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  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126

    Roger said:

    Trump and Netanyahu. A perfect combo!!
    You just need Bolsonaro and Modi there and it's @HYUFD 's wet dream team.
    Where does he stand on Duterte?
  • eekeek Posts: 28,398
    Roger said:

    Trump and Netanyahu. A perfect combo!!
    Mike Pompeo has hardly had much to do today sat in Brussels with no one interested in meeting him.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,361

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    223,726

    for a total (1st and 2nd dose) of

    3,067,541

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  • Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
  • US House has voted to impeach Trumpsky.

    Five not voting - one Democrat (believe this is Alcee Hastings, who has pancreatic cancer) and four Republicans, of which (I think) at least two are absent due to COVID.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    One Dem and Four Reps not voting
  • We need to keep an eye every time Aaron Ramsdale keeps a clean sheet.

    https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1349471144299081731
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,706
    So if my understanding of US constitutional matters is correct Donald J. Trump is now inserted inside a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.

    Am I right?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    I have no real knowledge, but I doubt we will see that for a week or two, supply is still the limiting factor. Fingers crossed though, loads of vaccinations centres are opening and the government shifting on this silly idea that people only want to be vaccinated between 8am and 8pm. Hopefully when all the supply becomes available they can go real dambusters and be doing shots earlier and later in the day.

    I still don't think they will make their mid Feb target, but realistically if they can do start of March say, I think that's a bloody good effort all round.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
  • If Trump goes to jail I'm sure that Chartwells would be happy to send him food parcels
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,914
    edited January 2021

    Roger said:

    Trump and Netanyahu. A perfect combo!!
    The late Sheldon Adelson was a strong financial supporter of both.
    I had to look him up. Trump to cut his taxes Netanyahu to supply a buriel plot?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,683

    We need to keep an eye every time Aaron Ramsdale keeps a clean sheet.

    https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1349471144299081731

    Sounds like one for @HYUFD's files.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,713

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
  • Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Prattling about Brexit? No, that was nearly a year ago. I'm prattling about the idiot decisions this government have taken. I didn't vote for them.

    If STFU is your message I hope we hear nothing from you about the coming shortages.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 18,422
    kle4 said:

    IanB2 said:

    A tenth Rep votes yes

    Had hoped for, but not expected, around double that, but hey, double figures is something at least. So around 5% of the total? Only need to sextuple or so that percentrage in the Senate.
    The 138 who voted against accepting Pennsylvania's electoral college votes were never going to vote for impeachment. So it's 10 of the remaining 73.

    If 1-in-7 anti-Coup Republican Senators vote for conviction that would be 6. So they need to triple that proportion in the Senate.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,487

    So if my understanding of US constitutional matters is correct Donald J. Trump is now inserted inside a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.

    Am I right?

    #nojusticenopeach
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,176

    We need to keep an eye every time Aaron Ramsdale keeps a clean sheet.

    https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1349471144299081731

    Something about the name Aaron, obviously...
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021
    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    One positive is we know mRNA tech works and that it can be altered fairly quickly. First thing is we have to try and keep as many of these variants from taking hold in the UK (CLOOOOOOOOOSEEE THE BORDERRRRRR), build the capacity and procedures for vaccinations and be prepared for the worst that one of these nasty buggers isn't covered by current formulation and we might have to go around again next year.

    For less fortunate countries, it could be horrendous.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868

    Roger said:

    Trump and Netanyahu. A perfect combo!!
    You just need Bolsonaro and Modi there and it's @HYUFD 's wet dream team.
    And Berlusconi, who could do well if the Italians are dumb enough to hold an election
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,353
    edited January 2021
    kle4 said:

    IanB2 said:

    A tenth Rep votes yes

    Had hoped for, but not expected, around double that, but hey, double figures is something at least. So around 5% of the total? Only need to sextuple or so that percentrage in the Senate.
    The House is much more obediently pro-Trump than the Senate, so whilst 10 is not a disaster for him, it ain't good either.
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883
    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Earl of Strafford I think.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,882

    If Trump goes to jail I'm sure that Chartwells would be happy to send him food parcels

    That would be a cruel and unusual punishment. Even given the 'nutraloaf' that some get already ...

    https://twistedfood.co.uk/the-weirdest-and-most-bizarre-prison-food-from-around-the-world
  • eekeek Posts: 28,398
    edited January 2021
    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    Yep -there will be change and it will mean that mid stage manufacturing won't be being sent to the UK before being sent back to Europe for finishing off.

    The only bits of work being done in the UK will be either whole manufacturing processes or final bits of finishing off.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    I am thinking that SKS is modifying what he says to Johnson, in case it comes back to bite him when he is handling the 9th wave in 2024.
  • Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    Setting aside the impossibility of political changes to the treaties, the immovable object is that said Treaties do not work on a practical level. The "change" you mention will be supply chains largely shutting down. Not being able to import / export effectively will focus political minds - hard to eulogise about the amazing deal you did when it had brought trade to its knees.

    "This isn't the Brexit we voted for" - thats the phrase you will be hearing a lot. People definitely didn't vote for shortages and price rises. Yet that is what they are getting.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,361

    So if my understanding of US constitutional matters is correct Donald J. Trump is now inserted inside a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets.

    Am I right?

    #nojusticenopeach
    No, he gets genetically modified into a giant centipede.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,882
    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    Oh goody, thank you - I do like to read a nice story of the struggle against the Malignants.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,666
    edited January 2021
    tlg86 said:

    We need to keep an eye every time Aaron Ramsdale keeps a clean sheet.

    https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1349471144299081731

    Something about the name Aaron, obviously...
    I wonder if Trump will go full Aaron Burr and start duelling with his enemies?
  • londonpubmanlondonpubman Posts: 3,639

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    800,000 a day would be better but yes 350,000 would be progress!

    Get on with it Boris!
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126

    tlg86 said:

    We need to keep an eye every time Aaron Ramsdale keeps a clean sheet.

    https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1349471144299081731

    Something about the name Aaron, obviously...
    I wonder if Trump will go full Aaron Burr and start duelling with his enemies?
    Trump doesn't have the balls for that. Not all bullies are cowards, but he is.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,914

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    edited January 2021

    kle4 said:

    IanB2 said:

    A tenth Rep votes yes

    Had hoped for, but not expected, around double that, but hey, double figures is something at least. So around 5% of the total? Only need to sextuple or so that percentrage in the Senate.
    The House is much more obediently pro-Trump than the Senate, so whilst 10 is not a disaster for him, it ain't good either.
    As the CNN commentator said, in the House very many of them are boxed in having supported overturning the election, most of them even after the riot.
  • Roger said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
    Libel? Wowsers.

    I voted to leave the EU. Leaving the EEA and CU to cripple ourselves wasn't what was billed.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    Setting aside the impossibility of political changes to the treaties, the immovable object is that said Treaties do not work on a practical level. The "change" you mention will be supply chains largely shutting down. Not being able to import / export effectively will focus political minds - hard to eulogise about the amazing deal you did when it had brought trade to its knees.

    "This isn't the Brexit we voted for" - thats the phrase you will be hearing a lot. People definitely didn't vote for shortages and price rises. Yet that is what they are getting.
    On the plus side, I'm quite partial to Welsh lamb and English scallops here - which I guess will be a lot cheaper if export is so difficult?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,882
    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127

    Roger said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
    Libel? Wowsers.

    I voted to leave the EU. Leaving the EEA and CU to cripple ourselves wasn't what was billed.
    Did you just not believe those who said Leave meant leaving the SM and CU?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    McConnell says trial will begin at first regular senate meeting after receiving the motion from the House. Pelosi not saying when she will send the motion over.
  • Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    Setting aside the impossibility of political changes to the treaties, the immovable object is that said Treaties do not work on a practical level. The "change" you mention will be supply chains largely shutting down. Not being able to import / export effectively will focus political minds - hard to eulogise about the amazing deal you did when it had brought trade to its knees.

    "This isn't the Brexit we voted for" - thats the phrase you will be hearing a lot. People definitely didn't vote for shortages and price rises. Yet that is what they are getting.
    On the plus side, I'm quite partial to Welsh lamb and English scallops here - which I guess will be a lot cheaper if export is so difficult?
    Ask the meat industry what the problem is with your "I'm partial to Welsh Lamb" comment. Unless they can economically flog other cuts and older sheep to the French, there won't be any Welsh lamb.
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,353
    edited January 2021
    Roger said:



    Roger said:

    Trump and Netanyahu. A perfect combo!!
    The late Sheldon Adelson was a strong financial supporter of both.
    I had to look him up. Trump to cut his taxes Netanyahu to supply a buriel plot?
    It will be interesting to see whether Trump is mentioned in the will. If he is, his money problems may be over, investigations notwithstanding. However there were stories that the relationship had soured, partly due to Trump's dissatisfaction with the paltry sums Sheldon was handing over. For his part, Sheldon was not entirely happy with Trump's tolerance of anti-semitic types.

    So things were a little fraught at the end.
  • eekeek Posts: 28,398
    Mortimer said:

    Roger said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
    Libel? Wowsers.

    I voted to leave the EU. Leaving the EEA and CU to cripple ourselves wasn't what was billed.
    Did you just not believe those who said Leave meant leaving the SM and CU?
    There was a lot of people on the leave side who said we wouldn't...
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868

    Roger said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
    Libel? Wowsers.

    I voted to leave the EU. Leaving the EEA and CU to cripple ourselves wasn't what was billed.
    All of the problems we are having so far were however widely predicted.
  • Mortimer said:

    Roger said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    Are you prattling on about Brexit again?

    You voted for it.

    STFU.
    Is that true? If not it is the most appalling libel
    Libel? Wowsers.

    I voted to leave the EU. Leaving the EEA and CU to cripple ourselves wasn't what was billed.
    Did you just not believe those who said Leave meant leaving the SM and CU?
    The same people who said the exact opposite as well? I assume that lying politicians lie. I can provide you the quotes from Boris Johnson 2016 staing clearly that what Boris Johnson 2019 did would not happen.

    I've already repented the stupidity of my vote.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127
    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    Oh goody, thank you - I do like to read a nice story of the struggle against the Malignants.
    It’s pretty scathing about the Covenanters as well. Basically makes the case the civil war a coup by excluded group of nobles who manipulated parliament and acted treasonably with the Scots
  • Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    Setting aside the impossibility of political changes to the treaties, the immovable object is that said Treaties do not work on a practical level. The "change" you mention will be supply chains largely shutting down. Not being able to import / export effectively will focus political minds - hard to eulogise about the amazing deal you did when it had brought trade to its knees.

    "This isn't the Brexit we voted for" - thats the phrase you will be hearing a lot. People definitely didn't vote for shortages and price rises. Yet that is what they are getting.
    On the plus side, I'm quite partial to Welsh lamb and English scallops here - which I guess will be a lot cheaper if export is so difficult?
    Ask the meat industry what the problem is with your "I'm partial to Welsh Lamb" comment. Unless they can economically flog other cuts and older sheep to the French, there won't be any Welsh lamb.
    But what about scallops?

    I could personally make a major contribution to remedying the situation.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,442
    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021
    https://twitter.com/TonyGuoga/status/1349352455377661955?s=20

    Too busy spending all that money he won on Biden's election.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,713
    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    I am thinking that SKS is modifying what he says to Johnson, in case it comes back to bite him when he is handling the 9th wave in 2024.
    In Leicester our public health people are predicting that the worst week will be the week of 25th Jan, but that it will be a slow tail off.

    I have gone rather bearish on my views on the economy as a result. The first vaccine resistant variant is going to come as quite a hammer blow.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,291
    IanB2 said:

    CNN reports a Trump advisor saying President is “clueless” as to the damage last week has done to his reputation and legacy

    He had a reputation and legacy? Who knew!
  • eekeek Posts: 28,398
    Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    Then you are lucky - it took me 3 attempts to find a bag of salad earlier this week.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127
    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I've found this happens relating to the virus.

    The most liberal of my mates now want people fined for driving 5 miles to have a walk with a mate.

    I am baffled. But most relieved to hear that vaccine passports/certificates have been ruled out by the govt. Another little bit of coronachondria which the PB consensus seems to have got wrong.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,882
    edited January 2021
    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    Oh goody, thank you - I do like to read a nice story of the struggle against the Malignants.
    It’s pretty scathing about the Covenanters as well. Basically makes the case the civil war a coup by excluded group of nobles who manipulated parliament and acted treasonably with the Scots
    Edit/deleted: sorry, ignore, muddling it mentally with another book that came up when I hunted. Anyway it's now on the reading list to at least investigate further.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021
    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    Depends which one....the new data on the Chinese one, I don't think I would bother with that.

    £1000 for a working vaccine seems very low, given the current supply, the peace of mind it would provide and opportunity to live more normally. I spent more on exercise equipment during this pandemic.
  • kle4 said:

    IanB2 said:

    A tenth Rep votes yes

    Had hoped for, but not expected, around double that, but hey, double figures is something at least. So around 5% of the total? Only need to sextuple or so that percentrage in the Senate.
    The House is much more obediently pro-Trump than the Senate, so whilst 10 is not a disaster for him, it ain't good either.
    That's true. The gerrymandering means proportionately more safe seats in the House, so winning the primary is what counts, not necessarily reaching out state-wide.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    Interesting - CNN commentator saying disqualification for future office isn’t an automatic consequence of impeachment and conviction, but has to be voted on separately (in the event of conviction).
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,291
    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I'll wait my turn.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,683
    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I doubt it's coming here in the UK. USA, probably.

    I would not pay to queue jump - it's not the money, it's the principle.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,487
    I'd want to see second and possibly third opinions on this first but I'm not sure anything would surprise me from Xi's China anymore.

    If true (a huge if) Sean's fantasy fictional novel about this is perhaps ever so slightly closer to the truth than we thought back in March:

    "British diplomats are bracing for the United States to make grave allegations against China, linked to "dangerous" coronavirus research in Wuhan.

    Donald Trump is thought to be intent on firing a final salvo against Beijing over the Covid crisis in one of his last acts before he departs the Oval Office next week.

    UK sources believe Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, could make a public intervention as soon as Wednesday involving the declassification of American intelligence on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    The US may allege that the People's Liberation Army was running research projects that involved "cultivating dangerous coronaviruses" in a series of animal species at the laboratory, a UK source told The Telegraph.

    Such claims would prompt a raft of further questions about why the Chinese military would be involved in this kind of project, including any links to the development of potential bioweapons.

    Washington is expected to stop short of alleging that Covid-19 first originated from the biological laboratory, however."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/us-report-covid-19s-origins-expected-say-chinese-army-grew-dangerous/
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468
    @Foxy how likely do you think it is that a vaccine resistant variant will evolve?

    I must say that thought is very depressing. I literally have no idea what I'm going to do if that happens.
  • Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    And her brains too.

    How would you know it was kosher?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,442

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    Why? Fuck it. Jab a million a day if we can. This isn't like testing. We need the entire country immune, in case of a mutant, so we are ready to jab again
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,683
    Mortimer said:

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I've found this happens relating to the virus.

    The most liberal of my mates now want people fined for driving 5 miles to have a walk with a mate.

    I am baffled. But most relieved to hear that vaccine passports/certificates have been ruled out by the govt. Another little bit of coronachondria which the PB consensus seems to have got wrong.
    ... assuming the govt is not cgoing to u-turn on that idea too. :wink:
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I doubt it's coming here in the UK. USA, probably.

    I would not pay to queue jump - it's not the money, it's the principle.
    I fully expect to hear in due course you will be able to get it done in Turkey, so fairly easily available to Europeans. You will have to have the Russian or Chinese one though.
  • londonpubmanlondonpubman Posts: 3,639
    Foxy said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    I am thinking that SKS is modifying what he says to Johnson, in case it comes back to bite him when he is handling the 9th wave in 2024.
    In Leicester our public health people are predicting that the worst week will be the week of 25th Jan, but that it will be a slow tail off.

    I have gone rather bearish on my views on the economy as a result. The first vaccine resistant variant is going to come as quite a hammer blow.
    I don't like swearing on this site but a 'vaccine resistant variant' will fuck everything up! 😠
  • Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    Because:
    1. We've just had Christmas. Retailers stockpile the shit out of stuff hoping to sell it
    2. We've just had a "never mind that shit here comes Mungo Brexit" event which led to so much stuff being force imported in December that the chaos at ports was widely reported
    3. We're eating at home but the industry was stocked up for a Christmas that got cancelled at the last minute. Foodstuffs not eaten in hastily closed restaurants can be redirected.

    There is a real and growing shortage of fresh food. It isn't universal yet because supply chain inefficiencies. But it is there. And everything else? We're burning through imported stockpiles.

    But cross border traffic is just 20% of normal. We can't keep going for much longer before major gaps appear. Nor can the logistics industry keep going as it is - in Norniron they have said they fall over within a week
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    Yes, hopefully tomorrow will be even better. I think we'll get to ~300k by the end of this week and maybe 400k by the end of next week and almost all of them will be first jabs too.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,683
    Foxy said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    I am thinking that SKS is modifying what he says to Johnson, in case it comes back to bite him when he is handling the 9th wave in 2024.
    In Leicester our public health people are predicting that the worst week will be the week of 25th Jan, but that it will be a slow tail off.

    I have gone rather bearish on my views on the economy as a result. The first vaccine resistant variant is going to come as quite a hammer blow.
    Very cheerful!

    Are you bearish on equities too or just the economy?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021
    MaxPB said:

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    Yes, hopefully tomorrow will be even better. I think we'll get to ~300k by the end of this week and maybe 400k by the end of next week and almost all of them will be first jabs too.
    They do 300k / day easily if there is supply, that's the issue at the moment.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,361
    £40 a head? - the GPs will be out with dart guns trying to run up their bag....
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    IanB2 said:

    Interesting - CNN commentator saying disqualification for future office isn’t an automatic consequence of impeachment and conviction, but has to be voted on separately (in the event of conviction).

    If convicted that does not seem like it would prove a problem.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    Oh goody, thank you - I do like to read a nice story of the struggle against the Malignants.
    It’s pretty scathing about the Covenanters as well. Basically makes the case the civil war a coup by excluded group of nobles who manipulated parliament and acted treasonably with the Scots
    Edit/deleted: sorry, ignore, muddling it mentally with another book that came up when I hunted. Anyway it's now on the reading list to at least investigate further.
    Sure - but it focuses almost entirely on the action in England (except when the Scots invade). Its already 900 pages...
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,442
    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    Yes. The next few years are going to be an attritional war between new mutations of the virus and new evolutions of the vaccine. Hopefully, Pharma Cos will be smart enough to keep us ahead of the bug, most of the time

    But normal life - eg travelling wherever you like in the world, at the drop of a feathered hat -has gone for for the foreseeable future

    Sell shares in adventure travel companies, buy shares in Big Pharma and biotech
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883
    Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    My wife has been unable to buy asparagus for love nor money
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021
    A bigger question is how much would I be willing to pay for a mythical Nvidia 3080Ti (or 3090).....its going to cost me some horrific amount.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    Depends which one....the new data on the Chinese one, I don't think I would bother with that.

    £1000 for a working vaccine seems very low, given the current supply, the peace of mind it would provide and opportunity to live more normally. I spent more on exercise equipment during this pandemic.
    This is my play

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-aurobindo-pharm-va/aurobindo-pharma-to-make-covaxxs-potential-covid-19-vaccine-for-india-unicef-idUSKBN28Y0EM

  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I doubt it's coming here in the UK. USA, probably.

    I would not pay to queue jump - it's not the money, it's the principle.
    I fully expect to hear in due course you will be able to get it done in Turkey, so fairly easily available to Europeans. You will have to have the Russian or Chinese one though.
    That would be dumb. You have the risk of travelling to get it and being infected on the way (or way back), the risk that you don’t know for sure what you will be getting, and most of us are due to be done in the next few months anyway.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,487
    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I wouldn't, what am I going to do with it? Be more brazen on my daily walks for the next two months?

    This only ends if the biggest and most transmissive vector groups in our population are all vaccinated en-mass as quickly as possible.

    (PS. As for the "principle" stuff it doesn't surprise me - and this is why I have so little time (and respect) for the incessant virtue-signalling of the hard-Left on fashionable issues and causes. Most of them are insecure narcissists and hypocrites who just want public social proof to validate themselves and address their deep-rooted personal insecurities. They should start with just one: integrity.)
  • US House Republicans who just voted to impeach Donald Trump:

    > David Valadao of California CD21 (San Joaquin Valley)
    > Adam Kinzinger of Illinois CD10 (Rockford)
    > Peter Meijer of Michigan CD03 (Grand Rapids; Gerald Ford's old congressional district)
    > Fred Upton of Michigan CD06 (Kalamazoo)
    > John Katko of New York CD24 (Syracuse)
    > Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio CD16 (Canton; former NFL player representing site of US Football Hall of Fame)
    > Tom Rice of South Carolina CD07 (Myrtle Beach)
    > Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington CD03 (Vancouver)
    > Dan Newhouse of Washington CD04 (Yakima)
    > Liz Cheney of Wyoming At-large

    Proud that two are from Washington State. Including one whom I've helped campaign against in the not-so-distant past.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,442

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I doubt it's coming here in the UK. USA, probably.

    I would not pay to queue jump - it's not the money, it's the principle.
    Don't be daft. London is a global wealth centre. There are tens of thousands of people here who would happily pay £1000 or more for a jab technically costing £20

    It will be here in about a week. Watch this space. It is already in UAE and NYC
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468

    A bigger question is how much would I be willing to pay for a mythical Nvidia 3080Ti (or 3090).....its going to cost me some horrific amount.

    How much do you have to spend to play Crysis these days?
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127
    Leon said:

    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    Yes. The next few years are going to be an attritional war between new mutations of the virus and new evolutions of the vaccine. Hopefully, Pharma Cos will be smart enough to keep us ahead of the bug, most of the time

    But normal life - eg travelling wherever you like in the world, at the drop of a feathered hat -has gone for for the foreseeable future

    Sell shares in adventure travel companies, buy shares in Big Pharma and biotech
    I disagree. If this lasts longer than the next 9 months, in the UK, we won't be able to afford lockdowns and will just alter our risk perceptions.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,713
    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    Oh goody, thank you - I do like to read a nice story of the struggle against the Malignants.
    It’s pretty scathing about the Covenanters as well. Basically makes the case the civil war a coup by excluded group of nobles who manipulated parliament and acted treasonably with the Scots
    So Royalist revisionism? I can see why you like it.
  • IanB2 said:

    Leon said:

    Question: how many PBers would pay a large sum of cash - say £1000+ - to get the jab privately?

    This will soon be a moral dilemma for all of us. It is coming.

    I was amazed when I asked this of a Corbynite novelist friend of mine today. She's pretty ultra-left. I've heard her denouncing private medicine (private anything) before. She said God yes, I'd pay it today, where is it?

    All her principles out the window, just like that

    I doubt it's coming here in the UK. USA, probably.

    I would not pay to queue jump - it's not the money, it's the principle.
    I fully expect to hear in due course you will be able to get it done in Turkey, so fairly easily available to Europeans. You will have to have the Russian or Chinese one though.
    That would be dumb. You have the risk of travelling to get it and being infected on the way (or way back), the risk that you don’t know for sure what you will be getting, and most of us are due to be done in the next few months anyway.
    I am not saying I am going to, but I bet there would be a market for it.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868

    MaxPB said:

    Does anyone have today’s vaccine numbers?

    I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.

    About 225k.
    Thanks.

    Much better! Let’s keep this rate of increase up.

    Need to stabilise at 350k/day.
    Yes, hopefully tomorrow will be even better. I think we'll get to ~300k by the end of this week and maybe 400k by the end of next week and almost all of them will be first jabs too.
    They do 300k / day easily if there is supply, that's the issue at the moment.
    I think the supply is almost ready for well over 3m jabs per week.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,478

    Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    Because:
    1. We've just had Christmas. Retailers stockpile the shit out of stuff hoping to sell it
    2. We've just had a "never mind that shit here comes Mungo Brexit" event which led to so much stuff being force imported in December that the chaos at ports was widely reported
    3. We're eating at home but the industry was stocked up for a Christmas that got cancelled at the last minute. Foodstuffs not eaten in hastily closed restaurants can be redirected.

    There is a real and growing shortage of fresh food. It isn't universal yet because supply chain inefficiencies. But it is there. And everything else? We're burning through imported stockpiles.

    But cross border traffic is just 20% of normal. We can't keep going for much longer before major gaps appear. Nor can the logistics industry keep going as it is - in Norniron they have said they fall over within a week
    Is there a Vanilla facility to 'save' a post? It would be fun to have a little 'wallet' of saved posts to look at in the future like a photo album of embarrassing school pics.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,209
    Charles said:

    Carnyx said:

    Charles said:

    Wonder IF Trumpsky or Boris ever heard of the 1st Earl of Stafford?

    And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.

    Charles even turned up to watch his trial.

    I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
    Is that title correct, please? I can't find any obvious candidates.
    Sorry Noble Revolt

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Revolt-Overthrow-Charles/dp/0753818787
    That was a really excellent book: I love the Civil War period.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,487
    Leon said:

    Foxy said:

    Well Boris comment from this afternoon didn't last long....

    UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/

    The number of new variants rather worry me. This one originated in Amazonas, one of the places in the world most approaching herd immunity. The endemic nature of the virus must be leading to a lot of evolutionary pressure.

    I am afraid that there are a lot of chapters left in the coronavirus story.
    Yes. The next few years are going to be an attritional war between new mutations of the virus and new evolutions of the vaccine. Hopefully, Pharma Cos will be smart enough to keep us ahead of the bug, most of the time

    But normal life - eg travelling wherever you like in the world, at the drop of a feathered hat -has gone for for the foreseeable future

    Sell shares in adventure travel companies, buy shares in Big Pharma and biotech
    I think that's true but I also think we'll simply learn to live with it too, and accept a new risk level.

    Provided we're not being hospitalised and dying en-masse that is.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,683
    kle4 said:

    IanB2 said:

    Interesting - CNN commentator saying disqualification for future office isn’t an automatic consequence of impeachment and conviction, but has to be voted on separately (in the event of conviction).

    If convicted that does not seem like it would prove a problem.
    Especially as disqualification for future office only requires a simple majority.

    This is the attaction for GOP to support impeachment, that they can then vote for future disqualification. The last thing they want is Trump running again in 2024 either inside or outside the GOP.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127

    Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    Because:
    1. We've just had Christmas. Retailers stockpile the shit out of stuff hoping to sell it
    2. We've just had a "never mind that shit here comes Mungo Brexit" event which led to so much stuff being force imported in December that the chaos at ports was widely reported
    3. We're eating at home but the industry was stocked up for a Christmas that got cancelled at the last minute. Foodstuffs not eaten in hastily closed restaurants can be redirected.

    There is a real and growing shortage of fresh food. It isn't universal yet because supply chain inefficiencies. But it is there. And everything else? We're burning through imported stockpiles.

    But cross border traffic is just 20% of normal. We can't keep going for much longer before major gaps appear. Nor can the logistics industry keep going as it is - in Norniron they have said they fall over within a week
    Thanks for the info. So when should I expect to not see any raspberries, soft lettuce or spinach on the shelves?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited January 2021

    A bigger question is how much would I be willing to pay for a mythical Nvidia 3080Ti (or 3090).....its going to cost me some horrific amount.

    How much do you have to spend to play Crysis these days?
    They released a Crysis Remastered a few months ago, and it had a special mode that still melted the very latest graphics cards.
  • Mortimer said:

    Carnyx said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    Mortimer said:

    @RochdalePioneers - how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?

    An insightful question that magically fixes all of the problems today.

    What happened before?
    1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
    2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis

    So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.

    You want to try again?
    Are you this unnecessarily rude in real life, or just on here?

    My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.

    Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
    Your question was "it was fine before wasn't it". Well yes, something completely different now worked in a fashion then.

    So what? We can't undo 30 years of progress and go status quo ante.

    The only way to fix the supply chains is to allow them to effectively trade. Otherwise the change you will see will be businesses closing down, and less choice and higher costs for UK consumers.
    No, it was 'how was accompanied freight handled pre our accession to EEC?'.

    Strikes me that supply chains are likely to change in weeks or months, there will be no political change to the treaties for years.
    I can remember what greengrocers were like pre-1973 in the autumn to spring months. Not quite wall to wall turnips, kail, other brassicas, carrots and spuds, not far off it outside the twee urban specialists. That's a hell of a reversion, for a start.
    What I still don't quite understand is how I can still buy everything at the shops I want when RP says that the system isn't fit for purpose. We're 13 days into the year, during a pandemic when everyone is eating at home. How come the delays aren't feeding through to problems yet?
    Because:
    1. We've just had Christmas. Retailers stockpile the shit out of stuff hoping to sell it
    2. We've just had a "never mind that shit here comes Mungo Brexit" event which led to so much stuff being force imported in December that the chaos at ports was widely reported
    3. We're eating at home but the industry was stocked up for a Christmas that got cancelled at the last minute. Foodstuffs not eaten in hastily closed restaurants can be redirected.

    There is a real and growing shortage of fresh food. It isn't universal yet because supply chain inefficiencies. But it is there. And everything else? We're burning through imported stockpiles.

    But cross border traffic is just 20% of normal. We can't keep going for much longer before major gaps appear. Nor can the logistics industry keep going as it is - in Norniron they have said they fall over within a week
    Is there a Vanilla facility to 'save' a post? It would be fun to have a little 'wallet' of saved posts to look at in the future like a photo album of embarrassing school pics.
    Feel free to bookmark me. I'm not saying anything that an increasingly alarmed industry isn't saying. What would they know about it?
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