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bitterandtwisted posted:What niche do the libdems fill that 8% will vote for them for non-tactical reasons in the list? Shetland and Orkney.
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Jedit posted:Shetland and Orkney. They're still voting Whig up there.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's complex by design. When the tories say 'it's down to labour councils,' people don't hear that and immediately start chasing down budgets and publicly available accounts. They assume that it's mean old Labour running out of money again because Jeminy Croblem spent it all on jam and bicycles. So whose decision is it to make whether the free school meals provision comes in the form of parcels, vouchers, or cash? Because I think I've read local authorities making the decision to switch to vouchers, were they always able to do this or is it imposed from top down? I don't doubt that Chartwells and other wastes of skin got the contract through corruption. I also can see local authorities forced to accept the lowest bid or whatever bollocks they've been told by central government.
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e: ^^^ think I read it's individual schools, but until like yesterday the DoE guidance very strongly encouraged giving parcels instead of vouchersbitterandtwisted posted:What niche do the libdems fill that 8% will vote for them for non-tactical reasons in the list?
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7 day average is 1,060 deaths/day now, first day over 1,500 registered.
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peanut- posted:Anyone else basically just not getting mail anymore? I feel like the delivery situation is much worse than Royal Mail are letting on. I know they published a list of areas experiencing delays a few days ago, but my area wasn't on it and I don't think a single letter has been delivered to my building (8 flats) since a week and a half ago. Got a bunch of Xmas cards last week, postmarked 20-21 Dec. They've been delivering after 6pm since the new year too, not seen that before. Also ordered a small drill/buffer from ebay on a link my gf sent me the other day, didn't clock it was from China. They refunded me yesterday with a message of 'your item has been returned as the courier couldn't get in touch with you', instead of 'lol like gently caress we're delivering to Leper Island from here, don't even think of trying again'.
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bitterandtwisted posted:What niche do the libdems fill that 8% will vote for them for non-tactical reasons in the list? shy tory farmers
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bitterandtwisted posted:What niche do the libdems fill that 8% will vote for them for non-tactical reasons in the list? A lot of it is tradition. the Northern Isles, the Highlands, these are about as traditional Liberal heartlands (to a lesser extent the part of Fife around St Andrews & some bits of the Borders) as those weird parts of South West England that return some Liberal freak. In 1945's landslide for Labour there were 12 Liberal MPs, 11 National Liberal & 2 "independent Liberal". 5 were from rural Scotland. Since 1800 Orkney & Shetland have had 2 MPs who were Tory, the rest were Whig or Liberal. I know in the Highlands the Liberals built their support up by passing policies favourable to the Highland Land League (you don't hear anything about the 2nd Highland Land League who formed either during or after the 1st World War as a reaction to a failure to deliver promises made during the war, & so started up with rent strikes & occupying land. One of those parts of radical history that doesn't get its due I guess because it only involved Teuchters) which gave them a base to build from & then became embedded here for most of the 20th century. Shite, Inverness had Liberal MPs from 1865 until 2015 with just a few breaks (1895-1900 Tory, 1950-1964 Tory, 1997-2005 Labour). Danny Alexander & the Coalition did a proper number on them though, 40% of the vote in 2010 to 10.7% in 2019. Hopefully that's the cunts in the bin now.
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Our new house is odd for post, because satnavs tend to direct people to the back of the house, since the front is pedestrianised. Every courier and Amazon delivery goes to the back of the house, but royal mail park by the garages across the wayand deliver to the front. I am convinced now that they don't even bother trying to deliver if it's bigger than the postbox and just stick a card through the door telling us to arrange redelivery. The couriers bless them will just drop the parcel anywhere in the back garden and then bang on the conservatory windows, but RM have been really snarky recently with redelivery slips.
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Nearly all the cards we got didn't have franked stamps, so royal mail are losing money that way as well.
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I cant believe banging on about the union as if the whole of Scotland is
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Did the fisheries minister really admit she didn't read the brexit trade deal because she was doing a nativity trail? Lmao
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Seems like Brexit is really loving supply chains in RoI at the moment, not exactly unanticipated https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/kwnxvv/things_are_fucked_in_the_port_some_supply_chains Personally: - my Screwfix orders used to be next day and the most recent one is 2 weeks delayed at UK customs - supermarket shelves seem bare (intersection with new lockdown stockpiling there) - waiting on a new fridge which has taken 2 months to get here, talked to their warehouse guy and he said "it's absolute carnage down here" lol. All first world problems and I'm not too put out, but yes they truly hosed it
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serious gaylord posted:Did the fisheries minister really admit she didn't read the brexit trade deal because she was doing a nativity trail? I was under the impression that most MPs don't read the bills, but lol if you admit it.
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I was ATEAB E:lmao that whole thread Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Seems like Brexit is really loving supply chains in RoI at the moment, not exactly unanticipated My work sends some samples to Dublin for testing, at first it was a little tricksy but we figured it out pretty quickly. Unfortunately another site can't figure it out for themselves so their solution is to send us their samples simply to post on for them. Such efficiency!
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Guavanaut posted:7 day average is 1,060 deaths/day now, first day over 1,500 registered. Average time from diagnosis to death is four weeks. Increase in cases started to decelerate 3-4 days ago. We're getting another 3.5 weeks of increasing deaths, inevitably, before they start to level off. And the death rate per case is likely to increase as the hospitals get overwhelmed and are unable to provide their usual standard of care. It's horrifying and it's wholly on the government.
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Maugrim posted:Average time from diagnosis to death is four weeks. Increase in cases started to decelerate 3-4 days ago. So a 2 point rise in the polls then
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Pole fitness
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The pole is less shocking than the price.
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Jose posted:So a 2 point rise in the polls then A change of leadership would be too disruptive in this time of crisis.
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Borrovan posted:jfc they're gonna do this, aren't they
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StarkingBarfish posted:The pole is less shocking than the price. £595,000, in cash, tucked into the seller's underwear
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serious gaylord posted:Did the fisheries minister really admit she didn't read the brexit trade deal because she was doing a nativity trail? I assume she has Johnson’s full support though. And Starmer’s.
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https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1349652005841735681?s=19 Hmmmmm
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https://twitter.com/mrjohnofarrell/status/1348943000022503429sebzilla posted:Hmmmmm
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StarkingBarfish posted:The pole is less shocking than the price. Pole dancing isn't even shocking anymore. My partner does pole fitness, its almost certainly not even a sex worker thing.
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serious gaylord posted:Did the fisheries minister really admit she didn't read the brexit trade deal because she was doing a nativity trail? https://twitter.com/PhantomPower14/status/1349410506461818882
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I wonder how much of Labour's slight poll rise in the last year has been due solely to old people dying of Covid.
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I blame Ceremy Jorbyn and his million pound house.
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If it's an average of four weeks from infection to death, and the headline death stat is 'number dead within 28 days of positive test', then aren't we going to be missing a whole lot of dead from that stat, depending on the standard deviation? Obviously 28 days from a positive test is probably more like 30-35 days since infection, but that's still got to be missing a significant chunk, right?
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Jakabite posted:If it's an average of four weeks from infection to death, and the headline death stat is 'number dead within 28 days of positive test', then aren't we going to be missing a whole lot of dead from that stat, depending on the standard deviation? Obviously 28 days from a positive test is probably more like 30-35 days since infection, but that's still got to be missing a significant chunk, right? They switched over to this measure last summer the juke the stats, icr what the old measure was but the change brought the death tolls way down (& also freed them up to claim that the real number is lower since you can get hit by a bus after a positive Covid test & still count)
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willie_dee posted:Pole dancing isn't even shocking anymore. My partner does pole fitness, its almost certainly not even a sex worker thing. I've seen so many Youtube videos where those poles come away from the ceiling and fling some girl through a coffee table or something. I assume they're supposed to be bolted to both the floor and ceiling but a lot of people skip that bit when they set it up.
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Jakabite posted:If it's an average of four weeks from infection to death, and the headline death stat is 'number dead within 28 days of positive test', then aren't we going to be missing a whole lot of dead from that stat, depending on the standard deviation? Obviously 28 days from a positive test is probably more like 30-35 days since infection, but that's still got to be missing a significant chunk, right? is it first positive test or positive test? And is that totally uniform? I thought the big day by day mortality rate inequalities were related to available lab and admin capacity at weekends, and there are at least policies about getting covid tests from patients on the reg for later discharge and modelling uses. but then the whole quiet triage of care homes incident means that it's a trivial fact that figure massaging for press enjoyment is a threshold the government crossed long ago, with the actual peak mortality of over 1.5k for several days still a way off. It'd be risky and stupid to find another way to shuffle papers, so a press that refuses to do any journalism in case it gets told off is a huge bonus to getting away with that. If you wanted to. Which they, evidently, do. Not that they necessarily are, today. Just that they want to do that, have incentive to do that, have done that, and would almost certainly not be questioned or criticised for doing it again. I crack pinged on the whole thing around the time the EU went "yeah we aren't even a little concerned about your variant actually" and the telegraphs "we've saved SO MUCH PENSION MONEY dear reader," article has really pushed me into a cold, still ocean of paranoia. Borrovan posted:The nah pre-june was just "hospitals only" so care homes/dying at home didn't count. There's a good amount of detailed anecdotal evidence of cases, often regarding minority women, not listened to and ending up dead before setting foot in the hospital - the guardian was running it as part of the ever-present motif of "arent these bad things sad, we will loving come for you if you try to stop the bad thing" Spangly A fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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I honestly thought the post was about bringing up the absolutely absurd price of £600,000 for a tiny second floor flat. That is just absolutely stupid money. Near me, that kind of money will get this. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/99195497#/ - A nice 4 bed detached that looks really nice inside. That's also Bristol which is still expensive. How about going north a bit and spending just slightly over half that amount for this. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/82507606#/ It's utterly crazy how the London house prices have spiralled.
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Instead of buying a flat in Chelsea I simply moved to Montana and now have my own 100 acre cult compound for the same money.
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Boris doing it again: https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1349710852811849733 Mogg talking Brexit benefit: https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1349689694339149824?s=19 And UKIP sink even lower! https://twitter.com/Okeating/status/1349692402198597634
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Lungboy posted:Boris doing it again: https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1349710852811849733 Maybe this time noone will say anything and we'll get to starve the kids.
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