Westminstenders: The Tunnel or Bridge

[RedToothBrush]

Apparently negotiations are in the black hole of the EU tunnel or should that be on the back of the fantasy of the Boris Bridge?

Another week closer to complete meltdown.

I'm guessing that our world beating customs solution will be based on blackboard and chalk.

test and trace 🙄

I've found out who supplies the Careers Wales job match quiz software, anyway - a firm called CASCAID Ltd. It has a website and has been in the careers business since 1969, or so the website says.

a firm called CASCAID Ltd.

Sure it wasn't CASHCOW Ltd ?

Goodbye,

On government advice I am going to train to become a football referee.

I just need to learn the rules.

Quite perhaps we could do fitness training together? I am apparently meant to be an athlete. I am 51.
Another option was IT analyst. Again, unlikely. I struggled with logging my 3 mile/ 30 minute run on Strava yesterday. It thinks I took 45 hours 😂

Emily
The Government might ask the Crick team to help out but they will be at the back of the queue because the Crick have been working with the teaching hospitals for months already

and yes, the Student data makes EVERY hotspot very suspect.

DS is still enjoying his time at Uni - pottering off to seminars and the Library and F2F events
but I know that he is one of the lucky ones.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54481817
Covid-19: UK workers to get 67% of pay if firms told to shut

Employees who work for UK firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are to get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the government.

The scheme will begin on 1 November and run for six months, with a Treasury source saying it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds a month.

Trouble is the government is also suggesting they will close firms as early as Monday. Thats Monday 12th October.

Trouble is the government is also suggesting they will close firms as early as Monday. Thats Monday 12th October.
the existing Furlough scheme runs till 31st October

@RedToothBrush

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54481817 Covid-19: UK workers to get 67% of pay if firms told to shut

Employees who work for UK firms forced to shut by law because of coronavirus restrictions are to get two-thirds of their wages paid for by the government.

The scheme will begin on 1 November and run for six months, with a Treasury source saying it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds a month.

Trouble is the government is also suggesting they will close firms as early as Monday. Thats Monday 12th October.

And as we saw with the travel insurers being cossetted, it's the no-work of a moment to simply refuse to order firms to shut in much the same way it was really easy not to advise people not to travel.

Listening 10 hospitals and 70 care homes to be precise, all staff being tested weekly alongside the Crick’s own staff. However the Crick do want to help, they have lined up more volunteers and can step up their operations. Unlike it would seem NHS test and trace they have an effective organisational structure including Human Resources strategies and effective data systems. All that is stopping them is they can’t get hold of the advanced PCR readers because the government has lined them all up for their limping lighthouse labs. And apparently that the PHE testing system can’t even get the tests done that the Crick could already handle. I know someone who was sat twiddling their thumbs, having stayed on for another shift, as a result 🙂

There are lots of local labs, universities, research institutes and hospitals who could respond in the same way linking to local hospitals and providing public health teams with prompt and accurate data but there would be no money in that for Tory cronies......

My assessment started quite well social care (working life spent working with the homeless/addiction/MH), emergency services, rspca inspector but then got a bit silly, boxer/football referee/horse groom
I’m sixty with a heart condition so not sure I would be much in demand.

i've just had a go at the retrain train questionnaire and now I'm worried that they're actually spying on us. I got 'teacher'. All my feckin life people have told me I'd make a great teacher. I even went to teacher training school after my A levels. But I hated it. Yes I'm good at it, but the whole time I'm doing it I'm praying for a meteor to strike me.

Then DH did it and it suggested army officer or bomb disposal technician. I think they must have actually met DH as he'd sell his granny for either of those roles. Sadly he's asthmatic so they won't happen.

@Chersfrozenface

I've found out who supplies the Careers Wales job match quiz software, anyway - a firm called CASCAID Ltd. It has a website and has been in the careers business since 1969, or so the website says.

It was CASCAID that sdvised my friend to be a firefighter! He complained that it never even asked him if he liked crawling through smoke-filled rooms.

advised

I haven't done the Careers Wales / CASCAID one because you have to register / log in and I CBA.

CASCAID Ltd

Oh dear - Erasmus+ logo on their website;
cascaid.co.uk/

Richmond’s public health strategy was swinging into action to address a rapid rise in cases that made it the worst hit borough in London

Sadiq Khan mentioned the Richmond students on LBC earlier today - I don't remember him blaming Dido - a missed opportunity.

Borrowed from an ex-Brexiter on twitter:

"Car manufacturing will die after Brexit"

Brexiters: Shrug - "it would've died anyway."

"The virus will kill the old and sick."

Brexiters: Shrug - "they would've died anyway."

"Lockdown will kill the pub trade."

Brexiters: "BASTARDS! STOP THIS NOW!"

Mistigri
Borrowed from an ex-Brexiter on twitter

You have strange friends.

@Emilyontmoor

The Results of that questionnaire sounds remarkably like one my DCs did in Year 9 when deciding their GCSE options, hence not taking qualifications into account. So it probably hasn’t cost millions as it has been wasting school careers budgets for years but it is about as much use to those of us who have qualifications, skills and experience as a chocolate teapot. But then we are the elite and they assume the left behind never got past Year 9

The results of the questionnaire look like the thing i did when i was at school age 14. That told me tv presenter too. And libranian and museum curator.

I finally did it and got a few jobs I have previously done similar to in the past. However I also go astronomer, motor mechanic and online tutor none of which I can assure you I'd be any good at.

Borrowed from an ex-Brexiter on twitter

Would that be Roland? I do love his gossipy insights on the Norths and that particular Leave sect.

Well that's the last time I do a career quiz...

Shepherd???

Ffs

shrill
OOHH so perfect
baaaa

A shepherd can always sell their hut for a nice earner .... if they are the right sort of smarmy shepherd:

(Sniffs)
I like to think I would be a shepherd with integrity.
I like lamb (yum yum)