"I went for a drive to see if I was safe to drive"

Why take your wife and kids if you're unsure if you're safe to drive?

Was there a choice?

He couldn't possibly go alone to check could he? What if he found out it wasn't safe? At that point he needs to pull over and let someone else take over doesn't he? Presumably that person is the only other adult he's currently not required to socially distance from, that being his wife.

If he has to take his wife with him to potentially take over driving then what do they do with their child? I assume they can't leave him/her home alone? That means it's either leave with the grand parents or take along for the ride. Taking along for the ride seems more sensible than leaving with the grand parents at this stage?

Then why can't she just take over on the drive to London.

It's the most ridiculous concoction of an excuse.

callous?

really?

It was exactly what people were told to do. stay away. Including funerals


Anyway, I have never known such an absent prime minister. And in a time of national crisis — it beggars belief.

He's done one daily briefing since his return. One pre-recorded TV appearance too.

Got rogered every Wednesday at PMQs

Apart from that? not exactly Chruchillian leadership is it?

Is it callous, imo, yes.

We all break guidelines and even laws with impunity a lot of the time so it's a bit silly to act like this is the only sacrosanct rule we should never break - borderline moronic tbf

its very simple. the brazen hypocrisy of one thing for all of us and one for him. People don’t like being taken for fools, especially when so many people have made huge sacrifices to do their best.

Exactly this. Could not be MORE hypocritical. Do as I say,not as I do. All animals are equal...

It's an absolute joke if you ask me and he should have tendered as soon as it broke.

Very interesting perspective from someone who seems to know his stuff. Basically saying herd immunity is the correct and only approach. It's 40minutes but quite interesting

"Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus.

Further, he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures.  In other words, nature had already achieved, or nearly achieved, herd immunity."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg can't seem to embed it for some reason but there's the link

What is going on with Biden?

Have seen a few videos where he comes across as spaced-out, slow, not with it. Not able to string anything but the most basic sentences together. Dunno how much he is always like this.

Trump would wipe the floor with him in a debate imo

I've forgotten what happened at the money wire place; can someone remind me please?

The German construction supervisor went there to collect money from his wife. Mike tracked him there, shortly followed by the Sallamanca’s newest boss up from Mexico (Hector’s nephew - Tulo? Anyway, Tulo killed the guy at the office before looking at the cctv tapes....

ahh yes ty ty

I've forgotten what happened at the money wire place; can someone remind me please?

    finally some good news for the self employed, which is a relief

80% of net  monthly earnings to be paid , taken as an average from last 3 years

or £2947 whichever is lower

Is this confirmed?

Any links as would like to share if true.

No. This was an amendment to the bill that passed but it didn't get voted on.

Hillary is 27-1 on BF to be the democratic nominee. What does that path look like? Death of Biden?

Who’s gonna be first to have a moan up after all that support offered by the government? Come on don’t let me down!

No support for freelancers/self-employed/gig-economy types, renters etc. Guess some can get JSA/universal credit & housing benefit but others might not be able to.

"Cheer" on Netflix is a six part documentary about cheerleaders. It's awesome (truly!)

Sterling has been sliding all day, but just jumped back up, someone has confidence of a Tory win.

bf move from 1.61 to 1.4 con maj also. Mad this stuff

Will these polls capture the increased young participation? Are landline surveys going to capture that?

Being the one stopped clock last time might not mean much

I've been doing some polling and calling people and damn it's hard to get hold of 18-34 year olds, and slightly less hard to get 35-44 year olds. We have been calling mobiles as well as landlines but...

People have made some good points about a second referendum. I actually think it would bring the country together, because it would finally bring a conclusion to it all.

I think the genuine sticking point is what should be on the ballot paper. I'm not sure it should be remain v leave on WTO. I'd imagine there are plenty of folk out there who voted Brexit, who'd like to leave with a deal. I think that would polarise those voters, and that the leave vote would lose out. I genuinely want it to be as fair as possible, and to also please leave voters who wouldn't want a second vote.

Single transferable vote would mean they wouldn't miss out. But as stated we would be in a spot with people not knowing what the agreed deal really was

If your laptop is just feeling a bit slow Tom and the screen, keyboard etc. are OK, buy a SSD and replace the current hard disk. Will feel like you've stuck a turbocharger in it and only costs £40ish.

I think it's really too old now. Stuff keeps failing, drivers go missing etc.

"X has stopped working. Windows will close the programme and notify you if a solution is available"

I was running XP (I loved XP) but they stopped supporting it so I installed Vista. Now vista has gone to the wall and my lappy doesn't have the cajhones to run Windows 10.

windows 7 is miles ahead of Vista and would run a lot better

7 hours of cabinet meetings for that?!