I am struggling to keep up here.

 

As I understand, the border meanders for many miles and is hard to identify in places.

 

Let us consider a lorry with chiller has filled up with red/green expressly for the chiller. Surely that doesn't mean the vehicle can't cross the border at all?

 

Or a tractor where a farm straggles the border?

 

Or even the people doing road maintenance?

Welcome to border country!. In general a lorry filled with DERV, is not being stopped on Concession roads . Customs and Revenue are brave but not stupid. So technically illegal is OK in this narrow zone . Once they are clearly either side ..For instance I live about 10 minutes drive from the Border,there well might be dipping stations.

Oh and by the way, the location of the border is extremely well known to the millimeter,by those locals who need to know. But is hidden from lesser mortals.

Yes. Being older (rather than elderly, at least in my opinion), I hope I'd get through. But existing health issues are a real concern.

 

It is very unclear what impact of my existing health issues are likely to have. Some suggestions that thyroid issues can mean a combination of being less likely to be diagnosed as body temperature might not rise to the levels expected and a negative impact on ability to cope. But in other ways, there are positive aspects like living in a quiet cul-de-sac so less exposed, fewer people so just possibly more likely to get to see a doctor if really needed.

I'm the same (down to the thyroid issues) and for some reason the virus often kills middle aged men (and I'm undeniably one); I think it will become a pandemic and probably then reside in the population like flu. This doesnt help, but I've decided to shrug and accept there will be a bullet for all of us that cant be dodged.

Best tweet so far today

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@pearlylondon

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Mar 3

 

Shocked to hear Boris Johnson was at an hospital & actually shook hands with patients who had the corona virus!? What type of clueless idiot shakes hands with Boris Johnson?!

 

Well I would vigorously shake hands with boris moments after I've been diagnosed with corona (and give him a gallic hug)

Welcome to border country!. In general a lorry filled with DERV, is not being stopped on Concession roads . Customs and Revenue are brave but not stupid. So technically illegal is OK in this narrow zone . Once they are clearly either side ..For instance I live about 10 minutes drive from the Border,there well might be dipping stations.

Oh and by the way, the location of the border is extremely well known to the millimeter,by those locals who need to know. But is hidden from lesser mortals.

Re the lorry with chiller, I was thinking about, say, a lorry being used between RoI and NI not just on the immediate border but right across the area. If Green is illegal in NI, and Red in RoI, then how do they manage it? Dipping would (so we are told) allow detection of recent use of red or green. The only answer I can see is two tanks - and emptying one/filling the other before crossing.

how quickly the Chinese built a hospital,they achieved a lot but it wasn’t a hospital cos it didn’t need to be. The truth is they built temporary wards to treat a single illness which isn’t beyond our means if we needed to. Let’s hope our situation is different and we don’t need to.

 

An intensive care isolation shed only takes a day to put up in the back garden - with that on my CV (and O'level art grade C) I'm applying for the 'Weirdos and misfits with odd skills' government job.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-t70i6jb_M

 

Damn 'Anderson' beat me to it

 

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by Wicky

Well I would vigorously shake hands with boris moments after I've been diagnosed with corona (and give him a gallic hug)

sneeze into his face. Some of the particles would stick to his hair.

Well I would vigorously shake hands with boris moments after I've been diagnosed with corona (and give him a gallic hug)

 

Just the thought of doing that made me feel sick.

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Just the thought of doing that made me feel sick.

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Doing so might pass on covid-19 - but just what will you get passed the other way?

Re the lorry with chiller, I was thinking about, say, a lorry being used between RoI and NI not just on the immediate border but right across the area. If Green is illegal in NI, and Red in RoI, then how do they manage it? Dipping would (so we are told) allow detection of recent use of red or green. The only answer I can see is two tanks - and emptying one/filling the other before crossing.

While we are still EU members, duty paid in any state remains the only duty payable as a consumable. However I was referring to tankers loaded with cargos of the stuff. It would be legal to pump that green stuff out into a pipe line in the RoI ,and transfer it into a tank ,still on the RoI, then it magically becomes transparent in a pipeline going into a tanker on the NI side. It is if a tanker cargo were the wrong colour ,that there is evidence of a crime

Doing so might pass on covid-19 - but just what will you get passed the other way?

 

AIDS from his sexual shenanigans?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51737116

 

I suppose we have lots of temporary isolation beds that could be deployed, there was lots of noise in the press about how quickly the Chinese built a hospital,they achieved a lot but it wasn’t a hospital cos it didn’t need to be. The truth is they built temporary wards to treat a single illness which isn’t beyond our means if we needed to. Let’s hope our situation is different and we don’t need to.

 

 

 

It’s a worry when there are underlying health issues, I remember in past episodes hearing that phrase and it sort of made things seem OK. Now my parents are almost 90 and live 150 miles away... and they have underlying health issues - suddenly that phrase hits me like a brick!

 

But then we have to keep a sense of perspective and act responsibly and in some ways.. like life in general , having done as much as we can, hope for the best.

With the government we have in place the best we can hope for is a row of Army surplus Bivouacs, a Hurricane lamp , esbit stove, billy can and K ration packs

(Bring your own blanket, those army ones itch like hell)

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51737116

 

Well at least now we know the Government is colour blind as well as stupidly incompetent

I find that reassuring somehow.

No shortage of folk to pick fruit from the ever bountiful money tree...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mp-pay-rise-parliament-average-basic-salary-boris-johnson-government-a9377776.html

No shortage of folk to pick fruit from the ever bountiful money tree...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mp-pay-rise-parliament-average-basic-salary-boris-johnson-government-a9377776.html

And it looks like an additional one off four month holiday this year!

Yes, just keep taking the meds, ...

 

Tory minister wants Boris Johnson to reconsider bridge proposals... for a tunnel

The Scottish secretary Alister Jack wants Boris Johnson to reconsider his proposal for a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland by opting for a tunnel instead.

Speaking during an evidence session in the Scottish parliament, Jack said a link between the two countries would boost the economies of Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland, while also strengthening the union.

 

But he said a tunnel would not face the same problems posed to any potential bridge project by the Second World War munitions dump at Beaufort's Dyke in the Irish Sea.

 

When asked by SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson about the idea of a bridge, Jack said: "I'm very keen on it now, but it's not a bridge that I'm keen on, it's a tunnel.

 

"It's no different to the tunnels connecting the Faroes, it's not different to the tunnels underneath the fjords, and it deals with the problem of Beaufort's Dyke and the World War Two munitions.

 

"The bridge for me is a euphemism for a link, which is a tunnel."

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/northern-ireland-and-scotland-bridge-1-6546835

 

Of course, no costs.

Gtweeting again

The new European tweeted

 

Parliament could be suspended for five months as part of government’s coronavirus plan https://theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/parliament-could-be-suspended-for-five-months-as-part-of-government-s-coronavirus-plan-1-6546198

oldgroaner@oldgroaner

 

Replying to

@ManMadeMoon

and

@TheNewEuropean

 

If we can manage to survive in a crisis for five months without it, could we ask for the suspension to be permanent?

Just in case you wondered why the reluctance to reveal the Russia report

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/28/britain-emerges-as-near-exclusive-buyer-of-russian-gold-a69455

 

Britain Emerges as Near-Exclusive Buyer of Russian Gold

Russia has sold nearly all its gold for 2019 to Britain, according to customs data reviewed by the RBC news website Friday.

The data says that Britain bought $5.33 billion worth of Russian gold last year, or 93% of Russia’s total gold exports. Russia sold $5.74 billion worth of gold overall in 2019, according to RBC.

NEWS

U.S., Britain Double Russian Oil Purchases

READ MORE

 

 

I have to say this is fake news, we know for a fact they give it away to certain UK deserving politicians for services rendered

Russia has sold nearly all its gold for 2019 to Britain, according to customs data reviewed by the RBC news website Friday.

The data says that Britain bought $5.33 billion worth of Russian gold last year, or 93% of Russia’s total gold exports. Russia sold $5.74 billion worth of gold overall in 2019, according to RBC.

 

Clear evidence that the government believes that leaving the EU will seriously damage our currency. Therefore they take the usual defensive measure, switch to gold.

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Just in case you wondered why the reluctance to reveal the Russia report

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/28/britain-emerges-as-near-exclusive-buyer-of-russian-gold-a69455

 

Britain Emerges as Near-Exclusive Buyer of Russian Gold

Russia has sold nearly all its gold for 2019 to Britain, according to customs data reviewed by the RBC news website Friday.

The data says that Britain bought $5.33 billion worth of Russian gold last year, or 93% of Russia’s total gold exports. Russia sold $5.74 billion worth of gold overall in 2019, according to RBC.

NEWS

U.S., Britain Double Russian Oil Purchases

READ MORE

 

 

I have to say this is fake news, we know for a fact they give it away to certain UK deserving politicians for services rendered

 

And all we get is a lousy cupronickel 50p Brexit coin

 

Our Brexit bonus should be at least distributed as a gold bar per person...

 

Just in case you wondered why the reluctance to reveal the Russia report

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/28/britain-emerges-as-near-exclusive-buyer-of-russian-gold-a69455

 

Britain Emerges as Near-Exclusive Buyer of Russian Gold

Russia has sold nearly all its gold for 2019 to Britain, according to customs data reviewed by the RBC news website Friday.

The data says that Britain bought $5.33 billion worth of Russian gold last year, or 93% of Russia’s total gold exports. Russia sold $5.74 billion worth of gold overall in 2019, according to RBC.

NEWS

U.S., Britain Double Russian Oil Purchases

READ MORE

 

 

I have to say this is fake news, we know for a fact they give it away to certain UK deserving politicians for services rendered

Needed for stamping onto new passports?

What do you think the result will be of this complaint?

 

300 allegations of Tory Islamophobia sent to equality watchdog

Muslim Council of Britain’s dossier includes claims against Boris Johnson and MPs

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/05/300-allegations-of-tory-islamophobia-sent-to-equality-watchdog

 

My guess is a massive upsurge in allegations of antisemitism in Labour. If you have no defence, point your finger at someone else.

You don't bleeding well tweet condolences. You write. Maybe, depending on circumstances, email. But not tweet.

 

Health secretary Matt Hancock tweeted his condolences to the family of the first person to die in the UK with coronavirus.

 

Any tweeting is for public consumption. "Am I not wonderful? I realised that someone died."

What do you think the result will be of this complaint?

 

300 allegations of Tory Islamophobia sent to equality watchdog

Muslim Council of Britain’s dossier includes claims against Boris Johnson and MPs

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/05/300-allegations-of-tory-islamophobia-sent-to-equality-watchdog

 

My guess is a massive upsurge in allegations of antisemitism in Labour. If you have no defence, point your finger at someone else.

 

Probably an easy win for Labour. The finial score could be in the region of Tories 350, Labour 475. I don’t think this one will go to a Muslim / Jew penalty shoot out.

Probably an easy win for Labour. The finial score could be in the region of Tories 350, Labour 475. I don’t think this one will go to a Muslim / Jew penalty shoot out.

Lets make it simple.. its all anti-Semitic ,