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Football fans appear markedly more enthusiastic about Boris and Keir than the public at large – politicalbetting.com
One of the reasons why Opinium is my favourite poster is because of the extensive way the firm presents its data and allows you to look at responses to one question and how it affected other responses.
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"In the light of what is unfolding in India, that is stomach-turning."
I agree. Do these euro politicians not stop and think about the wider context for a moment?
British asset manager Standard Life Aberdeen to change name to "Abrdn"
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/standard-life-aberdeen-change-name-abrdn-2021-04-26/
Boris probably has the most appeal of any Tory leader to working class voters ever however, so no surprise he goes down well with football fans
Isn't the takeaway that football fans think of Boris and Keir in almost the same way. Perhaps they just care far more about football than politics!
How the Modi Government Overestimated India’s Capacity to Make COVID Vaccine
https://science.thewire.in/health/narendra-modi-government-overestimated-india-covid-vaccine-manufacturing-capacity-shortage/
If so I am very flattered!
French vaccine producer Valneva announced it is "deprioritizing" negotiations with the European Commission after more than six months of talks have yielded no results.
"We’ve committed significant time and effort to try to meet the needs of the central EC [European Commission] procurement process," Valneva CEO Thomas Lingelbach wrote in a press release late Tuesday. "Despite our recent clinical data, we have not made meaningful progress and have not yet secured a supply agreement."
The company said it instead would shift to negotiations with individual EU countries and interested nations outside the EU.
https://www.politico.eu/article/valneva-walks-away-from-vaccine-negotiations-with-commission/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1619423751
Meanwhile, a fanboy tweets:
Don't read too much into this. Thanks to BioNTech's incredible progress and rock solid supply chain the EU's vaccine supply is now really solid already, and especially so by the time Valneva would be ready to ship any vaccines to the EU.\
https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1386614791498878977?s=20
Nothing to see here! Move along! An unqualified success story......
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And it's especially hard if you've been there a long time - I find it easier to point stuff out because I have enough money to live with the consequences of being asked to clear my desk.
I don't think many people within the organisation were in a position to do that - and that is a problem that is virtually impossible to fix.
"I found it easier the longer I had been there - partly because I had established my credibility and toughness (the first time I called out some serious bad behaviour it did not go down well but I had my boss's backing and just kept going. The individual concerned was later put in front of one of the Parliamentary committees on Banking Misbehaviour and had a very uncomfortable time claiming not to know anything), partly because there was external pressure on the organisation ie a regulator and partly because of the context. It was obvious that banks were cocking a lot up even if many did not want to admit how widespread it was.
The Post Office had no external regulator, Ministers were ineffective, the senior leadership believed IT could never go wrong, their internal staff saw themselves as acting only in the interests of the PO and being judge, jury and prosecutor in your own cause is a recipe for disaster. Plus a large dose of cowardice by lots of people - a very common factor in all these situations. Lots of people will fail to do the right thing because they are scared for their jobs, cannot afford to lose them etc etc. Individually they may not be bad people but the consequence of their inaction is that bad things happen."
When the errors started, they were cheering that they’d found the theft, and everything else flowed from there.
No-one senior ever stood back and asked “Are you completely sure we have got this right?”
https://twitter.com/hitcockbottom/status/1386520856768122880?s=21
The perfect opportunity for a series of super-super-super spreader events.
The majority would say, suppose they ever thought about it, that both politics and football geeks should get a life. This view is unlikely to take off on PLTCLBTTNG but that doesn't mean that any of its contributors are sane or normal
The original plan was 30 million doses by September 2020.
That became the 100 million doses delivered by end of June 2021.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-astrazenec-idUKKBN27K2GU
The UK has done 38 million does, and a lot of those are Pfizer, so I think we can say AZ are still not on track. But the relaxed attitude to winter lockdowns would have made a lot more sense if there was an assumption of simply huge quantities of vaccine on the way.
He has a keen interest in cinematography and is studying it
He said he was going to put a bet on the Oscars last night on an outsider -
I talked him into saving his cash
He listened
If he had made the bet he would have made a tasty profit.
We're in a slightly different position as we have a largish pent up demand for second doses which isn't the case over the channel or particularly in the USA.
Marvellous.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/
I wonder if they have the Indian variant. If it is much more transmissible that would explain things
Quote of the day, about the Oscars:
https://twitter.com/marknorm/status/1386370385424261121
“The Oscars now feel like Halloween - I don’t care as much as I used to, people get all dressed up and it’s a huge night for pedophiles.”
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1385537962008616961?s=21
“Asia Today: Thailand’s health authorities have confirmed 2,070 new COVID-19 cases, a daily record that brings the country’s total above 50,000. The rising numbers are severely straining the supply of hospital beds and ICU capacity.”
The virus is maybe about to run rampant, right across Asia
Men more interested in football and more interested in politics (are either of those true, now?). Of course, it's net approval, but it you're not interested in/have a dim view of politics/politiicians then you're maybe more likely to have a negative view of the leaders.
Older people more interested in football* and [ditto]
*Afterall, the ESL was needed because youngsters don't care any more, no?
Boris still does better with football supporters than Starmer does on the chart
Spot on.
I have to deal with small time auditors a bit over small charities. They look at every detail of (entirely honest) accounts and report back something like that there is 37p expenditure under 'utilities' that ought to be under 'costs of trading' but otherwise it's fine.
It seems to me that the big outfits do nothing of the sort and take no responsibility.
The guy is a complete cretin.
It really was the case that Horizon cost so much and was written by experts so it can't be wrong.
More infectious variants just contribute the the rapidity and scale of the outbreak.
(though I guess the hip youngsters they're think they're targetting with the cool throwback to the dotcom boom name don't listen to radio)
IMO the bit missing is that it is reported that the UK contract for Valneva contains a first-supply clause. And that Brussels would not accept that.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-valneva-idUSKBN29M0FB
Open banking is actually going to make that side of things a bit better as it's no longer what the system says the bank paid out, you can now see (from the bank themselves) exactly what the bank did pay out.
Since when have people from China been described as people of colour? Or am I missing something?
You're closer to the numbers than I am- what's your thinking about whether the boosters are going to be needed? Prudent to plan and all that, but there's not much sign so far of either immunity decaying significantly, or variants that can beat a vaccinated population, is there?
With my bleeding-heart-liberal heart.... erm... bleeding, I do feel a bit uncomfortable about the idea of being given a third vaccine dose when most of the world won't have had their first.
Its something the Swedish eggheahs called right from the beginning, but they thought it would be years until a vaccine would be developed.
£1bn reasons why the software is right and the innocent postmaster guilty as....
(the US did at least save him from witnessing the recent decline)
The phrase “of color” has about 2 years of life left, I reckon. After that it will be seen as grossly offensive, and it will follow BAME into the lexical bin
Better instead to give people a third vaccination and not take the risk.
Do the wokies not realise that labelling every non-white person as such sounds very much like "othering" that genuine racists / racist countries practice e.g South Africa back in the day, describing all none 100% white European as the coloureds.
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1386632488202739719
Boris Johnson's biographer Andrew Gimson says the PM 'may well have' made 'tasteless' remark about allowing dead bodies to pile up but believes it will 'strengthen his reputation as a man who talks as a man in the pub would'
https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/status/1386631561265750017
I’d imagine quite the take-up from Africa and Asia, among those who do a lot of travelling.
CON: 40% (-5)
LAB: 37% (-1)
LDEM: 8% (+2)
GRN: 5% (-)
via @IpsosMORI, 16 - 22 Apr
C… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1386633074390274048
Interesting ideas though, we could do the same with politics. Five years is far too long between goals (elections). Public vote once per week to eliminate a few from the house, with new entries each week too. And why not bring in the best/worst of Europe too? VdL's post-eviction interview would be fun, no doubt.
It’s heading south from indochina. eg The Philippines
“1 MILLION RECORDED COVID-19 CASES
Coronavirus cases in the Philippines reach 1,006,428 with 8,929 additional infections on Monday, April 26.
74,623 are active cases
More #COVID19 updates: news.abs-cbn.com/covid19-watch”
https://twitter.com/abscbnnews/status/1386590874247700480?s=21
The slow vaccine roll-out in Asia may turn out to be a humongous error. There is no reason a rich, advanced country like Japan shouldn’t be jabbing away furiously, like almost every western nation
Instead they’ve done about 2% of the populace and they have plans to increase the rate of vaccinations to “10,000 a day”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/25/national/10000-shots-vaccinations-japan/
All they can do now is pray they don’t get hit by a variant. An absurd failure
CON: 40% (-5)
LAB: 37% (-1)
LDEM: 8% (+2)
GRN: 5% (-)
via
@IpsosMORI
, 16 - 22 Apr
Chgs. w/ Mar
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1386633074390274048?s=20
BBC News - UK economy 'set to grow at fastest rate on record'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56885457
However, the UK ordering more vaccines is no bad thing as we're pledged to give our spare doses to developing nations. It just means that we will now have 40m additional spare doses of J&J, AZ or Valneva to donate to COVAX. I think the best way to look at it is that by increasing our orders we're actually going to have vaccines that wouldn't otherwise exist, especially from the expensive mRNA type as developing nations are mostly locked out of those on a cost issue.
It's increasing the size of the pie vs taking a larger slice of it. The best thing about the UK and US deals is that they massively increased the size of the pie as part of the procurement process. The UK will manufacture around 1bn doses of various vaccines in 2022, in 2020 that number was something like 8m, including AZ. Even the US which had a strong vaccine manufacturing industry will have more than 4x the manufacturing next year than in 2020. All of this feeds into the global supply chain and will be of benefit to the whole world this year and next year.
The Conservatives have plunged five points after weeks of growing sleaze controversy, pollsters Ipsos MORI survey reveal in tonight’s Evening Standard.
It will fuel Tory fears that the “drip drip” of allegations is undermining their hopes in the Hartlepool by election and in local and Scottish elections on May 6.
The pollsters found the Tories on 40 per cent, down from 45 per cent in March, three points clear of Labour who are on 37 per cent, down from 38. The monthly survey put the Liberal Democrats on eight (from six), and the Greens unchanged at five.
The data will dismay Labour MPs because they suggest Sir Keir Starmer has so far failed to capture voters getting disenchanted with the Government and the Prime Minister.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/conservatives-five-points-labour-opinion-poll-local-elections-hartlepool-b931731.html#britain-elects-says-hi
BBC News - Google Argentina's domain name bought by man for £2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56870270
That’s about as useful as saying “Record 33% increase for Lib Dems in new MORI poll”
India is locking down 2-3 periods too late.
And no that isnt a gcse maths question.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Lib Dems do well in the shires and districts for a variety of reasons.
Materiality of £50m. Who cares about anything. Plus, if there is an IT problem, the last people to be able to understand complex IT issues are accountants.
External audits are largely worthless, and just an arse covering exercise (albeit an expensive one) by accountancy firms who will never see any sanction. Sooner the audit is scrapped the better.... but I'm not holding my breath.
It would be back to 2017 with the DUP again having the balance of power
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=40&LAB=37&LIB=8&Reform=2&Green=5&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=22&SCOTLAB=19&SCOTLIB=6.2&SCOTReform=0.8&SCOTGreen=2.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=49&display=AllChanged&regorseat=(none)&boundary=2019base
It's to build up a comprehensive dataset & evidence base to demonstrate that EU's concerns over integrity of Single Market are theoretical & unjustified
https://twitter.com/Mij_Europe/status/1386634264901468163?s=20
The old "it may work in practice, but does it work in theory?
Also, criticism from Dominic Cummings will be interpreted as the pot calling the kettle black, particularly since Boris covered for him for months (at considerable cost to his own reputation) to protect him from the Barnard Castle fallout.
And if that means spare stock to go to the third world rather than the EU so be it.
Breaking: Tories plunge in poll due to thing that happened after the poll was done. Or something.
https://twitter.com/MattSingh_/status/1386636327559516160?s=20
I've heard of side effects with the regular flu vaccine which has always made it seem a bit unappealing (I've never particularly been a priority either tbh & so never had it); Pfizer nada, nil, zero on the first dose at least...
Many of the Asian countries that did really well last year might be in for a nasty surprise. This virus has a habit of punishing smugness
https://twitter.com/gracepetrie/status/1386608395189428231