As Trump continues to be in denial about his defeat Biden gets a significant Gallup favourability boost – politicalbetting.com
Joe Biden’s favorability rating has risen six percentage points to 55% since the election compared with his final preelection reading. At the same time, President Donald Trump’s favourability has edged down three points to 42%.
Biden vs Trump is today’s chip wrappers. I’m curious to know whether the GOP is polling better or worse than the Dems in Georgia. I’ve backed a republican senate majority...
Biden vs Trump is today’s chip wrappers. I’m curious to know whether the GOP is polling better or worse than the Dems in Georgia. I’ve backed a republican senate majority...
The theory quoted on a previous thread is that Trump saved down-ticket Senate and House seats by turning out his personal voters who then voted Republican all the way down, though not enough to save himself. If those voters no longer turn out for the special election because they were only there for Trump, then...
Biden vs Trump is today’s chip wrappers. I’m curious to know whether the GOP is polling better or worse than the Dems in Georgia. I’ve backed a republican senate majority...
The theory quoted on a previous thread is that Trump saved down-ticket Senate and House seats by turning out his personal voters who then voted Republican all the way down, though not enough to save himself. If those voters no longer turn out for the special election because they were only there for Trump, then...
True. But I wonder how many Dems turned out because it was Trump on the other side of the ticket. I think we will see a reversion to the norm.
Biden vs Trump is today’s chip wrappers. I’m curious to know whether the GOP is polling better or worse than the Dems in Georgia. I’ve backed a republican senate majority...
The theory quoted on a previous thread is that Trump saved down-ticket Senate and House seats by turning out his personal voters who then voted Republican all the way down, though not enough to save himself. If those voters no longer turn out for the special election because they were only there for Trump, then...
I think Trump can make it about Trump. The runoff is on January 5th, the joint session to officially count the electoral votes is January 6th. So tell the Maga people that the Senate can elect Trump, but only if they vote to give the GOP a majority. They've believed plenty of more ridiculous things than that in the last few weeks.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
“I gave them an open goal to some extent,” he says, “and that was my own fault. I called it an error of judgment, but it was a mistake. Something I didn’t really think about at the time. In some sense, it was a risk-based judgment, which is exactly the wrong thing to do.”
He resigned from his post on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). But was that just for a week?
“I have to be diplomatic here,” he says, a little coyly. “It didn’t affect the quality of scientific advice the government was getting in any significant way. The main thing that happened was I no longer attended Sage meetings.”
"Risk based judgment" is up there with testing my eye sight, and the same sort of excuses people use when it comes to using certain types of illegal drugs (the "research chemical" lot).
But clearly he still worked for SAGE, just didn't go to the meeting.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
We won't be completely free until the late summer, but if we've vaccinated those most likely to spread CV19 and those most likely to die from it, then you can relax a lot of other restrictions - especially as the virus naturally recedes as people spend less time indoors.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
We won't be completely free until the late summer, but if we've vaccinated those most likely to spread CV19 and those most likely to die from it, then you can relax a lot of other restrictions - especially as the virus naturally recedes as people spend less time indoors.
At least, with vaccines starting to get approved, we can all start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It won’t happen overnight, but the case rates, and importantly the healthcare system demand, should start to fall quickly as the vaccine rollout progresses.
We know we’ll be back to normal soon, even if that normal ends up looking slightly different from the 2019 normal we remember. The knowledge that we are winning the fight against the damn virus should help in itself.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
We won't be completely free until the late summer, but if we've vaccinated those most likely to spread CV19 and those most likely to die from it, then you can relax a lot of other restrictions - especially as the virus naturally recedes as people spend less time indoors.
At least, with vaccines starting to get approved, we can all start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It won’t happen overnight, but the case rates, and importantly the healthcare system demand, should start to fall quickly as the vaccine rollout progresses.
We know we’ll be back to normal soon, even if that normal ends up looking slightly different from the 2019 normal we remember. The knowledge that we are winning the fight against the damn virus should help in itself.
It's also worth remembering that there are three (Western) vaccines that are on the cusp of approval, and another dozen or so in the pipeline. (Including at least one - J&J - that is single shot, and is in advanced Phase 3 trials.)
It's far from inconceivable that there will be five or six approved vaccines by Easter, each of which is having hundreds of millions of doses made per month.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
We won't be completely free until the late summer, but if we've vaccinated those most likely to spread CV19 and those most likely to die from it, then you can relax a lot of other restrictions - especially as the virus naturally recedes as people spend less time indoors.
At least, with vaccines starting to get approved, we can all start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It won’t happen overnight, but the case rates, and importantly the healthcare system demand, should start to fall quickly as the vaccine rollout progresses.
We know we’ll be back to normal soon, even if that normal ends up looking slightly different from the 2019 normal we remember. The knowledge that we are winning the fight against the damn virus should help in itself.
It's also worth remembering that there are three (Western) vaccines that are on the cusp of approval, and another dozen or so in the pipeline. (Including at least one - J&J - that is single shot, and is in advanced Phase 3 trials.)
It's far from inconceivable that there will be five or six approved vaccines by Easter, each of which is having hundreds of millions of doses made per month.
Let’s hope so! As you say, it should only be good news from this point as more vaccines get approved and production ramps up. Maybe I might get to see my parents next year!
Guilliani contacting covid is unfortunate but you'd need a heart of stone not to find it funny
Laughing at somebody getting a virus that causes painful death and multiple organ failure at a reasonable level among their demographic, what a charmer you are.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
We won't be completely free until the late summer, but if we've vaccinated those most likely to spread CV19 and those most likely to die from it, then you can relax a lot of other restrictions - especially as the virus naturally recedes as people spend less time indoors.
At least, with vaccines starting to get approved, we can all start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It won’t happen overnight, but the case rates, and importantly the healthcare system demand, should start to fall quickly as the vaccine rollout progresses.
We know we’ll be back to normal soon, even if that normal ends up looking slightly different from the 2019 normal we remember. The knowledge that we are winning the fight against the damn virus should help in itself.
It's also worth remembering that there are three (Western) vaccines that are on the cusp of approval, and another dozen or so in the pipeline. (Including at least one - J&J - that is single shot, and is in advanced Phase 3 trials.)
It's far from inconceivable that there will be five or six approved vaccines by Easter, each of which is having hundreds of millions of doses made per month.
J&J have added a booster shot arm to their trial, FWIW.
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Karma’s only a bitch if you are...
For your edit, because he’s a total moron.
Although I wonder if I’m a bit unfair there. After all, a couple of weeks ago I was showing strange symptoms and hesitant about being tested. In fact, it was advice from you guys that made me go and get the test.
However, if it’s serious enough for him to be hospitalised, that suggests his symptoms weren’t the odd coughing fit at long intervals.
My wife took her mother shopping after church yesterday. She tells me that the town was incredibly quiet with groups of shop assistants in the likes of M&S and WH Smith standing around chatting to each other with nothing to do outnumbering the customers. Three weeks before Christmas this is extraordinary and bodes ill for what remains of the High Street.
I can't help feeling that Nicola is partly responsible for that. One of the staff volunteered that they used to get a lot of people coming from surrounding towns but they have been discouraged from travelling. We have not had the shop local campaigns that England seem to have had. No doubt it means an even more bumper Christmas for the likes of Amazon but the carnage on the High Street is likely to continue, vaccine or no.
In our main shopping centre Debenhams is the key store, indeed its the last large scale general department store in the city. When it goes dark footfall is likely to fall even further. Its ominous.
Although after all the excitement Russell went a bit flat near the finish.
I felt sorry for him. He had the race won twice but his charge to second again after the first fiasco showed what he could do and he gained several places in the last few laps to get into the points. Overall, I think that he showed he could start well, control a race, cut through the field and respond positively to set backs. If I was Bottas I would be worried, he was pedestrian in pretty much all those aspects and the difference was marked.
Mr. Sandpit, yeah, very unfortunate for Russell. But he did show he can drive flawlessly, handling his first front row start perfectly, the VSC, safety car, twice passing his far more experienced team mate, and only losing the win due to a combination of a radio failure by the team and a puncture.
If Bottas is on a one year contract he should start looking for a 2022 seat now.
Mr. Sandpit, yeah, very unfortunate for Russell. But he did show he can drive flawlessly, handling his first front row start perfectly, the VSC, safety car, twice passing his far more experienced team mate, and only losing the win due to a combination of a radio failure by the team and a puncture.
If Bottas is on a one year contract he should start looking for a 2022 seat now.
Bottas is indeed on a one year contract at Mercedes. I’m sure Toto will be emphasising to Williams how good it would be if, for the all-new 2022 season, they could get their hands on a development driver with a decade of experience, who also knows the Williams team.
Although after all the excitement Russell went a bit flat near the finish.
I felt sorry for him. He had the race won twice but his charge to second again after the first fiasco showed what he could do and he gained several places in the last few laps to get into the points. Overall, I think that he showed he could start well, control a race, cut through the field and respond positively to set backs. If I was Bottas I would be worried, he was pedestrian in pretty much all those aspects and the difference was marked.
I thought the word 'flat' referred to the puncture and was rather appropriate.
So where did they come from? And why were they so specific?
Was somebody senior trying to bounce both sides into accepting a compromise that neither had proposed?
The original source was “EU sources” which the Grauniad splashed on their front page. U.K. sources suggested to R4 Today that the agreement was an internal EU one - ie they’d agreed among themselves.
So where did they come from? And why were they so specific?
Was somebody senior trying to bounce both sides into accepting a compromise that neither had proposed?
The original source was “EU sources” which the Grauniad splashed on their front page. U.K. sources suggested to R4 Today that the agreement was an internal EU one - ie they’d agreed among themselves.
If so that explains why they said 5-7 years, that was a bit odd to have a range rather than a specific number.
If so, it might end up at five then if it's leaked that they're willing to accept five. Oops.
Though we will no doubt have to wait and see. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Will today be the day the phony Brexit negotiations end and we end up with a deal outline?
And tomorrow the day the French make all Nigel Farage’s dreams come true at once by vetoing it?
He will likely cash in on the markets again, I expect, in that eventuality, enjoy a brief moment of self-indulgence and glory wiith Redwood and others, and then disappear off into the sunset, to the US or a a tax haven once the real day-to-day effects on the economy start to be felt.
Interesting point - in the event of “no deal” European car manufacturers will lose their 10% tariff advantage vs other global sites - for example, BMW manufactures in both the USA & South Africa - so depending on cost may shift their sourcing.
My wife took her mother shopping after church yesterday. She tells me that the town was incredibly quiet with groups of shop assistants in the likes of M&S and WH Smith standing around chatting to each other with nothing to do outnumbering the customers. Three weeks before Christmas this is extraordinary and bodes ill for what remains of the High Street.
I can't help feeling that Nicola is partly responsible for that. One of the staff volunteered that they used to get a lot of people coming from surrounding towns but they have been discouraged from travelling. We have not had the shop local campaigns that England seem to have had. No doubt it means an even more bumper Christmas for the likes of Amazon but the carnage on the High Street is likely to continue, vaccine or no.
In our main shopping centre Debenhams is the key store, indeed its the last large scale general department store in the city. When it goes dark footfall is likely to fall even further. Its ominous.
Really is a K Shaped recovery isn’t it. My local high st in Kent was absolutely jumping on Saturday, despite none of the F&B being open for lunch after you’ve finished shopping. It’s also one dominated by small independents, good to see them allowed open for business.
Shutting shops for a month and forcing all Christmas shopping into just three weekends really was the dumbest of all the dumb acts perpetrated by the government this year.
So where did they come from? And why were they so specific?
Was somebody senior trying to bounce both sides into accepting a compromise that neither had proposed?
The original source was “EU sources” which the Grauniad splashed on their front page. U.K. sources suggested to R4 Today that the agreement was an internal EU one - ie they’d agreed among themselves.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the internal EU discussions between France and Ireland at the moment. France seem to be relishing no-deal disruption, but Ireland are totally screwed by it.
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Karma’s only a bitch if you are...
For your edit, because he’s a total moron.
Although I wonder if I’m a bit unfair there. After all, a couple of weeks ago I was showing strange symptoms and hesitant about being tested. In fact, it was advice from you guys that made me go and get the test.
However, if it’s serious enough for him to be hospitalised, that suggests his symptoms weren’t the odd coughing fit at long intervals.
Pretty sure you didn't display the kind of criminal recklessness towards the safety of others that Giuliani showed.
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Karma’s only a bitch if you are...
For your edit, because he’s a total moron.
Although I wonder if I’m a bit unfair there. After all, a couple of weeks ago I was showing strange symptoms and hesitant about being tested. In fact, it was advice from you guys that made me go and get the test.
However, if it’s serious enough for him to be hospitalised, that suggests his symptoms weren’t the odd coughing fit at long intervals.
Pretty sure you didn't display the kind of criminal recklessness towards the safety of others that Giuliani showed.
So where did they come from? And why were they so specific?
Was somebody senior trying to bounce both sides into accepting a compromise that neither had proposed?
The original source was “EU sources” which the Grauniad splashed on their front page. U.K. sources suggested to R4 Today that the agreement was an internal EU one - ie they’d agreed among themselves.
If so that explains why they said 5-7 years, that was a bit odd to have a range rather than a specific number.
If so, it might end up at five then if it's leaked that they're willing to accept five. Oops.
Though we will no doubt have to wait and see. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, yadda, yadda, yadda.
The French have had four and a half years since the Referendum result to keep fishing our waters. Give them eight - then net that off.....
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
If "bat shit crazy" is a comorbidity, then he's in real trouble.
Trmp recovered, so that would suggest not....
Like Trump, he'll probably be given the (still scarce) Regeneron treatment. And will have access to a standard of care denied to the majority of seriously ill now struggling to get admitted to overcrowded ICUs. I'd say his chances are pretty good.
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
He was reportedly feeling symptoms several days ago - and would have been infectious before that. Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Does that mean that the legislature couldn’t pass any emergency laws even if it wanted to? That would be irony I think.
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
Karma’s only a bitch if you are...
For your edit, because he’s a total moron.
Although I wonder if I’m a bit unfair there. After all, a couple of weeks ago I was showing strange symptoms and hesitant about being tested. In fact, it was advice from you guys that made me go and get the test.
However, if it’s serious enough for him to be hospitalised, that suggests his symptoms weren’t the odd coughing fit at long intervals.
Pretty sure you didn't display the kind of criminal recklessness towards the safety of others that Giuliani showed.
My wife took her mother shopping after church yesterday. She tells me that the town was incredibly quiet with groups of shop assistants in the likes of M&S and WH Smith standing around chatting to each other with nothing to do outnumbering the customers. Three weeks before Christmas this is extraordinary and bodes ill for what remains of the High Street.
I can't help feeling that Nicola is partly responsible for that. One of the staff volunteered that they used to get a lot of people coming from surrounding towns but they have been discouraged from travelling. We have not had the shop local campaigns that England seem to have had. No doubt it means an even more bumper Christmas for the likes of Amazon but the carnage on the High Street is likely to continue, vaccine or no.
In our main shopping centre Debenhams is the key store, indeed its the last large scale general department store in the city. When it goes dark footfall is likely to fall even further. Its ominous.
Don't worry. When you get rid of the UK and get back in the EU they'll come flooding from every corner of Europe. Your Harris tweed and Scottish wool not to mention Scottish salmon and Loch Ness curios will sell like Scotch and Haggis on Burns Night.
It's a short clip but the woman who doesn't take her mask off doesn't appear to be batshit crazy, so what's she doing sat next to Guiliani?
Every other clip I've seen has been raving crazies and even someone appearing drunk.
She was the one who testified that she insisted that every voter provide ID, despite there being no requirement for them to do so, because otherwise she “wouldn’t feel comfortable letting them vote”. Just one of the huge number alleging “fraud” through pure ignorance of electoral processes.
It's a short clip but the woman who doesn't take her mask off doesn't appear to be batshit crazy, so what's she doing sat next to Guiliani?
Every other clip I've seen has been raving crazies and even someone appearing drunk.
She was the one who testified that she insisted that every voter provide ID, despite there being no requirement for them to do so, because otherwise she “wouldn’t feel comfortable letting them vote”. Just one of the huge number alleging “fraud” through pure ignorance of electoral processes.
So she was crazy. And testified in the court that she herself broke the law if she denied people the right to vote without ID against the law.
Obvious from the start. The IM Bill has served its purpose if the EU gives us what we wanted, if they don't then we just keep the IM Bill.
A win/win; heads we win, tails you lose scenario.
Deluded
The Bill was Cummings's idea of a "good idea", but as per usual it started to go wrong when it made contact with reality, particularly the election of an Irish-American in the form of Biden.
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
Why oh why won't these dastardly foreigners let us have all the benefits without any of the responsibilities?
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
And to be fair, if most people asked to leave something, but still be treated as members, that would indeed be the response of most clubs, too.
Disclaimer : this post could have been put on this site at any time in the last 54 months.
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
Yes, it’s a demand that the UK implement without question future EU law, which loose lips in the EU have already suggested will be specifically designed to screw the UK in areas such as financial services, under the cloak of being about labour standards.
This week, the NHS will make contact with patients to let them know that the vaccine is available to them, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation has said.
"We will be targeting this week those patients who are due to attend hospital for outpatient appointments at one of those 50 sites," Danny Mortimer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Yes, they are agreeing to water down their demands on LPF.
I think we're two days away from a Deal here and it's enough for me to buy more UK equity this morning.
That's brave of you. Generally speaking, it seems extremely unlikely that the EU will agree any deal that leaves the UK with anything approaching the benefits of EU membership, and I'm not sure that's all already priced in.
Level playing field was always going to be the toughest. The EU are requiring the UK to behave as if we have not left the EU. To which the only - and continuing - response is "Fuck off".
Not true though is it. The EU is quite happy for us to trade as an independent country with all our own rules, BUT, BUT don't then expect to get a free trade agreement.
Anyone agreeing to this would be bonkers. It would mean the Govt could ensure our businesses could undercut European competitors unfairly.
Cake and eat it applies.
So I repeat the EU is NOT requiring us to behave as if we have not left. It is entirely up to us. On the contrary it is us who want the both the benefits of membership without the consequences.
Health bosses have told people over 80 not to panic if they have not been contacted about the coronavirus vaccine – as it is revealed that most of them will not get a jab until the New Year as mass immunisation begins.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
That quote isn't clear whether, by "vast, vast, vast majority of people" he means the over 80s the article focuses on or people generally. The infographic refers to rollout to all over 50s from mid January. so it's quite a badly written article.
Yes, they are agreeing to water down their demands on LPF.
I think we're two days away from a Deal here and it's enough for me to buy more UK equity this morning.
That's brave of you. Generally speaking, it seems extremely unlikely that the EU will agree any deal that leaves the UK with anything approaching the benefits of EU membership, and I'm not sure that's all already priced in.
Neither the UK or the EU are seeking anything like EU membership.
This is about agreeing the rules-based "floor" for an open no taxes, tariffs or quotas FTA in goods and the regression governance thereof.
There's enough evidence here that both sides are moving to seal a deal that is already 97-98% there for me to take the plunge.
The problem with state aid, is that the EU and their member states totally ignore all of the existing rules when it suits them - but they’re simultaneously wanting the UK to sign up to enforceable binding rules in the same areas.
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Bugger. 7th.
Call me Mr Prime Number,
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1335477504077950976?s=21
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said people need to 'hang fire' and be assured that they have not been forgotten about, despite not receiving a letter or a phone call about the vaccine.
He told the PA news agency: 'I don't think people should expect anything over the next few days because the reality is, as I said, that for the vast, vast, vast majority of people this will be done in January, February, March.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9024821/Coronavirus-UK-80s-wont-vaccine-new-year.html
Even oldies aren't getting this until Jan-March, I think all the talk of we will be free by March is the government again over promising. Seems more like ETA is end of summer (if Oxford vaccine gets approved and we give that to the plebs).
He resigned from his post on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). But was that just for a week?
“I have to be diplomatic here,” he says, a little coyly. “It didn’t affect the quality of scientific advice the government was getting in any significant way. The main thing that happened was I no longer attended Sage meetings.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/06/professor-neil-ferguson-covid-modelling-epidemiologist-faces-of-2020
"Risk based judgment" is up there with testing my eye sight, and the same sort of excuses people use when it comes to using certain types of illegal drugs (the "research chemical" lot).
But clearly he still worked for SAGE, just didn't go to the meeting.
We know we’ll be back to normal soon, even if that normal ends up looking slightly different from the 2019 normal we remember. The knowledge that we are winning the fight against the damn virus should help in itself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55210243
Hopefully a precaution; if not that implies he was infected some time ago and has been infectious for a while.
It's far from inconceivable that there will be five or six approved vaccines by Easter, each of which is having hundreds of millions of doses made per month.
Arizona state legislature has closed, as he met maskless with a number of Republicans. There’s also this.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Edit: why didn’t he get himself tested earlier then?
For your edit, because he’s a total moron.
However, if it’s serious enough for him to be hospitalised, that suggests his symptoms weren’t the odd coughing fit at long intervals.
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For those who missed it:
F1: post-race quite excited ramble:
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2020/12/sakhir-post-race-analysis-2020.html
Very exciting race.
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1335843018558074881?s=20
I can't help feeling that Nicola is partly responsible for that. One of the staff volunteered that they used to get a lot of people coming from surrounding towns but they have been discouraged from travelling. We have not had the shop local campaigns that England seem to have had. No doubt it means an even more bumper Christmas for the likes of Amazon but the carnage on the High Street is likely to continue, vaccine or no.
In our main shopping centre Debenhams is the key store, indeed its the last large scale general department store in the city. When it goes dark footfall is likely to fall even further. Its ominous.
Was somebody senior trying to bounce both sides into accepting a compromise that neither had proposed?
youtube.com/watch?v=o662M35vYnU
Bottas on board
youtube.com/watch?v=Im8bokJ1JSw
One of the mechanics on the front left spotted the issue as George pulled away, but too late to stop him.
The decision to pit GR in the first place was very last-minute and confused, the SC got called as he was only a couple of seconds from the pit entry.
In Mercedes typically-candid race review, they put it down to crossed radio messages meaning the pit crew thought Russell was going around and Bottas stopping. Improving their communication system sounds like a winter project!
https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/news/2020/2020-sakhir-grand-prix/2020-sakhir-grand-prix-sunday-bottas-hamilton-mercedes/
If Bottas is on a one year contract he should start looking for a 2022 seat now.
If so, it might end up at five then if it's leaked that they're willing to accept five. Oops.
Though we will no doubt have to wait and see. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Shutting shops for a month and forcing all Christmas shopping into just three weekends really was the dumbest of all the dumb acts perpetrated by the government this year.
I'd say his chances are pretty good.
And this.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1335689384830636033
Every other clip I've seen has been raving crazies and even someone appearing drunk.
Bonnie Scotland. The gateway to the Northern EU!
Lesson 2: See lesson 1
Lesson 3: See lesson 1
Lesson 4: Ignore anything by Scott or Adonis.
The Internal Markets Bill will be withdrawn once a trade deal is in place.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/07/uk-firms-still-unclear-about-brexit-rules-with-one-month-to-go
A win/win; heads we win, tails you lose scenario.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1335847910425112576?s=19
I think we're two days away from a Deal here and it's enough for me to buy more UK equity this morning.
It's so unfair!
Disclaimer : this post could have been put on this site at any time in the last 54 months.
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1335718561633931265?s=20
"We will be targeting this week those patients who are due to attend hospital for outpatient appointments at one of those 50 sites," Danny Mortimer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
telegraph live blog
Anyone agreeing to this would be bonkers. It would mean the Govt could ensure our businesses could undercut European competitors unfairly.
Cake and eat it applies.
So I repeat the EU is NOT requiring us to behave as if we have not left. It is entirely up to us. On the contrary it is us who want the both the benefits of membership without the consequences.
To which the response by the EU is 'Fuck off'.
This is about agreeing the rules-based "floor" for an open no taxes, tariffs or quotas FTA in goods and the regression governance thereof.
There's enough evidence here that both sides are moving to seal a deal that is already 97-98% there for me to take the plunge.