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Stuartinromford said:

MattW said:

On the cats'n'dogs, Wallace took the only position possible for any non-deranged politician - people before pooches.

I wonder how Pen wotsit's reputation will survive.

All that rhetoric about 'plane will be filled with people where for places our staff don't take', getting into bed with Dominic Dyer, all that trolling from supporters and the rest.

Pen will be fine. He's a Military Hero, and he's saving pets. In the court of British public opinion, that makes him doubly immune.

(For avoidance of doubt, this is a bad thing.)

He gives great media. I predict a TV career if he's so inclined.

RochdalePioneers said:

rottenborough said:

squareroot2 said:

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

Don't Morrisons have their own owned uk suppliers for things like fish? I seem to recall old Sir Ken Morrison was keen on controlling the supply chain.

All there to be asset stripped no doubt by the new owners.

They do - and they manufacturer most of their baked goods like Hot Cross Buns and Donuts (hence the low price). Had they been bought by one of the predatory bids then undoubtedly this would all have been flogged off. Their new owners? Doubt it - they're investing for the long haul and the vertical supply chain is what makes Mozzas unique.

I've been after these for a couple of years, but they need to be eaten even more quickly than most fish and I am some way from the coast. M sometimes have frozen razor clams for sale online, which I have not seen elsewhere.

I doubt whether Morrisons own trawlers, but I can imagine them having their own reps at fish markets on the coast, and perhaps long-term deals.

They have yet to stock horse, though - which should be the next step.

Chatting to the fishmonger, and the people on the delicatessen counter, there are some shortages but much improved from a month ago.

The "Christmas Specialities" comment from Morrisons was interesting. Round here they do carp for Christmas for the Eastern European community, and have a number of niche products - but I guess they are all the same on that, as aiui all big supermarkets now have niches range such as 'within 30 miles' or similar.

Foxy said:

squareroot2 said:

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

I've not noticed any shortages in either Waitrose on the IoW. This though is perhaps more consequential:

GPs ordered to halt all non-urgent blood tests across England until September

Incredible that you can read a whole article about this potentially life-threatening situation without a single mention of the word Brexit
https://t.co/O9bgwU1pFo

https://twitter.com/GreenPartyMolly/status/1431213618004176900?s=19

I find the concept of a 'non-urgent' blood test difficult. Not impossible, but delaying everything b*****s up the system further down the line. Had a really odd experience of that some years ago.

Subway sign fact check

‘No alarms and no surprises’ @Scott_P

https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/1418642023750541323?s=21

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

What was the rest of the store like? Big, big gaps in Knottingley Morrison’s yesterday, all through the store.

kinabalu said:

Scott_xP said:

He says “all the emails” like it’s irritating spam. The flippancy and joviality with which he refers to the plight of abandoned, desperate UK citizens is contemptible. These are human beings Prime Minister, in case you’ve forgotten.
https://twitter.com/heidiallen75/status/1431522683225841664

Going viral this one and rightly so. Just nails the vacuity of the man, no script or actors required.

"Amazing, amazing" ... yep it sure is. It's amazing.

It is very David Brent, however what should he have said or done in that scenario? I wouldn't really know what to say either. So then what is the purpose of the whole visit?

Motivate the staff? They looked like they hated it.
Good PR opportunity? Surely not?
Help the PM and FS understand what is happening?

Is this a sensible use of both the PM and FS time in the first place?

squareroot2 said:

Scott_xP said:

squareroot2 said:

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

https://twitter.com/whoviankim/status/1431379185377947649

Well thats bollocks.....unsurprising considering the bollocks you post. Just reaffirms that I will not buy from Subway.

Awful bread, poor sandwiches. I much prefer local delis that are not part of chains.

The sign is not factual either.

MattW said:

OldKingCole said:

Foxy said:

squareroot2 said:

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

I've not noticed any shortages in either Waitrose on the IoW. This though is perhaps more consequential:

GPs ordered to halt all non-urgent blood tests across England until September

Incredible that you can read a whole article about this potentially life-threatening situation without a single mention of the word Brexit
https://t.co/O9bgwU1pFo

https://twitter.com/GreenPartyMolly/status/1431213618004176900?s=19

I find the concept of a 'non-urgent' blood test difficult. Not impossible, but delaying everything b*****s up the system further down the line. Had a really odd experience of that some years ago.

Example: an annual or six-monthly checkup HbA1c test for a diabetic. It won't be an immediate matter of life and deat, and eg one six-monthly test could be missed without undue risk for many people.

There's a good reason why such tests are required reasonably frequently. I have a six-monthly PSA level test, and, thankfully it's always shown minimal levels. But I really don't want to miss one and be told after a further six months that the levels have risen markedly.
Yes they could be safely missed for many, but for the ones that missed, could be life-changing, if not life-threatening.

MattW said:

squareroot2 said:

Scott_xP said:

squareroot2 said:

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

https://twitter.com/whoviankim/status/1431379185377947649

Well thats bollocks.....unsurprising considering the bollocks you post. Just reaffirms that I will not buy from Subway.

Yes, in this context it is bullshit.

Here's one for the museum: @Scott_xP factchecked by Dave Keating, who broadcast that photo as proof of the 'Brexit diasaster' on 12 January 2021.

Though Scott's excuse may be "but .. but .. but I never put a date on it".


https://twitter.com/davekeating/status/1348966259958931458?lang=en

Scott is just an attention seeking troll. Most of his posts he spends time and energy on are rightly ignored. If you feed him and give him attention, like a little toddler, he simply demands more.

rottenborough said:

Brexit is certainly partly responsible for shortages, but it's far from the whole story

https://capx.co/will-supply-shortages-choke-the-economic-recovery/

It’s a global issue, the whole supply chain is under tremendous pressure and won’t survive unscathed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/u-s-food-suppliers-are-having-trouble-keeping-shelves-stocked

northern_monkey said:

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

What was the rest of the store like? Big, big gaps in Knottingley Morrison’s yesterday, all through the store.

Two comments required there:

1 - I was there at 7:30pm on a Friday evening, so that is probably exactly the low point before restocking for the Saturday morning.

2 - Expected lows in fresh fruit and veg eg bagged salads, a bit gappy in some delicatessen / bakery / fishmonger products but still plenty of choice, etc. On longer term products, I noticed a few where there are probably issues - there was only one packet of Grape Nuts, for example.

So some cases due to supply chain imo, and some 1-3x restocked daily cycle products low as to be expected for the time, and some where not having gaps at that time would be inefficient.

TheScreamingEagles said:

MalcolmDunn said:

This thread says more about the author's prejudice than anything else. He has no evidence,none that Raab was incompetent.

I'm basing it on this piece by Tim Shipman last weekend.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-stayed-on-holiday-for-two-days-after-he-was-called-back-pxhb58rb6

As I noted last weekend.

As has been pointed out the list of things Dominic Raab has failed to see coming includes ‘1. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; 2. The importance of the Good Friday Agreement and its fragility post Brexit; 3. The importance of the UK’s proximity to Calais re imports/exports of goods‘, things he was specifically warned about.

If that doesn't scream incompetent then I don't know what does.

More relevant is the fact that the French appear to have started their evacuation in mid-May. When did the British evacuation plan start?

JosiasJessop said:

moonshine said:

Reported that with the drawbridge now coming up, there are 150 British citizens and 500 US citizens still in the country, not to mention of course Afghans with the right of asylum who now cannot leave.

I would say the political fate of not just Biden but also Johnson will rest heavily on whose hands those poor people fall into. If it’s the Taliban, and a back room deal can be struck to get them out, fantastic. If it’s ISIS/AQ then it could get pretty grim.

A question is how many of those people wanted to leave - there will be some who would not for whatever reason.

I'd still like to know what the limiting factor(s) in getting people out of Kabul was. Was it airlift capacity? Airfield capacity? Documentation/bureaucracy?

I have responded to you on the previous thread to avoid cluttering this one up.

jayfdee said:

OldKingCole said:

MattW said:

OldKingCole said:

Foxy said:

squareroot2 said:

MattW said:

On supermarkets, yesterday I obtained fresh Razor Clams from my closest big Morrisons in Mansfield. They also seem to have a more varied selection of fish than seen previously when I have been there.

Never seen before, and very welcome.

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

I've not noticed any shortages in either Waitrose on the IoW. This though is perhaps more consequential:

GPs ordered to halt all non-urgent blood tests across England until September

Incredible that you can read a whole article about this potentially life-threatening situation without a single mention of the word Brexit
https://t.co/O9bgwU1pFo

https://twitter.com/GreenPartyMolly/status/1431213618004176900?s=19

I find the concept of a 'non-urgent' blood test difficult. Not impossible, but delaying everything b*****s up the system further down the line. Had a really odd experience of that some years ago.

Example: an annual or six-monthly checkup HbA1c test for a diabetic. It won't be an immediate matter of life and deat, and eg one six-monthly test could be missed without undue risk for many people.

There's a good reason why such tests are required reasonably frequently. I have a six-monthly PSA level test, and, thankfully it's always shown minimal levels. But I really don't want to miss one and be told after a further six months that the levels have risen markedly.
Yes they could be safely missed for many, but for the ones that missed, could be life-changing, if not life-threatening.

Just had my PSA test, but had to fight for it. The local GP would not do it even though Mrs Dee was a Phlebotomist there once and new how to work the system. I had to travel miles to a hospital outpatients.
Yes for me it is a very important test as I am in the early stages of recovery from prostate problems.

Yes; that information/reassurance is vital, especially at this stage. I've got the dates when my tests are due marked in MY diary, and I ring up the surgery and tell them when it's due. Think I've had one 'discussion' since last Spring's lockdown.

Best of; I had radiotherapy and it became quite club-like, meeting the same men day after day, week after week.

The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opinion/alt-right-taliban.html

"The tragic journey of the last two decades began with the loudest voices on the right braying for war with Islamism and ended with a right-wing vanguard envying it."

Taz said:

MattW said:

squareroot2 said:

Scott_xP said:

squareroot2 said:

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

https://twitter.com/whoviankim/status/1431379185377947649

Well thats bollocks.....unsurprising considering the bollocks you post. Just reaffirms that I will not buy from Subway.

Yes, in this context it is bullshit.

Here's one for the museum: @Scott_xP factchecked by Dave Keating, who broadcast that photo as proof of the 'Brexit diasaster' on 12 January 2021.

Though Scott's excuse may be "but .. but .. but I never put a date on it".


https://twitter.com/davekeating/status/1348966259958931458?lang=en

Scott is just an attention seeking troll. Most of his posts he spends time and energy on are rightly ignored. If you feed him and give him attention, like a little toddler, he simply demands more.

On the other hand following Brexit you can now find sandwiches in Stoke that can answer questions, which is a plus.

[Translated] To deepen this comparison between France and England, here is the breakdown by age group with the most recent data.

While France has vaccinated more in total, it has targeted the elderly less than England

We might be tempted to talk about a policy of numbers



https://twitter.com/flodebarre/status/1431553309014437889?s=20

At 30, the Normal People author is already the most talked-about novelist of her generation. As she readies her third novel, she’s bracing for more (unwanted) attention

Greatly enjoyed this drivel from the Grauniad about a terrible novelist where a lengthy and tedious article accompanied by photos of the lady in question, in one of which she is holding an albatross, tells us how little she wants our attention. Do even Guardian readers fall for this farrago of self publicising nonsense?


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/28/sally-rooney-hell-of-fame-normal-people

MalcolmDunn said:

This thread says more about the author's prejudice than anything else. He has no evidence,none that Raab was incompetent.

Whether he was incompetent as Foreign Secretary I don't know.

But he was certainly incompetent politically.

In cricket news Pujara is out. 217-3 now. India need another 135 to make England bat again.

Theuniondivvie said:

Must confess to being taken aback by the level of opprobrium being levelled at Pen Farthing. I can see the whole humans v animals is certainly a moral question, but are Farthing’s actions (still somewhat lost in the fog of war afaIcs) more than a hill of beans compared to the decades of misery, much of it involving governments we voted for, that have taken place in Afghanistan? They seem pretty insignificant even in the scale of the current clusterfuck.

Still, I guess moving from years of indifference to the fate of brown people to brown people are more important than cats suggests a degree of moral growth.

Not sure it is even that benign. Being reported that the dogs and mogs got out - but not the staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1483216/pen-farthing-escapes-kabul-pets-afghanistan-latest-taliban-ben-wallace-MoD

Carnyx said:

Theuniondivvie said:

Must confess to being taken aback by the level of opprobrium being levelled at Pen Farthing. I can see the whole humans v animals is certainly a moral question, but are Farthing’s actions (still somewhat lost in the fog of war afaIcs) more than a hill of beans compared to the decades of misery, much of it involving governments we voted for, that have taken place in Afghanistan? They seem pretty insignificant even in the scale of the current clusterfuck.

Still, I guess moving from years of indifference to the fate of brown people to brown people are more important than cats suggests a degree of moral growth.

Not sure it is even that benign. Being reported that the dogs and mogs got out - but not the staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1483216/pen-farthing-escapes-kabul-pets-afghanistan-latest-taliban-ben-wallace-MoD

He'll possibly end up with his menagerie not too far from here. Hope no-one comes round with a collecting tin!
Staff yes......

Carnyx said:

Theuniondivvie said:

Must confess to being taken aback by the level of opprobrium being levelled at Pen Farthing. I can see the whole humans v animals is certainly a moral question, but are Farthing’s actions (still somewhat lost in the fog of war afaIcs) more than a hill of beans compared to the decades of misery, much of it involving governments we voted for, that have taken place in Afghanistan? They seem pretty insignificant even in the scale of the current clusterfuck.

Still, I guess moving from years of indifference to the fate of brown people to brown people are more important than cats suggests a degree of moral growth.

Not sure it is even that benign. Being reported that the dogs and mogs got out - but not the staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1483216/pen-farthing-escapes-kabul-pets-afghanistan-latest-taliban-ben-wallace-MoD

Yes, though I gather that the staff were refused exit by the Taliban and Farthing consulted his colleagues on what to do - they said you can get out with the animals at least, so go for it.

Had a low-key interview about it on LBC just now - they asked about the people vs animals thing but I argued that he'd tried get both out so it would be a win-win, and we shouldn't sit in Britain second-guessing the dilemmas that people are facing at the airport.

NickPalmer said:

Carnyx said:

Theuniondivvie said:

Must confess to being taken aback by the level of opprobrium being levelled at Pen Farthing. I can see the whole humans v animals is certainly a moral question, but are Farthing’s actions (still somewhat lost in the fog of war afaIcs) more than a hill of beans compared to the decades of misery, much of it involving governments we voted for, that have taken place in Afghanistan? They seem pretty insignificant even in the scale of the current clusterfuck.

Still, I guess moving from years of indifference to the fate of brown people to brown people are more important than cats suggests a degree of moral growth.

Not sure it is even that benign. Being reported that the dogs and mogs got out - but not the staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1483216/pen-farthing-escapes-kabul-pets-afghanistan-latest-taliban-ben-wallace-MoD

Yes, though I gather that the staff were refused exit by the Taliban and Farthing consulted his colleagues on what to do - they said you can get out with the animals at least, so go for it.

Had a low-key interview about it on LBC just now - they asked about the people vs animals thing but I argued that he'd tried get both out so it would be a win-win, and we shouldn't sit in Britain second-guessing the dilemmas that people are facing at the airport.

Fair.

This is a good point although TBF they did have their own vaccine in development until that unfortunate HIV test thing…

@GZRSparadise
Australia hid from the virus, waited for someone else to make a vaccine, then said they didn’t want it. Let’s see how that works out for them.

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

There is an international shortage of these bottles

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58324108

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Brexit. No way. I’m calling bollocks on that without something substantive to validate that claim as a lot of the shortfall for,that sort of product is generally covid related

Came up on my FB page from a anti-Brexit group. Should, on reflection, have used Allegedly, rather than Apparently, because although I'm prepared that anything going wrong is due to Brexit, shortage of labour etc due to Covid isn't an unreasonable probability.

India now 239 for 5

OldKingCole said:

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Brexit. No way. I’m calling bollocks on that without something substantive to validate that claim as a lot of the shortfall for,that sort of product is generally covid related

Came up on my FB page from a anti-Brexit group. Should, on reflection, have used Allegedly, rather than Apparently, because although I'm prepared that anything going wrong is due to Brexit, shortage of labour etc due to Covid isn't an unreasonable probability.

Especially in the field of products that have pharma and medical applications. The US govt operation warp speed has taken a lot of Product usually used for other medical applications.

williamglenn said:

Scott_xP said:

squareroot2 said:

There appears to a shortage of hot cross buns at Waitrose, none of my favourite orange flavoured ones nor the Apple flavoured ones.

https://twitter.com/whoviankim/status/1431379185377947649

In the US they’re trying to encourage more women to become truck drivers because of a shortage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/women-are-entering-a-trucking-industry-that-s-not-built-for-them

Just goes to show that Clara from Pigeon Street was ahead of her time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeZU1rZuOVs

northern_monkey said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Yes, I was having a pint the other day with my mate and his missus, she’s a phlebotomist and was saying the same thing - no sample bottles anywhere.

Looking at Mr T's post immediately after yours, looks like there are several factors which have all arrived simultaneously.

New Lucidtalk NI Assembly poll has new DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson failing to stop the party's decline.

The UUP, TUV and SDLP are all up and the DUP and Alliance are down.

The UUP and TUV push the DUP into 3rd place of the Unionist parties as it continues to lose moderates to the UUP and hardliners to the TUV.

Full figures and changes since last poll in brackets

SF 25% (no change)
UUP 16% (+2%)
TUV 14% (+3%)
DUP 13% (-3%)
Alliance 13% (-3%)
SDLP 13% (+1%)
https://twitter.com/SuzyJourno/status/1431500657303949312?s=20

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

There is an international shortage of these bottles

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58324108

The FBPE die hard anti brexit Brigade are an embarrassment. Every bad bit of news is down to brexit in their books yet it rarely stands up,to scrutiny.

I voted remain, I would,do again tomorrow but these idiots make being a remainer tough

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Brexit. No way. I’m calling bollocks on that without something substantive to validate that claim as a lot of the shortfall for,that sort of product is generally covid related

Came up on my FB page from a anti-Brexit group. Should, on reflection, have used Allegedly, rather than Apparently, because although I'm prepared that anything going wrong is due to Brexit, shortage of labour etc due to Covid isn't an unreasonable probability.

The problem with trying to blame Brexit for most issues is it really does damage the credibility of the argument

There is a world wide shortage of blood bottles due to raw material issues

True. These aren't 'blood bottles' as used by transfusion services but small hard plastic tubes.

rottenborough said:

The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opinion/alt-right-taliban.html

"The tragic journey of the last two decades began with the loudest voices on the right braying for war with Islamism and ended with a right-wing vanguard envying it."

Anti-woke admiring the Anti-woke? Can't be!

Taz said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

There is an international shortage of these bottles

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58324108

The FBPE die hard anti brexit Brigade are an embarrassment. Every bad bit of news is down to brexit in their books yet it rarely stands up,to scrutiny.

I voted remain, I would,do again tomorrow but these idiots make being a remainer tough

Yeah, I know. Agree. Was trying to be light-hearted/sarcastic about it, but doing so rarely comes over well on this sort of printed page!


Better news, Pant is out. 6 down now.

OldKingCole said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Brexit. No way. I’m calling bollocks on that without something substantive to validate that claim as a lot of the shortfall for,that sort of product is generally covid related

Came up on my FB page from a anti-Brexit group. Should, on reflection, have used Allegedly, rather than Apparently, because although I'm prepared that anything going wrong is due to Brexit, shortage of labour etc due to Covid isn't an unreasonable probability.

The problem with trying to blame Brexit for most issues is it really does damage the credibility of the argument

There is a world wide shortage of blood bottles due to raw material issues

True. These aren't 'blood bottles' as used by transfusion services but small hard plastic tubes.

Global supply of Plastics for,Pharma usage was heavily Impacted by the white out in Texas at the start of the war with suppliers declaring force majeure on any ranges. I wonder of these are affected. The plastic these are made from will be validated, approved, regulated and it’s sources limited.

Ironically for those who say we need to stop drilling for oil these bottles will be made as a by product of oil.

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Taz said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

Brexit. No way. I’m calling bollocks on that without something substantive to validate that claim as a lot of the shortfall for,that sort of product is generally covid related

Came up on my FB page from a anti-Brexit group. Should, on reflection, have used Allegedly, rather than Apparently, because although I'm prepared that anything going wrong is due to Brexit, shortage of labour etc due to Covid isn't an unreasonable probability.

The problem with trying to blame Brexit for most issues is it really does damage the credibility of the argument

There is a world wide shortage of blood bottles due to raw material issues

True. These aren't 'blood bottles' as used by transfusion services but small hard plastic tubes.

Global supply of Plastics for,Pharma usage was heavily Impacted by the white out in Texas at the start of the war with suppliers declaring force majeure on any ranges. I wonder of these are affected. The plastic these are made from will be validated, approved, regulated and it’s sources limited.

Ironically for those who say we need to stop drilling for oil these bottles will be made as a by product of oil.

Sounds reasonable.

And you are, of course right. Oil isn't only used to run cars and planes.

IshmaelZ said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/27/joe-biden-lashes-china-withholding-critical-information-covid/

Going total Trump by the look of it, and with an element of dead cat.

It's what the report says, apparently he got it a few days ago and he's making the comments on the same night they bombed some brown people which the media like so the timing isn't particularly media-distracting.
https://changingtimes.media/2021/08/28/us-intelligence-community-says-sars-cov-2-was-not-developed-as-a-biological-weapon/

Text of the report here:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1431343601968103424

Big_G_NorthWales said:

India now 239 for 5

6 now. Great performance by England.

Taz said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

OldKingCole said:

Back to the blood tests. Apparently the reason for the 'ban' is a shortage of suitable sample containers due to...... wait for it ..... Brexit.

I can't imagine what's going to go wrong next.

There is an international shortage of these bottles

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58324108

The FBPE die hard anti brexit Brigade are an embarrassment. Every bad bit of news is down to brexit in their books yet it rarely stands up,to scrutiny.

I voted remain, I would,do again tomorrow but these idiots make being a remainer tough

It doesn't matter if it stands up to scrutiny or not. We're in post-truth politics now as exemplified by that fat fucking filthy piece of shit Johnson.

There are no 'remainers' any longer as remain or even rejoin isn't an option. Brexit has split the country into two factions like World of Warcraft. We are not going to reconcile and suddenly pull together for the greater good by pretending Brexit is a great idea being brilliantly executed.

Some dispute whether this is accurate:

The results are in: Should the Scottish Green Party support the political cooperation agreement? Yes 89.2 % No 9.8% ...

https://twitter.com/bellacaledonia/status/1431575707340222465?s=20

IshmaelZ said:

Theuniondivvie said:

Carnyx said:

Theuniondivvie said:

Must confess to being taken aback by the level of opprobrium being levelled at Pen Farthing. I can see the whole humans v animals is certainly a moral question, but are Farthing’s actions (still somewhat lost in the fog of war afaIcs) more than a hill of beans compared to the decades of misery, much of it involving governments we voted for, that have taken place in Afghanistan? They seem pretty insignificant even in the scale of the current clusterfuck.

Still, I guess moving from years of indifference to the fate of brown people to brown people are more important than cats suggests a degree of moral growth.

Not sure it is even that benign. Being reported that the dogs and mogs got out - but not the staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1483216/pen-farthing-escapes-kabul-pets-quenche-latest-taliban-ben-wallace-MoD

Still seems a lot of fog about. On that report PF seems to have been faced with the only other choice of sending the animals back to the shelter or letting them loose while boarding the charter as the sole passenger.

I suppose for true hero status Farthing should have stayed on and tried to front it out, but I don’t really have a clue what the situation in Kabul is. Would the presence of an ex RM commando have made things worse for his staff? Dunno.

All a bit Scott of the Antarctic. Heroism doesn't count for much when it's in the face of an almighty clusterfuck you have engineered for purely selfish purposes.

I think you’re underestimating the force of people being carried along by the consequences of their bad decisions and being pushed into ever harder choices. Even with benefit of hindsight and the available facts I can’t really say what I would have done at any given point of this farrago, aside from stating with 100% certainty that whatever paths my life had taken, I would not have ended up running an animal sanctuary in Kabul.

CorrectHorseBattery said:

https://twitter.com/SuzyJourno/status/1431509498997485570

They traditionally backed the Tories but is that still the case?

Well, Johnson's doing his best to ensure that is NOT the case. Not only did he grossly mislead them but he's declared himself Catholic!

Northern_Al said:

I know Scott linked to this upthread, but it's well worth a watch - only 44 seconds of Boris and Dom at their finest. It's a brilliant pastiche of The Thick of It. The highlight is when Boris says 'Amazing!' in reference to the fact that people trying to get out of Afghanistan are still hanging around even after the terrorist attack. Government as satire.

https://twitter.com/Zero_4/status/1431372211068227590

Is this one of those edited clips or is it 100% real? I can never tell.

NickPalmer said:

I'm supposedly being interviewed about the Pen Farthing issue on LBC around 11.20.

This did not seem to happen, unless it was late.

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Ouch!

Andrew Neil's excoriating review of Sturgeon's tawdry deal with the Greens.

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1431516570208153602


Is this piece correct? Neil says Greens wont get any scottish government Cabinet seats in exchange for their agreement. Seems an odd deal.