Mme is looking forward to a glut of Spanish oranges at very cheap prices so she can make some marmalade. A blockade at the ports should see them finding a new home in the French supermarkets. Last time the fishermen stopped the ferries it took about a week to persuade them to call it off. I think it could take longer this time.
SAGE released research on Friday by the University of Liverpool which found that the ‘lateral flow test’ produced by Innova, a US company, picked up just 48.89 per cent of active infections. This is just plain dangerous as just over 50% think they are clear when they are not. If these tests are being used widely, and the government are putting a lot of trust in them, then it will lead to another spike. We spent £700m on these things and they basically don't work for the purpose we're using them for. There is also a worrying surge in UK coronavirus deaths, 519 more reported today which is 30% higher than last Saturday & highest Saturday toll since April. Hospitalisations also rising again (18% up on last week). If the government is trying to achieve a balance between health and the economy, it is not doing well.
I don't think that's their main objective. Profiteering and PR damage limitation seems to be their main motivations right now.
True, but they've definitely upped it a notch recently Rees-Mogg has been quiet. He's probably been busy building his new Brexit-funded Scrooge McDuck vault to swim in.
News tonight that the Kent passport will not be ready on time. Not sure if this means that Kent will be a no go area, or the huge traffic jams that are already starting to build will be allowed to spill over onto the M25.
Prime minister Boris Johnson says 'common sense is single greatest weapon' in war against coronavirus in live address to the nation So that’s the Nottingham that voted for Brexit, yeah?
The thing that alarms me about fish, is all these foreign fish being allowed to swim freely into our territorial waters. They should be escorted back to their own country’s waters, so that is why I believe the gunships will play an important role in defending our Union flag waistcoat-wearing good old Great British fish. Keep it up, Boris and Jacob.
A long and detailed account of how the dither and delay of Johnson has cost many thousands of lives. The way that scientific advice was shoved aside because of the economy is frightening when there are very few, if any members of the cabinet qualified to dispute the reports prepared. Allowing the virus to take hold has actually made the economy worse. What is really heartbreaking though is that people who needed treatment didn't get any, and some in their thirties were just allowed to die. https://archive.vn/UWnAm
It is being suggested that Three Rivers, Hertsmere and Watford are about to be moved into Tier 3 lockdown.
The end of crowds at home games ndQUOTE="oldfrenchhorn, post: 14414354, member: 1000816"]It is being suggested that Three Rivers, Hertsmere and Watford are about to be moved into Tier 3 lockdown.[/QUOTE]
Four quotes from this article about the Brexit 'negotiations' worth mulling over - each speaks volumes about BoJo and his crew: 1. From Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzales - "At the heart of this, whether it's on fishing or whether it's on the level playing field, it's a very stark situation. I've done many trade agreements in my life and trade agreements are not about trying to assert one's independence, they are made to manage our interdependence and this is what is at stake here. Let's agree that this trade deal that we are building post-Brexit is not to assert people's sovereignty - trade deals are not meant to do that. It's pretty clear when you do a trade deal that you're a sovereign nation.They're made to manage interdependence. The UK and the European Union are interdependent; so, let's build a deal that reflects the need to manage this interdependence." 2. From Molly Scott Cato, former Greens MEP - "Trade deals are a mechanism to manage interdependence not to assert independence. British government has misunderstood this from the start." 3. From Hugo Rifkind: "So much of what we have become comes down to the fact that British people this smart simply don't go into politics." 4. From journalist Ian Fraser: "It's strange how many European leaders sound more intelligent in their second language than British cabinet ministers do in their first." https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/br...PGgRzBBuuGCDm6ROoDMd1WhM9UpHz8cEh9Zo8jaHlIUnc
I can hardly believe that one of the richest countries in the world, the UK, has been reduced to this. "For the first time in its 70 history, Unicef has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK to help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis. ...... the UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide has likened the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on youngsters to that of the second world war." How can the government, wrongly, claim to be reducing child poverty when UN agencies can see what the truth is?
At a school just south of us, one-fifth of the children go home each Friday with a bag of food from a local food bank. Not an exaggeration. I know the school and the figures. One-fifth.
