Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
There's that inferiority complex again.
That's your mentality, not mine - seeing inferiority and superiority everywhere, even in the toilet cistern. Put a sock in it.
I went to school with a girl whose father was on Glorious. Very, very fortunately he had been sent ashore to deal with some admin stuff. Huge, massive, fuck-up by an incompetent and arrogant membner of the officer class. Never forgotten him telling me about it when I was a boy.
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
I just knew someone on PB would come up with a list given enough time.
PS Interesting how the relative balance of goals, so to speak, works out. In the old days the victories usually outweighed the defeats, but that wasn't so obvious in later decades. Very obvious strategic overstretch in the 1930s.
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
PS If anyone is relying on "the high seas", then there are very few naval battles on the high seas anyway, making Mr Snow's statement almost meaningless. Most of them are near the choke points or bases of one sidfe or other.
@jimsciutto Breaking: Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday, Cannon cancelled the May trial date and did not set a new date.
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
PS If anyone is relying on "the high seas", then there are very few naval battles on the high seas anyway, making Mr Snow's statement almost meaningless. Most of them are near the choke points or bases of one sidfe or other.
Or indeed that of North Cape (home team won, of course) and so on. But as I said earlier, 'high seas' is a bit of a cop out - most battles have nearby land because that's where the enemy is hanging out. The First of June was an exception, hence the name. Compare Trafalgar.
Brexit wouldn’t have happened if Europe had made more concessions to the UK, CDU leader Friedrich Merz tells the FT. He also turns out to be a fan of the Rwanda model
The only issue is... I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen in public in it.
It hides nothing. It's a little obscene.
What is the purpose of clothing? Three purposes. To shelter your body from the elements. To preserve your dignity/modesty in the eyes of others. For reasons of flamboyant display.
If your trisuit is a little obscene then it's failing on one of the purposes of clothing. And that's why I'm a cyclist who doesn't wear lycra.
Serbia Portugal Slovenia (very formfitting bodysuit) Ukraine (biiiig ballad) Lithuania Finland (bonkers, lots of male nudity) Cyprus (generic) Croatia Ireland (bonkers, good and non-binary) Luxembourg
... so my track record of betting tips on PB continues to be poor! No Australia. The BBC commentators are surprised too.
The only issue is... I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen in public in it.
It hides nothing. It's a little obscene.
What is the purpose of clothing? Three purposes. To shelter your body from the elements. To preserve your dignity/modesty in the eyes of others. For reasons of flamboyant display.
If your trisuit is a little obscene then it's failing on one of the purposes of clothing. And that's why I'm a cyclist who doesn't wear lycra.
Few of the outfits in tonight's show would meet your first two criteria. Most would qualify by the last.
Brexit wouldn’t have happened if Europe had made more concessions to the UK, CDU leader Friedrich Merz tells the FT. He also turns out to be a fan of the Rwanda model
Serbia Portugal Slovenia (very formfitting bodysuit) Ukraine (biiiig ballad) Lithuania Finland (bonkers, lots of male nudity) Cyprus (generic) Croatia Ireland (bonkers, good and non-binary) Luxembourg
... so my track record of betting tips on PB continues to be poor! No Australia. The BBC commentators are surprised too.
Looking forward to the vitriolic response from Daily Mail to this:
"At Sulkava prison in Finland, I stood on the edge of a lake where, in the summer, prisoners fished for their dinner and foraged in the woodland for mushrooms and lingonberries. “Being here and able to cook for myself brings me a sense of normality, dignity and self-sufficiency,” one prisoner told me."
Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries
Teaching them how to cook for when they get out is not a small thing. Not every prisoner is a PB aficionado who can discourse learnedly on this hot sauce or that vegan recipe.
I agree. I was being flippant.
Uk prisons are a disgrace.
Oh, you didn't come over as flippant at all - just savagely ironic. And rightly so.
I thought teaching people to cook was violently middle class?
I recall the outrage when Delia published a book starting with how to cook an egg.
My mum gave it to me when I was a student. I needed it.
The launch was hilarious. Various bizarre interviews were given. It was sexist, classist etc etc. One MP of a certain fame rattled the list off so fast that she included “racist” - which she rolled back when the puzzled interviewer asked how?
Another MP, later made famous in the expenses scandal for eating every meal at a resteraunt, opined that “real people” had no time to cook.
I wonder what such people make of teaching other skills. Like reading and writing.
The premise of this and other like-minded pieces is Reform voters are all Conservatives who will run back to the blue rosette at the first whiff of electoral gunpowder. The analogy is with those Conservatives who used to "protest" in mid-term by voting Lib Dem at Council elections and Parliamentary by-elections.
This produced fantastic results for the LDs but the problem was as soon as a GE heaved into view and it was a forced choice between a Labour Government and a Conservative Government the protesters headed back to the Conservatives as did those who registered their "protest" by staying at home for local elections and by-elections.
What you had were Conservatives who were never really Lib Dems at all but realised they could use a vote for the LDs as a harmless (well, not for the unfortunate Conservative local candidate) but significant kick for the incumbent Government.
So, are the current Reform voters something similar? There's not much polling to answer that question definitively - there is a think a significant divergent between Tice/Farage and the membership. To this observer, the Reform leadership, apart from their hostility to the EU, are unreconstructed Thatcherites kken on lower taxes and big cuts in public spending but the Reform membership seems to be more in the Boris Johnson mould which is interventionist and keen to see public money spent but in certain areas and on certain things.
Even on immigration, there's a line being walked between outright hostility to all migrants, both legal and illegal, and a recognition a growing economy leads a level of immigration and recognising gaps in key specialisms needed to fuel that growth can only be filled with immigration.
That's the paradox Reform probably won't address let alone resolve this side of a GE.
How is Reform UK walking a line on immigration? They've made net zero immigration the central plank of their policies.
That may be true but I think the party has elements who would support limited immigration on economic grounds.
The other nuance to this observer is whether they mean literally "one in one out" or whether it's more about a severe clampdown on illegal migration (the aim being its elimination) and far more restrictive conditions on legal migration.
They've said what their policy is. It is for net zero immigration (legal or "illegal"). It's not quite one in one out. You don't sit waiting to be let in until someone leaves, but it's effectively one in one out.
It isn't really - there's a bit of wiggle room around the numbers - but I appreciate where the policy is going.
Presumably the hope of Conservative strategists is Rwanda will be seen to have an effect and that will draw Reform supporters back - the problem is if it doesn't work or the perception is it isn't working, what then?
Depends why Con-to-Ref sayers switched.
Crudely, is the number of small boat assylum seekers the reason or the justification? Same for total net migration. Yes, there are undoubtedly voters who can be wooed back by tough actions on border control, if they can be made to work. (Let's see on that one.)
But for at least some Reform voters, it's more visceral. They just don't like RIshi. Doesn't matter why that is so, it just is. Trying to get them back into the tory column through policy is unlikely to work. They might not like Starmer either, but that's not the point. They really dislike Rishi.
So in London, Susan Hall was able to woo a decent slice of that vote. Howard Cox ended up on 3% in the Mayoral election, against 7% in the Assembly constituencies and 6% for the list. But Khan was (and is) seen as an effective bogeyman, with a flagship policy to be sunk. And Hall is more than a bit Reform-y herself. In the West Midlands, the RefUK candidate got 6%; Andy Street didn't need that many more of those votes to have won.
In the other places where Reform stood, they got some decent minor party shares. 11% in the East Midlands, 8% in Greater Manchester, 9% in the North East, 15% for the Derbyshire PCC, 14% for the Linconshire PCC.
So there is a Reform vote out there. Not as much as the polls are saying, but still chunky. And some of it can probably be enticed back into the Conservative fold, but nowhere near all of it. A million miles from a seat-winning score, which is why Farage is likely to be washing his hair when the election is called. But enough (high single figures?) to cause the Conservatives a lot of trouble. Especially when the anti-Conservative vote on the cenre-left looks so damn efficient.
@jimsciutto Breaking: Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday, Cannon cancelled the May trial date and did not set a new date.
By most accounts she takes ages to decide even straightforward things, as she is not very experienced, so even if a May date had not been unlikely from the start, pre-election was never going to happen even assuming nothing nefarious.
It's odd though, as the facts of the case seem pretty simple, and not even hinging in most cases on classified evidence, since much of it is about willfully hiding documents which were subpoenered, and it doesn't matter whether Trump thought or even really did have a right to retain those ones, he concocted a scheme to hide them after legally being required to produce them.
The only issue is... I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen in public in it.
It hides nothing. It's a little obscene.
What is the purpose of clothing? Three purposes. To shelter your body from the elements. To preserve your dignity/modesty in the eyes of others. For reasons of flamboyant display.
If your trisuit is a little obscene then it's failing on one of the purposes of clothing. And that's why I'm a cyclist who doesn't wear lycra.
Errr, I thought the point of cycling gear was to minimize chafing.
No votes for Israel in tonight's Eurovision semi final.
It was one of the best songs . I feel very sorry for the singer but I wouldn’t call it anti-semitism . More anti the Israeli government actions in Gaza .
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
I just knew someone on PB would come up with a list given enough time.
PS Interesting how the relative balance of goals, so to speak, works out. In the old days the victories usually outweighed the defeats, but that wasn't so obvious in later decades. Very obvious strategic overstretch in the 1930s.
The RN chased the German surface navy out of existence in WWII. To the point that Hitler handed the whole thing to Donuts and told him to scrap all the surface ships.
The only issue is... I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen in public in it.
It hides nothing. It's a little obscene.
What is the purpose of clothing? Three purposes. To shelter your body from the elements. To preserve your dignity/modesty in the eyes of others. For reasons of flamboyant display.
If your trisuit is a little obscene then it's failing on one of the purposes of clothing. And that's why I'm a cyclist who doesn't wear lycra.
You can always wear shorts over the lycra if you aren't trying to go fast.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
At a random guess - a complex interaction of organisational fiefdoms, budgets, a hacked up system that replaced a system of wooden talkies used since 1124 and the repeated failure of projects to build a replacement.
So the payroll system was the equivalent of a Portacabin from late 1963.
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
I just knew someone on PB would come up with a list given enough time.
PS Interesting how the relative balance of goals, so to speak, works out. In the old days the victories usually outweighed the defeats, but that wasn't so obvious in later decades. Very obvious strategic overstretch in the 1930s.
The RN chased the German surface navy out of existence in WWII. To the point that Hitler handed the whole thing to Donuts and told him to scrap all the surface ships.
So it should have, given its size. And so it did - Norwegian Campaign was very much a net positive score once one added all the battles. But there were other modes and other enemies and by then asymmetric warfare (subs vs dreadnoughts etc.) had set in. And the Riskflotte theory still worked. Couldn't cover home defence, convoys, Italy and Japan all at once, at least to begin with.
No votes for Israel in tonight's Eurovision semi final.
It was one of the best songs . I feel very sorry for the singer but I wouldn’t call it anti-semitism . More anti the Israeli government actions in Gaza .
They're not on until Thursday's semi-final. They're still in.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
At a random guess - a complex interaction of organisational fiefdoms, budgets, a hacked up system that replaced a system of wooden talkies used since 1124 and the repeated failure of projects to build a replacement.
So the payroll system was the equivalent of a Portacabin from late 1963.
Ah, now I'm getting nostalgic for all those 'temporary' pratten hut classrooms from my youth.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
You outsource payroll to a company that specialises in payroll, and does it for multiple other entities. The network is probably as secure as any commercial system these days, which means spectacularly vulnerable to obtaining someones password and going from there
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
I'll await a tech explanation too, but would you trust the MOD to look after something?
Should have been on an air-gapped network, no matter who was looking after it.
How would you communicate payroll to all the banks to actually make payroll payments, if the information was on an air-gapped network?
Smoke signals.
Presumably encrypted smoke signals?
Print out on a Babbage Engine to all bases, which then have a pay parade every Friday morning. Step forward, salute, hold cap out (if RN), receive cash, step back and march smartly off ...
No votes for Israel in tonight's Eurovision semi final.
It was one of the best songs . I feel very sorry for the singer but I wouldn’t call it anti-semitism . More anti the Israeli government actions in Gaza .
They're not on until Thursday's semi-final. They're still in.
Oh I see ! I didn’t watch tonight but have seen the song on the net and it’s very good .
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
I'll await a tech explanation too, but would you trust the MOD to look after something?
Should have been on an air-gapped network, no matter who was looking after it.
How would you communicate payroll to all the banks to actually make payroll payments, if the information was on an air-gapped network?
Smoke signals.
The problem there is that you would need a 247 person requirements and contracting team, which would take 17 years to come up with The Unique British Requirements For Smoke Signals.
Bae would take £2.37 Billion to produce a system that was magnificent. Apart from not producing smoke.
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
It did it’s job though, and saved thousands of lives, and allowed a return to normal life. Not a bad achievement. We have better and safer vaccines for Covid now, so it’s natural to use those.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
I'll await a tech explanation too, but would you trust the MOD to look after something?
Should have been on an air-gapped network, no matter who was looking after it.
How would you communicate payroll to all the banks to actually make payroll payments, if the information was on an air-gapped network?
Smoke signals.
Presumably encrypted smoke signals?
Encrypted smoke signals indeed.
You can keep the database separate and just send the monthly extract with the absolute minimum data to make the payments via your non air-gapped network.
No need to store anything.
There was clearly an assessment that this data wasn't valuable.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
You outsource payroll to a company that specialises in payroll, and does it for multiple other entities. The network is probably as secure as any commercial system these days, which means spectacularly vulnerable to obtaining someones password and going from there
Working in this industry (as I have gathered a few other PBers do) can confirm the frankly disgusting standards some adhere (or not!) to. It's shocking.
There's plenty of other crazy stuff though. Did you know for example one of our largest employers has an "auto fire" system? If anyone ever noticed...
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
It did it’s job though, and saved thousands of lives, and allowed a return to normal life. Not a bad achievement. We have better and safer vaccines for Covid now, so it’s natural to use those.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
It did it’s job though, and saved thousands of lives, and allowed a return to normal life. Not a bad achievement. We have better and safer vaccines for Covid now, so it’s natural to use those.
Lol
What do you find funny about that? Are you just another anti vaxxer prick? Care to talk science?
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
Oh right. So AstraZeneca has just withdrawn its Covid vaccine after admitting rare side effect. Will the entire government and @MattHancock who bullied the population into being jabbed and all those who screeched “anti vaxxer” at those of us with concerns now apologise?! 9:40 PM · May 7, 2024 · 58K Views
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Judicial caution from Merchan in the Trump trial, or something the lawyers can seize on to trial to force a mistrial when their own witnesses come in, when we will be at such a point? It has to be on the table if they think things are looking bad.
Having said that, he thinks there were guardrails in place, prosecution offered appropriate instructions, but he's not discounting Blanche's point. But, he just thinks we're not at a point to merit a mistrial https://nitter.poast.org/TylerMcBrien/status/1787909065060081676#m
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
I only ever had Pfizer and then Moderna boosters and was relieved . I remember all the anti EU hate spewed by much of the right wing UK media who treated any criticisms of AZ as heresy. Only to then have to admit there were issues with it .
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Doubt it. The old folks cannot get enough covid jabs. Check out any surgery when they offer the vaccines. Old folks will queue for hours.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Far far more damage is done by the ignorant tweets you’ve posted, and anti-vaxxer bollocks in general.
Breaking news The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
I only ever had Pfizer and then Moderna boosters and was relieved . I remember all the anti EU hate spewed by much of the right wing UK media who treated any criticisms of AZ as heresy. Only to then have to admit there were issues with it .
The EU hate was more about the triggering of a certain article by UvdL…
Very odd. Very precise wording. But still ambiguous. Could refer to an enemy fleet as a whole; doesn't say all of it has to be in action (which is impossible anyway in practice). So what about single ship actions? Even ignoring those, and the Java Sea (because under Netherlands command), and sticking to 1707-today, it's not hard to get 12 and more:
Gulf of Thailand Denmark Strait Indian Ocean (Hermes etc.) Italian MAS Maiales in Alexandria PQ17, HX229/SC112 and several other convoys Norwegian Campaign/Unternehmen Juno Skagerrak/Jutland Coronel Mauritius MInorca Chesapeake Lizard
PS If anyone is relying on "the high seas", then there are very few naval battles on the high seas anyway, making Mr Snow's statement almost meaningless. Most of them are near the choke points or bases of one sidfe or other.
1707 wouldn't be the right date for United Kingdom
(Not that this invalidates majority of your examples, if not all of them - I'm not familiar with them all)
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Far far more damage is done by the ignorant tweets you’ve posted, and anti-vaxxer bollocks in general.
The general public are easily spooked. This will spook them. Trust in our institutions is being lost. And why were young people coerced into getting the vaccine.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Far far more damage is done by the ignorant tweets you’ve posted, and anti-vaxxer bollocks in general.
The general public are easily spooked. This will spook them. Trust in our institutions is being lost. And why were young people coerced into getting the vaccine.
I see you don’t want to talk about science. Perhaps because you have no idea?
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Perception is everything is life. The perception is turning to the jabs are dangerous. Thats a massive change.
The premise of this and other like-minded pieces is Reform voters are all Conservatives who will run back to the blue rosette at the first whiff of electoral gunpowder. The analogy is with those Conservatives who used to "protest" in mid-term by voting Lib Dem at Council elections and Parliamentary by-elections.
This produced fantastic results for the LDs but the problem was as soon as a GE heaved into view and it was a forced choice between a Labour Government and a Conservative Government the protesters headed back to the Conservatives as did those who registered their "protest" by staying at home for local elections and by-elections.
What you had were Conservatives who were never really Lib Dems at all but realised they could use a vote for the LDs as a harmless (well, not for the unfortunate Conservative local candidate) but significant kick for the incumbent Government.
So, are the current Reform voters something similar? There's not much polling to answer that question definitively - there is a think a significant divergent between Tice/Farage and the membership. To this observer, the Reform leadership, apart from their hostility to the EU, are unreconstructed Thatcherites kken on lower taxes and big cuts in public spending but the Reform membership seems to be more in the Boris Johnson mould which is interventionist and keen to see public money spent but in certain areas and on certain things.
Even on immigration, there's a line being walked between outright hostility to all migrants, both legal and illegal, and a recognition a growing economy leads a level of immigration and recognising gaps in key specialisms needed to fuel that growth can only be filled with immigration.
That's the paradox Reform probably won't address let alone resolve this side of a GE.
How is Reform UK walking a line on immigration? They've made net zero immigration the central plank of their policies.
That may be true but I think the party has elements who would support limited immigration on economic grounds.
The other nuance to this observer is whether they mean literally "one in one out" or whether it's more about a severe clampdown on illegal migration (the aim being its elimination) and far more restrictive conditions on legal migration.
They've said what their policy is. It is for net zero immigration (legal or "illegal"). It's not quite one in one out. You don't sit waiting to be let in until someone leaves, but it's effectively one in one out.
It isn't really - there's a bit of wiggle room around the numbers - but I appreciate where the policy is going.
Presumably the hope of Conservative strategists is Rwanda will be seen to have an effect and that will draw Reform supporters back - the problem is if it doesn't work or the perception is it isn't working, what then?
Depends why Con-to-Ref sayers switched.
Crudely, is the number of small boat assylum seekers the reason or the justification? Same for total net migration. Yes, there are undoubtedly voters who can be wooed back by tough actions on border control, if they can be made to work. (Let's see on that one.)
But for at least some Reform voters, it's more visceral. They just don't like RIshi. Doesn't matter why that is so, it just is. Trying to get them back into the tory column through policy is unlikely to work. They might not like Starmer either, but that's not the point. They really dislike Rishi.
So in London, Susan Hall was able to woo a decent slice of that vote. Howard Cox ended up on 3% in the Mayoral election, against 7% in the Assembly constituencies and 6% for the list. But Khan was (and is) seen as an effective bogeyman, with a flagship policy to be sunk. And Hall is more than a bit Reform-y herself. In the West Midlands, the RefUK candidate got 6%; Andy Street didn't need that many more of those votes to have won.
In the other places where Reform stood, they got some decent minor party shares. 11% in the East Midlands, 8% in Greater Manchester, 9% in the North East, 15% for the Derbyshire PCC, 14% for the Linconshire PCC.
So there is a Reform vote out there. Not as much as the polls are saying, but still chunky. And some of it can probably be enticed back into the Conservative fold, but nowhere near all of it. A million miles from a seat-winning score, which is why Farage is likely to be washing his hair when the election is called. But enough (high single figures?) to cause the Conservatives a lot of trouble. Especially when the anti-Conservative vote on the cenre-left looks so damn efficient.
All of those are answers to different questions though. For example. Nobody with a functional braincell thought Burnham would lose. So you're free to "waste" your vote.
Oh right. So AstraZeneca has just withdrawn its Covid vaccine after admitting rare side effect. Will the entire government and @MattHancock who bullied the population into being jabbed and all those who screeched “anti vaxxer” at those of us with concerns now apologise?! 9:40 PM · May 7, 2024 · 58K Views
I know the regulars here will just be raising their eyebrows wearily now you’ve crossed the inevitable threshold towards the ban, but given there may be impressionable people reading this out there:
The vaccine led to around 80 recorded deaths out of, at the last count, close to 100 millions doses in the UK. The sort of adverse reaction rate that wouldn’t even register in most clinical trials. There were lengthy periods before the vaccine rollout when several hundred people were dying of Covid in the UK daily.
It’s calculated the vaccine saved upwards of 6 million lives in its first year of rollout globally.
The vaccine remains approved for use. The reason it’s being withdrawn is commercial - it’s been superseded by vaccines with higher efficacy and fewer side effects. Which is how medicine progresses.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Perception is everything is life. The perception is turning to the jabs are dangerous. Thats a massive change.
No, it isn’t. One of the first vaccines against a dangerous and novel virus has been withdrawn after saving many lives. This has no bearing on the other vaccines, but you are so stupid you don’t know how vaccines work, or understand drug/vaccine safety profiles.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
There was too much groupthink during the Covid 19 crisis, particularly with regard to lockdowns and closing schools imo. I don't agree with criticisms of the vaccines though.
Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 · 1m “Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 · 1m “Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 · 1m “Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
How long after having the AZ jab before you are in the clear blood clot wise? I had a terrible reaction to mine, literally thought I was a goner that night.
Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 · 1m “Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
How long after having the AZ jab before you are in the clear blood clot wise? I had a terrible reaction to mine, literally thought I was a goner that night.
Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 · 1m “Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
I'll await a tech explanation too, but would you trust the MOD to look after something?
Should have been on an air-gapped network, no matter who was looking after it.
How would you communicate payroll to all the banks to actually make payroll payments, if the information was on an air-gapped network?
Smoke signals.
Presumably encrypted smoke signals?
Encrypted smoke signals indeed.
You can keep the database separate and just send the monthly extract with the absolute minimum data to make the payments via your non air-gapped network.
No need to store anything.
There was clearly an assessment that this data wasn't valuable.
It's impossible to say how the system could have been designed without knowing what the requirements are. How does the data get into the database in the first place, what kind of maintenance does it need, does it need to be queried to be updated, who does it need to be sent to and how often etc etc.
Can someone please explain whose a bit more tech savvy. Given the security concerns . Why would you have the MOD payroll on an an external network ?
I'll await a tech explanation too, but would you trust the MOD to look after something?
Should have been on an air-gapped network, no matter who was looking after it.
How would you communicate payroll to all the banks to actually make payroll payments, if the information was on an air-gapped network?
Smoke signals.
Presumably encrypted smoke signals?
Encrypted smoke signals indeed.
You can keep the database separate and just send the monthly extract with the absolute minimum data to make the payments via your non air-gapped network.
No need to store anything.
There was clearly an assessment that this data wasn't valuable.
It's impossible to say how the system could have been designed without knowing what the requirements are. How does the data get into the database in the first place, what kind of maintenance does it need, does it need to be queried to be updated, who does it need to be sent to and how often etc etc.
That's fair enough. I haven't seen the requirements.
How long after having the AZ jab before you are in the clear blood clot wise? I had a terrible reaction to mine, literally thought I was a goner that night.
I see more idiocy from the government and its new “ let’s help identity fraud “ Bill .
Failing to explain that the new rules will effectively mean everyone who uses social media having to hand over their ID details to organizations that can’t be relied on to protect them.
I don’t know much about the case, but why do the details of the supposed ‘encounter’ matter? Surely it’s about the money paid or not paid? Isn’t the use of her testimony just about embarrassing Trump?
So apparently the judge has also been trying to stop her giving too much salacious detail. However the reason this testimony is allowed is because the defence is claiming that he's never met her, the payments to Cohen were what they said on the tin and the entire thing is made up. If you want to know whether she's lying about what she says about the hush money deal, it helps to have a take on whether she's lying about everything else.
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE. It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone. Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective. We were lied to. Where is the MSM?
Seems like it was plenty effective, and as for safe, over 80 deaths if so is tragic, but the results from the vaccination programme speak for themselves that thousands of lives appear to have been saved. Not having to hand other options, the right choice was made. Well done to the government on this one.
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
Lol. Well you are a civil servant. Regardless though this announcement will likely spook the general public and damage confidence in vaccines in general.
Far far more damage is done by the ignorant tweets you’ve posted, and anti-vaxxer bollocks in general.
To quote Boney M. "Oh those Russians".
Although smarter than your usual Saturday morning trollski.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
None of these things happened. Not here, and not in the United States either. The vaccine (any of them) has never been compulsory, and excepting a brief six months or so having to show a Covid passport to get to the theatre, I wasn't asked to prove my status anywhere.
How long after having the AZ jab before you are in the clear blood clot wise? I had a terrible reaction to mine, literally thought I was a goner that night.
Genuinely though, something messed me up badly with that first jab. It was the worst I have ever felt by a huge margin
I know quite a few people who had a very bad reaction to AZ , mainly on the first dose . Pfizer wasn’t perfect but it had a much lower incidence of severe side effects.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
What are their opinion of vaccines for other things, like Polio?
Like i say perception is everything. The general public arent interested in science and respond to emotion. For vaccines this is bad news.
These vaccines are so bad, it takes six months, a year, two years, three years... no wait.... look, just accept it. Everyone who takes a vaccine will be dead in 100 years.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
None of these things happened. Not here, and not in the United States either. The vaccine (any of them) has never been compulsory, and excepting a brief six months or so having to show a Covid passport to get to the theatre, I wasn't asked to prove my status anywhere.
So file that as 'things that didn't happen'.
It was compulsory for anyone who needed to travel internationally and NHS workers did get sacked for refusing the vaccination.
How long after having the AZ jab before you are in the clear blood clot wise? I had a terrible reaction to mine, literally thought I was a goner that night.
Genuinely though, something messed me up badly with that first jab. It was the worst I have ever felt by a huge margin
I know quite a few people who had a very bad reaction to AZ , mainly on the first dose . Pfizer wasn’t perfect but it had a much lower incidence of severe side effects.
To give some context, I’m lucky that I’ve never been really ill, touch wood, so my exposure to feeling rough is a bit low. Never had to go to hospital except for stitches and detached retinas
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
What are their opinion of vaccines for other things, like Polio?
Like i say perception is everything. The general public arent interested in science and respond to emotion. For vaccines this is bad news.
These vaccines are so bad, it takes six months, a year, two years, three years... no wait.... look, just accept it. Everyone who takes a vaccine will be dead in 100 years.
Why has Dune 2 hit streaming so quickly, I thought it was supposed to be good?
Which sand worm among you flagged this question?
what I want to know about that movie is how they get OFF the giant sand worms
When they release the hooks, the poor harried sand worm dives into the sand. So you kinda jump off backwards.
It is quite clear that Shaddam IV made a big mistake on relying on 10 legions of Sardaukar. Ok, sociopathic religious fanatics trained to be the best warriors in the galaxy. But he really should have called in the RSPCA.
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I went to school with a girl whose father was on Glorious. Very, very fortunately he had been sent ashore to deal with some admin stuff. Huge, massive, fuck-up by an incompetent and arrogant membner of the officer class. Never forgotten him telling me about it when I was a boy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03n3297/pq17-an-arctic-convoy-disaster
Breaking: Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday, Cannon cancelled the May trial date and did not set a new date.
Brexit wouldn’t have happened if Europe had made more concessions to the UK, CDU leader Friedrich Merz tells the FT. He also turns out to be a fan of the Rwanda model
If your trisuit is a little obscene then it's failing on one of the purposes of clothing. And that's why I'm a cyclist who doesn't wear lycra.
Very surprised Australia didn't get through!
Serbia
Portugal
Slovenia (very formfitting bodysuit)
Ukraine (biiiig ballad)
Lithuania
Finland (bonkers, lots of male nudity)
Cyprus (generic)
Croatia
Ireland (bonkers, good and non-binary)
Luxembourg
... so my track record of betting tips on PB continues to be poor! No Australia. The BBC commentators are surprised too.
No votes for Israel in tonight's Eurovision semi final.
Another MP, later made famous in the expenses scandal for eating every meal at a resteraunt, opined that “real people” had no time to cook.
I wonder what such people make of teaching other skills. Like reading and writing.
Crudely, is the number of small boat assylum seekers the reason or the justification? Same for total net migration. Yes, there are undoubtedly voters who can be wooed back by tough actions on border control, if they can be made to work. (Let's see on that one.)
But for at least some Reform voters, it's more visceral. They just don't like RIshi. Doesn't matter why that is so, it just is. Trying to get them back into the tory column through policy is unlikely to work. They might not like Starmer either, but that's not the point. They really dislike Rishi.
So in London, Susan Hall was able to woo a decent slice of that vote. Howard Cox ended up on 3% in the Mayoral election, against 7% in the Assembly constituencies and 6% for the list. But Khan was (and is) seen as an effective bogeyman, with a flagship policy to be sunk. And Hall is more than a bit Reform-y herself. In the West Midlands, the RefUK candidate got 6%; Andy Street didn't need that many more of those votes to have won.
In the other places where Reform stood, they got some decent minor party shares. 11% in the East Midlands, 8% in Greater Manchester, 9% in the North East, 15% for the Derbyshire PCC, 14% for the Linconshire PCC.
So there is a Reform vote out there. Not as much as the polls are saying, but still chunky. And some of it can probably be enticed back into the Conservative fold, but nowhere near all of it. A million miles from a seat-winning score, which is why Farage is likely to be washing his hair when the election is called. But enough (high single figures?) to cause the Conservatives a lot of trouble. Especially when the anti-Conservative vote on the cenre-left looks so damn efficient.
It's odd though, as the facts of the case seem pretty simple, and not even hinging in most cases on classified evidence, since much of it is about willfully hiding documents which were subpoenered, and it doesn't matter whether Trump thought or even really did have a right to retain those ones, he concocted a scheme to hide them after legally being required to produce them.
Normal for mountain bikers (unless racing).
So the payroll system was the equivalent of a Portacabin from late 1963.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect
Find out more
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/07/astrazeneca-withdrawing-covid-vaccine/
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1787942880130052523
Bae would take £2.37 Billion to produce a system that was magnificent. Apart from not producing smoke.
Final cost per smoke signal would be £2,453.67
When it worked.
You can keep the database separate and just send the monthly extract with the absolute minimum data to make the payments via your non air-gapped network.
No need to store anything.
There was clearly an assessment that this data wasn't valuable.
https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/semaphore-tower-58731/#Overview
There's plenty of other crazy stuff though. Did you know for example one of our largest employers has an "auto fire" system? If anyone ever noticed...
BREAKING: AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid jab WORLDWIDE.
It's not safe enough now for anyone because of TTS side effects connected to over 80 deaths in the UK alone.
Let's be honest, this vaccine was NEVER safe and effective.
We were lied to.
Where is the MSM?
https://x.com/danwootton/status/1787949096587681973
Oh right. So AstraZeneca has just withdrawn its Covid vaccine after admitting rare side effect. Will the entire government and
@MattHancock
who bullied the population into being jabbed and all those who screeched “anti vaxxer” at those of us with concerns now apologise?!
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https://x.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1787945626128298091
Oakeshott and others are not going to get apologies, because it still seems to have been safer than not having the mass vaccination campaign. So they can be pretend heroes all they like.
You may have missed the 260,000 dead from Covid, as a counter to 80 deaths ‘linked’ to the AZ vaccine.
Having said that, he thinks there were guardrails in place, prosecution offered appropriate instructions, but he's not discounting Blanche's point. But, he just thinks we're not at a point to merit a mistrial
https://nitter.poast.org/TylerMcBrien/status/1787909065060081676#m
Now what about the BA pilots?
(Not that this invalidates majority of your examples, if not all of them - I'm not familiar with them all)
For example. Nobody with a functional braincell thought Burnham would lose. So you're free to "waste" your vote.
The vaccine led to around 80 recorded deaths out of, at the last count, close to 100 millions doses in the UK. The sort of adverse reaction rate that wouldn’t even register in most clinical trials. There were lengthy periods before the vaccine rollout when several hundred people were dying of Covid in the UK daily.
It’s calculated the vaccine saved upwards of 6 million lives in its first year of rollout globally.
The vaccine remains approved for use. The reason it’s being withdrawn is commercial - it’s been superseded by vaccines with higher efficacy and fewer side effects. Which is how medicine progresses.
To all of you who insisted EVERYONE MUST have these vaccines, or else…Do you feel bad now?
I’ll never forget people DEMANDING that others had these jabs, else essentially be removed from public interactions including ability to earn a living and/or socialise etc
Folk even wanted to remove healthcare from those who made a choice that the vaccine wasn’t right for them… They vilified them, mocked them, abused them and smeared them.
It was absolute
https://x.com/MichelleDewbs/status/1787966173801287681
What are their opinion of vaccines for other things, like Polio?
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“Chris Cuomo came out and said he's got a vaccine injury. That guy was pushing that shit on TV forever...people who say they were injured by the ‘Covid Vaccines’ believe their cases have been ignored. Well they have. They’ve been ignored…” -Joe Roga
https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1787967761441775978
Any chance of somebody inventing a vaccine against far-right idiocy?
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-ema-finds-possible-link-very-rare-cases-unusual-blood-clots-low-blood-platelets
Head of Cyber Security for HM Treasury £57k:
https://twitter.com/Jontafkasi/status/1641194628568186889
Head of cyber security for a trading company no-one has ever heard of, £450k:
https://twitter.com/Jontafkasi/status/1641193954778697728?t=fatiYUUcE3cN42bDrSHnGw
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the skills/quality of people in senior civil service posts.
But there are usually alternative solutions.
They could always have paid in cash...
Genuinely though, something messed me up badly with that first jab. It was the worst I have ever felt by a huge margin
Failing to explain that the new rules will effectively mean everyone who uses social media having to hand over their ID details to organizations that can’t be relied on to protect them.
And how long after the vaccine they died?
I mean, we can link anything to anything given enough time.
Although smarter than your usual Saturday morning trollski.
The vaccine (any of them) has never been compulsory, and excepting a brief six months or so having to show a Covid passport to get to the theatre, I wasn't asked to prove my status anywhere.
So file that as 'things that didn't happen'.
The libs are owned!
It is quite clear that Shaddam IV made a big mistake on relying on 10 legions of Sardaukar. Ok, sociopathic religious fanatics trained to be the best warriors in the galaxy. But he really should have called in the RSPCA.