The Fifty Seventh Republic - the joy of bank holiday marking

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@Piggywaspushed

I never thought I'd see the day when the Tories became the party of the North and Labour the party of the soft south....

Its a sad state.

A kid in my form had all res on his report the other day. I said it was like the North before Brexit he actually laughed. He isn't all bad. Just can't help being a clown.

Red not res

Crohn's, piggy, he had some elective bowel surgery that didn't go well, then peritonitis and he ended up in a coma, then further complications.

Awful :( Good to see him back tweeting although him having to quit his job must be really hard.

Tories =Brexit Party, basically.

Still , Lozza will have to fuck right off now.

Oh , nasty noble.

@Piggywaspushed

I never thought I'd see the day when the Tories became the party of the North and Labour the party of the soft south....

Theory is because of this.

Weird move from Keir : sack the right proper Northern lass.

The McLibel case was massive when I was at school. When I heard Keir Starmer was involved I was actually quite impressed.

He was a really really good lawyer. he was knighted for goodness' sake!

Back to the Indian variant. odd that they are only testing close contacts. cases in the town have trebled in the last week. you'd think they would do some proper surge testing.

Dep H at my school thinks hardly any of the kids are doing tests now, especially year 11s and 13s.

And year 9s and 10s never really were.

What happened when they surge tested for other variants? I keep hearing 'surge testing in London/Bristol/wherever' but I've no idea if it actually helps.

Sometimes they then close schools down . Hope LA keep masks....

My husband is really upset about' long Corbyn ' with Hartlepool too.

Theory is because of this.

I love that map/image. Absolutely sums it up.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Theory is because of this.

I love that map/image. Absolutely sums it up.

I don't know. I really don't. Living in the Tees Valley and going Tory last year . I just can't make sense of it. Speaking to parents it's clearly Brexit and Corbyn. We had many arguments about the character assassination of him but my parents just won't have it. Our new tory mp is very vocal too. Litter picking, getting the treasury moving trying to keep the train here. Like it was him that made that happen ( the treasu). He didn't like the teddys at his office though over the free school meals though.

I live in Tory central. Massive swing towards LibDem in 2019. Not quite in yet, but maybe next time.

Speaking to parents it's clearly Brexit and Corbyn.

We know that Brexit roughly split along education lines too.

I saw this article linked to on Twitter earlier, written by the odious Toby Young's dad 20 years ago about Blair, and thought it was fascinating. www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

[quote noblegiraffe]Speaking to parents it's clearly Brexit and Corbyn.

We know that Brexit roughly split along education lines too.

I saw this article linked to on Twitter earlier, written by the odious Toby Young's dad 20 years ago about Blair, and thought it was fascinating. www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment[/quote]
Thanks interesting.

It’s interesting if the vaccines were a major boop for the Tories, that indicates people think the pandemic is now done, in our country anyway. I hope they’re right......

There was an article the other day I saw somewhere showing that they weren’t surge testing re the Indian variant at all, despite Matt Hancock having said they would about a week earlier. PHE said something about other methods of control. Yeah right.

@noblegiraffe

MMR wasn't introduced til 1988, Mistress. I definitely had rubella separately at secondary school and I imagine I had whatever separate measles/mumps vaccines were going (my mum would have made sure of it!) but we moved around a lot so the records probably got lost somewhere.

If it helps at all, my mum made sure I had whatever was available. I had measles, mumps & rubella given as single vaccines at the same time in 85/86 so didn’t get the 1st MMR at school when it came out in 88. I did have the 2nd when they introduced needing that in 92. Although that was the year they took the rubella part out because of a scare.

Seeing things about Kent makes me wonder if there is something about them actually seeing an impact from Brexit. The rest of us are a bit protected from that by the covid shite - I don't mean protected, I mean it's hidden.

So what was the one that people got in the earlier 80s that leaves a mark on your arm? Actually have just googled it myself and it was the BCG.

Possibly rule. When the Brexit dividend they are waiting for doesn’t turn up, things might change. Hartlepool was very pro-leave. It’s not surprising that the Johnson mopped up the Brexit Party vote there. It’s more surprising it didn’t happen in 2019.

It’s interesting if the vaccines were a major boop for the Tories

And for Labour in Wales and the SNP in Scotland.

Hartlepool was very pro-leave.

Wasn’t the Labour candidate massively Remain?