kevinjohnsonmbe

Maybe J will do one ? (A) Trump is a turnip (B). UK Planning regs are pants (C). I love the EU (D) I want the dotGov tracker but only if it gives a loud audio/vibrate alarm for proximity to UKIPers Im only gonna vote if the app also has political tendencies included in the data. It might be a redundancy function (for now) but it would make so much sense to future proof it now and allow for the effective segregation and re-education of Momentum types as we move ever closer to a Boris cult.

Turnip!

Flashback to O Level economics ? that was a blast from the past!! ? Frighteningly accurate when we take a long hard look at ourselves though... Human nature is a dangerous thing (whilst drinking columbian coffee sat in front of the iMac powered by energy from a French owned company and presenting an American icon to emphasise the point.) ?

This is a really short piece but it highlights some of the point I was trying to make: DEFINE_ME WWW.THELANCET.COM "...This is most troubling given the time of year—the Spring Festival celebration, which sees a lot of movement to and around China, with people rushing home to celebrate and subsequently returning to their usual place or country of residence..." Whether it be MERS, SARS COVID, Ebola, and a whole host of 'lesser' infectious diseases (and grotesque ideological fantasies such as FGM) the discussion has to be had, or at least it should be had, by global leaders responsible for setting grand strategic policies. Either we carry on with this physical, emotional, economic, societal 'lock-down' - with all its consequential implications - or we stop trade, movement, collaboration etc with areas that are likely to infect us in the future. I know it's a big shift change but surely, this is an either / or situation based upon the guaranteed recurrence of something like, or worse, than we currently have. The so-called incentives for cheap manufacturing and migration from alien (we have not evolved in unison) cultures can be wiped out in an instant as soon as something like this occurs. Are we to live forever in fear and preparedness for the new norm of routine lock-down and isolation as the price we pay for global trade / movement and the threat of intercontinental transportation of future virus? I can't help but make the comparison with EU expansionism. Had the EU stayed as the original (+) small group of like minded, culturally, economically, geographically, politically similar cohort, I would probably have been in favour of the institution. It got too big, it got too diverse and it is/will continue to destroy itself as a consequence. Why have we been so keen to forge ever greater integration with other nations? Cheap labour which supports growth in GDP - in its very simplest from. I guess there are comparisons with the time of Empires. Maybe it's time to take a proper look at why we use GDP as the key measure of national economic 'success' and start to place greater value upon the more holistic human needs. Maybe it's time to recognise the unintended benefits that have come from this situation and build them into the vision for the future.

DEFRA input was pretty lame.

Any body else log in?\\ Enjoyed that!

Just arguing in general really..... Genuinely, it did start with an argument with my boss, who asked me to explain my thinking to his boss (who told me to fuck off) then after he’d spoken to his boss, asked me to run through it again.... And therein lies the start (of a small part) of a tale that changed the course of an international conflict.

He was invested MBE same day as me - he wore a bottle green crushed velvet morning suit. Was a bit of a blast!

I wasn’t gonna bother with a reply - you 2 were doing it for me ???

1 x migrant actually equates to how many family members that may visit, how many trips ‘home’ in a life time? I actually mean all flavours, colours, creeds, breeds, etc. The virus (Whether it be COVID or Ash dieback ( perhaps to a lesser degree but illustrative none the less)) doesn’t really transport itself very far. It’s the movement of PEOPLE (and/or international trade) that is the root of the problem. An unpalatable reality maybe, but pretty simple really.... Doesn't the current situation drive home the obvious reality that international travel is a bad idea? People all over the world are breathing cleaner air because the planes are grounded and car travel is minimised. How many premature respiratory disease deaths have been avoided as a direct consequence of C19? C19 mortality rates need to be adjusted in relation to the reduction in air pollution respiratory disease related deaths. What a crazy time we live in! Those with ‘green’ leanings must recognise the benefits of a cessation of international travel. That must cause some intellectual conflict with open border types....

Does anyone that supports international migration and a So-called ‘world without borders’ still need any evidence for the dangers of unrestricted migration?

Consumers' right to cancel detail is fairly well set out here: Cancelling a service you’ve arranged WWW.CITIZENSADVICE.ORG.UK When you can cancel a service, how to get your money back, how to negotiate with the business. Your obligations (if quote provided at the customers premise) is set out here: Door to door sales - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties Somewhere in the middle of the 2 is the quote sent by email / mail after leaving the potential customers premise. Have you incurred any loss? Equipment hire or staff costs? If yes, and all your paperwork is in order and it is outwith the cancellation period which you provided to the customer and if it's worth the bother.... On one occasion, I spent several hours on site visits, 3 journeys because I wanted to speak to the son of the elderly lady as well as the elderly lady, arranged additional staff and MEWP for 1 particular job. Got it all agreed and signed off, 1 week before start date they cancelled and got their nephew to do it weekends and evenings (he worked for a utility arb firm.) That's OK I thought, I'll take it on the chin, apologise to the climbers and cancel the MEWP. The son of the elderly lady had his furniture re-upholstery shop at the address. He was very proud of his product and I spent a bit of time in there chatting because it was interesting. I wonder if he ever figured out who it was that phoned him from a big flash country house 160 round trip miles away asking if he'd come and take on a long term, large scale re-upholstery task. It was a cracking wedding I was at, might have had a few beers and got on the phone....

I’m struggling to understand what it is you’ve actually done.... Are you saying you paid someone £600 on the empty promise that they’d get you some leads with customers you’ve never met and at prices they won’t question.... I’m genuinely at a loss for words!

I can't understand why they went with a national approach rather than a regional one. Other than the obvious Londoncentric mentality of Westminster maybe. Metropolitan centres with international air / rail hubs and population density are vastly different beasts to the rest (majority?) of the nation. With proper / strict movement restrictions (M25, Wales, Cornwall etc etc - I'm sure there are more that could have been defined) surely there could have been a tiered approach to the whole thing rather than a national one...

Doubtless some elements of truth in that....

Same in Cornwall. ? Had to watch this again..... (I'm actually crying now ! ???)

They (the government) (a) shouldn't be focussing on item specifics - they should be focussing on 'effect', more importantly, (b) they shouldn't really even be focussing on 'effect', that should be local / departmental, they should be focussing on strategy! (I'm kind of agreeing with you Mark (about the numbers thing) and the attached post isn't directed 'at you' it's just that it kind of fit the point

Just a little tweak.... ?

You haven’t got it wrong mate, you’ve just assimilated the information the BBC wanted you to from their 1 minute edited version of an hours briefing. They’ve cut and spliced entirely separate sections to present a message that never actually existed in the first place. Straight out of the Jon Sweeney playbook.

That’s ‘dark’, but bloody funny....

Fair play, if you took your news feed from the BBC you’d maybe be justified in thinking Trump a total fool that suggested drinking or injecting bleach as a cure for C19. There’s no getting away from the fact that he does come across as a total loon at times. But it just doesn’t add up. How can he have achieved so much if he is the buffoon that he is portrayed as? Is it media misdirection and misinformation? I can see why some are fundamentally opposed to him but anyone with an ounce of intelligence must be questioning the sources of their opinion forming material.