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Boris Johnson is facing a Tory rebellion on NHS migrant surchargeHandful of MPs have gone public but growing concerns behind the scenes: https://t.co/69R4LhpPJW
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Track and Trace won't be available on June 1st which Boris promised would be the case yesterday even when SKS pushed the point and offered a get out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52752656
Given the magic money forest being harvested every day to pay for this crisis, it isn't even a rounding error.
Over 1 million excess tests.
Cant we get a system to track and trace the missing tests.
Surely Matt Hancock could do that by 1st June
Not saying which year obvs
That way you don't get in a few weeks/months time people arguing that xyz other special cases should be exempt too until the whole thing is full of holes.
Lowest Tory score in some time.
Anyone know if its a lot lower?
Much lower rating for Starmer
And that may be Boris's strength: his willingness to pinch the Opposition's policies.
Good ideas should be adopted, it doesn't matter where they come from.
Bad ideas should be dropped, it doesn't matter where they came from.
“We found no evidence to indicate that Mr Johnson influenced the payment of any sponsorship monies to Ms Arcuri or that he influenced or played an active part in securing her participation in trade missions.
“While there was no evidence that Mr Johnson influenced the payment of sponsorship monies or participation in trade missions, there was evidence to suggest that those officers making decisions about sponsorship monies and attendance on trade missions thought that there was a close relationship between Mr Johnson and Ms Arcuri, and this influenced their decision-making.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/21/boris-johnson-will-not-face-criminal-investigation-relationship/
A long, long way to go, but today is a very good day for the Labour party - and for the country. We are all much better off with an opposition the government cannot just ignore.
Epic seem to have made quite a few free recently.
So along with the U Turn on who is entitled to the death in service award, i make it Piers Morgan 2 - O PM Johnson today.
Perhaps Morgan should make all the decisions even has initials PM
A few such speedy u-turns by the government are fine - good, even, if executed so quickly. If it starts becoming a habit, the government will start looking a pushover.
Good response.
Sunak at the Number 10 briefings also seems charismatic, clear and authoritative. His Cabinet colleagues fail on at least one of those and often all three.
The problem with backing him as next Prime Minister is that unless Boris retires on health grounds, you need to imagine a crisis that will remove the Prime Minister but not the Chancellor, and with the Arcurigate verdict in, it is hard to see.
This issue would have been quickly forgotten by the electorate, a big chunk of which is faced with losing its livelihood sharpish.
https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1263497230633353217
The justification for the difference is that we want our own citizens to get universal access to healthcare even if they're low earning and not paying tax but why should we be allowing low earning people who don't pay tax in and letting them use the NHS still?
This is just virtue signalling from Labour - their prime focus in a pandemic is not the Uk - but immigrants who haven't yet arrived.
They keep on barking up the loser tree.
I really expected nothing less from you.
ComRes broadly in line with other polls in terms of Labour increase.
I maintain my prediction of a single figure lead by the end of the year.
Its pro-immigrant. I think we should be welcoming to more people, whoever wants to come here and pay their way. If I want to go overseas I'd be expected to pay there too - and if someone because a naturalised British citizen there'd be no surcharge.
Anyone who hasn't yet watched it, should.
Apart from being immigrants, they should pay more why again?
Opposition functioning properly and doing its job; Government being sensible and conciliatory.
Good.
Move on.
The wearing of medical face masks (hereinafter “face masks”) should be recommended for all passengers and persons within the airport and aircraft, from the moment they enter the terminal building at the departure airport until they exit the terminal building at the destination airport......
Passengers should be reminded that typically, face masks should be replaced after being worn for 4 hours, if not advised otherwise by the mask manufacturer, or when becoming wet or soiled, and that they should ensure a sufficient supply of masks adequate for the entire duration of their journey.
emphasis added
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/EASA-ECDC_COVID-19_Operational guidelines for management of passengers_final.pdf
So why should immigrants pay more just because they're immigrants, again?
"Asked what her updated estimate for the Infection Fatality Rate is, Professor Gupta says, “I think that the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in this country so I think it would be definitely less than 1 in 1000 and probably closer to 1 in 10,000.” That would be somewhere between 0.1% and 0.01%."
https://unherd.com/2020/05/oxford-doubles-down-sunetra-gupta-interview/
youtube.com/watch?v=DKh6kJ-RSMI
Starmer is using PMQs in a way that I cannot recall in recent times. He is using it to lead the agenda. First this reverse on policy, but also the heffalump trap set for 1 June if we do not have an effective Tracing system in place.
You can just close your eyes and see the advisors trying to get some pretence of that in place for that deadline. Meanwhile the heffalump will blunder into another one.
Its like watching my cat play with a mouse. Gripping and appalling at the same time.