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Sturgeon blocks Trump’s reported plan to be in Scotland on Inauguration Day – politicalbetting.com
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https://twitter.com/kevfitz21/status/1346556436747321345
And good for Nicola
Since announced that it wont apparently.
This might be a complex area of the coverage of diplomatic immunity.
And diplomatic immunity for US is a dirty word in the UK now.
If all of them are to be delayed I do hope it is only for a few months. Turnout generally isn't massive for locals and I assume mayorals as well, postal voting would surely be well up like with the US as you note, and with a year of Covid behind us I don't think it beyond the wit of authorities to have safe voting and counting arrangements - they're already planning to spread verification and counts over multiple days rather than overnight/next day it, and so it may be more of an issue staffing polling stations with so many elderly volunteers. But by May most of those should be vaccinated.
After a while, you know what they are and know the drill. Worst was probably having one in Pakistan. Had to decide - go to hospital now to get some relief, or get on a plane for about eight hours and be met by an ambulance at Heathrow.
I chose Heathrow.
Sufferers do the weirdest dance, because it is almost impossible to get comfortable with renal colic, but you try anyway. They used to prescribe pretty much pure heroin for the pain. Some addicts became very adept at feigning stones to get a prescription, I was told.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12849105
January 2020
'Strange reaction to Coronavirus over here. I know a LOT of people who say they 'just don't want to know.' My brother is flying through Hong Kong shortly and was cross that everyone is wearing face masks. We have a somewhat peculiar antipathy to masks when they quite clearly have 'some' effect.
I'm scratching my head. I understand the desire not to read bad news and also that we have a habit of overreacting to things.
On the other hand, and at the other end of the spectrum, coronavirus could wipe out 1/10th of the world's population.
Preparing the public with messages about sanitisation, use of face masks and non-essential travel would seem to me to be sensible precautions that don't fall into scaremongering.
January 2020
'I watched the film Contagion (2011) again last night. The problem with it is that's like watching a documentary i.e. entirely plausible in almost every regard and eerily close to the opening sequences of the Coronavirus. The first half hour of the film is pretty gripping.
It doesn't need to be said, I guess, but we're standing quite close to a precipice.'
Feb 2020:
'We are in deep, deep, deep trouble ... a global tsunami'
'This is fast becoming a crisis'
'This is probably going to be far worse than those apparently bleak posts you [Eadric] put up a week ago. It's not necessarily the human toll that will be the biggest wipeout ...'
'If things pan out as Eadric suggests then we could be a long way from the bottom.'
Johnson needs to be over all this every waking minute.
It's a good question why proper quarantine has not been imposed - but again that is an internal Scottish matter, like travel within Scotland, for which the SG undoubtedly has the powers anyway.
Well. That's another.
No doubt the entire system is on a Windows 95 excel spreadsheet somewhere.
Maybe the supermarkets should handle the vaccine roll out and not PHE.
Don't you know he's a Knight?
To be honest once the daily count starts next Monday everyone will be able to see and comment or criticise everyday
In 2007, the Holyrood and Scottish council elections took place on the same day, and saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.
Voters were to put crosses on one ballot paper and numbers on the other, while everything was counted by machine.
Confused? It seems many voters were.
The first real concerns on counting night came in the early hours, when the number of spoiled papers in the Airdrie and Shotts seat was confirmed at 1,536 - just 90 votes away from Labour's majority.
By 0400 BST, the Strathkelvin and Bearsden count was suspended, while problems in Edinburgh and Aberdeen and other areas of the central belt emerged.
Shortly after 0700, the Scotland Office, which is in charge of running Holyrood elections, insisted the e-counting system was "working well", saying the results were accurate and final.
A BBC investigation later found tens of thousands of votes in the Holyrood election were rejected by the electronic counting machines without any human adjudication.
Basically, the machines had been programmed to reject some of the new style ballot papers automatically.
It was the middle of the afternoon on Friday before the outcome of the election - a historic win for the SNP - had been decided.
Feelings ran high and my senior colleague, Brian Taylor, even described the events of that night as a "mach five bourach".
In the aftermath, the Electoral Commission brought in Canadian elections expert Ron Gould to look into what happened.
In his scathing conclusion, he stated the voters had been "treated as an afterthought" in the planning and organising of the elections.
So, how have things changed to avoid a repeat?
For a start, the date of the Holyrood election has been separated from council elections, which will take place next year.
Back in 2004, a foresighted backbench Tory MSP named David Mundell tried to bring forward legislation to make this change, but parliament wasn't interested.
Mr Mundell, now an MP and Scotland Office minister, is in charge of running the Scottish election.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9116135/Is-Matt-Hancock-backing-mid-February-vaccine-target-ALREADY.html
Lockdown until end.of March incoming....
Pay them whatever overtime, it doesn't matter. The Adam Smith Institute report said it costs £5bn a week in government funding for a lockdown and £6bn in lost revenue. Its small beer to pay people really good money to jab people 7 days a week, as many hours as they want to work.
Had visions of him claiming asylum in Ayr Tescos.
Certainly it really doesn't matter, so even if it is tokenism it is harmless, and that it doesn't matter makes it really funny for those who get upset at a flag/lack of flag.
Existing staffing numbers will be sufficient for the numbers vaccines they'll have.
It explains why they're not vaccinating on Sundays.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/kaf6nc/the_golden_turd_intent_on_ruining_edinburghs/
https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2016/01/scottish-parliament-elections-set-one-year-delay-avoid-westminster-clash
I had had a notion that this had happened before - but can't pin it down.
I have a slight wonder if they are hiding this on the graph by introducing a new "Suspected" Death Category and shutting some mainline deaths to there.
https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
Elections have been held at different times, but making the timing bespoke? What's the point?
I can think of much better ways to actually give power to councils.
No. He was just a bipolar hysteric.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1346522547001700352?s=19
1) London mayoral election - supplementary vote
2) London assembly election - additional member vote
3) European election - D'hondt PR
So I had five votes in three elections with three different voting systems.
I said yesterday, Boris was a idiot for setting such a target. If he had said end of March to get top 4 groups done, the public wouldn't have been any more unhappy. If they got it done quicker, would get an extra gold star.
If you look at the sheer number of rejected ballots compared to similar elections it was clear something had gone wrong with the voting process.
Something that David Mundell had accurately predicted in 2004.
Absolutely pathetic on the vaccines.
Get on with it.
Wokeness is, now, literally, killing us
I am stunned.
Absolute classic case of thinking technology is best.