Starmer has a net positive rating of +50 to Corbyn's -54 in the poll though (albeit only +21% including Don't Knows) but his only gains so far seem to be from the LDs in terms of voting intention.
Starmer most popular with younger voters, voters in London and the West Midlands and middle class ABC1 voters and graduates.
Starmer least popular though with working class C2DE voters and those without qualifications
There are open goals for Starmer to score in:
Why has the government been so lax about people entering the UK ?
Why has the government allowed a situation where so much of the UK's pharmaceutical and medical supplies are imported ?
But Starmer is also a cheerleader for the globalist agenda so wont even notice those goals are open.
Starmer has a net positive rating of +50 to Corbyn's -54 in the poll though (albeit only +21% including Don't Knows) but his only gains so far seem to be from the LDs in terms of voting intention.
And defections amongst party members...
who is defecting?
Lib Dem to Lab or Lab to SWP?
I haven't seen anything to suggest its large numbers in ether way, but I'm not following closely.
Good article, though with a fast-moving pandemic the risk is that a series of deputies go down in turn. For that matter, we need some contingency planning in case the next pandemic is worse and a whole bunch of Cabinet Ministers fall ill at the same time as the PM.
On a lighter note, thanks for the entertaining responses to my wine-and-omelette exploration. Tomorrow, I'm considering cooking pasta, also for the first time. I've got some "artisan Tortaglione" from Sainsbury (spirally things) which I bought when bargaining for 2-week isolation (all the cheap pasta had been panic-bought, but anyway I thought that pasta virginity should be broken with some good stuff), and some tomato sauce. Just boil them, right? There are rather a lot of them, I wonder if they'll keep if I eat half? (Where is Cyclefree?)
The wine, by the way, is Politically Correct. Given to me by a leftie friend, it's 19 Crimes red wine from Australia, based on a riot in 1904 against a rum tax. The rebels were punished with a variety of trumped-up charges, and with each bottle you can find one of the crimes inscribed on the cork. I have "Assault with attempt to rob". It's very good. (The wine, not the assault.)
Breaking and entering should be inscribed on the label at the top of the bottle.
Haven't tried it though I've seen it on the shelves, seemed very over marketed. This review suggests it wouldn't be my thing in any case:
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
I've come to the conclusion that all of the lobby journalists need to be taken out the back and shot. They've allowed the government to get away with a middling to poor response to the virus. The level of scrutiny has been absolutely shocking, the obsession with the Westminster stories on who has the launch codes is a complete waste of everyone's time and we're still behind on testing and PPE provision.
I'm not saying either of this issues is easy to solve, they aren't. However, the lack of any kind of hard questioning has basically let the government off the hook on both while there are doctors and nurses putting themselves at risk all day every day. The lack of testing available for NHS staff means there are frontline staff working themselves to death right now and no one is taking responsibility for that. It's just not good enough.
It's almost as though ministers think that we won't notice if they are able to keep quiet enough about it, but I have friends and family on the front line. Loads of people do, the stories are absolutely shocking at the moment. Any other profession would have gone on strike by now over the working conditions being imposed by the government.
Overall my rating of the government response had gone from a B- to a D, no longer a passing grade. The willful endangerment of our frontline NHS staff is, IMO, beyond the pale and both Hancock needs to pay the price. Boris has serious questions to answer as well, so do all of the members of SAGE who advised the government to allow sporting and other major gatherings to take place (Cheltenham, football matches etc...) knowing that it could cause a huge spike in cases well before we would have the testing capacity and PPE provision available to give us a way out of this mess.
I have no doubt that any other party/government would have taken exactly the same path, this isn't a party question, the government is just unlucky in that they had to deal with this mess, but bad luck isn't an excuse for bad decisions.
The likes of Whitty, Vallance and all the other Sir Humphreys have been exposed as not up to it.
Good article, though with a fast-moving pandemic the risk is that a series of deputies go down in turn. For that matter, we need some contingency planning in case the next pandemic is worse and a whole bunch of Cabinet Ministers fall ill at the same time as the PM.
On a lighter note, thanks for the entertaining responses to my wine-and-omelette exploration. Tomorrow, I'm considering cooking pasta, also for the first time. I've got some "artisan Tortaglione" from Sainsbury (spirally things) which I bought when bargaining for 2-week isolation (all the cheap pasta had been panic-bought, but anyway I thought that pasta virginity should be broken with some good stuff), and some tomato sauce. Just boil them, right? There are rather a lot of them, I wonder if they'll keep if I eat half? (Where is Cyclefree?)
The wine, by the way, is Politically Correct. Given to me by a leftie friend, it's 19 Crimes red wine from Australia, based on a riot in 1904 against a rum tax. The rebels were punished with a variety of trumped-up charges, and with each bottle you can find one of the crimes inscribed on the cork. I have "Assault with attempt to rob". It's very good. (The wine, not the assault.)
Breaking and entering should be inscribed on the label at the top of the bottle.
Why? Have you lost your corkscrew?
That reminded me of a Monty Python sketch about Australian wines.
Do we have any indication of how many people are still going to work i.e. essentially workers? when you add in NHS shop workers, transport, food prosesing and so on it must be significant but I cant find an estamat out there
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS) 2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH) 3) Still employed but not working 4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
Why are they asking her to apologise? And I don't see how the two are related. Corbyn was responsible for discipline in the Labour party. Is Patel as home secretary responsible for PPE?
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
Do we have any indication of how many people are still going to work i.e. essentially workers? when you add in NHS shop workers, transport, food prosesing and so on it must be significant but I cant find an estamat out there
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS) 2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH) 3) Still employed but not working 4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
No - the people who are still going to work are those who can't work from home. There's no general prohibition on non-essential work continuing.
Pritti doing OK on police questions compared to the one requiring actual empathy with frontline plight in NHS and inability to apologise properly Wouldathunk
What study is that based on? It suggests that it is more prevalent in the North and whole swathes of the south have much less. Looking at hospital admissions that doesn't look particularly the case (although, the north west, north east and Yorkshire do appear to have shot up over the last few days as per the government figures). Just taking one example, Hartlepool is way down on patient numbers but is shown as being at 4.26% on that map.
The study is an App that can be downloaded, then you fill in some information Age, sex post coed and so on, then each day you take one minit to say is you are fully well or what systems you have, tempricher cough snesses, and so on. Presumably there is then a big algorithm, which uses the data to make full protections of the UK population.
it has 2.2 million people using it, but it is self selection, perhaps the large numbers can mitigate the self selection problem?
I am using it, but am rater frustrated and disported in the analysis and recommendations.
'The number of people wiht systems is down, there for Lock-down must be working therefor we musk keep going' is poor analysis and recommendation, one data point and correlation is not causation.
I'm also using it, no idea if they're counting my mild hay fever symptoms as evidence of Covid or not.
What study is that based on? It suggests that it is more prevalent in the North and whole swathes of the south have much less. Looking at hospital admissions that doesn't look particularly the case (although, the north west, north east and Yorkshire do appear to have shot up over the last few days as per the government figures). Just taking one example, Hartlepool is way down on patient numbers but is shown as being at 4.26% on that map.
The study is an App that can be downloaded, then you fill in some information Age, sex post coed and so on, then each day you take one minit to say is you are fully well or what systems you have, tempricher cough snesses, and so on. Presumably there is then a big algorithm, which uses the data to make full protections of the UK population.
it has 2.2 million people using it, but it is self selection, perhaps the large numbers can mitigate the self selection problem?
I am using it, but am rater frustrated and disported in the analysis and recommendations.
'The number of people wiht systems is down, there for Lock-down must be working therefor we musk keep going' is poor analysis and recommendation, one data point and correlation is not causation.
I have been logging in most days to say that I am fine, but the stats suggest that people mostly use it when they feel ill
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
I'm saying 451487 is harder to read than either 451,487 or 451 487. It is too common for people to blindly paste multi-digit numbers, including phone numbers, without proper formatting.
Do we have any indication of how many people are still going to work i.e. essentially workers? when you add in NHS shop workers, transport, food prosesing and so on it must be significant but I cant find an estamat out there
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS) 2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH) 3) Still employed but not working 4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
No - the people who are still going to work are those who can't work from home. There's no general prohibition on non-essential work continuing.
Depends on risk group. People in the middle group are advised not to go to work.
Do we have any indication of how many people are still going to work i.e. essentially workers? when you add in NHS shop workers, transport, food prosesing and so on it must be significant but I cant find an estamat out there
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS) 2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH) 3) Still employed but not working 4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
No - the people who are still going to work are those who can't work from home. There's no general prohibition on non-essential work continuing.
Depends on risk group. People in the middle group are advised not to go to work.
That's why I used the word "general". Obviously some particular businesses aren't operating and some particular workers are isolating.
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
I'm saying 451487 is harder to read than either 451,487 or 451 487. It is too common for people to blindly paste multi-digit numbers, including phone numbers, without proper formatting.
Na, the only plausible explanation is she's innumerate.
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
I'm saying 451487 is harder to read than either 451,487 or 451 487. It is too common for people to blindly paste multi-digit numbers, including phone numbers, without proper formatting.
OK, fair point.
But my point is she surely must have seen the script in advance and if it wasn't written clearly there would surely have been time to get it written clearly - given she should have known the importance of getting it right.
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
I'm saying 451487 is harder to read than either 451,487 or 451 487. It is too common for people to blindly paste multi-digit numbers, including phone numbers, without proper formatting.
OK, fair point.
But my point is she surely must have seen the script in advance and if it wasn't written clearly there would surely have been time to get it written clearly - given she should have known the importance of getting it right.
Can't speak for her, but I think I'd be focused more on the text rather than trying to work out of I would struggle reading a number.
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
Indeed. You realise SeanT and I are actually the same person? I enjoyed posting as him for a long while, but in the end I got worried that the real thriller-writer might sue - that's why you no longer see posts from him.
As for the wine, my normal drink is Coca-Cola, so I'm not the ideal man to advise. But I tend to find red wine either bitter or tasteless, and this wasn't either.
Do we have any indication of how many people are still going to work i.e. essentially workers? when you add in NHS shop workers, transport, food prosesing and so on it must be significant but I cant find an estamat out there
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS) 2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH) 3) Still employed but not working 4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
No - the people who are still going to work are those who can't work from home. There's no general prohibition on non-essential work continuing.
OK maybe I should not have used I.e. word essential, I was thinking of things like cloths shops that have been closed.
I would say that anyone who can't pass a simply numeracy and literacy test should not be in a senior job. Period.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
Re 6-digit-gate, I'd give the Home Secretary the benefit of the doubt as it may have been badly formatted, just as phone numbers are often pasted into documents with no proper spacing. Certainly that part of her script was badly written and again stumbled on imprecision about what days the figures related to.
Surely:
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
I'm saying 451487 is harder to read than either 451,487 or 451 487. It is too common for people to blindly paste multi-digit numbers, including phone numbers, without proper formatting.
OK, fair point.
But my point is she surely must have seen the script in advance and if it wasn't written clearly there would surely have been time to get it written clearly - given she should have known the importance of getting it right.
I'd be more worried the Home Secretary and various advisers did not spot the ambiguity between yesterday's figures and yesterday's deaths.
While many laud the testing response of small city states, like Singapore and Hong Kong, in the British isles we have a couple of examples. For example, Guernsey.
If the UK had done as Guernsey has done (of course, off small base sizes) :
Tests: 1.7 million Positive: 220,000 Deaths Confirmed: 6,300 Assumed: 3,000
So while widespread testing may help, its not a panacea. Other things like lockdowns and quarantining of arrivals may be at least as, if not more useful.
PRONOUNCE THE FUCKING "G"s AT THE END OF YOUR WORDS PATEL YOU ******* ****
She's from Essex, be glad you can understand most of what she's saying.
It is the worst of the worst type of affectations. Does she somehow think it makes her sound of the people? Like Tony and his adaptive accent depending on company.
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
Indeed. You realise SeanT and I are actually the same person? I enjoyed posting as him for a long while, but in the end I got worried that the real thriller-writer might sue - that's why you no longer see posts from him.
As for the wine, my normal drink is Coca-Cola, so I'm not the ideal man to advise. But I tend to find red wine either bitter or tasteless, and this wasn't either.
I have not heard the press conference but you sound deranged
Big G I'm very disappointed that now, as the level of depression and mental illness increases, you should be so callous as to accuse a fellow poster of having a mental illness.
PRONOUNCE THE FUCKING "G"s AT THE END OF YOUR WORDS PATEL YOU ******* ****
She's from Essex, be glad you can understand most of what she's saying.
It is the worst of the worst type of affectations. Does she somehow think it makes her sound of the people? Like Tony and his adaptive accent depending on company.
******* ****
It's up there with upper middle class people trying to fob themselves as working class.
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
Indeed. You realise SeanT and I are actually the same person? I enjoyed posting as him for a long while, but in the end I got worried that the real thriller-writer might sue - that's why you no longer see posts from him.
As for the wine, my normal drink is Coca-Cola, so I'm not the ideal man to advise. But I tend to find red wine either bitter or tasteless, and this wasn't either.
Remember she was in favour of the death penalty because we don't wrongly convict innocent people.
Should I surmise that from a better than expected start the briefin' has gone somewhat downhill?
I think the day it was confirmed 19 NHS staff have died from Covid-19 saying ‘I’m sorry if people believe there have been failings’ might be a bit of a faux pas.
Theres good news and bad news on the Coronavirus front from the BBC.
The bad news is more than 900 new deaths despite the BH lag the good news "Boris is playing Sudoku".
I fear you allow your political bias too much to cloud your views. There are fewer deaths than yesterday. Better than the other way around. The UK is probably moving through the peak period right now. The time it is most critical that people focus on ensuring the lockdown sacrifices are made worthwhile by sticking with it.
Todays numbers are terrible.
It's for a BH day look back at weekend drops would have expected same effect on a BH.
Weekend numbers for last couple of weeks have shown a circa 20% lag.
You are right that we should be at or close to peak on new numbers infected. I fear we are not there yet on deaths peak. I think we will top 1000 new deaths next Wednesday.i really hope I am wrong.
It's not about ones politics it's about ending up with most deaths iof any country in Europe, an honour I fear the UK may hold by this time next month.
There is your nonsense again - countries vary in size, population, density, types of lockdownetc., etc., Depsite your efforts to hide it we all know your politics and it's clear your desperate for the UK somehow to be worst. Shame on you.
Is @Chazza on? PM now needs to rest at Chequers which presumably means not going back to work. At what point are we going have a functioning PM? Are we waiting for him to stand himself down? The six month clock is ticking.
While many laud the testing response of small city states, like Singapore and Hong Kong, in the British isles we have a couple of examples. For example, Guernsey.
If the UK had done as Guernsey has done (of course, off small base sizes) :
Tests: 1.7 million Positive: 220,000 Deaths Confirmed: 6,300 Assumed: 3,000
So while widespread testing may help, its not a panacea. Other things like lockdowns and quarantining of arrivals may be at least as, if not more useful.
I wish someone would ask Priti the "Covid foreign arrivals at Heathrow" question to see her struggle to hold the line...if it had been up to her I suspect the Channel would have been mined, the tunnel sealed and the anti-aircraft guns deployed along the M4 weeks ago.
Is @Chazza on? PM now needs to rest at Chequers which presumably means not going back to work. At what point are we going have a functioning PM?
I could make an acid comment at this point about him not being a functioning PM even when fully fit.
There is that. But at least he could delegate if not be fully functionin. Charles said it would be a resignin matter if he was going to be incapacitated for six months but how will we know when that six months starts.
The difference with Corbyn is the government is trying to address the issue, not deny it.
How many times years was Corbyn asked about anti-semitism?
Not a good look when you cant apologise for lack of PPE
If she had you'd have been cheering Patel for landing Hancock in the sh*t.
Whatever they do, in your books, they cannot win.
From this starting point probably not. We are pretty much going to be 2nd worst or worst in terms of outcomes of any European country so spin that as a triumph if you wish.
As for Hancock he should go after his accusation yesterday that those on the front line are wasting precious PPE
No matter how bad our numbers are you will never point out Government failings I presume?
PRONOUNCE THE FUCKING "G"s AT THE END OF YOUR WORDS PATEL YOU ******* ****
She's from Essex, be glad you can understand most of what she's saying.
It is the worst of the worst type of affectations. Does she somehow think it makes her sound of the people? Like Tony and his adaptive accent depending on company.
******* ****
It's up there with upper middle class people trying to fob themselves as working class.
Absolute tossers.
That's just how people speak in Watford. A bit like how Yorkshire folk say things like "Fursday".
I have not heard the press conference but you sound deranged
Big G I'm very disappointed that now, as the level of depression and mental illness increases, you should be so callous as to accuse a fellow poster of having a mental illness.
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
Indeed. You realise SeanT and I are actually the same person? I enjoyed posting as him for a long while, but in the end I got worried that the real thriller-writer might sue - that's why you no longer see posts from him.
As for the wine, my normal drink is Coca-Cola, so I'm not the ideal man to advise. But I tend to find red wine either bitter or tasteless, and this wasn't either.
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Why has the government been so lax about people entering the UK ?
Why has the government allowed a situation where so much of the UK's pharmaceutical and medical supplies are imported ?
But Starmer is also a cheerleader for the globalist agenda so wont even notice those goals are open.
Lib Dem to Lab or Lab to SWP?
I haven't seen anything to suggest its large numbers in ether way, but I'm not following closely.
I mean at what age would you be expected to be able to read out a six figure number in words?
Age 10?
She can't do it - she shouldn't be in a senior job, let alone be the Home Secretary.
https://tinyurl.com/qu2vvkz
'I bought a bottle of the red blend and, after I stared at the sad man for a while, I tasted it. Sweet and tannic, that was my reaction, and better chilled sangria-style than straight up. Not to my taste, but I am not the target audience.'
Otoh, Nick P. seems to be flirting with the wild side, only a step away from multi identity thriller writer excess.
'Well, the answer is that 19 Crimes seems to have been rather precisely engineered to appeal to an important demographic — millennial men, especially those who see themselves as a bit of a rogue. Outlaws, if you know what I mean, who identify with others who defy convention. Outlaw wine for self-styled renegades? Now you are beginning to see the 19 Crimes logic.'
Cumulative number is now 334,974.
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/austwine.php
Haven't heard it for years, but it was the first thing I thought about after reading your reply.
brodly speeking the 32.6 milion people who had jobs at the start of last month coud be catagrised as:
1) Still working at there place of work (e.g NHS)
2) Still working but at home (including normal WFH)
3) Still employed but not working
4) Now unemployed
IIRC unemployment is up by close to 1 million but what of the other catagrys, anybody know or want to guess?
Priti
Priti
No apology then.
Sorry if people think there have been failings.
Sounds like Corbyn over AntiSemitism
Car Crash
1) She would have seen the script in advance
2) It would have been written as a number in the script (ie assuming the ability to convert to words).
Sorry, I don't believe any person with basic competence would get it wrong.
How many times years was Corbyn asked about anti-semitism?
Wouldathunk
Abbott was shit she has gone unlike Pritti who is shit but still stood at a lecturn unable to read an integer
1,544 new cases in Lombardy (1,246 yesterday)
273 deaths compared to 216
They have started to test nursery homes this week.
But my point is she surely must have seen the script in advance and if it wasn't written clearly there would surely have been time to get it written clearly - given she should have known the importance of getting it right.
A pint of milk to an elderly resident would be very welcomed
As for the wine, my normal drink is Coca-Cola, so I'm not the ideal man to advise. But I tend to find red wine either bitter or tasteless, and this wasn't either.
Only thing she has achieved unfortunately though is remove the requirement to self isolate when you fly into the country. Why?
It is about the WTF of that anecdote being the number one cited instance in a national press conference given by our senior politicians and officials.
Remember she was in favour of the death penalty because we don't wrongly convict innocent people.
If the UK had done as Guernsey has done (of course, off small base sizes) :
Tests: 1.7 million
Positive: 220,000
Deaths
Confirmed: 6,300
Assumed: 3,000
So while widespread testing may help, its not a panacea. Other things like lockdowns and quarantining of arrivals may be at least as, if not more useful.
https://covid19.gov.gg/test-results
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Active cases: 100.269 (+1.996) including 3381 in ICU (-116)
Deaths: 619
Healed/discharged: +2.079
New cases: 4694
Absolute tossers.
Trying to quantify the reality.
I'm Byronic.
Whatever they do, in your books, they cannot win.
Pritti should have read that one out she can only cope with single digits.
https://iea.org.uk/healthcare-lessons-from-guernsey/
New cases are though. Tests in Lombardy were 9977 compared to 9372 in the previous report.
Which would be wrong.
So why are you getting worked up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5aodBfdFTA&t=175s
As for Hancock he should go after his accusation yesterday that those on the front line are wasting precious PPE
No matter how bad our numbers are you will never point out Government failings I presume?