CNN Business) - Germany's Lufthansa operated a special cargo flight to airlift fruit and vegetables to England on Wednesday as shortages of food and other vital supplies loom because of continuing chaos at the UK-French border.
A Lufthansa (DLAKY) spokesperson told CNN Business that the Boeing 777 freighter was carrying 80 tons of perishable goods from Frankfurt to Doncaster-Sheffield airport in northern England. The airline said it was working with a freight forwarder to supply food from Egypt and elsewhere to supermarkets such as Tesco (TSCDY), Sainsbury's (JSAIY) and Aldi. The move comes as the UK supermarket chains and other businesses struggle to cope with the impact of Sunday's closure of vital freight arteries between southern England and France, triggered by the British government's warning that a new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 was out of control in London and the surrounding areas.
Johnson and Von Der Leyen still arguing about which whorish shade of red the lipstick should be on the pig
Unkind to bring Cameron into this particular moment of sealing Brexit.....
Squeal Piggy!
The chief led them, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses.
Ohio teachers and school staff — including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians and clerical workers, along with anyone else working at a school who comes in contact with the children at that school — will be in the next group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced during his press conference today.
I feel like this and other reports are not contradictory. A deal may not be 'done', but they may be within sight if they are having an actual Cabinet meeting, since I find it hard to believe that they have a proprer (albeit online) Cabinet meeting every time there is an update on how the talks are going.
CNN Business) - Germany's Lufthansa operated a special cargo flight to airlift fruit and vegetables to England on Wednesday as shortages of food and other vital supplies loom because of continuing chaos at the UK-French border.
A Lufthansa (DLAKY) spokesperson told CNN Business that the Boeing 777 freighter was carrying 80 tons of perishable goods from Frankfurt to Doncaster-Sheffield airport in northern England. The airline said it was working with a freight forwarder to supply food from Egypt and elsewhere to supermarkets such as Tesco (TSCDY), Sainsbury's (JSAIY) and Aldi. The move comes as the UK supermarket chains and other businesses struggle to cope with the impact of Sunday's closure of vital freight arteries between southern England and France, triggered by the British government's warning that a new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 was out of control in London and the surrounding areas.
It was hired by a company supplying Tesco, Coop, Sainsbury and Aldi
I have to say, HYUFD gets some stick on here and I didn't particularly share his enthusiasm for Trafalgar, but when it came to the direction of the EU trade negotiations he was proved right, right and right again!
I have to say, HYUFD gets some stick on here and I didn't particularly share his enthusiasm for Trafalgar, but when it came to the direction of the EU trade negotiations he was proved right, right and right again!
Not really since he was saying we would sign up to what the EU were demanding for LPF. Prior to the EU accepting we wouldn't.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
Tiresome, I'd say. But one thing he has never been accused of it boring.
Boorish though
Boorish, certainly, and deadly boring as well. All you Tories kept on chanting, " He may be useless, but at least Boris is fun!" I don´t see any fun at all at present.
So the question remains: What is Boris for?
Simple - producing more kids than the Lib Dems have MPs...
What could have got the deal over the line at this point? I'm scratching my head. The most obvious thing is the UK government panicking over the situation at Dover. I'm happy to be proved wrong however.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
I believe SO voted against all this nonsense. Don’t blame him for any consequences.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
So am I! It’s far, far better than the alternative.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
I think you need to clarify your position. As someone who works in exports and voted remain/leave etc.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Face it, whatever the deal came out of the negotiations you would have claimed it was a bad one.
Personally I have no idea if this is good or bad. I haven't seen the detail. I suspect it won't be as good as it could have been nor as bad as it might have been. That is the way of these things. I would rather have had someone other than Johnson negotiating - but politicians who aren't concerned first and foremost with their own popularity are thin on the ground and that is never a good position to be in when in negotiations of any sort.
For me the fact we are out of the EU is in itself more than enough. The rest is just the normal world of politics to be faced and dealt with.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
I thought that we have no need of exports, or did I mishear?
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
I think you need to clarify your position. As someone who works in exports and voted remain/leave etc.
Of course I voted for remain. When the country voted to leave, well we needed to leave to fulfill the Democratic mandate. We left at the start of the year when we went into the transition period, anything after that is simply detail politically speaking. I was supportive of May's deal, and think MPs should have voted it through. I'd be supportive of an indefinite transition, though I doubt the EU or the UK want that so we are where we are now. This deal is infinitely better than the alternative of No Deal.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Face it, whatever the deal came out of the negotiations you would have claimed it was a bad one.
Personally I have no idea if this is good or bad. I haven't seen the detail. I suspect it won't be as good as it could have been nor as bad as it might have been. That is the way of these things. I would rather have had someone other than Johnson negotiating - but politicians who aren't concerned first and foremost with their own popularity are thin on the ground and that is never a good position to be in when in negotiations of any sort.
For me the fact we are out of the EU is in itself more than enough. The rest is just the normal world of politics to be faced and dealt with.
Yep, I don’t agree with you but I respect your entirely consistent opinion. As soon as services were excluded from the negotiations, the deal was never going to be a positive one for the UK from a trade perspective. But having one is far, far better than not having one.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
I think you need to clarify your position. As someone who works in exports and voted remain/leave etc.
Of course I voted for remain. When the country voted to leave, well we needed to leave to fulfill the Democratic mandate. We left at the start of the year when we went into the transition period, anything after that is simply detail politically speaking. I was supportive of May's deal, and think MPs should have voted it through. I'd be supportive of an indefinite transition, though I doubt the EU or the UK want that so we are where we are now. This deal is infinitely better than the alternative of No Deal.
Fun fact - EU countries have a trade surplus with us in goods. The deal ensures continued, tariff-free access for them. We have a trade surplus in services with the EU. The deal creates major new barriers for us to export them into our biggest market.
You want car prices to go up 10% overnight ?!
Not at all. I am all for no tariffs or barriers. But I’d rather we got them in areas where we have a surplus, too.
Well as someone who works in exports I'm praying this gets over the line.
I thought that we have no need of exports, or did I mishear?
Daily Fail are reporting giving ground on fishing, what do we think?
They'll be calling it the Christmas Deal, to go with the Good Friday Agreement.
At this point, I think most people have stopped caring about the details. We'll see how it works out in practice soon enough.
Yes, the hand of history is truly on Boris' shoulder tonight, having delivered Brexit he is now about to deliver a trade deal with the EU, whatever else he does his premiership will now anter the annals of history for decades if not centuries to come
Daily Fail are reporting giving ground on fishing, what do we think?
They'll be calling it the Christmas Deal, to go with the Good Friday Agreement.
At this point, I think most people have stopped caring about the details. We'll see how it works out in practice soon enough.
Yes, the hand of history is truly on Boris' shoulder tonight, having delivered Brexit he is now about to deliver a trade deal with the EU, whatever else he does his premiership will now anter the annals of history for decades if not centuries to come
Is the deal "hard" enough to deter Scotland leaving the UK and joining the EU?
Daily Fail are reporting giving ground on fishing, what do we think?
They'll be calling it the Christmas Deal, to go with the Good Friday Agreement.
At this point, I think most people have stopped caring about the details. We'll see how it works out in practice soon enough.
Yes, the hand of history is truly on Boris' shoulder tonight, having delivered Brexit he is now about to deliver a trade deal with the EU, whatever else he does his premiership will now anter the annals of history for decades if not centuries to come
Is the deal "hard" enough to deter Scotland leaving the UK and joining the EU?
It avoids No Deal which is devastating for Sturgeon as she was relying on that as her excuse for indyref2 while still leaving the SM so there would still be technically a hard border with Scexit
RemainRejoin dies if(Likely when, I hope!) a deal is signed. No deal was always its best chance.
Yes, a terrible night for Adonis, Campbell and Lammy and Grieve etc as well as Sturgeon but a triumphant night for Boris whose place in the history books is now assured for all eternity as the man who delivered Brexit and secured its future with the EU trade deal.
Also a bad night for Farage, Boris will now be remembered as the man who truly was the architect of Brexit not him
Biden is certainly optimistic about the prospects for GOP bipartisanship.
Much depends on Georgia. If the Democrats can grab that he only depends on holding Manchin and Sanders in a voting coalition, no need for Romney, Collins or Murkowski to get bills over the line
RemainRejoin dies if(Likely when, I hope!) a deal is signed. No deal was always its best chance.
Certainly no politician representing an English seat, probably also Wales, is ever going to open up the conversation on th doorsteps with "I really think we should re-fight the Brexit battle and join the EU - with the Euro as our currency...."
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Do you know if that's an opportunity available to them? Should we formally offer it?
The experiment sequenced the virus before and after the plasma was given (unsuccessfully). The virus evolved and the evolution included some of the changes seen in the "supercovid" strain...
We should definitely stop giving people convalescent plasma unless it is highly controlled.
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Do you know if that's an opportunity available to them? Should we formally offer it?
Did anybody else know, before the last few weeks, that we were so far ahead of everybody in the genome sequencing game?
For a start, how so? I mean, we seem to be ridiculously ahead of everyone. I'm not looking at the figures now, but the ones I saw on here said we were about a hundred times ahead per covid test done, and we're well ahead on testing per capita over most we're compared against. I know we have some really top research facilities here, and there are bound to be things that we excel at. But how can we be quite so far ahead in the work done on this virus? Surely other countries had the potential to have done similar work?
And second, why is this only coming out now when we must have been doing the far higher level of genome sequencing for some time? I'm damned impressed by our numbers, but given the disparity with our neighbours' numbers I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't offer much earlier to help them out with this kind of testing (or if we did why we kept so quiet about it).
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Do you know if that's an opportunity available to them? Should we formally offer it?
Did anybody else know, before the last few weeks, that we were so far ahead of everybody in the genome sequencing game?
For a start, how so? I mean, we seem to be ridiculously ahead of everyone. I'm not looking at the figures now, but the ones I saw on here said we were about a hundred times ahead per covid test done, and we're well ahead on testing per capita over most we're compared against. I know we have some really top research facilities here, and there are bound to be things that we excel at. But how can we be quite so far ahead in the work done on this virus? Surely other countries had the potential to have done similar work?
And second, why is this only coming out now when we must have been doing the far higher level of genome sequencing for some time? I'm damned impressed by our numbers, but given the disparity with our neighbours' numbers I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't offer much earlier to help them out with this kind of testing (or if we did why we kept so quiet about it).
If you look at the detail we have been gene sequencing for places all over the world right back to the original outbreak. There are sequences for China, Australia, the USA and all over Europe included in the work they have been doing. It makes sense as that is the only way to track the mutations.
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Do you know if that's an opportunity available to them? Should we formally offer it?
Did anybody else know, before the last few weeks, that we were so far ahead of everybody in the genome sequencing game?
For a start, how so? I mean, we seem to be ridiculously ahead of everyone. I'm not looking at the figures now, but the ones I saw on here said we were about a hundred times ahead per covid test done, and we're well ahead on testing per capita over most we're compared against. I know we have some really top research facilities here, and there are bound to be things that we excel at. But how can we be quite so far ahead in the work done on this virus? Surely other countries had the potential to have done similar work?
And second, why is this only coming out now when we must have been doing the far higher level of genome sequencing for some time? I'm damned impressed by our numbers, but given the disparity with our neighbours' numbers I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't offer much earlier to help them out with this kind of testing (or if we did why we kept so quiet about it).
If you look at the detail we have been gene sequencing for places all over the world right back to the original outbreak. There are sequences for China, Australia, the USA and all over Europe included in the work they have been doing. It makes sense as that is the only way to track the mutations.
That's really good to hear. And of course it makes sense to collaborate. But I'm still astonished at the disparity in the levels we're doing compared to everybody else. I might be misremembering but I thought I read something here that Wales had done more genome sequence tests this month than the US had done in total on covid. If that's even close to being true I can not understand how..
Should we offer to help our EU neighbours with their genome sequencing and help them discover what mutant covid variations they have, or are we best off using the capacity we have for ourselves?
Perhaps they should join the UK Covid genome sequencing program? For entirely non-ideological reasons, of course.
Do you know if that's an opportunity available to them? Should we formally offer it?
Did anybody else know, before the last few weeks, that we were so far ahead of everybody in the genome sequencing game?
For a start, how so? I mean, we seem to be ridiculously ahead of everyone. I'm not looking at the figures now, but the ones I saw on here said we were about a hundred times ahead per covid test done, and we're well ahead on testing per capita over most we're compared against. I know we have some really top research facilities here, and there are bound to be things that we excel at. But how can we be quite so far ahead in the work done on this virus? Surely other countries had the potential to have done similar work?
And second, why is this only coming out now when we must have been doing the far higher level of genome sequencing for some time? I'm damned impressed by our numbers, but given the disparity with our neighbours' numbers I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't offer much earlier to help them out with this kind of testing (or if we did why we kept so quiet about it).
If you look at the detail we have been gene sequencing for places all over the world right back to the original outbreak. There are sequences for China, Australia, the USA and all over Europe included in the work they have been doing. It makes sense as that is the only way to track the mutations.
That's really good to hear. And of course it makes sense to collaborate. But I'm still astonished at the disparity in the levels we're doing compared to everybody else. I might be misremembering but I thought I read something here that Wales had done more genome sequence tests this month than the US had done in total on covid. If that's even close to being true I can not understand how..
I remember something else that said the US had done about half our number in total so either I'm confused or there's been confusing information.
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A Lufthansa (DLAKY) spokesperson told CNN Business that the Boeing 777 freighter was carrying 80 tons of perishable goods from Frankfurt to Doncaster-Sheffield airport in northern England. The airline said it was working with a freight forwarder to supply food from Egypt and elsewhere to supermarkets such as Tesco (TSCDY), Sainsbury's (JSAIY) and Aldi.
The move comes as the UK supermarket chains and other businesses struggle to cope with the impact of Sunday's closure of vital freight arteries between southern England and France, triggered by the British government's warning that a new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 was out of control in London and the surrounding areas.
https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1212327648338337795?s=20
If we have a deal it is because Johnson has done what he said he wouldn't do on Northern Ireland?
Perhaps you should have told BA 57 minutes ago before their flight to JNB took off? Or 19 minutes ago before the Cape Town flight departed?
Fortunately the inbound BA & VA flights land before 9am.....
Putin signs bill granting lifetime immunity to former Russian presidents
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/putin-signs-bill-granting-lifetime-immunity-to-former-russian-presidents
... The bill, which was published online on Tuesday, gives former presidents and their families immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during their lifetime.
They will also be exempt from questioning by police or investigators, as well as searches or arrests...
Urgent shutdown. But not yet.
U.S. Considers Granting Immunity to Saudi Prince in Suspected Assassination Attempt
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/mbs-saudi-immunity-trump.html
If the request is granted, it could potentially provide a legal basis to dismiss a separate case against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
https://twitter.com/NunesDrag/status/1341867762235432961?s=19
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1341878738183712769?s=20
https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1341874363436568576?s=20
Daily Fail are reporting giving ground on fishing, what do we think?
Meanwhile, it just occurred to me that it’s barely a week now before we can engage in some 20/20 hindsight.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/23/trump-leaves-washington-in-limbo-450276
The world gets worse by the minute......
Personally I have no idea if this is good or bad. I haven't seen the detail. I suspect it won't be as good as it could have been nor as bad as it might have been. That is the way of these things. I would rather have had someone other than Johnson negotiating - but politicians who aren't concerned first and foremost with their own popularity are thin on the ground and that is never a good position to be in when in negotiations of any sort.
For me the fact we are out of the EU is in itself more than enough. The rest is just the normal world of politics to be faced and dealt with.
I was supportive of May's deal, and think MPs should have voted it through.
I'd be supportive of an indefinite transition, though I doubt the EU or the UK want that so we are where we are now.
This deal is infinitely better than the alternative of No Deal.
There you go.
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1341881017489973248?s=19
Night night all.
At this point, I think most people have stopped caring about the details. We'll see how it works out in practice soon enough.
https://twitter.com/cath_haddon/status/1341837996690182145?s=20
RemainRejoin dies if(Likely when, I hope!) a deal is signed. No deal was always its best chance.Also a bad night for Farage, Boris will now be remembered as the man who truly was the architect of Brexit not him
The actual contents of the deal - completely irrelevant. Nobody cares (including Boris).
Here's a paper which might support the idea that giving a immunocompromised patient convalescent plasma led to the current difficulties:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.05.20241927v2
The experiment sequenced the virus before and after the plasma was given (unsuccessfully). The virus evolved and the evolution included some of the changes seen in the "supercovid" strain...
We should definitely stop giving people convalescent plasma unless it is highly controlled.
For a start, how so? I mean, we seem to be ridiculously ahead of everyone. I'm not looking at the figures now, but the ones I saw on here said we were about a hundred times ahead per covid test done, and we're well ahead on testing per capita over most we're compared against. I know we have some really top research facilities here, and there are bound to be things that we excel at. But how can we be quite so far ahead in the work done on this virus? Surely other countries had the potential to have done similar work?
And second, why is this only coming out now when we must have been doing the far higher level of genome sequencing for some time? I'm damned impressed by our numbers, but given the disparity with our neighbours' numbers I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't offer much earlier to help them out with this kind of testing (or if we did why we kept so quiet about it).
It’s readable their game, the optimum moment for reduced scrutiny and maximum haste in the rubber stamp.
And they will have us believe the whole picture on covid changed hours after parliament dissolved too 😏
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sequencingcovid