NJS

They were probably chosen as a flag bearer to be used as a success while everyone else was screwed over.

As usual you have to factor in the proportion of tory voters who are over 65 so don't give a fuck about businesses or even the economic prospects of their children/grandchildren.

He was making a living within the EU but thought his life would be better out of it - just like knackers who work in car factories who fucking knew it was dependent on jit manufacturing. Just like the people of Lincolnshire who hated the Eastern European farm workers but wouldn't do the jobs when they left. There was a lot of shite propaganda but fuck me they still have to own it which is why this let's all forgive and forget bullshit leaves me cold.

It's the narrow world view of most brits that is exposed - we take the piss out of Americans without passports but far too many British people have no interest in anything beyond going to Spain for a fortnight - that's why bemoaning mainly young people being denied freedom of movement meant nowt to leave voters. Another thing that never entered their minds was simple things like buying things from abroad. I've bought some electronics from the US and from Hong Kong or China in the past and have accepted the ball ache of customs and vat by including it in the price but obviously it being a thing for EU countries is new. "If it doesn't affect me it doesn't matter" is the mantra.

I watch a lot of stuff like Pointless and The Chase to chill and its really disheartening to see the politics rounds come up and see how many people are genuinely oblivious to basics like anyone who's not PM or what party names they do know belong to. I

Nobody putting two and two together between the usual infection to death lag and "Boris' Xmas rule relaxation" yet then.

I read the Falklands are fucked as well - they sell 60% of their fish to the EU and now face tariffs.

Best hope is that the Jansen vaccine turns out to effective as that's a single shot one. Last I read trial results due at the end of this month.

Out of interest, did they ask you if you'd had covid-19 and did they say anything when you said you had? I'm wondering if they're taken the chance to research if it makes a difference.

Blanket border restrictions announced - 10 months too fucking late.

Off site or cloud - there are regulations regarding retention which some businesses go beyond - we do, GDPR not withstanding. If the system worked as designed and that was wrong then whoever signed it off is culpable.

Not having backups should be a capital crime.

I reckon Trump got a hard on ordering these last gap federal executions in the last month which shows he's a horrible sociopath and I reckon she'd froth at the gash in the same circumstances.

The way that politics has split generationally as evidenced by polls on forcing home workers back to the office last summer, general elections and of course brexit itself means that a sizeable if not majority proportion of tory voters will love this shit.

Just as the second wave did in 1918. What's that saying about history and lessons again?

No sympathy - it took milliseconds for the 350m to be shown to be a lie so fuck him and anyone else who ever believed a single word to ever emerge from Johnson's mouth.

It's far too late but impeaching him with just a couple of days to go would be funny.

Worst free kick in the history of football there.

My dead Nana.

Bitter bastard alert. I know it was the correct decision to rescind the red but how can it be fair for at least two games (ours) and Crawley vs Leeds to be played in the same competition with different rules as in the use of VAR?

His apology speech was definitely written by a lawyer - and a proper one at that.

There's no sense of outrage as to how it all works - when I explain to people the true meaning of "estate" in that the Queen actually owns all of the land in England and issues licences (estates) for people to nominally trade in it while maintaining true ownership the response tends to be so what? It would probably take her revoking the licences without compensation for people to wake up but they'd still probably say "Gawd bless her" and not care.

The UK missed out on a revolution - the civil war was a start but it was just a shame that Cromwell was an even bigger cunt than any monarch.

I was speaking to my sister on nyd and she told me my niece who's a teacher and is married to one really wanted the schools to open as they think kids are suffering badly. I agree but I think the current shit storm has to take precedence for a while. As usual though it's the kids with poor or shit parents who suffer disproportionately which is another thing I'd criticise the government for as they've shown no real determination to ensure home schooling is tenable via laptops and or broadband dongles. I'd also say that at the start when they asked for community volunteers and then didn't bother using any of them you'd have thought there must have been some of those people with a bit of knowhow on some things who could have been used as extra online tutors or even in neighbourhoods when SD mixing was allowed.

I've seen 13-14m quoted as the number in those four groups - I reckon 20% will refuse it which takes 2-3m off it. I'm either in group 6 or 8 so if they do hit the 2m target I'm hopeful of maybe getting one by the end of march at the latest. Big if of course.