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

DON'T RUIN FAPPING FOR ME

#makebabiesforboris, it’s what he would want

The clapping is lame enough but when you get the very PM that's bungled this crisis from the start piggybacking himself onto what is supposed be for support for crucial front line workers, it's just extremely wrong.

That tweet was obviously written by Dominic Cummings and fuck giving it precious oxygen right now.

All for denying these ppl precious oxygen

I'd engage with the clapping if it was followed by a minute's booing for this shit shower of a govt.

broke: #clapforboris
woke: #orangemarchforboris

The head of Scotland’s Orange Lodge has called for a special march through Glasgow honouring the Conservative government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic to be held later this year.

Jim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said Boris Johnson’s government had stepped up to provide a “package of support unlike anything we have ever seen before”.

I don’t even get it on a basic level - what does clapping mean here, congratulations for getting sick?

Me at a loved ones death bed: bravo!

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

‘thank u based boris for putting your moist, undulating corpus on the line for us, the poor undeserving sinners of this united kingdom’ is basically how i break it down to an extent

A round of applause for your pancreatic cancer, dear uncle!

if he goes after the shops shut and i can't run out for a bottle of fizz i'll be peeved

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

the most bizarre and inappropriate responses so far have come from literal tory mps. absolutely bananas https://t.co/H2hozyHLzf

— tristandross (@tristandross) April 7, 2020

definitely blasting stephan f across the street if this gets traction

(it won't in hackney tho)

not remotely surprised that there's a bunch of Bufton-Tufton backbenchers in a constant state of arousal at the possibility of a real war

all of them still itching to nuke corbyn on his veg patch

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/07/uk-workers-economic-coronavirus-guarantee-universal-basic-income?

Good piece with a nice but on the clap at the end 👏👏👏

I think that "pillock in Iran" might be a bit too preoccupied with their own problems to be harbouring dastardly plans to land occupying artesh forces in Jersey!

854 new deaths seems bad

yeah it's one short

Cmon lads, we can take Italy's record. Less clapping more dying!

ok a "clap for boris" meme just went up in the homerton mutual aid whatsapp, stoked for the response

I'm dreading the horror when this lying racist amoral cunt recovers and gets out of hospital - as we all know he will. He's going to be Churchill and post-Brighton Bombing Thatcher all rolled into one, we are NEVER going to hear the end of this. It'll be like the Winter of Discontent, still be banging on about 50 years later.

response on the whatsapp so far has been hostile tbf

I'm dreading the horror when this lying racist amoral cunt recovers and gets out of hospital - as we all know he will. He's going to be Churchill and post-Brighton Bombing Thatcher all rolled into one, we are NEVER going to hear the end of this. It'll be like the Winter of Discontent, still be banging on about 50 years later.

But if he croaks it this will be even worse, he'll be a consensus figure and whoever's in charge will get to coast by on that.

He's not going to croak.

I disagree anyway, it'll be far worse if he lives.

They may as well make him Prime Minister for life.

Alternative possible bojo legacy

https://66.media.tumblr.com/252f62070064080e551e2b2ddd2a2d6d/tumblr_inline_o8hi7dAMLX1r18uik_500.gifv

one nice thing about all this has been seeing families riding their bikes together on the roads... you know, like is commonplace in many other european cities who privilege cycling infrastructure over cars.... still a lot of xunt drivers about. it's like, mate, nowhere's open, why u in a rush tho

I'm not wishing death on anyone but the sanctimonous pleas for basic human decency from right wing fuckers who shed not a single fucking tear for ten years of austerity, poverty and suicide are getting right on my tits.

Doesn't really need repeating, but Johnson popping his clogs would possibly impact these shitebags on a personal (i.e. financial) level, hence the self-pitying pleas for decency. Some cash-strapped disabled person starving to death in a council flat doesn't, so they don't even think about it. Now just picture the bemused incomprehension if this was pointed out to them.

otm xp

Going to go out on a limb and say that the cartoonist saying his caricature isn’t antisemitic by posting a closeup of Ed Miliband’s nose in extreme profile may have been a bad decision.

Dear everyone.
Here's Ed Miliband's nose. 🙄#cartoon #Caricature pic.twitter.com/QmOPUmRNYv

— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) April 7, 2020

actually i think you’ll find my antisemitic cartoon is very accurate

He’s absolutely losing it on his tl

They may as well make him Prime Minister for life.

― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:04 (fifty minutes ago) link

We're not getting out of this for 12-18 months until there's a vaccine, and even then Boris or whoever is in charge will preside over a deep recession. This won't save him.

Trump's speech about how he's personally helping Boris with the theraputics, theraputically. it's quite a thing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-52193422/boris-johnson-trump-asks-drug-companies-to-assist-pm-s-recovery

(xp) No idea why you think they'd get the blame for a recession.

They've got an even better excuse than Liam Byrne leaving a cheeky wee note in the Treasury.

It's what you do to get out of the recession if people were to lose their livelihoods.

Maybe, but this is the Get Out of Jail card of all time for a presiding government.

They've managed to get away with blaming the last Labour goverment for ten years and three Prime Minsters, how long are they going to be able to spin this one out?

The last financial crisis took place under the last Labour government, and under the Tories there has not been a recession as such.

proof that austerity works imo, time to liquidate more poors once this all blows over so we can pay for the generosity the government showed in the crisis

Rescuing us from a crisis they had no control over by making the tough choices that need making. Part 2.

There are just too many ppl involved this time, not just poor ppl.

no point wishing death on this lad

I hope we don't have an inquiry when this is over. If there are lessons to be learned, fine; but if there is just blame to be spread, forget it

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) April 7, 2020