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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No longer supporting: Andrew Murrison MP Bin Afolami MP Anthony Browne MP And Jonathan Gullis MP ... and Saqib Bhatti MP and Sally-Ann Hart MP and Nicola Richards MP and Virginia Crosbie MP and MP Theo Clarke
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Chris Bryant on C4 news was spot on - and angry.
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Only technically - might be no-one takes over and he still does not resign - but he is now history. 17:15 to 17:18 GBP has gone UP against USD. Extraordinary for a disappearing PM to see GBP rise.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Javid quits as health secretary as PM admits Pincher mistake
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Judging by what is being reported around the media, that is a better summary.
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Now we appear to be out of Horizon and lost a large number of scientific grants, etc. It really is going well.
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    As far as I can see, my vote will go PC or Labour - depending on circumstances. I want Crabb out - mostly because he is a tory. For that reason, Starmer has little reason to play to the gallery I am in. He needs to convince those who took Johnson's shilling.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In the good old days, when we were still members of the EU, I sometimes sbought things from Amazon.de because of availability or price. There is a Samsung tablet near me which saved a bit (at the "expense" of having to switch default language as I set it up - taking about two seconds extra).
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The question of the night seems to be, is it better to have drunkenly groped two men? Or to have done so when not drunk? That is, does being drunk compound the issue, or provide something approaching an excuse?
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And the FT following up with: UK trade performance falls to worst level on record in first quarter
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Looks like UK EU exports are really unhappy... Brexit led to 14% fall in UK exports to EU in 2021, trade figures say Goods and services exported to bloc affected by return of customs border, EU commissioner says
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And I have just found that my booster vaccination has disappeared from my GP records! We have very limited facilities but one I did notice a few months ago was the vaccinations - and I'm sure it had all three. But no longer.
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The MHRA must have some historic evidence as to how many ADRs they have received for other new products - vaccines and other types. Projecting that onto something like 50,000,000 first-time doses would almost certainly have produced a number in excess of anything they had previously seen...
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Equally obviously, the systems they had were NOT up to the job. If they had properly taken lessons from Operation Cygnus, they should have appreciated the need to manage data on that scale (though developments in technology certainly occurred since). I suspect no-one lifted a finger to...
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Maybe. But with his going off on his current tack, some might start looking at him as some sort of Third PM who will last a thousand years. (Or claiming that!) Which could end up with a disaster in the next GE, or even in the run up, so bad that the tory party itself breaks apart and any/all...
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    True - but it was more of a mental image of him now. Seems he is now threatening us with being PM for a further two terms. As I see it, pretty much any tactical voting would be worth it if it gets rid of him. The vote for the less-appealing other party seems very likely to end up with less...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Can't imagine Johnson even managing to get onto a cavalry horse, let alone charging on horseback. He's way behind his hero there.
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Thanks - that is interesting. I have continued to be very unsure of a relationship. But with quite a lot of cases in the UK (2715), it does make me think it is more likely. The main reason for veering towards no issue is the time between vaccination and HZ. Which was something like six weeks...
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Diary note: 13th July - 1922 Committee elections. (If he lasts that long.)
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well, the tories lost both of them. Boris Johnson has faced a double hammer blow to his authority after the Conservatives lost two key byelections on the same night, with Labour taking Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats overturning a 24,000-plus majority to snatch Tiverton and Honiton. The...