they should make every arsehole who wrote so much risible bollox about Rishi after the feb budget eat a few kilograms of wood pulp for every word of wildly wrong bullshit they wrote about him.
I suppose cutting the furlough money from them and dragging over a million(?) previously salaried workers into the loving bosom of Universal Credit and sanctions, zero hour contracts etc is sort of socialism in a way!
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
There's definitely a belief in the Treasury that some businesses are taking the money that just don't need it. But a lot of those businesses aren't going to do anything (bar make redundancies) while the virus is still ongoing.
This feels like a gigantic gamble from the government that the virus will have substantially receded by July - and if it hasn't it will likely be their fault. If it hasn't I don't think they'll be able to get away with it either economically or politically - like ending lockdown too soon it undermines the point of having done it in the first place.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-britain-elderly/
another good reuters piece on the UK govt's outright negligence in the huge number of care home deaths. it's heartbreaking reading about the care assistant who had bought her own PPE from amazon and by the time it arrived she was already dying of c-19 in hospital:(
I hate to say it but even Jeremy Cunt was showing more forethought and competence than the UK govt on care homes, ffs!
Jeremy Hunt, a former Conservative Party health secretary and now chairman of the House of Commons health select committee, advocated banning visits to care homes by friends and family from early March, advice that wasn’t followed.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:26 (four years ago) link
Three days into the lockdown, on 26 March, the nation was urged to stand at their doorstep or window on a Thursday evening and applaud the NHS. Boris Johnson, by now already infected himself, led the cheering on the first occasion.For some workers in Enfield, the chants left them uneasy. Working 12 hours shifts for barely £9 per hour, below the non-statutory London Living Wage of £10.75, they wondered if those cheers for caregivers were also meant for them.
For some workers in Enfield, the chants left them uneasy. Working 12 hours shifts for barely £9 per hour, below the non-statutory London Living Wage of £10.75, they wondered if those cheers for caregivers were also meant for them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:31 (four years ago) link
What the far right have been doing is spreading and reacting to news stories from before lockdown that when shared read like mosques have been open since lockdown. And last week Nigel Fascist-Partridge, exploiting 'key worker' status, tweeted a video of himself on the beach speculating about how people enter the country by boat and are taken off in vans, some to jobs they've lined up, and others 'bringing the virus', putting words into the mouths of some locals and that they don't believe the official figures.
Status he doesn't have, of course
METRO: Boffin quits over affair in lockdown #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/qx8fCZaI5Q— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) May 5, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
didn't realise the scientist was a bonking love rat. h/t hendo
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
Into the seaYou and me
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
Good Farage headline. He looks even worse than he ever did before.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link
he looks very haggard + sunken eyed and his hair makes me feel sad, hope he isn't dying!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:48 (four years ago) link
he looks a lot like david icke with his lockdown hair
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:49 (four years ago) link
Allegedly, someone just triggered the fire suppression system in one of the hangers at Heathrow, after BA announced they were sacking 900 staff. pic.twitter.com/yMmhYrTAS0— Lenny Etheridge ⭕ (@lennythepen) May 5, 2020
u loves to see it
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
Rory S is dropping out of the London Mayoral race.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:40 (four years ago) link
his decision to campaign solely in dari was, in retrospect, ill-advised at best
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
wonder how many strangers' floors he ended up sleeping on in the end
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
mayor of London starting to look a little too much like hard work.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
I've sent him a white feather in the post.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
Neighbourhood stasis in the Stokey group throwing a fit over Hackney having the third highest infection rate in the country, blaming sunbathers as per usual.
Turns out no it doesn't, it has the third highest MORTALITY rate, meaning the problem isn't ppl going to the park it's understaffed/underfunded hospitals.
But holding the government to account not as much fun as grassing on your neighbours.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
The London Mayoral election is delayed for a year, isn't it? So Khan gets an extra year that he hadn't earned, though it may not be a very welcome one?
Labour used to ask me to campaign for Khan but I'm not sure I'll even vote for him.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
Thinking a bit more about this furlough thing - the scheme is pretty much the only thing preventing hundreds of thousands of businesses from simply running out of cash right now. On the assumption that the Treasury doesn't actually want this to happen (because, y'know, economic disaster, widespread unemployment + soaring benefits bill + gigantic hole in the tax base + slower recovery) it feels like an attempt to push more of the debt burden from the public to the private sector. Which will become unsustainable pretty fast if it isn't safe to restart things. I suppose that's what the taxpayer-backed loans are for but both Dodds and Miliband have pointed out that these are inadequate.
We're also going to get soaring consumer debt as furlough money starts being withdrawn. The people most at risk are likely to be people working in the leisure or hospitality sectors because those aren't going to be restarting for months yet and even when they do they're likely to be on reduced footfall. And business confidence more generally is going to be anaemic until we have properly got the virus under control, regardless of any "back to work!" rhetoric coming from the government.
Being even more cynical, I suspect they've picked July because it's the start of Q3. But all this is pretty much a recipe for a financial crisis or mass loan defaults, with the government picking up the bill whatever happens.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
That extra year probably wrecks Khan's own plan - because he'll still be sitting in City Hall by the time Starmer loses to Johnson and therefore unable to run for Parliament and the leadership?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
I can't see Khan ever running for leader, tbh.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
I bet he can.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
idk, he's ambitious but if Starmer fails, i'm not sure the Labour centre/right is going to go for 'Starmer but Muslim', particularly when he's already a lighting rod for every racist and Islamophobe in the country.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
Depends on how ambitious he is and whether he has sufficient support from the benches (I don't see why he wouldn't). I can't really imagine what it's like being a member of his immediate family and he's also very likely to decide it just isn't worth the trauma.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
Love too live in a democracy.
Truly incredible video. Watch this and gasp (again) at the BBC: pic.twitter.com/9w0TfUw5Gk— Liam Young (@liamyoung) May 6, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
Khan isn’t going to run. It’ll make the campaign against Corbyn look like Tony’s 1997 cruise into no 10.
― gyac, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
jesus christ that Radio 4 thing
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
If I was Khan I'd already be concerned about the very real possibility of a Mair type deranged assassin coming after me as London mayor never mind Labour party leader and might think it too dangerous a move to make in what is a right wing emboldened and quite deranged political milieu right now. But that's as far as my sympathy and empathy goes with this fucking creep!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/matt-hancock-mp-app-released
so the app has launched will anyone be downloading it
― conrad, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
not even with Starmers cold dead severed hands!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
That Novara thing has been silently deleted, huh
― stet, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
'ending with a smile' is as old as the hills - that's all that was.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
The attached graphic about trust in the written press, published last week, has not been widely reported in Britain. This is a huge annual survey by @EurobarometerEU across 33 countries. It's the ninth year out of the past ten that the UK has been last. We have a problem. pic.twitter.com/8eYoQR7XZw— Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) May 5, 2020
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
going out on top, baby!
― imago, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
British public are good again.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
Clarification: This morning we shared a clip of a paper review on the Today programme cut together with the headlines being discussed in which the Guardian's headline was replaced with story about otters.— Novara Media (@novaramedia) May 6, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
Interesting: PHE ordering govt comms hubs to take down all “Stay Home” messaging by Saturday night. Looks like we are getting a new slogan from PM... told: “Please ensure that all Stay Home messaging is removed from websites, social media and any other available channels“— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) May 6, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
“Wash your hands for the length of we’ll meet again and get to fucking work peasants” is it
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Go Forth And Multiply.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
boris 'regrets' the care home epidemic, apparently, which presumably means that he's neither apologetic nor responsible but he gets to say something platitudinous that cretins will give him credit for
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Whatever this is I have a suspicion we're about to witness a fuckup of genuinely historical proportions.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
i can't see how it leads to anything else tbh
to not even wait and see how easing lockdowns plays out in france and italy before we even start thinking about our next step seems basically genocidal
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
we still don't have enough PPE, capacity for adequate testing/contract tracing etc to cope with getting hit by a 2nd spike. I just can't think what could possibly go right.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
but red line go down tho
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
still don't have enough PPE to even cope with now when we are supposedly past the peak
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
no it's fine now, i hear schoolkids are making it with 3d printers
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Feels like Boris has a whole new coalition to try and keep together between the emerging ardent-capitalist back-to-work fucks faction and the, idk, let's-not-kill-the-olds faction? In other circumstances you'd love to see it – feels like they were united as a party for about three weeks after he sacked all the Remainers.
― stet, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
And it does seem like Boris is on the side of the let's-not-die faction, which is not where I'd have put him, near-death experience or no
give him some time
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link