Jobless Brits urged to ‘risk their lives for the profit of others’ as COVID-19 blocks foreign farmworkers
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine you could keep PPE on your face while doing quite sweaty physical labour in the summer months.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter: All nurses on the front line should have their student debts written off.Kier Starmer's Twitter: All nurses on the front line should receive a medal.Centrism is back guys, in all it's non-descript and useless glory.— rebelpaws (@rebelpaws) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
extremely ‘hmmm, curious’ para from that farm-worker story
Around 80,000 migrants are usually needed. Most come from continental Europe, and their numbers had been declining since Brexit because many appear to feel unwelcome and the fall in the value of the pound has, anyway, made working in Britain less rewarding financially.
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
One of them is good now.
More like one of them was always fucking terrible and continues to be fucking terrible and his (younger) brother bursting his balloon on the biggest stage imaginable will never not be sweet.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
xp
yep, brexit always meant UK ppl would have to do more of their agricultural labour again, but now they are going to have to do all of it. Never mind lads, Sir Kier might offer you a medal!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
Me taunting the pigs like pic.twitter.com/hmzaKBbLAZ— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
Delicious @tildarice rice pudding, finished to the last morsel. A great argument for the Customs Union and Single Market! pic.twitter.com/5UK75Vsaqc— David Miliband (@DMiliband) May 14, 2018
one of the Milibands shills for big rice (and bananas)
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
if for one am shocked that Big JO'B likes the filth
I think the police are mostly doing a good job in very difficult & confusing circumstances. It seems unlikely that they would be deliberately trying to make things any harder than they need to be. Perhaps we could all be a bit more supportive?— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) April 10, 2020
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
He's one of them posh middle class white people who says you've nothing to worry about with pigs unless you're a crim.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
it seems unlikely that coppers would be trying to make things any harder
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
I had completely forgotten who Jo Swinson was.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
she's the easter bunny, that's you crossed off her list
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
means-tested easter eggs for all! some!
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
you get vouchers for 3 free easter eggs during your working life
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
Lol! SKILLS PACKETS! what a hoot that wa.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
skills packets would make no sense and therefore sound ridiculous, it was of course SKILLS WALLETS
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
probably the best Digital Economy Underground album tbf
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
short sharp shock g
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Sex Packets was a tune!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
I'm not lying me and Alex and the mutt just walked past two coppers. I have a Tescos carrier bag with some cans and fruitshoots in it and they just said hello to me! I think I'm getting absolute Immunity because of Alex's disability. They were female pcs though.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
These Miliband tweets are confusing. I don't understand what any of them mean, if they are good or bad and which one is the supposedly now good one. You're definitely sure there's two? The 5G conspiracy was bad enough so I'm just a touch wary
― anvil, Friday, 10 April 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
As a socialist I have voted for many of the parties (Lib Dems, Greens, Conservatives)
Oh my god, I've just discovered Emma Kennedy's blog and it is every bit as cursed as you'd expect. There's also this first 100 days of Corbyn article that is wild. Wait until you get to misattributed Mother Theresa quote. 😲 Although I think it's biggest crime is the Web design. pic.twitter.com/hkGDrXMs4s— CEO of Antifa (@RebootedStef) April 10, 2020
― reality disliker (Left), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Alcohol absolutely is an essential - some people will just die if they stop abruptly. Again, so glad I’m on the wagon atm.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
I’m writing to Michael D to strip her of her citizenship as we speak. I’m sure he’ll take my side.
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Oh lol it’s a parody. Still writing that letter though!
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
i never used to fall for shit like this but the last decade broke me
― reality disliker (Left), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/nhs-111-staff-work-coronavirus-symptoms-call-centre?
This is just something else
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Has that Emma Kennedy blog post been ghostwritten by Talk To Transformer? I cannot parse a single idea from it.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
980 today :(
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
*imagine* if Diane Abbott had signed off on purchasing 17.5 million faulty CV tests.— Jonny - Universal Basic Income now (@sensiblehuman96) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
we’re gonna crack 1,000 a day, we can fuckin’ do this lads, let’s show those pissant Italians and spaniards how it’s done
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
We should give the government much more credit. Have 1000 people died today? Or, have 65 million people stayed alive?— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Yeah no offence Matt, but the existence of David Miliband disproves your argument
It does not. Both brothers would have understood it, Ed chose to laugh along and gave it a sly like for the lols. David would have tutted and registered his stern disapproval.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/10/matt-hancock-urges-public-not-to-overuse-ppe
Bold new strategy of blaming nurses for wasting PPE.
― ShariVari, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
we've got the tories blaming them and the LOTO offering them medals. What a fucking great time to be alive.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
Going well:
More good news on Boris Johnson’s recovery... I’m told he’s now doing su doku puzzles and has been watching films, including Lord of the Rings and Withnail & I... Full details in tomorrow’s @DailyMailUK— John Stevens (@johnestevens) April 10, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
"I have come to this hospital by accident.."
― Mark G, Friday, 10 April 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
Boris, you terrible cunt.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
Are you the Prime Minister?
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
one does not simply walk into nightingale
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
We have 130 students in Bristol going on ren strike over their agents response to Covid-19 and rents. Please consider dropping the agents an email and sharing this to add pressure and raise awareness of their campaign! ✊https://t.co/tFPrl0jz1U— d a i s y 🥀 (@daisycarter__) April 10, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 April 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
We already have - the brief fad for counting care home deaths in the total has faded.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 11 April 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link
Official 1000-a-day should coincide nicely with official 10,000 in total
― sonatas and interludes for prepaid nando's (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 April 2020 08:57 (four years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 11 April 2020 08:01 bookmarkflaglink
What happened with this? aiui this was going to be counted and included on a weekly basis and i seem to remember on Tuesday the figures (possibly in the FT?) said 'this is the first time care home deaths have been included in the totals.
I know in France, Italy and Spain, when this came up, partly as a consequence of the horror Spanish society felt at the images coming out of care homes, that questions of how to get numbers without post-mortems and lack of official diagnosis came up, but it doesn't seem too difficult to me to have a 'suspected Covid' status on the death certificate (as in fact that Guardian article suggests).
also, while we're on it, has anyone seen any 'excess deaths' figures for the UK?
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 April 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
i'm not a statistician, but when i get onto my laptop which has excel on it, this looks like it might be the place to go to at least get a sense of comparative numbers.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 April 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link
We're at the end of the third week of lockdown. Over 1.5m in Britain couldn't feed themselves - and that's limited to who is acknowledged. Over 1m people have reported losing *all* of their income due to COVID-19. The food banks are running empty. https://t.co/lUsuyTcZ3K— GlumBird (@GlumBird) April 11, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 April 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
Thank god for potatoes
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link
Just went all the way through a Universal Credit calculator, it would seem that our eligibility is somewhere in the region of £0.00. We're fortunate enough to be able survive I guess, but no doubt there will be huge amounts of people who fall through the cracks, many of whom were way below the poverty line already. How strange, that the Tory response to this vast, unforeseen shock to the economy is a disdainful shrug.
― sonatas and interludes for prepaid nando's (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 April 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link