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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: Ten years... · 1 reply · +1 points

Absolutely word for word what I was thinking.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Macdonald: Are th... · 0 replies · +1 points

Excellent point.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Macdonald: Are th... · 1 reply · +1 points

The technology to produce hydrogen from electricity and water is developing very rapidly indeed.

Overnight electricity output from renewables (except solar of course) is currently underutilised. The production in the near future of hydrogen at night from electricity sources that feed the grid in daytime will dramatically reduce cost against today's prices. The world will beat a path to our door.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Macdonald: Are th... · 0 replies · +1 points

Indeed.

IR35 is effectively an answer to the question "what policy can we bring in to demonstrate we are no longer the Party of agile business, entrepreneurship and light touch Government?"

Given that it will inevitably be crassly mismanaged too, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

I'm moving my business to Dublin.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Universal Credit U... · 1 reply · +1 points

Low wages being supplemented by benefit are a complex, inefficient way to subsidise the profit of the businesses concerned.

Better, simpler, to either give the money to business, to pass on as wages (less admin, more dignity for worker) or stop in-work benefits & let the businesses who can't afford to pay people properly fail.

As it is, our benefit system is utterly unfit for purpose; go online & check what you're entitled to after decades of paying NI.

It's not enough to live on.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Sammy Wilson: The Nort... · 1 reply · +1 points

I think Ship1827 is referring to the horrible nature of the DUP as a group and as individuals, and that their discomfiture is - even in the midst of a wider tragedy - cause for a certain amount of giggling.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Sammy Wilson: The Nort... · 0 replies · +1 points

+1

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 0 replies · +1 points

We don't have a large conservative majority.

Far more people vote for left/centre left than for us.

Last GE we got under 30% of the potential votes (including TBP & UKIP as "conservative").

Labour, Libs, SNP etc got almost 40%.

These are voting population figures not vote cast figures.

We do not live in a conservative country; the FPTP system, with only one serious Right/centre right party & several left/centre left parties, gives the illusion of a Tory fanclub sweeping the nation.

Tain't so.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 1 reply · +1 points

Everyone who votes votes for the current model because every party has it in their manifesto.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gimson, Gimson, Gimson... · 1 reply · +1 points

My related, unsettling, experience occurred after I was tested positive.

The caller asked when my first symptom had appeared.

I told him I had no symptoms, and had been tested because my son had symptoms.

At this the caller asked about headaches, muscular aches, and other things (some of which I had) but which were - and are- not on the list of "trigger" symptoms to prompt a test.

I assume that this more detailed list only used (at that stage - October) was soundly based.

My question is, if these symptoms are associated with Covid but are not promulgated as "get a test" symptoms, how many transmissions are due to innocent ignorance of positive Covid status?

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