Brexit, for once some facts.

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In the world according to The Daily Express, we are beating Coronavirus and nearing herd immunity. Meanwhile in the real world, we aren’t beating Coronavirus and we aren’t nearing herd immunity, but The Daily Express has taken the Daily Mail’s crown as the most prolific purveyors of BS after Boris Johnson.
 

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In the world according to The Daily Express, we are beating Coronavirus and nearing herd immunity. Meanwhile in the real world, we aren’t beating Coronavirus and we aren’t nearing herd immunity, but The Daily Express has taken the Daily Mail’s crown as the most prolific purveyors of BS after Boris Johnson.
Yes but now we are out of the EU, we judge by our own dependable British Standards, not those of others. As you said, BS is our accepted standard.

And by our standards we are doing quite well now, having often done far worse a short while ago.
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That’s a measure of just how dire the alternative was. Jo Swindon or Jez Corbyn or a lying cowardly yellow streak of pi$$. The streak of pi$$ just edges it for many people.
In a sense I'm, as a labour supporter, happy with that. Let the tories - and boris in particular - reap the consequences of what they sowed (brexit, deliberate disinformation, lies about public spending, deliberately atrophying of the nhs). But I feel for those at the sharp end of it, in care homes, even delusional brexit supporters and their families losing their benefits to universal credit.
 

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Boris Johnson says crossing Channel in small boats 'dangerous and criminal'
Remind me what Churchill said about crossing the channel small boats ...

In his 4 June speech, Churchill also reminded the country that "we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."
- Words which could be re-interpreted in our current situation. Our apparent current deliverance, though not obvious to those in Aberdeen, Preston, etc., is not a victory.
 

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A lack of vision by Westminster over its post-Brexit trade “priorities” meant that other countries had the upper hand at the negotiating table



Boris Johnson’s ‘lucrative’ post-Brexit trade deals bound to damage UK economy, study claims
Boris Johnson’s pledge to negotiate “lucrative” post-Brexit trade deals for Britain looks in doubt, a study has warned.


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This isn't entirely true
A lack of vision by Westminster over its post-Brexit trade “priorities”

When you elect Monkeys to create policies, quite naturally they will be satisfied with Trade agreements that yield peanuts :cool:
 
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In a sense I'm, as a labour supporter, happy with that. Let the tories - and boris in particular - reap the consequences of what they sowed (brexit, deliberate disinformation, lies about public spending, deliberately atrophying of the nhs). But I feel for those at the sharp end of it, in care homes, even delusional brexit supporters and their families losing their benefits to universal credit.
There is it seems in all humans a light side and a dark side.

My light side is pretty well brassed off and appalled at Human stupidity

But my dark side is pi**ed out of it's head laughing , rather like watching stock car racing to enjoy the crashes.

:cool:
 

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Yes but now we are out of the EU, we judge by our own dependable British Standards, not those of others. As you said, BS is our accepted standard.

And by our standards we are doing quite well now, having often done far worse a short while ago.
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But theres something unfunny about it. In Beirut or Belarus endemic corruption result in determined protest. Here its rewarded with regular insincere handclapping. If 60000 plus avoidable deaths doesnt penetrate the public consciousness one has to wonder what will take the shine of the BS. Certainly not 3 gigaton nitrate blowing away part of London. I have a friendly bet with a colleague (for a cheap bottle of champagne) that boris will be more popular than ever after the next peak and a further 100k deaths.
 

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I gather from the mirror hancock has decided to withhold today's covid stats from the public due to "data issues". And not a whimper from the press public or opposition.
Edit were the only developed country in the world that has stopped publishing covid stats. I wonder if there's an antonym for the term patriotic
 
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The tories are in a right mess in Scotland. Delaying ennoblement to allow them to even have a leader?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/11/scottish-conservatives-appoint-ruth-davidson-as-holyrood-leader
The "Scottish" Tories suffer from the same branch office mentality as "Scottish" Labour.
I suppose we'll be going back to Davidson's one trick, constantly wittering on about independence and blaming the SNP for constantly wittering on about independence, in between riding buffaloes and a bit of tank driving.
I suppose she impresses the the same people who are impressed by the blond buffoon.
 
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The "Scottish" Tories suffer from the same branch office mentality as "Scottish" Labour.
I suppose we'll be going back to Davidson's one trick, constantly wittering on about independence and blaming the SNP for constantly wittering on about independence, in between riding buffaloes and a bit of tank driving.
I suppose she impresses the the same people who are impressed by the blond buffoon.
Not sure it was anything but desperation!
 
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An app is vital. The app is wonderful. Oh dear, the app doesn't work. The app isn't important. We might never have one but it won't make any difference. The Isle of Wight was a bad place to test. Ah! New version. We'll test it on the Isle of Wight then it will be wonderful for everyone and will work perfectly. Except for Bluetooth not knowing where you are with respect to others.

This time, let's slip it out quietly and hope no-one notices.

England's Exposure Notification App Entering Trials as Engineers Work Out Bugs
Wednesday August 12, 2020 10:10 am PDT by Juli Clover
England is developing a contact tracing app that uses Apple and Google's Exposure Notification API, and while there are still bugs to be worked out, it's set to be trialed in a few areas in the country starting tomorrow.
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/12/england-exposure-notification-app-trial/

Coronavirus: England's contact-tracing app gets green light for trial
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What is all the fuss about A Level results about? If they aren’t happy with their grades, they can sit the exam for real. With the lockdown and restrictions on socialising, all that extra time will have been spent studying, so if anything, results will be much higher this year, after the re-sit. #nosympathywhatsoever. #stopmoaningandfuckoff
 
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What is all the fuss about A Level results about? If they aren’t happy with their grades, they can sit the exam for real. With the lockdown and restrictions on socialising, all that extra time will have been spent studying, so if anything, results will be much higher this year, after the re-sit. #nosympathywhatsoever. #stopmoaningandfuckoff
I will agree with you on this topic. I cannot see why the A levels O levels and in our case the Leaving certificate were replaced with estimated grades . Schools are very big places and typically there are only 100 kids per school doing an exam. There are typically 30 rooms , so three or four exam papers of equal complexity could be given on alternate sessions.
We now have a ludicrous court case pending where a home schooled child is suing the State, because their parent is unable to give an estimated grade. My solution, costing the fraction of a senior council, is give the kid the real exam.
 

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