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This Ridge interview with Johnson just three days before GE2019 looks problematical for the PM – pol
This Ridge interview with Johnson just three days before GE2019 looks problematical for the PM – politicalbetting.com
#Ridge – This Govt document says there will be checks & forms both ways between GB & NI… are you telling the truth?Boris Johnson – Yes I am ?#Ridge – So absolutely everybody is wrong & you're right?Johnson – Yes#GE2019 #marr pic.twitter.com/CCLNfSstS8
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Not sure this is that big a problem. Johnson's a fibber, we all knew that, didn't we? He still won big in 2019.
It's a bit like news emerging that he's cheated on his partner* again, it's baked in.
*I actually can't remember her name - last I remember is Marina, is that the most recent ex?
Mind you he was a lawyer so I treated his answer with the appropriate level of respect and voted for the other candidate...
decent
'Boris Johnson isn't lying, he means it when he says it.'
I have long suspected that the PPE course contains a large module on "How to lie and not give way to grinning inanely because I can't believe people are buying my bullshit"
Thanks to all the writers, tipsters, and posters. In a nutshell I come to read the generally informed and broad based political comments. It is more informative than the BBC and newspapers. A significant number literally put their money where their mouth is. It's a great site.
Gearing up for some record figures being announced on Saturday and Sunday if trends continue.
Will end up being pretty much bang on the required rate – I was hoping for a bumper couple of days, given the widespread snowy weather forecast for next week.
If one was putting money on political events, I'd look at any signs of group-think and adjust my strategy accordingly.
Will run the numbers for the Vaxometer when the NI figures arrive.
Snow next week in the south and east a concern.
With covid there's an obvious big plus for the government with the vaccine programme (and also for the other parties who didn't try to oppose the huge commitments early on)
With Brexit its less clear, but to my mind the current situation is a pretty good outcome.
I think therefore that the problems arising from all this will get lots of headlines, but won't be too damaging. I also think that in England and Wales there's a little bit of weariness concerning the general barrage of hostility from Scottish and Irish politicians.
You're not wrong to hold them to a high standard, but that's what it is...
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1357342989471731718?s=20
https://twitter.com/fact_covid/status/1357341845899022345?s=20
These are the 2 biggest events in the calendar where there are risks regarding large scale transmission.
https://twitter.com/RP131/status/1357340633631924230?s=20
Must have more difficulty getting people to accept jabs there perhaps.
When the target was announced I remember many on here (and many amongst my friends) scoffing with derision at the mere idea they'd achieve this. Now it looks certain they will do it, or get as near as dammit, so it doesn't matter.
The main thing is to KEEP IT UP so we can vax all priority groups - ie ME - by mid March. Then we are really set to have sex again, sorry, open up the country.
https://twitter.com/BillyKelleherEU/status/1357316427267588100
What effect will negative rates have ?
Prob lower than other areas at a SWAG?
Savers are a persecuted minority.
The EU is brilliant at passing the buck, and avoiding blame, but can they evade this question? If they can pin it on someone, surely that someone has to resign
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/secrets-of-the-vaccine-taskforces-success/amp
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1357345544834715653?s=20
I mean what is Middlesbrough famous for? Being smoggies.
Mr. T, don't think she's that bad, but swelling's not great when it affects (or could affect) the airways. But given how many vaccine types we've got on order something should work.
It's just an all round rubbish idea. I'd rather thdy go for extra QE and send bond rates negative than the base rate negative. It's a monetary cul de sac.
'I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?'
Am I about to be cancelled?
Sure, but I'm simply reading the numbers as they are.
I'm not sure why @maaarsh is so against my doing so.
If we do 700k tomorrow, then great.
Also, as with testing, I doubt we will reach 1m a day, but - like testing - 600-700,000 should be doable. 1% of the country every day, for day after day.
It could lead to asset and stock price spikes, people hoarding cash under the mattress, investment in pensions, gold and other commodities will likely rise, as will things like art and classic cars.
The expectation would also be for a severe dose of inflation, which changes behaviours again towards assets and stocks, and away from cash holdings.
Beating the target will inspire confidence, and help smash through the gloom.
15 million by Valentine's Day.
Let's do this.
Exactly right.
Two snowfalls in my part of London so far this winter but nothing like what they have had up north.
Next week could be a rather different matter though!
The advice I've given to so many of my friends I gave to my friends who took out mortgages from 2008 onwards was to pay your mortgage as quickly as possible, I said interest rates of <0.5% won't last long, a decade later they thank me.
In hindsight I'm so grateful to my mother (and my father and grandmother) for insisting and helping me to get a mortgage aged 21.