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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% |
| R. Burgon |
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80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
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72 | 19.20% |
| A. Rayner |
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35 | 9.33% |
| I. Murray |
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5 | 1.33% |
| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Jippa posted:Are the normal bins being still being collected? Mine were yesterday.
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Mar 25, 2020 09:54
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Lol the bins will be collected even if hundreds of thousands are dying because that'll last in the boomer memory more than corpses that are an abstract concrpt to them
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Mar 25, 2020 09:59
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https://twitter.com/sophiamcoutts/status/1242730585128341504
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Mar 25, 2020 10:06
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It's fun hearing people at work realising that despite the government's promise of money nobody can actually get any either because companies can't be bothered to claim the money back or they're just not eligible or the big one that can't afford to pay workers just and you can't even claim yet
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Mar 25, 2020 10:07
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Jose posted:Lol the bins will be collected even if hundreds of thousands are dying because that'll last in the boomer memory more than corpses that are an abstract concrpt to them *the pavement is lined with bin bags, overflowing wheelie bins, and rotting bodies* "I can't believe they haven't come and collected the bins for a whole fortnight"
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Mar 25, 2020 10:08
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https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib/status/1242439638989537280Sad Panda posted:Mine were yesterday. e - cheers.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:10
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"Pay your st aff" I have to ask: ShaneMacGowansTeet h, did you do this?
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Mar 25, 2020 10:11
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Jose posted:Lol the bins will be collected even if hundreds of thousands are dying because that'll last in the boomer memory more than corpses that are an abstract concrpt to them MrL_JaKiri posted:No no no. The comparison is between 2^n and 2^(n+1) (or whatever) not 2^n and 3^n. The latter would involve the virus producing 50% more every reproduction event, just having more to start with won't do that. Nobody yet knows how lovely a replicator SARS-CoV-2 is though. 
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Mar 25, 2020 10:13
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Day two of lockdown.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:17
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I can't help but reflexively scoff every time I remember there's a Telegraph columnist whose surname is "money"
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Mar 25, 2020 10:18
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Guavanaut posted:Dom Cum pushing to get sluggish schizophrenia as a diagnosis for anyone who doubts the official story of how well the government is managing the pandemic. quote:Yesterday in the House of Commons, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock MP stated that there are no proposals to amend the abortion regulations to enable telemedicine for early abortion, as recommended by experts to ensure women can safely access services – despite the fact his Department had issued guidance the previous day, and then retracted it.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:19
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Wachter posted:I can't help but reflexively scoff every time I remember there's a Telegraph columnist whose surname is "money" And the other one is a bank. Because her ancestor founded it.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:20
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Guavanaut posted:Called it. loving shitbags. And yet we still lag behind America, where the FDA just granted a pharma company "rare disease status" on the antiviral drug remsedavir (sp?), which is being talked about as a possible defence against COVID-19, so they can retain exclusive patent over it rather than have a cheaper generic version become available.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:25
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Keep the booze flowing.  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/25/off-licences-added-to-essential-businesses-list-by-uk-government-covid-19
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Mar 25, 2020 10:25
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Wachter posted:I can't help but reflexively scoff every time I remember there's a Telegraph columnist whose surname is "money" Money-Coutts isn't it? As in, money, and literally the family that runs the bank the queen uses.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:25
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I desperately need to do a shopping run
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Mar 25, 2020 10:26
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XMNN posted:it's sort of funny in retrospect that there were all those cold war bunkers and continuity of government plans and everything was going to be nice and orderly after the bombs dropped, when the government is actually so ineffectual that it can't adequately respond to a crisis when it had a couple of months advance warning and it isn't drifting gently upwards in a plume of radioactive ash and smoke Thinking of the bit in Threads just after the bomb drops and all the council bods are immediately entombed in the bunker and all the phones spontaneously explode, except they've all been able to see the bomb falling in slow motion for the last two months
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Mar 25, 2020 10:26
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I have to ask: as if I would ever willingly step foot in the shithole that is South London
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Mar 25, 2020 10:27
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Ratjaculation posted:I desperately need to do a shopping run If you shop and run separately you get to leave the house twice today.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:28
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Galaxy O'Brain seems to be getting clued in to the fact that Tories are proto fascists who will sacrifice the lives of the proletariat to keep the STONK NUMBER going up, and it's taking every ounce of self-control I have not to just reply to every tweet with "should have endorsed Labour then you short sighted prick!"
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Mar 25, 2020 10:33
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Azza Bamboo posted:Day two of lockdown. [geordie accent] It's Day Two in the Big Brother country, let's see how the citizens are getting on with the new rules *picture of columbia road flower market full of people*
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Mar 25, 2020 10:34
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Brown bins aren't being collected any more, slippery slope let me tell you (that is NOT meant as an anti-Chinese slur)
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Mar 25, 2020 10:35
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Jedit posted:And yet we still lag behind America, where the FDA just granted a pharma company "rare disease status" on the antiviral drug remsedavir (sp?), which is being talked about as a possible defence against COVID-19, so they can retain exclusive patent over it rather than have a cheaper generic version become available. The worst part is that the departmental guidelines aren't even talking about surgical abortions, they're talking about medical early termination for the first 12 weeks. That's a case of "check if person is actually pregnant, ask about underlying conditions and other medication, prescribe mifepristone and misoprostol." There is no way you need two doctors to approve that. A pharmacist could do that. A registered nurse could do it. The only reason it continues to be the case is that the Tories are perpetually terrified of offending their base of grey haired ghouls and Blair was a crypto-Catholic.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:35
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Jose posted:It's fun hearing people at work realising that despite the government's promise of money nobody can actually get any either because companies can't be bothered to claim the money back or they're just not eligible or the big one that can't afford to pay workers just and you can't even claim yet We would have far more use for "there's not as much to do, go to 50% time and the gov will pay the other 50%", but the 80% thing is all or nothing. And I feel very bad that my wife and I were able to say goodbye to our cat, in person, in a calm and controlled way, while humans are going to die alone  (As my first in-person cat euthanasia, for my first "own" cat as opposed to family, it's just made me more pro assisted dying for humans. Thank jebus my parents live in a country where it's legal, should they ever need it)
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Mar 25, 2020 10:36
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XMNN posted:it's sort of funny in retrospect that there were all those cold war bunkers and continuity of government plans and everything was going to be nice and orderly after the bombs dropped, when the government is actually so ineffectual that it can't adequately respond to a crisis when it had a couple of months advance warning and it isn't drifting gently upwards in a plume of radioactive ash and smoke CoG plans were only ever makework for the more neurotic class of civil servant, even the most "limited" war would have put us back to medieval levels of population and technology no matter how much planning we did and the people at the top knew and accepted that. There's even an interpretation of the lack of stockpiling of things like Iodine that they didn't *want* survivors, or at least want people to survive any longer than they would have, because injured people need more resources than uninjured ones and we were basically going to have to get every single calorie by hand. I have to wonder if this kind of fatalistic approach rubbed off on the civil servants having to make plans for other contingencies, or if it's just ordinary denial and incompetence.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:40
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lol Plague Inc's new game mode lets you save the world instead of infecting it after Apple Store ban https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/gaming/plague-inc-pandemic-save-the-world-infection-apple-store-ban-a4395786.html quote:In a blog post, the game's developer, Ndemic Creations said it decided to introduce this mode based on feedback from the World Health Organisation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:42
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Marmaduke! posted:Brown bins aren't being collected any more, slippery slope let me tell you (that is NOT meant as an anti-Chinese slur) Mine was collected the day before the ban thankfully. I’d planned on getting my garden sorted in lockdown, that’s gone out the window.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:42
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Oodles posted:Mine was collected the day before the ban thankfully. I’d planned on getting my garden sorted in lockdown, that’s gone out the window. You are allowed to burn garden waste (at least in London) once in spring and once in autumn. Alternatively might be time to start making that compost heap...
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Mar 25, 2020 10:44
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Keep the garden waste. You can attempt a funeral pyre when the morgues are full. It won't work so expect it to become official government policy.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:46
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Tory advice on relationships: just makes your choice and stick with it. Boris: er....
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Mar 25, 2020 10:47
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Private Speech posted:And the other one is a bank. OwlFancier posted:Money-Coutts isn't it? As in, money, and literally the family that runs the bank the queen uses. This explains the hard-hitting, street-level investigative journalism the Telegraph is famous for
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Mar 25, 2020 10:49
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Oodles posted:I’d planned on getting my garden sorted in lockdown, that’s gone out the window.  goddamnedtwisto posted:CoG plans were only ever makework for the more neurotic class of civil servant, even the most "limited" war would have put us back to medieval levels of population and technology no matter how much planning we did and the people at the top knew and accepted that. There's even an interpretation of the lack of stockpiling of things like Iodine that they didn't *want* survivors, or at least want people to survive any longer than they would have, because injured people need more resources than uninjured ones and we were basically going to have to get every single calorie by hand. Also led to an academic debate that resulted in this 5/10 no ring etc. 
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Mar 25, 2020 10:49
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:lol This is like a post-9/11 brain dead stupid thing, I love it. Feels retro.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:51
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Coohoolin posted:"should have endorsed Labour then you short sighted prick!" 
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Mar 25, 2020 10:52
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just looked out my window to see a guy on the street doubled over coughing blood onto the pavement
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Mar 25, 2020 10:53
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The big killer in nuclear war for the UK isn't the blast or the radiation. It's the lack of global infrastructure causing a famine.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:54
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Necrothatcher posted:just looked out my window to see a guy on the street doubled over coughing blood onto the pavement I hope 999 heard about it before we did e: sorry that's very cynical of me
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Mar 25, 2020 10:55
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Ms Adequate posted:Even more wild is that most of these contingency discussions could be knocked out in more or less an afternoon, you call a Cabinet meeting and get the relevant civil service bods and specialists in to brief, then you figure out at least the outlines of the backup plan, then you can probably break and be back at Chequers in time for tea. The PM/Cabinet doesn't need to go line-by-line through every employment category in the world, you set out the general objectives and have your Permanent Undersecretaries and so on hash out the details, review the next day. That's the whole point of having a theoretically extremely professional civil service staffed with experienced and qualified career bureaucrats. You don't even have to do most of the work yourself, just set the parameters and have the underlings sort it out. I can imagine them all sitting in some 'war room' and more bothered about catering than actually getting anything done. Sweaty civil servants running through hallways with spreadsheets badly printed out as various ministers just sort of sit with blank looks on their faces wondering about how this might look bad for their department rather than any solution. Matt Hancock looking like a college intern asked to give a presentation to middle management about something so far beyond his comprehension he is the avatar of imposter syndrome. Priti Patel constantly smirking through a presentation about re-infection rates through mass graves. A juddering video conference call from Italy where people keep talking over each other. Wasting time. All of the planning behind all this will be incredibly mundane, like a corporate away day where they have to LARP a pandemic response but nobody can be bothered and feels entirely out of their depth. They'll have spent just as much time joking about social distancing and coming up with jargon then they will actually planning anything - I'm guessing.
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Mar 25, 2020 10:56
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I hope 999 heard about it before we did I'm on the fourth floor and he's left now. Should I seriously call 999 and tell them there's a man in a yellow hat in my area coughing up blood?
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Mar 25, 2020 10:57
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If not 999 then maybe the non emergency number I guess? Seems like cause for concern?
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