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Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis
The House of Lords has just voted by huge majority of 226 to indicate its likely rejection of Johnson’s Internal Market Bill provisions for override the Good Friday Agreement & international law

564 peers voted: one of the largest votes in the entire history of the Lords!
2:10 PM · Oct 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

The difficulty here is that the government gives the impression that striking a balance is something of which it disapproves. Anything that constrains its ability to do what it wants – whether it be the European Union, an impartial civil service or the rule of law (or, prior to the general election, the House of Commons) – is an illegitimate source of power that should be diminished, abolished or suspended.

31m ago Johnson says government could not offer Greater Manchester more than Liverpool or Lancashire

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Burnham needs to be put in his place is the unspoken reason, I rather suspect.

Manchester Young Conservatives
@MancTories
Boris has lied about helping us in the North.

It’s time for him to go.
5:51 PM · Oct 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

RogerOThornhill wrote:

Manchester Young Conservatives
@MancTories
Boris has lied about helping us in the North.

It’s time for him to go.
5:51 PM · Oct 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

One of those Blue Labour types just tweeted "Suspect the Tories have just lost the North for another generation"

tinyclanger2 wrote:EU talks anyone?

14 October 2020
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

We applied an ensemble of 16 Bayesian models to vital statistics data to estimate the all-cause mortality effect of the pandemic for 21 industrialized countries.

From mid-February through May 2020, 206,000 (95% credible interval, 178,100–231,000) more people died in these countries than would have had the pandemic not occurred.

The number of excess deaths, excess deaths per 100,000 people and relative increase in deaths were similar between men and women in most countries.

England and Wales and Spain experienced the largest effect: ~100 excess deaths per 100,000 people, equivalent to a 37% (30–44%) relative increase in England and Wales and 38% (31–45%) in Spain.

Bulgaria, New Zealand, Slovakia, Australia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Denmark and Finland experienced mortality changes that ranged from possible small declines to increases of 5% or less in either sex.

The heterogeneous mortality effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reflect differences in how well countries have managed the pandemic and the resilience and preparedness of the health and social care system.

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