@IWRATS: the head of demographics at my work has been posting extensively on this and linking to lots of analysis. It’s grimly fascinating how we can see the statistics for each country and see where we are and when things are going to hit.
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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Action to help delay peak perhaps not futile. Seems pretty important to try to smooth that out to give the NHS less overwhelm. Got two high risk immediate family members. Currently trying to persuade them that no, it's not "just the flu" (which er they haven't had for years due to vaccination).
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@Stickman
Indeed. It will be interesting to see our governments' attitude switch.
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"just the flu"
I had "just the flu" a couple of years ago, it was... unpleasant. Not something I'd be keen to repeat!
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@steveo - me too. It motivated us to get the vaccine from then on.
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My Wife got it earlier and took longer to recover, she had the vaccine that year. The kids also had the vaccine and were fine. gits.
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The document appears to signal a weakening in the EU position in only one key area: its demands on fisheries, where the 27 member states had until now been seeking to “uphold” the current common fisheries policy (CFP).
The CFP relies on historical catching patterns to determine how much fish each nation can take. The new text acknowledges the UK demand for scientific advice to take precedence and for there to be annual negotiations.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/13/brexit-eu-demands-uk-negotiations-draft-treaty
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Stephen Farry, the Alliance MP, asks when Johnson will accept that it will be necessary to extend the Brexit transition.
Johnson says his focus is coronavirus. “The other matter” has been legislated on, he says.
(Under the EU [Withdrawal Agreement] Act ministers are not allowed to request an extension. There is a widespread assumption that, despite what the government is saying now, and despite the act, which can be amended, an extension will happen.)
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Section 20.4 of the 'basic law' of Germany asserts that: All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order, if no other remedy is available.
The UK of GB&NI was a signatory to this text.
Lucky Germans, eh?
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UK needs lockdown exit strategy, says key coronavirus adviser
Prof Neil Ferguson suggests there has been more planning for Brexit than Covid-19
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We also need a Brexit exit strategy...
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No 10 claims coronavirus crisis strengthens need for UK to be free of EU regulation after 2020
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German regulations seem to have helped them though their population maybe more likely to abide, to avoid fines?
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There's no way on earth the Great Britain/Northern Ireland border can be ready for December now.
The British are still maintaining that they haven't agreed to one. But they have. They haven't even started building it, let alone fortifying it against attack.
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Johnson is Bizarro Trumpf.
"We're Not Gonna Build A Wall!"
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They told us that, contrary to the official line, Britain was in a poor state of readiness for a pandemic. Emergency stockpiles of PPE had severely dwindled and gone out of date after becoming a low priority in the years of austerity cuts. The training to prepare key workers for a pandemic had been put on hold for two years while contingency planning was diverted to deal with a possible no-deal Brexit.
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It just won't stop.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_20_895
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That makes for very depressing reading.
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I guess f you are going to sever ties with your closest neighbour, doing it in the middle of a wordwide depression is as good a time as any. Means you can blame the depression for the ecconomic situation rather than your idiotic choices.
I have recently been against Indyref2 because of the likely economic impact, but I think I've changed my mind again. No better time when the world is in economic chaos. At least we'll all be starting from the abyss.
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So it would appear that the London regime is proposing that the House of Commons should return to physical (as opposed to virtual) sittings in order to deliver Brexit.
Surely this places some MPs in an impossible position? Travelling to the epicentre of the pandemic and mingling with people from all over they risk becoming super-spreaders when they return home, infecting their families, offices and constituencies. Some will be vulnerable themselves, some will be subject to Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish travel restrictions.
The idea of the Commons votes being dominated by fit young people who already live in the south-east of England is a disturbing one.
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“fit young people”
That doesn’t cover Boris or JRM (who is fronting this), but yes, after the recent demonstration that MPs could contribute/vote from home, this is the ultimate mixed message -
‘Work from home unless it isn’t possible’.
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To be fair Mr Rees-Mogg could be any age from thirty to three thousand years old.
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Apparently one MP has used a computer for the first time ever during the pandemic
Who would that be??
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@gembo For all his affectations, I doubt it's hedge fund manager JRM
There was this... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46222026
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@Murun, agreed he will know how to work a computer for sure. His daddy William will have shown him
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@Murun Buchstansangur, one thing's for sure, that minister will be safe from cyber attacks.
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Of course Brexit was never about ‘immigration’ it was always about UK (Gov) deciding who can come into UK.
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Britain will change its immigration rules and offer millions of people in Hong Kong "a route to citizenship" if China imposes new security laws, Boris Johnson has said.
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