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Labour has a new leader. And soon a new Shadow Cabinet. Starmer will not be short of advice, most of it unasked for. Momentum have already started. Would that Starmer gives them the answer Attlee gave Harold Laski: “A period of silence from you would be most welcome.” If not, perhaps a link to this tongue lashing from Alan Johnson would do.
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Third like Lisa Nandy
Why should person C be released from lockdown here, when she lived with a brother who developed symptoms 2 days ago?
Photo link deleted. Just look on the government sheet....
Ok.
Media still having a very bad crisis.
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1247123153790386177
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049908v1.full.pdf
--AS
No premier league footballer has ever been involved in schemes to reduce their tax bills, after all. No, wait...
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-01-21/record-number-of-footballers-under-investigation-by-hmrc-over-tax-avoidance/
When tens of thousands of ex Tory members rejoined to vote for Boris rather than continuity Remain, it was called entryism...
Is there a difference?
ex-Conservatives voting for a Leaver = EvulGammonRacists
Do keep up.
I don't like Dodds, and you can't have her vs Sunak.
We know that they are monitored, and we know that their breathing is supported with oxygen and ventilation to a greater or lesser degree.
Is there anything else? Vitamins and minerals on a drip? Any of the existing drugs that have been mentioned? It would be fascinating to hear how the treatment of this is developing in real time.
Well thanks for that, guys....
Dashed lines emphasise where the data is already known or strongly suspected to be non-comparable or unreliable for comparisons (eg France releasing a swathe of care home deaths; Sweden having a regular weekend pause in deaths, etc).
X shows where each country on the graph instituted lockdowns (to varying degrees, however).
Please view all data as questionable - but broad trends may be indicative (such as the levelling off of the lines for Italy and Spain)
In their model with 5000-bed lockdown trigger, it was only in place for 35% of the time until end 2021; however, in that situation their model has a median of 130k deaths (which is actually the same as for no lockdowns at all -- the effect is to spread the cases to keep peak ICU requirements barely manageable).
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Ah, my coat.
Any chance a wee bit of blame could be assigned to the Yellow Peril? Perhaps they've brainwashed the hacks à la The Manchurian Candidate.
Seems to say we have the choice between many, many deaths on the one hand, or completely bankrupting ourselves and destryoying the economy (and the tax base, and, by proxy, the NHS) on the other.
A shall we say, hypothetical local business is putting its staff on furlough. It notified them of this last week, giving various start dates for different people. Today was the last date by which time all but two people (the MD and his secretary) should be furloughed.
However, he is also ordering staff to sign an eight-point variation in their contracts, confirming they have been placed on furlough. This variation also gives him the power to unilaterally cut staff salaries or hours and also to make people instantly redundant with just statutory redundancy pay. He did not consult, he sent it out and gave staff 72 hours to sign it.
To compound matters he then put the wrong dates on it, so he has had to reissue it today - having ordered all staff to go on furlough from midnight last night.
So a few questions:
1) Does he need this variation? Or is notifying staff they have been out on furlough sufficient?
2) Can he compel staff to sign it, given they are on furlough?
3) If he does compel them to sign it, does that mean they are not on furlough?
4) If he sacks anyone for refusing to sign it, is he acting lawfully?
This particular individual has history in breaking contract law - two months ago he sacked somebody who had been there for six years, claiming he had only a temporary rolling contract, and he’s been known to falsify references - but everyone’s understandably leery of refusing to sign as what recourse would they have with all the courts shut?
Has anyone come across a case like this? Asking for a friend.
https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1247095535296798721?s=20
I would love to have a media that set aside opinion pieces and had a focus on reporting facts and asking pertinent questions in a timely fashion.
But that is never going to happen. Sadly.
The difference between the two situations is that the Labour leadership candidates appealed to non-members to join up to support them, whereas there was an external organisation that encouraged people to join the Tories to vote for Boris (and deselect sitting MPs who had supported Remain).
However, in the Tory case the external organisation does not appear to have the continuing control of its adherents to take over the party in full, and Johnson is not himself a member of that external organisation, so it's not a classical case of entryism, but it's not far off either.
Whole conference focussing on her judgement- not Covid.
Link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-52097887
Also the main joke in Sweden about having to be 2m from each other was "That's a lot closer than normal!"
https://twitter.com/KeeleyMP/status/1247126760921141255?s=20
I nearly said he needs to wait for Johnson to be knocked off, but then I realised there was a double meaning there.
He always thought that of course.
Just because a clause is in a contract doesn't mean it's legal
I would like to be able to vote Labour but won't if they carry on being the party which Burgon, Milne, Pidcock and co can take over again when the time is right, and in which among their paid up membership are hard left old timers who hate their country, loathe democracy and would return us to Jezza world as soon as possible. I doubt if I am alone in feeling this. The reform has to be pretty ruthless and deep if it is to convince democracy loving centrists.