We have an initial call on protection of the rentier economy from the Scottish Government;
https://www.gov.scot/news/aid-for-private-rental-landlords/
The state will aid private landlords.
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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How many SNP MSPs, MPs and Councillors are landlords?
(Ditto government advisers, senior civil servants, and friends, family of all of these groups).
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@crowriver - someone went through the register of interests for MSPs and checked that (and the proportion in a trade union) fairly recently: https://twitter.com/seanbaillie9/status/1251852622392426498
Apparently 12/61 SNP MSPs are landlords.
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From Twitter thread:
SNP total number of MSP’s: 61
Landlords: 12 (19.6%)Conservative party total number of MSP’s: 31
Landlords: 12 (38.7%)Labour total number of MSP’s: 23
Landlords: 6 (26%)Posted 5 years ago # -
(From 2016):
"The Conservative party has the highest number of landlord MPs at 128, meaning 39% of Tory MPs are landlords, compared with 26% of Scottish National party MPs and 22% from Labour."
Number of MP landlords has risen by a quarter since last parliament
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(From 2017):
An analysis by FactCheck shows that 123 MPs earn extra money by renting out homes and private property. Landlord MPs account for almost a fifth of all MPs.
Their properties include houses, flats, farms, holiday cottages and shops. The MPs include chancellor Philip Hammond, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.
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There's quite a few dead end roads in the Lothian countryside and tracks that have been marked as closed. I suspect this is largely action by local landowners.
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“
Boris Johnson has signalled that some lockdown measures will be eased on Monday, as he set a new target of 200,000 tests a day by the end of the month“
England only?
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@amir: AFAIK landowners have no right to 'close' public roads, however well intentioned the action may be.
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U.K. National Health Service officials are "racing" to improve its mobile contact tracing amid concerns that the public won't adopt it, and worries that iOS security could hamper its effectiveness.
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@amir, @ejstubbs Have seen a few of these. I have some sympathy in some cases, particularly if aged/at risk residents. I did see one track marked as ‘Quarantine Zone’ which I know for a fact has no residents or dwellings on it.
Saw an interesting aerosolled sign near Ampherlaw earlier - a resurfacing job has been left half done (since 23rd March going by the official signs). Leaving half the carriageway with nice new tarmac and the half I was going to be on with scraped/potholed/rutted tarmac. Sign aimed at car drivers said “Stay on your own <rule 2>ing side of the road”. Sensible given there were numerous blind bends.
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On the other hand we could be going back to a system of Iron Age style warlords in which case it has been nice knowing you all
i will be firm, but reasonably fair
depending on my mood on the day, obvs
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Note to self: Write to MP suggesting an Office of the Independent Regulator of Warlords and Despots.
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“Independent Regulator of Warlords and Despots”
Why not arrange war or peace with bax to decide on Forth travel options/control.
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Well, we could establish the old peace between Northumbrians in Lothian and Picts furth of the Forth but both of us are from Pictish lands.
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Matt Hancock’s claim to have triumphed in meeting his goal of 100,000 tests a day appears in serious doubt after the government failed for the fourth time in a row to hit the target they believe is crucial for exiting the lockdown.“
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The claim was clearly pee pee from the get go
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both of us are from Pictish lands
indeed we are
robbie even gave me a pictish free state passport back in '87
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Pictish Micronation now up to 1000 acres
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England only???
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(Currently 71% yes)
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‘Expert’ on RScot -
‘If you’re within 1 metre for 15 minutes that’s deemed to be a risk’.
Where did that one come from??
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"‘If you’re within 1 metre for 15 minutes that’s deemed to be a risk’.
Where did that one come from??"
"Definition of contact
A contact is a person who experienced any one of the following exposures during the 2 days before and the 14 days after the onset of symptoms of a probable or confirmed case:
1. Face-to-face contact with a probable or confirmed case within 1 meter and for more than 15 minutes;
2. Direct physical contact with a probable or confirmed case;
3. Direct care for a patient with probable or confirmed COVID-19 disease without using proper personal protective equipment; OR
4. Other situations as indicated by local risk assessments.
Note: for confirmed asymptomatic cases, the period of contact is measured as the 2 days before through the 14 days after the date on which the sample was taken which led to confirmation.Posted 5 years ago # -
Thanks
Is that recent/revised?
Bit different from the numbers recently discussed when considering changing from 2 metres to 1 for ‘social distancing’.
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"Is that recent/revised?"
Don't think so - has been present in the Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) protocol which has been in force since 20th March.
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@crowriver: Edinburgh appears to have had a smaller decline than all other major cities in the UK...
When lockdown first started I commented several times to the missus how eerily deserted the bypass looked at around 5-6pm when I passed over it on my state-sanctioned exercise (at Lothianburn, Swanston, Dreghorn or Bonaly). Usually no more than a couple or three vehicles visible in each direction.
This last week or so it's been looking almost back to normal daytime volumes (though still not as congested as it usually gets during the evening peak). AFAIK nothing has changed wrt the regulations or ministerial guidance so one does rather get the impression that increasing numbers of people are choosing to bend/break the rules. Probably doesn't help that there has been so much signposting in the media - likely stoked by government announcements of upcoming announcements - of a possible relaxation of restrictions being imminent.
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its going to go badly wrong again, isn't it
no different to the start of march, i was horrified
not just that there was no lockdown, but there was not even a default work from home if you can policy
public transport was still rammed
it was patently obscene
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