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No racism in the Tory Party. https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/the-tory-party-guide-to-purging-your-party-of-racism-20201030202033

I'm more concerned about the £12bn spent on the "world-beating" track and trace which has just had it's worst week. Boris was boasting that 100% of test results would be returned within 24 hours. Last week it was 15%. Despite local health authorities performing the best, the government continue to pour money into badly-performing private companies, many with links to the Tories. This Dido Harding woman who's supposed to be in charge seems to have vanished.

Brilliant. I bet that wound up the Daily Mail mob (in fact, that's probably why they did it).

I find it somewhat disturbing that the "world beating" track and trace system lost 16000 records recently. The apparent reason was that they were using Excel spreadsheets to store the data as it came in from around the country. They were using an ancient file format which had a limit of 64000 rows. The data was received in CSV files so if your had 100000 records to load, it would stop at 64000 and ignore the rest. Basic good practice is that you check the final record of your input file to make sure that it's the same as the final record of the spreadsheet. This obviously didn't happen. What with this and an app that won't load on older smart phones (including my 4-year old IPhone) it's one shambles after another.

Technology is always moving forward. In California they are experimenting with a type of zinc battery which provides equal performance to Lithium while holding a charge for longer. They are also developing organic flow batteries (don't ask me to explain how they work) which have greater storage density, lower cost and more environmentally friendly. All this is for grid storage to smooth out the peaks and troughs of wind and solar power.

That's where storage comes in. There's been considerable advances in storage technology, particularly using Lithium-Ion batteries. 95% efficient and storing up to 100MW. Quite costly at the moment but a lot of research going on to reduce this. Can be used with wind, solar and wave power and are already used in locations to cover breaks in conventional energy generation.

Can you put forward any evidence to back up your strange equine-obsessed remarks?

What other ports have the infrastructure to make much of an impact on the up to 10000 trucks that go through Dover every day? Can they take the large ferries that operate into Dover? How many ro-ro berths do they have (Dover can unload 7 ships simultaneously)?

Like this perhaps: https://newsthump.com/2020/10/05/conference-tensions-as-tories-suspect-the-idle-bumbling-chancer-they-chose-as-leader-might-be-an-idle-bumbling-chancer/

Man City last season?

Infected by a Democratic hoax. I assume he's drinking bleach to cure the non-existent virus.

Is that Groucho Marx?

The exemption doesn't prove anything. Anyone can download one. Total farce.

Same here. Should be based on the full amount. The credit from last season was for the games we missed so should be entirely separate. It was easier than them having to refund you the cash.

But do you then need a mirror to read it?

Is he wearing his wife's shoes?

Been working my way through Prison Break. The plot has more holes than a Swiss cheese but I have to keep watching to see how they escape from the next impossible situation.

If we get a new creative midfielder this month then let him go. If we don't we should hang on to him. Djenepo is a bit physically fragile and Ralph can't moan about the lack of depth in the squad if he gets rid of a player with some creativity (albeit not consistently enough).

How did that happen? I thought that all of our systems were "world beating"? Do you thing that Boris and Matt have been fibbing?

A bit of light relief: https://newsthump.com/2020/09/14/brexiters-weirdly-terrible-at-brexit/

Remember, if you're in a group of more than 6, make sure that you have a Pheasant or Grouse with you then you'll be OK.

Quite right. Sacked from The Times for lying. Michael Howard sacked him as a shadow minister and party vice-chairman for lying about his mistress having 2 abortions, used racist and homophobic language, refuses to say how many children he has. How much smearing can a man take?

We account for 16% of their exports whereas they account for 43% of ours. I think that we've got more to lose than them.

Indeed, with Japan accounting for a whopping 2% of our trade, it'll add 0.07% to our GDP. Out of the £15bn value of the deal, Japan gets 80%. Seems like a bargain.

After DaGrosa sold Bordeaux he was looking to buy Roma. This was the message sent to Roma fans by Bordeaux fans: Roman friends, do not make the same mistake as Bordeaux with Da Grosa. This man and his gang (Hugo Varela) are crooks, they emptied the Bordeaux coffers and left like thieves (more than 50 M € deficit in 1 year) .DA GROSA OUT! ESPECIALLY DON'T SELL TO DA GROSA !