OTOH these are mostly margin of error changes, and you could just as easily say that the brand new party, the existence of which became common knowledge less than a week ago, is already halfway to the amount of support it needs to be in serious contention for list seats. It's a bit early to be getting excited.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Last summer/autumn it was typically only one person in the group which had to provide this information, not everyone.
Scaled up to the UK's population size that's now approximately 1,100 deaths a day. At peak the UK was averaging around 1,300 per day in each seven day period. The UK total for hospital patients peaked at about the same time as the daily death toll; Poland's hospital numbers are still going up. It's evidently very bad indeed over there at the moment; AIUI down in large part to the Kent variant.
Elsewhere, the French ICU total is now over 5,000 and still climbing. It does look like the tsunami that battered the UK and Portugal around the beginning of the year is now striking elsewhere.
It is. The continent is basically following about three months behind the UK in everything: caseload, deaths, vaccines, etc.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
*Fuck* *that*
Why are they breaking that news at 7pm on eve of Bank Holiday? Or is it a leak?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Last summer/autumn it was typically only one person in the group which had to provide this information, not everyone.
Really? I remember it as being everyone. But I only used one pub so I suppose it could have been just them.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Last summer/autumn it was typically only one person in the group which had to provide this information, not everyone.
And for outdoor - why? What happens if i go for a pint and someone goes on to test positive out of a hundred customers that evening - have the other 99 got to self isolate, even though that one person was much more likely to have caught it via some indoor interaction?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
*Fuck* *that*
Why are they breaking that news at 7pm on eve of Bank Holiday? Or is it a leak?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Last summer/autumn it was typically only one person in the group which had to provide this information, not everyone.
And for outdoor - why? What happens if i go for a pint and someone goes on to test positive out of a hundred customers that evening - have the other 99 got to self isolate, even though that one person was much more likely to have caught it via some indoor interaction?
It might be because they are worried about the South African or other variants, and want to be able to react and trace back quickly if one of these variants starts spreading in a particular location. That would be my guess.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
Our liberties have been eroded down to privileges that we should be grateful for rather than rights.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
I agree. When was the last time the Labour Party voted against the imposition of a new rule?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
5-10%, SNP now barely above its 2016 constituency vote and significantly down on its 2016 list vote and at serious risk of failing to get an SNP majority
You have more invested in this than many Scots, I sense. ☺
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
The problem is the Tories' core vote is people over 65 and they tend to be risk averse for obvious reasons, even if they were risk takers in their younger days.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
Yes but fuck 'em I'll give false details again as loads of others did.
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
7% starts it working, as they'd get their first list seats. But really, to work properly, they need 9-11%.
All that being said, if Alba pulls down the SNP vote share at the list level by 5% or so, and gets no list seats of its own, then I think that makes bugger all difference to the number of seats the SNP gets.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
It was last time as far as I know.
Yes I'm not seeing the big deal tbh.
Vaccine certs for pubs - different matter. If I'm wrong on that and it happens I'll be displeased.
Much of Labour's problem with AS was it's members obsession with Palestine and the existence (and behaviour) of Israel, and an inability to separate that from British jews.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
Wouldn’t it have to pass the Lords too?
They are the great hope I suspect. But ping pong will just slow things down rather than kill this idea. But time will have made it irrelevant hopefully.
Hodges is on about this app providing a quicker way to reopen even though by the time it is ready to go 'live' (if ever) pubs, cafes and so on will have been reopen for indoors for months.
On the subject of Israel, worth noting that bars, nightclubs, etc., are now basically all open with minimal restrictions. The borders have also been opened.
And yet CV19 cases continue to fall.
This should fill us all with some serious optimism.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
Our liberties have been eroded down to privileges that we should be grateful for rather than rights.
Next time some misty-eyed Tory is on about Magna Carta I hope they die of shame.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
Just the warm up as they know no app will be ready by mid April.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
Yes but fuck 'em I'll give false details again as loads of others did.
I don't have a problem doing this for a period until the vaccine rollout is finito.
On single use vs reusable in a medical and pharmaceutical setting you have to consider the energy/carbon cost of autoclaving or steam sterilising. It isn't cheap.
This is what I used to do for a job.
Steam would be seriously impractical too, what about x-rays or microwaves?
Gamma rays are more fun
If you're going to have three bits of the EM spectrum in a post, I have to mention this song.
It's like Tom Lehrer's Elements Song, only much worse:
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
I usually forgot to and nobody cared. I particularly remember an excellent cafe in Bolsover which I was visiting where they were so interested in the large sums of money I proposed to spend on a three course meal with a couple of non-alcoholic drinks they clean forgot about test and trace.
I haven’t forgotten their lemon meringue pie though.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Now Test and Trace is integrated with these hundreds of thousands of LFTs that schoolchildren are getting. How can a family with school age children risk going out to the pub or a cafe? It's not worth it. Get caught being in vague vicinity of someone who goes on to test positive and test and trace report back to the school and the pressure to exclude comes from the school.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Sounds like preparing the ground for bonkers covid passport/app to me.
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
He won't. Bet you.
May not matter. Politics Home reporting there may not be enough Tory rebels anyway.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
Our liberties have been eroded down to privileges that we should be grateful for rather than rights.
Next time some misty-eyed Tory is on about Magna Carta I hope they die of shame.
That really would be a triumph of hope over experience.
That would probably be the funniest outcome - the chief wrecker fails in his aim, but has to sit there for four years facing ranks of people who hate him (either for splitting, or failing to split enough)
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
5-10%, SNP now barely above its 2016 constituency vote and significantly down on its 2016 list vote and at serious risk of failing to get an SNP majority
Yet the seat project ions suggests it will be the Conservatives who will be the biggest losers with Labour winning more seats.
Is there any realistic prospect of an anti-SNP coalition led by Labour and supported by the Conservatives and LDs - would Scottish Conservatives serve in a Scottish Government with Anas Sarwar as FM?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
Yes but fuck 'em I'll give false details again as loads of others did.
I don't have a problem doing this for a period until the vaccine rollout is finito.
Maybe you can afford the risk of self-isolating - do you have school age children or a job which cannot be done from home?
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Now Test and Trace is integrated with these hundreds of thousands of LFTs that schoolchildren are getting. How can a family with school age children risk going out to the pub or a cafe? It's not worth it. Get caught being in vague vicinity of someone who goes on to test positive and test and trace report back to the school and the pressure to exclude comes from the school.
You sure about that? I report mine through a separate website.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Now Test and Trace is integrated with these hundreds of thousands of LFTs that schoolchildren are getting. How can a family with school age children risk going out to the pub or a cafe? It's not worth it. Get caught being in vague vicinity of someone who goes on to test positive and test and trace report back to the school and the pressure to exclude comes from the school.
You sure about that? I report mine through a separate website.
Oh - I might be wrong - I thought it all linked up now.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Now Test and Trace is integrated with these hundreds of thousands of LFTs that schoolchildren are getting. How can a family with school age children risk going out to the pub or a cafe? It's not worth it. Get caught being in vague vicinity of someone who goes on to test positive and test and trace report back to the school and the pressure to exclude comes from the school.
You sure about that? I report mine through a separate website.
Oh - I might be wrong - I thought it all linked up now.
It’s possible that it could do and I just don’t. I haven’t actually looked at my app recently. But the instructions are to report it on gov.uk.
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
5-10%, SNP now barely above its 2016 constituency vote and significantly down on its 2016 list vote and at serious risk of failing to get an SNP majority
Yet the seat project ions suggests it will be the Conservatives who will be the biggest losers with Labour winning more seats.
Is there any realistic prospect of an anti-SNP coalition led by Labour and supported by the Conservatives and LDs - would Scottish Conservatives serve in a Scottish Government with Anas Sarwar as FM?
Nobody wants to get into bed with the Tories, and a Labour minority wouldn't need to. What are they going to do, vote it out and put the SNP back into bat?
Scaled up to the UK's population size that's now approximately 1,100 deaths a day. At peak the UK was averaging around 1,300 per day in each seven day period. The UK total for hospital patients peaked at about the same time as the daily death toll; Poland's hospital numbers are still going up. It's evidently very bad indeed over there at the moment; AIUI down in large part to the Kent variant.
Elsewhere, the French ICU total is now over 5,000 and still climbing. It does look like the tsunami that battered the UK and Portugal around the beginning of the year is now striking elsewhere.
It is. The continent is basically following about three months behind the UK in everything: caseload, deaths, vaccines, etc.
Eastern Europe seems to have pretty much avoided a first wave at the time of Western Europe, and stored it up for just before vaccinations roll out. Grim timing.
Amusing, in a rather distressing way, to see the same people who complain about Test'n'Trace not working well wanting to behave in a manner which will prevent it working this summer, and therefore make a future lockdown more likely.
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
5-10%, SNP now barely above its 2016 constituency vote and significantly down on its 2016 list vote and at serious risk of failing to get an SNP majority
Yet the seat project ions suggests it will be the Conservatives who will be the biggest losers with Labour winning more seats.
Is there any realistic prospect of an anti-SNP coalition led by Labour and supported by the Conservatives and LDs - would Scottish Conservatives serve in a Scottish Government with Anas Sarwar as FM?
No need, if there was a Unionist majority but the SNP still had most seats then that Unionist majority would vote down indyref2 and the Scottish Conservatives would just keep a neutered Sturgeon as FM and force her to stick to Scottish domestic policy.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
Yes but fuck 'em I'll give false details again as loads of others did.
I don't have a problem doing this for a period until the vaccine rollout is finito.
Unlike Margaret Thatcher, who at least stuck to her principles even when the world opposed her, Johnson has never seen a majority opinion he doesn't want to run toward and embrace.
If the polling supporting vaccine passports starts to shift, Johnson will shift with it.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
Sounds like an obligation this time.
Was last time no?
Yes but fuck 'em I'll give false details again as loads of others did.
I don't have a problem doing this for a period until the vaccine rollout is finito.
Maybe you can afford the risk of self-isolating - do you have school age children or a job which cannot be done from home?
No, neither. That might cause me to give false details.
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
7% starts it working, as they'd get their first list seats. But really, to work properly, they need 9-11%.
All that being said, if Alba pulls down the SNP vote share at the list level by 5% or so, and gets no list seats of its own, then I think that makes bugger all difference to the number of seats the SNP gets.
The SNP would win 0 list seats on tonight's poll compared to 4 in 2016.
So the SNP majority would depend entirely on the constituency seats but with the SNP constituency vote now also down below 50% at 49% that makes it very vulnerable if there is Unionist tactical voting in key Holyrood constituency marginals
What do Alba need to score for the AS plan to work?
5-10%, SNP now barely above its 2016 constituency vote and significantly down on its 2016 list vote and at serious risk of failing to get an SNP majority
Yet the seat project ions suggests it will be the Conservatives who will be the biggest losers with Labour winning more seats.
Is there any realistic prospect of an anti-SNP coalition led by Labour and supported by the Conservatives and LDs - would Scottish Conservatives serve in a Scottish Government with Anas Sarwar as FM?
They were willing to prop up Salmond. I’m sure they’ll be willing to prop up Sarwar if the maths works.
Apart from anything else, the humiliation of Scottish Labour reliant on the Tories will be meat and drink to the latter.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Just having to put your contact details on a piece of paper isn't too bad. Not as intrusive as I was expecting.
A couple of venues last summer insisted I checked in using the Test & Trace App before I was seated - not a great problem. I suspect it will be more honoured in the breach than the observance.
In a world where vaccinations were coming, but the rollout was slow and impossible to accelerate, there might be a grim justification. Say if it were going to take a year to get from here to normality. It wouldn't be good, but there would be a justification- let the fortunate few start to rebuild.
But it won't take a year. In the UK, we're looking at June/July; I suspect that Europe, despite everything, is looking at August. Once enough people are vaccinated, numbers fall off a cliff and it's game over. And the only risk is a vaccine-resistant variant, in which case the vaccination passport stops having any value. (Hunch: the Covid spike is so central to how this thing works that the virus can't evolve away from spike antibodies without losing a lot of its functionality. But I'm a physics teacher, so don't trust me on that.)
So is this an excuse to bring in virtual ID cards? (I hope not, but they are a solution looking for a problem.) Or a sincere attempt to make things better? (Sincere but idiotic, can't rule it out.) Or is it yet another setting of a poohtrap for the opposition? (We need this to open up quickly, but Mr Islington Lawyer sorry Sir Islington Lawyer is stopping us! Depressingly plausible.)
Amusing, in a rather distressing way, to see the same people who complain about Test'n'Trace not working well wanting to behave in a manner which will prevent it working this summer, and therefore make a future lockdown more likely.
Amusing, in a rather distressing way, to see the same people who complain about Test'n'Trace not working well wanting to behave in a manner which will prevent it working this summer, and therefore make a future lockdown more likely.
It really is the funniest of worlds, isn't it?
The numbers are so good because we're approaching herd immunity. Filling in forms for pubs and caffs is not going to do anything.
We'll surpass it soon.
There will not be any more lockdowns. And I'm increasingly thinking that the June 21st date could be brought forward. Or perhaps the May inside pubs date. Just before the election, anyone?
Pending the new thread... a PB travel forum request:
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
Pending the new thread... a PB travel forum request:
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
Anybody got any recommendations?
Thanks!
I cannot help on London hotels but many congratulations on your forthcoming Ruby anniversary
My wife and I keep taking our pills with the hope of our diamond anniversary in May 24 just after the GE
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
Pending the new thread... a PB travel forum request:
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
Amusing, in a rather distressing way, to see the same people who complain about Test'n'Trace not working well wanting to behave in a manner which will prevent it working this summer, and therefore make a future lockdown more likely.
It really is the funniest of worlds, isn't it?
The numbers are so good because we're approaching herd immunity. Filling in forms for pubs and caffs is not going to do anything.
We'll surpass it soon.
There will not be any more lockdowns. And I'm increasingly thinking that the June 21st date could be brought forward. Or perhaps the May inside pubs date. Just before the election, anyone?
Yes, with luck. The potential danger which could wreck this is new vaccine-resistant variants getting here, which is why it is sensible for the government to put in place measures which would allow us to jump on any local outbreaks fast (for example, by having a local 'ring vaccination' programme with vaccines targeted at the new strain).
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
Bloody hell, this is Wirecard level of awful. The auditor is going to be in big trouble too.
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
Bloody hell, this is Wirecard level of awful. The auditor is going to be in big trouble too.
According to the FT article, there are invoices to firms that do not even have trading relationships with GFG.
That's a major, major issue. Because auditors should check pretty much all major trading relationships actually exist, and then should spot check invoices.
(I don't personally think this is quite as bad as Wirecard, because GFG/Greensill didn't get the UK regulator to threaten journalists who asked awkward questions.)
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
Bloody hell, this is Wirecard level of awful. The auditor is going to be in big trouble too.
According to the FT article, there are invoices to firms that do not even have trading relationships with GFG.
That's a major, major issue. Because auditors should check pretty much all major trading relationships actually exist, and then should spot check invoices.
(I don't personally think this is quite as bad as Wirecard, because GFG/Greensill didn't get the UK regulator to threaten journalists who asked awkward questions.)
On the other hand, Wirecard didn’t have an ex-Chancellor on retainer.
Pending the new thread... a PB travel forum request:
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
From 12th April all customers must sign in under new rules for pubs and restaurants
Anyone over 16 must give their contact details, or check in to NHS test and trace, before entering pub, restaurant or cafe venue when they reopen for outdoor service in England
Same as last summer then.
*Fuck* *that*
Why are they breaking that news at 7pm on eve of Bank Holiday? Or is it a leak?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56586939
How Jenrick could say that with a straight face given all the dodgy dealing he’s done while in office I have no idea.
https://twitter.com/JewishNewsUK/status/1377657311976636423
Starmer needs to hold firm and kill this idea off.
What a disgrace that so many conservatives are ready to throw our basic freedoms under the bus without blinking. Pathetic.
All that being said, if Alba pulls down the SNP vote share at the list level by 5% or so, and gets no list seats of its own, then I think that makes bugger all difference to the number of seats the SNP gets.
Vaccine certs for pubs - different matter. If I'm wrong on that and it happens I'll be displeased.
Hodges is on about this app providing a quicker way to reopen even though by the time it is ready to go 'live' (if ever) pubs, cafes and so on will have been reopen for indoors for months.
And yet CV19 cases continue to fall.
This should fill us all with some serious optimism.
https://twitter.com/andrewlearmonth/status/1377670387018952710?s=20
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1377607806866571267
But I'd settle for 'no additional' sindy msps on top of what already looked likely.
If they really do get nothing do they go the way of change UK, even the MPs?
Special Constable for 12 years is hugely commendable.
Is it past, or is there an issue that Special Constables cannot be party affiliated that caught him?
It's like Tom Lehrer's Elements Song, only much worse:
https://youtu.be/bjOGNVH3D4Y
I haven’t forgotten their lemon meringue pie though.
Is there any realistic prospect of an anti-SNP coalition led by Labour and supported by the Conservatives and LDs - would Scottish Conservatives serve in a Scottish Government with Anas Sarwar as FM?
It really is the funniest of worlds, isn't it?
The Met Office App is the only one I look at.
Unlike Margaret Thatcher, who at least stuck to her principles even when the world opposed her, Johnson has never seen a majority opinion he doesn't want to run toward and embrace.
If the polling supporting vaccine passports starts to shift, Johnson will shift with it.
NEW THREAD
So the SNP majority would depend entirely on the constituency seats but with the SNP constituency vote now also down below 50% at 49% that makes it very vulnerable if there is Unionist tactical voting in key Holyrood constituency marginals
Apart from anything else, the humiliation of Scottish Labour reliant on the Tories will be meat and drink to the latter.
Ah - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30768583 - hadn't seen that
In a world where vaccinations were coming, but the rollout was slow and impossible to accelerate, there might be a grim justification. Say if it were going to take a year to get from here to normality. It wouldn't be good, but there would be a justification- let the fortunate few start to rebuild.
But it won't take a year. In the UK, we're looking at June/July; I suspect that Europe, despite everything, is looking at August. Once enough people are vaccinated, numbers fall off a cliff and it's game over. And the only risk is a vaccine-resistant variant, in which case the vaccination passport stops having any value. (Hunch: the Covid spike is so central to how this thing works that the virus can't evolve away from spike antibodies without losing a lot of its functionality. But I'm a physics teacher, so don't trust me on that.)
So is this an excuse to bring in virtual ID cards? (I hope not, but they are a solution looking for a problem.) Or a sincere attempt to make things better? (Sincere but idiotic, can't rule it out.) Or is it yet another setting of a poohtrap for the opposition? (We need this to open up quickly, but Mr Islington Lawyer sorry Sir Islington Lawyer is stopping us! Depressingly plausible.)
It is a variant of "tis for thee, not for me"
Now we daren't comment on here, as we fear a new thread at any moment.
We'll surpass it soon.
There will not be any more lockdowns. And I'm increasingly thinking that the June 21st date could be brought forward. Or perhaps the May inside pubs date. Just before the election, anyone?
However, if they take votes from the Greens, such that they both dip below 6-7% in a given region, then it would have an impact.
I'm looking to book a few nights in a smart hotel in the central London in September to belatedly celebrate our ruby wedding anniversary. I'm thinking £400-£500 per night - a cut above our usual Novotel.
Anybody got any recommendations?
Thanks!
https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1377669621071888391
My wife and I keep taking our pills with the hope of our diamond anniversary in May 24 just after the GE
Greensill Capital’s administrator has failed to verify invoices underpinning loans to Sanjeev Gupta, after companies listed on the documents denied that they had ever done business with the metals magnate.
If this is true, then things are likely to end very poorly for GFG, Liberty, and for various politicians who guaranteed GFG loans.
NEW THREAD. REALLY THIS TIME
That's a major, major issue. Because auditors should check pretty much all major trading relationships actually exist, and then should spot check invoices.
(I don't personally think this is quite as bad as Wirecard, because GFG/Greensill didn't get the UK regulator to threaten journalists who asked awkward questions.)
Genuinely had not noticed.