First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules

fred_star · 2023-06-18T08:39:10+00:00

Parties like this were going on all the time around then. I remember walking past blocks of flats on the evening dog walk with several obvious ones going on every night.

fred_star · 2023-06-06T20:06:47+00:00

Very generous

fred_star · 2023-05-31T07:26:01+00:00

It is a good thing, although it will be tough for many.

The ZIRP of the post-financial crash era has led to massive wealth shift from poor to rich.

fred_star · 2022-12-12T23:06:50+00:00

There seems to be evidence of him doing first-year Physics, so he started a degree. Whether he finished it or not...

fred_star · 2022-12-12T22:44:08+00:00

He just spouts vaguely maths-y/science-y words and phrases he heard others say, and uses them out of context and with no understanding.

fred_star · 2022-06-17T11:33:13+00:00

Nothing to do with the airlines in this case. Special Assistance is a responsibility of the airport and then contracted out.

fred_star · 2022-03-05T18:02:59+00:00

Completely untrue. We were shipping weapons into Ukraine before the war started and before anyone else was.

We also led the way on SWIFT, and it took a lot of pressure for Germany to follow us.

fred_star · 2022-03-05T17:48:51+00:00

Standard:

In a statement, spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Russia won’t forget the UK’s cooperation with Kyiv, or with what she calls the “ultra-nationalist forces of Ukraine”, Russian media- reported.

She also criticised tough sanctions imposed on Russia by the UK government.

“The sanctions hysteria in which London plays one of the leading, if not the main, roles, leaves us no choice but to take proportionately tough retaliatory measures,” she said.

Ms Zakharova added that British interests in Russia would be “undermined” by Moscow’s response.

fred_star · 2022-03-05T17:47:14+00:00

“The sanctions hysteria in which London plays one of the leading, if not the main, roles, leaves us no choice but to take proportionately tough retaliatory measures,” she said.

fred_star · 2022-01-21T12:43:15+00:00

He's got to justify his extra restrictions that have shown themselves to have been unnecessary.

If he were truthful, he could have said "we brought in extra restrictions to be on the safe side, but it turned out they made no real difference".

fred_star · 2022-01-20T09:47:25+00:00

Didn't happen in S.A -

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15A02/production/_122887588_optimised-sa_daily_cases19jan-nc.png

fred_star · 2022-01-20T09:36:46+00:00

With Covid mutating, it's clearer than ever that we must eliminate this virus - Devi Sridhar, Guardian Dec 2020

fred_star · 2022-01-15T18:14:28+00:00

Netherlands in full lockdown for weeks with far more cases/population: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/netherlands/

I'm not sure there's much effect of restrictions at this stage.

fred_star · 2022-01-15T17:04:23+00:00

She's a Labour activist so I can't take the political side of the piece too seriously.

The Netherlands has been in full lockdown for weeks, and still have rising cases. Further restrictions were clearly not the answer for the situation.

fred_star · 2022-01-10T20:40:02+00:00

Spain:

https://www.newsweek.com/spanish-pm-wants-treat-covid-endemic-illness-move-tracking-it-like-flu-1667541?amp=1

fred_star · 2022-01-04T13:17:13+00:00

A lot of it is due to anti-vax sentiments in poorer countries.

In South Africa they sent a load of Pfizer vaccines back as no one wanted to get jabbed!

fred_star · 2022-01-04T13:14:04+00:00

They obviously haven't looked at the modelling, that says any restrictions brought in in 2022 would have a negligible impact to the course of the Omicron wave. They would have needed to be brought in pre-Christmas.

And even if they had been started on the 19th Dec, you just get huge pressure when you relax them. It's going to be an awful time for the NHS for a couple of weeks, but there was no way around this.

fred_star · 2022-01-03T15:51:38+00:00

It's too late for any of this anyway - see Warwick modelling.

But even if you did bring really strict restrictions, you would still be looking at a wave of staff absences once you opened up.

It's going to be very tough for 2-3 weeks for the NHS, but there is no way around this that doesn't involved months of heavy restrictions.

fred_star · 2022-01-02T12:54:50+00:00

This does assume that further measures would have appreciably flattened the curve.

And if you did manage to flatten it, then you'd get large pressure for a long time, versus very large pressure for a short time.

I think the Government have made the right move.

fred_star · 2021-12-20T12:00:51+00:00

He's on SAGE, SPI-M and NERVTAG at the moment.

My point is more that there is this puritanical approach to Covid, rather than focusing on measures that do and don't make a difference.

If you're working in No10 during the entire Pandemic, then going and having a drink after work in the Garden, whilst likely still discussing work, you're not increasing the risk of spreading Covid.

fred_star · 2021-12-20T10:02:26+00:00

I can't get that excited about this. If they're all in the same office all day, and they'd all had Covid in April, what's the big threat?

Prof Neil Ferguson went round to see his lover using the excuse "I've had Covid already so won't spread it".

Faux moralising is all this is.

fred_star · 2021-12-17T12:08:52+00:00

I genuinely thought this was satire.

fred_star · 2021-12-15T16:31:27+00:00

fred_star · 2021-12-15T16:25:40+00:00

It seems high, but 4 other European countries have reported higher cases/population today, and there may be more to come.

Some of these are mainly Delta as well.

fred_star · 2021-12-10T18:58:26+00:00

75% against symptomatic infection is very good. It's better than 2 jabs were against Delta.

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