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Cyclefree’s 2020 Awards – politicalbetting.com
Back by popular demand – mine. I have to do something to while away the time in my lonely barn halfway up a sheep-ridden hillside, wrapped up in scarves and mittens, pencil stub between my fingers, teeth chattering, the stormy wind howling outside, rain lashing the windows, like some minor character in Dr Zhivago or Jane Eyre with no-… (“Enough with the clichés! Get on with it!” Ed).
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https://twitter.com/sianushka/status/1344335872779546626
To be totally serious, is there anyone who likes him? Boris must have at one point as the man helped in his leadership campaign and got a nice job in return, but he really doesn't seem to have any online fans at all. It would be such a quick win to sack him, who is going to get upset on his behalf?
Never piss off a former chief whip.
And thanks to Cyclefree for a nicely tart and sharp header with a badly needed finale.
30 million just for the UK by September seemed a big boast, but November they said 4 million in 2 months, no problemo...and they only made 500k. Something has gone seriously wrong.
You might have linked that with your Honorable Mention on Creative Defences. After all, one reason why Cummings was in no danger of prosecution is that she publicly stated it’s fine to break the law if your family circumstances make it moderately difficult to comply.
Presumably they have been manufacturing these flat out since the summer in the hope/expectation that they would be approved?
Could someone at AstraZenaca just let us know the precise position?
I agree that the Heroes of the Year are the scientists who have developed the vaccine.
It is only because we have a number of different vaccines that there is any real hope.
It is an astonishing achievement to have developed multiple vaccines for a completely unknown disease from scratch in under a year.
If only scientists made as much fuss about what they do as the lawyers & politicians ...
I guess the usual suspects here represent perhaps 20% of the political betting market, and when you add in the less frequent posters and the lurkers then perhaps 50%?
(Just BF markets)
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1344323024770781185
I did like these, but there's plenty of gold in that Twitter thread.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1344331281459458049
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1344342636992331776
What about the December Manager of the month award going to Boris Johnson?
I believe there is some delay in turning a ‘stockpile’ into usable product that can be shipped, since it then has a relatively limited shelf life, and there was uncertainty about the approval date until now.
Or there might have been some manufacturing error.
Apparently there's a limit on how many people can share a Nobel prize, so for once the honours system will be of great use - no limit to how many of those can receive awards, the ones from here and other places in the commonwealth at least, and other places can appropriately recognise the rest).
But way out of my area of expertise.
Thank you Cyclefree!
Good evening, everyone.
Possibly scrappage for being out of dice as well.
Truss would batter southern softie that is Patel.
I'd certainly not risk saying such a thing of course.
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1344348153571586067
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55487641
*Still are, in one or two holdouts, I believe.
Mr Johnson says: "The best answer I can give at the moment is we will have tens of millions of doses by the end of March. We're working to get the programme going as fast we can.
"I don't want to give you specific numbers at the moment, but I can tell you that we are shifting heaven and earth to roll them out as fast as we can."
Prof Van-Tam adds that it's "probably not the best idea" to look at December and how the NHS vaccination programme has started so far with the Pfizer vaccine, and to overlay that with "kitchen-table mathematics" as to how that'll scale up from January to March.
Sorry to sound like a broken record!
"racist" - yup
"corrupt" ?
"land thieving" - do you mean Indian land?
"traitor" - "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
If they can see a genuine long term interest on your part, and potential to not-be-worse-off themselves then imo they should play ball, as it will meet their Trust goals and make life simpler.
The closest thing we have to a great estate we have on PB is @Charles, so lets see what he thinks :-).
IMO put a small lake there, and treat it as a small woodland, and a resource eg for your local Primary to do outdoor education maybe, and your own extended family and maybe neighbours to do fun and bonfire night (you will have lots of brash to dispose of) .
My parents bought a run down 2-year-empty small manor house when I was about 10 in the 70s for not much more than the cost of a 4 bed detached and stayed there for 40 years. Dad vowed he would never leave, and he never did. We sold up after he died.
If you can make it add up do so, and enjoy for a long time.
One of my favourite quotes is from Lord Morris of Castle Morris, the former Labour Front Bencher in the Lords, who wrote in his Diary Column in the Church Times around 1990 that he had "bought a small manor house in Derbyshire to decline and die in".
And he did. It was Foolow Manor. Matthew Parris did something similar elsewhere, albeit more smugly.
Last I heard (from an acquaintance who was Deputy Duck Warden in Foolow at that time under his wife as Chief Duck Warden) is that Lady Morris was still there.
Looking at your circs, I would start talking at 10-15k, maybe.
ATB. A very worthwhile project.
The change is only for shots going ahead in January.
Occam's Razor and that.
Make of that what you will. It will probably have changed by Monday, anyway.
You are right of course.
The only job he should be allowed near is the whips office.
https://lehrmaninstitute.org/history/founders-land.html
I trolled the hell out of some of the dimmer Yanks over the Lee statues controversy, when they said there should be no statues to traitors or slave owners, by pointing out that Washington was far worse on both counts and a much less able general.
It wound them up beyond belief, and the contortions they went into to try and justify themselves would have embarrassed Hyufd or TUD.
He was fortunate that the French made it impossible for the British to resupply their armies, or he would have lost.
Ah, my coat.
Numbers are completely distorted by the Christmas effect. Take with a major dose of salt.
Ironically, that probably made him the ideal president for a young and uncertain republic. It meant the custom was established that the President didn’t have too much power and didn’t stay in office for life.
Imagine if somebody really dangerous or megalomaniacal - Trump, either Roosevelt, or from his own time, Jefferson, Burr or Hamilton - had been setting precedents. Very easy to see how it could have wound up as an unstable dictatorship dominated by the military, as happened in most South American countries.
But no - because Washington was helpfully useless and the Yanks think he was amazing, it’s much more difficult for Presidents to try and turn the office into a dictatorship. FD Roosevelt probably came closest, but he never really came close. Congress always asserted itself when it wanted to. As for Trump’s efforts, they’ve been pitiful.
https://twitter.com/RaoulRuparel/status/1344345048117350403?s=20
I think they know that they are beholden to AZN, who haven't delivered what they said they would, and so can't give any exact figures beyond knowing they have 500k doses for next week.
It is also possible that the immediate pre-holiday figures might have been inflated by more people than usual seeking tests, and these throwing up the usual quota of unsuspecting asymptomatics.
Expensive compared to where ASHPs are now, and very niche.
And I am not sure if you get the extra grant under GHG to cover the extra expense.
Somewhat less uncompetitive if in a pond though - you don't have to did a trench for all the coils. Watch out for the cost of the antifreeze when pricing up.
Hopefully just being twitchy after family gatherings.