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Not my favourite media outlet, but this expresses some of the anger quite well. ‘Clusterf*ck Of Sh*thousery’ – 550 MPs Locked Out Of Crucial Covid Meeting ... Another MP said: “Just an example of how utterly useless this government is – minister for logistics hosting a really important zoom re...

Last time I remember that "variant" word being used re a disease was about this: Variant CJD (vCJD) is likely to be caused by consuming meat from a cow that had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow" disease), a similar prion disease to CJD. Which hardly inspires confidence.

Reflecting the zeitgeist, maybe "transgendered" would be better?

I think it might be the accumulated weight of all the lorries in Kent. Isostasy, don't ya know? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/23/eu-countries-prepare-for-possible-imminent-brexit-deal

Did you see: Essex lorry deaths: Trial was halted after Priti Patel tweet Published 1 day ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55403058

Maybe leopards can't change their spots. But at least they are very attractive creatures.

Not surprised they are angry: Anger boils over in Dover as stranded truckers demand to leave UK Includes this which should be concerning someone, somewhere: Logistics groups have warned that many European drivers have already refused to come to Britain in the new year when they will have to...

Hopefully: The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine could be approved by UK regulators “shortly after” Christmas, according to a medical scientist. Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford University’s regius professor of medicine, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he expects approval by the Medicines...

I wish we could still laugh at him. Rather than cry at what he has done and is doing (or not, IYSWIM).

Adding that it doesn't just appear to be the quantity but the organisation of the brewery they are trying to arrange the **** up in - from yesterday: NHS leaders raise concerns over pace of Covid vaccine rollout Exclusive: more than half of hospital trusts in England yet to receive supplies...

In the USA, they have been finding that there is sometimes enough vaccine to provide 6, even 7, doses from a bottle that is supposed to have only 5 doses. No-one can see any issues in using these extra doses. The problem with one dose rather than two is that we do not know much about what...

It is awful how incredibly believable this is: NEWS...

We really don't have the detail. We don't believe what we read. And, que sera sera.

Have started emailing supermarkets to ask what they are doing - in the hope someone is triggered to act. Anyone on Twitter or other suitable places for shaming them?

You just might have thought some of the supermarkets, which are so obviously utterly reliant on these drivers, would do something? Wouldn't seem too far fetched for the nearest Ocado, Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidl, Aldi, etc., to deliver a few vans of food. And whatever else is needed.

They have been drafted in to drive ambulances in Wales. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55410775

Exceedingly pleased I do not live in or near Kent. How many lorries did Johnson say? Almost 3,000 lorries reportedly stranded in Kent, England, following France border closure From CNN’s Sharon Braithwaite Lorries waiting to cross the English Channel are parked on the runway at Manston...

I guess Cummings will be going back to Barnard Castle to see if his eyesight has improved from 2020 to 2021?

Tomorrow's Daily Mail front page proclaims: We're all heading for tier 4. Idiots. Vast numbers are already in tier 4. So it most certainly isn't "all".