badgerx16

What a difference a competent Leader of the Opposition makes.

My daughter has just phoned. She says she has been shopping and everybody seemed to be acting as if the lockdown has ended and she was the only one trying to Social Distance. Aisles as busy as they have ever been, and when she waited at the till, leaving a 2m gap, three people inserted themselves in front of her.

"Visit Blackpool has rebranded as Do Not Visit Blackpool to discourage visitors as lockdown restrictions are eased. The tourism body changed its name on social media after the prime minister outlined new guidance on Sunday." "Visit Blackpool is not the only tourism organisation to make a change. Visit Chester's has become Visit Chester (Soon) and Liverpool's tourism body is Visit Liverpool Later." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-52634899

Has he had a 'coming together' ?

Scots' week was the first week of their school holidays, which were earlier than in England. Given that the Scots are keeping stricter travel restrictions, and we English have been warned not to cross any of the UK's internal borders, in theory they should stay at home. Mind you, Blackpool now seems to be where long term benefits claimants migrate to. Almost all of the ERNIE site has been demolished.

From the BBC; "Mr Johnson also says people will be allowed to drive “as far as you like" to reach outdoor spaces. " . I live exactly half way between Blackpool and Morecambe, and suspect that with the good weather and the numbers on 'furlough', such a statement will provde the incentive to test the emerging new reality, despite the leisure related businesses being closed. Over the Easter weekend Blackpool Police fined a number of people from Greater Manchester who were holding barbecues on the beach.

He's just frustrated that Teresa May didn't just tell the EU to go **** themselves when she took over from Cameron.

Given we can now drive anywhere in England to take our exercise, is Weston going to get busy ?

#obsessed

So BoJo says you can now drive to a destination to take your exercise after Wednesday. The roads to the Lake District are going to be busy.

How do you police 'stay alert' ?

No wonder people are apathetic about participating in elections.

The Electoral College penalises states with large populations or states where there is a large voter turnout, as each state has a fixed number of College votes based on the aggregate number of representatives from that state in the 2 houses of the national Government. As with General Elections in the UK being dominated by 'swing' seats, most Presidential campaigning concentrates on a comparativrly small number of swing states, as winning a state by 1 vote technically wins all of that state's EC delegates.

Come on Duckie, in a 2 way election one candidate polls 2.87 million votes more than their opponent - who wins ?

Remember, this is the berk who called his newborn child "X Æ A-12".

Surely winning the most votes in a 2 way election means that you are 'electable'. By your logic Corbyn won the November GE. Why not give us your definition of Democracy.

Surely winning the most votes in a 2 way election means that you are 'electable'. By your logic Corbyn won the November GE. Please give us your definition of Democracy.

2.87 million more votes for Clinton than Trump. Go figure.

And nearly 3 million more of them voted for Hilary Clinton than Donald Trump. The next highest deficit in the popular vote by a winning Presidential candidate was just over half a million by Dubya, polling fewer than Al Gore but aided by gerrymandering by his brother in Florida.

That would be the Democrats that won more votes than the Republicans in the last Presidential election ?

If the argument against Biden is that he is "losing his marbles" then surely the clear evidence that Trump has completely lost his weighs against his re-election ?

My 5 year old grandson's school class have been asked to talk to their grandparents to hear their memories of VE day. It was 15 years before I was born, and I reckon many of those grandparents were born in the 1970s.

So both candidates are equally unelectable.