Comedy award of the week for that post.
If there was any justice in this world Johnson and the rest of Vote leave would be banned for life from any of the British Isles and sent to Russian where they belong
Brexit, for once some facts.
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If there was any justice in this world Johnson and the rest of Vote leave would be banned for life from any of the British Isles and sent to Russian where they belong
I should, you are right to point this out, have expressed it as the app called "NHS COVID-19" and released by NHS Test & Trace to those in England and Wales who wish or need to use it!Which NHS would that be? Is it your Welsh NHS, our English one or the Scottish one?
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There is no Welsh NHS app as such - neither a separate Covid one nor a parallel to the English NHS app.
Thanks, I honestly didn't know, not being an app user, especially after the wholly negative experiences with the surgery contact app from AT Medical.
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For some odd reason the tradesmans name has an "i" in it:
Glazier, a person whose trade is fitting glass into windows and doors.
Weird, we don't have Riding, Ridier; Bricklaying , Bricklayier; so why Glazing, Glazier?
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Yes - I know! But it has been an alternative spelling at times (even if out of ignorance) - and is a word applied to someone who glazes pottery.
To repeat from my above edit:
Weird, we don't have Riding, Ridier; Bricklaying , Bricklayier; so why Glazing, Glazier?
It is an oddity.
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Rubbish.
I know the concensus on here is that Government are to blame for all the bad aspects yet can't take responsibility for any of the good, but then again if folk on here had chance they, d bring back capital punishment and first lucky winner would be Boris...
But fortunately the vast majority of country see it rather more sanely... Govt and Boris have made mistakes, as all governments have, but they have got some aspects right. All the garbage laying personal blame on Johnson doesn't seem to be losing him keys to no10 any time soon.
Vaccination has been handled fantastically. 35 million first jabs and approaching 15 million now fully vaccinated with a likely booster available soon. We, ve now got lowest infection rates in Europe and we are probably nearest back to anything like normality in Europe.. If that's not any measure of success I don't know what is.
Said it before but if you knock everything you get ignored on the stuff you shouldn't be.
Wouldn't be many left. Perhaps all the moaners should leave instead. Far fewer of them.
Sorry but these criminals should be in jail, not power, and nothing excuses that.
It's like Saying Hitler built a wonderful Autobahn system and Mussolini got the trains running on time
Nothing mitigates what these parasites have done.
One of quite a number!
bombardier
catapultier
grazier
Arguable, bowyer, lauier (which became lawyer), and various others.
Maybe our rates have dropped further - but a few days ago, 25/04/2021, we were just below the middle according to this:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110187/coronavirus-incidence-europe-by-country/
The first two are old French of course.
Just found a reference to the "i" in glazier being due to influence from words ending in yer in Middle English, as in the bowyer and lawyer you mentioned.
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I'm almost certain that is the cumulative figures since Covid began, not the current number of active cases, or the number of new cases per day. At least, that corresponds to the ourworldindata cumulative figures on a few countries I have checked (below).
UK and Portugal are relatively high there because of the huge peaks last winter (in the UK mainly attributable to government policy).
If you look at new daily figures UK is indeed very low. (choose 7 day rolling average in the chart below);
I think UK is the lowest in Europe but may have missed one or two?
I don't know of a source that gives the current number of active cases.
Apologies, my reply to this ended up in with quote.
Worldometer gives current active cases.
Thank you. Also active cases per million if you ask it nicely. UK is one of lowest in Europe on that count too, with some little islands like Channel Iles and Isle of Mann
Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier
Revealed: EU chief negotiator’s diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK’s departure
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tory-quarrels-betrayals-uk-post-brexit-future-barnier-eu
The article is quite potent.
Revealed: EU chief negotiator’s diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK’s departure
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tory-quarrels-betrayals-uk-post-brexit-future-barnier-eu
The article is quite potent.
In the Guardian... Spotting a pattern here yet?
By potent do you mean impotent.
Its hardly earth shattering is it.
Barnier is upset with UK /Tory MPs. No sh!te Sherlock.
it's still a pretty accurate summary.
Personalities aside, brexit is essentially an internal debate to the UK conservatives.
When you look into why church-goers voted for brexit and young people who didn't make the effort to go to vote, you can see that the pro-EU conservatives didn't stand a chance.
I noted one good remark from Barnier though: “I do wonder what, until now, has prevented the UK from becoming ‘Global Britain’, other than its own lack of competitiveness.”
Personalities aside, brexit is essentially an internal debate to the UK conservatives.
When you look into why church-goers voted for brexit and young people who didn't make the effort to go to vote, you can see that the pro-EU conservatives didn't stand a chance.
I noted one good remark from Barnier though: “I do wonder what, until now, has prevented the UK from becoming ‘Global Britain’, other than its own lack of competitiveness.”