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Clement posted:this loving government is the absolute loving pits. Cannot get over how enormously awful it is. I will loathe the Tories until the day I die. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Btw don't remember if anyone posted - France have banned all UK traffic INCLUDING FREIGHT for a minimum of 48 hours. they're using the new strain to flex for the brexit negotiations, the same way theresa may tried to use terrorism to get something out of them a couple years back. only macron is a bigger psychopath so he actually has the bottle to follow thru lmao.
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I admit that I am an outsider looking in, but it seems like you have all made this Brexit stuff far too complex. Brexit means Brexit. Understand that and you too shall be enlightened.
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TACD posted:This sounds incredible, do you have a link? Here's the latest: https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1340766619937763329?s=20 Earlier tweets: Eurotunnel and ferries closing from 10pm (ferries not mentioned on this tweet got elsewhere). https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1340752654675394560?s=20 Countries blocking travel from UK: https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1340762747412344832?s=20 Freight blocked to france. https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1340737253182763012?s=20 Basically, follow Paul Brand at the moment. He seems to be keeping folk informed.
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Maugrim posted:That's probably the approach we'd have taken in your situation, though as our actual plan was for my wife's dad and brother to come to us we just had to cancel them (they didn't argue). This thread ain’t big enough for two kirbs it is, Kirby is great
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bedpan posted:I admit that I am an outsider looking in, but it seems like you have all made this Brexit stuff far too complex. Brexit means Brexit. Understand that and you too shall be enlightened. There's that cspam humour
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lol at boris loving it up so insanely badly europe and more are just cutting us off now
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Jose posted:lol at boris loving it up so insanely badly europe and more are just cutting us off now haha this sucks man meme
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SpicePro posted:They could be in Scotland. (not too sure about Welsh or NI Sunday trading laws) Wales and England are you can only trade for 6 hours (usually 10am-4pm) unless you are a smaller shop. To count as a smaller shop is 280 square metres which is maybe why your smaller Tesco, Sainsburys etc (the 'local' or 'express' stores are open.)
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Jose posted:lol at boris loving it up so insanely badly europe and more are just cutting us off now Can't shake the sense that they hammed up the "new strain" thing as much as possible as blame deflection for cancelling Christmas at the last minute and it didn't really occur to them that people in other countries might notice.
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bump_fn posted:haha this sucks man meme he'll probably get a poll rise out of this
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Here's the latest: As serious as the situation is, I can't help but lol at boris calling a cobra meeting and crying out how can they do this to the uk?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Here's the latest: Lol at Johnson: "The thing that I've spent the year telling everyone I was willing to do, was preparing for, would really be great for Britain and that a few days ago I said was probably going to happen has actually happened! Call a COBRA meeting!"
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I'm seeing comments on twitter that the Cabinet were informed of 'the new strain' in September. Anyone know anything about that? OK found it was identified in September refs here's one: https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-19/what-do-we-know-know-about-the-new-covid-19-variant Pretty sure Cabinet would have been informed pretty soon afterwards. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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peanut- posted:Can't shake the sense that they hammed up the "new strain" thing as much as possible as blame deflection for cancelling Christmas at the last minute and it didn't really occur to them that people in other countries might notice. I think this is it since most scientific talk on the new strain has been very "not a problem yet, might in a few years". And that No Deal was always bullshit because now that some of those effects are happening already they're panicking.
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I hate to agree with Rafael behr but this seems right https://twitter.com/David_Oakes/status/1340436750901112834?s=19
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wales and England are you can only trade for 6 hours (usually 10am-4pm) unless you are a smaller shop. That's why I said Scotland, shops don't have this trade law there! But you can't buy booze in Scotland after 10pm any day of course which is probably worse.
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Jose posted:I hate to agree with Rafael behr but this seems right gh0stpinballa posted:do you think this will be enough to get the government to admit they're lying about this second strain any decision they take will probably only make things more farcical
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Basically, follow Paul Brand at the moment. He seems to be keeping folk informed. https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1340769348596723712
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm seeing comments on twitter that the Cabinet were informed of 'the new strain' in September. Lady from PHE was saying it was identified in October from a sample taken in September and it's taken this long to grow enough of it to sequence it and test it and get the results to the government last week.
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I did think they were just dead cat-ing the new strain stuff but today's numbers are pretty crazy and do seem to indicate something is a bit hosed. Also interesting that the UK does way more genome processing than most countries - that seems pretty cool! minema fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Lol no deal being official but also starting before christmas to truly gently caress things up should have been expected I guess
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Absolute lol. My wife and I were planning to go to Malta for Christmas with my dad. My dad needed this trip because my mum died in January (not covid related) and he's been pretty much in pieces since, and definitely doesn't want to spend Christmas in the UK. We've spent most of today wondering if we could still go or not. I'm not actually certain if it's genuinely illegal to get a flight out or not (all the sources I've looked at have mixed messages) and we were planning to chance it. We already had to take covid tests and get a negative certificate due to Malta's rules so I figured it would be relatively safe for us to travel without risking others. Well anyway the lab has been overwhelmed and they haven't even issued our certs yet, they're 24 hrs late and we might not get them at all  And since we've spent the day watching the EU locking us out one by one we figured we'd just be setting ourselves up for a bigger headache if we chance it. Either we get denied boarding, Malta puts a ban in, or worst of all worlds: Malta forces us to quarantine inside the hotel.At least we're getting all our money back. (and, thankfully, my dad isn't nearly as upset about it as i thought it would be - which has made it easier to deal with)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Absolute lol. gently caress, sorry man 
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Can't wait for Christmas now, I've basically just asked for alcohol and I'm not sure I can face 2021 sober.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Can't wait for Christmas now, I've basically just asked for alcohol and I'm not sure I can face 2021 sober. Make EGG NOG, makes lots of EGG NOG https://youtu.be/TIPaH1ncVmU
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minema posted:I did think they were just dead cat-ing the new strain stuff but today's numbers are pretty crazy and do seem to indicate something is a bit hosed. I don't think they made the existence of a new strain up or anything, but it's also pretty clearly not confined to the UK and a measured announcement would not have caused this international reaction. Instead we got that absurd press conference and Hancock going on TV to tell everyone it's utterly out of control and it's the worstest COVID ever, because they wanted to deflect blame for loving up Christmas at the last minute. Now they seem stunned that the rest of the world believed them.
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peanut- posted:Now they seem stunned that the rest of the world believed them. Yeah well have you seen the poo poo they've been spouting?
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bump_fn posted:https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1340718283230724102 "What? No. gently caress. You guys can see our press conferences? Why did no one tell me?"
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