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SEN is in special schools only I think. My wife is a SENCO and she's not heard anything.

"What if Corbyn was PM?" Yeah, that's an analytical tool right there.

Despite being very pro-EU it is becoming increasingly obvious that those in charge have rather fucked up when it comes to the vaccines. I'm very glad, despite my loathing of them, that HMG ordered big and ordered early and that they left the Royal Logistical Corp to roll out the program. Criticism and credit where it's due.

Weeks more remote learning/teaching ahead. 😭

Anything tonight is a bonus as we are going to be so exposed down the flanks.

I can only assume English isn't your 1st language.

Still winning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55796426

You cannot blame the government, and believe me, I'd love to, for not saying when schools and colleges can go back. Whatever answer they give would be wrong with a section of people. What you can and should do is hammer them for their inability to plan for exams being cancelled, failure of IT provision and the farce of feeding poor kids.

Because of my job and the jobs friends on mine have. We've been planning since LD3 began for 2 scenarios. 1) Phased returned from early/mid-March. 2) Phased return after Easter. I'd always hoped it would be 1, and I still hope it is, but it looks like it'll be 2. Trust me, all teachers would sooner be in class with the kids instead being online as delivering lessons live from 08.30 - 16.30 is soul destroying. That said, until infection rates are right down, you'll not be getting me in a small room with 30 teenagers.

That the plastic Farage is pretending he didn't get a hard on about blue passports is just a shit attempt at gaslighting.

For those with school age kids. They're not going to be back before Easter. Expect an announcement late this week or next but certainly before Feb' half term. When they do go back it's likely to be week in/week out at all levels. Also expected adjusted exams in 2022 allowing for how much face 2 face teacher has been lost for Y10/Y12.

Simply put, if you were young or educated you voted Remain. If you were old or uneducated you voted Leave. The end.

Has Window Cleaner died? He was a very good poster I thought.

I think it's fair to say that no one had any interest in Alpine's constant childish rants and strops. As tedious as Dalek's constant "17th" and "Hoddle" bolloxs.

Moved to Oz IIRC.

We've been commenting on it where I live. Clearly more people are working but also more people are driving to the shops etc due to the shit weather where as in LD1 they would walk.

I don't think he quite understands how the demographic is changing and just how pro-Europe the younger generations are. These Farage type lounge bar bores are all the same.

I've just been reading an article where companies are closing down their UK based operations that deal with the EU and setting up offices in the Netherlands instead and that the advise to do so has come directly from the Dept For Trade. That's jobs and livelihoods going.

Yeah, I get that, but not much use having empty containers in Europe if there is a shortage of them in the East.

Cool. I can't wait for Harris to be POTUS. The more salty tears from the Trumpers the better.

Dumb question incoming. Don't they ship the empties back??

Diallo was always going to be a good signing. At the moment he looks an insanely good signing. I particularly like the way he's been eased into the team.

I've a friend in my part of the world who has made his fortune importing table lamps, floor lamps, ceiling light fittings and the like from China and then re-selling them in the UK and the EU. He's done it very successfully and fair play to him to branching out on his own, taking a risk and seeing an opportunity. We've been chatting on Discord as we sat on our turbo trainers due to the snow. Apparently he's trying to get a container to ship an order to the UK. Usually it would cost circa $3k but he's been quoted $14k to the UK or $8k to Antwerp/Rotterdam/Hamburg. This is due to a world wide shortage of shipping containers, which seems barmy but it's obviously true. Another problem, apparently, is that if he gets it shipped to one of the European ports he's struggling to find a haulier to bring it over as they're not interested in all the extra paperwork and general pain in the arseness of coming to the UK. I knew they'd been issues with haulage but I didn't realise it was quite that bad. The 3rd thing is that the extra burden of costs paperwork / customs / VAT is scaring off EU buyers which makes up 1/3 of his business. Parcels are being returned as when they arrive and extra money is needed to be paid, buyers are refusing to and goods get shipped back. Sounds pretty grim and a perfect storm for a number of businesses and I hope this all settles down as soon as possible as a lot of small business don't deserve this.

https://www.ft.com/content/c26c550e-df9f-4973-b476-d701e341f676 Shocked I tellz you. Shocked I am.