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“A basic rule of government is …… never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.” (Sir Humphrey to Jim Hacker, Yes Minister 1980).
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Which makes climbing down a tad difficult....
The gov has pushed too hard on this issue. Would they want it if not in power? I doubt it.
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The Indian factory churning out AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine has reportedly asked the country's government for permission to 'immediately' ship millions of doses to the UK.
Boris Johnson this week sent two officials on a mission to India to smooth tensions over the supply chain. Lord Lister and international trade adviser David Quarrey were asked to visit to the Serum Institute to negotiate letting the shipment through.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397361/Coronavirus-Indian-AstraZeneca-vaccine-factory-urges-government-let-ship-UK.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397791/Russian-MPs-approve-law-paves-way-Putin-stay-power-2036.html
But when will he ever get chance to use that billion dollar palace?
Their response was polite concern, and a hope that things would improve.
As the dishonesty detailed in the thread header makes clear, it seems pretty obvious that, if the situation were reversed, the British government would be deploying every falsehood they could think of to deflect the blame.
https://twitter.com/DarrenEuronews/status/1374743891459641344?s=20
https://twitter.com/theraseweeks/status/1373494334369136640?s=21
The present gang of liars, cheats and scallywags could not care less about following the rule-book and established practice. It follows that nobody should pay any heed at all to what they decree - nor to any of the established intruments for imposing the decisions of the state. The law, the police, all authority figures have been corrupted by Johnson and his unprincipled gang.
For my part, I do what I think is correct on the basis of ethics - something that was derided considerably by our own TSE recently, when one of his courses told him that lawyers ought to pay attention to ethical principles. The fact that the Conservatives have an 80 seat majority in the House of Commons - won by non-transparent means - is not sufficient to boss me around.
As far as I can see, the only country that fits all the criteria of the new export ban is the UK. This law is carefully designed to hit us, exclusively
The ship may (or may not, reports are conflicting) have been refloated, but it's going to be chaos for a week at least in the Gulf...
I want my second Pfizer vaccine on 9th April, thanks.
But voters don’t seem to care. Nor do MPs. So both are getting what they want.
And quite right too - we have a democracy, not a dicastocracy.
Maybe the governement should reassure them that in the event of a future pandemic that we would be sure to invite european countries to join the uk vaccine procurement scheme.
"Sussexes' aide says all white people are 'rife with internalised racism'
Genevieve Roth, the Duke and Duchess' new strategist, said she realised her 'unconscious bias' after marrying her black husband"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/03/23/sussexes-aide-says-white-people-rife-internalised-racism/
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
I like this one too but I'm not sure how true it is. Let's see what happens in Hartlepool.
It's UK 2020 Redux.....
Conclusion. Fake-ish. Inaccurate paraphrase.
https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/three-things-cannot-be-long-hidden-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-truth/
Given what is going on, is there any doubt that any communication between European countries and AZN will be going through the AZN legal department, the AZN PR department and several other structures assembled with AZN to handle this?
Which is going to make improving things a slow process....
This is what is missing from so much of the analysis. It is not the case of the UK and the EU behaving differently and this being driven by Brexit as some like to claim. It is the EU - and particularly some of its major countries - behaving like a spoiled brat whilst the rest of the world behaves like adults. It is shocking for those of us who saw the EU as a malign but clever entity to find out it is neither malign, nor clever, simply very very childish.
Temporarily create a hard border in Ireland? Check
Brief that a fine vaccine is only 8% effective? Check
Tell everyone, as president of France, that the same vaccine is near-useless? Check
Prevent legal purchased vaccine exports to Australia? Check
Suspend use of a vaccine for days on entirely spurious grounds? Check
Then publicly do a screeching u turn 4 days later? Check
Raid an Italian factory and say you’ve found 29m secret jabs destined for Britain which turn out to be 29m jabs destined for the EU and poor countries? Check
I’d love to believe the EU is just ‘grandstanding’. But recent history tells us they are completely capable of doing insane things, in reality. We shall see
It would be ironic (would it?) if Germany ended up getting a Russian knock-off of AZ in order to allay the fears it had stoked up about the AZ vaccine.
My point is a genuine concern - the parties need to work together on this. Legal lockdown on communications will only make things much, much worse...
Love the thread header from Cyclefree and agree with everything she writes. Particularly like that superb quote from Chernobyl to finish.
I am starting to become genuinely worried about this Government. I mean before I just didn't like Johnson and most of his cronies but that was because I saw them as foolish, self serving and incompetent. Now I see them as a malign (that word again) force that is slowly changing our laws in a way they would themselves be screaming blue murder about if it were being done by Labour. Banning protests, seeking to place the Government above the law, banning people from leaving the country. These are not the actions of a democratically minded open Government.
I spent a lot of time in the early 2000s campaigning against the Civil Contingences Act and RIPA introduced by Labour. These actions by a Tory Government are just as bad, if not worse.
Put it another way, some of the EU elite reaction to the vaccine issue reminds me of ecclesiastical reaction to Darwin’s theories in the 19th century. A mixture of injured pride, ineffectual pomposity, terrible argumentation and bewildered denialism. ‘This simply cannot be true.’
A life's certainties upended.
'Murder will out' is Chaucer.
On topic, if Labour wish to be an opposition who wish to be a government other than by accident we need to know, among other things:
What would they put in place of Tory immigration/refugee proposals
and
What would they put in place in respect of the current consultation on judicial review etc.
https://twitter.com/berndlange/status/1374695481901744129
https://twitter.com/berndlange/status/1374695483243958275
It goes Latest Boris/Latest Sir Keir/Earliest Boris/Earliest Sir Keir
Why on Earth should someone be treated according to the content of their character, rather than the colour of their skin?
Limiting protest to protect the rights of individuals from nuisance isn't banning protest. Try Hong Kong or Burman for what that looks like.
The government will still be obliged to abide by its own laws. At least until we have clear examples of this not being the case from the Court of Appeal/SC who will be quick to say so.
Banning leaving is a temporary measure to do with death causing illness, and concerns the medical dangers of acting on your right to return.
Nicely done
However, the Labour share is declining in the polls overall. The last Labour share above 40% was YouGov 41% 27th January. The last 39% was Redfield & Wilton on February 15th. The last 38% Labour share was Ipsos-MORI on March 12th (all dates final date of fieldwork).
https://order-order.com/2021/03/23/sadiq-khans-design-advocate-slams-georgian-architecture-as-colonialism/
And only a few years ago, this guy thought he was being absurdist...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrK_HVGOnUo
I mean any scandal involving me would kill my mother, it would be a career ender for me and I like spending earning money, and I would not do well in prison, lockdown confirms the latter.
I had to give a crash course in ethics to a bunch of bankers and traders, and from previous experience I knew talking about ethics really wasn't for them.
So I began my talk and presentation with 'Over 100,000 inmates are raped and sexually assaulted annually in American prisons, this is important for you to know, because of our one side extradition treaty with America an American prison is where you are likely to end up in if you break the law and there's even a tenuous link to the States, for example see the Natwest three.'
To say I had their attention from the start of that presentation was an understatement.
https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1374756629342736385?s=20
VdL & co have no exactly been acting reasonably this year, why expect them to change now?
I didn't know the Canadians were so keen on joining the EU.
I asked for a transactions report today, and instead of asking for a batched total report I accidentally asked it for every single transaction, which is 18 million transactions. Oops.
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 43% (+1)
LAB: 34% (+1)
GRN: 7% (+1)
LDEM: 5% (-2)
REFUK: 3% (-)
via
@YouGov
, 18 - 19 Mar
Chgs. w/ 10 Mar
One does wonder sometimes which way their guns would been pointing!
https://twitter.com/joshglancy/status/1374743831116144645