At last – I am able to have a holiday – politicalbetting.com
At last – I am able to have a holiday – politicalbetting.com
Like millions of other I feel as though I’ve been cooped up in my home office for more than a year. Well I’m going on holiday to North Northumberland in the morning returning in a week to get my second jab.
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All seats for Northumberland council are up for election in May though so you may not escape the local elections
https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/1382438431989506049
Have a good holiday Mike!
On Covid and Brazil
This just leaves me in a cold sweat
"Some Brazilian hospitals have run out of sedatives, forcing doctors to use restraints while coronavirus patients are intubated
"I never thought I would be living through something like this," a doctor says. "The patient is submitted to a form of torture"
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1382790485329252354
Wasn't that the SECOND thing Winston Churchill said, upon hearing the results of the 1945 general election?
Have fun, Mike - and don't forget to send up a postcard!
There seems to be no jealous emoji on Vanilla.
And things are still getting worse there.
Thank you.
My medical student this morning is still doing bank shifts as HCA on ICU. Only a third of the ICU nurses remain at present, the rest are conscripts from the press gangs, though some proper staff may return. Staff attrition is horrific.
At least give them some fucking pethidine. I don't want to drown in my own lung fluid. in total agony
Though who in their right mind would want one!
My family moved to Berwick when I was 10 and upto starting work in Edinburgh when I was 17 I had the most fantastic time canoeing, sailing, playing golf, football and cricket, cross county running and of course exploring the great beaches and enjoying Bamburgh with its castle and connection to Grace Darling , also Holy Island
I highly recommend it for a 'staycation' holiday that will not disappoint
They are: The Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Princess Anne and husband, and their children and Mike Tindall, Prince Andrew his daughters and their husbands, Prince Edward and his wife and children, William, Catherine and Harry, The Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, Princess Alexandra, Bernhard, Prince of Baden, Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, The Earl of Snowdon, Lady Sarah Chatto and husband and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
No place for Fergie nor the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent nor Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9475169/Prince-Philips-funeral-guest-list-30-mourners-include-close-friend-Penny-Brabourne.html#comments
Mind you it was the birthplace of the Charlton brothers, so it was not all bad
Why on earth they could not come together for this occasion, of all occasions, is just simply sad
I don't understand how any remotely organised country could run out of basic morphine, pethidine, benzos, xanax, etc? Brazil is not Switzerland but it is not dirt poor either
Surely it is better to sedate people to death if you have no other choice
i agree we would struggle, so badly, with another bad wave. I believe humanity would struggle, in toto. India looks terrible
If this plague comes back for another worse attack I would expect wars, if only as a distraction from the misery
And raise you Seaton Deleval.
Mikus Smithsonius: Are you ready to do your duty for PB?
rcs1000: Yes, father.
Mikus Smithsonius: You will not be PB Moderator.
rcs1000: Which wiser, older man is to take my place?
Mikus Smithsonius: My powers will pass to TSE, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. PB is to be a republic again.
rcs1000: TSE?
Mikus Smithsonius: Yes.
[Mikus Smithsonius tries to comfort rcs1000 by reaching out his hand to touch him on the face but rcs1000 pulls his head away from Mikus Smithsonius' hand in disgust]
Mikus Smithsonius: My decision disappoints you?
rcs1000: You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on an AV Thread, but... there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son.
Mikus Smithsonius: Oh, rcs1000. You go too far.
rcs1000: I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug... where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight. Would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is it in me that you hate so much?
Mikus Smithsonius: Shh, rcs1000.
rcs1000: All I've ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar. Father.
Mikus Smithsonius: [gets down on his knees] rcs1000, your faults as a son is my failure as a father.
[Mikus opens up his arms to rcs1000 and gives him a hug]
rcs1000: [rsc1000 hugs Mikus and cries] Father. I would have moderate the whole world... if you would only love me!
[rcs1000 then goes off to unplug every single one of the PB servers...]
Rescheduled for mid-September.
Better happen, as it was originally meant to happen May 2020, then May 2021...
I sometimes wonder if this well ever quite end, and if travel will ever return as we knew it
Have a great break, Mike.
If you are a kleptocractic, effective dictator of a leader like Putin is, how do you take such talk but with the absence of actual threat and the absence of preventative measures.
Pretty much like every dictator in history has reacted before, probably.
(Texas seceding wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.)
I don't think those of us outside the frontline of providing care can possibly know just how draining and scaring it has been for you all.
Covid has been almost eradicated in that part of the country:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map
Facebook just prevented me sharing this on my (seldom used - I hate FB - FB account). Perhaps it is deemed Fake News. But is it?
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1382825704572788737?s=21
'https://twitter.com/DarrenGBNews/status/1382796960210501636?s=20
Didn't we do this (the underlying story) the other day? I've no idea what Facebook makes of it.
My own quasi-learned guess, is that he (Mike, not Sherlock) is REALLY engaged in secret undercover campaigning in some already benighted part of Further England, for god-knows what sinister ideology and/or self-serving agenda.
Cave suffragator!
The highlight of the article seems to be that she looked (online) at some property in Barbados, that she can't afford and didn't visit or purchase.
Like I said the other day, it's so reckless and illogical a policy that it only really makes sense if one assumes that ministers want to import variants, in order to have surge testing, panic in the press, and thus to maintain the general atmosphere of emergency. The emergency is wildly popular with the Tories' frightened elderly supporters, it gives them cover to act with impunity, and it serves further to neuter an already ineffectual Opposition. Why would they ever want it to end?
Hope you have a relaxing holiday, Mr. Smithson.
He's clearly there masterminding the Yellow Peril's Great Comeback. It's the poor Lady OGH you have to feel sorry for.
2. Who cares about the economy when you can just borrow to plug the gaps in your finances?
You want to see this thing go off at a weird angle, that might be it....
I sold it for 40 quid to an old boy who I told the story of the gearbox who told me not to worry about it. It was immaculate inside and out and rust free. Rather sad really.
All the opprobrium pored on international travel over the last year has been directed at UK citizens rather than foreign nationals coming here. This, to me, points at vindictiveness and envy and an element of relish in curtailing the freedoms enjoyed by some that the majority do not themselves enjoy.
Now we are in the position that non-UK citizens have more rights than UK citizens as a direct result of our own government's policies. This has gone on for months - though 17 May is likely to correct this to some extent.
The Bank of England fires up its spreadsheet and buys assets from banks who turn around and lend it to the government. They call it Quantative Easing so it sounds boring and technical and people’s eyes glaze over.
We’ve been doing it for years but generally less than the EU and the US.
That’s the reason why we have horrendous asset price inflation - there’s too much money around and not enough quality assets
The banks use that money to buy a new bond from the Government.
The Government owns the Bank so doesn't pay interest to the Bank on the bond it bought.
Net effect the Government has sold a new bond, the banks have the same, the Bank owns some it didn't and claims no interest.
But theoretically no money has been printed. Theoretically the Bank isn't buying from the Government.
Bank buys £300bn Uk government debt from the market.
Market buys £300bn of new debt from the government
Net result is that government debt has gone up £300bn and Bank of England assets have gone up £300bn.
Government pays same interest to market (assuming no change in rates). Government pays more interest to the Bank of England (in practice I don’t think they bother any more) which pays a dividend to the government with the proceeds.
When the Bank of England debts come due they enter into a contract with the government to roll over the loan into a new instrument
So to what extent is this actually a problem? If Covid ends up costing us, say, £800 billion - surely there must be a limit to this?
If ,say, ten years slip by and there is another pandemic caused by a new virus, could QE be used to generate a brand new £800 billion?