He was the best President of my lifetime, won the Gulf War with an international coalition, ended the Cold War on his watch, cut the deficit, agreed climate targets at the Rio Summit, took action for the disabled.
Yet, despite the assistance of the Conservative Party, he still managed to lose to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Like Major and the Tories in 1997, the GOP in 1992 had simply been in power too long and Clinton like Blair made few major changes to what the administration had been doing before.
Generally however now Bush Snr and Major are looked back on by historians and the public as statesmen who left a good legacy.
Whereas Johnson will be looked back on as the man who destroyed the Union.
No, as he will not allow indyref2.
Plus there is a swing to No in the latest Scottish poll today.
Yes down to just 45% including Don't Knows ie no change at all from 2014 despite Brexit
> Here in WA State, Gov. Jay Inslee just announced that COVID vaccinations are now being scheduled for anyone in phase 1b, which includes anyone 65 or older.
> got email from my health provider informing me of this, along with details on how to schedule appointment.
> just scheduled appointment to get jab #1 in two weeks.
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
Fun stuff, and at least she's on the record, but a bit like all those deeply sorrowful Labour MPs under Corbyn, there comes a point where if you feel that way, why do you stay in the same party as him? Making it an issue of moral failing ups the ante from merely thinking he's crap at the job.
Is Trump going to pardon anyone at all? He is running out of time. It is already 4pm ET.
To minimise the backlash, doing it tomorrow morning makes sense, as the news will be dominated by Biden.
To be fair, the bits of the video speech that I saw - didn't watch the whole thing - were quite nice, and avoided all the bitter crap about election fraud - he seems to have belatedly decided to go out on a relatively decent note.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
That's how any election is decided. There's no "don't know" box to tick.
Wasn't someone on earlier saying these pics were probably not even current and possibly staged (by the EU and ScotGov funded ‘trade association' no doubt)?
I do wish people would do a little bit of research before they repeat bollocks like this.
Today there were 418 boxes from 3 vessels landed. (Not the 220 claimed in the tweet)
But guess what.
Yesterday there were 4333 boxes landed from 19 vessels. Last Monday there were 6370 boxes landed from 20 vessels
Yes I am sure Brexit is having an effect but this sort of cherry picking of numbers to try and con people - and the fact so many on here are stupid enough to fall for it - just shows how desperate some people are for Brexit to fail.
You can look at all the numbers on the Peterhead port authority site. I reckon looking at the numbers on there and comparing to last year that landings are down by about 40%. This is bad. But the idea it has completely collapsed is just garbage.
It's worth bearing in mind few were landed today because many were on a protest in London yesterday.
Weren't they mostly shellfish operations? The BBC interviewed someone from the Dartmouth Crab Company, I assume Peterhead isn't part of their business plan.
No no, its entirely a Scottish fishing issue that has been fabricated by the SNP. Apparently.
Shush, no one is supposed to get wind of this cunning plan!
IT was the SNP's plan in 2014 for Scotland to leave the UK and the EU simultaneously, on a YES vote. Sturgeon never saw a problem with THAT.
Well, she denied it would happen at all and EU membership would be grandfathered.
I think she *hoped* that that could be negotiated simultaneously whilst Scotland negotiated to leave the UK, so there was no gap, and she'd ascend automatically to the EU as she left the UK at the end of a transition period.
However, there was no evidence for that other than wishful thinking.
It wasn't just wishful thinking, it was explicitly denied by the EU. And Spain alone would have vetoed, because Catalunya.
The SNP position was a massive lie, in other words.
Also, any legal analysis - for about a minute- reveals why this "grandfathering" could not have happened. Scottish accession as a new state would require a new EU Treaty, a new division of MEPs. new commissioners, and so on and so forth.
As we have seen, the EU is painfully legalistic and bureaucratic, that's how it works (and, arguably, stays together, the red tape smothers democracy, deliberately). Scotland in 2014 would have had to quit the EU on a Yes vote, and would have been obliged to re-apply for membership.
Sturgeon is too clever not to know this. She chooses to forget. She's a politician.
Look at the Greek accession though. Corners can be cut and Spain can be bought off for a result the EU wants and starting from where we are now, an Indy Scotland in the EU would be the most stupendous triumph (and piece of trolling) in diplomatic history.
Is is pish, tho. Scotland would legally have been forced to quit the EU, then reapply, with all the complex renegotiations (over fishing, amongst others) that accession requires. The idea that Eastern European countries, which had to jump through decades of hoops to gain membership, would simply nod through a Scottish accession, is bonkers.
Brexit has shown us this, surely? Leaving the EU is horribly complicated and rejoining, by anyone, is not gonna be a nice sunny picnic, done and dusted in weeks.
For a start the EU/rUK would have had to renegotiate their OWN relationship, requiring a painful new Treaty, diminishing UK MEP numbers, and so on. Only when that was done, would the EU have been legally eqiuipped to turn to Scotland's eagerness to reapply.
Rough guess: 5-10 years minimum.
You’re one of those who’s repeatedly been telling us that the EU has deliberately made the process of leaving as difficult as possible in order to discourage anyone following our example. Why would this necessarily apply to the accession process ?
He was the best President of my lifetime, won the Gulf War with an international coalition, ended the Cold War on his watch, cut the deficit, agreed climate targets at the Rio Summit, took action for the disabled.
Yet, despite the assistance of the Conservative Party, he still managed to lose to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Like Major and the Tories in 1997, the GOP in 1992 had simply been in power too long and Clinton like Blair made few major changes to what the administration had been doing before.
Generally however now Bush Snr and Major are looked back on by historians and the public as statesmen who left a good legacy.
Whereas Johnson will be looked back on as the man who destroyed the Union.
No, as he will not allow indyref2.
Plus there is a swing to No in the latest Scottish poll today.
Yes down to just 45% including Don't Knows ie no change at all from 2014 despite Brexit
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
That's how any election is decided. There's no "don't know" box to tick.
I think you are missing the fact that HYUFD is involved.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
That's how any election is decided. There's no "don't know" box to tick.
Some elections around the world do give a 'none of the above' option, amusingly.
He was the best President of my lifetime, won the Gulf War with an international coalition, ended the Cold War on his watch, cut the deficit, agreed climate targets at the Rio Summit, took action for the disabled.
Yet, despite the assistance of the Conservative Party, he still managed to lose to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Like Major and the Tories in 1997, the GOP in 1992 had simply been in power too long and Clinton like Blair made few major changes to what the administration had been doing before.
Generally however now Bush Snr and Major are looked back on by historians and the public as statesmen who left a good legacy.
Whereas Johnson will be looked back on as the man who destroyed the Union.
No, as he will not allow indyref2.
In the same way that he solved the Irish Sea border question by not allowing it?
NI still remains part of the UK and he also got a UK and EU trade deal.
Boris is not going to risk a Scottish referendum that if lost would see him removed from No 10 the next day.
Nationalists and leftwingers will have to get used to the fact that we Tories hold the power at Westminster until 2024, what we say goes until then.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
i certainly agree about this lockdown. plenty of traffic. lots of coming and goings up and down my local streets. lots of popping out being done. where are they are all going?
Who could have predicted this? Williamson and the PM really are tossers messing around with the lives of teachers, children, and their family members.
Ministers are set to halt plans for daily coronavirus tests in England’s secondary schools after teachers expressed alarm that the flagship policy had not been approved by regulators.
The Department for Education will announce it is pausing the daily testing of pupils and teachers after receiving new health advice, only five weeks after the £78m programme was unveiled as a “milestone moment” in the fight against Covid-19.
The about-turn came after the Guardian revealed last week that the UK’s medicines regulator had not authorised the daily use of rapid-turnaround tests as an alternative to self-isolation.
The programme, which began in secondary schools a fortnight ago, was at the centre of the government’s “Operation Moonshot” mass-testing plans and its strategy for fully reopening schools after the February half-term.
It is understood that the DfE will say it has received updated advice from Public Health England on daily contact testing and that it will be “paused” across England, except for a handful of trials.
The government is expected to say that the new advice is related to the high transmissibility of the new Covid strain, which it first raised concerns about in December. The DfE has been contacted for comment.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
HYUFD's gonna be the one in charge of the firing squads, he'll be the Vasily Blokhin of Unionism.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
Technically the Great British and Northern Irish state
The DUP have belatedly realised why backing Brexit was the greatest strategic blunder since Emperor Palpatine allowed the Rebel Alliance to know the location of the Second Death Star.
In about 2 years the Norns will realise they have won the lottery of life. They have automatic citizenship of the EU, and ALSO of the UK. Their companies can freely trade in the EU Single Market AND the UK Single Market. Investment is going to flood into Belfast. It will be like a Freeport.
Why on earth would they give up this uniquely beneficial situation, so as to reunify with the South, which would risk renewed violence and sever them from the benefits of the UK? What's the point? Those who feel strongly "Irish" can have an Irish passport and the rest. Those who feel British can have an Irish and a UK passport. Such great good luck.
I do not begrudge the Northern Irish this prize. They've had a hard time for decades. But it is a huge, ironic prize.
I suggest you do a bit more research, the Northern Irish are facing huge hurdles to get easy access to the UK single market, and vice versa.
As one UK trader put it, it is easier for him to send a container to China than it is to send some stuff to NI.
This is one of the reasons the DUP are prepping for a border poll.
The DUPs best chance is an early border poll. It is just going to get worse for them...
Well, Mr Johnson isn't going to allow one is he??
NI has cost so much blood, money and attention that you have to wonder whether betraying the DUP and provoking a border poll isn't a deliberate strategy to try to get rid of it.
Who cares about the DUP?
The only voters Mr Johnson cares about (apart from the future historians assessing his neo-Churchillian image for posterity, I assume) are the backbenchers, and, slightly at a remove, the likes of HYUFD. Is HYUFD in favour of Irish reunification? (I don't know, actually.)
Of course not, I am a Conservative and Unionist and a diehard one at that.
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
It comes down to money, lots more people are working not at home than in lockdown 1. If you are working and meeting lots of people during working hours you are far less likely to strictly minimise contacts outside of working hours.
The DUP have belatedly realised why backing Brexit was the greatest strategic blunder since Emperor Palpatine allowed the Rebel Alliance to know the location of the Second Death Star.
In about 2 years the Norns will realise they have won the lottery of life. They have automatic citizenship of the EU, and ALSO of the UK. Their companies can freely trade in the EU Single Market AND the UK Single Market. Investment is going to flood into Belfast. It will be like a Freeport.
Why on earth would they give up this uniquely beneficial situation, so as to reunify with the South, which would risk renewed violence and sever them from the benefits of the UK? What's the point? Those who feel strongly "Irish" can have an Irish passport and the rest. Those who feel British can have an Irish and a UK passport. Such great good luck.
I do not begrudge the Northern Irish this prize. They've had a hard time for decades. But it is a huge, ironic prize.
I suggest you do a bit more research, the Northern Irish are facing huge hurdles to get easy access to the UK single market, and vice versa.
As one UK trader put it, it is easier for him to send a container to China than it is to send some stuff to NI.
This is one of the reasons the DUP are prepping for a border poll.
A potential 25% tariff to be imposed on steel imports to Northern Ireland not from Great Britain will ruin the industry, it has been warned.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Probably not news of interest to many here but it see 's that the conference leagues will be voting to cancel the season in the near future - the money they thought was a grant has turned out to be a loan and to say the football team chairman are unhappy would be a slight understatement
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Parody account.
No, he means it. Like justin and his obsession with bastards.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
No difference at all. Britain means the UK. You are probably thinking of Great Britain.
He was the best President of my lifetime, won the Gulf War with an international coalition, ended the Cold War on his watch, cut the deficit, agreed climate targets at the Rio Summit, took action for the disabled.
Yet, despite the assistance of the Conservative Party, he still managed to lose to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Like Major and the Tories in 1997, the GOP in 1992 had simply been in power too long and Clinton like Blair made few major changes to what the administration had been doing before.
Generally however now Bush Snr and Major are looked back on by historians and the public as statesmen who left a good legacy.
Whereas Johnson will be looked back on as the man who destroyed the Union.
No, as he will not allow indyref2.
In the same way that he solved the Irish Sea border question by not allowing it?
NI still remains part of the UK and he also got a UK and EU trade deal.
Boris is not going to risk a Scottish referendum that if lost would see him removed from No 10 the next day.
Nationalists and leftwingers will have to get used to the fact that we Tories hold the power at Westminster until 2024, what we say goes until then.
End of conversation.
Oh please
This is the Scottish equivalent for your delectation
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
No difference at all. Britain means the UK. You are probably thinking of Great Britain.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You can't even get it right. There is no such thing as the British state. It's the UK state. A very big difference.
No difference at all. Britain means the UK. You are probably thinking of Great Britain.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
Some people are young. Some people have had covid. Some people are bored of covid. Some people oppose restrictions. Some people think vaccination has ended covid.
There's a limit to what governments can do and after that its up to people to take their own responsibility.
As it happens I think the government has been greatly remiss over the weakness of international travel restrictions and its lack of a general public health strategy.
But a day here or there on lockdown periods was going to have sod all effect - there's a lockdown tolerance for us all and for the country as a whole.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
There are times when a post becomes most inhumane poster of the year. It is a title that seems to waver between hyufd and Justin124 mainly
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
I think while Boris is there probably won't be an official one. Sure, ignoring what will be a clear mandate for one in the Scottish elections will probably be damaging, but as you say with the polls as they are I can easily imagine him just being stubborn and hoping something comes up that diminishes Sindy support. Sure it probably won't work, but I can see the sense from his perspecive, even though I think morally a referendum should happen as it seems to be what they want.
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
TMay was arguably the most wretchedly useless and embarassing UK PM in a century. No one gives a tiny scintilla of an iota of a fucklet what she thinks. A non headline, forgotten the moment it is read
Who could have predicted this? Williamson and the PM really are tossers messing around with the lives of teachers, children, and their family members.
Ministers are set to halt plans for daily coronavirus tests in England’s secondary schools after teachers expressed alarm that the flagship policy had not been approved by regulators.
The Department for Education will announce it is pausing the daily testing of pupils and teachers after receiving new health advice, only five weeks after the £78m programme was unveiled as a “milestone moment” in the fight against Covid-19.
The about-turn came after the Guardian revealed last week that the UK’s medicines regulator had not authorised the daily use of rapid-turnaround tests as an alternative to self-isolation.
The programme, which began in secondary schools a fortnight ago, was at the centre of the government’s “Operation Moonshot” mass-testing plans and its strategy for fully reopening schools after the February half-term.
It is understood that the DfE will say it has received updated advice from Public Health England on daily contact testing and that it will be “paused” across England, except for a handful of trials.
The government is expected to say that the new advice is related to the high transmissibility of the new Covid strain, which it first raised concerns about in December. The DfE has been contacted for comment.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
HYUFD's gonna be the one in charge of the firing squads, he'll be the Vasily Blokhin of Unionism.
Union,
Do you have the link to those four Scottish chaps singing that you posted the other day? Harmonising etc, very impressive.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
You are being completely ridiculous once again and you do the party no credit
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
TMay was arguably the most wretchedly useless and embarassing UK PM in a century save for Boris. No one gives a tiny scintilla of an iota of a fucklet what she thinks. A non headline, forgotten the moment it is read
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
I also campaigned for May remember but it was Boris who got the Tory majority of 80 not Theresa
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
Who could have predicted this? Williamson and the PM really are tossers messing around with the lives of teachers, children, and their family members.
Ministers are set to halt plans for daily coronavirus tests in England’s secondary schools after teachers expressed alarm that the flagship policy had not been approved by regulators.
The Department for Education will announce it is pausing the daily testing of pupils and teachers after receiving new health advice, only five weeks after the £78m programme was unveiled as a “milestone moment” in the fight against Covid-19.
The about-turn came after the Guardian revealed last week that the UK’s medicines regulator had not authorised the daily use of rapid-turnaround tests as an alternative to self-isolation.
The programme, which began in secondary schools a fortnight ago, was at the centre of the government’s “Operation Moonshot” mass-testing plans and its strategy for fully reopening schools after the February half-term.
It is understood that the DfE will say it has received updated advice from Public Health England on daily contact testing and that it will be “paused” across England, except for a handful of trials.
The government is expected to say that the new advice is related to the high transmissibility of the new Covid strain, which it first raised concerns about in December. The DfE has been contacted for comment.
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
I also campaigned for May remember but it was Boris who got the Tory majority of 80 not Theresa
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
TMay was arguably the most wretchedly useless and embarassing UK PM in a century. No one gives a tiny scintilla of an iota of a fucklet what she thinks. A non headline, forgotten the moment it is read
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
I haven’t been on for a few days. Has the shooting started?
Can’t you be more creative than shooting? Strapped to the front of a UK warhead in a live test? Chased by a team of canvassers over a cliff?
That is a very interesting article, and not overly technical. There is an interesting bit about inhaled Interferon towards the end, there is an interesting trial on this underway as a therapy. Worth watching, not least because it should work on all variants.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
Read what I said - my sole point was that unlike Scotland it's not under bozo's control
Whether ulster is in a position where it occurs is irrelevant to the point but unless deliveries are sorted out it wouldnt surprise me if peoples viewpoints rapidly change
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
But for the first time in 100 years since Partition, there are less than 50% of Unionist MPs.
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Johnson's government is immoral. Shutting down parliament illegally to stifle debate. Threatening to break international law to tear up its own key manifesto pledge. Refusing to feed hungry kids. Insisting it is right to sign trade deals with genocidal despots.
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
TMay was arguably the most wretchedly useless and embarassing UK PM in a century. No one gives a tiny scintilla of an iota of a fucklet what she thinks. A non headline, forgotten the moment it is read
Neville Chamberlain says 'hi'.
Osborne was surprisingly positive about May's Deal in his article today, saying it was better for the Union than the current one and the DUP were idiots not to vote for it.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Jesus. Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, whatever. You know exactly what I mean
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
i certainly agree about this lockdown. plenty of traffic. lots of coming and goings up and down my local streets. lots of popping out being done. where are they are all going?
The messaging of late has been shot to hell. The Christmas relaxation, which the tweet condemns, was belatedly revised to be less relaxed than had been advertised but how many noticed? Social media evidence of gatherings that would have been OK under the promised relaxation but not the delivered version suggests many people missed the change.
We can go out to exercise, but should stay local, or drive across London to exercise. We can exercise once a day but no, hold on, Boris has noticed dogs want to be walked so that is another exception.
It is just too complex for most people to keep up with, and we see this every time there is a change because Cabinet Ministers and Number 10 PR teams cannot agree what is what.
And now the expectation is abroad that vaccination means a return to normal. And more confusion. It is announced that over-70s are now to be jabbed but they are not told more than that so waste everyone's time ringing GPs and others to find out what they need to do next.
To be fair to the public, round here at least people are following the rules on masks.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
I regularly work in NI and the dynamic is changing rather quickly, and that is all down to Brexit.
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
I regularly work in NI and the dynamic is changing rather quickly, and that is all down to Brexit.
It isn't, the main movement such as there is is to the non sectarian Alliance Party, not Sinn Fein
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Jesus. Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, whatever. You know exactly what I mean
Except that Ulster also includes Counties Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, which, er, are no longer part of the UK...
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
Madrid proved in Catalonia illegal referendums can be ignored and Boris noticed that.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
2014 was only 7 years ago not 15
So we'll have another Indyref in 2029!
That is a pretty good guess. I can see the SNP gently declining as Sturgeon ages and indy doesn't happen. But there is now a solid 35-40% hard support for indy which isn't going anywhere. And it may grow.
At some point there will be a 2nd vote, just as there was in Quebec. 15 years after 2014 seems about right (the minimum definition of a "generation").
2030+, roughly. A new SNP govt under new leadership. Facing a UK Labour government under billionaire Euan Blair.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
I regularly work in NI and the dynamic is changing rather quickly, and that is all down to Brexit.
It isn't, the main movement such as there is is to the non sectarian Alliance Party, not Sinn Fein
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Jesus. Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, whatever. You know exactly what I mean
Regardless of which incorrect name you give Northern Ireland, you are still wrong about the legality of a border poll!
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Ulster is different if they want a border poll nothing can stop it from taking place
The fact they still keep giving Unionists more votes than Nationalists confirms that they don't
I regularly work in NI and the dynamic is changing rather quickly, and that is all down to Brexit.
It isn't, the main movement such as there is is to the non sectarian Alliance Party, not Sinn Fein
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
HYUFD's gonna be the one in charge of the firing squads, he'll be the Vasily Blokhin of Unionism.
Union,
Do you have the link to those four Scottish chaps singing that you posted the other day? Harmonising etc, very impressive.
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
i certainly agree about this lockdown. plenty of traffic. lots of coming and goings up and down my local streets. lots of popping out being done. where are they are all going?
The messaging of late has been shot to hell. The Christmas relaxation, which the tweet condemns, was belatedly revised to be less relaxed than had been advertised but how many noticed? Social media evidence of gatherings that would have been OK under the promised relaxation but not the delivered version suggests many people missed the change.
We can go out to exercise, but should stay local, or drive across London to exercise. We can exercise once a day but no, hold on, Boris has noticed dogs want to be walked so that is another exception.
It is just too complex for most people to keep up with, and we see this every time there is a change because Cabinet Ministers and Number 10 PR teams cannot agree what is what.
And now the expectation is abroad that vaccination means a return to normal. And more confusion. It is announced that over-70s are now to be jabbed but they are not told more than that so waste everyone's time ringing GPs and others to find out what they need to do next.
To be fair to the public, round here at least people are following the rules on masks.
People didn't miss the change they just did what they wanted to do.
We all have our own limit to the level of restrictions we are prepared to tolerate and when that limit is reached the restrictions are ignored.
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
You make no sense. Who is thinking it "worth giving a shot" and how? And what is the shot? And who has the victory? What??
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
Madrid proved in Catalonia illegal referendums can be ignored and Boris noticed that.
If Boris tries anything like the Spanish did then he will be out of power within days. Unionist sentiment is just not that strong in England that the people would stand for anything like the actions the Spanish took.
Face it, your extremist views are in a tiny, tiny minority.
That is a very interesting article, and not overly technical. There is an interesting bit about inhaled Interferon towards the end, there is an interesting trial on this underway as a therapy. Worth watching, not least because it should work on all variants.
Hopefully the antibodies the vaccines generate are different.
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Jesus. Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, whatever. You know exactly what I mean
Except that Ulster also includes Counties Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, which, er, are no longer part of the UK...
It does beg the question of whether it would have made any difference to people's behaviour even if they had maintained lockdown over Christmas. It so happens that I am simply terrified by me or my loved ones getting this so there was no way I was going to get together with two other households anyway. But in the same way I get the impression that had Johnson said no to Christmas people would have ignored him anyway and just gone ahead with their plans.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
i certainly agree about this lockdown. plenty of traffic. lots of coming and goings up and down my local streets. lots of popping out being done. where are they are all going?
And yet the cases are still plummeting, so it’s not all bad
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
Madrid proved in Catalonia illegal referendums can be ignored and Boris noticed that.
If Boris tries anything like the Spanish did then he will be out of power within days. Unionist sentiment is just not that strong in England that the people would stand for anything like the actions the Spanish took.
Face it, your extremist views are in a tiny, tiny minority.
No he won't. The entire Tory Party is united behind no surrender to the SNP under any circumstances whatsoever.
The vast majority of Tory voters would love nothing more than Boris to tell Sturgeon to sod off
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
2014 was only 7 years ago not 15
So we'll have another Indyref in 2029!
That is a pretty good guess. I can see the SNP gently declining as Sturgeon ages and indy doesn't happen. But there is now a solid 35-40% hard support for indy which isn't going anywhere. And it may grow.
At some point there will be a 2nd vote, just as there was in Quebec. 15 years after 2014 seems about right (the minimum definition of a "generation").
2030+, roughly. A new SNP govt under new leadership. Facing a UK Labour government under billionaire Euan Blair.
All this "generation" stuff is bollocks, though, you do know that? It's not written in law, it's not part of the constitution. If the people of Scotland want to have a vote, give them a fucking vote.
The only way BoZo avoids Indyref2 is if the SNP implode. Which has a non-zero probability
Boris refuses Sindyref2. What happens then?
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
Depends on the result. Remember the electoral system in Scotland was set up in such a way that it was supposed to be almost impossible for the Nats to get a majority. And yet they did. If they get a majority of the electorate (not the vote) then they are home dry. You might think it impossible but once Westminster has said no to a legal referendum I think a lot of the don't knows will fall on the Yes side in anger at the arrogance of Johnson.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
Madrid proved in Catalonia illegal referendums can be ignored and Boris noticed that.
If Boris tries anything like the Spanish did then he will be out of power within days. Unionist sentiment is just not that strong in England that the people would stand for anything like the actions the Spanish took.
Face it, your extremist views are in a tiny, tiny minority.
No he won't. The entire Tory Party is united behind no surrender to the SNP under any circumstances whatsoever.
The vast majority of Tory voters would love nothing more than Boris to tell Sturgeon to sod off
You really are deluded. Just look around at your own party members on here. Even the unionists would draw the line at 'any circumstances whatsoever'.
A friends mother died in a nursing home outbreak in Leicester today. One thing I wonder is how this relates to the vaccination programme.
You mean Are there any stats for how many deaths are caused by the programme? Could the government fairly sit on those numbers with argument not to give anti vaxers ammo?
Overall it must save lives and the NHS but Does roll out of flu vaccines cause much illness and death each year that’s attributed to having had the jab?
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
Quebec had referendums in 1980 and 1995, only 15 years apart.
2014 was only 7 years ago not 15
So we'll have another Indyref in 2029!
That is a pretty good guess. I can see the SNP gently declining as Sturgeon ages and indy doesn't happen. But there is now a solid 35-40% hard support for indy which isn't going anywhere. And it may grow.
At some point there will be a 2nd vote, just as there was in Quebec. 15 years after 2014 seems about right (the minimum definition of a "generation").
2030+, roughly. A new SNP govt under new leadership. Facing a UK Labour government under billionaire Euan Blair.
All this "generation" stuff is bollocks, though, you do know that? It's not written in law, it's not part of the constitution. If the people of Scotland want to have a vote, give them a fucking vote.
I thought we lived in a democracy.
We do, one which has given us a Tory government which will tell Sturgeon to sod off no matter the handwringing from leftwingers like you who are ashamed of their own country
HYUFD is in front of a firing squad. There is a vote whether HYFUD should be shot. 6 people vote to save his life. 5 people vote to shoot him. Malc and I are don’t knows. HYUFD is shot.
Nationalists should count themselves lucky the British government no longer uses firing squads for those seeking to commit treachery against the British State and the Crown but merely refuses independence referendums being held more than once a generation
I'm sure they are very grateful not to be shot for expressing political opinions that are perfectly legal.
I know it's easy, and maybe fun, to laugh at HYUFD. He/she does invite it (and remains unusually polite in response, it is worth noting)
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
If you mean by Ulster, Northern Ireland, you are wrong on a point of legality. Look it up.
Jesus. Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, whatever. You know exactly what I mean
Except that Ulster also includes Counties Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, which, er, are no longer part of the UK...
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> Here in WA State, Gov. Jay Inslee just announced that COVID vaccinations are now being scheduled for anyone in phase 1b, which includes anyone 65 or older.
> got email from my health provider informing me of this, along with details on how to schedule appointment.
> just scheduled appointment to get jab #1 in two weeks.
I am just considering that during the last lockdown the roads were completely empty for weeks on end. This time around you really wouldn't know there was a lockdown at all with traffic completely normal. With the exception of shops and schools being closed I am really not seeing much sign of a lockdown.
I think the big problem is that the message on people still being at risk in spite of the vaccine is not getting through.
To be fair, the bits of the video speech that I saw - didn't watch the whole thing - were quite nice, and avoided all the bitter crap about election fraud - he seems to have belatedly decided to go out on a relatively decent note.
Ministers are set to halt plans for daily coronavirus tests in England’s secondary schools after teachers expressed alarm that the flagship policy had not been approved by regulators.
The Department for Education will announce it is pausing the daily testing of pupils and teachers after receiving new health advice, only five weeks after the £78m programme was unveiled as a “milestone moment” in the fight against Covid-19.
The about-turn came after the Guardian revealed last week that the UK’s medicines regulator had not authorised the daily use of rapid-turnaround tests as an alternative to self-isolation.
The programme, which began in secondary schools a fortnight ago, was at the centre of the government’s “Operation Moonshot” mass-testing plans and its strategy for fully reopening schools after the February half-term.
It is understood that the DfE will say it has received updated advice from Public Health England on daily contact testing and that it will be “paused” across England, except for a handful of trials.
The government is expected to say that the new advice is related to the high transmissibility of the new Covid strain, which it first raised concerns about in December. The DfE has been contacted for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/19/ministers-set-to-halt-plans-for-daily-covid-tests-in-english-schools
https://twitter.com/ollie_bayliss/status/1351624083629342723?s=21
May is right. And it drives zealots like HYUFD nuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
No one is going to send tanks over the Tweed
However, on the basic politics, HYUFD is correct. Calling a Scottish indyref2 with the polls as wild as they are now is a risk no UK prime minister will take (and Starmer will be the same). They have all learned from the rueful fate of Dave "this is a good deal" Cameron
It will be fudged. Devomax/Federalism will be soberly debated, a Solemn Royal Commission will be summoned om the constitutional future of the UK. Scots will be heard! Meanwhile the UK govt will quietly hope that the SNP self-destructs, as the rule-following Sturgeon tries to face down her UDI hardcore.
No Sindyref2 til 2024, earliest. Ditto Ulster.
Some people have had covid.
Some people are bored of covid.
Some people oppose restrictions.
Some people think vaccination has ended covid.
There's a limit to what governments can do and after that its up to people to take their own responsibility.
As it happens I think the government has been greatly remiss over the weakness of international travel restrictions and its lack of a general public health strategy.
But a day here or there on lockdown periods was going to have sod all effect - there's a lockdown tolerance for us all and for the country as a whole.
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1351637268256186373
Do you have the link to those four Scottish chaps singing that you posted the other day? Harmonising etc, very impressive.
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/01/covid-outbreak-at-lincolnshire-car-home-kills-two-thirds-of-residents
Can’t you be more creative than shooting? Strapped to the front of a UK warhead in a live test? Chased by a team of canvassers over a cliff?
Whether ulster is in a position where it occurs is irrelevant to the point but unless deliveries are sorted out it wouldnt surprise me if peoples viewpoints rapidly change
Today's English number was low but still 22% higher than that reported a week ago.
If the 22% weekly increase is repeated we should be looking at 230k reported 2pm tomorrow.
Talk me through it. Sturgeon is adamant she wants a legal, Westminer-sanctioned referendum. She has said it many times (correctly, in my opinion)
The Nats replace her with someone who will go UDI? OR she calls a Catalan-style home-made referendum which is boycotted by No voters, just as the referendum was boycotted in Catalunya.
Either route means disaster for Nats. Your alternative?
To all Americans who voted for Biden and Harris , thank you .
We can go out to exercise, but should stay local, or drive across London to exercise. We can exercise once a day but no, hold on, Boris has noticed dogs want to be walked so that is another exception.
It is just too complex for most people to keep up with, and we see this every time there is a change because Cabinet Ministers and Number 10 PR teams cannot agree what is what.
And now the expectation is abroad that vaccination means a return to normal. And more confusion. It is announced that over-70s are now to be jabbed but they are not told more than that so waste everyone's time ringing GPs and others to find out what they need to do next.
To be fair to the public, round here at least people are following the rules on masks.
They may well not pull it off but if it was me I would think it was worth giving it a shot. If nothing else it would be a massive PR victory.
https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1351658531578146818
At some point there will be a 2nd vote, just as there was in Quebec. 15 years after 2014 seems about right (the minimum definition of a "generation").
2030+, roughly. A new SNP govt under new leadership. Facing a UK Labour government under billionaire Euan Blair.
https://twitter.com/vonstrenginho/status/1349824512544698369?s=20
I wouldnae be going doon Eyemouth harbour without socks the night...
We all have our own limit to the level of restrictions we are prepared to tolerate and when that limit is reached the restrictions are ignored.
Face it, your extremist views are in a tiny, tiny minority.
The vast majority of Tory voters would love nothing more than Boris to tell Sturgeon to sod off
I thought we lived in a democracy.
I don't know if the increase in diabetes after covid is autoantibody related.
Overall it must save lives and the NHS but Does roll out of flu vaccines cause much illness and death each year that’s attributed to having had the jab?