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

how fucking thick do you need to be to look at an nhs id and consider it insufficient evidence of whatever you’ve decided ‘proper’ need to travel is

Cambs police covering themselves in glory all week. Hope the NHS workers had an intense discussion with them around the subjects of sex and travel.

If you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don’t be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows! We are covering the whole county #urbanandrural #StayHomeSaveLifes #ProtectTheNHS 2813 7702 pic.twitter.com/hieQ86dM9R

— Central Community Team (@CentralBedsCPT) April 11, 2020

xp yeah I don't recall my local police franchise making much news of any kind before (main preoccupation in Cambridge is trying and failing to stop bike theft) but they're not exactly rising to the occasion here

particularly since, iirc, the slowness of processing complaints was one of the main sticks used to beat corbyn by the less hysterical commentators, and a key part of the narrative.

There's been a spate of "He's only been in the job a few days and the committee got back to me #finallyanoppositionagain" on Twitter as well.

So much exuberance! xp

Owen Jones has the report, hope whoever sent it to him finds time to leak it. Don’t think it’s a vindication of Corbyn - there were and are failures - but it’s really bad news for the Labour right who were the crew who took the narrative from “the Labour Party is institutionally antisemitic” (which implicated them) to “Jeremy Corbyn is the poison of the Labour Party”.

If you needed any more evidence that factionalism played an outsize part, consider the fact that many people who pushed the “existential threat” narrative the hardest are now engaged in playing down concerns about the government’s handling of the crisis. A crisis that, among many other damning statistics, is responsible for disproportionate deaths among British Jews.

well there it is - a cash value on how much damage Tory cuts did to national preparedness

can’t wait for starmer to hold the government accountable for this shocking state of affairs

UK government stockpiles containing protective equipment for healthcare workers in the event of a pandemic fell in value by almost 40% over the past six years, the Guardian has found.

Analysis of official financial data suggests £325m was wiped off the value of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) emergency stockpile, reducing it from £831m in 2013 under the Conservative-led coalition government to £506m by March last year.

Nice Steely Dan homage by Central Bedfordshire police there

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you will be surprised to learn that i've already seen our favourite social media melts reading this story as "so Corbyn was a wrong 'un, can't blame the good decent people of the Labour right for trying to fit him up"

Boris out of hospital on Easter Sunday.

What were the odds...

jesus didn’t last much last easter sunday tho iirc

er, past Easter Sunday

says here he rose again in accordance with the scriptures and shall sitteth at the right hand of god the father he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father h e will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end

jesus i dont know abt

Spaffed onto a wall IIRC.

hence the white thing on the wall

Boris out of hospital on Easter Sunday.

middling revive

I'm a single mum to 2 severly autistic young men along with learning difficulties etc. I am not able to leave the house with them as I would need 2 other staff with me, yet I am unable to be on the vulnerable list. And am unable to get any shopping delivery booked.

— Sharon Sapwell (@SapwellSharon) April 12, 2020

unsurprisingly this tory arsehole govt are missing lots of people off the vulnerable list. I can't bring my son to a supermarket and if I leave him in the house there is a danger he could end up hospitalising the missus again if he has a meltdown. How does a household with two disableds (one with MS) not get on the vulnerable list? Luckily so far through dogged persistence and luck I've managed to get a delivery from Morrisons tomorrow. At least I could go in the early hours to a supermarket when Alex is asleep I suppose, but even then it's a calculated risk that could go wrong. But some like her in the tweet above don't even have that option. People with autism tend have bad spatial awareness, tend to touch their faces a lot when stimming, how the fuck are you supposed to bring them to a supermarket ffs?

There's what seems to be a big extended family gathering going on right now in the place overlooking mine, should I dob them in to the rozzers y/n

n

always n

is Caitlin Moran is attendance

yeah ok maybe not always n

They're Polish builders not media elites, so no Caitlin I don't think

Leave them be at their own risk and hopefully no-one else's and enjoy how angry this would make Priti Patel.

nice big clap of thunder here in e5, if ʻoumuamua won't save us maybe ragnarok will

perfect govt. response re. whether workers on furlough can be forced to take holiday time during it

The Guardian attempted to clarify the confusion. The Treasury press office redirected the inquiry to HM Revenue and Customs which, in turn, insisted it was a matter for the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy department.

BEIS stated that it was a Treasury responsibility.

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somehow this quote gets me even angrier at these people than Patel's "I'm sorry if you feel unhappy" from yesterday

Charles Walker, a Tory MP who knows Johnson well, said that when he received a text on his phone relaying the news, he and his wife – like much of the country – found it hard to take. “We had watched the Queen on Sunday night, one of the anchors in our lives. She took us back to the moment in her reign when she broadcast during the war with her sister. Then to suddenly hear that our prime minister had been taken into intensive care … in my 52 years I really have to say I think it was the darkest hour. We had lots of friends and family contracting the virus, and had news of so many people dying, then you think, ‘my God, we could lose him as well’.”

"everyone else is dead but as long as Big Ben is bonging and Boris is bonking, Britain will never be defeated"

nice big clap of thunder here in e5, if ʻoumuamua won't save us maybe ragnarok will

just remembered that Big Ben has stopped bonging, Boris truly is our last hope

She took us back to the moment in her reign when she broadcast during the war with her sister. Then to suddenly hear that our prime minister had been taken into intensive care … in my 52 years I really have to say I think it was the darkest hour.

So it took him back to that moment the Queen broadcast during the war, 28 years before he was born - honestly, these people want locking up. Also, it was during her reign, you fucking cretin.

I'm surprised he didn't say it was the darkest hour the nation had faced since the Winter of Discontent tbh.

(xp) it wasn't during her reign, ffs and I'm calling him a cretin.

"then you think, ‘my God, we could lose him as well’ and won't even be able to have a good pissup to celebrate the worthless prick's death"

"Myself and my wife were engaging in our traditional Sunday pastime, shared by many here no doubt, of rewatching the 2017 Gary Oldman film while mutually masturbating..."

raincloudy with enough blue sky to paint an old-school enid blyton book cover imo, breeze just slammed half my flats doors so i closed some windows

Raincloudy is a beautiful and evocative word.

There’s some evocative words in this report, though not quite as pretty.

Labour staffers discussing me in 2015. Lol. pic.twitter.com/uuTq7sSbrY

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 12, 2020

was lolling at some OJ/Chris Williamson interaction earlier!

it's worth watching that turkey of a movie (Darkest Hour) for some of the lols tbf. The scene on the tube is hilarious on a few levels and is probably the worst acting Oldman has done since director Julian Schnabel (in a blatant vanity move) cast him as himself in the Basquiat movie!

Fuck.
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there has been much lip service from Sir Kier on Labour AS but he clearly doesn't give a fuck about racism in the party if he thinks burying this report is the best option.

EXCLUSIVE: Labour Party internal report on Antisemitism

"The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019"

Leaked (in full) by Jewdas ✊https://t.co/9PA6d8IH4V

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) April 12, 2020

full report leaked

lol!

Magnificent work.

Can Corbyn or someone sue these people or something? Make them stand up in court and admit what they were doing?

Love those guys.

That scumbag McNicol was on the news during the week giving it the "We've got our party back" routine.

can’t believe those antisemitic monsters at jewdas are up to their old tricks again, and at easter too

We knew it was bad, but fucking hell.

Senior Labour officials laughing at the "truly repulsive" Diane Abbott for crying in a toilet, mocking Dawn Butler for daring to mention racism in Labour, and saying Iain Duncan Smith was "better than most of our shadow cabinet". These people ran Labour until very recently. pic.twitter.com/DKELoIN47s

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) April 12, 2020

fuck this fucking party, and fuck Corbs for not purging the cunts