forkboy84 posted:

Didn't hear any of that here. Scotland wins again

Niric posted:

I heard there are some, uh, interesting positions in this field being opened up in 2021

ronya posted:

the Tories hung themselves on the hope of Test and Trace to resolve the risks they were taking - if anything they were too optimistic on the potential to identify a light-touch solution

and the rhetoric always exposed a kind of unreal regard for it as a panacea - let's say it does work in its optimal scenario, i.e., before mass community transmission, when a new single cluster is identified. And then what? Who hauls all the contacts to isolation for fourteen days?

never mind China, is one even just prepared to be the totalitarian dystopia that is Australia? And if not, why not?

ronya posted:

the Tories hung themselves

sebzilla posted:

Lib Dems on 2 (two) seats would be hilarious.

Random Integer posted:

Didn't Pratchett have a ghost writer in his later years? I imagine having his words and ideas filtered through someone else would also impact the writing style

Jel Shaker posted:

bitcoin alone uses the equivalent annual energy expenditure of ireland to run i recall, i’m sure alt coins are not much better

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1346153400476573698

uh? pardon?

Gonzo McFee posted:

For four and a half years we were told that every time Labour didn't have a response ready within ten minutes of an event happening that it showed how terrible Corbyn was, how out of date and slow he was. They'd retweet whatever boiler plate nonsense the Lib Dems posted with phrases like "the real opposition". They'd suppress info on the right wing of Labour deliberately sabotaging communications and briefing against Corbyn to the press.

All for this. So that this flailing sweaty ham could gently caress up opposition to Boris Johnson going into a lockdown months late and not even call for better sick pay or provisions for rent arrears. This is the Labour party as they meant it to be. This is the kind of opposition they wanted. This is the Labour party fully operational.

They threw away your future for this.

jiggerypokery posted:

Isn't this a tax on businesses operating in the UK but headquartered elsewhere? It smells an awful like a step in the right direction to me. I assume I'm misunderstanding the implications...

Sanford posted:

Re: middle management scams, at my old job a partner org very proudly displayed their new ISO27001 credentials and kept trying to insist we did the same. One of my staff found that every single customer detail for any organisation using their software was embedded in any hardware they ran it on, and the decryption password could be found in a plain text file on the same systems. Certification gets you a logo to put on your website and an easy tick in the “ISO27001 certified?” box when completing a tender.

Jose posted:

He's so poo poo

stev posted:

I agree but there's a part of my brain that can't help but make slippery slope arguments. What happens when Johnson and chums decide that "socialism can work" is a dangerous lie and act accordingly?

I guess I just struggle to trust this particular government with anything more nuanced than an eggcup.

Total Meatlove posted:

Parking a lorry on Prestwick’s tarmac would do

Armani Glasses posted:

Up here in Aberdeen I work in Starbucks and our two central stores are as busy, if not busier, than before this 'lockdown' was announced. Suddenly families and other folk are out in droves for their "exercise walks" which just happen to all pass by our stores. Its obscene and just makes me think no-one is paying attention at all and we'll see that number will continue to go up, up, up. I'm ashamed we are even keeping the doors open to be honest, and if I could I'd have my store closed until February and beyond, but alas money needs to be made and we'll skirt the line until explicitly told: "Stop"!

Just Another Lurker posted:

Heroes are what you get when something goes terribly wrong.... never a good sign in my view.

Guavanaut posted:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Guavanaut posted:

I wish I could say that the writing has gotten more believable recently but

Failed Imagineer posted:

Is there a German word to capture the feeling of having your prejudices utterly confirmed?

notaspy posted:

Interestingly, they haven't publish the picture for a while as Hislop has grown to respect Neill and his eviscerations of various MPs.

Guavanaut posted:

big scary monsters posted:

I'm pro glowing children, pro glowing families.

forkboy84 posted:

So say for a school with 200 kids getting free school meals (I have no idea if that's a realistic number but it's nice & round & we like that), 39 weeks in a school year, that's £177,216 that isn't actually going to the kids out of a £30/head budget of £234,000. Obviously the catering company would have staffing costs & such so it's not pure profit but it is a pretty penny.

crepeface posted:

do you think it cost them less to figure out how much carrot to put into each box or wrap an onion quarter instead of just putting a whole carrot and onion in there

Jose posted:

They're so loving poo poo

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1349308497641541639?s=19

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/Chartwells_UK/status/1349325590952865792

OwlFancier posted:

Angepain posted:

I mean it's probably within the margin of error but hey! They might massively trail the SNP as the second largest party instead of the third largest party! #ScotLabFightBack

https://mobile.twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1349620546682703872

Borrovan posted:

jfc they're gonna do this, aren't they

without a shred of self-awareness about Blairism

bitterandtwisted posted:

What niche do the libdems fill that 8% will vote for them for non-tactical reasons in the list?

Bobby Deluxe posted:

If you really drilled down you'd probably find that they think a bit of hardship builds character, tough love etc.

Again, the cruelty is the point.

namesake posted:

That's not what zero covid is based on. You stop as much activity as possible for a month or so so that the number of unseen transmission is near 0 and then you heavily and effectively monitor and trace cases when they come back again including mandatory monitored quarantines for people travelling into the UK. You'll end up with a few hundred, may be a few thousand people being in quarantine while the rest of the country can meet socially with confidence again. You don't need vaccine immunity, you just have tiny amount of case numbers which are rapidly and effectively detected and stopped.

Jose posted:

The labour right are extremely loving Tories

Pistol_Pete posted:

Article in the Times, echoing this thread's opinion that Labour under Starmer is hopelessly passive and that that's not enough to win elections. Matthew Parris is a) a Tory and b) has strong centrist sympathies, which politically means that he loathes the Corbynite Left and is naturally rather sympathetic towards Starmer. So it's interesting to see him state so clearly that Labour's performance under Starmer just isn't good enough and that winning politicians actively step up and lead the political conversation.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

All this complaints on twitter about how bad brexit is proving to be so far. Those sharing the benefits of brexit are obviously being silenced by the lizard elite.
I demand to know all the benefits of brexit that must have occurred in the last 16 days.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

OwlFancier posted:

UKMT what is a chitterwagger? It sounds like a racial slur.

Necrothatcher posted:

man I wish I had the balls to be all "That thing I said? Didn't say it".

TACD posted:

lol my partner just rang up the GP to give them our new address and they told her we’re now outside their catchment area and promptly de-registered her. Receptionist had the gall to tell her she’ll “easily” be able to register at a new practice when that’s a massive bollocks even without a pandemic on.

What we’re really worried about though is the fact she has a repeat prescription she picks up from the pharmacy every month or two; does anybody know if being rudely de-registered will interrupt that?