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Aside from his vaccine approval and voting bounce the weekend’s other Johnson-Starmer ratings look t
Aside from his vaccine approval and voting bounce the weekend’s other Johnson-Starmer ratings look troubling for the PM – politicalbetting.com
As well as the widely publicised approval and voting numbers in the Opinium poll at the weekend was the above range of questions on how Johnson and Starmer are perceived over a range of different areas.
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https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1371445949587918851
Germany is averaging 50-150 deaths a day at the moment. This will come down, but more slowly now. Let's say the average through this extra month is 30 deaths a day (conservatively). Adding a month to the vaccine roll-out, thanks to the AZ suspension, therefore means 1000 dead Germans and 5000 in ICU who would not otherwise have died or gone into ICU, and many more with Long Covid. Plus more economic pain
That is the literal cost of this policy. For a generally non-fatal complication which - if it affects 1 in 200,000 jabbed, and Germany eventually gives, say, 20m AZ jabs, means 100 people with CVST and maybe 10-15 dead
Simple cost benefit.
1000 dead and 5000 in hospital.... versus 15 dead and 100 in hospital. And that is IF there really is a causal link, which is far from certain. One of the strangest decisions I have ever seen in an advanced nation.
Constant quaking will ensue over the fact that even in that poll Boris leads Starmer on 'Best PM' by 12% and has overtaken him in net approval too, lol...
Alas, no mention of Dorothy or her friends ...
Edit: the Czech translation was "we do not cover the glaze with AstraZeneca, as no binding of the capsule is justified."
As of 9th March – 22 cases of thromboembolic events had been reported among the 3 million people vaccinated with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca in the European Economic Area
Of those 22 cases there were 2 deaths. In 3 million.
https://www.dsru.org/pharmacovigilance-evidence-review-thrombosis-following-vaccination-with-covid-19-astrazeneca-vaccine/
Wait till the full extent of Johnson's malevolence moves centre stage and I can imagine rioting in the streets. Brexit has screwed this country and thanks to covid people have yet to notice
Just saying.
https://twitter.com/thesundaysport/status/1370834605272666112
https://twitter.com/VictoriaPeckham/status/1371549098185273344?s=20
https://twitter.com/rachaelvenables/status/1371531709905244162
The EU chap surely meant cowardly lion though didn't he? And I rather like that as a much better use of the phrase.
So EU bloke, at least in my view, you've nailed your way into the OED.
https://twitter.com/gnuseibeh/status/1371548927770689538?s=20
It appeared in the most recent series of The Crown when the Queen tells Margaret that her priest friend is 'a friend of Dorothy. Famous for it.'
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/16/friend-of-dorothy-meaning-the-crown-gay-queen-wizard-oz/
Having 65,000 at the previous two games was genius idea.
"We will not suspend vaccination with AstraZeneca as no link to thrombosis has been proven.."
Backstairs Billy was one of many homosexual staff the Queen Mother employed, much to the chagrin of MI5.
I've long had mixed views about May. At one point she looked like she might sweep the country with a Corbyn-eviscerating scythe - clearly I was all for that.
Reportedly there was a rather exasperated phone call from the Queen Mum when downstairs ructions delayed her stiffener "When you old queens have finished bickering, this old queen would like her G&T"
If you look solely at the two leader's Net Agree figures, then compare them, you get a completely different result.
Decisive: -3 (as opposed to -21)
In touch with ordinary people: -10 (as opposed to -30)
Represents what most people think +1 (as opposed to -8)
Has views similar to my own: 0 (as opposed to -11)
Has the nation's best interests at heart: +1 (as opposed to -13)
Strong leader: +4 (as opposed to -6)
Able to get things done: +13 (as opposed to +5)
Stand up for Britain's interests abroad: +13 (as opposed to +7)
Sticks to principles: -1 (as opposed to -15)
Trustworthy: -3 (as opposed to -20)
Brave: +8 (as opposed to -4)
Can be trusted to take big decisions: +5 (as opposed to -9, missing off OGH's chart)
Competent: -5 (as opposed to -23)
Likeable: +6 (as opposed to -2)
By looking at the agree figures Boris leads on 8, there's 1 neutral and 5 for Keir.
Czech gives this:
"We will not cover the glaze with AstraZeneca, as no connection with the duster is justified."
And "Why the catastrophic demise of Scottish Labour is bad news for the Tories?"
And "Why the vaccination program is bad news for the Tories?"
They were all from the Vanished Meeks.
OGH can't quite muster the same levels of cognitive dissonance as Meeks, but I still liked his header on "Why big poll leads are bad news for the Tories?"
Given the recent effectiveness of the opposition, I expect I'll be reading on May 7th
"Why overwhelming local election victories are bad news for the Tories?"
Clearly deciding to have babies, get married, move to Greenland, change gender AGAIN will be more important to any person, on a human, emotional level.
But for a Brit, voting for Leave would have been the biggest, most important political choice they have made, and will ever make. And it happened. So it's not that ridiculous a statement
"Czech Republic Minister of Health: We will not suspend vaccination with AstraZeneca as no link to thrombosis has been proven."
Ah, my coat...
If he’s dead, he’s by definition not the last living member.
*not that naive tbf
As to your comment, I agree Starmer is a decent man and is an example of a politician who might well be a better Prime Minister than LOTO (there are those for whom the reverse applies of course).
Now, we're back to this notion Labour is "toxic" - is it? To some degree and a lot of what happened in the Corbyn years was unacceptable but the solutions to toxicity are generally time (as happened with the Conservatives who needed nearly a decade after leaving office) or an immediate confronting of those seemingly part of the problem (this was the Kinnock response to Militant).
Had Starmer thrown Corbyn out of the Labour Party and several MPs/councillors/activists followed, would this have been detoxification in extremis? It probably would have been good politics but in the midst of a global pandemic, would anyone have noticed?
Sometimes a page has to be seen to be turned rather than just being turned. That is Starmer's problem - Covid has stopped him turning the page publicly and effectively. He has to do that as part of the journey to convincing the wider electorate his Labour Party has something different to say.
(For anybody still confused, Old Holborn started tweeting back when demonstrations within one mile of Parliament were being banned. He organised a "walk near Parliament" in masks. He's a traditional troll.)
https://thebackbencher.co.uk/old-holborn-behind-the-mask/
It's almost as if being shackled to a party that most people over the age of 35 regard as toxic waste is bad for your street cred.
I wanted to make a cheap jibe and you can't stop me.
Indeed, unless you want your posts edited to suggest you are sleeping with Juncker, I'd advise you keep your hands away from the keyboard.
He’s a shit. But he’s *our* shit
@YBarddCwsc would have hated it.
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1371558413797326858
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1371558517841260546
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1371558588729196544
But then I voted Remain
The madness of using net rather than Gross Positives will make Starmer supporters feel good, and end in massive disappointment for them, I think
https://twitter.com/DarrenEuronews/status/1371560209416605705?s=20
I'm struggling to see how it was safer to have people in a big group, but what do I know?
Et tu, Portugal?
Fawlty Towers is on BBC1 right now...