Really? Cummings has always struck me as a complete oddball. Hancock is just a wannabe bullingdon boy trying to fit in, spit 3ft in the city of London and it will land on 15 guys just like him.
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The difference with his complete nonsense about Barnard castle is that a lot of what he says fits incredibly neatly with what we already know:
Doris being an initial covid denier (he pretty clearly was, it's on video)
The mass shifting of old people into care homes being a complete shambles (I can't believe the whole cabinet went along with this knowing the lack of testing)
The ridiculous situation around the 100k test target (tests went up to 100k and down within days it was obviously bullshit)
I'm sure there will be similar story in the Guardian but will be interesting to see if papers with more readers do a similar piece for England and Scotland - though the latter has managed much lower peaks really up until this latest period.Quote:
The decades of failure that led to Wales' catastrophic Covid-19 death toll
The underlying factors that made the coronavirus pandemic so much worse than it might have been
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...ophic-20679608
Throughout the last fifteen months, I’ve been convinced that I’ve been living in one of the areas with the most potential to become one of the worst Covid hotspots in the UK - the same applies to Merthyr a few miles away. Around this time last year, RCT was the worst affected area in the country for a few weeks and Merthyr has had its time at the “top of the league” in the linked table.
Of course, there could be a time when we’re top again, but for weeks now, us and Merthyr have been a lot closer to the bottom of the table than the top. That said, I’ve not seen a week like this one where, out of the near four hundred areas involved, there are only eight with lower rates than RCT and Merthyr.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...inations-today
I didn't ask for a verbal answer to be 'shown' at all. You asserted something and I was interested in the source of your assertion. Many sources are available for a period of time whether they be in the written form or even on the radio - and your assertion clearly referred to the BBC so it is probably easy to trace via BBC iPlayer.
i didn't "assert" anything, i just passed comment on what I heard on a live BBC Programme that was being broadcast at the same time as Cummins was being questioned.
Again I'll say that the people on here who demand 'proof' or 'links' whenever they see something they disagree with and who try to make others look foolish whilst having no real opinion themselves are living in an unreal world. If the same people reacted like this to everything that was said to them in real time they'd very soon find themselves with no one to talk to. Can you imagine being for example in a pub and every time someone said something the cry was "Prove it" or "where's the link"?
It's totally ridiculous.
Looking at the news this morning with quotes from this Baroness, it made me wonder what happened with Gethin? Was he elbowed out for arguing with Drakeford? Was it the chips on a park bench? Did he jump or was he pushed? I meant to ask at the time.
He seemed to leave with unseemly haste after the election and I can't see anything he did particularly disastrous. does anybody know?
I get that but I sort of looked at it the other way, that maybe Drakeford doesn't want Gethin to follow him and so took him out of the spotlight to give people the time to forget his contribution.
Giving him the chance to run another department is also a valid point but again not so high profile. I just wondered if some closer to the Labour party than am I might have known or heard something.
Just in case anyone falls into that bracket.Quote:
FAO people in #Cardiff and the Vale:
@CV_UHB
are asking people who haven't had an invite for a second vaccine 11 weeks after the first to call their phone line on 02921 841234.
https://twitter.com/GillibrandPeter/...18698090553348
Latest figures show Wales has first dosed 85.3% of people above age of 18 and second dosed 45.1%.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
looks like Portugal is coming off the green list on the day over half the adult population has had the 2 doses in England
another blow for the travel industry
With so many fully vaccinated now thought it would open up more destinations not decrease ?
"The Government put Portugal on the green list only 2.5 weeks ago..."
Yvette Cooper today. What exactly has changed in 2.5 weeks apart from people booking holidays in Portugal and now either having to cancel without easy access to compensation or go and quarantine?
If we cannot get away to countries that as safe / similar / less C19 numbers than us, then we really have issues with the future of the travel industry in the UK
with a good % having had 1 or both jabs, its almost at a point that its as good as its going to get for a while
Why do I get the impression again that Wales is going to be kept restricted more than England?
This health Minister talking about this big spike (59 cases) meaning we may have to wait, this despite continuous low hospitalisations and deaths. They seem to be cherry picking the bits of information that suit the narrative they have already decide to follow, which seems a bit arse backwards to me
The hospitality sector is being singled out again with no change to indoor restrictions, which means a lot of places that have no outdoor facilities still cannot make a living. Indoor live music can forget any hope of revival if this goes on.
Maybe so, or maybe it is because Wales is more rural, I don't know. It seems though as if restaurants and pubs (Which have far stricter controls than shops and other places) are being left behind. Not to mention indoor music venues and nightclubs. We will need to wait and see but I just get the feeling. as I said, that they have already decided to block reopening the country and as choosing the narrative now to justify it later.
I hopw I'm wrong.
xsnaggle, good reminder to us all to support our local businesses throughout this and when they're recovering after :thumbup:
"The UK regulator has approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year olds. It's now up to the JCVI to decide" as per Peter Gillibrand of ITV.
Not sure what the UK ( i will include all home nations in this ) plan / end game is
I watched a USA news article in Universal studio's theme park a few days ago, it was a big day for them, The end of social distancing, no face masks, its back to normal
yet over here we have another dark shadow lurking in the background ( be it the delta or Thai variant , which they also have in the USA )
The mindset of the 2 countries are a mile apart on life returning to normal