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

Screener of Lammy's tweet

@DavidLammy do you want to apologise for this now deleted tweet cheering on forced labour in prisons? pic.twitter.com/upl2OcSr4C

— stephen (@neufunkaum) April 27, 2020

It was so very benign of him to express concerns about the availability of PPE for the prison wardens and not the subhuman slave labourers though!

There used to be this screw that lived accross the road from me. He was a violent domestic abuser who got sacked for violent misconduct. His ex partner showed me some of the transcripts from the internal enquiry into an incident of serious abh he committed against a prisoner. He was basically a violent bully who was too thick to join the cops.

My prime minister

We asked @JeremyCorbyn about Coronavirus, he didn’t hold back 🔥

Watch full film: https://t.co/7iPJ1FxdXV pic.twitter.com/hNcMC861jH

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) April 27, 2020

some quite forensic criticisms of the multiple failings of this incompetent govt there.

lol I thought Kay Burley was being sarcastic with that "heavy is the crown" comment, what a prize chump.

good stuff from the absolute boy there

a little bit on the salty side for a brand new convert to "polite and respectful discourse" as myself, he could at least add the caveat that they are completely fucking it up under very difficult circumstances!

10% of all global C-19 deaths on this tiny island, that is a phenomenal achievement tbf. They said Global Britain could punch above it's weight.

totally brilliant response from @MayaGoodfellow https://t.co/kQiltO1vBu

— Sukhwant Dhaliwal (@SukwantDhaliwal) April 27, 2020

quite

The plot thickens…

The photo is from last summer , there’s a wider shot used in the daily mail and the ice cream being eaten by the young lad was in a form we haven’t done this year .

— Marrocco's Italian (@marroccoshove) April 27, 2020

that photography agency lying out of their arses!

Wait a minute...there's no ice cream place called "Marrocco's" in Hove!!

hang on a minute, due to a bizarre localised dimensional anomaly all ice cream in hove was wiped out in summer '19

hove is made up

xp same time as white dog shit, HMMMMM

And thickens!

They're selling ice cream tubs like that right now pic.twitter.com/UeT1Bnohhm

— Jon Mills (@jonmillsphoto) April 27, 2020

Jesus Christ

https://comps.canstockphoto.com/close-up-of-2019-diary-with-pen-on-stock-photo_csp63187322.jpg

ah but look at this detail

I'm pretty certain I've been to Marrocco's, when we met a friend in town she took us out for a walk to there because the icecream is that good.

Either way, we can agree that this means probably more than it reasonably should to people on both sides?

No way, this has been the most exciting story of the whole outbreak

Hm hold fire folks it's sounding like the guy who had the info that Marrocco's was a false flag was himself a false flag

One day David Hare is gonna make a really shitty mini-series out of this story

given that housing is going to be a major dividing issue at the next election.

Second ice cream salesman on the grassy Knoll?

Ha I should probably catch up on all messages first... Just saw the next post

Ice cream guy didn't claim they didn't sell those tubs, he said "in that form" possibly meaning the split flavour you can see in the wider shot of the boy 🤔

tbf the marrocco tweet said nothing about tubs, just that the ice cream was in a “form” they aren’t doing this year... 🤔

lmao xp

That’s what you call... a double scoop

Regardless of whether its a media issue or not, housing has been one of the main issues buoying the Labour vote in metropolitan areas since 2015. Starmer's policies may change that but no one knows what his policies are going to be yet.

Also looking at it from the other angle there is virtually guaranteed to be a major house price crash in the next year or so and voters tend to punish a sitting government after that happens.

jon mills is no straight talking mr whippy lover + is a photographer so is possibly quite invested in preserving the integrity of that 2019 pic they sold to the express!

That’s what you call... a double scoop

there should be journalism school classes about that thread my god it's astounding

Oh no

So Matt is now going to be publishing a daily email where he *explains* the cartoons. pic.twitter.com/CwIWjxVEQ1

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 27, 2020

a cock and balls story

bg nails it again

He looks like one of his own cartoons

Holy shit. According to #Panorama, the government counted EACH glove rather than each pair and counted paper towels as PPE given to hospitals, to inflate the numbers.

— Laleh Khalili (@LalehKhalili) April 28, 2020

Today is the ten year anniversary of Brown calling that woman a bigot. So depressing to think how much the last decade has been shaped by his refusal to stand by that assessment.

10 years since Brown called Gillian Duffy a "bigoted woman". I wrote this about it in HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT 👇
What's interesting isn't 'Brown was right' but that he said it behind closed doors while reproducing anti-migration messages. Anti-migration views aren't born in a vacuum pic.twitter.com/nPo269YtvN

— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) April 28, 2020

Like so many politicians and journalists before him and countless who would come after him, it was as if he believed people's views to be entirely unconnected to the the political climate around them they has helped create.

Maya Goodfellow nailed it.

We didn't just get to where we are with this government and migration because Brown was criticised for calling Gillian Duffy a bigot.

We got here, in part, because of the ways New Labour - and Brown - reproduced anti-migration politics and helped entrench anti-migration views

— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) April 28, 2020

Between 2005 and 2009 98% of all asylum seekers fleeing persecution because of their sexuality were refused refuge and extradited back to their home countries to face persecution https://t.co/QvqzMZeir1

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) April 22, 2020

Given what we now know about some of the unelected people advising Brown, and later Miliband, it's entirely likely they were instrumental in pushing these messages. It's obvious from that recording that Brown didn't really believe this shit but he went with what he thought the mob were demanding, and who was giving him that information?

There's quite a telling bit in, I think, Alistair Campbell's diaries from 1997 where Major writes to him and says that he and Paddy Ashdown had agreed not to go hard on immigration as an election issue and requesting that Blair do the same. And it wasn't an election issue at all 1997. William Hague in opposition *did* go hard on it, backed by the Mail, the Sun etc which pushed Labour to start parroting harsher and harsher rhetoric. The more Labour did it, the more it gave license for IDS and Howard to push further the right, and we ended up where we ended up.

The stupid thing is that New Labour derived no real benefit from all this, because for all the rhetoric of good vs bad migrants, they were also significantly expanding immigration, particularly from new EU states, and that's what the gammons remember, not the untold suffering that thousands of migrants experienced, and continue to experience, in their name.

Also the Home Office as an institution, and successive Labour Home Secretaries, were enthusiastic proponents of the line, not reluctantly dragged along.

shurely not racist cunt Jack Straw?

Care home deaths have been updated:

At least 5,500 care home residents in England have died with coronavirus, says ONS official
Nick Stripe, head of the health analysis and life events division at the ONS, has been speaking to the BBC about today’s coronavirus death figures released this morning. He said there have now been around 27,000 excess deaths - that is more deaths than you would expect on average for this time of year - in the four most recent weeks for which figures are available.

Of the 12,000 excess deaths in the most recent week (see 9.42am), he said that around 25% of those did not involve coronavirus being mentioned on the death certificate.

He also said that there total number of coronavirus deaths in care homes in England was probably now at least 5,500 - which is higher than the official most recent ONS figure. (See 9.55am.) He explained:

In care homes we are now seeing over three times more deaths in total in care homes, in that last week, than we saw four weeks previously. And 28% of those deaths are from Covid.

Now, we’ve also taken data from the Care Quality Commission over the last few days. The Care Quality Commission collects death notifications of all deaths of care home residents. And we have been able to compare that data against our death registrations data, and it’s a good match.

So from the 10 to 17 April, for example, we can see a very close match.

If you take that data, we can see the Care Quality Commission has figures for England of 4,343 deaths in care homes between 10 and 24 April, so much more current, that’s last Friday.

And we know that we had 1,000 deaths registered in care homes prior to 10 April.

So in total we are looking at around at least 5,500 deaths in care homes in England related to Covid by 24 April

As one senior minister said to me last week, govt has job to do to shift opinion and ease lockdown. ‘We spent weeks telling people to stay home & live or go outside & die. We have to tilt the narrative’ https://t.co/MVKakUalrC

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) April 28, 2020

Lol they are going to kill another 30k for the economy

wonder what’s making brits so cautious

maybe those 40,000 dead people have something to do with it