a lot depends on how much you personally use them or taking flights abroad. for me the amount i spend on the first is very little and the second zero. looking at things from the hospitality angle only that this is 4 weeks where they make a big percentage of their profits. if many do close with their workers on the dole then its no worse than industries in the past where many could not have cared less about them. industrial north of england comes readily to mind.

Is this a warning ? or Keir Starmer's only contribution to the political year kpg??.... Labour in next year ??

Abbot and Rayner in charge?

Who needs a party at No 10 when you can enjoy a can of mojito on London public transport eh ?

if things feel bad always be wary of the other alternative. the lefty, lockdown and greeny pack of fools.

Just read this.......

How effective is Astrazeneca against Omicron?
If you had an Astrazeneca jab six months ago, the vaccine’s effectiveness against a symptomatic Omicron infection is close to zero, according to the UKHSA.

However if your first two jabs were Astrazeneca, you can have a Pfizer booster jab, after which you should have 70 percent vaccine effectiveness against becoming ill with symptoms.

I understand the Moderna works in the same way as Pfizer to hopefully it should give 70% too but no data is yet available.

Really pleased i got my booster a few weeks ago!!!!

Looking at the latest news i'd be asking for the windows to be fully opened at your venue snowy..are you sure you want to go??

Isn't it a bit too early to be coming out with all these figures mr bluestreak? this time next year maybe?

This is a statement from UK Health Security Agency set up in 2021 to replace Public Health England. Uk Government.

I think a quiet lunch for four as opposed to a Bacchanalian orgy in the Sodom and Gomorrah Arms complete with naked women and lewd novelty acts with a variety of kitchen utensils and air powered tools is a fairly safe bet still.

You'll be fine,as long as the chef doesn't have a scratchy neck and cough snowy.

A friend of mine went for his booster yesterday in Sheffield and got egged as he came out. Unbelievable Jeff.

As you’re the oldest swinger in Eastbourne and scourge of the local over 80’s ladies pole dancing club, I’ll take your advice.

Probably some conspiracy theory, Luddite, flat earth, rent a brain, fuckwit ‘exercising his right’ to debate.
How come all the people who say the jab can affect you and refuse to have it, act like they actually have been injected with something and affected them in the head?

nothing is unbelievable in 2021. if you do not want something then just do not have it but stay away from those that do.

It was interesting to see some examples of who voted last night on plan B.

For - Johnson, Starmer and Rees Mogg

Against - Corbyn, Abbott and Duncan-Smith

Jill Mortimer - no vote recorded.

She was against it I believe. Boris must have twisted her arm.

Yes i think she said she could not support the entirety of the plan so what she did was a good way of not upsetting too many people
I just wonder if she was in Parliament, at home in Thirsk or in Hartlepool?

78,000 new cases..that's a big rise.

Circuit breaker after Santa has gone back to the North Pole?

Nothing to do with Boris accusing Starmer of "quaffing beer"in Durham during restrictions then ?

banker.

or the big switch to stop everything.

Well.....I’ve got no plans. So feet up and a good film...or book.

Mrs Mortimer has now said: “I couldn’t vote on Tuesday as I was fulfilling a family commitment arranged nearly two years ago for which I applied to be slipped the day after my election."

A proper politician, excuses at the ready. An observation Mr Blue about your apparent "interest" in the movements of this lady, is it just political or has a flame had ignitional tendencies.

That must have been some party that two years in the planning .

Now why did her predecessor quit........ ....

As fillies go she is most definitely built for comfort and not for speed.

Go for it mate. We're all behind you but not queueing, if you get my drift.

She sort of reminds me of Mrs Doubtfire and some of us have standards.

As long as you have 14 players fit the show must go on.
How big is pools squad?
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport ... end-games/

You're not up for a dip in the sea at seaton carew on Boxing Day then snowy?

We're close to the edge mr. accy... any advice you'd like to give to Boris and Nicola at the next COBRA meeting? let it run it's course to 27th lets say,or do they toughen up now?

if you intend to do something you might as well do it today. at least that way there will be many people throught the country with a big smile on their faces as its a good excuse to tell the in laws not to come around again and really make the day a merry and happy christmas. christmas is or it was a big day for the kids but over the years the whole thing has been blown out of proportion where for many the kids seem to be the least thing on their minds.

If this had not been the week leading up to xmas the regulations would have been toughened up already?
So are extra people going to get ill, hospitalised and die just because of this gluttonous commercial even?
Of course its politically unacceptable to "cancel" xmas but................

Merry christmas everyone have a great time...........

it was never cancelled last year but only different for some but not all. just another word used like lockdown which was far from the case. i,d hate to think how many households had to persuade their kids it was happening no matter how lazyley it was portrade.

We had a Christmas without hosting. No worrying about which parent would eat what or what health conditions they had or what they would or could not do. It was great. We got to do what we wanted, at last. Difficult to go back from that this year.

Always was about the kids for me, now for people it’s just a giant piss up, the kids well and truly down the pecking order.

The tone of the press reports on a type of lockdown are changing hour by hour..............

That's because they can't make their mind up which opinion they should have.
When the big enquiry takes place I hope somebody evaluates how many deaths they were accountable for with their scaremongering, selective reporting, opinions etc.

Over one and a half million boosters given in the last two days, on top of first and second doses given/
That is some going, so well done to all concerned.

I’ve come to despise the MSM, they’re just a bunch of stirrers massaging their own ego’s and ‘accentuating the negative’. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t with them, they build things up to knock them down, like infantile bullies in a nursery.

Yep. Herculean efforts by people working their knackers off and the emphasis from the media is on who they can catch out.
It's a good job the general public have their priorities firmly in place and are showing which news is important.
Our Lass said they had a "do" last Christmas at work but they were all socially distancing whilst consuming food and drink they had brought in themselves, and whilst wearing the usual silly hats. I wonder how many "do's" like that took place in newspaper buildings and the BBC. Needless to say none of that will come to light.
She said the only difference to any other lunchtime was that they had a glass of wine, instead of the usual hot or cold soft drink.
It has been suggested to me that all this whistle blowing is the work of Dominic Cummings and surprisingly Mrs May.
Just in the interest of balanced news we have just completed a £10.4 billion trade deal with Australia and no mention of mince pies.

funny how in the old days of 50 years plus ago there were never office parties. you either never bothered or went out on the piss at dinner time with a grope of the married receptionist who you have fancied for months before. all the work was rushed through before dinner time but nothing ever official was organised apart from the early finish.

It's all just a government/medical experts hoax according to most of their toxic comments sections. You'd be outnumbered 10 to 1 on any health issues being raised i'm afraid.

Every morning at sunrise I go down to Seaton with Rat Boy and we gaze in wonder at the group of ‘dippers’ in their huge padded coats heading towards the sea to ‘enjoy’ the ‘benefits’ of immersing your body into the welcoming embrace of the frigid North Sea.
We look at each other, shake our heads and I’ll swear the buggers rolling his eyes.
A long time ago, my instructor told me the seas is for going on. Good advice.

Boxing Day.... eating, reading and exercising rat boy.

Why would they have a ‘hoax’.... I bet the bulging eye brigade think the moon landings were a hoax and the Holocaust just misunderstood.

I couldn’t imagine anything worse..... hanging about drinking in work when you could be home with the kids enjoying Xmas.

I reckon the MSM are all Lib Dem’s...they’ve hammered the Labour Party into oblivion and now they’re chipping away with pneumatic drills at the Tory’s.
Then the Lib Dem’s will frogmarch us back into the EU, orgasm’s all round in the MSM.