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Ipsos finds that 90% now say they’d take a COVID vaccine – politicalbetting.com
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Ipsos finds that 90% now say they’d take a COVID vaccine – politicalbetting.com
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Both ethnic sets have added 7% by my reading.
Sure. At sea. But not in British politics. It is outrageous: what she tried to do to Salmond
Yes yes yes, I'm a Yoon and a Brexiteer and I hate haggis
One of the (few) relevant questions being asked by bewildered Nats on Twitter is: why did she do it? Why even go near this? She was the anointed successor. A cool, clever politician, with a great future. Did she really fear Salmond's return to Edinburgh that much?
I don't buy it. I do believe she was involved in this conspiracy, but I am not yet clear on the motive. Bewildering
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/02/uk-budget-to-extend-furlough-until-end-of-september
Are they scared of an Osbourne pasty tax reaction or summat?
Anyway. We know. Lying is OK, and no one ever resigns or is sacked, except for disloyalty. That's the way to win a majority.
We are one United Kingdom after all.
There may be a degree of envy in the fear. Sturgeon is by any measure a successful and capable politician, but she must know deep down she's no match for Alex Salmond, who even his enemies will admit is a political talent of exceptional quality.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/
Just kidding, that's just what politicians do if a scandal breaks near election time.
Thank god we haven't had anybody remotely influential criticising our vaccine strategy since it started.
Have all those here that piled on against us leaving the EMA (and the future EU vaccine procurement mess) given suitably red-faced retractions yet?
@williamg is your role model
Can't be too much longer until that spreads elsewhere, which means the 30s perhaps by late April?
Now the whole thing starts being played out into the media from about a week beforehand.
Are we delaying the inevitable? At one point a load of job losses are coming, no?
My local council sends out regular emails saying if you are in group X then no need to wait for the letter. Currently X is 60-64 year olds and vulnerables.
If I felt the Law was acting Lawfully in Scotland I would be waaaaaay more sanguine
Tomorrow you will find out that Council Tax is being reformed, that fossil fuels will be rising in price from next year, that CGT is increasing from Thursday, and that the huge market distorting loophole that is CGT exemption on main dwelling is being correctly abolished over 5 years.
Agreed. Don't wait for an invite @GIN1138, go on-line!
More likely is she comes out of it a laughing stock. Contortion on obfuscation. With lots of unsteady memories. Which in itself will be a gift to her political foes.
BTW, her woes were the second item on the 10 o'clock news behind the Budget.
I presume the plan is to mitigate short term damage, to the point we can veerrry slowly take measures of marginal tax increases in the future to pretend that we might one day pay for it.
This is one reason I oppose Devolution. Selfishly, as an English Brit, I want us to be able to promote skilful Scottish politicians. Scots are good at politics. It is a talent pool.
I'm sure they know what they are doing, but it makes me nervous.
They know in their hearts the only reason Labour lost was because Corbyn was crap and his going would erase all their problems.
They knew that. So why question it?
Like you, I was totally gobsmacked at Hutton's conclusion and wrote to him personally to tell him he'd fucked up. I suspect I wasn't the only one to do so. I believe he was shocked at the reaction to his verdict.
Get on line and book if you're over 60 - don't wait for an invite.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Covid 19 has caused all sorts of polling oddities.
The Tories were polling in the mid 50s with leads of nearly 30% around the time Starmer became leader, to seeing Labour leads to Tory leads of 8%.
I've done several threads saying I don't know how Covid-19 will play out long term in the polling, I'm not sure when or what the new equilibrium is.
PS Next week for the 50-60 age group, I reckon.
That is, Sturgeon believed that Salmond was guilty of inappropriate behaviour tantamount to sexual harassment and that he should be called to account & convicted.
It just seems that what evidence there is does not support such a strong conclusion.
Leslie Evans is a strong feminist, as is Nicola Sturgeon. My guess is that Evans & Sturgeon convinced themselves that the evidence was there if they went looking for it.
It is a fine line between looking for evidence and entrapment, especially in cases like these where the evidence can be ambiguous & hard to get.
I asked my father and he's zapping through the 50s and 60s
Youngest person he's vaccinated is 29.
Now we just need a word for the use of an incorrect spelling that accidentally creates a new valid word...
If you want a jab.....
https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/1366876099179909127?s=20
https://twitter.com/alexmassie/status/1366876715734224899?s=20
A 29 year old in group 4 or 6 comes before a healthy 59 year old. Any 50-somethings I'd wonder if they're being vaccinated because they're 50-something, or vaccinated for other reasons like diabetes, heart, cancer etc
I'm sorry you don't understand nuance.
We all live together on these islands, as a democracy. Bring on the wily Scots.
That said, I am less keen on Sturgeon, TBH, at the moment.
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1366877832803213320?s=20
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1366877976705589254?s=20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemonologie
And the butler will probably be annoyed someone has messed up his knives.
I still don't quite know why, however
I suspect Sturgeon, or she and her allies, saw a potentially genuine case against her rival Salmond, and righteously pursued - but also tried to exploit it for maximum political gain. But they then got badly caught out when the case failed, necessitating a deeper and deeper spiral into cover-up. As we see.
A cover-up which will damage them permanently, or finish them all
Somebody here will explain how this is a good thing. Sunak's decisions have all been dreadful except for Furlough, I really mean that.
Seriously.
I suspect that hesitancy and rejection are disproportionately concentrated amongst Britons of African/Caribbean descent. This was suggested by the Leicester hospital staff survey (www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n460). It would also help to explain the vaccination pattern in the CCG data that @Malmesbury has been helpfully posting: London and Birmingham falling behind amongst the older age cohorts, the Northern conurbations doing much better. ONS data from the last census indicate that London and the West Midlands are the two regions of England where Black people constitute a greater percentage of the population than the national average (www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/regional-ethnic-diversity/latest#ethnic-groups-by-area).
This may be because the folk memory of previous abuses and distrust of Government are both stronger in Black communities than those of South Asian descent, but I'm hardly an authority on such things.
From the point of view of older people having their mouths stuffed with gold yet again (and imagine if you've just retired how much more value you can now squeeze from your home through downsizing or equity release,) it has been yet another rip-roaring success.
Party time for Sunak's client voters. Job done.