Wednesday 8th December 2021

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

When you've lost Ant & Dec...

[gilsey]

Governments of all colours, sadly. No moral high ground for Labour here.

[frog222]

@gilsey
Sadly the 'small government anti-regulations' rhetoric continues uncorrected , in so many countries .

Last week FranceInter radio had magistrates on all week , call-ins from public, on the delays in justice caused by staff shortages .and the catastrophic decline in morale in the service.
Public health sector still closing beds despite covid. FR, D and more.
Second Daughter sick of doing planned overtime because of the 1800 teaching posts cut. Most of her career in deprived secondary schools (beginning 2005 in car-burning region nr Paris ), currently in lycée, hoping to move into University teaching soon.

[frog222]

Let’s have no confusion about dates , eh, Mr EX-DPP ?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Not everybody here will agree I know, but IMO you should only call for a resignation if you think you have a reasonably good chance of getting one.

[frog222]

OUF ! I was wondering when SKS would bring the Metropolitan Police into it …

Blackford now

[gilsey]

Starmer did ok imo. Blackford can be relied on to call for resignation.

Don't usually watch it.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Johnson is now going to do an announcement about the return of some virus restrictions. Wonder how that might go?

[frog222]

Good to hear the Speaker emphasising that statements on restrictions should be made in the house...

[AnatolyKasparov]

Douglas Ross has (sort of) broken ranks.

[PorFavor]

Good morfternoon.

An Opinium survey conducted for Sky News shows that 53% of the people surveyed think that Boris Johnson should resign. 26% think that he should not resign. I assume, but don't know, if the other 21% "Don't Know". I also don't know if my memory for figures and my arithmetic are to be unreservedly relied upon. But that's the gist.

[PorFavor]

Allegra Stratton has resigned.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Rumours that the "Plan B" press conference now might not happen.

[tinyclanger2]

Quite encouraging that British voters do still care about pathological lying and utter disrespect for your average citizen.

[GetYou]

The public's health being less important than covering up lies, of course

[frog222]

EXCEPTIONALLY ...

IOPC Investigate Met Police For Failing to Stop/investigate 2020 Downing Street party


https://www.change.org/p/iopc-policecon ... igned=true

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Bwaa ha ha ha haaaa!!!

Shanene Thorpe: I felt judged and victimised by Newsnight

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -newsnight

[GetYou]

Meanwhile, in Finland....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... d-exposure

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Not everybody here will agree I know, but IMO you should only call for a resignation if you think you have a reasonably good chance of getting one.

Also Johnson's resignation would be against Labour's best interests, they should be doing everything in their power to keep him as Prime Minister.

[AnatolyKasparov]

He needs to stay for long enough to toxify the Tory brand irrevocably - I'm not sure we are quite there yet.

(though it could happen sooner rather than later, the way things are going)

[PorFavor]

Capita undercuts British Council to run Turing student exchange scheme

Exclusive: Government strips council of role in programme, which replaced Erasmus after Brexit

(Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... nge-scheme

[Sky'sGoneOut]

A break from the (admittedly entertaining) politics.

Wading birds and wintry walks: a car-free break in Northumberland

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021 ... humberland

This made me chuckle.

This article was amended on 8 December 2021. It was the throne of Scotland that was claimed by Robert Bruce, not the throne of England, as an earlier version said.

[frog222]

So who's going to be the Number One target tomorrow ?

[refitman]

For TC2

[tinyclanger2]