Thursday 26th March 2020
Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2020 6:56 am
Morning all.
That lack of support is causing all kinds of anxiety here locally. People can't get their hands on a government letting them down. Please, everyone, don't take your anger out on those close to you. Easy, simple to write and difficult to do, I know.AnatolyKasparov wrote:So the government has put off announcing its help for the self-employed until after parliament has risen for several weeks.
Not exactly a confidence booster.
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Dyson may have jumped gun on its announcement of supplying thousands of ventilators to NHS. PM's official spokesman says Dyson's new machine has not had approval from Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and no government money will go to Dyson unless...
and until it gets approval. I read into that Dyson was possibly trying to put pressure on government to give approval by disclosing its ventilator plans yesterday. But a minister to whom I've just spoken tells me it's by no means certain Dyson will get approval
11:45 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Where is James Dyson envisaging having these ventilators manufactured? If overseas, wouldn't it be safer to have them manufactured in the UK where the UK government would have control over domestic lock-down, export etc regulations re factories rather than be subject to any outside situations which might arise? Or, possibly, spread the risk between locations.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Hmm...
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Dyson may have jumped gun on its announcement of supplying thousands of ventilators to NHS. PM's official spokesman says Dyson's new machine has not had approval from Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and no government money will go to Dyson unless...
and until it gets approval. I read into that Dyson was possibly trying to put pressure on government to give approval by disclosing its ventilator plans yesterday. But a minister to whom I've just spoken tells me it's by no means certain Dyson will get approval
11:45 AM - 26 Mar 2020
Dyson's superdooper hand-drier shares any microbes or viruses remaining on your hands with everyone within I forget how many meters, but it's several ! The AirBlade maybe , or is that the fan ?AnatolyKasparov wrote:Dyson's previous record did raise the possibility there might be an element of "too good to be true" about this.
Instead of challenging this and asking questions, the BBC is merrily giving out detailed information about the coronavirus situation in every other country except our own.The spokesman confirmed that the way UK coronavirus deaths are recorded and made public is changing (see 11.07am), but he was unable to give details of how. He said Public Health England is moving to a different reporting time. Yesterday was “a cross-over day” in the way they were recording the numbers, he said. But he was unable to explain what would change.
Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy
Jonathan Portes
Thanks for that, a very good one !Willow904 wrote:https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... and-health
Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy
Jonathan Portes
The ideological 'shrinking of the state' should be being discredited by now ..."" And the long-term consequences? It wasn’t the sharp fall in GDP in 2008-9 that reduced, over the course of the next decade, life expectancy for the poorest in our society. It was how the government chose to address the economic fallout of the global financial crisis – by underfunding and understaffing the NHS and social care, and by eroding the basic welfare safety net that people depend on when times are hard. As we are now discovering, these were false economies that left us less, not more, prepared for this crisis.
Similarly, if we allow Covid-19 to permanently damage our economic and social fabric, it will be our own fault, not that of the virus. This time we can, and must, do better.""
No 10 in U-turn over EU-wide ventilator procurement scheme
Just as the press conference was about to start, Downing Street announced what amounts to a U-turn over participating in the EU-wide effort to procure ventilators and other medical equipment. A Downing Street spokesman said:
Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
As the commission has confirmed, we are eligible to participate in joint procurements during the transition period, following our departure from the EU earlier this year.
As those four initial procurement schemes had already gone out to tender we were unable to take part in these, but we will consider participating in future procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time.
We are working round the clock with industry, the NHS, social care providers and the army to ensure the supply of PPE over the coming weeks and months and will give our NHS and the social care sector everything they need to tackle this outbreak. (Politics Live, Guardian)
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It’s dawning on people that there are huge gaping holes in yesterday’s Chancellor’s statement. We must urge him to shift once more to protect the wages of the self employed by including them in the jobs retention scheme & to raise the level of sick pay to the real living wage.
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It's long since dawned on people that your opinion isn't worth the air into which it is uttered. Pipe down and let the grown ups deal with this.
1:56 PM - 21 Mar 2020
I've no clue who 'rustinpeace' is, BUT I do hope and pray that the LP is garnering Tory reactions to this, and assembling them together ? The ideal is the video , the short and punchy video --RogerOThornhill wrote:This seem to have aged well given the latest announcement...
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It’s dawning on people that there are huge gaping holes in yesterday’s Chancellor’s statement. We must urge him to shift once more to protect the wages of the self employed by including them in the jobs retention scheme & to raise the level of sick pay to the real living wage.
meAnatolyKasparov wrote:So, who clapped?
Yes, effective safety kit, improved working conditions and a pay increaseGetYou wrote:Yep - it was very well done in my street. Now give them a pay rise.
(cJA edit)frog222 wrote:---
The fucking Westminster government copies other places heartfelt initiatives (Spain France) PURELY for party political advantage .
'Bringing the country together' ... bullshit .
They should be hung out to dry .
A large dose of EXCORIATION is required .
WELL .... take the names of those arseholes .RogerOThornhill wrote:I was feeding the cat and forgot,
A mate of mine who is a cardiac nurse said on a FB page that instead of useless clapping, the best way they can support the NHS is by never voting Conservative again.
That didn't go down well...
I'm real sorry to read that. It's not a controversial request.RogerOThornhill wrote:I was feeding the cat and forgot,
A mate of mine who is a cardiac nurse said on a FB page that instead of useless clapping, the best way they can support the NHS is by never voting Conservative again.
That didn't go down well...
Yep. A cross next to Labour in a GE is just as easy and painless as clapping but buckets loads more effective. NHS staff shouldn't need to be lauded for going above and beyond because in a decent world there'd be enough staff that they wouldn't have to.RogerOThornhill wrote:I was feeding the cat and forgot,
A mate of mine who is a cardiac nurse said on a FB page that instead of useless clapping, the best way they can support the NHS is by never voting Conservative again.
That didn't go down well...