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

fucked up that for the most part you have to go to the opinion pages to get this level of reporting

xpost

Osama thumbs up

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8350223/Dominic-Cummings-wife-described-collapsed-spasms.html

comments on this one are a tonic too

what has the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland done to deserve this treatment?

My god that press conference clip is astonishing. It's like a foolproof cure for impostor syndrome.

I agree with Michael. Tonight, I’m really embarrassed to have ever backed Boris Johnson for high office. https://t.co/Q1NpbOc8kh

— Tim Montgomerie (@montie) May 24, 2020

On one hand it's hilarious that they've lost the likes of Tim Montgomerie and Julia Hartley-Brewer over this. On the other hand, imagine being this credulous.

Well, either credulous, or soulless, hypocritical and believing in nothing but furthering the agenda of the wealthy.

they need to feel that embarrassment and suffer it for years, the wankers. They stanned for an incompetent who just did a buy one Guy Goma get two for free show and you fucking idiots backed him!

Gettin' shouted at like Johnson when Carrie wouldn't get off his laptop.

I don’t think the people like ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩’s decision. pic.twitter.com/1zzFJWHg2e

— LiveInUK-LoveEU (@LiveInUKLoveEU) May 24, 2020

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JHzbYLCdL._SX315_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

if only someone could have warned us he was a useless, lazy, corrupt lying idiot.. he didn't have any previous on his cv!

Hahahaha I immediately thought of Guy Goma too.

hard to be a shadowy populist when put in the spotlight and a deeply unpopular figure, eh

Cummings is loving every minute of that walk though, I reckon. Look at those houses, he can stand to be heckled by those people.

Even before this the number of times there have been press waiting outside his house reminds me of only one other person (Corbyn but you'd expect it more for the LOTO). I'm a big 'chase all Brexiters out of anywhere with a London postcode' bolsh tho.

Starmer saying he would have sacked Cummings and calling for him to go now

A lot of the people in those houses will be council or HA tenants - there’s a lot of on-street social housing in Islington.

When you’ve lost the neighbours like that, though... observe dude giving him the finger as he passes.

domcum’s response: “ok I’ll bite who is keir starmer”

are we still waiting on the Campaigning Newspapers to drop or is "he gets spoken to by police?" meant to be the next chapter?

(that sounds snarkier than I mean it to)

what was that about the mood of the nation?

Teacher: Cummings junior, can you put contagious in a sentence.

Cummings junior: Dad should've self isolated in London, but he chose to drive 250 miles to try and kill my grandparents, and the journey took the contagious.

— SkewSpewBarmyHairdo (@SkewSpew) May 23, 2020

A lot of the people in those houses will be council or HA tenants - there’s a lot of on-street social housing in Islington.

I thought I recognized that street, just trying to think where it is exactly.

Hypothesis circulating on medic lists on why DC is keeping his job:

"most of the cabinet and the ruling class, including PM, have been flouting the rules so many could fall if he does. And he could spill the beans"

Explains the coordinated tweets from half the cabinet y'day

— Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 (@trishgreenhalgh) May 24, 2020

... granted that lots of streets in London look the same, of course.

This is now stories 1-6 on the Mail; schools coming in at 7.

lol who is trisha greenhalgh i follow her on twitter and i'm never sure who she is

New line! Now he went because he was grieving for his uncle. No video-streaming funerals for him. Utter, utter cunt.

🚨 New: Why did Dominic Cummings go to Durham?

I spoke to his mother. She told me what no one has yet reported – Cummings’ time in Durham coincided with his uncle’s death.

"We have been a grieving family," she says, "there's been no recognition of that." https://t.co/pdhTdUGynK

— Harry Lambert (@harrytlambert) May 24, 2020

Why did Dominic Cummings go to Durham?

to get to the 'other side'

good to know that the families of each of the 36,793 people officially reported to have died of covid-19 to date all had the green light to pinball around the country however they saw fit

Mr Cummings goes off to Durham
Along the A1(M)
Then he comes home each weekend
Only to go off again
So-
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Cummings
If you think this story's done

DAILY MAIL: What planet are they on? #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/pmeEE0G4gM

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) May 24, 2020

pls hairy bikers, save me from the ‘rona

ffs I used to like them, now they are just jamie oliver's sinister paedo-bear uncles!

Yes that's true about the tenants but they look like plush Islington houses and that's what he'll want people to see.

God, Whats left on the prescribed list?

He broke into a pub because he desperately needed to down a Guinness in memorium?

domcum’s response: “ok I’ll bite who is keir starmer”

he did this to quite good effect during the proroguing of parliament debacle and some worthless labour right wanker mp tried a "spontaneous" - you are an outrage to parliamentary democracy - type attack on him while a friend filmed it and he replied " i don't even know who you are.. " I liked that moment tbh!

Yes that's true about the tenants but they look like plush Islington houses and that's what he'll want people to see.

A plush Islington house that he lives in... some of the time.

Home is where the heart is

Note that it’s the New Statesman and specifically that toad who wrote the piece about universities being a con for ‘sub-prime students’ running interference about this uncle.

it’s a remarkable piece of boot-throating

I don't think those houses will look particularly plush to people who don't live in London - which is most people.

You get a better class of neighbour in Barnsbury though

Ah right, is that where it is.

We should do Guess the Street come on anvil I bet you've almost worked it out already.

I spent twenty minutes looking round Streetview for it, think I figured it out but that area all looks the same

The sequence of houses with curved window arches on the top floor you can see at the start of the clip is relatively unusual. I thought he might be on a street in N1 I lived on myself for a while (more De Beauvoir than Barnsbury) but no.

I think I know where he lives but for obvious reasons I’m not going to post it on here.

Absolutely is in de Beauvoir, many of those streets off Essex Road have houses like that and they’re very particular to that part of Islington. Not Englefield or Northchurch Roads, though

Isn't it Ockenden Street?