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Spangly A posted:I'm excited to see if Keith and the gang actually think they can fire Rayner, because they're clearly briefing it They can't fire her as deputy and they must know it.
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Lungboy posted:Her letter reads like she wanted the whip returned to Corbyn https://twitter.com/CatSmithMP/status/1465287943669657600, but that wasn't why she left, she was kicked out by Starmer. It says she was offered to remain but is choosing to leave, so she wasn't kicked out. I er... don't think. But yes I think you are right, she wants Corbyn back in.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It says she was offered to remain but is choosing to leave, so she wasn't kicked out. I er... don't think. True, although the mention of the reshuffle suggests she didn't like what was coming and felt she had to leave.
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serious gaylord posted:Starmer is a nonce
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Have you ever been within a thousand miles of Corbyn? You're fired.
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Not following the reshuffle, is it more humiliation being heaped onto hapless drunken loser (20 pints ahead) Starmer?
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keep punching joe posted:Not following the reshuffle, is it more humiliation being heaped onto hapless drunken loser (20 pints ahead) Starmer? It does seem a little like getting narrowly ahead in the polls for the first time has caused them to unseal a big envelope labelled "Purging Phase 2". There's no way this could end in humiliation!
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Lol https://twitter.com/mrnickharvey/status/1465285032956805124
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It says she was offered to remain but is choosing to leave, so she wasn't kicked out. I er... don't think. There's no doubt about it, the SCG member wants Corbyn readmitted to the PLP
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The new wizard wheeze to solve the NHS manning crisis: https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1465002206520827909?s=20 Just know this is going to be a classically Tory hosed-up implementation of what could be a decent idea. Obviously in a better world, the NHS would just have the resources (of whatever sort) to have the staff it needs. In a non-ideal situation, having a 'reserve force' of skilled people to call in times of crisis is not a bad idea. And, directly aping the name of the military reserves, it gives this government and its voter base the warm tingly feelings with its imagery of the Home Guard, Are Boys, National Service and Doing Your Bit and all that. But I really, really doubt that that Sajid Javid is going to spend money on organisations and infrastructure like the military reserves have - which train people in their chosen field, provide continual skill improvement and career progression and manage regular exercises or deployments to maintain currency (all of which you get paid for). Are IT specialists from outside the NHS going to get sent away on multi-week courses to learn how to use the NHSs systems and how the NHS as a whole works when they join the 'NHS-R' and then get sent on a two week 'deployment' every year for further training and to stay current? I really doubt it. This is just the usual window-dressing so they can a) say they're doing something about the NHS staff shortage and b) putting part of the blame on all the NHS staff who have retired and left and then not 'signed up to do their bit' when they're provided with the opportunity. It'll either end up as a massive clusterfuck when the NHS finally reaches crisis point and loads of undertrained, underexperienced 'reservists' cause havoc and probably end up killing people through unfortunate but inevitable errors, or (like the military reserves in the early 2000s) the 'pool of people intended to help out in a crisis' end up being routinely used to make up the shortfall of 'regulars' (like when loads of TAs ended up on the front lines in Afghanistan, which is why it's no longer called the TA but the Army Reserve).
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Isomermaid posted:That word just means whatever they want it to doesn't it  Googling 'woke' leads you into a digital trash fire of grifters trying to steal your wallet so they can save you from people and things they made up so they could get mad at them. BalloonFish posted:The new wizard wheeze to solve the NHS manning crisis: The funny thing is that the agencies seem to hold the NHS under the kind of grip that everyone fears from a union, but because they're private companies run for profit, Saj can't take a hard stance against them. Even though everyone hates agency nurses.
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Looks like the Lib Dems are gaining influence in Honduras: https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1465327158738317315
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Comrade Fakename posted:Looks like the Lib Dems are gaining influence in Honduras: CIA Winning Here!
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I'm due to travel on Christmas to see my family in the Czech republic after a long time. Will see how that goes, but the omicron is not making me happy at all. e: I've not spent more than probably 100 hours outside of my rented room this year thanks to remote working and having a lot of work; and I don't even have a partner right now (nor any friends locally for that matter) before anyone gets on my case about it. I really need the trip to stay sane. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Really useful press conference going on right now: the new variant may be a problem, or it may not: nobody really knows yet.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Really useful press conference going on right now: the new variant may be a problem, or it may not: nobody really knows yet. Is it the standard Patrick Valance "there is no evidence that shows that... Masks work/ventilation works/children are at risk /children can transmit /this is a problem" *(delete as appropriate). * also data and evidence from non-English speaking countries doesn't count, only data that we have gathered here which in three weeks time will tell us how badly we hosed it again. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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"We think this will scare the money off so we are not going to do anything."
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LIVE: GOVT SPOKESMAN SAYS "SHUT UP AND DIE, PEASANTS. WE WILL NOT HELP YOU"
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As I said before we're still *way* too early to be making any kind of confident pronouncements about Omicron and anybody claiming to know the truth - whether it's people telling us that it evades all vaccines and treatments and we need to start welding people into their houses, or that actually it's fantastic because it outcompetes Delta but doesn't kill you - is trying to sell you something. Beefing up biosecurity *is* a good idea while we wait the couple of weeks (at minimum) we need to work out whether this is the next Plague of Justinian or not, but of course we're doing it in a completely half-arsed way because they're all scared of the Daily Mail.
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Pesky North London elite strikes again. https://twitter.com/KateEMcCann/status/1465334020213030920
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Private Speech posted:I'm due to travel on Christmas to see my family in the Czech republic after a long time. Survive, any way you can. 
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keep punching joe posted:Pesky North London elite strikes again. But none of them are in charge of anything
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As I said before we're still *way* too early to be making any kind of confident pronouncements about Omicron and anybody claiming to know the truth - whether it's people telling us that it evades all vaccines and treatments and we need to start welding people into their houses, or that actually it's fantastic because it outcompetes Delta but doesn't kill you - is trying to sell you something. Yeah, I know, I'm just at the stage where I want to say to them: when you know for sure that it's a problem, then you can start with the gloomy press conferences and regretful announcements that Xmas is cancelled, again; just give me a break from it until that point. I hate all the breathless media speculation that I feel compelled to scroll through, 'cos ignoring it makes me even more anxious.
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I should be able to get a booster in time for Xmas now, so what's the booster efficacy like at 3 months over 6? Not that it's going to stop me getting it of course, just curious.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As I said before we're still *way* too early to be making any kind of confident pronouncements about Omicron...
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, I know, I'm just at the stage where I want to say to them: when you know for sure that it's a problem, then you can start with the gloomy press conferences and regretful announcements that Xmas is cancelled, again; just give me a break from it until that point. I hate all the breathless media speculation that I feel compelled to scroll through, 'cos ignoring it makes me even more anxious. Or they're downplaying it so the big money donors don't panic. Who knows!
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Failed Imagineer posted:But none of them are in charge of anything Plus Starmer is "an Islington Lawyer".
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Prediction, government will maintain pandemic status quo for next fortnight and then be forced into hasty lockdown (loving up Xmas again) because the new variant is just as dangerous while also being more transmissible. Press/public will give them a pass for not introducing travel bans/mask mandate sooner, or doing another soft lockdown to keep the R rate around 1 because no one could possibly predict in hindsight that it would be bad. Speculation based solely on everything that has happened since March 2020.
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OzyMandrill posted:Yeah totally, but it does make a vaguely plausable 'reason' why they need to start enforcing the mask mandate a bit more, but not really because of the whole winter surge/NHS stress really doesn't want to have 25% capacity locked up in covid patients. But admitting any hint of that would have political cost, so a new variant to scapegoat is always welcome by the press. This is my theory too. Sure, omicron could be bad, but it's also a really useful excuse for tightening Covid restrictions before Christmas without admitting that your policy up until this point was the wrong one.
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Lungboy posted:Plus Starmer is "an Islington Lawyer". He's a Camden lawyer, it's completely different.
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keep punching joe posted:Pesky North London elite strikes again. i don't know what this means
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urururughghrugh keith stawbuhst my fawbur wuhked unna fuctury mehking wutughhghggs ururrghghhgh
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The speedy reaction to Omicron is extremely welcome but uncharacteristically ott that it being the scapegoat makes total sense. Like a post I made earlier, Omicron's dangers are theoretical: there seems to currently be less than 200 detected worldwide, it's supposed country of origin is barely at 3000 Beta cases a day and 70% of the population are wholly unvaccinated; take that and dump it onto 40,000 Deltas a day with 88% vaccinated and it just seems strange. But welcome.
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Szmitten posted:But welcome. not if it needlessly buggers up international travel for xmas it wont be.
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Szmitten posted:The speedy reaction to Omicron is extremely welcome but uncharacteristically ott that it being the scapegoat makes total sense. Like a post I made earlier, Omicron's dangers are theoretical: there seems to currently be less than 200 detected worldwide, it's supposed country of origin is barely at 3000 Beta cases a day and 70% of the population are wholly unvaccinated; take that and dump it onto 40,000 Deltas a day with 88% vaccinated and it just seems strange. But welcome. While all that is going on π is sneakily moving around with a one month incubation period and a 75% fatality rate that bypasses all the current vaccinations.
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Szmitten posted:The speedy reaction to Omicron is extremely welcome but uncharacteristically ott that it being the scapegoat makes total sense. Like a post I made earlier, Omicron's dangers are theoretical: there seems to currently be less than 200 detected worldwide, it's supposed country of origin is barely at 3000 Beta cases a day and 70% of the population are wholly unvaccinated; take that and dump it onto 40,000 Deltas a day with 88% vaccinated and it just seems strange. But welcome. I think if you wanted to be cynical about the Omicron reaction, you could notice that all the ongoing stories about Tory corruption and chaos in Downing St have suddenly vanished out of the press.
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Just Another Lurker posted:While all that is going on π is sneakily moving around with a one month incubation period and a 75% fatality rate that bypasses all the current vaccinations.
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Regarde Aduck posted:i don't know what this means Those liberal, metropolitan elite types aren't racist enough to be a credible home secretary.
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TACD posted:Uhhh ??? This is just a bad joke or ??? There is no Pi variant so yes.
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