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YouGov polls: From Hartlepool to North Shropshire – politicalbetting.com
YouGov polls: From Hartlepool to North Shropshire – politicalbetting.com
What I find interesting looking at the above table is just how well the Tories were doing in the early summer around the time of the Hartlepool by-election which of course became a Labour loss and a Conservative gain. This, f course, was at the peak of the vaccine bounce when Johnson’s government was getting the credit for the vaccine programme.
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Let Raab C. Brexit take the blame for following, perhaps weeks later?
'Further Covid restrictions between Christmas and New Year are under discussion in government, Dominic Raab has said, but stressed he believed plan B measures should be enough to allow people to spend the season with loved ones. [...]
Asked if the measures, which also include guidance on working from home, were enough to stop the spread of the virus without further restrictions, Raab said: “These issues are always discussed but we have got plan B, that’s what we think is required over the Christmas period.”
The deputy prime minister and justice secretary told Times Radio he thought Christmas Day was safe to spend with family. “I think it is. I want to give that reassurance. I think people can look forward to spending Christmas with loved ones in a way that we couldn’t last year.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/more-covid-curbs-possible-but-families-can-have-christmas-together-raab
Zero confidence in that though.
"The [Tory backbench MP] rebellion today is a perfect storm of longstanding resistance to the government's approach to coronavirus, teamed with a new collapse of confidence from backbenchers in the direction set by Downing Street. It doesn't matter in the immediate term, but does in the longer term. The vote today marks a decisive, symbolic break between the Conservative parliamentary party and the government on coronavirus just as a new variant takes hold, and a new low for Boris Johnson as his grip on his party weakens and weakens."
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Not that I agree, obvs.
There is no value at all on the Liberals.
The system will automatically cancel your appointment, which opens it up for the next person #GetBoosted 💉
'It may not be rocket science, but researchers have found aerospace engineers and brain surgeons are not necessarily brighter than the general population.
Researchers examined data from an international cohort of 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons who completed 12 tasks online using the Great British Intelligence Test (GBIT) from the Cognitron platform, as well as answering questions around their age, sex and levels of experience in their speciality.
The tasks examined various aspects of cognition, including planning and reasoning, working memory, attention, and emotion processing abilities. The researchers then compared the results against those previously gathered from more than 18,000 members of the British public.
The findings, which were published in the festive edition of the BMJ, reveal that only neurosurgeons showed a significant difference, with quicker problem-solving speed but slower memory recall compared with the general population.'
But a pub with a dancefloor doesn't
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🚨 | NEW: Pubs with dance floors won't have to check any COVID passes - until 1am and then they will
Via @GOVUK
Who creates this mess of insanity.
Looking forward to @malcolmg 's explosive reaction.
https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2021/8/12/a6cb9582-0b7e-11ea-9528-000d3a23af40#ab7d244c-0b7e-11ea-9538-000d3a23af40.dita
I still think lockdown on 3rd Jan.
Most of the alumni of such schools have a choice to educate themselves and catch up (I was one of those), go to prison or be one of the folk that "cringe and grovel " and "know their place".
(Waits for someone to come and correct me with examples of difficult basic science problems that have been overcome recently)
Incidentally, this year’s Scottish Nobel laureate - David MacMillan FRSE, Chemistry - was educated at Bellshill Academy and the University of Glasgow.
Gordonstoun thickos are mostly a waste a space.
Take over of BT by foreign investor.
National security issues?
Telecoms broadband roll out issues?
Plus, of course BT privatisation and sale to the little guys was iconic in Thatcher's pomp.
Your normal nightclub is quite different from a bopalonga pub. And at a time when it moves into nightclub mode, nightclub rules apply.
The spokesbod from a nightclub was doing the usual complaining thing a couple of days ago claiming there was no significant difference between risks and impact between large and small venues. Which is transparent baloney of the type they have been coming out with since it all started.
@eleanorhayward
Police cars revolving lightMuch-needed good news to start the day from South African Medical Research Council.
Omicron *does* cause milder symptoms, and two Pfizer jabs 70% effective against hospitalisation.
Study finds there are 38 admissions per 1,000 Omicron cases, compared to 101 per 1,000 for Delta.
What is scary is how cheap BT is given the value of the infrastructure long term.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about/the-norwegian-nobel-committee/
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Again, given you have to also factor in the very high % of booster vaccination amongst vulnerable groups, plus significant impact of natural immunity for many, how do these figures possibly equate to an NHS crisis, even with high transmission rates.
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… in the last 10 full-sample Scottish VI polls, then “much of a muchness” is fine by me.
Nightclubs have different licences and door staff who can check on the way in.
Pubs don't necessarily.
If you think that's the only difference between pubs and nightclubs when it comes to licensing, you couldn't be more wrong. Its bog standard for them not to be the same and its entirely logical.
Dan obviously reads my posts on PB.
Vaxports only available to the double vaccinated who have had their boosters
Stupid, stupid idea. If the government proposes that then they've lost their minds.
Ignore his lies: Boris Johnson is leading an assault on British democracy
This government is hammering away at the foundations of a free society. Look to Warsaw to see where that can lead.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2021/12/ignore-his-lies-for-now-boris-johnson-is-leading-an-assault-on-british-democracy
I don't think we're about to become Poland - but then again I didn't think, five or six years ago, that Poland would abandon democratic freedoms in an increasing slide toward authoritarianism.
However for now North Shropshire certainly remains vulnerable to the LDs
Daughter's lease ends in March. She may as well hand it back next week if the government do this.
Now I know people might head in and drink orange juice but it's a viable method.
There is a need for alternatives - I have one relative who had to be funded in an Indy School by her family, as the State School could not and would not control bullying, and she had fallen behind.
She later went to a state weekly boarding school for 2 years, which got her standing on her own 2 feet.
Eventually caught up, graduated and now works in London.
My own dad was sent to boarding school (Kingswood, Bath) via teh good offices of the local minister (I assume) which his family could never have afforded (smallholders), because *his* dad was unstable / violent after having been in the trenches in WW1.
Control by politicians obsessed with control is never a good idea.
Seeking to undermine some of the best schools in the country for ideology is completely loopy. Update the ideology; this is no longer the 19C.
As opposed to your leftwing definition of a good school ie a school completely under local authority control with parents getting no choice over where to send their children and with no selection by exam or anything else. Even if that school has terrible exam results
There are other reasons the booster programme is important to the rest of us. And if he has fiddled it for his personal benefit, that will not go down well, as with that confusingly worded announcement at the weekend.
Some city centre pubs might, but lots of pubs won't have door staff and will have an area that is or can become a dance floor on the weekend.
The question isn't about "the most popular pubs in Newcastle" which will tend to have door staff as will the most popular in Manchester, Liverpool, London and any other city centre.
What about your local up and down the country? If Miss Cyclefree Jr's pub for locals and tourists in Cumbria has an area that operates as a dance floor but no door staff would you consider that the same as the "most popular" pubs in Newcastle?
Would that imply even more benignity as compared with Delta?
I am so fucked off with this and the Covid nonsense.
Had the government wanted to do anything about developing domestic sourcing, it could have done so long since.
The fact JVT was only sending out letter for the trained volunteers to return yesterday shows a lack of urgency.
That some do have door staff would only be relevant if all did, if you're extending the regulations to all of them. It is not true that all do, not by a longshot.
Its easy enough for nightclubs (or pubs with door staff) to check vaxxports on the way in. Its not the case for pubs, including pubs with dancefloors, that don't have door staff.
@eek suggested it was insanity to have nightclubs require checks but pubs not to do so - its not insane its entirely rational. If pubs aren't required to have door staff [and lots don't] then it also doesn't make sense for them to be obligated to do checks on the doors that nightclubs do.
The distinction between nightclubs and 'pubs with dancefloors' when it comes to licences and other legal obligations is not a new one.
Regardless — what determines if a pub has door staff or not? The licence?
It seems that Omicron is an evolution of Beta instead of an evolution of Delta isn't it?
But what a mess he is leaving the Tory partying in! In the coming general elections the voters aren’t going to have a clue what they stand for 😕