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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which is far more likely methane and/or hydrogen.
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But you replied to OG's response, which was expressly about atomic powered...
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which is not what was being discussed - a fleet of atomic powered submarines. If they were DE they wouldn't be atomic powered.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    May takes what could look like revenge:
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Across the media: The Met Police has asked an internal inquiry into alleged lockdown parties at No 10 to make "minimal reference" to any events it is investigating. The force launched its own investigation after it was passed information by a Cabinet Office inquiry led by senior civil servant...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    PM did intervene and then tell HoC he didn't - it appears: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/43225/html/
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Non sequitor time - again: Kate Osamor (Lab) asks if the PM agreed with the chancellor to write off £4.3bn of fraud. Of course not, says Johnson. Everyone should be proud of the huge effort made by government to secure PPE and ventilators, he says.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "After you, Claude—no, after you, Cecil" :) Sue Gray partygate report 'set to be delayed until police investigation over' Jessica Elgot Sue Gray will not publish her inquiry until the Met police have concluded their...
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They are making a film about it: Carrie on Partying
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A resignation! Treasury minister announces shock resignation in Lords in protest at government mishandling of fraudulent Covid business payments Lord Agnew of Oulton has resigned his post as a minister based jointly in the Treasury and in the Cabinet Office in a surprise...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes - it is a recurrence of Chickenpox which has lain dormant in or round nerve cells since original infection (for me, that was pre-1962). I had two AV vaccinations in early 2021 - both in left arm. After a few months, there was still a very minor skin issue. I'd keep finding tiny blisters...
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And I thought the Whigs had been subsumed into liberals and tories many years ago...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Am just imagining at some point in the coming days/weeks/months, the entire railway system simultaneously putting out an announcement on every PA system on the rail network: The tory government has just hit the buffers. A replacement PM will be along shortly.
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm sure any of us could! About five minutes with a browser would be sufficient.
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Possibly with just long enough for them to upset even many of those who remain as tory voters right now before a GE.
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think anyone taking over directly from Johnson will have to make immediate changes. They likely want to do so, but it will be their major test - whether they can make the changes they promise effectively and improve the position of the tories. Their ability to appeal to the electorate will be...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... with an expensive bridge/tunnel obsession: Research into Johnson’s planned Irish Sea bridge cost taxpayers £900,000 Study found it would be ‘impossible to justify’ creating a fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In the early days of Covid, people would be feeling just fine, but their oxygen saturation would be awful, and their lungs could stop being functional very quickly. Perhaps it wasn't Omicron?
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    South Yorkshire Police has apologised for telling a family they were not allowed on their own front garden during the Covid-19 lockdown. Footage of the encounter in Eastwood, Rotherham, showed an officer ordering a couple and their young children to stay inside their two-bedroom terraced home...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They could have put in a specific exclusion - for example, for civil servants and politicians who have to carry on working - but they didn't. (Might have been extremely unpopular at the time. But it might have avoided what is happening now.)