Westminstenders: Run Forrest Run

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Need i say more?

At least Johnson can appoint someone with appropriate skills when it directly impacts him.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53930665

He does look to have lost weight.

Ok niceties over...

Placemarking, thanks again Red.

Urgh, not a pretty sight.

Chilled out cats. They don't need to exercise

I'm considering my next bread flour order - have already gone through c17kg of the 2x10kg sacks that I bought - especially if the price is going up after the dreadful what harvest.

Other picture is of my latest loaf, together with plentiful plums from the garden and some of the plethora of plum preserve that I make every year I'll have plenty to barter with post 31 December - that and all the plum gin

For some reason the cat picture won't load

Now it does

Maybe I'm just tired but I don't really understand your post HateIsNotGood. Teachers have been at work all year looking after vulnerable and keyworker kids (including mine). The logistics of running a school with in a country with covid are as challenging as running a hospital. 540 healthcare workers have died of covid in this country - one of the highest numbers anywhere in the world... people are right to insist on teachers' safety. Some of my colleagues have died. Do not want to see that repeated in schools. If any part of my posts were criticising teachers I sincerely apologise & I will have them deleted. Was not my intention.

... and there go judicial reviews.

www.thenational.scot/news/18681649.snp-warns-westminster-changing-scots-law-will-turn-every-lawyer-yes/

WITH their obsession about avoiding scrutiny of their policies and actions, Boris Johnson’s UK Government may just have opened the door to the ending of the Act of Union.

In a development which has stunned Scottish lawyers, the Lord Chancellor of England, Robin Buckland QC, has set up a review of administrative law specifically to examine judicial reviews – the system by which the courts in any of the jurisdictions of the UK can hold governments and other public authorities to account for the legality of their actions.

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not quite sure why the BBC thinks it deserves my money for avoiding reporting this...

Extract from the Guardian live update feed. Three members of 1 family in three different locations all trying to get tested and finding it difficult due to test centres being far away / needing to have symptoms.

But we can all go back to work and school and everything will work out ok right?

Looking at the picture from Choux, I think the PM may be on the run after stealing items of clothing from the washing lines of four completely different people. Or robbing a charity shop. What a repulsive mess of a man.

Thanks red

squid just ignore HATE's post. They are the kind of poster who believes No Deal Brexit will be just fiiiiiine and teachers are workshy leftie dossers who want more paid time off. They're stirring shit by suggesting you should heap coals of fire on the education system for wanting to work safely.

Yes he looks repulsive in that picture. I keep wondering how Carrie justifies being with him to her family and friends.

"I know he's not great looking and a lot older than me and overweight but..,"

He has such a great personality? Nope
He has such a strong moral compass? Nope
He is so kind? Nope
He is much richer than I could ever hope to be? Maybe
I want to take as much vicarious power as I can and being with a senior politician who is now PM was my best pay to that? Possibly

I cannot see at all what is in it for her.

Hate's post is a classic 'shift the blame onto the individual' for their concerns, worries, anger for a situation (any situation) rather than stepping back to see the wider context. But worse in how it's laced in sugary pseudo compliments to disguise the disdain for those individual teachers rightfully worrying about their health.

It is a mystery as to why people are so willing to accept / point blame on individuals rather rather than acknowledge how our political and economic elite actively create the context. You want to know who benefits? Follow the money.

Otherwise, as if we needed to be told....

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/28/fear-of-failure-giving-uk-children-lowest-happiness-levels-in-europe

The stratification / class divide of education in this country never ceases to amaze me as does the bewildering number of educational options to navigate.

Otherwise PMK and thanks Red for continuing these sanity saving threads.

PMK

Thanks for the new thread.

PMK with cats, one of whom can only get anywhere near the other if she waits till naptime is underway and then shadows her elder...

(She also has a tail like a squirrel and brings bits of dead leaves inside with her, hence the state of the bedsheets...)

Thanks to Red et al.

Squid, ignore the goaders.

Pmk

Thanks, red

Squid Your posts made absolutely no criticism of teachers
Ignore anyone trying to stir and shift blame from the government's incompetent chumocracy

Those 540 deaths of healthcare workers are shocking
and probably a lot were caused by early shortages of PPE, not HCPs "wasting" it as a fuckwit minister claimed

• more blame-shifting; it's about all they are good at

Very thankful PMK as we face the unbearable tension of the coming weeks. My closest friend (tantamount to a sister) and her two wonderful kids all go back to school next week. I am, effectively, breakfast club (and wouldn't have it any other way). But this return is against a backdrop of lies and misinformation that seems only to serve the government and their arse-lickers, and I fear the chaos it will bring to children's lives and the clear and present danger for school staff and extended family members (among others, as all sorts of services interact with students and school staff).

And for what? For the rot that had set in long before covid was a speck in a bat's eye to burrow ever deeper?

I'm in Scotland. My DS has been back to school 2.5 weeks, and DD back to nursery for a little longer. I have few concerns about the latter, it's relatively small and they've enforced distancing among adults at pick up and drop off (outside, we don't go in anymore). But school has the potential to be an absolute shit show. DH and I mask up for the school run but we're a very small minority (

Thanks for the new thread it actually really helps to read these threads and see that there are people who see through all the lying, propaganda, blame shifting, scapegoating.

PMK