Already? I only just voted
― anvil, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
fluffed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-IQAdFU3w
― anvil, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Has Cronus been replaced with... a riding crop??
Photo du jour: Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson in his office at the Dept for Education today after announcing a change in the way A-Level grades will be awarded. By Stefan Rousseau/PA pic.twitter.com/yI3ICFEMBR— Stefan Rousseau (@StefanRousseau) August 17, 2020
― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
i presume nobody thinks williamson is indispensable as they clearly think that creepy guy who works for gove is, wonder if they think keeping him on is worth it for the implicit "fuck u everyone!"
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Jenrick is still in position so yeah probably. Difference is that the public actually cares about this.
― Matt DC, Monday, 17 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
also firing jenrick might have signalled to potential donors that they weren't completely open to business for favours, not really sure what keeping williamson communicates aside from the obvious
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Lads Corbyn is going to ask us to vote Labour. Ye know that, right?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Monday, 17 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Take a #chillPill
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 August 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England https://t.co/bVobVZmECe— The Guardian (@guardian) August 17, 2020
Disaster at Talk Talk, disaster as head of the track and trace system, put in charge of the successor to Public Health England.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 17 August 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
apparently the whip under the book in that gavin williamson pic ^^^ is some *very subtle* symbolic menace that he's got plenty of dirt from when he was chief whip and he ain't afraid to use it if he gets pumped.
― calzino, Monday, 17 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Obviously Harding is a totally incompetent crook but it's annoying that we now have to pretend that public health England isn't a sham organisation itself a symptom of mismanagement of the NHS
― plax (ico), Monday, 17 August 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
Between this and the exam stuff we've had a whole week of partisan support for rubbish institutions
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 August 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
Gavin Williamson saying on sky he shouldn’t resign essentially because he’s always been right and it’s anomalies that’s the problem, so everyone can stfu. It’s fascinating how much they dgaf and Williamson has that look of not even really understanding why he has to be questioned on tv.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 08:17 (three years ago) link
Would pleading the government to give this Department to Grayling be accelerationism?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
expecting someone with the dynamism of a rusty sack cart to hasten the demise of capitalism? The only practical insurgent application of Grayling would be to strap a bomb to him.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
Liverpool remains the best.
Social media attack tells 'Brylcreemed sh******e' Labour leader he and deputy Angela Rayner 'should be worried' https://t.co/yUgReSP4Bx— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) August 18, 2020
― caută tu singur (gyac), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
shitlorde?
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
shiteface imo
― imago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
shtakhanovite
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
shitehole
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
Good on Sarah Morton obviously, but I've been struggling with that cryptic clue for a while now: shitehawk(e)? shiteheel(e)? Is this an esoteric Scouseism?
xp see ilx is already on the case
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
Sir Shittyarse having a bad day again
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
Cllr Morton wrote: "Watched the first 5 mins of ITV News and it wasn't a Tory that had me shouting at the TV, we know they are self interested, elitist sh***hawks. But Keir Starmer, the alleged leader of the opposition (Trading Standards should be having a word there) attempting to bask in the victory of a hard won U-turn by the thousands of students who took to the streets in the last few days to demand that the government treat them fairly."
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
she's wrong, it was a Tory that had her shouting at the TV
Shitehawke imo. Don’t understand the extra E but I’ll let it slide for such excellent scouseness.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
its canon
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91I-TnVLnqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
fuckin' hell, look at the height on matthew broderick's forehead
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
clearly the skull of a future double-murderer
i think the hawke is sat on the top of his head if you look closely
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
ladyshitehawke one of my fave bands
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
I've not been this impressed with a Labour Councillor since I saw one remove a dead rat that was lying in the middle of a ginnel, with her bare hands!
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
I've read a lot of good commentary on the lines of: no matter the crimes of Blairism, being soft to non-existent in opposition wasn't one of them.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link
so scotland’s schools have been open for a week, let’s check in and see how that’s going
Four more pupils at separate schools have tested positive for Covid-19.Two of the cases are in Perth and Kinross, one in Renfrewshire and one in North Lanarkshire.One pupil from Newhill Primary in Blairgowrie and another from Oakbank Primary in Perth are now self-isolating at home. The third attends Todholm primary in Paisley.A fourth pupil, who attends St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge, has also tested positive.Three other pupils from St Ambrose High had already tested positive, along with one from St Andrew's High in Coatbridge and one from Caldervale High in Airdrie. There are a further three linked cases, who are not staff or pupils, and 14 cases in north-east Glasgow.
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
That doesn’t on its own tell you opening schools was bad. Is four kids getting it in a week above what it was before they opened?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
as I understand it none so far are suspected of getting the virus *in* school
this hasn't stopped shitty scare mongering headlines about outbreaks being "linked to schools"
― オニモ (onimo), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
All of this shit is in the hands of Gavin Williamson so good luck England.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools
This would have been helpful for virtually the entire world and unless they've started collecting some serious data since it appears that Sweden bungled it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
Be an um, interesting experiment if the UK didn't do this.
Germany to extend coronavirus furlough to 24 months https://t.co/pVmoKAMTvH— Kam Sandhu (@Kayayemela) August 18, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:58 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Teachers may choose to wear masks but are not required to unless they are in sustained close contact with pupils (less than 2m for more than 15 mins iirc)
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:00 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Isolation and contact tracing, same as anyone else. Schools will remain open if track and trace is judged to have contained any outbreak.
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
Never saw this coming.
Breaking: A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UKFrench authorities announced the death with "immense sadness" after his body was washed up on Sangatte beachhttps://t.co/5DKv1KtiZq— Lizzie Dearden (@lizziedearden) August 19, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
horrific
remember when three-year-old alan kurdi washed up dead on a greek beach and the world recoiled in horror at the picture of his corpse for all of 15 seconds before going back to gleefully murdering refugees through neglect and inaction
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
The unabashed glee on the Mail’s Facebook page about this is the most repulsive thing I’ve seen in the area for a long time. Blaming people for attempting to get to the UK when ... we insist they have to come here to make claims.
― stet, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
refugees: we make 'em, we don't take 'em
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
As I understand it track and trace will inform contacts of the need to isolate/test then monitor for related cases - so, contained until they know otherwise. Once those pass what I'm assuming is an agreed threshold in terms of cases and (in)ability to trace it will go to an incident response team who will then make recommendations to the government regarding any required measures such as closures, lock downs, etc.Going by the Aberdeen outbreak, it looks like councils are informed and consulted but don't get to make decisions on control measures.
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Thanks.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
My understanding is that councils have only recently been given access to real-time case data.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/19/jeremy-corbyn-governments-coronavirus-policy-was-eugenic-herd-immunity
In an interview with the podcast A World to Win, Corbyn said: “We were involved in meetings with the government throughout the spring of this year and Jon Ashworth and I remember distinctly going to a meeting at the Cabinet Office, where we got a lecture about herd immunity.“The last time I discussed herd immunity was when I worked on a pig farm 40 years ago. It was absurd that actually [you] would build up herd immunity by allowing people to die.“And so, while the government was going into eugenic formulas and discussing all this stuff, they were not making adequate preparations.”
“The last time I discussed herd immunity was when I worked on a pig farm 40 years ago. It was absurd that actually [you] would build up herd immunity by allowing people to die.
“And so, while the government was going into eugenic formulas and discussing all this stuff, they were not making adequate preparations.”
the govt trying to deny their policy was ever one of herd immunity when the PM stated it was going to be the approach to C-19 multiple times on television... I just can't.. Jeremy otm.
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link