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RogerOThornhill wrote:Good morning.

"Hey don't try and get us involved in your petty culture war about statues!"

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Cheshire cheesemaker says business left with £250,000 'Brexit hole'

Simon Spurrell says his firm lost 20% of sales and will switch £1m investment to France (Guardian)

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Leader of the Welsh Tories has resigned.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Leader of the Welsh Tories has resigned.

“However, for the sake of my party, my health and my own conscience, I simply cannot continue in post.”

Willow904 wrote: Combined with a twitter feed full of stories of fishermen who have only just realised the ability to catch more fish is meaningless if the cost is access to the market they need in order to sell them is making the news very depressing reading this morning.

because Defra hasn’t even created the form that allows them to export to Europe after Brexit.

He’s been told that it won’t be ready until April 21 but the shellfish season finishes on March 30th and doesn’t start again until November.

The process was started by Labour and accelerated by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. It meant that ordinary British people of all backgrounds were watching a Human Rights Act story in the context of the War on Terror that was all about foreigners, terrorists, and refugees. It was never taxi drivers and hairdressers getting human rights, because the inaccessibility of legal aid meant they could never get access to justice.

PorFavor wrote:@Willow904

I've just again read (this time more carefully) your Covid post and discovered that you'd already posed the question about efficacy (but not the chewing gum one which is a glaring omission on your part).

Sorry about that. I've been turning that particular Covid question over in my mind for some days now.

Willow904 wrote:

PorFavor wrote:@Willow904

I've just again read (this time more carefully) your Covid post and discovered that you'd already posed the question about efficacy (but not the chewing gum one which is a glaring omission on your part).

Sorry about that. I've been turning that particular Covid question over in my mind for some days now.

It's the complete lack of data on a 12 week interval that really bothers me. There haven't been any trials at all so our mass experiment will provide the first answers, but only after it's too late to change approach. It's just so arrogant. Right at the start the WHO recommended a global policy of elimination because they were concerned about mutations. The UK failed to take their recommendations seriously and now we have the worst death rate in the world. Yet our government still thinks it knows better. It's reckless and irresponsible, all to lift lockdown sooner to "save" an economy they have deliberately sabotaged with Brexit anyway and all we can do is keep our fingers crossed and hope they get lucky, however much they don't deserve to.

Willow904 wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Leader of the Welsh Tories has resigned.

It seems they didn't think drinking in the workplace, a sackable offence for the average worker, was doing anything wrong when everyone else is being asked to forego such socialising down the pub and at home for the greater good.
I'm getting echoes of Animal Farm, with hard working, miserable, alcohol deprived Welsh voters looking on through the window as their piggy overlords pass round the port.....

refitman wrote:

Willow904 wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Leader of the Welsh Tories has resigned.

It seems they didn't think drinking in the workplace, a sackable offence for the average worker, was doing anything wrong when everyone else is being asked to forego such socialising down the pub and at home for the greater good.
I'm getting echoes of Animal Farm, with hard working, miserable, alcohol deprived Welsh voters looking on through the window as their piggy overlords pass round the port.....

They did it twice, after being censured the first time.

refitman wrote:

Willow904 wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Leader of the Welsh Tories has resigned.

It seems they didn't think drinking in the workplace, a sackable offence for the average worker, was doing anything wrong when everyone else is being asked to forego such socialising down the pub and at home for the greater good.
I'm getting echoes of Animal Farm, with hard working, miserable, alcohol deprived Welsh voters looking on through the window as their piggy overlords pass round the port.....

They did it twice, after being censured the first time.

PorFavor wrote: It's possible that we could be heading down the path to wasting all the Pfizer vaccine supplies through being too arrogant to follow the instructions on the packet.

Universal Credit childcare rule ‘unlawful and irrational’

UK asylum seekers told claims at risk if they ‘misbehave’

Call for Home Office to act after private contractors tell people their applications will be jeopardised for speaking out, going on hunger strikes or complaining about food

Two military barracks in Kent and south Wales and a number of hotels were seconded by the Home Office last September with their day-to-day running outsourced to a private contractor called Clearsprings. Another refugee camp opened in Bedfordshire last week and more are planned. (Observer)

Clearsprings: Migrant Camp Profiteers
by Corporate Watch / Housing, Migration, News, Slider / 04 Dec 2020

Ami Jones
@JonesTheBosher
Very disappointed to finish a night shift on ITU to hear that my local MS @DavidRowlandsMS is claiming during senedd debates that COVID is "no more dangerous" than other respiratory tract infections, such as the flu” and that “there is no real pandemic”
1:22 PM · Jan 23, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told

Exporters advised by Department for International Trade officials to form EU-based companies to circumvent border issues

Brexit nightmare: British businesses at breaking point (Observer)

Grant Shapps faces fury over mass Covid outbreak at DVLA

Minister under fire for ‘shameful’ virus spread as staff told to work on with more than 500 cases at agency in Swansea (Observer)

tinyclanger2 wrote:hello

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Had to spend some time I might have used to post on here earlier, clearing a blocked toilet instead.

tinyclanger2 wrote:We need some good news.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

tinyclanger2 wrote:We need some good news.

Man Utd beat Liverpool.

refitman wrote:I like Zarah Sultana. The Labour party could do with a few more like her.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

refitman wrote:I like Zarah Sultana. The Labour party could do with a few more like her.

She has a great name, though not quite as good as Bambos Charalambous.

It's outright corruption and as far as I'm aware the only Newspaper to call it like it is thus far has been the New York Times. And it's revealing that while the right wing rags continue to kick up a stink about laws being imposed to keep people safe during a pandemic they've had absolutely nothing to say about procurement laws being suspended. Lots of bleating from the likes of Toby Young about having to wear a 'face nappy' but not a murmur about the Tory Party fast tracking billions of pounds to their friends and backers. You'd think with all this public money being divvied out and squandered that the Taxpayer's Alliance would be up in arms but we've not heard a peep from them. What about the Institute for Economic Affairs? Surely Mark Littlewood and his cronies are apoplectic at this shocking giveaway of taxpayer's money? Nope, just an appearance on Newsnight saying people on Universal Credit shouldn't keep getting their extra £20.

The sad truth is Zarah could shout all this from the rooftops, but with an 80 seat majority and a right wing media and political cabal that couldn't give a shit we're powerless to do anything about it.

At least for the moment.

Because surely in any sane country at some point there has to be a serious enquiry into why, for example, Matt Hancock helped the landlord of his local pub get a multi-million pound contract to provide vials for test kits when his small business up until that point had only produced takeaway boxes and ended up using bouncy castles at the entrance as a decontamination area.

If that had happened in some benighted banana republic our own government wouldn't hesitate to call it corruption, but it didn't, it happened in Suffolk, which apparently makes it fine.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Liverpool haven't won a cup game at OT for a full century.

How good does that feel?

When Nick Ferrari asked TPA's campaign manager Susie Squire whether she was "secretly Conservative", she rejected the accusation as "outrageous" saying the organisation was "totally independent". In 2010, Squire became a special adviser to the Conservative Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, before going on to become head of press for the Conservative party. Squire subsequently worked as David Cameron's press secretary in 10 Downing Street.

RogerOThornhill wrote:This guy's a barrister. Nice chap.

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