he can see it so clearly with Europe.
therefore:
RELIGION = SOCIALISM!
Abbott 37%, McConaughey 27%, O'Rourke 26%
https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/matthew-mcconaughey-ahead-of-abbott-beto-in-texas-gov-race/
As for the question, I don't think there's any proven correlation between symptomatic reaction to the vaccines and individual immunity.
Socialism is state control of most of the economy, please check your definition next time, it has zilch to do with religion
So... the people tasked with tax enforcement are to be housed in a building owned by major Tory donors via a shell company registered in a tax haven. They're just trolling us now, aren't they?
We need to focus on the tolerance of violence in society generally. If we succeed women will be amongst the beneficiaries. As will men, of course.
I now feel like I've been personally poisoned by Vladimir Putin
Seriously. That's what it feels like, that's the closest analogy. Like some bizarre poisoning
No means No! At minimum they can wait 15 years for their second like Quebec (which was still a No by the way), Leavers had to wait 41 years for their second EU referendum after the 1975 EEC referendum
To those Nats who want an indyref2 now in the words of the late Reverend Paisley 'Never, Never, Never!!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8W6dZW218c
My wife really, really struggled to feed both our children. It happens to a certain proportion of women but there is so much dogma attached now to "breast is best" that when faced with the need to go for an alternative, it is very hard to get objective information on what alternatives to go for etc
We found there is very little in the way of support for people who can't breastfeed - and immense pressure of "oh you just need to keep at it" as if we hadn't tried that already.