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Don't want to be harsh but someone in his family wants shooting for not keeping him safe.

I think it's a minor complaint in the scheme of things but then again I'd classify it as political campaigning rather than statutory duties.

Our offices did reopen last summer after being made safe but they're shut again now - it's not hard. (Yes I know I'm very lucky).

Fucks sake

Novavax announced as 89% effective. None available for a while though.

Yeah but the EU have a lot more Pfizer and Moderna doses ordered. It's not like it's all or nothing with AZ.

I have to say that Biden has impressed me so far - still think he's too much of a centrist but he's made a good start.

Will be quite funny if he does go because we lost when they've e shown something that could be built on.

It's becoming like the republicans - an alliance of the very rich and uncaring well off, white uneducated men and pensioners make up their base now.

Like all the banks have. You could also argue the like of Amazon are/were "clever" with registration within the EU to avoid tax.

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?