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

sad lol that it's virtually a 50/50 split between frontbench and backbench

the mcshitter in the shadow cab. very good

whatever happened to that dan carden alex buzzfeed story

At least I've got plenty of ammo if my local CLP sec phones me asking why the dd has stopped

Meme fans will be pleased to know that Bambos Charalambos is in there.

_Wes Streeting (Exchequer Secretary)
Stephen Kinnock (Asia and Pacific)
Jess Phillips (Domestic Violence and Safeguarding)_


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"phillips has been doing good work on domestic violence"

credit where it is due it is the one subject she is quite authoritative sounding on in a non-bullshitty manner. i was listening to her on 5 live the other week and thinking this Jess Phillips soundalike is talking sense here.

He’s out of intensive care

Boooo

clearly fit to work, 2 red boxes by tomorrow night or he should get sanctioned

sanctioned

Usefully ambiguous word, that.

No. But it would be nice to be appointed as the honorary Milkman of Human Kindness. https://t.co/CgGf6pX8Qm

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) April 9, 2020

Lyrics from a song by Mice, accidentally I am sure.

since when did Gapesy do that much self awareness?

More likely former Red Wedge acolyte Billy Bragg, can’t imagine Gapes has a deep knowledge of American indie.

Keir Starmer has no Black people on the shadow home office team after Windrush.

— ma rc us (@marcusjdl) April 9, 2020

Corbyn so energised so many bame and young bame voters, that's all gone to shit now.

That's a shitty decision, and it's either v stupid or plain oblivious

He’s out of intensive care

I'm sure the big baby really needed to spend 3 nights - or whatever it was - in intensive care.

Lol daytime Star Trek getting to your DN

I can hear applause, not for Johnson I guess

Also whooping

The applause is for me (it’s my birthday)

It’s clap for carers

I'm a carer and can't hear any fucking clapping!

Anyone know if there’s anything special happening? Anyone having a birthday?

oh they don't mean benefits scum on carer's allowance of course!

My nephew is having a birthday.

it's the anniversary of Operation Weserübung !

it's IDS's birthday

oh dear, bad luck wins .. if you hung on a couple of more weeks you'd be a taurean like me and bizarro!

taurean gulag enthusiast cru UNITE

need gulags more than ever now and it's fun annoying the fuck out of some of our melt-adjacent ilx friends from across the atlantic!

Remember this guy...

https://i2.wp.com/goodblacknews.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/media_http3bpblogspot_zkpgx-scaled500.png

I can actually vaguely remember him from small b/w tv memories of the early eighties.

You had a Blacque & Whyte TV?

lol!

oh dear, bad luck wins .. if you hung on a couple of more weeks you'd be a taurean like me and bizarro!

geminis unite

✌🏻♊️

Keir Starmer backs Mirror's campaign to give NHS coronavirus heroes a medalhttps://t.co/mFfnJNOBb9 pic.twitter.com/41poeH2Ghy

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) April 9, 2020

I see the Real Opposition is holding Tottenham Hotspur to account more than they are the Tories https://t.co/Bln9XAkx62

— Clause IV concern (@Mwdsly) April 9, 2020

The British government defended its early handling of the coronavirus epidemic after a Reuters investigation found its scientific advisers were too slow to communicate their growing concerns about the outbreak to the public and ministers.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially approved a much more modest response to the outbreak than other major European countries, who took more stringent measures, though he later approved an effective shutdown of the United Kingdom.

Reuters reported this week that the scientific committees that advised Johnson did not study in detail, until mid-March, the option of the kind of stringent lockdown adopted early on in China, where the disease arose in December.

As they watched China impose its lockdown, the British scientists assumed that such drastic actions would never be acceptable in a democracy like the United Kingdom, the Reuters investigation found.

But Patrick Vallance, the government's top scientific adviser, said that modelling was carried out quickly enough to effectively inform Britain's reaction to the pandemic.

"It's not correct that we didn't model it until March. We modelled it throughout February," Vallance said at a news conference in Downing Street. "We modelled all of the interventions you have now seen."

Asked by Reuters why members of the modelling committee said that they had not carried out detailed modelling for a lockdown until March, Vallance said: "I know what happened, and I've just told you what happened, and the modelling came in from a variety of different sources."

Just realised it's a Bank Holiday tomorrow lol

how am i to deposit all these government handout cheques now

finding that Reuters report pretty suspect

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/covid-19-hundreds-of-uk-care-home-deaths-not-added-to-official-toll

I walk past a local care home every day and see the staff strolling away. Who probably haven't got adequate PPE on site and are going back into the mix. There doesn't seem to be a govt strategy to protect these vulnerable people. It's just a bloodbath that is unfolding, and let's keep clapping though.

More wages:

Also, the new Nightingale hospital is hiring for support staff which is advertised at £9.21 an hour which is below London living wage at a £1.54 difference

— edna (@ednamohamed_) April 9, 2020

don't worry I'm sure Kier will be pressing them hard on that!