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MrSki said:
Being a backbench SNP MP she would not have a driver. Cabinet ministers are the only ones to get a driver. She could have got a taxi but would probably get sued by the driver afters.
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I await her being defended by Suzanna Moore.
 
TopCat said:
Her driver might mind.
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Not if they'd already driven her somewhere in the last day or two and so had been exposed anyway (though if it was a black cab the driver probably would be somewhat protected anyway due to the screens). I wasn't really thinking about her having a named, personal driver - someone will have been driving her around within London.
 
scifisam said:
Not if they'd already driven her somewhere in the last day or two and so had been exposed anyway (though if it was a black cab the driver probably would be somewhat protected anyway due to the screens). I wasn't really thinking about her having a named, personal driver - someone will have been driving her around within London.
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Not sure why you think that. She’s an SNP MP, not a cabinet minister. Backbenchers have to get themselves around
 
Supine said:
You'd think in this day and age an email address and mobile phone is all that's required.
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Yes. Contact details. Surely that's all that needed for purposes of public health covid testing.

Am I missing something about why it should matter whether someone is who they say they are? There may well be something really obvious, but I'm not seeing it.
 
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scifisam said:
Yes, and most of them do so by taxi.

I'm not sure what's confusing about this.
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Black cabs mostly (plenty on foot, bike and tube too though) unless they're being picked up by the BBC or something. Black cabs are claiming that they're very safe at the moment as driver is sealed off. I wouldn't want to go to Edinburgh in the back of one of those though.
 
two sheds said:
yes you'd hire a car assuming you drive, find a car hire place willing to hire you one, and are up to the journey.
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It would be fairly easy to find a black cab or minicab to do the job (though I don't fancy your chances jumping in a cab and saying 'Edinburgh please') but you're looking at 800-1200 quid. And the former wouldn't really be comfortable for 400 miles and the latter would be very unfair on the poor driver.
 
Orang Utan said:
Just the idea that they have staff cars
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But I didn't say that.

A black cab to Scotland would be hugely expensive, but it would get her home without exposing her to other people. She's wealthy, and would be able to claim part of the cost back as expenses. Plus of course the train, presumably first class, isn't free either. MPs usually have assistants, too, who would already have been exposed to anything she was exposed to, so they could have driven her if she couldn't drive herself.
 
Spandex said:
:D

~ Where to, luv?
~ Glasgow. coff
~ hehe. Where you really goin'?
~ Glasgow. coff coff. It's urgent.
~ I should bleedin' coco. I ain't driving to Scotland. I can take you to Euston...
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That's on a rank. Phone Gett or Dial a cab and tell them you want a black cab to Scotland. It'll probably pull up before you've put the phone down. And if you want it on account you won't be able to use the rank anyway.
 
maomao said:
That's on a rank. Phone Gett or Dial a cab and tell them you want a black cab to Scotland. It'll probably pull up before you've put the phone down. And if you want it on account you won't be able to use the rank anyway.
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strange alert behaviour - I keep getting an alert that you quoted me in this post. A phantom alert :hmm:
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Fuck knows if this is the right thread for this, but anyway...

iwgb.org.uk

NHS Covid-19 testing contractor found to be in breach of health and safety regulations, following sacking of whistleblower

* The Health and Safety Executive said containers had not been sufficiently washed and couriers were not informed on correct use of PPE. * The IWGB has an ongoing case against TDL for trade union detriment and victimisation of whistleblowers who raised the alarm over health and safety. *...
iwgb.org.uk iwgb.org.uk
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We had tests during the peak when all Amazon staff were masked and standing back from the door. I was shocked when the courier who picked up the test had no mask and stood there for me to hand him the samples. I suppose (thinking now of the 15 min contact time) it probably wasn’t a risk but at the time we didn’t know that and were being told we could be infected by contact with parcels etc.
 
The 15 minutes contact time is just an arbitrary rule they came up with when seeking to set a convenient cut-off time for what counts as a close contact. Its not a guide as to how the virus actually behaves, beyond the much vaguer underlying reality that the longer you spend in contact with someone the more opportunities there are for the virus to be transmitted.
 
elbows said:
The 15 minutes contact time is just an arbitrary rule they came up with when seeking to set a convenient cut-off time for what counts as a close contact. Its not a guide as to how the virus actually behaves, beyond the much vaguer underlying reality that the longer you spend in contact with someone the more opportunities there are for the virus to be transmitted.
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I understand that I was just making the point that everyone was being much more careful then.
 
maomao said:
That's on a rank. Phone Gett or Dial a cab and tell them you want a black cab to Scotland. It'll probably pull up before you've put the phone down. And if you want it on account you won't be able to use the rank anyway.
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Yep. And really long journeys do take place sometimes. A journalist I used to know got cabs everywhere on account, including one time from London to Bristol. That's not quite as far, but if a cabbie will do Bristol they'll also do Edinburgh.

I was just pointing out that, knowing that she had symptoms, and this would be a one-off, not a regular expensive journey, she had options other than taking the train. Most people wouldn't, but she did.
 
I've done my first test on the surveillance testing programme. It was bit of a rigmarole, in that the woman who brought round the kit and recorded the info is on her first day in the job and still learning the system, and struggled to enter all the info she needed on a little iPhone screen, but we got there in the end. The kit doesn't include instructions either, so I had to do a quick google to refresh my memory before getting to work with the swab. Hopefully I got samples from where I needed to. I'm pleased to be on the programme, since there's a pretty fair chance I'll have a covid contact at work, if I haven't already, so have signed up for the full year's tests.
 
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