JohnL

They'll sack whoever made the report or call them a pen pushing civil servant if whats happened before is anything to go by. It does say "Cabinet Office" - I thought that was Gove and Cummings after the latest changes. Actually googling the name links to the below https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/no10-reveals-details-of-taskforce-europe-as-dexeu-closure-looms A team headed by a guy called Boris Johnson :)

I agree it was a whole package and we need a whole package to move away from the current transport system to wahtever replaces it (electric cars, auto-navigation, driverless, better public transport etc.).

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's akin to raising duty on > cigarettes to deter smoking, people will stretch > their finances to buy them as they want / need > them, which whilst it's comparing apples to > porcupines is still how drivers and families will > look at their cars and journeys especially when > the weather starts getting worse. Taxing smokers was one of the best policies ever - saved so many lives.

They were doing this for the Scaffolders originally (someone has scaffolding up in the closed area) It seems to have expanded a bit - maybe the delivery drivers picked up on it. A certain pool bar owner was interviewed in Southwark News too about deliveries and taxis. https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/do-they-want-to-kill-the-business-peckham-nightclub-owner-hits-out-at-rye-lane-closures/

Apparently the dodgy issue is seeds from china - the rest just keep and ignore.

LOL whan I was young I thought everyone the age I am now was crazy for wanting to follow the rules :)

Well the cough I had back in February when it spread like wildfire through our office was just a normal cough - but persistent (you coughed a lot). No proof it was Covid.

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So A and A* are up from 25.2% last year to 37.7% > this year under teacher assessment...watch out for > the drop-outs unless the universities dumb down > their courses or add on foundation years! > Obviously the previous algorithm benefitted small > classes (German, Latin...) and small independent > schools disproportionately but this is no better. It's a one year thing due to the special circumstances. Why do you think people drop out of University - not clever enough, lazy, problems with accommodation or personal problems etc. I would say the social problems are the biggest reasons for drop-out not inability to do the course.

Yeslovewhatcanigetu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?m glad there are more people starting to see > sense and taking a more balanced view. The chances > of getting Covid in Memsaab are pretty tiny, and > if you?re worried about it, agree that you?re > probably better off getting a takeaway. We're a country that follows the rules - If you start thinking you're above the rules then you may as well forget health and safety too.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In fairness, eD generally does answer questions > and no doubt will this one. > > slarti b Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > exDulwicher, It looks like you don't want to > > answer my question about which roads the > traffic > > displaced by the OHS scheme would end up using. > > > Any reason why please? If traffic doesn't move then people will find another way - that's the plan. In Wales they've just cancelled the M4 bypass amid moans and fury - but traffic schemes are being cancelled everywhere. Just maybe people know something about the future we don't - it's going to be driverless.

Rebs_ED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If roads like Derwent Grove are made effectively > dead ends - what do things like the bin lorries > do? Or delivery vans? same as they do for Cul de Sacs (the posh name for dead ends)

The Star claims today he knew Six Weeks ago about the algorithm preferring richer schools but Gavin's got a chance to shine when he appears before the Education Select committee next month if he can find it.

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The figures that worry me most are the number of > people that catch the virus each day which > apparently has gone down from 3,800 PER DAY to > 2,400 per day. Add to that the symptom-less but > contagious and the people who have it but carry on > regardless (like a man in Sainsbury's car park a > couple of weeks ago who was coughing continuously > as he loaded his car and put his trolley > back...making no effort to contain the coughing > which sounded different to any cough I've ever > heard before- and he was red in the face and > sweating!) > So it is no surprise that spikes are cropping up > everywhere. > > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8650873/I > s-Englands-Covid-19-outbreak-finally-shrinking-goo > d-ONS-estimates-2-400-new-cases-day.html?ito=push- > notification&ci=29265&si=13475645 > > there is no room for complacency imo Don't always blame coughers - I had some red wine go down the wrong way last night and coughed for 10 minutes :(

Shrieker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Medic Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Shrieker, you've obviously registered today to > > have a rant about this particular business. Can > > you answer me this, does it comply with the > covid > > restrictions for restaurants? If so, isn't that > > all you need to say? If not, why not? > > Even if it didnt comply with 'covid restrictions' > it doesnt matter- you take the personal decision > to go to a restaurant and take the risk. > > Mate, the place could be completely empty bar the > server and yourself, but if he has it or doesnt > wash his hands there is just a good a chance > you'll catch it even if the place was heaving. But > at the moment the chance of catching it in either > scenario is virtually nil, so its incredible that > this person ran crying to trading standards. Hope > they get completely ignored. That isn't how it works though (whatever you think about common sense). If there's an issue they'll investigate whatever the chances of transmission just like if my car tyres are not inflated properly I'll get fined even if an accident wasn't my fault.

My work team is half German, half UK so it effects our rotas. Must be other international companies in the same boat. Companies will keep staff who can be effectively 4 days a week against those on 5 day weeks (that's how the German system has worked all along - not on furlough 100% of the time). Alternative is offer 4/5ths of pay for 2 years - no government contribution.

Hey - Papers are things you buy if you want and "political leanings" is just a game to sell papers Don't forget Reach PLC owns both the left wing Mirror and the ultra right wing Express and is happy to share journalists across the two.

It should be 6 feet between tables at the moment as far as I can tell - should be marked out as that then makes it obvious.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/germany-to-extend-coronavirus-furlough-to-24-months Countries tend to be following each other in these schemses so I wouldn't be surprised if the UK follows suite at some stage.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely no-one, other than the most hardened > pro-cycle headbanger can defend all this > disruption and increase in pollution elsewhere for > a 10% reduction in car use? > > Cue responses from hardened pro-cycle > headbangers...;-) Notice how all the government ministers seem to cycle - from Boris down - however silly they look. read Boris's meanderings https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/07/27/well-build-thousands-of-miles-of-protected-cycleways-pledges-boris-johnson/#37b8991f6b2c 'The bicycle, said Johnson, was a ?giant, universal prescription? and the new cycleways would become ?huge, 24-hour gyms, free and open to everyone.?'

if there's huge queues on the main roads due to displacement then more traffic will evaporate as people give up and try to find other ways of doing things. Surely that's the plan.

The strange thing was Gav only realised over the weekend what everyone else knew all week. Someone should have had a word.

The clock, The fan, The mug and .. the Whip

I must say I'd prefer School Services to say "School Service" on the front or even be yellow. There's completely separate reasons why schoolchildren should have separate transport I guess.

It's not a case of current traffic (petrol/diesel) evaporating - it's a case it MUST evaporate. You might find in future you don't have a choice of what route you take - you just move like a train.

I work with German co-workers and they have workers councils that have a lot more say in the governance of the company than anything we have. Doesn't seem to do Germany much harm although it can draw changes out as they need to consult with the workers council.