Looking forward to being able to order drinks at the bar again tomorrow.
Really?
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
I go to the pub to get away from modern technology, not to use it.
Try a Sam Smith's pub - have to pay cash and mobile phones are banned.
Sounds wank
It's also not true, I went to a Sam Smith's last weekend in Soho and paid by card and used my phone.
This is the exact point I've been making over and over and over again.
Looking forward to being able to order drinks at the bar again tomorrow.
Really?
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
Indeed, I've thoroughly enjoyed not having to endure the scrum down at the bar. At all the pubs I've visited, ordering off the app is fine, service is efficient but then I don't frequent large city centre pubs on a Friday and Saturday evening which is where I suspect the profits are made.
The whole "crowds" thing is so old hat - most people want comfortable, congenial and civilised (well, I do and I'm "most people" having discovered I'm in a majority last evening)..
I've gone even further than that. On fine afternoons and evenings (like today) I often skip the pub entirely and take a chilled white wine to the park, and have a little picnic with friends.
The wine is vastly superior, you nibble summer fruits and cheese, the sun beats down, it is bliss. Who needs a pub?
I can't believe people are allowing a virus to alter their way of doing things.
I can't believe when you say something like that. Of a course a virus can and sometimes should alter peoples' ways of doing things. Could you not believe it when people allowed it to alter their way of doing things when a 1000 people were dying a day? I'd say that was very rational change.
The question is whether people should still be allowing it, and in the case of social situations, whether it has led to a change which is better for them - what's it to you if people don't want to go to the pub?
BREAKING Eight members of Team GB have been identified as close contacts of someone (non British) who tested positive for COVID on a flight into Japan - six athletes and two staff members on the athletics team. #Tokyo2020 https://twitter.com/TomSkyNews/status/1416754990643769348
Only a total moron would bet on any event for these Olympics...
Lay all the favourites, as long as there's no Covid get out. There's going to be a significant number not competing.
Looking forward to being able to order drinks at the bar again tomorrow.
Really?
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
I go to the pub to get away from modern technology, not to use it.
Try a Sam Smith's pub - have to pay cash and mobile phones are banned.
Not down here, Richard. Must be another one of those Northern USPs. Add it to your (very long) list perhaps.
Good beer and good value traditional pubs. I have been to The John Snow in Soho, named for the pioneering Doctor who discovered the cause of a cholera outbreak. He wouldn't approve though, as he was a teetotaller!
The JS is firmly on my bucket list (honestly) for when I go down next - just been reading a fascinating paper on the water geology of the location, plus a rather good biog of the chap.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
We don't have supply issues, we're approaching a situation where the UK will have near unlimited supply of COVID vaccines for the size of the country.
Sure that's the supply, but the whole programme is more than that. Right now we would still be better off putting a big effort into vacinating adults in places like Newham, by knocking on their doors if necessary, rather than vaccinating children who are less likely to get it, very unlikely to get seriously ill, and less likely to pass it on. Finn doesn't seem to think vaccinating children is all that important in the grand scheme of things, and that vaccinating adults is still the priority if you want to limit harm and the spread of the virus. Basically the balance of required vaccinations per life saved still favours getting the last adults over mass vaccination of children in order to protect others, vaccinating vulnerable children is a different issue.
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
I have never talked to my mixed race South African friend about flying saucers. I have talked to her about the terror of knocks on the door in the night when she was growing up in a black township under Apartheid. As well as the challenges of being a mixed race woman in the new South Africa. The doors that are conveniently opened and the others which get unceremoniously shut.
I suspect she has rather more of interest to say on the subject than you do. On every subject now I come to think of it.
We don't have supply issues, we're approaching a situation where the UK will have near unlimited supply of COVID vaccines for the size of the country.
Sure that's the supply, but the whole programme is more than that. Right now we would still be better off putting a big effort into vacinating adults in places like Newham, by knocking on their doors if necessary, rather than vaccinating children who are less likely to get it, very unlikely to get seriously ill, and less likely to pass it on. Finn doesn't seem to think vaccinating children is all that important in the grand scheme of things, and that vaccinating adults is still the priority if you want to limit harm and the spread of the virus. Basically the balance of required vaccinations per life saved still favours getting the last adults over mass vaccination of children in order to protect others, vaccinating vulnerable children is a different issue.
We can and should be doing both (and also exporting vaccines).
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
Current numbers are pitifully low; Europe is catching us up fast.
First dose numbers are starting to collapse in Germany and they're still a long way behind.
Don't spoil his fun - he's desperate for Europe to catch up so he can bang on about the wonders of the EU again.
Well, his figures on cases may be right, but even so his logic seems to be that actually it’s better to have it now and get the peak out of the way by September.
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
What you are witnessing is Evidence of Higher Intelligence
I can't totally rule that out but I very nearly can.
You're wrong. You're highly educated and reasonably intelligent, but you have a narrow, middlebrow world-view which is made even narrower by rigid political opinions formed in your youth
Some arguments go way over your head - and you don't even realise, because you are busy reacting emotionally/politically
There. You can have that psychoanalysis for free. I normally charge
As stated, I'm watching the golf rather than reacting to trolling.
Will Louis Oosthuizen hold onto his lead? I hope so. I quite like him. He has a rather sweet and unusual pre shot routine including for the putting. Kind of strokes his shaft a couple of times with both hands. Seems to work for him. I might try it myself.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
We don't have supply issues, we're approaching a situation where the UK will have near unlimited supply of COVID vaccines for the size of the country.
Sure that's the supply, but the whole programme is more than that. Right now we would still be better off putting a big effort into vacinating adults in places like Newham, by knocking on their doors if necessary, rather than vaccinating children who are less likely to get it, very unlikely to get seriously ill, and less likely to pass it on. Finn doesn't seem to think vaccinating children is all that important in the grand scheme of things, and that vaccinating adults is still the priority if you want to limit harm and the spread of the virus. Basically the balance of required vaccinations per life saved still favours getting the last adults over mass vaccination of children in order to protect others, vaccinating vulnerable children is a different issue.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
....and of course the LDs are just dead ringers for the SNP in 2013.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
There are a lot of votes available in coming second to the Tories in many seats across the South.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
We can and should be doing both (and also exporting vaccines).
Instinctively I'd agree with you, but the people who really know what they are talking about don't agree. The JCVI gave good advice about vaccinating by age cohorts and risk, and good advice about stretching the interval between vaccines, so if they say vaccinating children isn't worth it at the moment they are probably right.
My guess is that the concern is that if we shift the focus to vaccinating children we will end up limiting the adult uptake, even if the programme remains open to unvaccinated adults, and that would be less useful to limiting the effect and spread of the virus.
We don't have supply issues, we're approaching a situation where the UK will have near unlimited supply of COVID vaccines for the size of the country.
Sure that's the supply, but the whole programme is more than that. Right now we would still be better off putting a big effort into vacinating adults in places like Newham, by knocking on their doors if necessary, rather than vaccinating children who are less likely to get it, very unlikely to get seriously ill, and less likely to pass it on. Finn doesn't seem to think vaccinating children is all that important in the grand scheme of things, and that vaccinating adults is still the priority if you want to limit harm and the spread of the virus. Basically the balance of required vaccinations per life saved still favours getting the last adults over mass vaccination of children in order to protect others, vaccinating vulnerable children is a different issue.
We can and should be doing both (and also exporting vaccines).
The problem I can see is that, at some point going down the age range, the "protect yourself" vs. "protect others" balance shifts. Vaccinating the old ought to be easy; "Take this jab SO YOU DON'T DIE." For younger people, that argument doesn't work, you need to do a persuasion job, which the UK largely hasn't bothered with. There's nothing comparable with this;
Given the tendency of some on the right to say "if you haven't got immunity yet, it's your fault", I wonder how many government types comprehend the concept of doing something (wear a mask, get a vaccination) for the sake of others.
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
I have never talked to my mixed race South African friend about flying saucers. I have talked to her about the terror of knocks on the door in the night when she was growing up in a black township under Apartheid. As well as the challenges of being a mixed race woman in the new South Africa. The doors that are conveniently opened and the others which get unceremoniously shut.
I suspect she has rather more of interest to say on the subject than you do. On every subject now I come to think of it.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
The previous corner Lewis was on the outside and well ahead but left Max room on the inside. Roles reversed and Max caused a crash. But pretty safe bet the stewards will be hammering Lewis.
We can and should be doing both (and also exporting vaccines).
Instinctively I'd agree with you, but the people who really know what they are talking about don't agree. The JCVI gave good advice about vaccinating by age cohorts and risk, and good advice about stretching the interval between vaccines, so if they say vaccinating children isn't worth it at the moment they are probably right.
My guess is that the concern is that if we shift the focus to vaccinating children we will end up limiting the adult uptake, even if the programme remains open to unvaccinated adults, and that would be less useful to limiting the effect and spread of the virus.
The FDA has approved Pfizer for 12-17 year olds and so has the MHRA. They are also world renown experts in pharmaceutical product risk. We're in an odd situation where the MHRA are happy for Pfizer to be given to kids, parents who are happy for their kids to get it but because the state has a monopoly on supply and they've decided they know better than their own regulator it's effectively impossible to do it.
As I mentioned earlier this week, if the JCVI say no for 18-39 year olds getting a booster shot my wife and I are planning to go to Switzerland to get them done. Vaccines, at this point, should be available to anyone who wants one and eligibility for booster shots should be based on two doses + 6 months including all adults.
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
Current numbers are pitifully low; Europe is catching us up fast.
They all hit a ceiling, same happened in Israel
Except that they don't have an entire segment of the population acting as perfect viral vectors.
Not vaccinating under-18's is the stupidest decision.
So we should ignore the recommendation of SAGE because you disagree with them?
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
Current numbers are pitifully low; Europe is catching us up fast.
They all hit a ceiling, same happened in Israel
Except that they don't have an entire segment of the population acting as perfect viral vectors.
Not vaccinating under-18's is the stupidest decision.
So we should ignore the recommendation of SAGE because you disagree with them?
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
Current numbers are pitifully low; Europe is catching us up fast.
They all hit a ceiling, same happened in Israel
Except that they don't have an entire segment of the population acting as perfect viral vectors.
Not vaccinating under-18's is the stupidest decision.
So we should ignore the recommendation of SAGE because you disagree with them?
The decision on whether to vaccinate children should not be made in a vacuum. Because if you are not vaccinating them, that means you are accepting one of two things. The continued mass disruption to a generation’s education and social development. Or all of them catching it.
This government quite typically doesn’t have the foresight to think even one step ahead of what their decision means.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
I think it's a good example where you need to slow it right down before coming to a view. I think it's on Max as he was cutting over Lewis's track. But! Had he not done that, I reckon Lewis was running him off the track.
And I'm not having this "you don't stick a wheel up the inside of Copse" line that RedBull are peddling.
We can and should be doing both (and also exporting vaccines).
Instinctively I'd agree with you, but the people who really know what they are talking about don't agree. The JCVI gave good advice about vaccinating by age cohorts and risk, and good advice about stretching the interval between vaccines, so if they say vaccinating children isn't worth it at the moment they are probably right.
My guess is that the concern is that if we shift the focus to vaccinating children we will end up limiting the adult uptake, even if the programme remains open to unvaccinated adults, and that would be less useful to limiting the effect and spread of the virus.
I think it's likely to frustrate efforts to vaccinate more adults, particularly younger ones. There have been several people emphasising the risk of the vaccine side-effects to teenagers and downplaying the Covid risks, and I think they have the balance of risks wrong.
This is only going to make younger adults wonder whether they too are more at risk from the vaccine than from Covid. Combine that with the trashing the vaccines are receiving from some of the media now, because double-vaccinated people have been catching Covid, and I think that deciding not to mass vaccinate teenagers looks like a lack of confidence in their efficacy and safety.
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
What you are witnessing is Evidence of Higher Intelligence
I can't totally rule that out but I very nearly can.
You're wrong. You're highly educated and reasonably intelligent, but you have a narrow, middlebrow world-view which is made even narrower by rigid political opinions formed in your youth
Some arguments go way over your head - and you don't even realise, because you are busy reacting emotionally/politically
There. You can have that psychoanalysis for free. I normally charge
As stated, I'm watching the golf rather than reacting to trolling.
Will Louis Oosthuizen hold onto his lead? I hope so. I quite like him. He has a rather sweet and unusual pre shot routine including for the putting. Kind of strokes his shaft a couple of times with both hands. Seems to work for him. I might try it myself.
Surprised they allow that, most golf courses I’ve played on you’re supposed to keep your shaft zipped away in your pants while actually playing.
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
There are a lot of votes available in coming second to the Tories in many seats across the South.
Indeed.
Based on current boundaries, a uniform 5% Con to LD swing would cost the Tories 13 seats (two in the North, eleven in the South.) A 2% Lab to Con swing would net the Tories 18 seats (two in the South, two in Wales, six in the Midlands and eight in the North.) A 10% Con to LD swing would net the Lib Dems 26 seats; a 5% Lab to Con swing would result in 44 Tory gains and reduce the PLP to a rump.
Relative to UNS, the Conservatives still have an awful lot more to gain from a modest overperformance in their target seats versus Labour than they have to lose from a modest underperformance against the Lib Dems in their defences. That's not to say that this won't eventually change, but a substantial demolition of Tory redoubts in Southern England might be a project for several electoral cycles, as has evidently been the case with Labour's woes elsewhere.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
I think it's a good example where you need to slow it right down before coming to a view. I think it's on Max as he was cutting over Lewis's track. But! Had he not done that, I reckon Lewis was running him off the track.
And I'm not having this "you don't stick a wheel up the inside of Copse" line that RedBull are peddling.
Yeah it's such a load of crap from red bull. If the roles were reversed Max is 100% sticking it up the inside there.
Lewis has left Max more than enough room on the outside and the reason Max is turning in is because he knows the overtake is done if he doesn't.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
I think it's a good example where you need to slow it right down before coming to a view. I think it's on Max as he was cutting over Lewis's track. But! Had he not done that, I reckon Lewis was running him off the track.
And I'm not having this "you don't stick a wheel up the inside of Copse" line that RedBull are peddling.
These team to FIA radio transmissions just confirm that Christian Horner is as much of a *** when talking to the race director, as he is when talking to the media.
It was a 50/50, but MV has had that coming to him for a while now.
That said, 5 seconds is the standard penalty, and Lewis will take that all day long.
I see Max went for his usual 'you lift or we crash' tactic 3 corners in a row and got what was coming to him on the 3rd occasion. Glad he's not hurt but he deserves this outcome until he engages in close racing with respect for the other car.
Yeah Max turned into Lewis. Despite having more than a car's width on the outside.
I think it's a good example where you need to slow it right down before coming to a view. I think it's on Max as he was cutting over Lewis's track. But! Had he not done that, I reckon Lewis was running him off the track.
And I'm not having this "you don't stick a wheel up the inside of Copse" line that RedBull are peddling.
These team to FIA radio transmissions just confirm that Christian Horner is as much of a *** when talking to the race director, as he is when talking to the media.
It was a 50/50, but MV has had that coming to him for a while now.
Good news for Hamilton whichever way the stewards rule though. With his car repaired, he’ll be past Leclerc in seconds and win the race at a stroll. Even if he gets a penalty.
Regarding the incident. You can't overtake at sodding Copse. Its full speed flat out, so you have to turn in if you want to complete the turn...
Not true - there have been first lap overtakes at Copse before. Racing incident, IMO, but Hamilton probably a bit more of the two to blame.
I'd say 50/50. Lewis had right of way earlier and left Max enough room to retake the position. Max is a massive c*** on track and this is just another one of those where he's decided that other drivers on the track are an irrelevance.
Boris Johnson: “We did look briefly at the idea [of the pilot test scheme] but I think it’s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules.”
very quiet today, I miss Philip, Hy and Leon attempting to defend the indefensible.
I see polling subsamples show that the Chinese aliens sowed Covid into Max and Lewis's cockpits immediately before Copse Corner in order to allow Marzipan to win. That's perfectly fine to me.
Boris Johnson: “We did look briefly at the idea [of the pilot test scheme] but I think it’s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules.”
A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
Current numbers are pitifully low; Europe is catching us up fast.
They all hit a ceiling, same happened in Israel
Except that they don't have an entire segment of the population acting as perfect viral vectors.
Not vaccinating under-18's is the stupidest decision.
So we should ignore the recommendation of SAGE because you disagree with them?
The FDA does as well, so does the MHRA.
SAGE hasn’t ruled on safety & efficacy. They’ve determined priority.
Boris Johnson: “We did look briefly at the idea [of the pilot test scheme] but I think it’s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules.”
Called this one earlier. There absolutely was no plan to use the pilot scheme, says the same No 10 spokesperson who earlier said they were using the pilot scheme.
The obvious, blatant, laughable lies are the sign that they have lost the plot.
Looking forward to being able to order drinks at the bar again tomorrow.
Really?
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
Indeed, I've thoroughly enjoyed not having to endure the scrum down at the bar. At all the pubs I've visited, ordering off the app is fine, service is efficient but then I don't frequent large city centre pubs on a Friday and Saturday evening which is where I suspect the profits are made.
The whole "crowds" thing is so old hat - most people want comfortable, congenial and civilised (well, I do and I'm "most people" having discovered I'm in a majority last evening)..
I've gone even further than that. On fine afternoons and evenings (like today) I often skip the pub entirely and take a chilled white wine to the park, and have a little picnic with friends.
The wine is vastly superior, you nibble summer fruits and cheese, the sun beats down, it is bliss. Who needs a pub?
I can't believe people are allowing a virus to alter their way of doing things.
The ones that have died don't have much of choice tbf.
Regarding the incident. You can't overtake at sodding Copse. Its full speed flat out, so you have to turn in if you want to complete the turn...
Not true - there have been first lap overtakes at Copse before. Racing incident, IMO, but Hamilton probably a bit more of the two to blame.
I'd say 50/50. Lewis had right of way earlier and left Max enough room to retake the position. Max is a massive c*** on track and this is just another one of those where he's decided that other drivers on the track are an irrelevance.
They were both right on the limit - note Max had left the track defending a previous corner as he was carrying too much speed.
Key line: "It is so important that the public have confidence in self isolation and in measures like the NHS app. Now would not be the time to take the batteries out of the smoke alarm."
Boris Johnson: “We did look briefly at the idea [of the pilot test scheme] but I think it’s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules.”
Called this one earlier. There absolutely was no plan to use the pilot scheme, says the same No 10 spokesperson who earlier said they were using the pilot scheme.
The obvious, blatant, laughable lies are the sign that they have lost the plot.
And people still wonder why Johnson pulled Lee Cain's bonkers idea of having a West Wing style press event every day on live TV with Allegra?
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
What you are witnessing is Evidence of Higher Intelligence
I can't totally rule that out but I very nearly can.
You're wrong. You're highly educated and reasonably intelligent, but you have a narrow, middlebrow world-view which is made even narrower by rigid political opinions formed in your youth
Some arguments go way over your head - and you don't even realise, because you are busy reacting emotionally/politically
There. You can have that psychoanalysis for free. I normally charge
As stated, I'm watching the golf rather than reacting to trolling.
Will Louis Oosthuizen hold onto his lead? I hope so. I quite like him. He has a rather sweet and unusual pre shot routine including for the putting. Kind of strokes his shaft a couple of times with both hands. Seems to work for him. I might try it myself.
Surprised they allow that, most golf courses I’ve played on you’re supposed to keep your shaft zipped away in your pants while actually playing.
The shaft of his CLUB is what I'm referring to there. He caresses it twice - double handed - before pulling the trigger.
Put it on and take a look. You won't be disappointed.
Interesting chat between Leon and Moonshine on PT that got me thinking - would one expect a correlation between a fear that superwokery is turning the UK into South Africa and a belief in flying saucers?
What you are witnessing is Evidence of Higher Intelligence
I can't totally rule that out but I very nearly can.
You're wrong. You're highly educated and reasonably intelligent, but you have a narrow, middlebrow world-view which is made even narrower by rigid political opinions formed in your youth
Some arguments go way over your head - and you don't even realise, because you are busy reacting emotionally/politically
There. You can have that psychoanalysis for free. I normally charge
As stated, I'm watching the golf rather than reacting to trolling.
Will Louis Oosthuizen hold onto his lead? I hope so. I quite like him. He has a rather sweet and unusual pre shot routine including for the putting. Kind of strokes his shaft a couple of times with both hands. Seems to work for him. I might try it myself.
Surprised they allow that, most golf courses I’ve played on you’re supposed to keep your shaft zipped away in your pants while actually playing.
The shaft of his CLUB is what I'm referring to there. He caresses it twice - double handed - before pulling the trigger.
Put it on and take a look. You won't be disappointed.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
The centre left and centre right are now asymmetric. To vote for a centre right government you have to vote Tory; there being no alternative. Three and a half (SNP) parties look for the centre left vote. Obviously this creates a great opportunity for coalition but has two dangers. Lots of people in the south who sometimes vote LD don't want a Labour led government. And the opportunities for carefully managing the campaign so as to split the centre left parties to Tory advantage is obvious.
And also, the further north you go in England the less people want the SNP having a say in government because northern England values the union. The further south you go, the less they want the SNP having a say in government because they are the SNP.
These will be big issues at election time even though they don't resonate much now.
Lovely day doing a bit of gardening and just popped in and lots going on in sport this afternoon
I am sure many on here would benefit to chill out for a day or so
Not much chance of that in this heat, BigG. Hope it’s a bit cooler on the coast but here it’s roasting.
Forecast would appear to indicate that today is the worst of it, although that much said most of the coming week looks pretty toasty as well. The aircon at work will be well appreciated tomorrow morning.
Key line: "It is so important that the public have confidence in self isolation and in measures like the NHS app. Now would not be the time to take the batteries out of the smoke alarm."
Lovely day doing a bit of gardening and just popped in and lots going on in sport this afternoon
I am sure many on here would benefit to chill out for a day or so
Not much chance of that in this heat, BigG. Hope it’s a bit cooler on the coast but here it’s roasting.
We do get the very welcome sea breezes but when I went into town this morning the beaches in Rhos on Sea and Colwyn Bay were absolutely packed and driving over the Little Orme into Llandudno, it could have been the French Riviera with the Great Orme looking fabulous and the promenade and pier utterly swamped with happy people, as well as the paddling pools.
Key line: "It is so important that the public have confidence in self isolation and in measures like the NHS app. Now would not be the time to take the batteries out of the smoke alarm."
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
Looking forward to being able to order drinks at the bar again tomorrow.
Really?
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
Indeed, I've thoroughly enjoyed not having to endure the scrum down at the bar. At all the pubs I've visited, ordering off the app is fine, service is efficient but then I don't frequent large city centre pubs on a Friday and Saturday evening which is where I suspect the profits are made.
The whole "crowds" thing is so old hat - most people want comfortable, congenial and civilised (well, I do and I'm "most people" having discovered I'm in a majority last evening)..
I've gone even further than that. On fine afternoons and evenings (like today) I often skip the pub entirely and take a chilled white wine to the park, and have a little picnic with friends.
The wine is vastly superior, you nibble summer fruits and cheese, the sun beats down, it is bliss. Who needs a pub?
I can't believe people are allowing a virus to alter their way of doing things.
I can't believe when you say something like that. Of a course a virus can and sometimes should alter peoples' ways of doing things. Could you not believe it when people allowed it to alter their way of doing things when a 1000 people were dying a day? I'd say that was very rational change.
The question is whether people should still be allowing it, and in the case of social situations, whether it has led to a change which is better for them - what's it to you if people don't want to go to the pub?
I remember talking with a schoolmate about 1983 in London, when I was a Medical Student and he was working in advertising. He was asking me about AIDS, which was going mainstream news at the time.
"Is it a problem for straight guys?" He asked. I thought about it and replied "not yet, but it may well be in a few years time".
He thought for a moment, then concluded "so you are saying that I should screw around as much as I can, while it is still safe?"
Me "Well, that is one interpretation of the data!"
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
The centre left and centre right are now asymmetric. To vote for a centre right government you have to vote Tory; there being no alternative. Three and a half (SNP) parties look for the centre left vote. Obviously this creates a great opportunity for coalition but has two dangers. Lots of people in the south who sometimes vote LD don't want a Labour led government. And the opportunities for carefully managing the campaign so as to split the centre left parties to Tory advantage is obvious.
And also, the further north you go in England the less people want the SNP having a say in government because northern England values the union. The further south you go, the less they want the SNP having a say in government because they are the SNP.
These will be big issues at election time even though they don't resonate much now.
One imagines that the SNP will be used as a stick with which to beat Labour, a la 2015, if it looks as if there's any chance of the Conservatives losing their majority and being turfed out. OTOH, if the Tories are doing so well that there's no apparent realistic prospect of defeat then they won't need to.
Should that be the case 13 or 14 years after Gordon Brown left office then Labour will be in a very bad way.
Boris Johnson: “We did look briefly at the idea [of the pilot test scheme] but I think it’s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules.”
But Johnson's legion of fans wont care. They are happy the country is led by a lying chaotic charlatan.
Polemic doesn't explain anything. Voters will cease to back Boris the moment a better option comes along. If Boris is as bad as his critics suggest proposing a better option ought not to be especially challenging. When Blair was the better option as LOTO the voters noticed this. The hint that the voters are fools is electoral suicide. Essentially this approach is "You know you support a lying charlatan, so you obviously are a bad person; so please vote Labour (or something)." This is pure Laura Pidcock, essentially saying: 'You are Tory scum, so vote for me instead'. it isn't true and doesn't work.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
The centre left and centre right are now asymmetric. To vote for a centre right government you have to vote Tory; there being no alternative. Three and a half (SNP) parties look for the centre left vote. Obviously this creates a great opportunity for coalition but has two dangers. Lots of people in the south who sometimes vote LD don't want a Labour led government. And the opportunities for carefully managing the campaign so as to split the centre left parties to Tory advantage is obvious.
And also, the further north you go in England the less people want the SNP having a say in government because northern England values the union. The further south you go, the less they want the SNP having a say in government because they are the SNP.
These will be big issues at election time even though they don't resonate much now.
One imagines that the SNP will be used as a stick with which to beat Labour, a la 2015, if it looks as if there's any chance of the Conservatives losing their majority and being turfed out. OTOH, if the Tories are doing so well that there's no apparent realistic prospect of defeat then they won't need to.
Should that be the case 13 or 14 years after Gordon Brown left office then Labour will be in a very bad way.
Already planning that. The Tories have deleted EVEL in order to make up their horror stories.
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
While I was the one who nicknamed him Max Vercrash’em, I think it’s a bit harsh to say that driving along a normal racing line is ‘to take such a risk.’
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
While I was the one who nicknamed him Max Vercrash’em, I think it’s a bit harsh to say that driving along a normal racing line is ‘to take such a risk.’
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
Given the relative performance of the two cars, he did likely have to get past on lap one if he wanted to win.
Commentator: "So Christian (Horner): what do you think Hamilton's penalty should be?" Horner: "Well, he should be immediately pulled out of the race and never allowed in anything more powerful than a Fergie tractor. He should never be allowed to have children, and when he dies the very earth that surrounds him should be salted."
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
While I was the one who nicknamed him Max Vercrash’em, I think it’s a bit harsh to say that driving along a normal racing line is ‘to take such a risk.’
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
I'm sorry, you don't get to weave across the track to try to prevent someone getting along side, move back, then take the racing line and expect the other guy who is along side to back off.
I suppose that it's theoretically possible, although a major disruption of the Tory grip on the South would require an earthquake approaching the strength of that which wrecked Scottish Labour in 2015. There are only about twenty Tory-held seats in Southern England available for the LDs to attack where they'd need to overturn majorities of less than ten thousand votes. The party doesn't look nearly strong enough to cause that scale of upset at the moment.
Let's take a case study - Woking. Last time, the Conservatives got 49% of the vote, the LDs 30% and Labour 16% with the Greens 3% and UKIP 1% (roughly).
Conservative majority a notch under 10,000 despite a swing of 9.3% to the LDs.
The LDs have never won Woking - in 1997, the Conservative vote fell below 40% (an Independent Conservative polled nearly 8%). Since then, the best LD performance was 38% in 2010 but the Conservative still polled 50% and the majority was just shy of 7,000.
The LDs have never polled above 40% in the constituency - Labour polled 24% in 2017 and lost a third of that last time. Their lowest poll was 8% in 2010.
At the County Council elections in May, the Conservatives won 41% of the vote, the LDs 30%, Labour 11.6% and Independents 10%. The Conservatives won 4 seats, the LDs 2 and the Independents 1.
It looks a tall order for the LDs.
People said the same about places like Glasgow North East in 2013. It fell to the SNP with a swing of 39.3% at the GE two years later.
I think the circumstances of the Scottish Independence Referendum were rather unusual though. Simple government incompetence is unlikely to lead to the same swings. Even the post-Brexit realignment has so far taken two general elections to play out, and may have more left to see at the next GE.
Very true, and always worth remembering that any potential LD recovery in the South will only make a serious dent in the Conservative majority if the number of gains significantly exceeds whatever the Tories might pick up themselves. The possibility of the Conservatives holding seats with reduced majorities down South, whilst knocking over another couple of dozen Labour marginals up North, oughtn't to be discounted.
The centre left and centre right are now asymmetric. To vote for a centre right government you have to vote Tory; there being no alternative. Three and a half (SNP) parties look for the centre left vote. Obviously this creates a great opportunity for coalition but has two dangers. Lots of people in the south who sometimes vote LD don't want a Labour led government. And the opportunities for carefully managing the campaign so as to split the centre left parties to Tory advantage is obvious.
And also, the further north you go in England the less people want the SNP having a say in government because northern England values the union. The further south you go, the less they want the SNP having a say in government because they are the SNP.
These will be big issues at election time even though they don't resonate much now.
One imagines that the SNP will be used as a stick with which to beat Labour, a la 2015, if it looks as if there's any chance of the Conservatives losing their majority and being turfed out. OTOH, if the Tories are doing so well that there's no apparent realistic prospect of defeat then they won't need to.
Should that be the case 13 or 14 years after Gordon Brown left office then Labour will be in a very bad way.
Yes. For these reasons I think the chance of a Tory overall majority next time are just under 50%, about the same as a Labour led coalition. A case could be made for suggesting the chance of a Tory majority is well above 50%, if you think it unavoidable that support for a rainbow coalition will wither due to the SNP, and that the traditional moderate LD vote will return in numbers to the Tories once it is obvious to the apolitical that an LD vote is a Labour/SNP vote.
What can be discounted for now is a rival for the Tory vote from the right. Many of Boris's critics fail to comprehend that his job (both for party and nation) includes averting a strong extreme right wing party gaining ground. I think (other views are available) that Boris is better at that than SKS is at marginalising the extreme left; without which he is toast.
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
While I was the one who nicknamed him Max Vercrash’em, I think it’s a bit harsh to say that driving along a normal racing line is ‘to take such a risk.’
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
I'm sorry, you don't get to weave across the track to try to prevent someone getting along side, move back, then take the racing line and expect the other guy who is along side to back off.
Since from what I have seen of the accident he didn’t do that, I’m not sure what your point is. Certainly Hamilton wasn’t ‘alongside’, he was lunging to get alongside.
The hospital admissions haven't been updated since Tuesday. Once the numbers come up-to-date the value reported for "freedom day" tomorrow will likely be somewhere in the ballpark of 900.
I reckon that the finger starts hovering over the lockdown button once they pass 1,000 per day and keep going up for about ten days after that; if that happens then we should be looking out for signs of real panic in Government from around the start of August.
Well that makes no sense. Either it's not Hamilton's fault or he should be black flagged and banned for a number of races.
Well, Red Bull seem to agree with you, but I think that’s just because they hate Hamilton’s guts.
I was wondering recently how Verstappen doesn't win the title this season. And I think we found out today. Hamilton had to get past him otherwise it was done. The same wasn't true if he had pulled it off. Verstappen doesn't need to take such risks to win races at the moment. That he did today shows that he has a weakness.
While I was the one who nicknamed him Max Vercrash’em, I think it’s a bit harsh to say that driving along a normal racing line is ‘to take such a risk.’
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
I'm sorry, you don't get to weave across the track to try to prevent someone getting along side, move back, then take the racing line and expect the other guy who is along side to back off.
Since from what I have seen of the accident he didn’t do that, I’m not sure what your point is. Certainly Hamilton wasn’t ‘alongside’, he was lunging to get alongside.
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Totally different game.
The question is whether people should still be allowing it, and in the case of social situations, whether it has led to a change which is better for them - what's it to you if people don't want to go to the pub?
BBC News - Covid: UK faces a difficult summer, says leading scientist
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57877033
I suspect she has rather more of interest to say on the subject than you do. On every subject now I come to think of it.
Will Louis Oosthuizen hold onto his lead? I hope so. I quite like him. He has a rather sweet and unusual pre shot routine including for the putting. Kind of strokes his shaft a couple of times with both hands. Seems to work for him. I might try it myself.
My guess is that the concern is that if we shift the focus to vaccinating children we will end up limiting the adult uptake, even if the programme remains open to unvaccinated adults, and that would be less useful to limiting the effect and spread of the virus.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/09/french-posters-of-kissing-couples-promote-desirable-side-of-covid-jab
Given the tendency of some on the right to say "if you haven't got immunity yet, it's your fault", I wonder how many government types comprehend the concept of doing something (wear a mask, get a vaccination) for the sake of others.
BoZo thinks you are an idiot.
Why do you vote for him?
As I mentioned earlier this week, if the JCVI say no for 18-39 year olds getting a booster shot my wife and I are planning to go to Switzerland to get them done. Vaccines, at this point, should be available to anyone who wants one and eligibility for booster shots should be based on two doses + 6 months including all adults.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1416765667970371584
https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1416764592043315204
A video aimed at the gullible who still vote for BoZo despite his explicit contempt.
This government quite typically doesn’t have the foresight to think even one step ahead of what their decision means.
And I'm not having this "you don't stick a wheel up the inside of Copse" line that RedBull are peddling.
This is only going to make younger adults wonder whether they too are more at risk from the vaccine than from Covid. Combine that with the trashing the vaccines are receiving from some of the media now, because double-vaccinated people have been catching Covid, and I think that deciding not to mass vaccinate teenagers looks like a lack of confidence in their efficacy and safety.
Based on current boundaries, a uniform 5% Con to LD swing would cost the Tories 13 seats (two in the North, eleven in the South.) A 2% Lab to Con swing would net the Tories 18 seats (two in the South, two in Wales, six in the Midlands and eight in the North.) A 10% Con to LD swing would net the Lib Dems 26 seats; a 5% Lab to Con swing would result in 44 Tory gains and reduce the PLP to a rump.
Relative to UNS, the Conservatives still have an awful lot more to gain from a modest overperformance in their target seats versus Labour than they have to lose from a modest underperformance against the Lib Dems in their defences. That's not to say that this won't eventually change, but a substantial demolition of Tory redoubts in Southern England might be a project for several electoral cycles, as has evidently been the case with Labour's woes elsewhere.
Drove hard down the inside taking a line designed to force another car off the track.
Hits car before he gets there.
Writes off rival’s car, stops race and gets to repair his own.
If he gets off without a penalty, Hamilton is a genius, but he deserves a drive through.
Lewis has left Max more than enough room on the outside and the reason Max is turning in is because he knows the overtake is done if he doesn't.
No wonder he thinks you are an idiot.
Racing incident, IMO, but Hamilton probably a bit more of the two to blame.
But while great in a chat show guest or party chairman, I want competence not LOLs from my PM.
It was a 50/50, but MV has had that coming to him for a while now.
That said, 5 seconds is the standard penalty, and Lewis will take that all day long.
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1416769028186595329
Looked at briefly? Until the u-Turn we were told that was the actual plan. Indeed Robert Jenrick was sent out to defend it. https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1416769617058467845
But Johnson's legion of fans wont care. They are happy the country is led by a lying chaotic charlatan.
BoZo thinks his voters are idiots. They think it's funny.
The obvious, blatant, laughable lies are the sign that they have lost the plot.
Lovely day doing a bit of gardening and just popped in and lots going on in sport this afternoon
I am sure many on here would benefit to chill out for a day or so
Key line: "It is so important that the public have confidence in self isolation and in measures like the NHS app. Now would not be the time to take the batteries out of the smoke alarm."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bank-robber-boris-johnsons-latest-24561026?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Starmer adds: "This is why the chaotic, incompetent way Boris Johnson conducts himself is so dangerous. It makes for bad government & has deadly consequences for the British public."
How many deleted the app today when it emerged our PM had a "VIP" testing plan to get round it?
Horner will be unhappy…
Put it on and take a look. You won't be disappointed.
And also, the further north you go in England the less people want the SNP having a say in government because northern England values the union. The further south you go, the less they want the SNP having a say in government because they are the SNP.
These will be big issues at election time even though they don't resonate much now.
"Is it a problem for straight guys?" He asked. I thought about it and replied "not yet, but it may well be in a few years time".
He thought for a moment, then concluded "so you are saying that I should screw around as much as I can, while it is still safe?"
Me "Well, that is one interpretation of the data!"
And indeed that is what we did...
Should that be the case 13 or 14 years after Gordon Brown left office then Labour will be in a very bad way.
Hamilton was reckless. Not lethally so as Horner claimed, but unnecessarily. You don’t have to try and force your way past on lap 1. It was reminiscent of some of Schumacher’s less edifying driving (e.g. the time he thumped Coulthard in I think Argentina in 1998).
Ten seconds seems about fair for being overly aggressive. And it doesn’t rule him out of winning.
The 60% pretend they wont be by 'their side'.
Horner: "Well, he should be immediately pulled out of the race and never allowed in anything more powerful than a Fergie tractor. He should never be allowed to have children, and when he dies the very earth that surrounds him should be salted."
What can be discounted for now is a rival for the Tory vote from the right. Many of Boris's critics fail to comprehend that his job (both for party and nation) includes averting a strong extreme right wing party gaining ground. I think (other views are available) that Boris is better at that than SKS is at marginalising the extreme left; without which he is toast.
I wonder if there's been any calculation done on rates of increase, rates of fall and total number infected ? Looks like an old calculus problem.
I reckon that the finger starts hovering over the lockdown button once they pass 1,000 per day and keep going up for about ten days after that; if that happens then we should be looking out for signs of real panic in Government from around the start of August.
https://twitter.com/khooper8695/status/1416764939235102721