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There have been huge divisions in the SNP over Alex Salmond. They are now likely to play out in public. The ramifications could be huge.
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I may back Salmonk for the next leader of the SNP if the price is attractive.
He has been acquitted, but surely his political career is over.
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Well, if what your alleging is the case, there will be further legal action to come.
It was stated in the evidence from the court that 6 of them were in a Whatsapp group discussing the allegations.
https://twitter.com/andrewcooper__/status/1241702344095682565?s=21
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/488990-klobuchar-says-her-husband-tested-positive-for-coronavirus
I rather like Ms Sturgeon's no-nonsense approach!
I did not say it proved anything merely that they were online comparing stories which I imagine is unusual, though I have no legal qualifications..
One story about him. Some years ago he was acting as the AD (Prosecutor). He stands up to make his speech to the Jury.
"They, (he says pointing to the accused) think that you're daft. I don't."
Sits down.
Guilty.
I was supposed to be doing a proof (civil trial) against him next month. Its gone off as a result of the virus.
Thank God he resisted the temptation to say 'fishy'...
They have it under fairly tight control, but the big question is when they might be able to relax that.
But yes, they are doing way better than us.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/03/119_286620.html
...Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul and Incheon, saw their new daily infections rise by 20 to 721 on Sunday.
With unknown virus patients without immediate symptoms apparently causing significant numbers of infections, the government has called for people to avoid nonessential gatherings in crowded places.
South Korea began implementing stricter rules on social distancing on Sunday to slow the coronavirus pandemic.
Citizens are strongly urged to stay at home, except for essential needs or jobs, with the government also restricting religious gatherings, indoor sports activities and attendance at entertainment facilities, such as night clubs and karaoke rooms.
Amid a steady rise in imported virus cases, South Korea has enforced a two-week quarantine period for all long-term arrivals from Europe, regardless of symptoms....
Mr Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee at 5pm today, then update the country on the latest social distancing measures Downing Street will impose.
The address, which is expected at around 7pm this evening, will likely include the closure of all shops except supermarkets, food stores and pharmacies.
The new measures come as the NHS announced 46 more people have died from Covid-19 in England in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of UK deaths to 335
https://twitter.com/Piers_Corbyn/status/1239367865784033280
Interesting to see how many of Singapore's cases are coming from the UK - 34 new British-originated cases found there today. (FWIW Singaporeans in the UK are heavily concentrated in London.)
If the Telegraph is right about that then the government's actions are not driven by evidence or experts but by assorted girly swots panicking at news headlines (oh, and Boris is losing control after less than six months).
ETA that is the political story, not Salmond.
So 54 = 46 (Eng.) + 8 (other parts of UK)
would be my interpretation of that.
1. Even in lockdown people will be allowed to shop. Indeed in Spain its one of the only reasons to be allowed out. We will see a lot of people shopping a lot in lockdown
2. There is not as yet shortage of products in the entire supply chain - we haven't run out of bog rolls. What we have is a supply chain that can move a finite amount of product every night - a relatively inflexible number of pallet footprints available per store per day. Stock may well be in a warehouse somewhere unable to be dropped to stores in sufficient quantities.
3. Morrisons have a nightly high-level logistics meeting discussing what stock goes to where leaving who short. The other multiple grocers will be doing a similar exercise. I can go onto one of their stock systems now and check how much of the lines we produce they have at store and distribution centre level. They can both have stock and be out of stock in some stores simultaneously if the stock isn't uniformly distributed or demand isn't even across all stores.
4. These retailers were set up to operate on an acceptable level of off-sales. As an example Sainsbury's are content with 89% availability from shelf for fresh produce - 11% of all lines can be off-sale and that is ok. Store systems only reorder when stock is really low often with a delivery the following night merched the day after that arrangement. A sudden surge in sales can leave the store out of stock completely for half the week.
5. Fresh produce will undoubtedly become very tight from a stock perspective. You can't keep large buffer stocks in depots on short life stuff, and what buffer they had will already have been sold. Which explains the wholescale shortages in big supermarkets and why my local farm shop is the busiest I have ever seen it.
There will be *some* things to buy. Just won't be what people want. Ironically the closure of restaurants and especially fast food will be a run on stuff like frozen pizza and ready meals. I used to work for one of the major ready meal manufacturers, their big problem is available labour, and thats at the best of times...
Scotland 4
Wales 4
Total = 54
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ETA 8.06 am on the "live" page
PM facing 'full-scale cabinet mutiny' if there is no lockdown
Boris Johnson is facing a "full scale mutiny" from his cabinet and senior aides if he does not enforce a lockdown of London including restrictions on non-essential travel, according to reports.
Cabinet ministers and aides want the Prime Minister to bring in French or Italian-style lockdown measures in the next 24 hours. Yesterday he warned "tougher measures" could be introduced if people do not take the Government's coronavirus advice seriously.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-latest-lockdown-panic-buying-news-cases-nhs/
For real?
As Varadkar said today decisions are not made with reference to twitter or journalists but to the advice of his medical and science advisors
And that is where I stand
They can apply for an advance which will be with them shortly.
The advance will be deducted from the next 12 months worth of payments.
Fingers crossed.
Indeed. The curve seems – mercifully – to be somewhat slower here.
Question re testing you may not know the answer to Foxy - are we testing everyone who is ill/dies of/with breathing difficulties?
Paid for [National] Insurance and can't make a claim? Thats the IDS Neverpay clause. Only make a payment to the righteous and unfortunately if you have fallen enough to need UC you aren't worthy enough to get any.
Believe me, this will run and run.
And it's nowt to do with Yoons versus Nats.
If they are down it will be the second day in a row, and might support @rcs1000 's claim a fortnight ago that lockdowns a) work and b) have a lag of about a fortnight
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/highestnumberofexcesswinterdeathssince19992000/2015-11-25
2014/15 Excess Winter deaths due to flu were 44000, thats between 400-500 extra deaths each day. It didn't even make the news.
France's numbers don't seem to be increasing at the same huge rate as Spain or Italy were, so I'm hopeful it won't be hit quite as badly, and the lockdown is likely to be extended and strengthened tonight.
EDIT - especially if they've compared the 7th with the 21st, which was 2 days ago?
If in the end the mortality is in 5 figures or less, that will be because of the measures that we take, not that there was no threat in the first place.
These comparisons are quite frankly crap anyway, since it the effect is different in each country.
1. There is no lockdown (but some closures)
2. Health service is limited with equipment shortages etc.
3. Outbreak took off before Italy
4. Ok, official numbers are suspect, but they would need to be wrong for deaths by orders of magnitude. Evidence for this would be appearing.
I’m assuming it is a private landlord?
Cobra to meet at 5.00pm and Boris to address the nation around 7.00pm
Only when we do mass antibody testing will we find out.
Of course it may well be that over the next few days our numbers will continue to be better than their equivalent numbers after that one outlier, and so our line will continue to diverge from theirs. But let's not jump to conclusions yet.
Did the news in February 2015 start each night with 500 people have died today of flu bringing the total this winter to 35,000?
Currently positive: 50418 (+3780 net increase)
including 3204 in ICU
Deaths: 602
Healed: 408
Total new cases: 4789 (1555 of them in Lombardia)
https://twitter.com/BenKentish/status/1242112493532655618