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Some Welsh people and Scottish people walk into a polling station and – politicalbetting.com
Welsh parliament VI:Constituency:LAB: 35% (+3)CON: 24% (-6)PC: 24% (+1)REFUK: 4% (+1)ABOL: 3% (-)GRN: 3% (+1)LDEM: 3% (-2)List: LAB: 33% (+2)PC: 23% (+1)CON: 22% (-6)ABOL: 7% (-)GRN: 5% (+2)LDEM: 4% (-)REFUK: 2% (+1)via @YouGov, 18 – 21 AprChgs. w/ last month
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🏴 92,703 1st doses / 339,773 2nd doses
🏴 2,600 / 50,576
🏴 15,083 / 13,142
NI 7,523 / 13,293
French winemakers ask for government to move them to front of vaccine queue as Covid destroys taste.
The French wine industry has suffered heavy blows with the pandemic followed by severe frosts.
French wine tasters have urged the government to prioritise them for vaccines after dozens were left unable to work when they lost their sense of smell and taste after being infected with Covid-19.
In a survey of more than 2,600 wine workers, the Union of France Oenologists said nearly 70 per cent of those who contracted Covid-19 lost their sense of smell and over half lost their sense of taste, affecting their ability to do their job.
"It's like asking a musician to play without his instrument," said Didier Fages, the union's director.
As France's vaccination campaign picks up speed and workers deemed essential such as teachers and police officers get jabs, the body has written to Jean Castex, the prime minister, to demand that wine tasters be moved to the front of the queue for anti-Covid shots to protect their livelihoods.
"Tasting is at the heart of the profession of the wine expert who makes the wine. At each stage from harvesting the grape to bottling, the appreciation of the quality of the wine and the resulting technical decisions go through tasting," Mr Fages said in the open letter.
He asked the government to "consider measures to make access to vaccination easier," for oenologists.
The survey added that 40 per cent of wine professionals whose senses were dulled during an infection did not recover their abilities fully. The loss of smell and taste, a common symptom of a Covid infection, could also affect professional chefs, perfume makers and others.
Winemakers say subtler tastes are harder to detect after re-training their noses post-Covid, finding the aromas of dark fruits and berries are simple to detect, but those of mandarines and ripe citrus fruits are more elusive.
France's multi-billion pound wine industry had already been affected by restaurant closures and lockdowns since the start of the pandemic. Exports to Britain and the US have been complicated by Brexit and by tariffs slapped on by the former Trump Administration.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/21/french-winemakers-ask-government-move-front-vaccine-queue-covid/
In Scotland if Comres if correct and the SNP fail to even match the majority they got in 2011 before the 2014 independence referendum even despite Brexit then the UK Tory government will easily be able to brush Sturgeon off when it refuses a legal indyref2 and respects the once in a generation 2014 vote
So how do we find a Welsh and Scottish Boris?
UK vaccination rate is not too far off its peak, and higher than at any point other than that late-March surge. @OurWorldInData graph shows UK weekly pace along with some other comparable countries."
Is that purely down to Care and the NHS?
Or are women more likely to have "pre-existing conditions" too?
The Welsh Conservative seat total even on today's Yougov under RT's leadership would be the joint highest Welsh Conservative Senedd seat total ever alongside that they got in 2014.
Today's Survation UK poll however has the Tory voteshare under Boris down to 40% ie not only below their 2019 voteshare but even below May's 42% voteshare in 2017, so while still ahead there would be a swing to Labour in England since 2019 with Labour up to 34% from 32% then
No idea if there's a gender split on that though.
AlistairM said: I still can't buy a graphics card for my PC either. Serious lack of capacity in semiconductor manufacturing.
Yes there is, as we discussed a few days ago ... BTW re advanced node manufacturing, I heard yesterday that it takes ASML 18 months from order to build an EUV machine because of the lead time to get key specialist components from suppliers (lenses, mirrors, etc) + another year to commission and ramp up on site. So that's 2.5 years from fab announcement to initial production of 5nm processes.
This doesn't really affect automotive semis, which will be back to normal in 2H21 but for AI chips, GPUs, DRAM and NAND, MPUs, SoC
The Defense Department had been investigating the incidents, including those targeting its personnel around the world, since last year, according to four former national security officials directly involved in the probe.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/22/pentagon-russia-attacks-us-troops-484150
Like you saying you'd hate having a neighbour who flies a flag. Its perfectly normal to fly a flag around here.
In the good old days pre Covid-19 we didn't get the London Mayor result until 23.52 of Friday, so some results may not get as much coverage.
The other factor is Scotland, if we get an independence (super) majority the news will be about will there another referendum, that will dominate the news as I expect Boris Johnson will say no and Nicola Sturgeon will not take that quietly, and within a few days of that there's the Airdrie and Shotts by election which becomes another major news story.
By elections and mayors come and go, but the future of the Union is at stake.
And sadly too labour's chances of forming a government are dented by the same movement. The more Labour have to ally with SNP to form a government, the more unwilling moderate unionists will be to risk it, especially if the Tories continue with a policy of (very) Old Labour policies (the pound, suspicion of Europe, tax, borrow, spend, build houses, make it less grim oop North, free whippets) + comedy optimistic uplift.
97% of those aged 60+
95% of 55-59
89% of 50-54
59% of 45-49
26% of 16-44
87% of NHS health workers
80% of workers in elderly care homes
92% of clinically extremely vulnerable
80% of JCVI group 6
https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1385227029663129601?s=20
Go vegan to help UK hit greenhouse gas targets, says Cabinet minister Kwasi Kwarteng
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vegan-help-uk-hit-greenhouse-gas-targets-cabinet-minister-kwasi-kwarteng-b931123.html
Up to 30 countries could be on 'green' list for early summer holidays
Hopes are rising that there will be many more holiday destinations on the Government's 'green' list for quarantine-free travel from May 17
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/22/30-countries-could-green-list-early-summer-holidays/
Just like a typical Scot Nat or French Nat or anyone else.
If you are too closed minded to see that then you are part of the problem.
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This chart will cross over but we'll go back into the lead shortly due to our massive pent up 2nd dose demand.
The idea is that an innocent person, asked to recount events over and over again, will remember things slightly differently each time. A person who has something to hide is more likely to stick rigidly to a story that they have committed to memory. You don’t need to memorise the truth, you just remember it.
When you hear a politician use near-identical words again and again it is a sign that they have practised and prepared that language....
Twice in the last couple of days, once to STV’s Colin Mackay and again last night to ITV’s Robert Peston, Nicola Sturgeon used such carefully chosen language in response to questions about whether Scotland’s higher public spending, and the election promises it enables, would be affordable if we followed her lead and left the UK.
https://notesonnationalism.substack.com/p/scotlands-share?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
FWIW re lead times, in my field, a BSL4 lab takes years to get from concept to commissioning. Just the commissioning (without NIMBY intereference) can take 6+ months. The new animal BSL4 in Manhattan KS was proposed and design started in 2009, groundbreaking in 2015, and commissioning in 2020. Still not fully operational, although much of that is down to COVID restricting travel and relocation of personnel.
ie we are pushing it but we've actually no idea.
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Pensions are paid out of current revenues.
Those will be taxes raised (and then some) in an independent Scotland.
There isn't a safety deposit box somewhere with bundles of notes marked "Malc's pension"!
It matters not a jot how they pay it, I have a contract with UK government , I paid them shedloads of cash for a state pension product and regardless they cannot just wish it away. They will have to either pay it or negotiate a settlement with Scotland that Scotland accepts the liability for UK 's debt David , I think the fool really fits his name and is Decrepit in mind at least.
David , I think the fool really fits his name and is Decrepit in mind at least.
Billingham plant on track to make 60 million doses
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-56836877
I posted recently this very good article on the winding path that Novavax, up until last year a tiny company, has taken to enable mass production of the vaccine. We (or rather Fujifilm Diosynth...) seem(s) to be doing rather well.
https://endpts.com/as-fears-mount-over-jj-and-astrazeneca-novavax-enters-a-shaky-spotlight/
Sorry Malcolmg that isn't going to be how it works
Because it will be specified at some point in the referendum debates that the Scottish Government will be responsible for paying Scottish pensions going forward and by voting yes in the Referendum you will be agreeing that those Terms and Conditions.
Great try but it won't wash, even Boris isn't that stupid.
And yes you may have a contract with a Government but come independence no such thing as the UK Government will exist. There will be instead 2 separate Governments, a Scottish one (which you are subject to and are responsible for you pension) if you live in Scotland and a Rest of the UK one if you live outside Scotland.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/biden-armenia-genocide-turkey.html
It's going to be from memory a set of Cray computers hosted in Azure South West and I suspect machines will be added, updated and reassigned continually - which isn't a problem given how virtual everything is nowadays.
This isn't a single computer in the old sense of things it's a multiple CPU, multiple box beast.
But we will have our freedom. I am sure that will keep him warm (assuming the power still works).
https://twitter.com/kevverage/status/1384908501269590019?s=20
Just have major austerity and the abolition of all the freebies that had been awarded to buy votes. But they won't be needed anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#TOP_500
According to the BBC report, the system will actually be from Cray, so what is Microsoft bringing to the party?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56840169
"No further questions."
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-preparing-legal-case-against-astrazeneca-over-vaccine-shortfalls/
Further, some ambassadors warned that a lawsuit would further diminish citizens’ trust in the vaccine because it would sully the image of AstraZeneca, according to the diplomat. In "emotional terms," the diplomat said the Commission understandably wants to hit back at the vaccine producer over the delivery shortfalls — but added that the company is also needed in the global response against COVID-19.
Now to some extent this is because I had no plans to go anyway. (
But mainly it's that not going abroad doesn't make life feel not-normal in a way that virtually every other restriction does.
And also it's virtually the only restriction which isn't a net negative for our economy (arguably).
Who needs to go on holiday in a pandemic? I don't try to say this censoriously - I don't want to come across as one of those people who tuts at people for their indulgence in going to the park or talking to someone in the street. But really, what sort of a holiday is it going to be when you're all masked up for any activity and when half the places you want to go are limited or shut.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9498895/Covid-19-Valneva-scraps-talks-EU-bosses-wanting-buy-Covid-vaccine.html
Absolute dickheads.
heu! gravius patimur sitiens quam Tantalus ipse:
---quid sapere adiuvit, cui nihil usque sapit?
Alas! Our sufferings outdo the pangs of thirsty Tantalus himself:
---What good was it to be a man of taste who can taste naught at all?
The other thing you have to fight in investigations is the individual's subconscious need to believe they acted properly. This leads to them re-writing their own role in a way that, even if it does not make them a hero, at least ensures they are not the villain. The problem with this is that much of this re-writing is subconscious, and so the narrator truly believes it. Which is why it is important to get onsite and collect witness accounts asap, before rationalization has had time to do its work.
Do not despair! For I have some small savings carefully harvested from my weekly allowance, set aside against my frail old age. By lucky haps, it is just over a thousand, methinks, and for years has been hidden beyond the wit of any thief, in an old sock...
Percy and Blackadder:
...under the squeaky floorboard...
Percy, Blackadder and Baldrick:
...behind the kitchen dresser.
Percy:
[smiles uneasily] You've seen it, then.
Blackadder:
Seen it, pinched it, spent it! And the same goes for the two farthings Baldrick thinks he's got hidden inside that mouldy potato.
Baldrick:
Oh, bloody hell!
Quite a few rUK citizens would have the right to move to Scotland under likely settlements, however - those born there or whose parents were born there.
The other point is that in the last indyref HM Treasury said that all debts borne by present UK would be assumed by rUK (separate from whatever payment was agreed to HMT from Scotland). As rights to state pensions are defined on previous NI payments then any UK citizen with enough NI payments would simply claim that state pension. As if they were iving in Torremolinos.
Of course, those arrangements could be superseded by negotiations.
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1385238274051133445?s=19
Of course, that has to be balanced with the risks involved, like all of these decisions, but closing the borders has more negative implications than just stopping brits getting a suntan abroad.