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Boris’s big Christmas gamble – politicalbetting.com
Boris’s big Christmas gamble – politicalbetting.com
It is a very fine gamble for Christmas – not actually tightening the regulations that can be legally enforced but rather toughening up the guidance for how people should operate during the 5 designated days of the Christmas period.
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https://twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/1339266350322245634?s=20
Okay, they had test&trace to pin their hopes on, but they released restrictions too far and too fast without validating that it works sufficiently to keep the virus in check. (Again, not just the UK.)
Obviously.
https://twitter.com/edwina_currie/status/1339155190092607489?s=21
1. Only hold an enquiry when you are quite certain of what the result will be.
Still, in the big picture, it's been unnecessarily chaotic. Rafael Behr nails it in this article:
Johnson’s technique for dealing with problems is to let them run out of control, building to a point of sufficient crisis that delay is no longer viable. That way the choice becomes perversely easier because there are fewer options left. Wait long enough and there might be only one.
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[Bit about Brexit omitted!]
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It is a chaotic way to run anything: leaving it all to the last minute, relying on a critical mass of external pressure to get motivated. As a way of governing in a pandemic it is disastrous because there is no slack time between deadlines. The moment to make the tough choices is always now. The rate at which good options decay is exponential. The virus thrives on indecision. Johnson’s method is effective for one thing, though: it guarantees a sustained pitch of political drama, with the figure of the prime minister lit centre stage.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/15/boris-johnson-pandemic-britain-christmas-covid
A wealthy fashion designer who hosted the Duke of York at his Caribbean mansion faces extradition to the US over allegations of sexual assault spanning four decades.
Peter Nygard, 79, is accused of raping girls as young as 14. He hosted Andrew, 60, with his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York at his Bahamas estate in the summer of 2000, shortly after the designer had settled cases of sexual harassment against three women out of court in Canada. He has also been photographed with the duke’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
US authorities have charged him with racketeering and sex trafficking. Fifty-seven women have joined the suit alleging that Mr Nygard trafficked women and girls, and lured victims as young as 14 to “pamper parties”, where they were raped.
Mr Nygard, who denies the allegations, blames a conspiracy caused by a disagreement with his neighbour in the Bahamas. He is being held in Winnipeg Remand Centre under the Extradition Act. He appeared in court yesterday.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/fashion-guru-peter-nygard-held-after-sex-claims-by-57-women-mv5hpg8fc
I failed.
https://twitter.com/EddieHughes4WN/status/1339183291992322050
Otherwise, John Major.
Or could the Speaker unilaterally recall Parliament for an opposition Urgent Question or similar on that.
Ideally, you'd more be looking for things like "philanthropist", "admired" and "definitely not a paedophile" instead.
Does anyone know whether any trade deal legislation will be amendable?
Today (looks like there is something up with the Welsh data)
Yesterday
Both had resigned in disgrace but you were astonished anyone wanted to hire them again.
Never ended up publishing that.
https://youtu.be/4sm4yMWpxYc
From case data
From hospitalisation data
Spunky.
I`ve just had an email from my local LibDem Chair. He say`s he hadn`t heard of the term "woke" until yesterday. He had to look it up. Are you surprised that local party activists have their heads up there arses or is this a common thing in your experience?
It is still an astonishing stat that the last Premier League manager to win away at Anfield is Sam Allardyce, back in March 2017.
Although I fully expect that unbeaten record to end tonight.
The Government has a 80 seat majority. I'm not sure it matters either way.
England with 23,432 reported cases today after only 12,960 last Wednesday. More than half of the effect of the lockdown has already been undone.
Did you know what the Mail and Sun called political correctness gone mad?
Equality for gay people.
That is all hands to the pumps, am shipping water...
Wokeism is not just a reactionary thing. It is profoundly illiberal. And he is the local Chair of the LibDems. He should be all over this.
Another British triumph.
https://www.tes.com/news/exclusive-dfe-considering-delay-start-next-term
That is why they are nowhere.
There were those who thought the paedophile exchange was a good idea in the 70s, and marriage a repressive and outdated institution in the 90s, which civil partnerships would wholly replace one day. And the trans debate/gender identity debate now isn't simple either.
It's good to test the arguments of those making arguments for major social change.
Bottom, season 3 episode 6. "Carnival"
[Eddie and Richie are watching a secret video of the prime minister and a woman, thinking it's him with his mother]
Eddie : He's obviously got a very high fever.
Richie : Yeah.
Eddie : And that's why she sucking the poison out of him.
[They both move closer to the TV]
Richie : I wish I had a mum like that.
[They both have a painful expression]
Eddie : [To TV] Yeah, that's right! Thrash the fever out of him!
Richie : He's saying something, Eddie. What's he saying? Turn the sound up!
Eddie : [Turns the volume button] Oh no, I think it's mute.
Richie : Well, you can lip-read. What's he saying?
Eddie : Er... "Oh, yes! Ooooh, yes! Oh, yeeeees! Ooooh, yeeeees! Oh, oh, oh, yeeeeeees! OH, YEEEEES! OH YEEEHEEEHEEES! Aaaaaah!"
Richie : Ah, he's, he's calmed down a bit now.
Eddie : Hang on, who's she?
Richie : That must be his... his aunty.
[surprised expression]
Richie : She's very friendly, isn't she?
Eddie : I think they must be sisters.
Richie : Yeah, that'll be it.
[to TV]
Richie : NO, DON'T SIT THERE!
Eddie : She can't have seen him!
Richie : He'll suffocate!
Eddie : I can't think that that's hygenic!
But it is sadly now principally a weaponised word for facetious reactionaries to mock the whole notion of structural racism.
Please let's not go back to square one again.
Weirdly, the summary page at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk still says that "The latest R number is estimated at 0.9 to 1", which is complete and utter nonsense.
Maybe we have slowed the virus down and spaced it out, at the cost of enormous collateral damage. But the notion of 'saving lives' is clearly utterly bogus. We may have 'delayed deaths' but at the cost of hastening other deaths, and maybe causing many unnecessary deaths.