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At GE2019 LAB was led by a man who had negative ratings even amongst those who had voted for the party 2 years earlier – politicalbetting.com
Yesterday I found myself looking back over some GE2019 polling and one of the remarkable things that I don’t think had been picked up at the time is in the panel above. These were YouGov’s last favourability ratings before the general election and as can be seen Corbyn was in negative territory almost across the board even amongst those who had voted for the party two and a half years earlier.
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I thought that UVDL's stance was that the details of the rollout were an EU member responsibility - nothing to do with here.
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https://twitter.com/Cricket_Mann/status/1364495467770490881
England 3.2 / 3.25
Draw 6.6 / 6.8
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/cricket/test-matches/india-v-england-betting-30291416
I think every party in the Commons, from the Tories, most of Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, Plaid, the Irish mobs, and Greens all said it was the Russians, but not Jez.
IF (planet-sized if, admittedly) Sturgeon has to fall on her sword/gets pushed under the bus - who replaces her? Who goes with her? And how much (have to add "if at all" I suppose) does it hurt the case for independence?
Seems the case made by Salmond is that a criminal prosecution was concocted out of his, er, forceful but lawful sexual advances - in order to finish his career/cement that of a rival. And the Scottish Establishment has been bent all out of shape in a ludicrous/desperate effort to support/save that rival. If that allegation can be stood up, there must surely be some more criminal trials?
It is why I predicted a Tory majority of 40-70 plus what happens in Scotland.
”David Rennie, Beijing bureau chief of The Economist, recently gave an astonishingly candid account of current ZeroCovid life in the Chinese capital:
“China’s strategy, from the start, was to have no infections at all… Still in Beijing, where we have hardly any cases, every time you step outside your door you have to use a smartphone to scan a QR code — every shop, every taxi, every bus, every metro station. You have no privacy at all — it’s all built around this electronic system of contact tracing. To leave Beijing you have to have a Covid test, to come back in you have to have a Covid test…. We basically don’t have the virus here, but the flip side is that they are keeping this place locked down as tight as a drum… It’s very hard to know where Covid containment starts and a Communist police state with an obsession with control kicks in.””
https://unherd.com/2021/02/inside-the-zero-covid-campaign/
But I do find it amusing.
People complain about lockdown then the same people complain about things that can and will end lockdown.
Just putting the market up in itself, might be newsworthy...
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/alex-salmond-inquiry-former-first-ministers-allegations-of-a-conspiracy-within-the-scottish-government-and-snp-to-get-him-sent-to-prison-are-extraordinary-murdo-fraser-msp-3144433
The SNP regime is utterly rotten to the core having suborned the instruments of the state.
"Perhaps most concerning of all is the role of the Crown Office. In any liberal democracy where the rule of law is respected, the prosecution service should be regarded as beyond reproach. Yet, only yesterday, we saw the Crown Office threatening the Scottish Parliament with criminal proceedings if elements of Mr Salmond’s evidence were not withdrawn, despite this having been already put in the public domain.
"In his written submission, Salmond claims that the Crown Office acted under political influence, and that the Lord Advocate is deeply compromised between his twin roles as head of prosecutions and chief government legal advisor. He claims that it is actively “shielding some of the most powerful people in the country”. The action taken yesterday would suggest that the Crown Office is out to prove his case for him.
"We should not forget that this is the same Crown Office which, in an unprecedented failure in Scottish legal history, has admitted the malicious prosecution of the former Rangers administrators, a scandal likely to cost the Scottish tax payer in excess of £100 million. No-one has yet been held responsible for that scandal. There is something very, very wrong here."
I'm spookily reminded of people like Robert Maxwell and Trump who invariably have recourse to the threat of legal action to close down inquiries and intimidate journalists.
https://www.facebook.com/772814923/posts/10159485506949924/?sfnsn=scwspwa
Floater said:
Anyone had the Oxford jab?
How bad are the side effects - dealing with a wife who suffers from anxiety at best of times andwho is wobbling after seeing reports on facebook.
@Floater
Yes, I had the Oxford jab and had quite a strong reaction to it. My sister suffers from anxiety so I have some understanding of that. Here's what I can say.
The reaction wasn't pleasant, but nothing unusual for a mild illness and all described in the data sheet. It started about 15 hours after the jab: injection site swelled & was tight, hard & tender; I had aches & shivers, then a high-ish temp (101F, ~38C). The temp came down within 24 hours, then was just feeling mildly flu-ey plus intermittent nausea. Almost all of that resolved in about a week, except for occasional nausea. It's nearly two weeks since I had the jab. The swelling in my arm has been slowly reducing and is now almost gone.
I found the swelling in my arm reassuring because it showed my body was reacting to the vaccine and therefore reactions in other ways were highly likely, so I wasn't worried about the other symptoms.
I also found that xkcd cartoon, which compares the vaccination to a Star Wars episode, really encouraging because it gave me an amusing view of what was happening in my body. (Link below; it's about mRNA vaccines, but that doesn't really matter.)
I gather a strong reaction to Oxford/AZ is more likely in younger people. I'm 72, and am the only one I know personally who's had a strong reaction; also among my friends no-one else knows anyone besides myself who's had a strong reaction. However my god-daughter who is 28 reports that many of the people who've had the AZ in her circles have had a strong enough reaction to be off work for a few days. (I don't know what work she does now; she used to be a teaching assistant but maybe she's moved into care work.)
I would echo what @rcs1000 says; it's better than getting Covid. If you do have a strong reaction, be grateful that your body is fighting fit enough to get to action stations and prepare itself to fight off the Covid.
All the best to you and your wife.
https://xkcd.com/2425/
Good morning, everyone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/1279233
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1364498145749708800?s=20
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1364498622101016576?s=20
International travel is another matter, of course.
OK. A statistically majoritarian percentage of younger women.
(We now find out which respectable PB ladies aspired to catsuits and Ferraris.)
And, as always, xkcd rocks.
https://postbrexit.blog/2021/02/24/the-new-draghi-government-and-the-fate-of-populism-in-italy/
-If it isn't, it'll do until the mess gets here"
I expect plenty of people will carry hand sanitiser as standard for the near future, and other such mitigations.
As my friend said, you really don't want to be the person that sneezes on public transport or in a supermarket in the next few months.
Makes some of us feel better.
I had the AZ jab - no noticeable reaction, except maybe a very slight tenderness for 1 night sleeping on it.
I have had serious treatment last year for my immune system, however all blood factors (and I mean *all* of them - they profile dozens) are back in normal range since the autumn.
Early 50s.
IMO JDI.
Given that, on his version of events, that person is one of the key conspirators, this makes me question whether the redaction was deliberately aimed at compromising his ability to give evidence.
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1364331200735764482
https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1364383581246808069
Eyes Wide Shut was hated by most of the critics when it first came out but it seems to get better ratings now. 75% from critics, 74% audience.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eyes_wide_shut
"What I Learned After Watching Eyes Wide Shut 100 Times
By Lila Shapiro"
https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/what-i-learned-after-watching-eyes-wide-shut-100-times.html
So most of the movement was Remainers from Labour to the LDs and Greens to try and stop Brexit, with working class Leavers moving to the Tories and Brexit Party to try and deliver Brexit.
There was never any real love for Corbyn in 2017 from many Labour voters, he was just a vehicle to stop Brexit, when he did not do so lots of those voters went LD while his failure to back Brexit also lost him Leave votes too.
On the AZ jab - I certainly don't know anyone who's had it who has reported any side effects. That's not evidence that no-one gets side effects, but it's better than the reverse and certainly an indication that any side effects worth mentioning are comparatively rare.
My parents-in-law - who are 73 and 75 - have had it and report feeling absolutely fine. That said, my father-in-law thinks he'd already had covid anyway - I was initially dubious about this because it would have been very early in the pandemic, but I'm increasingly come round to his point of view.
Good luck - I am very sure you'll both be fine.
I remember when the then Chairman of Royal Mail came up with the idea of addressing all postmen and women in one place at the same time, and despite being told this was not a practicable suggestion (for a set of reasons that will be blindingly obvious to the reader) insisted that someone go away and look into it. They came back with the answer that the only venue with sufficient capacity was the Grand Mosque at Mecca and that would require the workforce to convert to Islam and some potentially tricky negotiations to reserve the venue.
That cricket ground isn't quite large enough but, with a suitable allowance for no shows, might just have sufficed.
An unpleasant reaction to the vaccine may well indicate a very very unpleasant time of things indeed if you'd had the virus itself.
I think Mike does have a point on Starmer that he is streets ahead of Corbyn, andI could see Labour shedding votes in all the right places and him getting more seats on less votes
People, eh?
In the UK, your best venue would probably be Knebworth Park, who have got over 200k in for rock concerts. The largest stadium venue is Wembley, with 90k seats.
At 9:33.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_five_live
Varied post!
Mrs C had the AZN vaccine, a sore arm but she usually gets that with the flu vaccine as well. She's a couple of years younger than me.
Thought a few minutes ago that it might have been an idea to bat second; let Anderson and Broad loose. However, Crawley seems to be OK.
Thirdly, did anyone else see Lucy Worsley's Blitz Spirit last night, somewhat debunking the claim that the East End kept a British Stiff Upper Lip during the 1040/41 Blitz. I was slightly surprised that in the credits they mentioned a young woman who had subsequently gone on the work for a left-wing newspaper, the Daily Worker.
For me, that rather took the gloss off the programme. For those who don't remember it the Worker was owned by the Communist Party; subsequently rebranded as the Morning Star.
A friend, who had Covid over a year ago, felt quite unwell during the night after the injection, with a splitting headache and hot and cold sweats, but it only lasted for about 1/2 a day and then fine. So again really quite trivial like a very short bout of flu.
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1364511147341340678
Also remember that this theoretical system is being policed by minimum wage workers and nightclub bouncers, not by trained border agency staff.
Being blunt I'm not going out until I've received a vaccine and once I've had one I cannot see the point of victimizing those who haven't had one (either because it's not their turn yet or they cannot have one).
Boris Johnson favourables: 81% of Tories, 40% overall
Jeremy Corbyn favourables: 43% of Labour, 21% overall
You think there's no difference between 40% overall and 21% overall? Or between 81% of your own party and 43% of your own party?