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

The idea of shopping somebody to the police is of course repualsive but these are the cunts who set the police loose on people sitting mind their own business on park benches etc.

They've got no-one who could beat Johnson in a popularity contest

Not right now, makes no sense to shift him. 2023 may be a different story but its fantasy to think anyone is going to make any kind of move this year

grant shapps is developing quite the lockdown bouffant

i resent that reading of Finding Nemo tbh

if you've got to slander a pre-teen fish just to make your lame comedy point then fuck you

nah everyone's a cunt, cunt cunt cunt

it's quite amusing to see Kinnock trending again and becoming an unwilling pawn in a culture war where nobody actually gives a shit about him!

reluctantly flagged imago for calling Nemo a cunt

gentlemen you can’t clown fish in here this is the finding nemo discussion

nemo got into trouble for touching a butt, probably quite relatable to most politicians

butt fish (2019)

anyway clearly the correct analogy for Dom is Dory since he doesn't remember where he's been

Dora the unexplorer

grant shapps is developing quite the lockdown bouffant

If you were all looking for a bit of light relief Larry Elliott has written about the potential for a property crash.

Do not click if you hate LedByDonkeys

This van has just turned up outside Dominic Cummings house @SkyNews pic.twitter.com/TVhmlWI9zN

— Sam Holder (@samholdertv) May 24, 2020

oh no

can't click that, sorry

im led by donky

Megamind is on Channel 4 right now what a coincidence of scheduling.

Led by flipping wallies

surely you meant twat-trumpeting cockwombles or something?

As soon as it is confirmed Brooker and Iannuci luvs Labour again, a golden era of hilarious effusive swearing shall begin

speaking of which

Just saw Charlie Brooker dunking on Matt Hancock. Must have been galling for Brooker to have voted for him

— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) May 23, 2020

Can't stand LedByDonkeys, but if they can continue to restrict their activities to petty trolling I might change my mind. A bit.

xp Rupa Huq is his sister in law, and possibly constituency MP.

Dominic Cummings being described as part of a self-serving and out of touch elite - uluv2seeit.

... just been described as such, more or less, by Peter Bone LOL.

the fact that you can't model for the effect that this will have on behaviours could be used as a good example of the limits of modelling

BREAK: Boris Johnson is chairing 5pm news conference at No 10.

— Joe Pike (@joepike) May 24, 2020

Omg

*prepares brick*

it would be awful if boris suffered a fatal covid-related pulmonary embolism in front of the assembled press pack

This only goes two ways, I think: a big defence which burns the entire public health message away trying to defend the indefensible and so ends up literally killing people, or a sacking.

If it is a sacking then the questions all become “what did you know and when, PM?”

(I guess he could also try a “poor Dom hounded by the unfair campaigning press” but that move just doesn’t work when the people are against it. And this isn’t abstract expenses. People have absolutely gone through the exact same scenario Cummings did, and chose differently)

Can't imagine he would announce the sacking of Cummings on live TV. So...

could try to kick it into the long grass w/some sort of inquiry nonsense too I guess

“i will be suspending him, with pay, until this blows over”

he could do a trump, talk absolute shit then not take any questions, cummings is probably telling him as much

Anyone expecting Dominic Cummings’ sacking, or en even an inquiry, at 5pm from Boris Johnson is going to be disappointed. I’m told the PM believes it’s “case closed”.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 24, 2020

Non-public enquiry delayed to 2021 seems likely, the lid's rattling the Cummings pot too loudly to be quieted by any more bullshit. Don't quote me on that though.

loltastic xpost

camaraderie otm

we should have a quick poll in the next 4 minutes

no sacking, no resignation, Johnson is taking this one to demonstrate that he's backing Cummings

This will be nothing, just like all those Maybot ones except that ppl will call it great leadership

If anyone can be relied on to waffle aimlessly without coming to any sort of salient point...

Wait until 7.30/8pm to see if the Campaigning Newspapers have more.

I think you might be about to see someone wriggle their way out of a jam folks

Why would he sack Cummings though? Boris Da Boss Windross is either the boss or he isn't.

You either get rid off the bat or not at all. Anything else is centrism

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT

of course, but thats what UK wanted