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As we go into the final WH2020 debate Biden edges up further in the betting – politicalbetting.com
As we go into the final WH2020 debate Biden edges up further in the betting – politicalbetting.com
Overnight there is the last in the programme of TV debates between Trump and Biden. There were going to be three of them but Trump would not agree to the terms set out by the independent debates commission which meant second one did not take place.
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The Welsh government should be dragged over the coals for this nonsense. It is just batshit crazy to have Tesco's not able to sell stuff. If Boris government had proposed this, the media would eat him alive, day in day out, mocking what exactly is essential item, rammed full of edge cases where somebody relies on some product from Tesco that is now banned from selling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-54648194
We think Team Boris is useless, but Team Twat over in Wales....
We on PB would have to discuss pizza and newt paintings all day if there was no polling.
We need the same again now the Tories have cocked it up so poorly.
Should be entertaining but past my bed time.
The big question is - what does this enable them to do???
(Or indeed my partially hedged betting losses.)
That gives another week basically for falling case numbers to drop further.
If answer is yes, then of course they are essential!
Imagine reading this in a history book and shaking your head at the stupidity of people living in 2020.
No he is not right
What an unfunny prick.
Ugh.
Hang your heads in shame Blair, Brown, Cameron & May
Biden 52.5%
Trump 46.8%
Biden lead: 5.7%
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/pennsylvania/
If the two weeks of not buying sweatshop clothing at Tesco keeps me on this earth for a little longer, I am comfortable with that.
Which on any medical level is stark raving bonkers. If your in a Tesco buying beans why can’t you wander one aisle over and buy socks?
Insane.
I warned it was a disaster and was shouted down - as usual - by PB Tories. But that's fine.
To be fair to Drakeford, it was a Tory AM (Russell George) who raised the matter that the big supermarkets could sell things like clothes, whilst small retailers can't during lockdown
So, it was Tory pressure that propelled this policy forward.
As I keep on saying, outside of Cardiff & Swansea, there aren't that many huge Tesco Extras in Wales to buy all these jeans, T-shirts and iPads anyhow.
It is nice that pb.com is so collectively worried about the Welsh going without ready access to supermarket shirts, but -- actually -- we have managed so far without any problems.
When you visit most of Wales, you are travelling back in time to the 1960s.
It is morally bankrupt
Funny they don't allow me to make the same arguments about Labour leads isn't it? Hypocrisy as usual.
I am with 60%+ of the population and it's the right course of action. Well done Mark Drakeford.
And how do they differ?
These are elderly parents terminal ill not related to covid
What on earth can the children do to them
The thing is the fire break in Wales could be a disaster on many fronts. Equally, it could work less badly than what Westminster have on offer (I have chosen my words carefully).
Inscrutable
Completely and utterly and off the scale out of proportion.
How much more of this are we all going to stand?
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1319394172374220801
Huge row in Scotland with the FM threatening Xmas already
Personally I don't think recognising where other places are doing as bad us overall, or in a particular phase, or even worse, lessens the criticism that the government will deserve to face, but is important context. After all, if people insist the personal character failings of Boris lead to outcome X, it is relevant if Spain or Belgium for instance, without such a figure, have a similar outcome. Personal character failings may contribute, but odds are there's a deeper problem in all those places, perhaps a similar one, to learn from.
You are so hard to read, I thought you’d hate him!
Inscrutable
One little fishy that I knew would be right onto the hook.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/p954
https://twitter.com/slaskow/status/1319387768548720643
Though our economy does seem to be substantially more vulnerable to the economic shock than some of the others.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1319391022892408835
Nice try at a wriggle out if it, but nah... didn’t work
Ignoring the "zero covid" places that managed to clamp down early enough and close the borders to their countries to prevent the virus getting beyond first base (although they will struggle with the problem of how they will ever open their borders again), the most successful countries (at least in thus far avoiding a second wave) have arguably been the ones that have managed to retain a consistent level of restrictions of various degrees throughout.
I still think Biden will win either way, though!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/19/germany-covid-second-wave-virus
And if you do want to play the numbers game youre not going to win. The number of cases* in the UK has been way way above the number of German cases since April. (Replace with any metric you want).
Like STDs, I bet most of the transmission is done by a very few people. A feature of sexual networks is that a small number of people have a disproportionately large number of partners and transmit the disease.
Similarly, a small number of people flouting or ignoring lockdown rules probably is enough to ensure the disease just keeps on going.