The alternative is 'I want, I want, I want' which does them no good in the medium or long term.
It sounds sensible, but it really doesn't work.
The killer problem is that a lot of schools will have used the 2019 exams for their final rounds of mocks. They look real, they've been assembled by exam boards, they have realistic grade boundaries. Exam boards help by keeping the most recent set of exams secure for 12 months after the exams have been sat.
Trouble is that the security is a bit leaky. If you go to the right websites, you can get a pretty shrewd idea of the contents of the exam, and often the complete paper and mark schemes. So every year, some kids locate the paper, memorise the mark scheme and massively overperform on their mock exams. It's cheating, but in a normal year, they're only cheating themselves, so there's a limit to what it's worth schools doing about this and how do you prove it anyway? (Though one hellish year, it got so blatant that we went through changing the numbers in all the physics calculations. Took ages, but it worked).
So if this proposal survives beyond the start of the Lorraine show tomorrow, I'd be very surprised. Because otherwise, some very undeserving kids are going to be entitled to A*. It seems like an feverish idea dreamt up by someone who has heard of mock exams, but not had to sit or set them.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
The alternative is 'I want, I want, I want' which does them no good in the medium or long term.
It sounds sensible, but it really doesn't work.
The killer problem is that a lot of schools will have used the 2019 exams for their final rounds of mocks. They look real, they've been assembled by exam boards, they have realistic grade boundaries. Exam boards help by keeping the most recent set of exams secure for 12 months after the exams have been sat.
Trouble is that the security is a bit leaky. If you go to the right websites, you can get a pretty shrewd idea of the contents of the exam, and often the complete paper and mark schemes. So every year, some kids locate the paper, memorise the mark scheme and massively overperform on their mock exams. It's cheating, but in a normal year, they're only cheating themselves, so there's a limit to what it's worth schools doing about this and how do you prove it anyway? (Though one hellish year, it got so blatant that we went through changing the numbers in all the physics calculations. Took ages, but it worked).
So if this proposal survives beyond the start of the Lorraine show tomorrow, I'd be very surprised. Because otherwise, some very undeserving kids are going to be entitled to A*. It seems like an feverish idea dreamt up by someone who has heard of mock exams, but not had to sit or set them.
The mock exam cheats will still lose out - only further along the line where it will damage them more.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Sometimes life is unfair, sometimes incumbency is unfair.
Yep. It's the Tory virus I'm afraid. It's happened on their watch.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Is there a market for what name Trump gives to KH ?
Sleepy Joe and ...
... who gives a crap what he comes up with ?
The names have been pretty effective so far.
Sleepy Joe doesn't sèem to be. Personally "sleepy", as in quiet, peaceful and untroubled, and "Joe" as in ordinary. They sound very attractive adjectives to me in times such as these.
It was a prediction, I was thinking more on the lines of, on the cusp of saving his team he got fired by his boss.
I rate Nige. He was the brains behind Robson's "Great Escape" at the Baggies. I also thought it might get a reaction from Ave it.
Are you an Ostrich?
Big Nige would never need to pay for drinks in Leicester. A legend here, and despite his sacking for the racist sex orgy still on good terms with our owners.
Masterminding the Great Escape was the pinnacle of Nige's career.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Immediate effect: Bye bye VAT. 2-5 years: after the recession clearout, firms will dock wages to claw back what they pay you to buy the £5k season ticket (especially if the QE causes inflation). 5-10 years: why pay people to work from Bradford when you can pay them to work from Brașov. So, plenty of people will lose out from all that, especially anyone who is not a net taxpayer.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Who the fck has a £500 coffee machine ???
I do. I like good coffee. My current one is two years old and is as good as new. The one before that was given to me by a friend as a hand-me-down and I got an extra 12 years of life out of it. I very rarely go to a coffee shop, so I spend much less on coffee than Caffe Nero regulars.
It was a prediction, I was thinking more on the lines of, on the cusp of saving his team he got fired by his boss.
I rate Nige. He was the brains behind Robson's "Great Escape" at the Baggies. I also thought it might get a reaction from Ave it.
Are you an Ostrich?
Big Nige would never need to pay for drinks in Leicester. A legend here, and despite his sacking for the racist sex orgy still on good terms with our owners.
Masterminding the Great Escape was the pinnacle of Nige's career.
The key there was not playing too defensively, and Cambiasso hitting form.
Is there a market for what name Trump gives to KH ?
Sleepy Joe and ...
... who gives a crap what he comes up with ?
The names have been pretty effective so far.
Sleepy Joe doesn't sèem to be. Personally "sleepy", as in quiet, peaceful and untroubled, and "Joe" as in ordinary. They sound very attractive adjectives to me in times such as these.
Well Biden does look like someone who should be spending his time sitting in his garden or watching Bob Ross.
I suppose Trump thinks his own 'dynamism' makes a preferable contrast.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
Personally I think the statistics will prove to be more positive than reality. I suspect technically we will be well out of recession by this time next year but on the ground aspirational types will be having their houses and cars repossessed, through circumstances that are out of their control.
I think that government will provide huge support to banks, to avoid home repossessions in the majority of circumstances, probably until the next election.
Car finance, on the other hand, has been a massive bubble waiting to burst for a while now, with increasing financial trickery used to get monthly repayments down as low as possible on otherwise unaffordable vehicles. There will almost certainly be huge losses there.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
Personally I think the statistics will prove to be more positive than reality. I suspect technically we will be well out of recession by this time next year but on the ground aspirational types will be having their houses and cars repossessed, through circumstances that are out of their control.
I think that government will provide huge support to banks, to avoid home repossessions in the majority of circumstances, probably until the next election.
Car finance, on the other hand, has been a massive bubble waiting to burst for a while now, with increasing financial trickery used to get monthly repayments down as low as possible on otherwise unaffordable vehicles. There will almost certainly be huge losses there.
The SNP would win a majority at the next Scottish elections.
How on Earth could you turn down a referendum?
As Westminster has to approve and there is a Tory majority which won on a promise of no indyref2 for a generation which it will stick too, plus including Don't Knows Yes still not over 50%
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Who the fck has a £500 coffee machine ???
I do. I like good coffee. My current one is two years old and is as good as new. The one before that was given to me by a friend as a hand-me-down and I got an extra 12 years of life out of it. I very rarely go to a coffee shop, so I spend much less on coffee than Caffe Nero regulars.
This is PB, if you're not having instant coffee then you're an elitist.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Who the fck has a £500 coffee machine ???
I do. I like good coffee. My current one is two years old and is as good as new. The one before that was given to me by a friend as a hand-me-down and I got an extra 12 years of life out of it. I very rarely go to a coffee shop, so I spend much less on coffee than Caffe Nero regulars.
I think one of the divisions in the modern world is that between those who go to coffee shops and those who don't.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Is there a market for what name Trump gives to KH ?
Sleepy Joe and ...
... who gives a crap what he comes up with ?
Mmm. Anybody agog about this is collaborating with him. It should not be discussed by anybody apart from those who - either secretly or overtly - want him to win.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Who the fck has a £500 coffee machine ???
I do. I like good coffee. My current one is two years old and is as good as new. The one before that was given to me by a friend as a hand-me-down and I got an extra 12 years of life out of it. I very rarely go to a coffee shop, so I spend much less on coffee than Caffe Nero regulars.
This is PB, if you're not having instant coffee then you're an elitist.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Who the fck has a £500 coffee machine ???
I do! It’s great, put beans in the top and milk in the side, hit the button and Hey Presto!
I work mostly from home, it pays for itself pretty quickly when compared to Starbucks prices. The marginal cost is about 20p a mug.
(We bought it with cash we were given as wedding presents, so didn’t really buy it ourselves. Difficult to go back to instant now through!)
Harris will not do much for Biden electorally but I suppose would be capable enough to succeed him as President if needed
I'm sure he is unusually aware of the importance of this role. People seem to know he has a history of personal loss, but not sure it is always made clear: lost his wife and daughter just before the Christmas just after he was elected Senator at age 29; lost his elder son while in the White House; and he believes that his 1988 brain aneurysms would have killed him had he still been a candidate, instead of merely hospitalising him for half a year.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Stainless steel? Also, you need a £40-50 grinder for that unless you want to get dusty pre-groubd stuff and woe betide anyone who wants a latte, cappuccino or cortissimo having to fumble around with heating up milk.
If you're going to look down on people, at least do it properly and don't recommend a stainless steel ill-shaped cafetiere.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Is there a market for what name Trump gives to KH ?
Sleepy Joe and ...
... who gives a crap what he comes up with ?
Mmm. Anybody agog about this is collaborating with him. It should not be discussed by anybody apart from those who - either secretly or overtly - want him to win.
Quite. The fat orange fart has taken up quite enough headspace already.
Harris will not do much for Biden electorally but I suppose would be capable enough to succeed him as President if needed
I'm sure he is unusually aware of the importance of this role. People seem to know he has a history of personal loss, but not sure it is always made clear: lost his wife and daughter just before the Christmas just after he was elected Senator at age 29; lost his elder son while in the White House; and he believes that his 1988 brain aneurysms would have killed him had he still been a candidate, instead of merely hospitalising him for half a year.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
If you make coffee at home once a day, maybe, but my "non-espresso" coffee method of choice is the air-press of the cafetiere.
No, just get a Nespresso machine. Easy, and the pods don't go stale. Possibly the greatest device ever made.
I do have a Bialetti Moka pot for camping.
I used to have one of those at work. The amount of rubbish they generate is obscene.
The pods are recycled. Being sealed keeps all the aromatic compounds in, and the temperature is never so hot as to make the coffee bitter.
The corporate ones use different pods, I'm not sure if they can be recycled. The coffee is also less good, we switched to a good consumer machine in our department and a filter machine with some amazing Pact coffee.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
If you make coffee at home once a day, maybe, but my "non-espresso" coffee method of choice is the air-press of the cafetiere.
No, just get a Nespresso machine. Easy, and the pods don't go stale. Possibly the greatest device ever made.
I do have a Bialetti Moka pot for camping.
I used to have one of those at work. The amount of rubbish they generate is obscene.
The pods are recycled. Being sealed keeps all the aromatic compounds in, and the temperature is never so hot as to make the coffee bitter.
With Nespresso, Nespresso chooses what coffee goes into the pod. With any other type of coffeemaker you can choose: Morrison's own brand or beans from the Kenyan foothills roasted today at your local independent coffee roasters. Or even coffee bean shitted out by a civit.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Stainless steel? Also, you need a £40-50 grinder for that unless you want to get dusty pre-groubd stuff and woe betide anyone who wants a latte, cappuccino or cortissimo having to fumble around with heating up milk.
If you're going to look down on people, at least do it properly and don't recommend a stainless steel ill-shaped cafetiere.
I am not looking down on anyone. A good cafetière makes very good coffee. I have an Italian one handed down from my mother. No idea whether this JL version is any good but I really don’t think it necessary to pay £500 for a coffee machine. As for heating up milk, I would assume that most people have a small pan in their kitchen.
It really is not necessary to spend vast amounts of money on machines in the kitchen to make good coffee.
The Union is dead. I can’t see Scotland swinging against independence any time soon.
Well done lads.
The tragedy is the break up will occur after its architect has left office and is earning squillions on the after dinner speaking circuit. The history books will apportion blame to his successors irrespective of stripe.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
If you make coffee at home once a day, maybe, but my "non-espresso" coffee method of choice is the air-press of the cafetiere.
No, just get a Nespresso machine. Easy, and the pods don't go stale. Possibly the greatest device ever made.
I do have a Bialetti Moka pot for camping.
I used to have one of those at work. The amount of rubbish they generate is obscene.
The pods are recycled. Being sealed keeps all the aromatic compounds in, and the temperature is never so hot as to make the coffee bitter.
With Nespresso, Nespresso chooses what coffee goes into the pod. With any other type of coffeemaker you can choose: Morrison's own brand or beans from the Kenyan foothills roasted today at your local independent coffee roasters. Or even coffee bean shitted out by a civit.
You can buy all sorts of aftermarket nespresso compatible pods can you not?
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
If you make coffee at home once a day, maybe, but my "non-espresso" coffee method of choice is the air-press of the cafetiere.
No, just get a Nespresso machine. Easy, and the pods don't go stale. Possibly the greatest device ever made.
I do have a Bialetti Moka pot for camping.
I used to have one of those at work. The amount of rubbish they generate is obscene.
The pods are recycled. Being sealed keeps all the aromatic compounds in, and the temperature is never so hot as to make the coffee bitter.
With Nespresso, Nespresso chooses what coffee goes into the pod. With any other type of coffeemaker you can choose: Morrison's own brand or beans from the Kenyan foothills roasted today at your local independent coffee roasters. Or even coffee bean shitted out by a civit.
That's why the double approach is best, a filter machine and a Nespresso machine. I've been buying my beans from Hasbean for years, but when I can't be bothered with it I just stick a Nespresso pod in.
The Union is dead. I can’t see Scotland swinging against independence any time soon.
Well done lads.
The tragedy is the break up will occur after its architect has left office and is earning squillions on the after dinner speaking circuit. The history books will apportion blame to his successors irrespective of stripe.
I’m not so sure. Historians will be studying the causes for a long time. An example is that the Treaty of Versailles is seen as major cause of WW2 despite being 20 years prior.
Johnson and Brexit will be blamed for Scottish Independence regardless of whether the actual event happens under Labour in the long term, in my opinion.
It's a fucking pandemic. Of course it's devastating.
If there weren't these job losses, you'd be screaming that the government was making mountains of molehills.
Question: what would you have done differently to what Rishi Sunak has done to mitigate the hardship? I'm guessing "nothing much", because that is what we are hearing from the Labour Party. Nothing much.
Expected would have been a better word to use to describe it. How the recovery is handled is crucial.
Very true. However the scale of devastation makes a solid recovery by 2024 a very tough ask.
By the way how is that trade deal with the EU coming along? Oh and Japan, cheese anyone?
The pandemic is also going to bring about structural changes in working patterns, which might otherwise have been seen over a decade or two. There’s probably a decade’s worth of economic rebalancing that needs to happen, but for most people their quality of life will look more positive than the raw GDP statistics will indicate.
The quality of life vs GDP trade-off will be fascinating.
The best example is probably the government trying to get people to start commuting into London again, when all indications are that most people would rather not buy the £5k season tickets and hundreds of £3 coffees every year, when they can buy a £500 coffee machine and have the milkman leave an extra pint in the morning. Oh, and the extra three or four hours a day they now have back in their lives to see their kids grow up.
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Stainless steel? Also, you need a £40-50 grinder for that unless you want to get dusty pre-groubd stuff and woe betide anyone who wants a latte, cappuccino or cortissimo having to fumble around with heating up milk.
If you're going to look down on people, at least do it properly and don't recommend a stainless steel ill-shaped cafetiere.
I am not looking down on anyone. A good cafetière makes very good coffee. I have an Italian one handed down from my mother. No idea whether this JL version is any good but I really don’t think it necessary to pay £500 for a coffee machine. As for heating up milk, I would assume that most people have a small pan in their kitchen.
It really is not necessary to spend vast amounts of money on machines in the kitchen to make good coffee.
Of course it is not necessary. I bet you have spent over 500 pounds on something in the last two years that I would consider an unnecessary amount of money. Running a car costs more than that, which for me is unnecessary.
I have tried very many different ways of making cofee, and I find a good quality bean to cup espresso machine the best for me. By a long way better than a Moka.
The SNP would win a majority at the next Scottish elections.
How on Earth could you turn down a referendum?
Pretty easily really. Especially if Sindy looks like winning, the temptation to do so would probably be higher. It wouldn't help in stemming the support for Sindy of course, morally the case is already there and certainly would be with that level of support, but Boris could kick it beyond 2024. He's wreckless enough.
The Union is dead. I can’t see Scotland swinging against independence any time soon.
It does seem unlikely. True or not people believe Scotland is fundamentally different in values, and no one seems popular enough to dent the SNP, and you need to be popular to take advantage of when the SNP do mess up.
I'd be far from confident of the Union winning, but frankly the best chance is probably do it in the short term rather than the medium.
The Union is dead. I can’t see Scotland swinging against independence any time soon.
Well done lads.
The tragedy is the break up will occur after its architect has left office and is earning squillions on the after dinner speaking circuit. The history books will apportion blame to his successors irrespective of stripe.
I’m not so sure. Historians will be studying the causes for a long time. An example is that the Treaty of Versailles is seen as major cause of WW2 despite being 20 years prior.
Johnson and Brexit will be blamed for Scottish Independence regardless of whether the actual event happens under Labour in the long term, in my opinion.
I hope you are right.
If legacy is what he craves, he won't be disappointed, he will certainly leave a legacy!
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Sleepy Joe and Nurse Ratched would target both well I think.
The killer problem is that a lot of schools will have used the 2019 exams for their final rounds of mocks. They look real, they've been assembled by exam boards, they have realistic grade boundaries. Exam boards help by keeping the most recent set of exams secure for 12 months after the exams have been sat.
Trouble is that the security is a bit leaky. If you go to the right websites, you can get a pretty shrewd idea of the contents of the exam, and often the complete paper and mark schemes. So every year, some kids locate the paper, memorise the mark scheme and massively overperform on their mock exams. It's cheating, but in a normal year, they're only cheating themselves, so there's a limit to what it's worth schools doing about this and how do you prove it anyway? (Though one hellish year, it got so blatant that we went through changing the numbers in all the physics calculations. Took ages, but it worked).
So if this proposal survives beyond the start of the Lorraine show tomorrow, I'd be very surprised. Because otherwise, some very undeserving kids are going to be entitled to A*. It seems like an feverish idea dreamt up by someone who has heard of mock exams, but not had to sit or set them.
God I hope no-one in the Whitehouse reads this forum!
Well done Johnson, you've fucked the Union
Sturgeon rating up 45 points.
The SNP would win a majority at the next Scottish elections.
How on Earth could you turn down a referendum?
CON maj guaranteed all the time just like pre 1707
Most companies will likely end up with something of a hybrid system, with teams meeting up for three or four days a month and WFH otherwise - which will see people move further away from ‘work’, and see a rebalancing of the economy away from London over time.
I suspect the net result will be a drop in GDP, but for everyone except the train companies and coffee shops, life is measurably better.
Keir is also positive in Scotland, Johnson is very, very negative.
If they become Independent I will consider a Scottish passport, due to Scottish ancestry
https://twitter.com/chriscurtis94/status/1293310001637920769?s=21
If the SNP win a majority, how can anyone seriously turn down a second Indy referendum.
Keir is +7
Personally "sleepy", as in quiet, peaceful and untroubled, and "Joe" as in ordinary.
They sound very attractive adjectives to me in times such as these.
Sindy is inevitable now, really just a matter of timing and how acrimonious. The countries of the UK are on such diverging paths.
https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1293281615704203272?s=21
Trump’s more than most.
I suppose Trump thinks his own 'dynamism' makes a preferable contrast.
Car finance, on the other hand, has been a massive bubble waiting to burst for a while now, with increasing financial trickery used to get monthly repayments down as low as possible on otherwise unaffordable vehicles. There will almost certainly be huge losses there.
https://twitter.com/JMBEuansSon/status/1293311879671091210?s=20
I have also been to Scotland
Come back Gordon
Just imagine.
I work mostly from home, it pays for itself pretty quickly when compared to Starbucks prices. The marginal cost is about 20p a mug.
(We bought it with cash we were given as wedding presents, so didn’t really buy it ourselves. Difficult to go back to instant now through!)
If you're going to look down on people, at least do it properly and don't recommend a stainless steel ill-shaped cafetiere.
I do have a Bialetti Moka pot for camping.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293285949917495300?s=20
The fat orange fart has taken up quite enough headspace already.
Trump is toast.
Which is the type of weakness Trump preys upon.
Although the longer Johnson remains PM the more likely you are to be proved correct.
Well done lads.
It really is not necessary to spend vast amounts of money on machines in the kitchen to make good coffee.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/kamala-harris-makes-her-case
Well done Keir!
How about you ?
Johnson and Brexit will be blamed for Scottish Independence regardless of whether the actual event happens under Labour in the long term, in my opinion.
I bet you have spent over 500 pounds on something in the last two years that I would consider an unnecessary amount of money. Running a car costs more than that, which for me is unnecessary.
I have tried very many different ways of making cofee, and I find a good quality bean to cup espresso machine the best for me. By a long way better than a Moka.
I'd be far from confident of the Union winning, but frankly the best chance is probably do it in the short term rather than the medium.
If legacy is what he craves, he won't be disappointed, he will certainly leave a legacy!