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I'm not sure, I was just given a letter telling me my appointment. I was told when I got it that I'd hear when my next shot was, but so far nothing.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Where was it done? If through your GP, contact them, otherwise they should have booked you in for the second one at the same time as the first, so call 119 and speak to them about booking it. This isn't the case in Wales. GP jabs seem to have given the date for the second at the time you get the first, but mass vacc centres just gave an indication, not a set date. The phoning up / online booking is England only. Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'm not sure, I was just given a letter telling me my appointment. I was told when I got it that I'd hear when my next shot was, but so far nothing. Are you in England or Wales or Scotland?
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Oh, I should have mentioned, Scotland.
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Mebh posted:So wait... Beach huts have no heating, no insulation, no hot water, can't be slept in legally. Do they have toilets? Holy poo poo; https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/54856068#/ I mean with this one you can at least stay overnight and I assume there is camp toilets, but STILL.
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May 2, 2021 14:21
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SpicePro posted:Holy poo poo; You could buy a literal mansion in some pretty decent bits of the country with that kind of money.
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May 2, 2021 14:34
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This isn't the case in Wales. GP jabs seem to have given the date for the second at the time you get the first, but mass vacc centres just gave an indication, not a set date. It made me very sick yesterday & I'm still knackered. (e: Pfizer)
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Borrovan posted:I think it varies by region. I got my first jab (Wales, 30s, healthy) this week, they did give me a fixed date & time. No letter or anything, just got an unexpected text saying I had an appointment in like 3 days. Apparently I'll get another one when it's time for the second. Same for non-vulnerable people I know locally, but vulnerable people got the GP appointments & people out of town got letters. That's what I meant. I got an appointment (at quite short notice - a few days - but it was by letter not text) for the first, but haven't had a date for the second, just a general indication that it would be 'about' 12 weeks from the first. Those who went to GP (vulnerables) instead of mass vax centre (invulnerables  ) got given the second appointment when they went for the first.
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Mebh posted:So wait... Beach huts have no heating, no insulation, no hot water, can't be slept in legally. Do they have toilets? The point in them is that they're just a garden shed on the beach where you can store your deckchairs/buckets/spades/surf boards/fishing rods/other beach gear, somewhere private and sheltered to get changed, something to get out of the weather (wind, rain, sun) and to house a camping stove or a small barbecue for picnics. They're supposed to be something you spend the day in, and you have an actual house somewhere nearby. Whether that house is your actual home, a holiday home or a place you've rented for a period that comes with access to a hut as part of the package. They're a glorified gazebo or a permanent version of those pop-up tents people take to the beach, but for people who spend enough time on or near the beach for a hut to be worthwhile. They're not supposed to be lived in and most have byelaws or terms to use attached to them that prohibit staying overnight. That they're worth six-figure sums is just 'Because British Property Market'.
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What i see is that consistently 60% of the country don't think he's good. It's just that the UKs voting system is broken as is the news for never reporting on that.
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May 2, 2021 15:27
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https://www.ft.com/content/fe5eb32a-aefc-46e4-836f-b0f2a7c2ef85quote:Boris Johnson has approved a new legislative programme of more than 25 bills that will implement planning reform and a new state aid regime, as he seeks to flesh out his post-pandemic economic recovery plan.
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Am I missing something or are most of those things actually good? Like obviously they'll be implemented in such a way as to rob most of the real benefit & convert it into more cash in the pockets of Tory doners, but, uh, this looks a lot better than anything Starmer's offering
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May 2, 2021 16:37
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quote:A post-Brexit state aid regime is meant to enable the government to be more “nimble” in supporting jobs These ones scream "lets funnel money to our mates"
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Borrovan posted:Am I missing something or are most of those things actually good? I guess we'll have to see - building more homes sounds good, but doing it just by loosening planning rules is no guarantee that it'll actually work. You can have a lot of lofty intentions but we'll have to see what these things actually do in practice.
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I hate Lawrence Fox with a passion and this really made me laugh with delight https://twitter.com/lisa_db/status/1388578295776690176?s=21 I believe it’s from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/30/laurence-fox-war-woke-success-getting-end-not-losing-mind/ but can’t confirm because it’s behind a paywall.
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G1mby posted:I guess we'll have to see - building more homes sounds good, but doing it just by loosening planning rules is no guarantee that it'll actually work. You can have a lot of lofty intentions but we'll have to see what these things actually do in practice. Any time a politician suggests planning reform as a way of increasing the amount of houses built they should have their home(s) taken off them and be forced to live in one of those roman candle cladding blocks.
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G1mby posted:I guess we'll have to see - building more homes sounds good, but doing it just by loosening planning rules is no guarantee that it'll actually work. You can have a lot of lofty intentions but we'll have to see what these things actually do in practice. Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:These ones scream "lets funnel money to our mates" Reversing the Health & Social Care Act is legit good though, I'll be interested to see what the monkey's paw does to that one
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Euro Super League was cancelled so everything has neatly been swept under the ru-- hang on https://twitter.com/BBCRMsport/status/1388849169260032012 oh noooooooo my consent manufactured plebs are revolting!!
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Borrovan posted:Am I missing something or are most of those things actually good? This is the insidious thing about this sort of populist/kinda-One Nation Toryism. When summarised in this sort of way it looks very good. Especially in comparison to virtually any other government legislative programme over the past 30-ish years and especially especially when compared to the past 10 years. When laid out in headline snippety form it seems progressive, even left-wing in ways. But the implementation and the ends are going to be lovely. More homes = good. More homes by letting developers rip through the green belt after they influence/lobby/bribe the local council to declare all the greenfield as development land = Bad. Framework for nimble state aid to firms = good. Legalised £billions bungs to big businesses owned by Tory donors so they can fail upwards = Bad. Encouraging manufacturing jobs in areas where these are badly lacking = good. Doing so with free ports so multinationals can operate without paying tax = Bad. Letting small businesses bid for parts of large government contracts and a 'buy British' clause = good. An additional way to syphon public money to your mates in the Rotary club = Bad. Centralising the running of the NHS and rolling back the internal market system = good. Putting all the main functions of the NHS under the control of the DoH&SC so it can be more easily privatised = Bad. Animal welfare bill = Good. Animal welfare bill that goes after Halal etc. slaughter in a prominent and lovely way to get some praise from the tabloids = Bad (I'm just guessing on this one). Borrovan posted:this looks a lot better than anything Starmer's offering Yes, this is better than literally nothing. It's one of the most frustrating aspects of British politics at the moment - there is a huge appetite for progressively-flavoured economic and spending policies and neoliberalism has left the country and society so hollow that the notion of a government doing the tiniest thing aimed at making life better - even for duplicitous and shady reasons - is welcomed and praised to the rafters. So long as it comes from the Tories of course, because when they do it it's Backing Global Britain and Levelling Up but when Labour
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Goldskull posted:Will give them that, was an absolute Pro set up at the Crick Centre by St Pancras, was in & out in ~20mins.
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Borrovan posted:Yeah obviously even the best sounding things will be implemented by the Tories and therefore any real benefits will be incidental to the primary goal of funnelling money to the rich, but, like, that still sounds better than "we'll do austerity or something to show how responsible we are and also more flags", which seems to be Labour's offer. Obviously all the ideological racism & fascism in the Tory party isn't worth any possible pay-off, but on-paper it looks like Starmer is genuinely getting outflanked from the left by an actual fascist. Yeah, on track record so far I'm not holding out much hope for all of this, particularly with the earlier mention of the Exchequer wanting to clamp down on spending.
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Rishi is much more of a damaging influence to the country than Boris at the moment - Rishi is another Austerity cultist in the vein of Osborne, who will continually try and kneecap any Good Ideas that Boris has because he wants to be a Big Man in the name of saving money to give more tax cuts out. Boris in his bombasticism is much easier to influence into Getting Something Done, because he wants to be a Big Man.
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"Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons, wants the package of 25 to 30 bills in the Queen’s Speech to deliver key sections of the Tory manifesto." There go the workers rights. "Including a planning bill to clear obstacles to housebuilding and broader development." More lovely new builds everywhere that are somehow even worse quality than they are now, and an admission that the housing market is basically the one industry we have left. "Under the bill, all councils in England will have to designate land either for development or preservation." Developers will now be able to pressurise ailing councils to sell off public land. The home counties will of course designate everything for preservation while northern councils are going to have to sell off any green land they still have. "The business department has just completed a public consultation seeking views on how the arrangements can allow the government to make strategic interventions in industry." Again, this'll be the absolute ramping up of things like fire & rehire and zero hours contracts for anyone doing the actual labour if they threaten companies bottom line at all. "There will also be bills to create a series of freeports: low-tax zones featuring simplified planning rules that ministers have said will serve as hubs for high-value manufacturing and innovation. Sceptics have cited research suggesting they tend to shift jobs and investment around the country, rather than generate new business." I'm more concerned that they tend to attract massive amounts of organised crime. "Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will meanwhile sponsor a bill to establish a “high risk, high reward” scientific research agency that was the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser." JOIN ME MR BOND IN THE INNOVATION ZONE No really, we are probably going to render large chunks of the country uninhabitable because Cummings heard Chernobyl is now cool. "A procurement bill will give small and medium-sized companies greater opportunities to secure government contracts, and allow the public sector to buy British when the deals are not subject to international trade rules." Well if there's one thing the pandemic has proved, it's that only good things can happen when the government are allowed to hand out contracts with zero oversight. "The bill will reverse key aspects of a contentious 2012 shake-up of the NHS which handed greater operational independence to the health service and sharply increased the role of competition." This is the only one that seems good? If they're reversing the role of competition that's good. It depends what they're moving the greater independence away from though. "An environment bill, carried over from the previous parliamentary session, will include creation of a new environmental watchdog for England and fresh commitments on biodiversity." I fully expect it to be a trump style department for companies to bribe so they can do whatever the gently caress they like, filled with climate deniers. Also carried over from the last session means 'we couldn't get it through before but now we have a majority we're forcing it through.' "Other measures are expected to liberalise rules on gene editing in agriculture, a cause long promoted by Johnson as one of the supposed benefits of Brexit." Tough on bees, tough on the causes of bees. "Home secretary Priti Patel has secured a slot in the Queen’s Speech for her strategy on tackling violence against women and girls, which will focus on improving the low and declining conviction rates for some sexual offences, especially rape." I cannot wait to see what draconian insanity they try to hide behind this, safe in the knowledge that anyone trying to criticise it is going to get brigaded by mumset.
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e: ^^^yeah the implementation of each & every policy on there will be utter dogshit but I'm just looking at that list having a  moment that on paper the Tories are genuinely looking more economically left wing than Labour rnNothingtoseehere posted:Rishi is much more of a damaging influence to the country than Boris at the moment Borrovan fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 2, 2021 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:guys i think this country has some problems https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/01/exclusive-britannia-rule-waves-new-royal-yacht-named-prince/ https://news.sky.com/story/new-royal-yacht-named-after-prince-philip-to-be-commissioned-within-weeks-costing-as-much-as-200m-12292880 Sky News posted:The Daily Telegraph reports that the new yacht will be announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson "within weeks". gently caress me. As I've said before, I don't have a massive problem with this sort of thing in principle, but this really should end once and for all any narratives about magic money trees or national credit cards. It's not a case of spending 'a sum' of money on a royal yacht instead of school meals or...any number of infinitely more worthy causes, but it shows a) how actually the government can spend however much money it wants on whatever it drat chooses and therefore b)how utterly ideological these sorts of decisions are. I expect Labour to either propose a bigger, more expensive yacht with eight masts, each carrying a 15x30m Union Jack or condemn the whole thing out of principle and criticise the wallpaper being used and so be accused of being joyless miseries who are just Doing Britain Down and don't want to bring jobs to the Wirral. Either way alienates yet more of one side of the electorate and means they get no political capital out of it all.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons, wants the package of 25 to 30 bills in the Queen’s Speech to deliver key sections of the Tory manifesto." It's probably not worth investigating this poo poo this closely tbh. Like I don't feel I know anything more about how bad everything is but I do feel worse anyway.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm more concerned that they tend to attract massive amounts of organised crime. 
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I live in Bournemouth and know Mudeford quite well, and there are some insane beach huts there (within the bounds of being, y'know, huts). Basically the rules on what's permissible are being stretched to the limit and then some. Some of them go for more than my house. And yet they're still huts. It's madness.
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Can you add a London style mega-basement to a beach hut?
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sinky posted:Can you add a London style mega-basement to a beach hut? Given they are normally located next to the sea, quite possibly no, for physical rather than legal reasons.
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Tory policies are always good-sounding when summed up in one sentence, that's why they're so good at getting votes from people who barely pay attention to politics people see "build more houses" or "cut taxes" or "be kind to animals" and think "oh yes that's a good idea, I'll vote for them" and then the media (and, under Starmer, Labour) utterly fail to explain that actually the houses are >£500k investment properties, and the tax cuts don't actually apply to people earning under £100k, and the only animals protected are police dogs and horses
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I recall a little ditty about building on sand.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons, wants the package of 25 to 30 bills in the Queen’s Speech to deliver key sections of the Tory manifesto." Thanks for this detailed analysis/rebuttal - much appreciated.
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Dead Goon posted:No one notice It's her day job apparently, communications tzar for an animal rights charity. How that squares with the huntin' shootin' fishin' brigade of old colonels and the countryside alliance who support her wretched live-in lover I don't know.
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OwlFancier posted:Given they are normally located next to the sea, quite possibly no, for physical rather than legal reasons. Architect's design: Stromberg's underwater city. 
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Finn's Law 2: This Time It's A Capital Offence e: also introducing a specific offence preventing the prominent display of rainbow colours in horizontal stripes :lgbtflagwithcryingpolicehorse:
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Architect's design: Stromberg's underwater city. Well it *is* 2021. Just watch out for those jerks from Pod 6. e: Actually that Sealab episode where they all declare independence from each other and the two English blokes sell them all nukes is probably the most likely outcome of relaxed planning restrictions, freeports, and the rest of these Tory policies. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 19:10 on May 2, 2021 |
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