the is a large backlog of tests and results

does make you cross, brett?

Hope the computer likes you

so you mean we get a bunch of test results?

yes I need a 6 or 7 on math higher that I spent half a year busting my arse revising for to be told it wont make a shred of difference

how did you fail it?

I didn't I passed it but the bitch that runs the course I need arbitrarily raised the standards for me because I didn't sit my GCSE's in school.

i passed the higher paper first go with a 4 which is roughly half the paper correct

Does anyone have any more information on these NHS shipments that have been impounded by France?

If true, that's a great way to start conflict

Two incidents from what I've been able to learn so far, first was hand sanitiser and second was 130,000 masks for NHS

they better fucking not have

But other than a vague UK response that it was quickly dealt with, I haven't been able to find out what is being done to stop it happening again.

Trying to verify it from multiple sources too

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11221578/french-snatch-lorries-130000-coronavirus-masks/

Take that one with a giant bucket of salt

it's the sun though

so not sure

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8137039/French-border-guards-impound-trucks-filled-130-000-face-masks-bound-Britain.html

"After realising what was on board, border guards in France held the lorry in the wake of President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to ‘requisition’ face masks for the French crisis."

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/03/21/french-police-in-bid-to-confiscate-130000-face-masks-bound-for-uk-nhs-doctors-and-nurses-battling-the-coronavirus/

Euroweekly too so seems to be potentially legit, I want to know what the UK is going to do to ensure this wont happen again.

fuck me, if that's true

send the army in

I'd also like to know if the masks were purchased from France, or from another country heading through France and then impounded

It only says "attempted" though

because that is piracy

did they actually seize the masks?

https://imgur.com/wSVwL33

No idea, the Sun says it was and daily mail, the EU one says attempted

so who the fuck knows then

Wouldn't it be nice if the BBC actually did investigative journalism on this kind of thing

it would be nice to trust our national broadcaster in such times of crisis

Apparently the face mask seizure was a "misunderstanding"

Just like the trucks of hand sanitizer they stopped yesterday

Stonks https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1241374127254110209?s=19

I'm pretty sure this wasnt an increase in demand

From what I've been told stock is being rationed out

In the shops

I think what we are seeing is people increasingly desperate to get supplies from major supermarkets

That are lowering offerings/supplies driving further panic