Yes, very large numbers of them at the beginning of the pandemic. That resulted in far better London outcomes from both the Alpha and Delta waves, overall ending with less deaths than the rest of the country.
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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That's exactly what I was going to say. Boris has lost lots of popularity but not sure much of his Tory back bench actually had much to start with. The comments re justifying not backing plan B restrictions by the so called "rebels" were almost laughable and suspect the "hawks" of Tory party have done as much damage as Boris and his flawed cabinet. IDS has come out of it all looking completely and utterly detached from public thinking.. Was listening to some Tory fool on Wednesday.. Explaining that Omicron should be allowed to run riot without any restrictions in order to prevent further mutations... And this bloke is helping run country...
I suspect the realisation has been multi faceted. Boris can't control folk that put him in power and people have seen through his bluster. I suspect people voted for Boris in spite of rest of his party.
In an email from my niece, it seems many didn't worry about Covid and Delta this Summer:
"It has been a busy Summer in Corfe Castle, absolutely rammed with tourists making the roads so busy getting in and out of Purbeck".
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"It has been a busy Summer in Corfe Castle, absolutely rammed with tourists making the roads so busy getting in and out of Purbeck".
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Yeeersss..well, how can I put it, this nightmare and the pandemic started with the government experimenting with herd immunity. And didn't that work out well.
Simon Case didn't remember his own (alleged) involvement? Otherwise, he would, of course, have recused himself from any investigation. So amnesic...
NEW: Simon Case attended Christmas drinks at his office in December last year, according to multiple officials present.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
NEW: Simon Case attended Christmas drinks at his office in December last year, according to multiple officials present.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Sure , it wasn't a good idea at the outset for any of us, but here in London where we suffered initially by far the most from that poor decision, we were at least rewarded with a fair degree of herd immunity.
It's why the deaths from the later variants were so much lower than the rest of the country.
Now we'll have to see what Omicron does. Infections up 25% overall in London and in some parts over double the rest of the country at around 1% of a borough's population. So it sure is infectious, seems it can go though brick walls to reach that many so quickly.
I've included that for you since I know how much you love bad news.
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Thank goodness it's the weekend, there can't be anything else now. Can there?
NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful
goodlawproject.org
NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful
NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful - Good Law Project
A week since shocking stories first emerged of illegal gatherings in and around No 10 and still the Met Police won’t investigate. Would they be as shy had you or I broken the law? Look at the form they publish for gathering evidence on breaches of Coronavirus rules by normal people and you...
goodlawproject.org
All the evidence I am seeing suggests Omicron does not result in the amount of hospitalizations of previous waves, this might be down to it being weaker or vaccination and prior infections limit the amount of people who get seriously ill. I wonder if a bigger problem for us here in the UK might be the amount of people (eg doctors, nurses etc) that all have to isolate for 10 days at roughly the same time.
The Welsh first minster gave a briefing lunch time and said that we in Wales were a week or two behind what is currently happening in London, but we would soon be seeing similar rates of Omicron infection but at the moment Delta was what most people were catching here.
The Welsh first minster gave a briefing lunch time and said that we in Wales were a week or two behind what is currently happening in London, but we would soon be seeing similar rates of Omicron infection but at the moment Delta was what most people were catching here.
Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary who is investigating parties held in Downing Street during lockdown is accused of hosting a party of his own on 17 December 
That’s going to be an unbiased investigation then!
Why did this arse-hole accept the task of carrying out the investigation whilst knowing that he was guilty of the same thing? Surely he isn’t so spectacularly stupid that he thought it wouldn’t come out.
They may as well start again. The result won’t hold any credibility with the public.
Maybe they could get Sir Lewis Hamilton to carry out the investigation? It’s usually a job for someone with a bollicks title
That’s going to be an unbiased investigation then!Why did this arse-hole accept the task of carrying out the investigation whilst knowing that he was guilty of the same thing? Surely he isn’t so spectacularly stupid that he thought it wouldn’t come out.
They may as well start again. The result won’t hold any credibility with the public.
Maybe they could get Sir Lewis Hamilton to carry out the investigation? It’s usually a job for someone with a bollicks title
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It's a still a nonsense story, their so called experts saying "it is likely" is utterly meaningless since it also means it may not be.NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful
NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful - Good Law Project
A week since shocking stories first emerged of illegal gatherings in and around No 10 and still the Met Police won’t investigate. Would they be as shy had you or I broken the law? Look at the form they publish for gathering evidence on breaches of Coronavirus rules by normal people and you...
The police have always had the right to decide on who or what they prosecute, according to their judgement on whether it is in the public interest. One of the factors in that decision is whether a prosecution is likely to succeed.
Given that workplaces are specifically excluded from the Covid regulations and these alleged gatherings were all in association with workplaces and the staff thereof, the decision not to pursue such petty prosecutions and waste public money in a lost cause is in my view sensible.
The police are not stupid, they know politically and personally motivated witch hunts when they see them.
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The perfect man for the job then, actually knowing something about the subject for a change.
Faster to get to the conclusion?
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But has stepped down.
He will be replaced by veteran civil servant Sue Gray, second permanent secretary at the communities and levelling up department.
Interesting, this is quite a read
The most powerful person you've never heard of
Sue Gray exercises a huge amount of clout within Whitehall, but she does so in almost total secrecy and while attracting no attention
www.bbc.co.uk
To be fair, the whole thing smacks of Watergate, boris' attempts at cover up doing the real damage
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With some occupations where an offence may cause an erosion of public trust, the police tend to have a lower bar when deciding whether to prosecute. They actually will prosecute their own, when a person employed in an occupation where public trust is not so important may not be. Occasionally, they bring cases against their own to court with such vigour that judges have been known to criticise the police for wasting court time.
I agree that in the case of the Downing Street parties, the working day seems to have been extended into the late evening / night for the purposes of social activity. However, once daily business had ceased and leisure / social activity began, its at that point that the government’s own rules were broken. It’s a clear offence which will erode trust and thus have a detrimental impact on the public’s wellbeing. People are less likely to follow guidance as a direct result of government being too weak willed to follow their own rules.
To restore some public confidence, the police should investigate and prosecute everyone attached to the shameful partying last December.
This is one for HMQ to sort outSimon Case, the Cabinet Secretary who is investigating parties held in Downing Street during lockdown is accused of hosting a party of his own on 17 December
Why did this arse-hole accept the task of carrying out the investigation whilst knowing that he was guilty of the same thing? Surely he isn’t so spectacularly stupid that he thought it wouldn’t come out.
They may as well start again. The result won’t hold any credibility with the public.
Maybe they could get Sir Lewis Hamilton to carry out the investigation? It’s usually a job for someone with a bollicks title
Which, as any fule kno, is this:This is one for HMQ to sort out
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