Westminstenders: Pah International Law. Who needs it?

[RedToothBrush]

I mean its not as if trade deals and human rights are relevant is it?

(sorry eating my dinner so must be brief)

All the MPs in this have this desparate look of "Oh Shit, just how out of our depth are we?"

Those were my thoughts too @RedToothBrush

Interestingly no Gove in those photos. Sunak, Hancock, even Cummings but no Gove. I imagine Gove is sharpening his knife and waiting for Johnson to turn his back...

There's also a lot of people in close proximity in a few of those photos. As if they think the virus needs a security pass to get into Downing St!

@BigChocFrenzy

It's not moving the 200 jobs that are concerning (to those of us not among them !) but the reason for this happening:

[[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/jpmorgan-to-relocate-200-london-bankers-as-no-deal-brexit-looms]]

JPMorgan Chase & Co. told about 200 staff Friday to plan to move out of London
because it sees little prospect of the U.K. winning a deal on financial services as the nation prepares to exit the European Union.

Quite aside from Covid making international travel uncertain, there will be the question of entry into the EU anyway.

Must be a busy day for the NewKey poster - I would have expected a rebutting c'n'p about a couple of paper rounds being created in Godalming.

RTB I thought the first pic in your prevous post was particularly revealing, if you study their faces. With Hancock on the fringes and not liking it one little bit...

Don't have nightmares

i.redd.it/77jue0ays2o51.png

Link to UK map showing percentage of successful attempts to order a test, by region. They really are gold dust here.

That first photo looks like Boris is being told off.

Ds sent dh and me that picture, with the comment, "They've got to stop putting these independence maps up"

He does go on to say, "I know we're all pro independence here but I can't look at that map and be happy about Scotland. I'm more shocked about the rest of the uk."

There's also a lot of people in close proximity in a few of those photos. As if they think the virus needs a security pass to get into Downing St!

Quite a few of them have already had COVID and probably assume they have some immunity. But it's a terrible example to set nevertheless.

@HoneysuckIejasmine

i.redd.it/77jue0ays2o51.png

Link to UK map showing percentage of successful attempts to order a test, by region. They really are gold dust here.

That first photo looks like Boris is being told off.

A friend told me how they put a different postcode to get a test locally after the rumour about how the system was screwed...

...it worked. The system is fucked.

@DGRossetti

Interesting timing, given the Hitachi loss.

www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-8706033/Smart-meters-used-switch-electricity-without-warning-compensation.html

Government mulls emergency measures that would enable networks to SWITCH OFF your electricity without warning or compensation

Ofgem reviewing plans to give energy networks the ability to shut down domestic electricity supplies 
A new sort of smart meter would need to be installed in every home in the UK 
Would have the ability to switch off high usage devices such as electric vehicle chargers and central heating systems 
Sources close to discussions told us that government is 'open' to proposing legislation to support these powers</div></div>

So full on Orwellian then

I’m wondering who would see their heating stopped? I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t happen in one of those £10 millions houses

In those pictures RTB posted, why the feck is DC lurking around in his grouse hunting gear??

I think I can see plan Boris now ...

www.gov.uk/government/news/dr-liam-fox-through-to-2nd-round-in-wto-director-general-contest

Nobble the WTO ....

RTB there's a public health element around not cutting off water services also which doesn't apply to gas & electric. Water companies also can't cut people off from sewerage systems, or not unblock sewers no matter what people have repeatedly flushed down them.

@QueenOfThorns

Did you see that one of Raab’s bodyguards left a loaded gun on a plane ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54216511

Is this evidence that incompetence is contagious? If so, I think the whole cabinet needs to self isolate immediately

Why on earth would Raab require an armed escort?!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8750253/Subdued-Boris-Johnson-worries-money-salary-shrunk-150k.html

DM undermining Boris. 👍🏼

Why on earth would Raab require an armed escort?!

Maybe, like the (truly heroic) engineer that volunteered to accompany the Dieppe raid in 1944 (?) in order to be able to glean some insights into the German kit, Raab is so valuable to the enemy he had to be shot, rather than taken alive.

Surely it's a numbers game until someone gets shot with a "lost" police firearm. This is the second time one has been left on a plane, and there was a gun left in a toilet at Tescos a while back.

Presumably they can't differentiate between firearms and laptops ?

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Iirc studies have shown an increase in electricity use after switching to smart meters. The real reason for urging them on households?

DGR

Maybe, like the (truly heroic) engineer that volunteered to accompany the Dieppe raid in 1944 (?) in order to be able to glean some insights into the German kit, Raab is so valuable to the enemy he had to be shot, rather than taken alive.

Just to clarify, the engineer wasn't shot - but was well aware that had there been a chance of his being captured, the soldiers he went with had orders to kill him.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid#Pourville_radar_station

@NoCryingInEngineering

RTB there's a public health element around not cutting off water services also which doesn't apply to gas & electric. Water companies also can't cut people off from sewerage systems, or not unblock sewers no matter what people have repeatedly flushed down them.

But what about people on ventilation at home? And aren't there health implications in people's fridges and freezers being switched on and off arbitrarily?

Why on earth would Raab require an armed escort?!

Because there are many people who want to punch him in the face obvs.

The face?
I can think of more satisfying targets.

(Am in a bad mood...)

From Tatiana’s DM link:

The new approach to get the UK through winter would see it alternate periods of stricter measures, including bans on all social contact between households and shutting down hospitality and leisure venues like bars and restaurants, with intervals of relaxation. Schools will be shut as a 'last resort', a Whitehall source claimed.
It is understood that the new 'circuit break' shutdown could be announced via television press conference on Tuesday, in a move reminiscent of the Government's behaviour during the peak of the pandemic.

Tuesday is earlier than I’d thought. Or is the DM doing a 2+2=5?