For second time, President Trump has said that on call with PM yesterday, before he could even get a word out of him, he asked for ventilators - context being President saying the US production ramp up can’t make too many, as UK & others also need them pic.twitter.com/nm00IqS6pj— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 29, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
thanks for the well wishes everyone. it has been heartening.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 29 March 2020 07:00 (four years ago) link
Good luck Plax.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 March 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
Asked why the UK had not mass tested like Germany and was not “hunting” down Covid patients like the World Health Organisation has urged, Gove said:
Its certainly the case the Germans have had success in testing. There are other countries that are also ramping up testing.
But the acceleration here in the UK is significant. If one looks at a league table ... then the UK is rising up that.
But frankly, the most important thing is not to look backwards but forwards and do everything to increase the number of deaths.
Is that a typo from the Graun?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 March 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
been corrected to “tests”.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 29 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
the important thing is not to look backwards, not to learn from our mistakes and certainly not to rightfully hold to account those in government whose recklessness will cause thousands of avoidable deaths
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
But frankly, the most important thing is not to look backwards but forwards
Gove every time he remembers her married Sarah Vine (and vice versa)
― nashwan, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure that, like all league tables around Europe, this one too will be rendered null and void tbf.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
Not a terribly popular opinion right now but, while Starmer has been entirely milquetoast or absent during the crisis and will likely continue to be useless during it, having an actual prosecutor as Leader of the Opposition might come in handy during the post-mortem/reckoning.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
https://t.co/eg47vmjJLR pic.twitter.com/iA1G2Wyc0t— Sarah_Woolley (@Sarah_Woolley) March 29, 2020
― nashwan, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
"Young soft lefties who are brainy, who most people don’t recognise and who haven't spent last few years doing factional stuff."
Lol at "soft left and brainy" when they are referring to Rachel Reeves as Starmer's new potential Shadow Chancellor. It is so fucking dismal, how does it degenerate from such a beautiful living legend like McD to such an unremarkable, austerity positive, full legit concerns stanning, charmless as fuck right-wing career pol? Obv she'll be singing from a different hymnbook now because the weather has changed from ominous clouds on horizon to full apocalyptic. But I fucking remember her from 2010-15 Labour alright.. she's fucking gruesome.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
quote is from a Times hack, so probably comes from Starmer's office. fucking gruesome.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
This fucking endless "slightly stricter, no a wee bit more, just another wee bit" bollocks from the top of government is a shameful, confusing and ultimately deadly attempt at clinging in to the last tiny Tory need to put the economy first.It's been led by a guy who took a fortnight off in February then called for an emergency meeting but not really an emergency coz it was a Friday so he put it back a few days.There better be a fucking reckoning for this.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
Can't help thinking of plax's failure to get a concertina as a metaphor for the government not getting in the orders for ventilators, I'm sorry if that puts you in the matt hancock role, p. Credits roll to sound of sad wheezing as the jig of life comes to an end
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
The last film that me and Jen saw in the cinema was The Lighthouse, which in retrospect..
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
not a glimmer of recognition of this policy from this disingenuous cunt
Broadband now being considered as a proper public utility that people need-to-have by the government, who’ve got providers to agree to lift all data caps, prioritise repairs to the vulnerable, and avoid cutting off people who can’t pay their bills. https://t.co/kO4Oj6Lcuj— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) March 29, 2020
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
No, it's fine because it still costs money, like all the best things in life.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
Left Twitter is crowing about that right now but do people really believe its the same policy or even especially similar? The most you can say about it is that it's acknowledgement of the argument that was the foundation of Labour's broadband policy, but that's about it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
clearly it's temporary and i assume anyone already paying is still going to be paying but if keynesian shibboleths are set aside it puts them back in the future toolbox maybe
― mark s, Sunday, 29 March 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
definitely think the best time to appoint a chancellor famous for repeatedly saying that labour shouldn't represent out-of-work 'benefit scroungers' is during a global pandemic where the majority of the country has been put out of work and is being paid by the state https://t.co/TYHPAsrBeo— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) March 29, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I am so fucking furious about the idea of Rachel "Labour will be tougher than Tories on benefits" Reeves back in the shadow cabinet.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Same! Had some nice dim sum in Chinatown and then strolled to the PCC for a matinee. Look forward to having another day like that sometime in 2025.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
xpit's fucking sickmaking. Starmer isn't even trying play to the left gallery anymore, obv the votes have been counted so now he can get on with being the tory cunt in disguise he plainly is.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
Calzsandra increasingly proven to have had the right instinct re ks
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
haha otm everyone (even AF)
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
he's going to be the lousiest, weakest, shittiest LOTO in decades and the Labour vote will go back into the steep decline that started in the Blair era. I won't be voting for them again, probably not in my lifetime tbh - they are dead to me as party now and the apolitical feebles in the membership can all fuck off as well.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
nOt AlL cOpS
Overnight 6 people have been summonsed for offences relating to the new corona virus legislation to protect the public:These included;Out for a drive due to boredom Returning from parties Multiple people from the same household going to the shops for non-essential items pic.twitter.com/FstjlfdEkD— Warrington Police (@PoliceWarr) March 29, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
wtf is a non-essential item
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
esp with all the non-essential shops closed
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
not a scale model of da Rona thankfully!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
Has someone... knitted a coronavirus?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
I dunno, it'd be a lot easier to spot!
lol that's exactly what I was thinking! I wish they'd stop putting these big knitted Ronas everywhere ffs. It might be a bit triggery for folk who've just lost a family member.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
starmer looking set to take labour back to the golden age of 2010-2015. it's at times like this I regret that ilx's melts are too cowardly and devoid of conviction to post what they think
― ogmor, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Essential items are food and medicine including for pets.
I was wondering where the cops stand on picking up other stuff in big supermarkets - like can I buy socks or books or board games in Tesco?
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
I mean they’re allowed to sell them you’re allowed to buy them surely
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
Overnight 6 people have been summonsed
summonsed to... where?
is it better for tens of people to gather for a minor court hearing than for two people to go to the shops at different times and be found guilty of only buying, I dunno what the police are calling inessential these days, maybe beer or a bottle of lemonade? maybe a new Lego magazine to shut the kids up? idk
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
It’s total bullshit is what it is. Are they stopping flat mates going out for individual corner shop trips for rolling papers or chocolate buttons or what? What else do they mean?
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5498940.1584366884!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/tahani-baakdhah.jpg
― coco vide (pomenitul), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
other stuff in big supermarkets - like can I buy socks
it's a good job I'm not going to work, one of my pairs of work trousers has developed a hole in the crotch and I can't go to Debenham's to buy a new pair as it's shut. however, some people are still going to work, and might actually need to replace any clothes that disintegrate, so... ?
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
knit us a ventilator at least ffs
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
I mean, I'm completely in favour of people spontaneously arranging to just go out for one or two big shops per week and that's it, but any attempt to police it without something even further than France's form, will just turn into power-mad cops like this. Would be willing to put a tenner on the skin-colour of the household, too.
'returning from parties' is also a head-scratcher - how do you prove that if you don't know there's a party on, and if you know that, why not just break up the party?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
"The boys at the lab have determined that there's two different shades of lipstick on your face - we have a special cell for you, Johnny Swinger"
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
lol
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
In the Tesco by mine the clothing section is upstairs and they've closed the escalators, I think the DVDs, books and games are out of bounds too
― or something, Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
Enjoying yourself to be made illegal.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
I expect US ILXors will soon be changing their tune if US cops start trying to enforce this nonsense over there.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
get the troops out, restore some common sense
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
I regret to inform you that Alex Sobel is bad now
The second group are petrified at the thought of socialism descending into command and control, authoritarian politics and the state replacing the ownership of the people through a small group - I mean there’s no historical precedent is there. Also bedwetters - nice— Alex Sobel says stay home (@alexsobel) March 29, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 29 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link