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Let us talk about the man who wanted to castrate Michael Gove – politicalbetting.com
Let us talk about the man who wanted to castrate Michael Gove – politicalbetting.com
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said supporters of Pen Farthing, a charity worker trying to evacuate animals from Afghanistan, have “taken up too much time” of the senior commanders dealing with the humanitarian crisishttps://t.co/fJIlI9ew5j
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-stayed-on-holiday-for-two-days-after-he-was-called-back-pxhb58rb6
As I noted last weekend.
As has been pointed out the list of things Dominic Raab has failed to see coming includes ‘1. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; 2. The importance of the Good Friday Agreement and its fragility post Brexit; 3. The importance of the UK’s proximity to Calais re imports/exports of goods‘, things he was specifically warned about.
If that doesn't scream incompetent then I don't know what does.
I would say the political fate of not just Biden but also Johnson will rest heavily on whose hands those poor people fall into. If it’s the Taliban, and a back room deal can be struck to get them out, fantastic. If it’s ISIS/AQ then it could get pretty grim.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm
On May 25, 2021, the Marin County Department of Public Health (MCPH) was notified by an elementary school that on May 23, an unvaccinated teacher had reported receiving a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The teacher reported becoming symptomatic on May 19, but continued to work for 2 days before receiving a test on May 21. On occasion during this time, the teacher read aloud unmasked to the class despite school requirements to mask while indoors. Beginning May 23, additional cases of COVID-19 were reported among other staff members, students, parents, and siblings connected to the school. To characterize the outbreak, on May 26, MCPH initiated case investigation and contact tracing that included whole genome sequencing (WGS) of available specimens. A total of 27 cases were identified, including that of the teacher. During May 23–26, among the teacher’s 24 students, 22 students, all ineligible for vaccination because of age, received testing for SARS-CoV-2; 12 received positive test results. The attack rate in the two rows seated closest to the teacher’s desk was 80% (eight of 10) and was 28% (four of 14) in the three back rows…
The show was much more graphic.
Oh, sorry, ...Theon
ETA this might be wrong but is consistent with what the Defence Secretary has said. Perhaps an extra team might be commissioned to sort out the animals.
I wonder if Ben Wallace may resign once the immediate Afghan crisis is over? Reading between the lines, he seems fairly pissed off with Raab/FCO and with Boris (and/or Carrie), and he strikes me as if he may have a sense of honour/principle. Next Cabinet Minister out?
Not really convinced by the Header.
Is there not a reshuffle due in a few months' time, and Wallace seems to be having a decent run? Why would he go now or soon?
In addition he clearly didn't understand JIT. He seemed to think it was about perishable goods.
Would never have happened with a Herdson Saturday offering.....
NZ had 81 up from their previous high of 62 in this wave. The tone has changed there in the last couple of days from "we've got this" to a "tough week ahead". Personally I think they have lost control of it. Too many people to accurately track with Delta.
"On topic I wonder if Ben Wallace could be the next to go. Not because he will be fired, but resigns. He is doing a stirring effort in defending the Govt position, but he has also appeared very unhappy about what happened. I wonder if he is the sort who although he might want to resign is also someone who doesn't do so when there is a problem that needs sorting first. He seems genuinely upset by what has happened"
Just saying....
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00475-8/fulltext
(The effect relating to vaccinated isn’t clear from the data - since there are far fewer hospitalisations.)
https://twitter.com/heidiallen75/status/1431522683225841664
https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1328355643300917249
So I am a bit hesitant to jump on board with the >90% efficacy results because the time scale of the phase 3 studies thus far match the time scale of the temporary plasmablast duration and the antibodies they produced...
… even if it becomes 50% to stop total symptomatic disease, it could remain 90% to stop severe disease. This, like testing and everything else is simply NOT a binary issue and also is NOT a simple issue meant for describing over Twitter....
Compare Libya 2017 ("Once they've cleared up the dead bodies") and NZR. Dead and distressed darkies are intrinsically comic.
Seriously though, who wants to make a stand defending *that*.
Resigning worked for him, and resigning from this shitshow will be a badge of honour in the future
Surely the doctor would have said if she’s likely to have Covid, no?
Do we really like dogs more than brown people?
Was it the great American lawyer, F Lee Bailey who said that as a child he was told that anyone could become President, and now he was starting to believe it?
But in any case, resigning would not help his cause, so I expect he will not do so.
I wonder how Pen wotsit's reputation will survive.
All that rhetoric about 'plane will be filled with people where for places our staff don't take', getting into bed with Dominic Dyer, all that trolling from supporters and the rest.
Leaving the Afghani staff to the Taliban's mercies is, or ought to be, a real scandal. Don't confound it with cats and dogs.
Never seen before, and very welcome.
My wife had tow or three throat infections during her pregnancies. I don't know if one of the side effects of pregnancy is an increased susceptibility to that sort of thing, but it doesn't sound implausible.
Still not nice for her (or you) but hopefully the antibiotics will sort her out.
I'd still like to know what the limiting factor(s) in getting people out of Kabul was. Was it airlift capacity? Airfield capacity? Documentation/bureaucracy?
On that basis, Wallace is toast.
The workforce crunch (500k workers!!!) means that stacks of piggy wiggy woos and other foodstock animals can't go for the chop. Which means that the usual Christmas ranges can't be produced, which will lead to a glut of non-seasonal product later in the autumn as Mr Pig and Mr Turkey has to get turned into *something* so go for the lowest effort option instead of luxury pings in blankets or that delicious Iceland 7 Bird Roast.
You may not be able to get your planned nice meats this year. But you'll be able to get piles of bangers for a song. Buy a chest freezer...
GPs ordered to halt all non-urgent blood tests across England until September
Incredible that you can read a whole article about this potentially life-threatening situation without a single mention of the word Brexit
https://t.co/O9bgwU1pFo
https://twitter.com/GreenPartyMolly/status/1431213618004176900?s=19
All there to be asset stripped no doubt by the new owners.
(For avoidance of doubt, this is a bad thing.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/women-are-entering-a-trucking-industry-that-s-not-built-for-them
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm
I'm not even sure that Anglia Ruskin which has more undergraduates than Cambridge University, albeit not all studying on the Cambridge campus, has a local GP registration rule.
Target indicator economics suggests that
1. officials in areas where vaccinations take place will rush to add them to the tally, but
2. officials in Cambridge - where presumably GPs' offices are informed when patients get vaccinated elsewhere - won't hesitate much in removing elsewhere-jabbed patients from their denominators.
That said, 2. would be counteracted by the expectation of funds, not necessarily directly SARSCoV2-themed, for the size of those denominators.
Canterbury is probably more studenty than Cambridge and is at 71%.
Then there's Kensington and Chelsea at 50%.
Some are blaming the unvaccinated for a lot, so it would be interesting to know more about who they are.
https://capx.co/will-supply-shortages-choke-the-economic-recovery/
Should have been Gove's father that was castrated.
But, somehow, this has really not grabbed me this time. Its too far away, the timing is difficult, the coverage is limited and the lack of crowds really hurts. Strangely it seems to hurt even more when the participants are not household names. I have barely watched half an hour of the Paralympics so far. I regret that but it is what it is.
One part does amuse me, though: "Missing “birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, being out here by yourself on Christmas, being out here by yourself on Mother’s Day—these are the things a lot of people aren’t prepared for,” says Ingrid Brown, the owner-operator of North Carolina-based trucking company Rollin’ B LLC."
Many people seem to forget that many men don't like having to miss birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, etc, etc. A friend of mine is often travelling on business, for months at a time. His wife (once a very good engineer) loves the housewife life, and good for her. But he hates the fact he misses so much of his kids' childhood. But someone needs to earn the money.
It's probably impossible for someone in long-distance trucking, especially in a country like America, to live a 'normal' home life. And there are a surprisingly large number of jobs like that, from shift work to the military. If you want to do those jobs, there are consequences.
No commercial operator is going to take that risk for a load of Aghan scrandies.
PF is an ex-42 bootie and likes animals more than people so he's a top bloke.
Only, 5-6 weeks to go now, and, writing as a father of three and grandfather of seven, a new set of worries will take over!
Good morning, everyone.
I quite like Morrisons. Their fruit and veg are good.
https://twitter.com/Zero_4/status/1431372211068227590
The vast majority of even feral dogs are commensal with humans. In Moscow some take the tube from where they live, beg, and then catch the tube back home again later in the day.