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sporadic tweets from a Kentish spot with two great pubs (but no shop), sailing club and a lake (you can't walk round). NOT to be confused with Chipstead Surrey

Joined October 2014
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Dear @BorisJohnson_MP With the kids growing up fast these days, when is the right time to teach them how to have a “cautious hug”? #cautioushug
The People’s Republic of Chevening stand ready, at junction 5. Too long has Chipstead (Kent) been confused with Chipstead (Surrey). Who knows how many team buses have turned up at the wrong @Chipstead_FC? Or is that @chipsteadfcsurr? The situation is (cob)nuts
🚨STAND BY YOUR FAXES🚨 In the absence of credible intelligence we simply must assume they plan to invade
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
The UK has reported a Covid daily death toll of 1,564. That's more people than died on the Titanic. This is what that many names looks like.
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bUt hOsPiTaLs aRe aLWaYs FuLL iN wInTeR
Replying to @jburnmurdoch
We can also address claims like "hospitals are always full in winter", or "it’s just people who were already in hospital for other reasons catching Covid on the ward" Here are numbers of people in ICU beds (for any reason) in London hospitals, each winter Spot the odd one out
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
There are no ITU beds in the valleys. So you might be 23 and invincible if you get COVID but what if you crash your car? Or a friend takes an overdose or a parent needs emergency surgery? Guess what! No beds for you either. And THAT’S how this affects everyone. Rant over.
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Thinking of meeting friends in West Kent for NYE? Think again: every ICU bed in MTW was full every day from 20 Dec to 27 Dec. Chances are if you catch covid and need an ICU bed who will have to travel elsewhere for one. Situation also tight at Royal Surrey, SASH & East Sussex.
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
If, like the British Government, you big up a new strain of Covid to place London and the South into a newly-devised tougher Tier 4 then you can hardly blame the French for saying Zoot Alors! Let’s close the border for 48 hours til we work out what it all means.
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Replying to @mrjamesob
For those wondering why France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland and Germany have banned travel from the UK, but the EU as a whole hasn't -it's because EU member states are sovereign and make decisions independently of each other. #BrexitShambles #BrexitReality
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This chart shows the Covid-19 admissions for the Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone NHS Trust (Maidstone and Pembury hospitals) if you are wondering why Kent is in Tier 3 and the biggest concern is the pressure on the NHS across the whole of Kent this is the chart for you – at Sevenoaks, South East
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People suggesting we should use excess deaths as the metric to drive real-time epidemic response is the equivalent of a fire safety inspector only asking ‘has the building burned down yet?’
I’m seeing people share these kinds of plots on excess deaths to try and claim there isn’t COVID problem currently. But look at data for week 29 Mar 2020 - if this lagging metric had been used to drive action, nothing would've been done until *early April* (i.e. far too late) 1/
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
Count every vote.
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Powerful figures just released by Labour. Of the 20 areas under local restrictions for 2 months, all have now seen significant infection rate rises. They haven't worked.
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With Grayling in charge of the nation’s security, its comforting to know we have even more Spitfires keeping the skies over Sevenoaks safe... I’m sure one of these four wasn’t in the Battle of Britain? #sevenenoaks #Spitfire
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Not sure why this didn’t make into Bojo’s afternoon press conf, but... the #Brickisback @ChipsteadHQ
Takeaways are back from Friday 5th June. For the first week we are doing fish, scampi or tempura battered halloumi and chips only, but are planning to extend the menu and days the following week. Please see menu and details by following the link below. the-bricklayers-arms.co.uk/f…
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With lockdown set to ease on 15 June, @Number10press is still yet to announce when exactly Dominic Cummings will have early browsing access to the shops
Chipstead Chap retweeted
You wouldn’t. No one would. Ever.
If you were ‘testing your eyesight’, why would you put your 4yr-old child in the car for an hour when by then it was OK for him to stay with family?
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
When you find out who it was, let us know. I want to give them a year’s salary.
An unauthorised tweet was posted on a government channel this evening. The post has been removed and we are investigating the matter.
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
This ‘you can bend the rules if you have particular childcare issues’ defence: in Cummings’ case, that was preferring not to look after his own kid. Single parents have been on lockdown for weeks. Nurses have isolated from their own families to protect them.
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Chipstead Chap retweeted
This van has just turned up outside Dominic Cummings house @SkyNews
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