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UK death toll rises by 151 to 41,279; Test and trace scheme ‘not gold standard’ yet, but will improve, says Dido Harding; urgent cancer referrals in England fell by 60% in first month of lockdown
Nigel Farage and LBC are cutting ties
And a review of Universal Basic Income in Scotland has found the concept to be favourable, though not one it can pursue without the UK Governments support.
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Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Posthttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ule-in-england
Nigel Farage and LBC are cutting ties
And a review of Universal Basic Income in Scotland has found the concept to be favourable, though not one it can pursue without the UK Governments support.
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Gove says the Government has formally informed the EU there will be no request to extend the transition period despite COVID. He said that it would be reckless to extend it just as the economy was recovering from the virus - pretty much completely ignoring the second wave and lack of a vaccine
GDP fell 20.4% in April
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Oh they do care about the Brexit voters. People don’t like to be wrong and they especially don’t like to admit they’re wrong. That’s why the tories still have people defending them; the Brexit voters. Boris and co were the champions of Brexit so to call them out on all their current lies and incompetence is to in some way admit that these are piece of **** human beings and therefore call into question the whole of Brexit.
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In a way the utter car crash that the inevitable no deal will be, combined with the catastrophic mishandling of COVID will at least result in one good thing - the Tories will be out of power for a very long time. It's just too bad we have to suffer four more years of these psychopaths. What will be left of the country by then won't amount to much.
At least the US only has a few month to go before they can eject their own far right moron from high office. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the "populists".
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Originally posted by gunrock View PostTotally agree on the violence against the police. However, tearing down that statue was justified as the council should have had it removed it years ago and installed in a permanent display about slavery in a museum in Bristol.
There should be no place for a memorial to a slave trader whose company branded human beings and sold them into slavery.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...atter-protests
As for the statues, people should have elected who those promised to remove them, and run completely peaceful, non destructive campaigns. If ultimately they don't get what they want and the local authorities opt to keep the statues then that's just the way it goes, tough luck. People don't always get what they want. Look Brexit for goodness' sake, we're all told we have to accept it despite the economic carnage it is causing.
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I was out at the weekend and saw a whole bunch of groups of kids clearly not social distancing. Overall here, I feel like people where I am have been pretty good although our numbers ended up getting bad (retirement homes got hammered and clearly there weren't preparations or systems put in place). But the narrative of reopening has created a feeling of "it's all over" when in fact it is very far from over. And we did get our numbers right down in lockdown to a very significant degree with daily new cases going down to single digits on many days. And yet what was the point of that if everyone just goes out now and gets infected? May as well have done what we liked for the last few months if that would be the outcome.
Doesn't seem like it's just Ireland either. There does seem to be a feeling of just throwing away the progress that was made over the last couple of months.
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Originally posted by Dogg Thang View PostI was out at the weekend and saw a whole bunch of groups of kids clearly not social distancing. Overall here, I feel like people where I am have been pretty good although our numbers ended up getting bad (retirement homes got hammered and clearly there weren't preparations or systems put in place). But the narrative of reopening has created a feeling of "it's all over" when in fact it is very far from over. And we did get our numbers right down in lockdown to a very significant degree with daily new cases going down to single digits on many days. And yet what was the point of that if everyone just goes out now and gets infected? May as well have done what we liked for the last few months if that would be the outcome.
Doesn't seem like it's just Ireland either. There does seem to be a feeling of just throwing away the progress that was made over the last couple of months.
It all feels like a game at the moment the reopening of shops the dithering over distancing and masks, but none of that really matters as The BLM marches and statue counter protests have taken over the news feeds. I bet Cummings and Boris are rubbing there hands with glee as it gives them a get out and takes the spotlight off their current failings. If in two weeks time we see a massive uptick in case again it wont be anything they have or haven't done it will be the protesters faults for not following distancing measures.Last edited by Lebowski; 16-06-2020, 10:44.
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