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[1 nhs] 29/2/2020 11:10

By Wednesday of this week, the number of virus cases, on a pro rata basis, in South Korea will have overtaken CHINA.

(South Korea tells the truth .)


This is unequivocal evidence that the Chinese official numbers are Totally false.

This true virus infection rate, is 10, 50,100, or 1,000 Times higher, than the world has been told by the Chinese.

Numbers today

China 1.3BN POPULATION Virus cases 80,000

South Korea 50 Million Virus cases 3,000

[gbh2] 29/2/2020 11:09

It's the Ten Year Cash elevator cycle.

Stock markets crashed by deep pocket sellers and panicked PIs, the same deep pockets repurchase at a 10% discount and the PIs try to catch up once they're certain it's not a Dead Cat Bounce, which means they end up paying a premium on what the money men paid.

In the end the Cash elevator moves money up from the moderately wealthy to the stinking rich, been going on for years!

[wllmherk] 29/2/2020 11:06

Complete nonsense alex, this will be over by the Summer if not before. I'm buying as much as I can at these bombed-out prices.

wllm

PS-LLOY now my second-largest holding behind BP.

[alphorn] 29/2/2020 11:06

M - very simply put "Live by the sword, die by the sword"

Time will tell.

[gotnorolex] 29/2/2020 11:06

Civil servants brief against their political bosses all he time and cal lit whistle blowing to claim immunity and anonymity. Journalists do it all the time to gain notoriety! MP's say anything derogatory they wish in the house using Parliamentary privilege, hoping to claim a scalp!

[utrickytrees] 29/2/2020 11:05

On disgruntled Whitehall officials suing the government for constructive dismissal I say bring it on let's get all the Whitehall Brexit skeletons in the public domain.

[minerve 2] 29/2/2020 11:04

Autocratic leadership might work with those who are poorly skilled, don't have the wherewithal to seek other employment and don't see themselves as part of the transient, dynamic employable part of the economy. With the rest, it doesn't work at all. They know they deserve better and they seek it.

[maxk] 29/2/2020 10:52

Briefing against your boss..


"Positive and productive work"



Sure!

[alex1621] 29/2/2020 10:48

The Chinese are showing numbers that suggest they are finally getting a grip on the virus. And they are encouraging people back to work to get demand and supply ramped up again. What could possibly go wrong? An explosion of secondary infections perhaps ... something tells me China and now the world have a long way to go. Iran is a disaster ... India could not cope ... and Africa ditto. My take on this is a sharp and shocking world recession with a relatively steep recovery once the virus is under control. I think we'll be living with this throughout 2020, and I doubt we'll see good news until 2021.

[minerve 2] 29/2/2020 10:44

More like too much of a mess.

Sensible and intelligent people like controlled environments, not childish forms of anarchy.

[gotnorolex] 29/2/2020 10:40

Too hot in the kitchen!

[minerve 2] 29/2/2020 10:34

He'll probably win the case as well knowing the opposition.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 29/2/2020 10:18

@Scruff.

That is why the Chinese numbers dont add up.

Why quarantine 700 million people for a lousy bout of flu and 2000 odd deaths?

Doesnt make sense in the first instance to any sane person.

So they must know how bad this virus really is.


@Mitchy

India has only 3 cases presumably because they've only used a few testing kits!

Also an urban legend this is more dangerous to Asian people as well I gather despite the ACE2 enzyme angle.

[maxk] 29/2/2020 09:46

Boris Johnson signed contract giving Dominic Cummings 'jurisdiction' over government projects

The Prime Minister has also given his assistant authority over special advisers


By
Camilla Tominey,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
28 February 2020 • 9:30pm



Dominic Cummings asked Boris Johnson to sign a contract giving him special powers in Downing Street, The Telegraph has learned.

Although employed under the lowly title of "assistant to the Prime Minister", Mr Cummings is understood to have a special agreement, believed to carry Mr Johnson’s signature, spelling out his authority over special advisers (SpAds).

It also confirms his jurisdiction over other government projects such as ARPA, the Tories’ pledge to recreate the United States’ Advanced Research Projects Agency in Britain.

The revelation underlines the extent of the power wielded in Number 10 by the controversial former Vote Leave campaign director, who was once described as a "career psychopath" by David Cameron....



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[alphorn] 29/2/2020 09:39

#612. That would be a bit obvious as a bribe for the electorate. I expect that the Budget will be bullish for domestics but maybe any big decisions will be deferred until there is more clarity in the trade talks. Some powder needs to be kept dry.

(Just for Poika - re. powder, no doubt you know the origins of Navy Proof)?

[maxk] 29/2/2020 09:34

Now that Yorkshire Tea’s been cancelled, what should the Left boycott next?


MICHAEL DEACON
PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER
29 FEBRUARY 2020 • 7:00AM







Being a 21st-century socialist isn’t easy. Maintaining total ideological purity requires constant vigilance. This week Rishi Sunak, the new Tory Chancellor, revealed that he likes drinking Yorkshire Tea. En masse, Left-wing Twitter users announced that they would never drink Yorkshire Tea again.

But what other steps should the self-respecting socialist take to avoid inadvertent exposure to Toriness?


1 Newspapers

Boycott all Right-wing neoliberal Zionist anti-Corbyn newspapers. Especially the Guardian, the Independent and the Mirror.

2 The BBC

As every supporter of Jeremy Corbyn knows, the BBC is Tory. In fact it’s so Tory that throughout its existence it has deliberately plotted to make the Tories think it’s anti-Tory, so that the Tories will abolish it. Which is what the BBC wants. Because everyone at the BBC is a Tory. And Tories hate the BBC. They’re cunning, these Tories....




Paywall:

[diku] 29/2/2020 09:15

From the media...tax cut coming...and what about corporation tax?...





An income tax cut and a fleet of electric car-charging stations were just some of the proposals in Sajid Javid’s planned budget, the former chancellor has said.

Mr Javid, who resigned from the Government after a dispute with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanted to cut the tax’s basic rate from 20p to 18p from April and had plans to reduce the basic rate to 15p from 2025.

The Bromsgrove MP told The Times that such cuts were a “good thing” as his successor, Rishi Sunak, prepares to deliver his first budget on March 11.

[alphorn] 29/2/2020 09:05

P - most profitable time since the election so going very well indeed; often difficult to time a cash in of gains. I hope the same for you.

[bargainbob] 29/2/2020 09:03

John Redwood Fud

[poikka] 29/2/2020 09:02

Alps, I really think that you should clear off to wherever you went after the election didn't go your way.