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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
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80 | 21.33% |
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| I. Murray |
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| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Mum's a nurse. She got a survey that pretended to be about training needs. It asked which areas of nursing she felt confident practicing in. The survey's veil tore down at the point where each question corresponded exactly to each of the major wards in the county's largest hospital. Respiratory health, orthapedics, cardiovascular health, etc
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Mar 19, 2020 22:47
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Don't forget that all holiday is cancelled and they're proposing hours are extended to 6am to 10pm. Oh and there were rumours earlier it might even have to go 24/7. Nobody knows for sure though because local authorities aren't getting clear instructions from central government so it's all being winged. The guardian has leaked a list which is -Doctors -Nurses -NHS staff -Police -Fire -Armed Services -Social Workers -Highways workers (?) -Delivery drivers -Supermarket and shop workers -Teachers -TAs If any 1 parent falls into that category the child has to carry on going to school.
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Mar 19, 2020 22:48
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i'm still in awe that i saw someone on facebook compare Sunak to george bailey from its a wonderful life
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Mar 19, 2020 22:50
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1240734863692648449 Is there some way the turfing people out of accommodation gets these people hosed?
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Mar 19, 2020 22:51
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Aramoro posted:That's not a bad idea, I have a valid enhanced DBS and I'm sure a lot of other folk have as well. We made it a poll post: Enhanced DBS for under 18s, lapsed DBS, basic DBS. I'm sure that other enhanced DBS for vulnerable people would also be useful. No way are the DBS people going to be able to clear DBS requests in anything like a timely manner. Takes them ages at the best of times. At the moment, it's just facebook names and I guess if the schools want to take us up, they'll decide how to get our real info. Someone also set up a group for local people able to offer tutoring (online) too (the unwritten assumption being that it will be probably be free or very low cost for the duration).
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Mar 19, 2020 22:52
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Pound_Coin posted:Up till 2018 the minister in charge of drugs was Victoria Atkins. Victoria Atkins is married to Paul Kenward, Paul Kenward is the managing director of British Sugar, British Sugar is the only company with a licence to grow cannabis for medical/research purposes in the UK. Leigh and Lauren are the momentum slate.
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Mar 19, 2020 22:53
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Jose posted:i'm still in awe that i saw someone on facebook compare Sunak to george bailey from its a wonderful life let's hope he actually goes through with jumping off a bridge
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Mar 19, 2020 22:54
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Loonytoad Quack posted:
From local primary school (Flintshire): Front line key workers are: 1. Medical professionals including doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, etc. 2. Other health workers such as employment in a healthcare setting 3. Police force and fire brigade 4. Education - teachers, classroom support staff, cleaners, caretakers, etc. 5. Workers in childcare/early years 6. Social care workers 7. Council staff in key roles, e.g. drivers, school escorts, catering staff, etc. Might be different in England though. Edit to add: Letter also says the local authority will be designating a local hub where childcare will happen, so it won't be all schools staying open TwoShanks fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 22:58
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a pipe smoking dog posted:-Highways workers (?) There's highway patrols with land rovers that have amber lights. They have powers to direct and stop traffic including pulling you over. Their job is to prevent the big stream of traffic going at 70 ish all day from piling up into itself.
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Mar 19, 2020 22:59
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:People (UK tory people who are convinced this is a fuss over nothing - blitz, flu etc etc) now starting to question the number of deaths put down to CV in Italy and saying they would have died anyway. From what I can gather - and I've seen nothing specific from google - the death count from Italy as those who have been tested positive (whether before or after death). You seem to have quite a few contacts in the "everything's perfectly fine" crowd. It'll be interesting to see when or if their attitudes change! We've more or less completely shifted our team to working at home. In some cases this has involved chucking workstations in a car and taking it round to people's houses. That would have seemed unthinkably drastic on Monday, back when all this was a joke.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:03
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They should add: plumbers/sewer workers for all the blocked up drains from people flushing wipes, kitchen towel, daily mail pages down the bog, Openreach and other IT wire fixers waste management workers (else 'The Bins')
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Mar 19, 2020 23:04
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Don't forget that all holiday is cancelled and they're proposing hours are extended to 6am to 10pm. Oh and there were rumours earlier it might even have to go 24/7. Nobody knows for sure though because local authorities aren't getting clear instructions from central government so it's all being winged. Interesting to hear. At my secondary school... 1. Communication sent home first thing this morning with a list of suspected key worker jobs. Asked parents to respond saying if they fit under any of those categories. 2. Staff with underlying health conditions were spoken to and told to stay home for 12 weeks. 3. While the children of key workers can come to school, it's a parent's right to keep them at home instead. 4. All teachers and support staff will be in on Monday and see how many students there are. Based on numbers, a rota will be made to decide what days we are required in school and when we can work from home. 5. Heads of local primary schools have been in touch. We can choose to volunteer to go to assist at a primary school that needs help instead of going to our school. Obviously being a secondary school we have a larger number of staff so can help the small primary schools. 6. While there is talk about how children will need supervising over Easter, the head assured us that they are looking at how to provide that and we would not be required to come in. If we wanted to volunteer it would be welcome. 7. We will definitely look after those we need to. We are however not a babysitting service. Key workers and vulnerable children only. Sad Panda fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 23:04
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Jose posted:i'm still in awe that i saw someone on facebook compare Sunak to george bailey from its a wonderful life Yesterday I saw a Facebook comment from a friend of a friend saying that they were 'welling up' during Sunak's briefing because 'for once I was hearing a chancellor doing the right thing and helping the people who matter.' I gather they're a small business owner. 
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Mar 19, 2020 23:04
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Azza Bamboo posted:There's highway patrols with land rovers that have amber lights. They have powers to direct and stop traffic including pulling you over. I did not know this and would not have stopped. Michael MacIntyre said we didn't have to
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Mar 19, 2020 23:05
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Azza Bamboo posted:Mum's a nurse. She got a survey that pretended to be about training needs. It asked which areas of nursing she felt confident practicing in. The survey's veil tore down at the point where each question corresponded exactly to each of the major wards in the county's largest hospital. Friend of mine who's a nurse got that a couple of weeks ago. She's got experience with critical patients*, which I don't know if it's good or bad for her. *Tubed up and mostly unconscious. She didn't like it because you're mostly just making sure that the machines continue to go ping rather than dealing with people as people, though she said that at least she was on a ward where they were generally expected to get better rather than worse.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:06
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If you work in any industry that is having critical national infrastructure meetings then I’d have to guess you’re likely on the list.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:07
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Azza Bamboo posted:There's highway patrols with land rovers that have amber lights. They have powers to direct and stop traffic including pulling you over. Their job is to prevent the big stream of traffic going at 70 ish all day from piling up into itself. They're not supposed to have the first and they only have the second through "common person in an emergency" but they've pulled so many cop vehicles out of ditches in the countryside that there's an unwritten understanding as long as they don't pretend to be real police/fire.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:08
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Just get the army out tbh. The optics will be bad but they know how to run a hospital from a tent and already have experience in firefighting from the protests in the 00s. Also they can teach you how to wipe with just one square of toilet paper.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:08
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Sad Panda posted:Interesting to hear. At my secondary school... Yeah we had that email but it definitely didn't mention shop workers and stuff like that and it said if ordinarily losing childcare would mean you had to take a day off. Which is a bit different from what looks much more generous saying anyone with one parent in any qualifying category counts straight away.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:10
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https://twitter.com/BBCSimonJack/status/1240698612847218689quote:Supermarkets and their supply chains are beginning to buckle under the strain of customer behaviour in the face of coronavirus. Several chains are "drastically cutting" the product ranges in store. ... However, there were warnings that the next potential weak link in the chain is at food manufacturers themselves. If production gets hit by staff absences that will mark the beginning of a new and potentially serious supply chain problem. "We are not there yet but that is the next big worry."
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Mar 19, 2020 23:13
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Apraxin posted:I know this is like, The News, and should be reported, but the wording really makes it seem like the Beeb are trying to generate a run on the supermarkets. They also like to have big banners of empty store shelfs on the top of their corona update feed. A bit less sensationalist crap at a time like this might be good
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Mar 19, 2020 23:19
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At some point surely all the folk with big chest freezers are going run out of space for bread, ready meals and meat and will stop buying it all up though?
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Mar 19, 2020 23:23
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Apraxin posted:I know this is like, The News, and should be reported, but the wording really makes it seem like the Beeb are trying to generate a run on the supermarkets. Like how the toilet paper panic pandemic spread from HK to Australia to the USA to the UK just through reporting "there are people buying lots of toilet paper" and the rest is the madness of crowds. Guy in the shop today was saying there's three toilet paper factories in the county alone (Leicester Tissue Company, Natsons, and Sofidel) and yet people are still panic buying. One thing I did see was that literally all the toilet paper was a brand I had never seen before so I guess what might be happening is those companies are diverting stock that would have gone to other markets to local retailers.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:23
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Azza Bamboo posted:Just get the army out tbh. The optics will be bad but they know how to run a hospital from a tent and already have experience in firefighting from the protests in the 00s. I've started doing a jogging route which takes me past the local army base and I think they're dusting their kit off. There has been an increase in the number of trucks parked outside and yesterday an actual army ambulance was there. It looked rather crap to be honest.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:24
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Aramoro posted:I've had that for a week now, persistent cough that started producing some phlegm a few days ago. I'm still self isolating though as I don't think there's much good to be done cutting about coughing all over the place saying 'ah it's just a cold' Yeah - it's kind of dangerous to rule out covid-19 due to a specific symptom, typically a viral infection occupies the immune system and as such the disease usually comes with an additional bacterial infection. This means that you can get symptoms from all kinds of stuff.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:26
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Guavanaut posted:That's how panic buying works though. One of the managers from our local Lidls has said only ONE toilet roll per customer! Endjinneer posted:I've started doing a jogging route which takes me past the local army base and I think they're dusting their kit off. There has been an increase in the number of trucks parked outside and yesterday an actual army ambulance was there. It looked rather crap to be honest. We've a territorials place near me, I might take a wander over tomorrow. Haven't done a proper walk for a few days!
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So, uh. This morning:quote:UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, but an internationally coordinated policy response can help lower the impact on global unemployment, according to a UN agency. This afternoon: https://twitter.com/surveyusa/status/1240739373756436481?s=20 quote:The Irish government has said 400,000 out of a workforce of 2.3m could lose their jobs as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Irish Times reports. These numbers seem to rather higher than the initial estimates. Proportionally if we end up like Ireland that's 4.6 million jobs lost from our 26.5 million permanent employees. Before we even start thinking about the self employed or gig economised. This has a real possibility of turning into a wartime 'sign up to help if you want to be fed' draft type of clusterfuck. RockyB fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 23:28
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/BBCSimonJack/status/1240698612847218689
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Mar 19, 2020 23:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They should add: TBH you could also add anyone whose job it is to keep the electricity/gas on. That is a fair old amount of folks! I know we have enough food and enough houses, but it would still be insane if this is what causes people to realise that. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 23:35
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pumpinglemma posted:If the issues are entirely in delivery and not in supply, why the gently caress are they optimising the manufacturing process? That’s actually quite worrying. Because if the manufacturing process is simpler, with less product lines etc, you can potentially operate with fewer people.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:42
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mitochondritom posted:Because if the manufacturing process is simpler, with less product lines etc, you can potentially operate with fewer people. You also lose less time switching from pack size. Its much faster to run one style of pasta at 400g per packet than 1 style of pasta in 200, 400 and 800g sizes.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:50
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Danger - Octopus! posted:At some point surely all the folk with big chest freezers are going run out of space for bread, ready meals and meat and will stop buying it all up though? No then there will just be a run on chest freezers. (I hope this is accurate, otherwise my larder is going to get super squeaky over the next couple of weeks. I'm already planning to take time out of my normal work hours to go shopping so I'm not going at like 2 in the afternoon after the vultures have descended. On another note, care troubles became substantially more urgent today when, after driving across town to a dealership in my slightly benighted clanker, when I got back into my estate a chunk of galvanised something-or-other fell off the underside of the car somewhere. Which is concerning, but at least it happened in a quiet estate instead of on a main road. Does mean I definitely don't trust driving it anywhere except maybe to part-ex it though. E: I'd be pretty surprised if the issues with supply aren't with delivery thoguh. There are only so many lorries and depots, and the traffic around the depots is often suuuuuuuper lovely, because they just kind of slap them into the countryside without actually considering the thousand extra lorries a day they'll be shunting out onto the nearby roads. The network is pretty much at capacity, as I understand it. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 23:51
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Josef bugman posted:TBH you could also add anyone whose job it is to keep the electricity/gas on. still zero word on these issues if you're keeping track. maybe the government wakes up tomorrow and decides heat, hot water, safety device renewal dates and annual safety checks are optional. who knows!
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Friend who is a train guard who works on trains in and out of one of the London main stations has said that apparently they might be temporarily nationalized next week! Also services being drastically cut by his TOC.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:59
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Ok listen up, *pulls up chair and sits in it backwards* The French test is to take a deep breath and hold it in for 10 seconds, if you cannot do this without coughing then you definitely have the rona. If you think you have the rona but can pass the test then you have no need to worry.
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Sent my boss an email saying I've got symptoms early this morning, they replied saying we're all in this together and our work is essential. Got into work and literally all 7 of the managers in the building including my specific boss were staying home. Immediately went back to my car and sent an email to every member of staff (yeah i have that list guess you shouldn't have made me do your loving job for you shithead) politely expressing my discontent. After doing that they've suddenly magically found a way to give me and anyone else with symptoms 2-weeks paid sick leave, I'm almost certainly going to lose my job over this but gently caress it gently caress these pieces of poo poo that so profoundly believe every single aspect of an employee is disposable needed a slap we're loving humans.
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Mar 20, 2020 00:05
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Josef bugman posted:TBH you could also add anyone whose job it is to keep the electricity/gas on. It's probably safe to say its anyone on Ark A or Ark C. Plus the payphone sanitisers of course.
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Mar 20, 2020 00:10
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Josef bugman posted:TBH you could also add anyone whose job it is to keep the electricity/gas on. And fuel oil deliveries please. We've just put in and order some hopefully supplies hold up fine.
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poo poo, am I going to have to learn how to farm in order to just do what my ancestors did all over again. Gosh darn it. Anyone got any good advice on how to be a landless peasant?
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