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The afternoon must watch – politicalbetting.com
?The Foreign Secretary will appear during an extraordinary session from 2pm.??Tom Tugendhat, the committee chairman, bemoaned the fact that he has "sadly only granted us an hour, which I don't think is particularly long, given the scale of the crisis"https://t.co/YUZzxXHCVb
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Not least since society is not a linear path to utopia.
6020 years.It achieved nothing, he couldn't have achieved much on his own, but makes everyone feel better for no noticeable gain.
Genuine question
Could you tell me what job you do? I would love to apply for a similar one, as you always seem to find the time during the day to be on here.
Nothing has changed that opinion.
https://twitter.com/MarkReckless/status/1432810200155688966
FPPPT but on topic:
Why does Raab-bit sentimentalism have such a hold amongst Taiwanese?
Obviously one of the 12, and the god for gays seems to be a rabbit.
Anything else?
Very very easy. You will get the address (google or recommendation from your hotel) of a friendly doctor's practice, you will rock up, they will wave the swab around in the general vicinity of your face and pronounce you fit to fly.
€25 very badly spent but what can you do. I slightly bridled at the fact that were it positive you would NOT BE ALLOWED TO FLY INTO YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
Ponder that, @contrarian -haters.
Its not like I'm going out at those times now!
But I've actually been online less here recently anyway.
Why are rabbits sentimentalised in Taiwan?
They are simply a common pet, and an animal not eaten.
My observation, which kicked off quite a discussion, was in response to someone getting grief for eating guinea pig in Peru.
The point being that all cultures divide animals into pets, food, vermin and indifferent.
Not always similarly, nor logically.
As for Raab.Well I know which way I'd categorise him.
Not to forget that's a mere 5% who died within 28 days of a test, not necessarily who died from Covid.
So a good comparison in some ways might actually be dogs in the UK?
We may not be dying by the thousand every day thank God. But we are still a massively infected island, infection rates remain very very high compared to most other countries and its no wonder that we remain on restricted country lists in so many places.
The entire planet needs to learn to live with the virus. Of course countries that haven't as successfully handled Covid19 as Britain so are less vaccinated than us will be terrified of Delta letting rip there - if I was in New Zealand or Australia right now it'd be a real concern.
I'm delighted that we vaccinated ourselves first ahead of the world. The rest of the world needs to catch up with us in learning to live with the virus, that's not a bad thing, its just a sign of our huge success that we got there before them.
I'd disagree - Deaths with Covid on the death certificate exceed deaths after 28 days of a positive test so there are always a few more people that die from Covid than the 28 day cut-off rather than the other way round.
No one is talking about ending life Philip. But you are overstating your case considerably trying to claim this is over. It isn't.
Excess deaths (which is what ultimately matters) are very considerably lower than both deaths within 28 days and deaths with it on the certificate.
The epidemic is over. We're now in the endemic phase not the epidemic phase.
This will never be "over" if you mean no more cases, that's not what endemic means, but nor is it what epidemic means either.
Again he is talking sense on covid.
Though as it was Biden who led this withdrawal and set the timetable Raab cannot be blamed too much for it and for those left behind to face the Taliban
The problem of course is that whilst England can think like that it doesn't mean the rest of the world has to agree and do what we say. We're going to end up getting mandatory quarantine going anywhere off this island at this rate.
UKGB was the world then perhaps. But it isn't...The Brits sentimalise - the French eat them
Many, many moons ago I was on holiday for a fortnight in the Dominican Republic on a package holiday. Thomson (as it was then called) only one flight per week to and from the island and the UK. We made friends with another couple who were there only for a week. While they were at the airport to head back home he became physically ill and so was taken to hospital and they weren't able to board the plane, so she was returned to the resort and he returned to the resort the next day too. As they'd missed the flight, their one week holiday became an unplanned two week one, but they needed to claim on the travel insurance to cover the costs of both the extended stay and the hospital visit.
It's quite clear to me that we need to keep our boot on the throat of the Delta variant worldwide until it fizzles out.
Which is why they need to catch up with us. 🤷♂️
Yes we are right and no the rest of the world isn't "wrong" they're just behind us in vaccinating their populace. Some are catching up with us, that can only be a good thing.
We had more restrictions before we were as vaccinated as we are too, quite appropriate they do too.
Basic, but I thought it would cover the bases.
But you will need a fit to fly and unless you trust your internet to do one using that then a local docs is your best bet - took me all of 5-8 mins from turning up to the clinic to (miraculous) negative result.
I then did take the Randox Day 2 test (negative) but pondered the use of doing so.
But that is contractual stuff.
Not allowing people into a country with assorted poxes is basic legal stuff - the means being irrelevant, e.g. Venetian galley, 747, who cares? - but it redounds on the airline in question, so ...
Sounds more than just contractual.
What I think they are referring to is her claim that these are new deals. Whilst they are a new bilateral agreement they are not new trading arrangements. And yet the claim is made repeatedly that they are.
I haven't gone abroad since last January. Yet I have been to two weddings and numerous family events, plus trade fairs with hundreds of people. I have a much higher risk of having caught anything than from a holiday to a place which may have a lower prevalence of Covid than here.
Scrap the tests. Get back to normal. Covid is another risk. We have to live with it now.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1433053756078317572?s=20
So they eat almost anything and everything out of the sea. But chicken and pork really from the land. Beef less so. Mutton rare, and I think probably all imported for Mongolian hotpots. Almost nothing else.
Not the weird and wonderful variety of fauna eaten in bits of China.
The deal here: No Restrictions – Moderate Risk is probably the best we can hope for at the moment.
I would be interested in your reply
Does this mean that people have never flown or been allowed to fly while they have had the flu?
I seem to recall saying the smart thing to do would be for pre-existing deals is to copy and paste the existing deals where possible to get the new deals - and I was laughed at by multiple Remainers on here for suggesting that and was repeatedly told that wouldn't be possible and that we'd be "over a barrel" and other countries would "hold all the cards" and we couldn't possibly get the same terms outside the EU.
Then Truss did exactly what I said we should do - and that Remainers said was impossible - and now Remainers like yourself [including now yourself since your jump to the Lib Dems] claim that its not important and something to be scornful about.
Funny how that works isn't it?
But not to worry. @Charles will supply us with chapter and verse.
He seemed so confident and I am looking forward to reading the actual ordinance.
Will I campaign to preserve the status quo? No. Do I want scottish independence? No. But we WILL end up independent unless the union is made fit for the future. Westminster choosing to expel NI from the free trade zone and telling Scotland their votes count for nothing imperils the whole shebang.