Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Posted: Tue 23 Jun, 2020 6:58 am
Morning all.
It's the New Tory Britain.It's not Freedom Day but Complexity Day
Our lockdown was eased on Monday the 11th of May ( when I was extremely lucky and had a root canal job!), and had my hair cut (masks all round and she had a vizor too...) late on the Saturday .Willow904 wrote:https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-23/it- ... exity-day/It's the New Tory Britain.It's not Freedom Day but Complexity Day
BTW does anyone know anything about hairdressers? My husband doesn't mind it short, so I did his with clippers but my son won't let me near his and is starting to look like an early Beatle, and not in a good way.
An example he gives -- Waitrose labels chlorinated chicken, your new rulers make it illegal to label, fines follow !Henry VIII powers
" How you might ask? The answer is the widespread use of what are known as ” Henry VIII ” powers – or more arcanely known as statutory instruments. These are orders allowing ministers to change the law by decree – either putting down an order which Parliament has 90 minutes to debate or a negative order that if MPs don’t spot it is already law unless Parliament can overturn it.
Now what the peers have discovered is that all these bills are littered with these powers – 40 in the agriculture bill alone – giving huge discretion to introduce not only rule by decree but powers to introduce new criminal offences with unlimited fines."
Opening 4 July I think. My hairdresser's already booked up for the first 3 weeks!Willow904 wrote:https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-23/it- ... exity-day/It's the New Tory Britain.It's not Freedom Day but Complexity Day
BTW does anyone know anything about hairdressers? My husband doesn't mind it short, so I did his with clippers but my son won't let me near his and is starting to look like an early Beatle, and not in a good way.
Talking of which, my wife who is shielding until 31st July and therefore has no chance of getting her hair cut decided to chance it...and let me do it.Willow904 wrote:https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-23/it- ... exity-day/It's the New Tory Britain.It's not Freedom Day but Complexity Day
BTW does anyone know anything about hairdressers? My husband doesn't mind it short, so I did his with clippers but my son won't let me near his and is starting to look like an early Beatle, and not in a good way.
I initially assumed that was going to be about Brexit, as it could equally apply to 1 January 2021 for businesses.Willow904 wrote:https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-23/it- ... exity-day/It's the New Tory Britain.It's not Freedom Day but Complexity Day
Brave.RogerOThornhill wrote: Talking of which, my wife who is shielding until 31st July and therefore has no chance of getting her hair cut decided to chance it...and let me do it.
Nick Macpherson
@nickmacpherson2
In a rational world, HMG would increase benefits for the poor who have a higher propensity to consume. But that too takes months to implement and if you increase benefits for any length ot time, it's very difficult to withdraw them. /3
A committed leaver, Paul has just described Brexit...only ever the issue for a small but vocal minority but Cameron's cowardice in not wanting to take on the right wing of his party brought us to where we are now.Paul Embery
@PaulEmbery
A big part of our problem is that our governing class is characterised by an innate political cowardice. Like, genuine gutlessness. It is through this cowardice that minority opinions are able to hold such sway and be inaccurately portrayed as the view of the majority.
10:42 PM · Jun 22, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Let me guess.......that isn't actually what he is referring to though?RogerOThornhill wrote:A committed leaver, Paul has just described Brexit...only ever the issue for a small but vocal minority but Cameron's cowardice in not wanting to take on the right wing of his party brought us to where we are now.Paul Embery
@PaulEmbery
A big part of our problem is that our governing class is characterised by an innate political cowardice. Like, genuine gutlessness. It is through this cowardice that minority opinions are able to hold such sway and be inaccurately portrayed as the view of the majority.
10:42 PM · Jun 22, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
gilsey wrote:Thread on appropriate methods of stimulating the economy, includes this gem.
Nick Macpherson
@nickmacpherson2
In a rational world, HMG would increase benefits for the poor who have a higher propensity to consume. But that too takes months to implement and if you increase benefits for any length ot time, it's very difficult to withdraw them. /3
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Willow904 wrote:Thanks for all the hairdressing responses. I'll let my son know about July 4th. I suspect he'll hold on. He's been getting the same haircut from the same hairdresser since he was about 3 and I don't think he's going to change now unless he absolutely has to.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... y-councils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Local outbreaks of Covid-19 could grow undetected because the government is failing to share crucial testing data, council leaders and scientists have warned.
More than a month after being promised full details of who has caught the disease in their areas, local health chiefs are still desperately lobbying the government’s testing tsar, Dido Harding, to break the deadlock and share the data.
The situation was described by one director of public health as a “shambles”, while a scientist on the government’s own advisory committee said it was “astonishing” that public health teams were unable to access the information.
The prime minister said on Friday the country was moving from “a huge one-size-fits-all national lockdown programme to one in which we’re able to do more localised responses”, and ministers have told councils and their public health directors to take the lead.
Seems like the intention going forward isn't to try to control the virus and its impact so much as control the public's perception of the virus and their knowledge of its impact. Which is among the few things Cummings and co are actually good at, unfortunately. We can only hope the good people of the media feel more personally invested in not letting them get away with it than they were with Brexit.gilsey wrote:No 10 scraps daily coronavirus press conference after today
Yes, it's been wrong all along, being used to announce new measures which should have been announced first in parliament, rather than as an opportunity for the press to ask questions about latest developments. Johnson answering questions in parliament today was a better format for explaining policy or at least would be with a real policy and a PM capable of explaining it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:When that pipsqueak Dowden used one at the weekend to launch an - unchallenged - attack on Starmer, was when I decided they had outlived their usefulness.
Not that I disagree with what you are saying more generally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... 11a86b7065" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;A Brazilian judge has ordered Jair Bolsonaro to rectify his “at best disrespectful” behaviour by wearing a face mask when circulating in the capital, Brasília......
......On Monday, a federal judge ruled Bolsonaro was not above the laws of the federal district, which contains Brazil’s capital, and would face a daily fine of 2,000 reais (about £330) if he continued to break the rules. The use of masks has been compulsory there since late April.
At least that's a change from a whore's drawerstinyclanger2 wrote:Let down your hair transmuting effortlessly to up and down like a bride’s nightie with literally no active input from me.
My landlord came round today and his wife had given him a very short back and sides with trimmers but left his combover. He looked like a cross between Bobby Charlton and a cat that had been to the vets.Willow904 wrote:BTW does anyone know anything about hairdressers? My husband doesn't mind it short, so I did his with clippers but my son won't let me near his and is starting to look like an early Beatle, and not in a good way.
Given his calls to recolonise Africa and generally dubious grasp of the past, we might wish he was less ‘affected’: Richard Evans summarised Johnson’s biography of Churchill (in which the Nazis ahistorically capture Stalingrad), as ‘“One man who made history” by another who seems just to make it up’. But Johnson is not alone in his historical affectations. ‘It is no coincidence’, declared a 2018 article in The Spectator, ‘that many of the leading Brexiteers’ have history degrees: ‘23 June 2016 was the work of the History Boys’.
That work has centred on the idea that history matters a great deal – because Britain’s history is unique and glorious, and must be ‘protected’ – but also that it doesn’t matter at all, because anything uncomfortable or dissenting can be dismissed as what Michael Gove described as ‘the trashing of our past’.
Is what Ken Worthington said after his eggs and gammon.tinyclanger2 wrote:Sorry about that.
Hello Sky , I did a quite adequate tidying-up just using a disposable razor . After the end of complete lockdown on the 11th May dentists back in operation with strict time-consuming hygiene, and my hairdresser masked and vizored . Naturally I was masked too.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:My landlord came round today and his wife had given him a very short back and sides with trimmers but left his combover. He looked like a cross between Bobby Charlton and a cat that had been to the vets.Willow904 wrote:BTW does anyone know anything about hairdressers? My husband doesn't mind it short, so I did his with clippers but my son won't let me near his and is starting to look like an early Beatle, and not in a good way.
I shave my head once a week so the lockdown's made no difference to my pate, but a filling in one of my front teeth fell out in April (a mad Geordie headbutted me in the face many years ago) leaving a big jagged hole which has been annoying the crap out of me ever since, so even though I absolutely hate going to the dentist I can't wait to get it fixed.Hello Sky , I did a quite adequate tidying-up just using a disposable razor . After the end of complete lockdown on the 11th May dentists back in operation with strict time-consuming hygiene, and my hairdresser masked and vizored . Naturally I was masked too.
NOW , things are slackening off quite a lot , so a certain amount of suspense !
Very good, Antony Seldon re-confirmed as a prize pillock . When the ref result was announced I thought of Suez .RogerOThornhill wrote:Worth a read.
Four Years On
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Given his calls to recolonise Africa and generally dubious grasp of the past, we might wish he was less ‘affected’: Richard Evans summarised Johnson’s biography of Churchill (in which the Nazis ahistorically capture Stalingrad), as ‘“One man who made history” by another who seems just to make it up’. But Johnson is not alone in his historical affectations. ‘It is no coincidence’, declared a 2018 article in The Spectator, ‘that many of the leading Brexiteers’ have history degrees: ‘23 June 2016 was the work of the History Boys’.
That work has centred on the idea that history matters a great deal – because Britain’s history is unique and glorious, and must be ‘protected’ – but also that it doesn’t matter at all, because anything uncomfortable or dissenting can be dismissed as what Michael Gove described as ‘the trashing of our past’.
Three days before the lockdown i had an incipient toothache, appointment for the 11th of bloody May. The week before the appointment , out of the blue it was confirmed, THEN I cracked a molar so had a root canal on the Monday, and a new tooth on Tuesday .Sky'sGoneOut wrote:I shave my head once a week so the lockdown's made no difference to my pate, but a filling in one of my front teeth fell out in April (a mad Geordie headbutted me in the face many years ago) leaving a big jagged hole which has been annoying the crap out of me ever since, so even though I absolutely hate going to the dentist I can't wait to get it fixed.Hello Sky , I did a quite adequate tidying-up just using a disposable razor . After the end of complete lockdown on the 11th May dentists back in operation with strict time-consuming hygiene, and my hairdresser masked and vizored . Naturally I was masked too.
NOW , things are slackening off quite a lot , so a certain amount of suspense !
Edit: messed up the quote.
Countries that big up their "glorious past" tend not to have a brilliant future.RogerOThornhill wrote:Worth a read.
Four Years On
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/four-years-brexit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Given his calls to recolonise Africa and generally dubious grasp of the past, we might wish he was less ‘affected’: Richard Evans summarised Johnson’s biography of Churchill (in which the Nazis ahistorically capture Stalingrad), as ‘“One man who made history” by another who seems just to make it up’. But Johnson is not alone in his historical affectations. ‘It is no coincidence’, declared a 2018 article in The Spectator, ‘that many of the leading Brexiteers’ have history degrees: ‘23 June 2016 was the work of the History Boys’.
That work has centred on the idea that history matters a great deal – because Britain’s history is unique and glorious, and must be ‘protected’ – but also that it doesn’t matter at all, because anything uncomfortable or dissenting can be dismissed as what Michael Gove described as ‘the trashing of our past’.
The only thing I watch are PMQ's to see how they compare to Sparrow Crace and other odd bits in the press . I've seen Starmer actually get angry with the buffoon , far different from the 'dull and forensic' stereotype bandied around by those who are so saddened by the departure of Mr Corbyn . NNPorFavor wrote:Professor Jonathan Van-Tam did show at least the shadow of a backbone. Once, I think it was, but he was quickly mothballed thereafter. I gave up watching the briefings a while back, so I don't know how much he's been around lately.
He's not been seen since. And the briefings are no more.PorFavor wrote:Professor Jonathan Van-Tam did show at least the shadow of a backbone. Once, I think it was, but he was quickly mothballed thereafter. I gave up watching the briefings a while back, so I don't know how much he's been around lately.