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It has repeatedly been said over the last five months that the only way that life can really return back to normal will be if an effective vaccine becomes available. There have been reports that more than 100 research teams around the world are working hard on the challenge and now we’ve got news about two of them.
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So I'm taking this vaccine 'news,' in which Astra Zeneca have a massive commercial interest, with a healthy degree of scepticism for now.
https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1283565315662794753
So add me to the 'sceptical' list!
The government gets to appoint the committee members from its own party; its gets to vet and approve all nominated opposition members. Once that is done, it is supposed to be entirely hands off.
As Grieve noted last night, the committee issues all its reports unanimously; it has to operate by consensus, There is no room for party politics in its operation.
And I still remain a loyal member but do despair at times
And they’ve nothing to gain from hyping something that doesn’t work.
And it will be at least a couple more months before they know for sure anyway.
Cue the arguments again of splitting society into two completely seperate groups the under 40s and over 40s.
This is about health, but it is also about money and power. A tremendous amount of money. So beware guff.
Which surely suggests that one of the usual creeps has 'put the word about'!
It will be interesting to see what Lewis' constituency officers say. New Forest East has, recently anyway been 'safe'.
*Allowing for party name changes/allianes etc.
Incidentally, I realise that Astra Zeneca is promoted as a “British” company by English media, but Swedish media puts a different, and more accurate, label on the organisation.
Don’t get your hopes up.
In a democracy, it is the electorate that choose the opposition, not the government.
A degree of independence from backbench MPs has always been a feature of the Westminster system, and we can see now that Johnson is determined to squeeze any independence out of his party on all matters, not just Brexit.
It's a very dangerous development for our political system.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/chris-grayling-fails-to-become-intelligence-and-security-chair
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1283554382433464320?s=09
We could probably survive one or the other as while they impacted particular sectors of the economy other sectors weren't impacted by the change. But both together and oh boy the next few years are going to be fun for people.
If he has succeeded it would have “destroyed the whole purpose of the intelligence committee”.
Calls for whoever was advising him to be sacked.
Rifkind says PM blocked the Russia report not because of its contents but out of spite because Dominic Grieve did the work on it.
Brexit is important to millions and as far as support for HMG I am a conservative member and remain as such
This government can’t even “vet” itself, let alone the opposition.
https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-cases-are-overwhelming-south-africa-12029281
It is not the point of the site to be a nationally representative focus group. Aside from people shouting into the void, the purpose of the site is to anticipate changes so that money can be made by making the appropriate bets.
Any old fool can look at the opinion polls and see that the Tories are comfortably ahead. The question is whether they will remain so.
Some people on here think that the leader ratings indicate that they won't. Other people point to other reasons why they will.
Pointing to the current leads says nothing about the future.
The lag times here are the biggest issue with Covid 19... (3-7 days of being infectious before becoming ill, another 7-10 days before possibly needing hospital treatment, + a few more days before getting better).
1) Florida and Texas are already out of ICU beds and a lot of people are only at the testing stage
2) Most people I know who have had it are still feeling ill 3 months later.
It's exactly like those 20 something's are occupying the fourth floor flat of a poorly clad tower block.
(although Eadric et al et al et al often do their best to prove me wrong...)
If it's, steady as she goes, Johnson and his team are doing a good job, you may be disappointed down the line.
On a more positive note for your boy. It does look like he backed the right horse in the vaccine stakes. If that does come to pass, hats off to him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8527855/One-three-firms-preparing-lay-staff-furlough-ends-October.html
A chamber of commerce survey shows that a 1/3 of firms are planning to lay people off.
And that's just due to low demand due to Covid...
The disgraced former MP for Edinburgh Pentland (and then in exile somewhere in Londonshire)?
Or the young one who does Radio 4 comedy?
The basic issue I think is that a drug powerful enough to have the desired medical effect is powerful enough to have adverse effects too and these aren't well understood, hence the need for trials. A one in a thousand patient effect could easily be missed in an abbreviated trial but if we are going to vaccinate an entire population of the size of the UK in one go on one vaccine that would result in 50 000 patients affected.
There will be a lot of pressure on authorities to approve these vaccines quickly, particularly if governments have already bought up a specific vaccine ahead of approval that they strongly intend to use. There is also an element of trust here because if people have the slightest doubt about the safety of the vaccine, they won't take it, ensuring herd immunity won't be reached.
There is a tension between achieving a herd immunity quickly through vaccination and ensuring confidence in the safety of the vaccine.
And the election is 4 years away so they can do a lot in that time.
The bit I'm really waiting for is when it dawns on Cummings and co that the best way to win the 2024 election would be to ensure 59 MPs no longer sit in Parliament.
8078 and according to chief impartiality officer HYUFD that means he should do whatever he likes to ensurethe prosperity of the countrythe future electoral prospects of the Conservative Party.We know that Dom wants to reshape the system in his own Compo image. Perhaps that means we will see the parliamentarians banished to York so that He can simply rule by edict.
I have consistently supported the return to work and warned that prolonged lockdown will see thousands of job loses, each one a crisis for someone
Indeed it looks like a member of my family is going to be affected shortly
To suggest it does not matter to me or my family is just unjustified
Indeed I called it a shambles earlier today
They've become cartoon characters themselves. Joe may win, but it wil be narrower than it shoud be. In the end, that was Corbyn's problem. He couldn't shake off the juvenile hatred that permeated his campaign.
If you simply mean pro Brexit then that's a meaningless tautology.