🚨 | BREAKING: Downing Street has accused Dominic Cummings of leaking the PM’s texts
Meh. I don't see how that's news.
Cummings has been doing leaking since Day One.
And if the Dyson story is the best he's got left Boris has little to worry about.
That’s not how it’s done though. Get attention, then throw the meat.
It feels like something big is about to blow. Governments never get an easy ride for long, a crap storm just as people are voting tends to be the norm.
My wife and I have already returned our postal votes
National insurance includes Pension contributions, pensions over 67s have already paid for. We need a new NI category for pensioners calculated to contribute to Care and Health, but not pensions or unemployment benefits. This does not seem unreasonable.
Nothing has been already paid for, everything is pay as you go.
NI should be merged with Income Tax and applied as a flat rate without exemptions for age, self-employment or anything else.
No, return NI to what it was originally created for ie to pay for unemployment insurance, pensions and healthcare and add social care to the latter
🚨 | BREAKING: Downing Street has accused Dominic Cummings of leaking the PM’s texts
Meh. I don't see how that's news.
Cummings has been doing leaking since Day One.
And if the Dyson story is the best he's got left Boris has little to worry about.
That’s not how it’s done though. Get attention, then throw the meat.
It feels like something big is about to blow. Governments never get an easy ride for long, a crap storm just as people are voting tends to be the norm.
My wife and I have already returned our postal votes
2-0 Drakeford?
Not ever ever would I vote Labour in Wales
My family have suffered too much through their failures in health and education over the last 22 years
Unlikely, the Indian Covid death rate of 134 per million is still well below the global average Covid death rate of 395 per million, yet alone our Covid death rate of 1,868 per milllion
National insurance includes Pension contributions, pensions over 67s have already paid for. We need a new NI category for pensioners calculated to contribute to Care and Health, but not pensions or unemployment benefits. This does not seem unreasonable.
Nothing has been already paid for, everything is pay as you go.
NI should be merged with Income Tax and applied as a flat rate without exemptions for age, self-employment or anything else.
No, return NI to what it was originally created for ie to pay for unemployment insurance, pensions and healthcare and add social care to the latter
So considering NI isn't enough to pay for all that, then how much are you going to slash pensions and healthcare by? 🤔
"I am still stunned at this. India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe and all Merkel has to say is she is worried whether Indian pharmaceutical products “will still come to us”? "
Surely just the flip side of the EU concerns that European pharmaceutical products should be prevented from "going to others"?
Husband of Allegra Stratton suggesting the Government might have found a solution to social care here:
"The best solution, however, may be to require the over-40s to buy compulsory social care insurance. The premiums could be deducted directly from their monthly salaries in the same way that student loan repayments are taken off young graduates’ wages."
It's been introduced for private pensions with no issues.
I think it's more politically acceptable than ever greater council tax rises or selling one's home - the question is the mechanism for the premium, and the amount.
It's new, so it will be hated.
Ok, but my council tax is going up an extra 2% each and every year because of this already, so, the dog has to bark somewhere.
My council tax has been flat for 6 years. Sadiq has increased his charge by 8% pa
The reason why Fox / Reform / Reclaim aren't making any headway is because Johnson has stolen their clothes.
If, rather than being anti-woke, this administration pursued social-policy along the lines Cameron did then they'd be up to 10-12% in the polls.
Isn't the main reason because Farage was banking on anti-lockdown sentiment driving support from disaffected Conservatives, and most people support harsh lockdown measures and those that don't are fractured into a dozen squabbling factions? And that while lots of people dislike what might be called excessive or pushy wokery, that is not something you can build a mass movement around? (like how green issues is not enough, as any party can go green, so Greens also go red)
Interestingly, it's the Lib Dems who've been most able to capitalise on the anti-lockdown sentiment.
It is just about possible that Ed Davey actually knows the meaning of the word "liberal".
That would come as a nasty shock to their hordes (OK not "hordes", more like "both") of their remaining voters, who think they're supposed to be basically Labour-lite.
Short memories, have they? LibDems were in coalition with the Conservatives less than a decade ago.
Husband of Allegra Stratton suggesting the Government might have found a solution to social care here:
"The best solution, however, may be to require the over-40s to buy compulsory social care insurance. The premiums could be deducted directly from their monthly salaries in the same way that student loan repayments are taken off young graduates’ wages."
It's been introduced for private pensions with no issues.
I think it's more politically acceptable than ever greater council tax rises or selling one's home - the question is the mechanism for the premium, and the amount.
It's new, so it will be hated.
Ok, but my council tax is going up an extra 2% each and every year because of this already, so, the dog has to bark somewhere.
My council tax has been flat for 6 years. Sadiq has increased his charge by 8% pa
Remember the golden rule...under Labour you always pay more, always get less
Husband of Allegra Stratton suggesting the Government might have found a solution to social care here:
"The best solution, however, may be to require the over-40s to buy compulsory social care insurance. The premiums could be deducted directly from their monthly salaries in the same way that student loan repayments are taken off young graduates’ wages."
It's been introduced for private pensions with no issues.
I think it's more politically acceptable than ever greater council tax rises or selling one's home - the question is the mechanism for the premium, and the amount.
It's new, so it will be hated.
Ok, but my council tax is going up an extra 2% each and every year because of this already, so, the dog has to bark somewhere.
My council tax has been flat for 6 years. Sadiq has increased his charge by 8% pa
Remember the golden rule...under Labour you always pay more, always get less
Strange. Cos I could swear my Tory council had jacked up the Council Tax. From a rate that already would make a Londoner's eyes water.
Unlikely, the Indian Covid death rate of 134 per million is still well below the global average Covid death rate of 395 per million, yet alone our Covid death rate of 1,868 per milllion
National insurance includes Pension contributions, pensions over 67s have already paid for. We need a new NI category for pensioners calculated to contribute to Care and Health, but not pensions or unemployment benefits. This does not seem unreasonable.
Nothing has been already paid for, everything is pay as you go.
NI should be merged with Income Tax and applied as a flat rate without exemptions for age, self-employment or anything else.
No, return NI to what it was originally created for ie to pay for unemployment insurance, pensions and healthcare and add social care to the latter
So considering NI isn't enough to pay for all that, then how much are you going to slash pensions and healthcare by? 🤔
It is, just shift what you pay in income tax for that to NI and leave income tax to fund defence, the police, schools funding, culture etc
The reason why Fox / Reform / Reclaim aren't making any headway is because Johnson has stolen their clothes.
If, rather than being anti-woke, this administration pursued social-policy along the lines Cameron did then they'd be up to 10-12% in the polls.
Isn't the main reason because Farage was banking on anti-lockdown sentiment driving support from disaffected Conservatives, and most people support harsh lockdown measures and those that don't are fractured into a dozen squabbling factions? And that while lots of people dislike what might be called excessive or pushy wokery, that is not something you can build a mass movement around? (like how green issues is not enough, as any party can go green, so Greens also go red)
Interestingly, it's the Lib Dems who've been most able to capitalise on the anti-lockdown sentiment.
It is just about possible that Ed Davey actually knows the meaning of the word "liberal".
That would come as a nasty shock to their hordes (OK not "hordes", more like "both") of their remaining voters, who think they're supposed to be basically Labour-lite.
Short memories, have they? LibDems were in coalition with the Conservatives less than a decade ago.
For some reason when I saw the headline about important breaking news about the London mayoralty I assumed it was going to be about Brian Rose and urine.
But there's some solid deadpan sass nevertheless.
I saw that earlier and nearly barfed.
I wasn't going to inflict that on PBers, I do have some decorum, believe it or not.
I've arrived late to this story. Does it involve PVC and rubber hoses?
No, you don't want to know, even I'm puking at such depravity.
It’s how you survive if you get lost in the jungle. Urine is about 95% water.
Not a good idea.
If you are dehydrated, urine will be more concentrated than plasma and worsen your osmotic stress.
Urine can be safely drunk if you are very well hydrated as it will be very dilute. Though why would you want to?
"I am still stunned at this. India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe and all Merkel has to say is she is worried whether Indian pharmaceutical products “will still come to us”? "
Surely just the flip side of the EU concerns that European pharmaceutical products should be prevented from "going to others"?
The Indian Foreign Minister is pretty good on why vaccine exports need to continue in order to keep global supply chains going.
I know the BBC isn't good with numbers, but is this their worst effort at explaining something yet? The don't seem to understand how vaccine based herd immunity works at-all, and seem to be implying that if the vaccines are 90% effective, 10% of the population will get covid anyway 🤔. They therefore imply that contact tracing, face masks, endless testing will be required for ever. I presume none of them stop to wonder why we aren't in a permanent measles epidemic without such measures.
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
"I am still stunned at this. India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe and all Merkel has to say is she is worried whether Indian pharmaceutical products “will still come to us”? "
Merkel hasn't done anything wrong here. Her job is to do everything she can for Germans as far as Covid 19 is concerned.
"I am still stunned at this. India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe and all Merkel has to say is she is worried whether Indian pharmaceutical products “will still come to us”? "
Yes. She is keen to make sure that Germans get the vaccines they paid for.
How is her behaviour any different to the behaviour of our government?
The social services manager from Walsall, UK, who was in India visiting family, began ringing local travel agents in attempt to beat the Friday deadline.
"I am still stunned at this. India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe and all Merkel has to say is she is worried whether Indian pharmaceutical products “will still come to us”? "
Yes. She is keen to make sure that Germans get the vaccines they paid for.
How is her behaviour any different to the behaviour of our government?
In all fairness, what public comment has our government made on receiving half of the 10 million doses from India, or on AZ exporting a million UK doses to Aus?
While I'm generally not a Conservative party supporter (some members I am a fan of, while the rest can get in the sea), they've been one of few world governments to act in a moral and sensible way wrt to vaccinations.
I know the BBC isn't good with numbers, but is this their worst effort at explaining something yet? The don't seem to understand how vaccine based herd immunity works at-all, and seem to be implying that if the vaccines are 90% effective, 10% of the population will get covid anyway 🤔. They therefore imply that contact tracing, face masks, endless testing will be required for ever. I presume none of them stop to wonder why we aren't in a permanent measles epidemic without such measures.
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
At that point you still keep Non pharma interventions till you get cases as low as you want whilst not destroying your economy to push down case numbers (Case numbers should drop quickly) - crucially after they're released Rt never goes above 1.
Some difficulties though
i) Different variants likely have higher R0 than baseline Covid. ii) Different vaccines have different efficacies against different variants. iii) Noone actually really knows the true Veff for vaccines or true R0 for Covid. iv) There's no paediatric approval yet so population uptake is going to top out (Israel has hit this issue)
I know the BBC isn't good with numbers, but is this their worst effort at explaining something yet? The don't seem to understand how vaccine based herd immunity works at-all, and seem to be implying that if the vaccines are 90% effective, 10% of the population will get covid anyway 🤔. They therefore imply that contact tracing, face masks, endless testing will be required for ever. I presume none of them stop to wonder why we aren't in a permanent measles epidemic without such measures.
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
At that point you still keep Non pharma interventions till you get cases as low as you want whilst not destroying your economy to push down case numbers (Case numbers should drop quickly) - crucially after they're released Rt never goes above 1.
Some difficulties though
i) Different variants likely have higher R0 than baseline Covid. ii) Different vaccines have different efficacies against different variants. iii) Noone actually really knows the true Veff for vaccines or true R0 for Covid. iv) There's no paediatric approval yet so population uptake is going to top out (Israel has hit this issue)
I understand all that perfectly well. The BBC it seems doesn't, at least based on the features I linked. It makes no attempt to explain any of this, but instead implies that even if we vaxed 100% of the population with a 90% effective vaccine against all variants, Covid would sweep through the remaining 10%. This is obviously abject nonsense. I know they like to keep explanations simple, but this is so misleading its outrageous.
I know the BBC isn't good with numbers, but is this their worst effort at explaining something yet? The don't seem to understand how vaccine based herd immunity works at-all, and seem to be implying that if the vaccines are 90% effective, 10% of the population will get covid anyway 🤔. They therefore imply that contact tracing, face masks, endless testing will be required for ever. I presume none of them stop to wonder why we aren't in a permanent measles epidemic without such measures.
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
At that point you still keep Non pharma interventions till you get cases as low as you want whilst not destroying your economy to push down case numbers (Case numbers should drop quickly) - crucially after they're released Rt never goes above 1.
Some difficulties though
i) Different variants likely have higher R0 than baseline Covid. ii) Different vaccines have different efficacies against different variants. iii) Noone actually really knows the true Veff for vaccines or true R0 for Covid. iv) There's no paediatric approval yet so population uptake is going to top out (Israel has hit this issue)
I understand all that perfectly well. The BBC it seems doesn't, at least based on the features I linked. It makes no attempt to explain any of this, but instead implies that even if we vaxed 100% of the population with a 90% effective vaccine against all variants, Covid would sweep through the remaining 10%. This is obviously abject nonsense. I know they like to keep explanations simple, but this is so misleading its outrageous.
The YouTube video is also too pessimistic. Even people for whom the vaccine is not completely effective are likely to have much less viral shedding than the unvaccinated.
Many districts are estimated to have less than 10 people with the virus according to this page. For instance Tandridge in Surrey with 8 estimated cases. Tandridge has a population of about 90,000.
And some areas that were previously badly affected have very low numbers: for example Leicester with just 52.
I know the BBC isn't good with numbers, but is this their worst effort at explaining something yet? The don't seem to understand how vaccine based herd immunity works at-all, and seem to be implying that if the vaccines are 90% effective, 10% of the population will get covid anyway 🤔. They therefore imply that contact tracing, face masks, endless testing will be required for ever. I presume none of them stop to wonder why we aren't in a permanent measles epidemic without such measures.
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi says ventilators are "not working effectively" and the hospital will run out of oxygen in less than an hour. 60 lives are at risk - ANI
BREAKING: 2 New Delhi hospitals treating COVID-19 patients issue SOS, say they're running out of oxygen
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And in the Far East, COVID on the rise.
BREAKING: Japanese government declares state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto due to coronavirus
NEW: Thailand reports 2,070 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
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My family have suffered too much through their failures in health and education over the last 22 years
B. it is highly unlikely that the published figures from India are complete.
C) what happens in other countries matters less than what is happening in your own town. Hospitals running out of oxygen never looks good.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-40ac92b1-1750-4e86-9936-2cda6b0acb3f
Frankly every single person involved in publishing this misleading rubbish should be dismissed immediately without compensation on the grounds of gross stupidity.
How is her behaviour any different to the behaviour of our government?
While I'm generally not a Conservative party supporter (some members I am a fan of, while the rest can get in the sea), they've been one of few world governments to act in a moral and sensible way wrt to vaccinations.
Population uptake > 1/Vaccine Efficacy - 1/ (R0 * Vaccine efficacy)
That pushes Rt < 1.
At that point you still keep Non pharma interventions till you get cases as low as you want whilst not destroying your economy to push down case numbers (Case numbers should drop quickly) - crucially after they're released Rt never goes above 1.
Some difficulties though
i) Different variants likely have higher R0 than baseline Covid.
ii) Different vaccines have different efficacies against different variants.
iii) Noone actually really knows the true Veff for vaccines or true R0 for Covid.
iv) There's no paediatric approval yet so population uptake is going to top out (Israel has hit this issue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfTxgm088a4&ab_channel=TomRocksMaths
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data
Many districts are estimated to have less than 10 people with the virus according to this page. For instance Tandridge in Surrey with 8 estimated cases. Tandridge has a population of about 90,000.
And some areas that were previously badly affected have very low numbers: for example Leicester with just 52.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi says ventilators are "not working effectively" and the hospital will run out of oxygen in less than an hour. 60 lives are at risk - ANI
BREAKING: 2 New Delhi hospitals treating COVID-19 patients issue SOS, say they're running out of oxygen
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And in the Far East, COVID on the rise.
BREAKING: Japanese government declares state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto due to coronavirus
NEW: Thailand reports 2,070 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
Boris Johnson believes that Dominic Cummings is behind damaging leaks including the disclosure of the prime minister’s text messages.
A No 10 source claimed that Johnson’s former senior adviser was “engaged in systematic leaking” and “bitter about what’s happened since he left”.
The prime minister was “saddened about what Dom is doing”, the source said as they accused him of “undermining the government and the party”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-is-accused-of-leaking-boris-johnsons-texts-with-sir-james-dyson-xnsq9spbp