love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

The Queen wants the big names for the Emergency Cabinet.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 6, 2020

100% the other two are sitting by the phone getting increasingly irate.

I wonder how well Starmer and the Right. Hon. Member for McDonalds get on, given the former's legal history.

Isn't Creasy on maternity leave in any case?

Yep, otherwise I reckon she'd be in. Although she didn't back Starmer - I think she went for Nandy.

🐦[Reckon we are still waiting for @wesstreeting🕸 and @jessphillips🕸 @stellacreasy🕸 What’s happening there ..?
— emily m (@maitlis) April 6, 2020🕸]🐦

jess phillips has demanded to speak to the manager of the labour party

— ryan 🚩 (@ryxnf) April 6, 2020

TBF she's done excellent work holding Pizza Hut to account.

If Starmer's concerns are primarily presentation then why would he want either of those eejits within a thousand miles of an important job?

in Wes's likes lmao pic.twitter.com/02nZU13DAO

— Charlie (@vampiretraums) April 6, 2020

They're absolutely useless at the one thing their fans say they have going for them, wtf is wrong with people??

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If you fancy some light relief at home this evening, join in @IanMurrayMP’s pub quiz tonight. He does good questions, entertaining music and some gags that are even quite funny.

Register here on Zoom: https://t.co/6pWy47sOSD pic.twitter.com/8sI5FhANSr

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) April 6, 2020

god forbid one should sign up and abuse the opportunity to interact directly with a political talent of the magnitude of ian murray

Do these fucks never learn?

Is it called Egghead?

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The member from Birmingham yardley not going quietly

Canvassing opinion on the new shadow cabinet. Asked for thoughts, one Labour MP simply replies: "Would have been better with me in it". I mean, fair enough.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) April 6, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/06/hospital-admission-puts-new-focus-on-boris-johnsons-health

Purnell says the hospital admission will be difficult for Johnson who, like his father, rarely admits to illness or notices it in others. “When I worked with him as his deputy [in the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels bureau], he was certainly very, very intolerant of illness in others, and considered it as sort of a weakness.”

I mean of course he thinks like this, a lethal combination of blitheness and bullying.

No real surprise that he's one of *those* bosses.

At least ten TFL staff have now died, including eight that worked on buses.

If only Bob Crow was still with us.

boris is more of a jim crow man

Raab hasn’t spoken to Johnson since Saturday?

The Prime Minister has been taken to intensive care

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) April 6, 2020

hwfg

thoughts and prayers

Holy shit.

I’m fully behind his speedy recovery if it means avoiding Raab or Patel as PM.

So the charade that he was a-ok just a precaution lasted exactly 23 hours.

Boris Johnson dying while the Ghanaian pallbearer meme is big would be the closest Britain has ever gotten to giving reparations

— Masaiism-Lowryism (@Cam_Oflage) April 6, 2020

I’m sure he’s still leading from the front

lol xp

Graun still asleep it seems.

Crikey.

He couldn't...could he?

Feeling bad about my fake "PM IN INTENSIVE CARE" article I sent round the family group chat as an April Fool.

until cunt is rolled onto a bag for zipping im calling it a pr stunt so the country pulls behind the cunt after his brave recovery

I think he could. Is Michael Rosen OK btw?

until cunt is rolled onto a bag for zipping im calling it a pr stunt so the country pulls behind the cunt after his brave recovery

― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, April 6, 2020 9:29 PM (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Feeling this tbh

shurely even he couldn't game the system like that?

PRAY FOR RONA

out of hospital and recovering iirc, thank fuck xp

Tom D - yes Rosen is making a recovery

Yep, until I see a cadaver this didn't happen.

Yeah I’d say he’s really unwell going by how Downing St has informed us of his condition to date.

we all ready to get tutted at by the usuals if this cunt dies?

Via a tweet 😀

Hello: Michael continues to receive excellent care from great @NHSuk He is still poorly but has remained stable this week with some positive signs of improvement. It's a long, hard process for Michael but he knows he has ALL our love & support. Emma x @underthecranes @J0e_R0sen

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) April 5, 2020

Operation Last Gasp...

moved "as a precaution" apparently

idk am i one of yer usuals or not because ill post a cake to the slack within an hour of confirmation

next stage has to be cremated as a precaution

NOT A BORIS FAN BUT YOU HAVE TO RESPECT THE COMIC TIMING OF HIS GENERIC ‘STAY INDOORS OR WE’RE ALL FUCKED’ LETTER TODAY OF ALL DAYS

— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 6, 2020

THIS COULD NOW CONCEIVABLY LAND ON PEOPLES DOORMATS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. WHAT A FUCKING WORLD

— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 6, 2020

nah say what you like darragh but you've never wagged the finger at people cruelly celebrating a celeb death