Boris has a net favourable rating of +43% with Leavers and -59% with Remainers.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
Trump needs to do something to reverse that - and fast.
Every time he opens his mouth he makes it worse. His address last night showed a scared man without a clue what to do, the exact opposite of what you want in a leader.
Boris has a net favourable rating of +43% with Leavers and -59% with Remainers.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
What a pity that he set the DOW as the measure of how great a president he is.
The thing that scares me, even more so than covid-19, is if Trump loses in November, he's not going to go quietly he is?
He might end up salting the ground so badly, even more damaging than when the Rome salted Carthage.
Elections would be too risky from a public health perspective so its delayed until 2028. Or need to be held electronically securely via TrumpVote.com (TM).
Trump needs to do something to reverse that - and fast.
His resignation would probably add 3000 Pts instantly
This is where we get to see who's really in charge, the president or the lizard people. Now that he's costing rich people real money, do they have the power to get rid of him?
Boris has a net favourable rating of +43% with Leavers and -59% with Remainers.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
Boris has a net favourable rating of +43% with Leavers and -59% with Remainers.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
Boris has a net favourable rating of +43% with Leavers and -59% with Remainers.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
On the plus side, I can stop worrying about breaching the pension lifetime allowance.
Will anyone think of the impact on pension advisors and inheritance tax planners?
For most people with assets under £1 million their estate will not be liable for inheritance tax
Of course. And sadly most over £10m find a way to ensure their estate is not liable for it either.
Nothing wrong with careful tax planning
No the individuals are acting rationally, no issue with them. Plenty wrong with govts allowing people to avoid paying their fair share intended by the legislation leaving poorer people to cover it. Close the loopholes and optouts.
Good points from Nicola that even if events over 500 don't actually spread the virus much they put additional pressure on front line services, notably ambulances and police. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51851341
On the plus side, I can stop worrying about breaching the pension lifetime allowance.
Will anyone think of the impact on pension advisors and inheritance tax planners?
For most people with assets under £1 million their estate will not be liable for inheritance tax
Of course. And sadly most over £10m find a way to ensure their estate is not liable for it either.
Nothing wrong with careful tax planning
No the individuals are acting rationally, no issue with them. Plenty wrong with govts allowing people to avoid paying their fair share intended by the legislation leaving poorer people to cover it. Close the loopholes and optouts.
Those with fewer assets now pay no IHT at all, it is a tax targeted at the rich
On the plus side, I can stop worrying about breaching the pension lifetime allowance.
Will anyone think of the impact on pension advisors and inheritance tax planners?
Maybe you can apply to the fund for businesses affected by the virus announced yesterday?
I am neither! Our business should hopefully benefit a little from the small business grant and increased employment allowance though. Still going to be a tough year as it will for most.
What will cause the most Consternation and Uproar?
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else? Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
This, perhaps, explains his drop in popularity. On the one hand those who think he should ignore the "flu" and carry on as normal. On the other hand those who believe he should have closed down the entire country last Monday. A scientifically informed, cautious response has few supporters, apparently.
24 new positives in Scotland (60 vs 36 the day previously). But note that the number of processed tests has increased markedly, from 82 to 576. There were 9 positives out of the 82 so, as a proportion, the fraction of positive results has actually declined. So this increase in numbers should be read in that context perhaps?
On the plus side, I can stop worrying about breaching the pension lifetime allowance.
Will anyone think of the impact on pension advisors and inheritance tax planners?
For most people with assets under £1 million their estate will not be liable for inheritance tax
Of course. And sadly most over £10m find a way to ensure their estate is not liable for it either.
Nothing wrong with careful tax planning
No the individuals are acting rationally, no issue with them. Plenty wrong with govts allowing people to avoid paying their fair share intended by the legislation leaving poorer people to cover it. Close the loopholes and optouts.
Those with fewer assets now pay no IHT at all, it is a tax targeted at the rich
How much did the Gerald Grosvenors estate pay on his £616,418,184? £0
It might be targeted but the targets are not very worried by your aim!
24 new positives in Scotland (60 vs 36 the day previously). But note that the number of processed tests has increased markedly, from 82 to 576. There were 9 positives out of the 82 so, as a proportion, the fraction of positive results has actually declined. So this increase in numbers should be read in that context perhaps?
Yes. But more to the point, who were selected for testing? Contacts of existing cases or random individuals with a cough? This would account for any variability. It's the unknown factor behind all the stats so far.
24 new positives in Scotland (60 vs 36 the day previously). But note that the number of processed tests has increased markedly, from 82 to 576. There were 9 positives out of the 82 so, as a proportion, the fraction of positive results has actually declined. So this increase in numbers should be read in that context perhaps?
5 million Scots having more new cases than 1.4 billion Chinese.
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are a range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
On the plus side, I can stop worrying about breaching the pension lifetime allowance.
Will anyone think of the impact on pension advisors and inheritance tax planners?
For most people with assets under £1 million their estate will not be liable for inheritance tax
Of course. And sadly most over £10m find a way to ensure their estate is not liable for it either.
Nothing wrong with careful tax planning
No the individuals are acting rationally, no issue with them. Plenty wrong with govts allowing people to avoid paying their fair share intended by the legislation leaving poorer people to cover it. Close the loopholes and optouts.
Those with fewer assets now pay no IHT at all, it is a tax targeted at the rich
How much did the Gerald Grosvenors estate pay on his £616,418,184? £0
It might be targeted but the targets are not very worried by your aim!
The Grosvenor Estate is still subject to a periodic charge as a trust but as a Tory I believe in keeping taxes low
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
That's not necessarily accurate.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
“What the government should have been doing over these last weeks, which they’ve thrown away, is to encourage neighbourhoods, communities, supported by the local public health directors and a joined-up NHS.
“They should have been encouraging people to have their own family plans about how they will maintain the family show on the road, who will be taking the kids to school, how do you entertain them in the Easter holidays? They should have been much clearer, sooner, about making it clear that people shouldn’t be travelling so they could cancel their holidays and get their money back on the insurance.
“They haven’t done any of that. Who’s going to look after elderly people – stop them having to go out, do their shopping for them? People should have been doing that planning – they should have been pointed in that direction by the government. There’s been no discussion about that at all.”
Funnily enough that is what I have been doing with my family and my parents.
Maybe it would have been helpful if the rest of the country had been having these conversations too? Weeks ago perhaps..
But by the time you can tell whether it's a sensible precaution or an overreaction, it's too late. In any event, Easter is coming up, so if you want a relatively low cost month of school closure, there's only a week or so to make up your mind.
WHO says risk of infection appears to be high at small gatherings in indoor venues https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/cinemas-and-pubs-in-uk-remain-open-amid-coronavirus-concerns ...“We are operating on the basic assumption that the home is a primary place where transmission has been occurring, but something else we are also really picking up on is that in places where ventilation is poor, or if there is ventilation but a lack of proper filtration, then that can also be seriously bad,” Nabarro told the Guardian on Thursday.
He was speaking before a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee, where ministers are expected to agree to move into the “delay” stage of its coronavirus strategy. This involves social distancing measures, such as restricting public gatherings and issuing more widespread advice to stay at home.
Nabarro stressed that information on how the virus was spreading was more circumstantial, and data was based on the still-evolving situations in countries such as China, South Korea and Iran, but he said that, after the home, transmission appeared to often be taking place indoors where people were gathered around tables.
“We are coming across stories where people, for example, have been sitting around a table in a restaurant or bar, where they are closer than 2 metres, spend quite a bit of time in each other’s company and the amount of time that passes is not clear. That appears to be the next commonest place where infections are taking place.
“That is why restaurants, pubs and churches – churches in particular because of physical closeness – are of interest.”...
(Quite a few schools would meet this description, too.)
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
That's not necessarily accurate.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
No I don't think so.
I think what is clear now is there are two fundamentally different approaches. The first approach is to stomp this out at source. The second approach is to accept it is inevitable and manage it. We are going for the latter. Others are going for the former.
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
That's not necessarily accurate.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
No I don't think so.
I think what is clear now is there are two fundamentally different approaches. The first approach is to stomp this out at source. The second approach is to accept it is inevitable and manage it. We are going for the latter. Others are going for the former.
I disagree. With all our testing we're doing more than other countries in Europe to stomp this out at source.
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
That's not necessarily accurate.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
No I don't think so.
I think what is clear now is there are two fundamentally different approaches. The first approach is to stomp this out at source. The second approach is to accept it is inevitable and manage it. We are going for the latter. Others are going for the former.
I disagree. With all our testing we're doing more than other countries in Europe to stomp this out at source.
So why have we allowed flights in from Italy (just a few days ago) and Spain (ongoing).
What will cause the most Consternation and Uproar?
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else? Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
This, perhaps, explains his drop in popularity. On the one hand those who think he should ignore the "flu" and carry on as normal. On the other hand those who believe he should have closed down the entire country last Monday. A scientifically informed, cautious response has few supporters, apparently.
Such caricature is unhelpful. I would like the government to have taken some additional, modest and sensible steps to contain the virus.
At least a few things are clearer today than they were yesterday.
There are range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
That's not necessarily accurate.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
No I don't think so.
I think what is clear now is there are two fundamentally different approaches. The first approach is to stomp this out at source. The second approach is to accept it is inevitable and manage it. We are going for the latter. Others are going for the former.
I disagree. With all our testing we're doing more than other countries in Europe to stomp this out at source.
So why have we allowed flights in from Italy (just a few days ago) and Spain (ongoing).
Round and round we go.
Because we aren't going insane.
We are telling people who come home from Italy to self-isolate for 14 days.
What will cause the most Consternation and Uproar?
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else? Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
This, perhaps, explains his drop in popularity. On the one hand those who think he should ignore the "flu" and carry on as normal. On the other hand those who believe he should have closed down the entire country last Monday. A scientifically informed, cautious response has few supporters, apparently.
Such caricature is unhelpful. I would like the government to have taken some additional, modest and sensible steps to contain the virus.
How are you calculating the cost of those steps on the NHS pressure next winter to consider the whole picture? What models do you have? Based on which previous epidemics? How have you factored in NHS staffing levels?
The team making the decisions has done all those steps and hundreds more.
What will cause the most Consternation and Uproar?
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else? Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
This, perhaps, explains his drop in popularity. On the one hand those who think he should ignore the "flu" and carry on as normal. On the other hand those who believe he should have closed down the entire country last Monday. A scientifically informed, cautious response has few supporters, apparently.
Such caricature is unhelpful. I would like the government to have taken some additional, modest and sensible steps to contain the virus.
How are you calculating the cost of those steps on the NHS pressure next winter to consider the whole picture? What models do you have? Based on which previous epidemics? How have you factored in NHS staffing levels?
The team making the decisions has done all those steps and hundreds more.
What utter balls. They have no idea how this will turn out by next winter.
What will cause the most Consternation and Uproar?
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else? Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
This, perhaps, explains his drop in popularity. On the one hand those who think he should ignore the "flu" and carry on as normal. On the other hand those who believe he should have closed down the entire country last Monday. A scientifically informed, cautious response has few supporters, apparently.
Such caricature is unhelpful. I would like the government to have taken some additional, modest and sensible steps to contain the virus.
How are you calculating the cost of those steps on the NHS pressure next winter to consider the whole picture? What models do you have? Based on which previous epidemics? How have you factored in NHS staffing levels?
The team making the decisions has done all those steps and hundreds more.
What utter balls. They have no idea how this will turn out by next winter.
Of course they dont know. It is their job to predict.
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Downhill all the way after that.
Starmer has a net favourable rating of +6%, Long Bailey of -18% and Nandy of +1%.
Starmer is most favoured by Remainers on +29% followed by Labour voters on +27%. Starmer is least favoured by Leavers on -13%, followed by Tory voters on -8%
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/boris-johnsons-honeymoon-slips
Is that correct use of a double negative?
He might end up salting the ground so badly, even more damaging than when the Rome salted Carthage.
Shagger announces schools to close in line with everyone else?
Shagger announces schools are staying open, stuff upper lip and all that?
Only 8% in Hertfordshire and 14% in Lancashire expressed positive hostility, whilst 5% expressed latent hostility.
In Hertfordshire, 96% of the 50% who formed 20% of consumer spending were in favour.
0.6% told us where we could put our exotic ice creams.
No.
Should be "is unsurprising", or isn't surprising.
But we know what was meant anyway.
For those who claim we're tracking Italy "days behind" we should see ~671 cases in today's update. I don't think we will.
UK yesterday 460
Italy 26/2 445
Italy 27/2 650
Really hard to argue with that.
They are the equivalent of political catamites.
Sanders is now the SAME price (55) for both Nominee and POTUS.
https://twitter.com/tomchivers/status/1238100017614905347?s=21
https://twitter.com/BlackIslePMD/status/1238103003963547651?s=20
!!
It might be targeted but the targets are not very worried by your aim!
3 Leicester players join Van Dijk in self imposed isolation.
There are a range of strategies. Different experts have different views. Those citing experts and denigrating individuals on here taking a different view because they don't align with the experts were clearly wrong.
Now the question is who are the best experts? Well our experts are taking quite a different strategy to the East Asians and now to many of our Western neighbours. They might be right, they might be wrong.
But they are definitely, brave Minister.
Our experts have said there will be a time when they need to make decisions that other nations have made, but its not yet.
Given the UK is testing more than other nations are and having thus fewer "wild" cases than nations are it is entirely possible the time has come for other nations but not us yet.
“They should have been encouraging people to have their own family plans about how they will maintain the family show on the road, who will be taking the kids to school, how do you entertain them in the Easter holidays? They should have been much clearer, sooner, about making it clear that people shouldn’t be travelling so they could cancel their holidays and get their money back on the insurance.
“They haven’t done any of that. Who’s going to look after elderly people – stop them having to go out, do their shopping for them? People should have been doing that planning – they should have been pointed in that direction by the government. There’s been no discussion about that at all.”
Funnily enough that is what I have been doing with my family and my parents.
Maybe it would have been helpful if the rest of the country had been having these conversations too? Weeks ago perhaps..
In any event, Easter is coming up, so if you want a relatively low cost month of school closure, there's only a week or so to make up your mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/cinemas-and-pubs-in-uk-remain-open-amid-coronavirus-concerns
...“We are operating on the basic assumption that the home is a primary place where transmission has been occurring, but something else we are also really picking up on is that in places where ventilation is poor, or if there is ventilation but a lack of proper filtration, then that can also be seriously bad,” Nabarro told the Guardian on Thursday.
He was speaking before a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee, where ministers are expected to agree to move into the “delay” stage of its coronavirus strategy. This involves social distancing measures, such as restricting public gatherings and issuing more widespread advice to stay at home.
Nabarro stressed that information on how the virus was spreading was more circumstantial, and data was based on the still-evolving situations in countries such as China, South Korea and Iran, but he said that, after the home, transmission appeared to often be taking place indoors where people were gathered around tables.
“We are coming across stories where people, for example, have been sitting around a table in a restaurant or bar, where they are closer than 2 metres, spend quite a bit of time in each other’s company and the amount of time that passes is not clear. That appears to be the next commonest place where infections are taking place.
“That is why restaurants, pubs and churches – churches in particular because of physical closeness – are of interest.”...
(Quite a few schools would meet this description, too.)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eTKeK9vRxgw0KhvKxPCaDrfaHnxQP-n9TsLzsEymviY/htmlview?sle=true
https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1238108068086497280?s=20
I think what is clear now is there are two fundamentally different approaches. The first approach is to stomp this out at source. The second approach is to accept it is inevitable and manage it. We are going for the latter. Others are going for the former.
06/03/2020 -- 2,255 -- 48 -- 2.1%
07/03/2020 -- 1,122 -- 43 -- 3.8%
08/03/2020 -- 2,053 -- 67 -- 3.3%
09/03/2020 -- 1,447 -- 46 -- 3.2%
10/03/2020 -- 1,301 -- 54 -- 4.2%
11/03/2020 -- 1,215 -- 83 -- 6.8%
12/03/2020 -- 2,238 -- 134 -- 6.0%
Round and round we go.
Run Android On An iPhone..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXeQVZA40-0
We are telling people who come home from Italy to self-isolate for 14 days.
The team making the decisions has done all those steps and hundreds more.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-uk-cases-deaths-numbers-covid-19-latest-live/
One 89, one in 60s, both serious other illnesses.
Any mention of whereabouts in London ?
They have no idea how this will turn out by next winter.
Asking as a Norwich City fan.