Mudface

We see a group of my wife's old school friends quite regularly, nearly all of them are Catholic and left-leaning- none are what you would call even remotely 'Unionist'. Out of the 15 or so people, it was only me and my missus who actually voted 'Yes', all of the others ranged from wary to very hostile.

Yes, a fairly detailed one as well- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland's_Future As Mook says, the currency issue was largely fudged- I went ahead and voted 'Yes' as getting away from the fucking Tories would be a massive gain...

Ha, I think he'd be told to piss off in no uncertain terms, it's the supposed patriots like Trump and Johnson who'd bend the knee to that cunt and his corrupt friends. It would take a while to sort out I'm sure, negotiating re-entry to the EU would be high on the agenda, as would either adopting the Euro or creating its own currency. None of those would happen quickly.

Ethnic nationalism is the problem, the SNP promotes civic nationalism. This blog explains it pretty well- https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/scottish-nationalism-stands-apart-from-other-secessionist-movements-for-being-civic-in-origin-rather-than-ethnic/

The beginning of the end?

24? Scotland has 9, Wales 15 new infections. There's been 1 death in Wales, but the Scotland figure hasn't been announced yet- https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/

Just the same way other small countries like Ireland manage to- taxes on the population, income through tourism and exploitation of natural resources.

There is? I'm English and have lived in Scotland for about 7 years now. I've never felt the SNP displayed any anti-English bigotry, and they're certainly nothing like UKIP. They promote civic, not ethnic nationalism and are broadly soft-left, social democrats. Also, as Mook says, the notion of Scotland being a basket case failed economy subsidised by the rest of the UK is a myth.

Yeah, there's quite a few in the comments having a pop at him for being biased and unfair. I love it...

Nice hatchet job on Moyes- https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/04/david-moyess-sorry-sunderland-saga-bodes-ill-for-west-ham Good to see this dour, bitter old fraud getting called out.

Aye, just seen that- thanks.

Oops-

It's actually over 15% if you just directly compare reported deaths to positive tests; that goes to over 20% if you consider excess deaths. No one knows if we're testing enough as the government stopped reporting the number of people being tested over a month ago. The figure given for the number of daily tests is largely a political one to fit in with whatever wild promises Hancock or Johnson made at the time to get out of hostile questioning. It may or may not include test kits just put in the post, it might be be double counted for nose and throat swabs and probably includes antigen testing. It may or may not be enough- in keeping with everything these corrupt, incompetent cunts do, figures are obfuscated or altered at will to fit in with whatever perception management crisis they're facing. Back to antigen testing, that 'game changer' seemingly is either nowhere near as accurate as originally claimed, or many people simply don't develop antibodies- we've had a number of these game-changing miracles, none of which have panned out. Oh, and apparently children don't really catch it bad or spread it, so we sent some of them back to school for a few weeks for no real reason, then found out that there was a big spike in cases in Leicester amongst under-19s. So, we've got no real idea of how many people have had the disease or of how many people have been tested and the headline death figures have seemingly been subject to manipulation to keep them below 1000 a day at their peak. The siren calls of 'well, loads of people have had it really, they're just asymptomatic' are loud and clear now despite no real evidence, and we're going to ease the more populist lockdown measures for short term headlines. I'd like to think we're confident that it's under control and we won't end up in the disastrous situation of the US, given past form and the way dissenting scientific views are discarded if they don't fit whatever the government wants to do, I'd say we're in for a bumpy ride. Again.

Bit too old for me, does she have any younger friends? (Sorry)

Talking of which, here's the fat, drunken old bastard this afternoon-

I just feel sorry for all the Reds who paid good money to go and see that shite.

Exactly, the fear of rejection (or even outright humiliation, teenage girls can be absolute bitches) trumps the potential gains.

And pray.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-new-cases-rise-in-36-local-authorities-in-england-12019667 Some of the rises are relatively small, but most of the first 10 on the list are pretty worrying-

There are 2 million people shielding, that's not going to work unless the rest of the population are in lockdown.

Looks like it, yeah- the 7 day average has been around 120 or so since the 23rd of June, fitting in with the average daily infections not really moving much from early to mid June. 7 day average daily infections have gone down by maybe 20% since the 23rd so presumably deaths over the next couple of weeks will follow the same trajectory. If you hover the mouse or click on the first chart here, you can see the figures each plus the 7 day averages- https://coronavstats.co.uk

Four fingers of Fudge is just enough...