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  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,527

    I'm not as confident as you are that Alabama is the place to imitate.
    Alabama doesn't have an equivalent city to Paris...
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,246

    Stewart Wood
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    If, as some suggest, there is a recording of the Prime Minister making the “bodies pile high” comment after an internal meeting in No. 10, my first thought will be: Why on earth is there a recording of the Prime Minister making comments after an internal meeting in No. 10 at all?


    It's all getting a bit Nixon frankly.

    If he has it, you can FOI it.

    Maybe.

    :smile:
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,246
    edited April 2021
    MaxPB said:

    No, it was Boris who convinced Kate Bingham to take the job, that was a gamechanger for the UK as it turned a bureaucratic approach by a nameless civil servant into a VC approach by someone with real experience in early stage pharmaceutical investment.
    The thing Boris got right was (this time - the vaccine rollout) to know his known unknowns and allow himself to be kept out of those.

    And not to complain too much when Zahawi put Tigger back in the Toybox and sat on the lid.

    Whilst supporting bits that needed political support.

    Hands off. Eyes open. Penis confined.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,424
    Does anyone have an update on:

    1) Novavax being approved
    2) If any of the AZ from Halix went outside the EU
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,304

    With respect to back-stairs influence in British politics, how do PBers think that Carrie Symonds ranks compared with:

    > Cherie Blair
    > Dennis Thatcher
    > Clementine Churchill
    > Francis Stevenson
    > Sarah Churchill

    More could be added, but that's what I've got to offer pre-lunch!

    Second least attractive. That goes to Dennis
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,424
    MattW said:

    The thing Boris got right was (this time - the vaccine rollout) to know his known unknowns and allow himself to be kept out of those.

    And not to complain too much when Zahawi put Tigger back in the Toybox and sat on the lid.

    Whilst supporting bits that needed political support.

    Hands off. Eyes open. Penis confined.
    I've not seen or heard much from Zahawi recently.

    Perhaps he's busy doing his job rather than gossiping and scheming as others are.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,246
    edited April 2021

    Yes, 7m jabs or so a fortnight isn’t world-beating, but it’s not terrible. They should be approaching herd immunity (ish) in time for the European holiday in August.
    It's mainly just system dynamics, and the inertia against change.

    When it has a surge in, it will stress everything and expose more bottlenecks, which will bed in and stabilise at some level over a suitable period - guessing, 2 weeks.

    Then it can take another surge. How big and fast surges are depends whether the growth has been planned for, and at some stage some factor will reach a hard limit - eg supply of trained personnel etc.

    An example of prep was Hancock's "do it to be ready" obsession last year, or Germany getting round the Drs info not being accessible to the Pharmacies delivering the vaccine.

    I'd say that the EU average will stick at about 0.6%, a little lower than ours as most countries do not have similarly integrated medical databases. Some countries will be better in full process capacity (Germany, Denmark, Latvia); some will be worse.

    Obvs France will be somewhat chaotic :smile: .

    We had the same pattern in Jan -> March - plateau increase plateau etc.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,970
    BREAKING - CNN) The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country's second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found.

    Additionally, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one seat in Congress.
    California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will all lose congressional seats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,246
    I note that 45,000 EU Citizens have now died of Corona since the two top officials started squabbling about who sat on which chair in Turkey.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,246
    IanB2 said:

    BREAKING - CNN) The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country's second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found.

    Additionally, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one seat in Congress.
    California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will all lose congressional seats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

    Isn't that Up For The GOP?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,970
    HEADLINES 27 April:

    Metro: Slurry of sleaze
    Mail: Boris on the ropes
    Express: Boris denies ‘let bodies pile high’ outburst
    Times: Johnson ‘said he would let COVID rip” in lockdown row
    Star: [Boris]- My pants are NOT on fire..
    Telegraph: PM fights to move on from leaks row
    Mirror: Now three people say Johnson raged ‘let bodies pile high’
    Guardian: Pressure on Johnson after claim of slur on COVID dead
    i: Boris tainted by sleaze, say voters
  • gealbhangealbhan Posts: 2,362
    MattW said:

    Isn't that Up For The GOP?
    Quite the opposite!
  • Not sure that comment about the DUP is correct. Ignoring their lack of strategic awareness, they have shown that they love being the centre of attention. I could easily see then supporting a Johnson government in exchange for a bit of air time and some sweets
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