That's almost exactly the extra tax Thompson of this parish was prepared to pay so that Biden could be president?
Sorry what?
That Murphy is an idiot. Not a single person to my knowledge is saying we need to repay the debt. We don't. What we do need to do is ensure we aren't running a deficit during growth times and fix the deficit during growth years.
Deficit not debt. Learn the difference. Stupid dolt!
Repaying the debt would entail an eyewatering budget surplus for decades. Never going to happen.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
Shagger says that the 2nd tiering system wasn't good enough. As Whitty advised him at the time. So now we have a 3rd tiering system. Which as it will be largely suspended for Christmas will itself not be good enough by January...
Your use of ‘Shagger’ as a pejorative term baffles me. How many blokes would resent it?!
Whatever. Why don't we skip the fancy names (Shagger, Captain Hindsight, etc etc) , if only to avoid baffling new readers? It makes us look cliquey (the reports that Cummings and associates had a funny name for everyone is a good example)..
FPT Is 'Shagger' not universal, then? I've had friends in emails which have nothing to do with politics come out with such things as "Eat an icecream for Bozo" (admittedly in that case when being sarcastic about the flood fo summer visitors which Mr Johnson had released to my friend's West Country home).
Invective isn´t what it used to be...
Denis Healey become involved in a blazing row on the floor of the house with hard-left MPs. “What happened is that one of them cast doubt on my paternity so I praised his virility,” said Healey with masterly understatement. In fact, the leftwing MPs called Healey “a Stalinist bastard” and Healey yelled at them repeatedly, “You fuckers, you’re out of your tiny Chinese minds.”
These proposals, and the way they are being phrased, are very, very bad for the conservatives.
Next May? I dread to think. I really do.
No, it really isn't that bad. These vaccines will be rolling out, and into human arms, probably before Xmas. The vulnerable, key workers and possible super spreaders will get the first. Millions will be pumped through Jan, Feb.
You will start to see a fall in R and infections, hospitalisations, deaths, etc, really quite quickly, as the virus is cornered. This means lots of regions will see an easement in the restrictions after Xmas. Those in Tier 3 (no pubs) should quite swiftly descend to Tier 2. And so on.
It's gonna be a tough winter but it will get noticeably better as the evenings brighten.
Exactly. And it's nearly Dec now. 2021 before you know it, then a few short weeks and you've got March on the horizon. And once March is here it's more or less Easter, Easter being the gateway to early summer, then summer proper and close to 100% normality for all those who want normality back. This is over.
Just in time for them to panic about about novel bunyavirus.
That is my problem with all this, that there will now be a massive over reaction to each new virus just in case its another covid. All western governments are going to I suspect take premature precautions just in case
There's definitely a danger that governments are going to tend towards heavy-handed responses to new infectious diseases for the next couple of decades, but on the other hand this particular trauma should give both pandemic preparedness and investment in immunological research the kind of rocket boost that would have taken decades to achieve otherwise. Maybe those advances will give us the tools to defeat more serious pandemics in the future that would have wrecked us had we not passed through the Covid gauntlet first.
Biden was not elected on the back of a Democratic landslide to sweep the US to the left, he was elected purely to beat Trump and Georgia swing voters having voted Biden to beat the incumbent President will now vote GOP to ensure the woke, far left does not get too much power and the Senate stays GOP.
Hence Biden will be the first incoming President not to take office with his party in control of both chambers of Congress since Bush Snr in 1989. That would be about right, US voters want him to compromise with the GOP and to reduce the polarisation
Biden was not elected on the back of a Democratic landslide to sweep the US to the left, he was elected purely to beat Trump and Georgia swing voters having voted Biden to beat the incumbent President will now vote GOP to ensure the woke, far left does not get too much power and the Senate stays GOP.
Hence Biden will be the first incoming President not to take office with his party in control of both chambers of Congress since Bush Snr in 1989. That would be about right, US voters want him to compromise with the GOP and to reduce the polarisation
Warnock is taking a lot of flak for his comment that you cannot serve both God and the military and that (together with the domestic abuse allegations) may make it a step too far.
I think Perdue - Ossoff will be closer but, even there, Perdue outperformed Trump which suggests a degree of ballot splitting, which will probably get him over the line.
That's almost exactly the extra tax Thompson of this parish was prepared to pay so that Biden could be president?
Sorry what?
That Murphy is an idiot. Not a single person to my knowledge is saying we need to repay the debt. We don't. What we do need to do is ensure we aren't running a deficit during growth times and fix the deficit during growth years.
Deficit not debt. Learn the difference. Stupid dolt!
Repaying the debt would entail an eyewatering budget surplus for decades. Never going to happen.
I was remembering the email the Trump campaign sent you warning of the extra $2 Trillion in tax you'd have to pay if you voted for Biden. As I recall you were remarkably relaxed about the bill coming your way.
True, I slipped $ into £ when it comes to paying off the debt, but still.
So captain hindsight says tiers are rubbish, government need to again negotiation with every council, but must not waste anytime announcing which tier each place is in and also announcement straight away how long they will be in that for...
Thanks for that.
He's right about the effective abandonment of track and isolate.
The reality is track and trace doesn't work anywhere. Germant don't get 75% of cases. Government oversold this as some miracle system to save us all.
I was surprised to read that Germany's test and trace is missing 75% of cases
That would be quite disheartening indeed, but that is not the case. What the RKI stated a month ago was that, at that point of time, they could only find the source of infection in 25% of new cases (down from >50%), due to the rise in new cases. Those numbers are reported to be back to 40% currently.
The more important point of contract tracing is of course tracing the contacts of the newly identified cases, who could potentially have been infected by these new cases and therefor should be tested. The identification of the source of infection of new cases is useful as well, but considered to be secondary.
Shagger says that the 2nd tiering system wasn't good enough. As Whitty advised him at the time. So now we have a 3rd tiering system. Which as it will be largely suspended for Christmas will itself not be good enough by January...
Your use of ‘Shagger’ as a pejorative term baffles me. How many blokes would resent it?!
Whatever. Why don't we skip the fancy names (Shagger, Captain Hindsight, etc etc) , if only to avoid baffling new readers? It makes us look cliquey (the reports that Cummings and associates had a funny name for everyone is a good example)..
FPT Is 'Shagger' not universal, then? I've had friends in emails which have nothing to do with politics come out with such things as "Eat an icecream for Bozo" (admittedly in that case when being sarcastic about the flood fo summer visitors which Mr Johnson had released to my friend's West Country home).
Invective isn´t what it used to be...
Denis Healey become involved in a blazing row on the floor of the house with hard-left MPs. “What happened is that one of them cast doubt on my paternity so I praised his virility,” said Healey with masterly understatement. In fact, the leftwing MPs called Healey “a Stalinist bastard” and Healey yelled at them repeatedly, “You fuckers, you’re out of your tiny Chinese minds.”
Afternoon all. Who among us oldies can forget Michael Foot's description of Norman Tebbitt as a 'semi-house-trained polecat'?
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
It's the old Modern Monetary Theory argument - you print your own money, you can't go bankrupt.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
Inevitable given the strength of the current lockdown the number of cases would start to fall off as we went past the 14-day period since its inception.
Unfortunately, some will jump on this and say everything should be opened up again for Christmas and we'll be right back on the treadmill of rising case numbers leading to a new panic and a new lockdown.
We also only have a figure of people testing as positive - that excludes those who have got the virus and simply stayed at home and never got tested.
Like almost every other statistic, it gets put into a graph or a spreadsheet, weaponised to make a point and yet it's only half a truth at best. Unfortunately, the entire public policy debate and agenda is being predicated on half-truths which is why we get nowhere slowly.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
It's the old Modern Monetary Theory argument - you print your own money, you can't go bankrupt.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
I also seem to remember that Germany tried that once, and it wasn’t exactly a resounding success.
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Honestly I haven't felt this much love for an MP since Dave and George were MPs.
Yes, it's a good thread. People go on about the BBC, but the Daily Mail's coverage has been an absolute disgrace for a couple of months now. Headlines are often full-scale Covid denial, not far off conspiracy level; they told us that things were improving when they clearly weren't; that we are prisoners in our own homes; and they demand that we should be snogging everybody we can under the mistletoe at Xmas. Eventually you reach a report that mentions another 500 dead or whatever.
Although an opponent of the government, I think today's announcements are broadly sensible. I fear they may be undone by a too-liberal release at Xmas resulting in a large death spike at the end of January. But on the right lines.
It seems to me that this second wave is just as bad as the first, except that deaths are lower (around half?) mainly because of a) improved treatments and b) improved protection of care homes.
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio on Monday said there was “no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result” of the presidential election, becoming the latest Republican lawmaker to break with President Trump and call for the transition process to move forward.
Honestly I haven't felt this much love for an MP since Dave and George were MPs.
Yes, it's a good thread. People go on about the BBC, but the Daily Mail's coverage has been an absolute disgrace for a couple of months since 1896.
FTFY
Thanks! I was referring specifically to Covid coverage which, although it may feel like it has, hasn't been going on since 1896. But on the general point of course you're right.
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Thanks, but I already knew what the symbols meant. My post was largely a subtweet of turtledick Mitch, the dunce at the top of the Senate, and the faint stink of fascism around the Republican Party right now. I was trying to keep it low key because they aren't so far gone to deserve an overt comparison. Yet.
Shagger says that the 2nd tiering system wasn't good enough. As Whitty advised him at the time. So now we have a 3rd tiering system. Which as it will be largely suspended for Christmas will itself not be good enough by January...
Your use of ‘Shagger’ as a pejorative term baffles me. How many blokes would resent it?!
Whatever. Why don't we skip the fancy names (Shagger, Captain Hindsight, etc etc) , if only to avoid baffling new readers? It makes us look cliquey (the reports that Cummings and associates had a funny name for everyone is a good example)..
FPT Is 'Shagger' not universal, then? I've had friends in emails which have nothing to do with politics come out with such things as "Eat an icecream for Bozo" (admittedly in that case when being sarcastic about the flood fo summer visitors which Mr Johnson had released to my friend's West Country home).
Invective isn´t what it used to be...
Denis Healey become involved in a blazing row on the floor of the house with hard-left MPs. “What happened is that one of them cast doubt on my paternity so I praised his virility,” said Healey with masterly understatement. In fact, the leftwing MPs called Healey “a Stalinist bastard” and Healey yelled at them repeatedly, “You fuckers, you’re out of your tiny Chinese minds.”
Why would the Speaker have allowed that? Surely there would be repercussions if an MP stood up in the House and called Johnson a c*nt!
Honestly I haven't felt this much love for an MP since Dave and George were MPs.
Yes, it's a good thread. People go on about the BBC, but the Daily Mail's coverage has been an absolute disgrace for a couple of months now. Headlines are often full-scale Covid denial, not far off conspiracy level; they told us that things were improving when they clearly weren't; that we are prisoners in our own homes; and they demand that we should be snogging everybody we can under the mistletoe at Xmas. Eventually you reach a report that mentions another 500 dead or whatever.
Although an opponent of the government, I think today's announcements are broadly sensible. I fear they may be undone by a too-liberal release at Xmas resulting in a large death spike at the end of January. But on the right lines.
It seems to me that this second wave is just as bad as the first, except that deaths are lower (around half?) mainly because of a) improved treatments and b) improved protection of care homes.
Also, the government pressed the button sooner. Peak daily cases were probably about 50k, instead of 100k.
Biden’s new Secretary of State on French tv explaining how important US EU relations are. He speaks fluent French as he spent many years in Paris .
In other news German press are reporting Nissan will close its UK factory , oh well at least the Sunderland folk can wave their new blue passports and sing Rule Brittania on their way to the job centre! Don’t expect any sympathy from Remainers , you wanted a good hard Brexit , enjoy it !
It doesn't have to be. I've seen test cars round here so the factory is already geared up to transition to this next generation car. Doesn't mean it will continue to be made there, just that its going to start there.
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Hello - referring to a thread yesterday, I am semi-interested in farming, particularly livestock, and I wondered if you had some reasons why American beef is superior to British? I'm not arguing that it isn't (never had American beef to my knowledge), just interested.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
It's the old Modern Monetary Theory argument - you print your own money, you can't go bankrupt.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
I also seem to remember that Germany tried that once, and it wasn’t exactly a resounding success.
The entire point of Modern Monetary Theory is that it works up to a point.
Fiat currency is always a magic act though - it only works until the confidence disappears.
Shagger says that the 2nd tiering system wasn't good enough. As Whitty advised him at the time. So now we have a 3rd tiering system. Which as it will be largely suspended for Christmas will itself not be good enough by January...
Your use of ‘Shagger’ as a pejorative term baffles me. How many blokes would resent it?!
Whatever. Why don't we skip the fancy names (Shagger, Captain Hindsight, etc etc) , if only to avoid baffling new readers? It makes us look cliquey (the reports that Cummings and associates had a funny name for everyone is a good example)..
FPT Is 'Shagger' not universal, then? I've had friends in emails which have nothing to do with politics come out with such things as "Eat an icecream for Bozo" (admittedly in that case when being sarcastic about the flood fo summer visitors which Mr Johnson had released to my friend's West Country home).
Invective isn´t what it used to be...
Denis Healey become involved in a blazing row on the floor of the house with hard-left MPs. “What happened is that one of them cast doubt on my paternity so I praised his virility,” said Healey with masterly understatement. In fact, the leftwing MPs called Healey “a Stalinist bastard” and Healey yelled at them repeatedly, “You fuckers, you’re out of your tiny Chinese minds.”
Why would the Speaker have allowed that? Surely there would be repercussions if an MP stood up in the House and called Johnson a c*nt!
Because Speaker Thomas agreed with Healey's sentiments.
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Hello - referring to a thread yesterday, I am semi-interested in farming, particularly livestock, and I wondered if you had some reasons why American beef is superior to British? I'm not arguing that it isn't (never had American beef to my knowledge), just interested.
No idea really. Premium beef here is often marketed as "grass-fed". I had always assumed that cows only ate grass anyway, but perhaps not. I don't recall ever seeing that phrase in the UK, but I left nearly a decade ago now so my memory may be faulty.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
It's the old Modern Monetary Theory argument - you print your own money, you can't go bankrupt.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
I also seem to remember that Germany tried that once, and it wasn’t exactly a resounding success.
The entire point of Modern Monetary Theory is that it works up to a point.
Fiat currency is always a magic act though - it only works until the confidence disappears.
Less risky if every country does it at the same time. Then it represents a concerted effort to tax the unborn.
I was wondering why the story about North Kent now being the worst hotspot in the country got such prominence on the lunchtime news. Then I remembered that the new tiers we will return to on 2 December are due to be announced by the clown this Thursday. Clearly we are looking at a rather different geography from last time.
Much of northern England looks doomed to Tier 3. South Wales, maybe chunks of central Scotland. Kent is bad.
The only really dodgy borough in London is Havering (why?!?)
If they close down the entire hospitality industry in our capital city, through Christmas, because of..... Havering.... then, well, fuck that shit
Why London doesn't cede Havering to Essex, I don't know. They deserve each other, and always did.
It was in Essex until April 1965 of course and still has an Essex postcode. I was born in Ilford in January 1965 (Redbridge rather than Havering) so can claim to be an Essex Boy or a Londoner as it suits me.
Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, told CNBC that while he had backed the president and had supported his right to pursue legal challenges, “the idea that a sitting president would try to, I don’t know, pressure, cajole, persuade state legislators to dismiss the will of their voters” was “completely inconsistent with any kind of truly democratic society.”
NYTimes
And it was so hard to see it coming if you backed his flimsy challenges earlier, eh Senator?
Germany's issue was that its repayments to the Allies were in pre-WWI Gold Marks, which were fixed so depreciation of the currency made no difference whatsoever.
However, it did wipe out domestic War Bond holdings, thus wiping out the savings of many middle class (and patriotic) Germans.
SNP on 6% suggests a very high Scottish vote share.
Rounding, I'd assume - usually 5% but sometimes 4 or 6. Even 5% implies a hefty share, anyway, with Scotland only about 8.5% of the UK population. But subsamples, subsamples ...
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Hello - referring to a thread yesterday, I am semi-interested in farming, particularly livestock, and I wondered if you had some reasons why American beef is superior to British? I'm not arguing that it isn't (never had American beef to my knowledge), just interested.
No idea really. Premium beef here is often marketed as "grass-fed". I had always assumed that cows only ate grass anyway, but perhaps not. I don't recall ever seeing that phrase in the UK, but I left nearly a decade ago now so my memory may be faulty.
No, they get quite a lot of hay in the Winter (does that count as dried-grass? ) and often grain-based feed. Grass-fed is best of course. I believe Grass-fed beef is widely available in the UK, but perhaps less is 'made of it' than designations like 'Organic'. Probably wrongly, as with organic, you can still use feed that isn't grass (or indeed particularly nutritious) as long as it's organic.
Perhaps you're just eating a better class of cow than you used to 10 years ago...
As I understand pubs that serve food can remain open though not in the highest tier
Assuming London is in Tier 2 , my local cafe can fully re-open on the 2nd which will be good news for them. I don't care a lot about Spoons to be honest but the food isn't too bad. I confess a pub for me is a way to sit, read my Racing Post and have something to eat but I prefer the ambience of the cafe - the food is better and the old men a shade grumpier.
I've never really looked at the Senate seal carefully before. The fasces gives one pause for thought.
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
Tsk, does no one learn about Enlightenment-era republican symbology any more? Prior to Mussolini hijacking them, fasces symbolized republicanism, or maybe even more broadly civic virtue (they appear in some monarchical contexts e.g. in the insignia of the Spanish Guardia Civil). They do appear in several Latin American national emblems, including Cuba's, and in many other contexts in the US, such as behind the Speaker's podium in the House of Representatives.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Hello - referring to a thread yesterday, I am semi-interested in farming, particularly livestock, and I wondered if you had some reasons why American beef is superior to British? I'm not arguing that it isn't (never had American beef to my knowledge), just interested.
No idea really. Premium beef here is often marketed as "grass-fed". I had always assumed that cows only ate grass anyway, but perhaps not. I don't recall ever seeing that phrase in the UK, but I left nearly a decade ago now so my memory may be faulty.
In the US most cattle are fed on soya and grain. That makes the meat fattier and more unhealthy.
I agree with you about the very best US beef, though. The best steaks I've ever had have been fancy USDA-aged beef. In an upmarket steak restaurant, go for the longest-aged available.
I see Lab are off three pts in the latest poll. Not that any poll that is not the General Election particularly matters and one a few years out matters still less but I wonder at what point Lab will be able to stop and oppose the govt.
The Cons will spin everything for the next three years as Covid- or Brexit-related and SKS has slightly got Lab into a Stockholm Syndrome position whereby they are voting with the govt on both Brexit (once a deal is put before parliament and I presume to avoid no deal) and Covid, and hence they have ceded to the govt the initiative in handling these two issues.
Sunderland - going, going, ghosn! Seriously, it's no joke but I think it's no more than another prod for a deal, just as Carlos tried it on with May early in the proceeding back then in pre-history. When (if) no-deal comes to pass and the £ adjusts that plant will still be just as efficient and ready to tool up for all electric as required here by 2030. And the Nissan management know that.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
It's the old Modern Monetary Theory argument - you print your own money, you can't go bankrupt.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
I also seem to remember that Germany tried that once, and it wasn’t exactly a resounding success.
The entire point of Modern Monetary Theory is that it works up to a point.
Fiat currency is always a magic act though - it only works until the confidence disappears.
Indeed, it is deliberately misinterpreted by both those on the left who want govt spending to be extremely high, and those who want to criticise those on the left. The UK and US govts and central banks are clearly heavily influenced by MMT.
The vaccine also patiently explains that its efficacy score only appears lower because a mark of 70 at Oxford is equivalent to 90 at other institutions...
Seems that the UK Gmt outsourcing has ended up meaning that some folk are turned down for home testing for the pox because of financial credit scoring.
That's almost exactly the extra tax Thompson of this parish was prepared to pay so that Biden could be president?
Sorry what?
That Murphy is an idiot. Not a single person to my knowledge is saying we need to repay the debt. We don't. What we do need to do is ensure we aren't running a deficit during growth times and fix the deficit during growth years.
Deficit not debt. Learn the difference. Stupid dolt!
Repaying the debt would entail an eyewatering budget surplus for decades. Never going to happen.
I was remembering the email the Trump campaign sent you warning of the extra $2 Trillion in tax you'd have to pay if you voted for Biden. As I recall you were remarkably relaxed about the bill coming your way.
True, I slipped $ into £ when it comes to paying off the debt, but still.
ISTR he was a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan criminal cabal socialist experiment.
I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
In fairness if the had 9600% inflation we wouldn't be worrying so much about the national debt.
Biden was not elected on the back of a Democratic landslide to sweep the US to the left, he was elected purely to beat Trump and Georgia swing voters having voted Biden to beat the incumbent President will now vote GOP to ensure the woke, far left does not get too much power and the Senate stays GOP.
Hence Biden will be the first incoming President not to take office with his party in control of both chambers of Congress since Bush Snr in 1989. That would be about right, US voters want him to compromise with the GOP and to reduce the polarisation
It takes two to tango. The GOP don't seem to even want to learn the steps.
'Kin hell, Extinction Rebellion are as thick as Ian Blackford mince.
Extinction Rebellion has called for supporters to stop making mortgage payments and take out loans with no intention of paying them back in an attempt to force the government and banks to take further action towards reducing carbon emissions.
The environmental campaign group, which has urged the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency, called for people to engage in “financial disobedience” by refusing to pay debts including credit cards and payday loans. It even suggests taking out loans or opening bank accounts to run up a “small” overdraft with no intention to pay it back.
The lobbyists said that the campaign, which is called “Money rebellion”, would aim to donate the money saved by refusing to pay back loans and mortgage repayments to support those worst hit by the negative impacts of climate change.
Hmm. It is far from clear but I can't see the guidance saying that. This is what it says:
This COVID-19 Winter Plan ensures the current national restrictions can be lifted on 2 December.
and
On 2 December, across all of England, regardless of tier: a. The stay at home requirement will end, with domestic and international travel being permitted again subject to guidance in each tier. b. Shops, personal care, gyms and the wider leisure sector will reopen
Which doesn't make it clear whether it will be eg. midnight 2nd Dec or midnight 1st Dec. Actually looking at 6.b it seems to say that on Weds 2nd Dec shops will open.
Hmm. It is far from clear but I can't see the guidance saying that. This is what it says:
This COVID-19 Winter Plan ensures the current national restrictions can be lifted on 2 December.
and
On 2 December, across all of England, regardless of tier: a. The stay at home requirement will end, with domestic and international travel being permitted again subject to guidance in each tier. b. Shops, personal care, gyms and the wider leisure sector will reopen
Which doesn't make it clear whether it will be eg. midnight 2nd Dec or midnight 1st Dec. Actually looking at 6.b it seems to say that on Weds 2nd Dec shops will open.
Honestly I haven't felt this much love for an MP since Dave and George were MPs.
Yes, it's a good thread. People go on about the BBC, but the Daily Mail's coverage has been an absolute disgrace for a couple of months now. Headlines are often full-scale Covid denial, not far off conspiracy level; they told us that things were improving when they clearly weren't; that we are prisoners in our own homes; and they demand that we should be snogging everybody we can under the mistletoe at Xmas. Eventually you reach a report that mentions another 500 dead or whatever.
Although an opponent of the government, I think today's announcements are broadly sensible. I fear they may be undone by a too-liberal release at Xmas resulting in a large death spike at the end of January. But on the right lines.
It seems to me that this second wave is just as bad as the first, except that deaths are lower (around half?) mainly because of a) improved treatments and b) improved protection of care homes.
Also, the government pressed the button sooner. Peak daily cases were probably about 50k, instead of 100k.
On Malmesbury's charts of regional deaths - PHE data, I think - a high peak was followed by a lower peak. Deaths in the south in autumn are a small fraction of spring deaths. Note: 'south' is defined as SE, E, London and SW.
Deaths in the north are more substantial compared to spring deaths.
UK total deaths are reportedly normal for the time of year, making it inappropriate for every BBC news programme to lead with a Daily Mail-type doom and gloom headline. It's strange if the Mail has veered the other way - it usually loves gloom and doom - but to report zero excess deaths would be OK if they are indeed zero.
Technically the word "from" does not necessarily imply "and including", therefore the new guidance could apply from "From and including" 4 December.
However it is more likely a mistake.
I swear the counting of days causes endless of trouble (or days of trouble at least). Calendar day, working day, clear day, clear working day, etc.
It's like when people say 'next Saturday' and they mean the 5th of December, but my understanding of the English language means next Saturday is the 28th of November, ie this Saturday, which is of course the next Saturday.
I see Lab are off three pts in the latest poll. Not that any poll that is not the General Election particularly matters and one a few years out matters still less but I wonder at what point Lab will be able to stop and oppose the govt.
The Cons will spin everything for the next three years as Covid- or Brexit-related and SKS has slightly got Lab into a Stockholm Syndrome position whereby they are voting with the govt on both Brexit (once a deal is put before parliament and I presume to avoid no deal) and Covid, and hence they have ceded to the govt the initiative in handling these two issues.
Not an easy habit to break.
Yes. It's never too early to start building the narrative of total and utter Tory disaster on every conceivable front. Don't wait. Do it now.
Comments
https://twitter.com/DuttonChemistry/status/1330808113335734272
(Sorry Malmesbury.)
That Murphy is an idiot. Not a single person to my knowledge is saying we need to repay the debt. We don't. What we do need to do is ensure we aren't running a deficit during growth times and fix the deficit during growth years.
Deficit not debt. Learn the difference. Stupid dolt!
Repaying the debt would entail an eyewatering budget surplus for decades. Never going to happen.
Dido Harding is going to be in charge of the rollout isn't she?
criminal cabalsocialist experiment.I can't help but wonder whether we might end by going the same way.
In fact, arguably we're in a worse mess than they were economically. After all, we don't have the world's largest oil reserves to fall back on.
That's said, Johnson's pretty useless but he hasn't launched a military coup, rigged multiple elections or embezzled literally billions from the Treasury.
Denis Healey become involved in a blazing row on the floor of the house with hard-left MPs. “What happened is that one of them cast doubt on my paternity so I praised his virility,” said Healey with masterly understatement. In fact, the leftwing MPs called Healey “a Stalinist bastard” and Healey yelled at them repeatedly, “You fuckers, you’re out of your tiny Chinese minds.”
I particularly like the dunce cap at the top. Red dunce cap, no less
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1329255402157043713?s=20
Biden was not elected on the back of a Democratic landslide to sweep the US to the left, he was elected purely to beat Trump and Georgia swing voters having voted Biden to beat the incumbent President will now vote GOP to ensure the woke, far left does not get too much power and the Senate stays GOP.
Hence Biden will be the first incoming President not to take office with his party in control of both chambers of Congress since Bush Snr in 1989. That would be about right, US voters want him to compromise with the GOP and to reduce the polarisation
Honestly I haven't felt this much love for an MP since Dave and George were MPs.
I think Perdue - Ossoff will be closer but, even there, Perdue outperformed Trump which suggests a degree of ballot splitting, which will probably get him over the line.
True, I slipped $ into £ when it comes to paying off the debt, but still.
The more important point of contract tracing is of course tracing the contacts of the newly identified cases, who could potentially have been infected by these new cases and therefor should be tested. The identification of the source of infection of new cases is useful as well, but considered to be secondary.
Which might (technically) be true but try paying your interest.
Unfortunately, some will jump on this and say everything should be opened up again for Christmas and we'll be right back on the treadmill of rising case numbers leading to a new panic and a new lockdown.
We also only have a figure of people testing as positive - that excludes those who have got the virus and simply stayed at home and never got tested.
Like almost every other statistic, it gets put into a graph or a spreadsheet, weaponised to make a point and yet it's only half a truth at best. Unfortunately, the entire public policy debate and agenda is being predicated on half-truths which is why we get nowhere slowly.
The cap is the Phyrgian "cap of liberty", given in Roman times to emancipated slaves on their manumission, and later became adopted as a symbol of liberty during the American and French Revolutions.
Although an opponent of the government, I think today's announcements are broadly sensible. I fear they may be undone by a too-liberal release at Xmas resulting in a large death spike at the end of January. But on the right lines.
It seems to me that this second wave is just as bad as the first, except that deaths are lower (around half?) mainly because of a) improved treatments and b) improved protection of care homes.
NYTimes blog
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1330924626189447170
Lib Dem surge, riven Labour on the slide, no one gives a toss about BXP/Reform/PlagueNow...
Fiat currency is always a magic act though - it only works until the confidence disappears.
However, it did wipe out domestic War Bond holdings, thus wiping out the savings of many middle class (and patriotic) Germans.
Perhaps you're just eating a better class of cow than you used to 10 years ago...
I only care about when Dragon Age 4 is coming out.
Spend your money in a decent pub!
I agree with you about the very best US beef, though. The best steaks I've ever had have been fancy USDA-aged beef. In an upmarket steak restaurant, go for the longest-aged available.
The Cons will spin everything for the next three years as Covid- or Brexit-related and SKS has slightly got Lab into a Stockholm Syndrome position whereby they are voting with the govt on both Brexit (once a deal is put before parliament and I presume to avoid no deal) and Covid, and hence they have ceded to the govt the initiative in handling these two issues.
Not an easy habit to break.
Seriously, it's no joke but I think it's no more than another prod for a deal, just as Carlos tried it on with May early in the proceeding back then in pre-history. When (if) no-deal comes to pass and the £ adjusts that plant will still be just as efficient and ready to tool up for all electric as required here by 2030. And the Nissan management know that.
By case data
By hospital admissions
https://twitter.com/anniekarni/status/746377930733920256?s=21
Seems that the UK Gmt outsourcing has ended up meaning that some folk are turned down for home testing for the pox because of financial credit scoring.
https://twitter.com/Ianblackford_MP/status/1330918524093665280
The chap has been living in Scotland in the North of Scotland since September.
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1330929294390996992
And that is my Scots wife talking
Meanwhile, a Covid vaccine developed by the University of Oxford stops 70% of people from developing symptoms, a large-scale trial shows
However it is more likely a mistake.
Extinction Rebellion has called for supporters to stop making mortgage payments and take out loans with no intention of paying them back in an attempt to force the government and banks to take further action towards reducing carbon emissions.
The environmental campaign group, which has urged the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency, called for people to engage in “financial disobedience” by refusing to pay debts including credit cards and payday loans. It even suggests taking out loans or opening bank accounts to run up a “small” overdraft with no intention to pay it back.
The lobbyists said that the campaign, which is called “Money rebellion”, would aim to donate the money saved by refusing to pay back loans and mortgage repayments to support those worst hit by the negative impacts of climate change.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dont-pay-your-mortgage-urge-climate-activists-s83bzjwzr
I mean the banks and other financial services companies have no recourse to things like repossessions, CCJs, and warrants of control.
This COVID-19 Winter Plan ensures the current national restrictions can be lifted on
2 December.
and
On 2 December, across all of England, regardless of tier:
a. The stay at home requirement will end, with domestic and international travel
being permitted again subject to guidance in each tier.
b. Shops, personal care, gyms and the wider leisure sector will reopen
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/937529/COVID-19_Winter_Plan.pdf
Which doesn't make it clear whether it will be eg. midnight 2nd Dec or midnight 1st Dec. Actually looking at 6.b it seems to say that on Weds 2nd Dec shops will open.
Shameful.
Deaths in the north are more substantial compared to spring deaths.
UK total deaths are reportedly normal for the time of year, making it inappropriate for every BBC news programme to lead with a Daily Mail-type doom and gloom headline. It's strange if the Mail has veered the other way - it usually loves gloom and doom - but to report zero excess deaths would be OK if they are indeed zero.
6% of 2019 Labour voters now voting Green with Yougov, more than the 5% of 2019 Tory voters now voting Labour.
7% of 2019 Tory voters now voting Brexit Party.