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Latest virus tracker from ORB finds just 17% saying that the situation is "under control". Not good for the government. pic.twitter.com/PRR3UyJU0Y
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Will Labour ever break through?
Not under control is not the same as out of control. The creation of the Nightingale hospitals and the gradual reductions in ICU admissions at least give an impression that we will not now face "out of control". No lonely deaths on trolleys in hospital corridors. Once we know with certainty that we have defeated "out of control", we can consider phased removal of lockdown.
The world has a huge problem
For what its worth the handling of the epidemic is the least of the Government's problems. The out of their control financial aftermath will do for them if anything does.
Sanchez said he wanted to relax restrictions on children, who would be allowed out of their homes after 27 April, though that allowance would be “limited and subject to conditions to avoid contagion”. He did not go into further details.
Spain has begun to ease a strict lockdown imposed on 14 March and this week opened up some sectors of the economy, including manufacturing. But most people are still confined to their houses except for essential outings including shopping for food.
US president Donald Trump said on Saturday that Texas and Vermont will allow certain businesses to reopen on Monday while still observing coronavirus-related precautions and Montana will begin lifting restrictions on Friday.
Starmer has committed to keep to the Corbynite style manifesto therefore Labour remain a voting irrelevance for most of the country. I merely gave him the brief answer as it would be a waste of breath to say more
I haven't scapegoated anyone, I think the report that has been released is deeply suspect in its timing and I treat it with great scepticism. I have said all of this...
However yes it is unlikely he will get a majority on his current platform, if he becomes PM it will likely be propped up by the LDs with Ed Davey pushing him in a more centrist direction
I voted for Starmer specifically to kick the Corbynites out.
Health and social care workers must be prioritised for the limited supplies available. Everybody else will simply have to take their chances.
If Boris were to call a GE right now he could double his majority. You also know that come 2024 the landscape could be very different. Not least if the economic situation unravels, and that even through no fault of the incumbent Government.
I am following the polling, Starmer was the best candidate in the running from all the objective data and because I believed he'd make a break with Corbynism.
I would dump most of the 2019 and 2017 manifestos bar railway nationalisation and investment in the economy.
We have lived in a decade of very poor opposition and some questionable centre right regimes have muddled through due to this.
Maybe if it ever gets back to normal the alternate reality may play out with Starmer's sensible centre left being seen as a cosy alternative to the current crop.
Former plagues in this country like Spanish flu, the Great Plague of the 1660s or Black Death also had a far higher death rate than Covid 19 and we did not have the lockdown capacity or testing capacity then we have now nor the ability to find a vaccine
I think it is important to admit when one is wrong.
I saw one case where a bunch of them kicked someones front door in as there had been allegations of him having a party .........
I hope Labour supports PR and allies - perhaps unofficially - with the Lib Dems.
I wonder if this will remain long after COVID-19 is immunised against.
Of course I will also be asking to work from home more than I was pre lockdown.
I for example gave cameron the benefit of the doubt even though I didn't like the direction he was heading and voted tory...if I had known what the coalition was going to decide to keep and drop I would not have voted for it.
I suspect that the tory commitment in 2015 to a referendum was not actually meant to be implemented but was there to trade away in coalition negotiations with the lib dems. That sadly though happens whereever you get pr electoral systems. It is rank dishonesty
Do you mean reporting the facts.
Although the LDs ruled out a deal with Corbyn remember had Labour dumped Brown for David Miliband soon after the 2010 election it is not impossible the coalition then could have been Labour and LD not Tory and LD
I am really not sure who the net gainers will be. Instinctively I don't think I would want to be the government of the day holding this particular post-pandemic baby.
https://twitter.com/BBCHelena/status/1251608981581246474
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/historical-polls/voting-intention-1992-1997
I am still of the view he aims more for the former Lib Dem/Remain Tory vote as opposed to the "traditional" Labour vote but that's just me