Westminstenders: Where are we now?

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Twenty thousand people
Cross Bösebrücke
Fingers are crossed
Just in case
Walking the dead

Where are we now, where are we now?
The moment you know, you know, you know

Just that.

Don't really want to reflect more than that right now.

I'm sure it's under warranty and we'll get a refund

I think it depends on who your dealing with - DH and team are often doing stuff in diff time zones....... but yes does get fucked off "waiting for stuff from the lawyer (or bankers)"

As an example of toxic macho culture at law firms. A friends husband is a oartner at a top London form . He has if not the top, is one of the top in the firm for billable hours - he often doesn't see his kids during the week. To try and rectify this he structured his days/week to work from home 1 day a week. Billable hours didn't drop..... the feedback from the other partners was he was slacking- even though he was billing more than them. I would never encourage my kids to be lawyers as that kind of culture is toxic.

Someone made the point down thread about Dr's and nurses close to burnout. Heard from a friend last week who is in one of the London trusts really badly effected. She got through that emotionally well. She is now - close to burnout? I am not sure how to describe it? Depressed? Basically the thought of having to deal with a second peak (which she absolutely believes will happen) is literally doing her head in - it's almost more than she can cope with. I think the strain is caused by the fact as she sees it - so much could have been done to reduce this threat and hasn't. Almost sees the NHS staff as the sacrificial lamb to this governments stupidity.

just heard this on the news at one

UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336
after listening to someone doing work on this in Germany saying ours wasn't going to be compatible , so would cause more problems going abroad .

Also:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53091149
Coronavirus: 51 workers catch Covid-19 at KFC and M&S meat plant

A chicken processing plant that has contracts with KFC, Tesco and Marks & Spencer has suspended production and closed due to a coronavirus outbreak.

Public Health Wales said there were 51 confirmed Covid-19 cases at 2 Sisters in Llangefni on Anglesey, with 110 people said to be self-isolating.

Closing the plant for two weeks, the company said it was to "demonstrate how seriously we take this issue".

The article about this yesterday stated that the factory produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK according to the company's website.

(Stockpile your frozen Kievs)

and

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53009775
Coronavirus: One in four infected by virus cannot be reached

ah . late to the pass!

after listening to someone doing work on this in Germany saying ours wasn't going to be compatible , so would cause more problems going abroad .

I posted over a month ago that the UKs proprietary approach would make travel difficult if other countries didn't approve the UK "app".

Where's my fucking multi million pound contract ?

I suspected you are not a huge Tory Donor or married to a Tory MP - so nyet for you DGR

I am not sure if it has been discussed here - but have you guys seen about the tiny pest control company winning the £108m contract to supply PPE ? And the good law project is challenging it?

I am just going to leave this here

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/28/exclusive-boris-signed-contract-giving-dominic-cummings-jurisdiction/

But I am not sure that telegraph readers will like this? Or Tory voters?
I can't read the whole article as it's behind the paywall and I won't give them a cent....

I am not sure if it has been discussed here - but have you guys seen about the tiny pest control company winning the £108m contract to supply PPE ? And the good law project is challenging it?

Yes. Co-owners are brothers who have both worked in software related things. Both brothers and the newly appointed director / MD rapidly deleted their Linkedin profiles, but not before someone screenshotted the MD asking if anyone had gloves available for immediate delivery.

Well according to the part of the extract we can see from the Torygraph, Johnson gave Starmer a thumping at PMQs. I am not convinced he did myself.

I guess if people think bumbling and waffling on every question and then deflecting from the abyss of his own ignorance by asking Starmer the same question several times (NB it is called Prime Ministers Questions for a reason) then I guess he did. Personally I thought BJ sounded like a complete twat.

I don't think it matters how badly or well BJ does at PMQ's.
Hague was really good at them.

And in other news
Trump is worried
I'm getting 2 or 3 emails a day from him and Eric and Mike Pence
asking me to pledge support and send money and wish the Donald a happy birthday and all sorts of weirdness

UK / US trade deal is definitely dead in the water

My are doing lots of school work online and are getting the happy birthday messages for Trump a lot as well.

We've got John Boltons book to look forward to next week, plus Mary Trumps (July ?).

And let's not forget that now SCOTUS have sorted out LBGT rights for a generation, they can return to the real business of the day, which is ruling on the release of Trumps tax records. Which - if ordered - will lead to some fireworks as he refuses (my US friends don't know what would happen in that event either), and then who knows ? But it will be interesting to see how much money he paid tax on, as opposed to how much money hes spent on campaigning.

Deep Throat - just as right 47 years on as they were then ...

Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Dreamers

Jean Kennedy has died www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53095039

Johnson still persists in turning his back on the world

So the world beating app trialed on IOW is not world beating and now the Government is consulting Google and apple to see what they can do. Says it all really.

So the world beating app trialed on IOW is not world beating and now the Government is consulting Google and apple to see what they can do. Says it all really.

Nope. You forgot the important bit.

They realised that for us to be allowed to go abroad on holiday, it was going to be preferrential for our track and trace app system to have in practice 'regulatory alignment with the EU'...

They realised that for us to be allowed to go abroad on holiday, it was going to be preferrential for our track and trace app system to have in practice 'regulatory alignment with the EU'...

When did they realise this ? When I posted it about a month ago ?

So the world beating app trialed on IOW

I see the problem now. There was an assumption the IoW (where string is seen as high tech) was a microcosm of the UK.

They realised that for us to be allowed to go abroad on holiday, it was going to be preferrential for our track and trace app system to have in practice 'regulatory alignment with the EU'...
Pennies dropping

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The problem now, "app" or no "app", is that with the UKs mastery of disastery when it comes to everything C-19, there's going to be a lot of pushback from less affected countries to allow Brits in. Tourist pound or not.

We return again to those scenes of Brits in Spain just before the UK lock down.

'We backed both horses' Matt Hancock repeats. Well one was a donkey from the very beginning. Schools and life will not be normal before Xmas. We are f***!

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