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

Like coronavirus.

It's telling that some Randian-lite blowhard is considered an irreplaceable intellectual giant among the Tory ranks, the thought of Johnson flailing to make some kind of sense without old pumpkin-face Wormtongue whispering in his ear is cringe-inducing.

Today Michael @MichaelRosenYes has been in hospital for 8 weeks & I'm v happy to say he left ICU yesterday after a long & difficult 47 days.His recovery is continuing on the Ward & will take time. He has done so well to get through this but please don't expect him back here yet❤️

— Emma-Louise Williams (@Underthecranes) May 23, 2020

they saved him when his bum popped :)

eight weeks, jesus

glad he’s on the mend, we need him back tirelessly harassing john mann on twitter

Laura K deserves to be sent into orbit for what she did last night, but she won’t because this is a normal country.

Is it true that hundreds of bots started tweeting about Stephen Kinnock at the point at which this story broke last night?

Don't get me wrong, anything that shows up Stephen Kinnock is fine with me but still...

even soulless bot-egg armies on twitter possess more political integrity and genuine sentience than Skinnock tbf to them

In what way is Skinnock not an eggbot himself?

lol!

Keep baldies out of politics.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/4fc7b63cd70014008ea60b77d58e2496/tenor.gif

*tugs collar*

If you are concerned about people ignoring social distancing rules in our parks and open spaces, please ☎️ our anti-social behaviour line on 020 7527 7272.

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#LondonTogether #SocialDistancing #COVID19

— Islington Council (@IslingtonBC) May 23, 2020

I can't think of any prominent slaphead nazis, plenty of receding shiny foreheads but not full on members of the egg community.

Julius Streicher

oh yeah he was a proper Col Blimp mofo!

Author Michael Rosen out of intensive care after 47 days https://t.co/jL9bK94zTW

— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) May 23, 2020

Sturridge has gone to Chelsea BTW.

You'd a decent shine out of Il Duce.

that zarah sultana video doing the rounds is pretty righteous

if only there was some way to share it here on the ilxor dot com uk politics thraed

F--k She's so right! pic.twitter.com/ofOukU4nzb

— cabbieaz (@azizbassman70) May 22, 2020

It's great if Michael Rosen is recovering.

A terrific, courageous, principled, critical commentator on the terrible things that happen in our country.

xp Zarah Sultana getting praised by cabbies was not a development I expected

Fantastic seeing faces from all over the world at @borussia_en pic.twitter.com/7J9GVfbZyN

— David 🇸🇷 (@di1cox) May 23, 2020

Watching the government briefing on periscope and the comments are furious, my God

Hold up is Cummings' son really 24 lmao

Ah no there's a four year old ok

Not surprised by the comments tbh, if you wanted to design a lightning conductor for rage you could hardly do better than this. If it goes badly for Cummings it's going to be like the expenses scandal x10 and all on the head of one man.

This is doing some numbers right now:

My whole family went into isolation for 2 weeks when I had symptoms including my sons who both have respiratory health concerns. I didn’t send them to my parents despite being petrified I’d pass it on to them. He was wrong to travel & you are wrong to undermine your own advice. https://t.co/jzsfZYDeYq

— 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 (@AngelaRayner) May 23, 2020

Lol they took three tough questions in a row and then a transport one, Shapps is sweating lol

Looks like Boris has sent out instruction to die on Dom's hill.

Jenny getting ever-closer to just saying "was the child at extreme risk? no"

Jenny is a disgrace.

Not one person asked if he stopped for a piss, come on now. Total disaster.

Sam Coates actually asked if classic Dom had infected anyone on the way to Durham and did it matter.

“Did he stop to take a piss or are you taking it now?”

They’re retconning the medical advice. It’s amazing.

Follow the guidelines to the best of your ability. You can go somewhere when infected as long as you stay there until you are better. Up to the individual to decide if they have enough support. The guidance has a common sense element.

Q. Are you saying that anyone who becomes ill with the virus, they can go closer to relatives – no matter how far away that is?

Shapps says the rules have subsequently changed anyway.

Q. What are the risks of travelling if you have the virus and would you recommend it?

Harries says if people have symptoms, they should self-isolate immediately and stay in their homes.

The only exception around this is around risk, i.e. the issue of safeguarding for children or adults, she adds.

God help us if there is ever a second wave of lockdown people are supposed to be observing diligently.

‘the rules have subsequently changed anyway’, fuck sake

yes, domcum did beat some puppies to death with a lump hammer but we’ve since made it legal so nbd

Didn’t some people already have to resign over this kind of thing, they must be pissed off lol

God help us if there is ever a second wave of lockdown people are supposed to be observing diligently.

They could have just spun ‘Cummings was concerned about his family and made a good faith error of judgement interpreting the rules but has since apologised’ rather than ‘if you think about it, what really is a law other than some jolly good advice?’. It’s not as though he was actually going to be arrested.

There'd still be calls for his head even then, the govt are just trying to brazen it out now. Doesn't help that everyone hates him.

gallus cunts just trying to see what they will get away with

Saw some people saying the whole Cummings thing is a distraction/won't get traction and the left shouldn't bother...I admit I don't believe he'll get fired either, but I'm seeing so many people I know who barely ever talk politics get angry over this, so many stories of people who didn't visit relatives in dramatic conditions.

Was on the phone with my mum just now and she asked whether we were past the peak here, I actually had to look it up - feels almost irrelevant at this stage, crazy as that might sound?

Dan Davies has an interesting theory - that Johnson might be a lot more unwell than he’s letting on and Cummings is running the country on his behalf atm so is too valuable to be let go.

I just came here to post about that. Seems pretty credible tbh, Johnson disappeared for an entire week not so long ago.

You could argue its been Cummings running the country the entire time. Even a fully healthy Johnson would suddenly need to do a lot more work if he were to resign.

Also any money says Johnson bunks off PMQs next week.