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

Prominent scientists now publically calling for an inquiry between now and the winter with the explicit intention of preventint a second spike in flu season.

Literally “I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty”. As though police use animal units without a view to attracting this kind of reaction.

longish thread here about the charge at downing street last night and the kettle that followed. everyone was photographed on way out and names were taken and they were all banned from westminster for 24 hours (ie today's demonstration).

About 5-10 minutes ago a number of police on horses charged at hundreds of peaceful protestors outside Downing Street, causing panic and putting us in danger. Reinforcements have arrived and seems like we’re now being kettled.

— George Starkey-Midha (@GStarkeyMidha) June 6, 2020

I saw someone tweeting that disabled protesters need to cover their faces as per usual, because as in previous protests the filth will ID them and shop them to the DWP. God knows why attending a legitimate protest affects their PIP entitlement but it's another good reason to say fuck these scumbags and this failed state.

Edward Colston statue pulled down by BLM protesters in Bristol. Colston was a 17th century slave trader who has numerous landmarks named after him in Bristol. #BlackLivesMattters #blmbristol #ukprotests pic.twitter.com/JEwk3qKJx2

— Jack Grey (@_jackgrey) June 7, 2020

love seeing a statue of a scumbag getting toppled by the people

bald guy doesn't seem impressed!

speaks volumes that these statues are still standing

meanwhile on the radio i heard a show about the prospects for the housing market post-lockdown. fuck this country.

They’re rolling the statue into the river!

THEY ARE TAKING THE STATUE TO THE RIVER WHERE HE DESERVES TO BE DUMPED pic.twitter.com/cKturaJOEs

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 7, 2020

just mind the fish

We love to see it

#Bristol statue of Edward Colston has been pulled down and pushed into the harbour during the #BlackLivesMattter march pic.twitter.com/ME1yxAhw7G

— BBC Radio Bristol (@bbcrb) June 7, 2020

looking forward to all the "they're censoring history" thinkpieces

and that's just on ILX

😍😍😍 xp

What a lovely story told w/ three tweets <3

Think you mean four

they fucking changed the location already 😂 https://t.co/zs5Moli4ob pic.twitter.com/dlbbg0cuH4

— heard in mutiny where possible (@selfisoceles) June 7, 2020

Ha! Beautiful kicker.

if you look up 'statue of Edward Colston' on Google Maps it now shows up as 'permanently closed' and in the bottom of the water pic.twitter.com/lgsGTOx9bg

— Josh Salisbury (@josh_salisbury) June 7, 2020

I was thinking of suggesting that Edward Colston be replaced by Tony Blair in Bristol

But maybe there isn’t yet a national consensus

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) June 7, 2020

he almost makes me feel sorry for Blair, couldn't imagine what it is like to have such a shit stalker

They've defaced Churchill! pic.twitter.com/rkINK4oac6

— Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020

fuck yes I’ve been waiting for this

churchill cult needs to die yesterday

i remember this happening during the 90's as well and back then there was always multiple dickheads with tenuous grasp on history who will say "he was anti-fascist, he defeated hitler ..durr"

fuck yes more days like this pls

xp step forward Lib Dem spokesman Sir Billiam of Bragg

Just reading about the proposed Blair statue in Bristol, I think the people who threw Colston in the river may have been somewhat hasty

Somebody put a turf mohican on Churchill's head iirc. Poll Tax riots?

Was literally about to say "has someone said 'this is very good but they should have applied for planning permission first'?" and right on cue

I grew up in Bristol. I detest how Edward Colston profited from the slave trade.

But, THIS IS NOT OK.

If Bristolians wants to remove a monument it should be done democratically - not by criminal damage. https://t.co/Wfz47zQQZU

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 7, 2020

If Iraqis want to remove a monument it should be done democratically

xxp
yeah i think that was a pic in the NME I have a vague memory of.

how do you democratically get a statue of a slaver dragged down with a govt in power who just recently commissioned a statue of a notorious nazi lover and anti-semite? lol sure

Seems the profiting from the slave trade is what really ruined the slave trade for this former Chancellor I guess.

hate those innocent smoothie style not for profit slavers as well!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZ7BPQYXYAEf6-p?format=png&name=900x900

imago's alter ego !

maybe build a statue to the victims of white meltdowns

but make it so fragile that it immediately shatters

call me bud i think we've got this year's Turner in the bag

spiked are going to announce edward colston as a columnist by the end of the week

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 7, 2020

Narrator: no texts were dropped x

tbf to Spiked they probably do disagree with taking down the Jimmy Savile monuments

everything about this picture

taking a knee on a toppled slave owner's neck: beautiful pic.twitter.com/jpycxujX7h

— "Gabriel Szatan" (@gabrielszatan) June 7, 2020

I don’t understand why people are complaining about the Colston statue being pushed into the harbour in Bristol. It’s still there if you want to jump in and have a look at it.

— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) June 7, 2020

2000 May Day Riots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/740524.stm

(I was here for those; not here for the Poll Tax Riots)

That's the one, which arsehole at the time who isn't Billy Bragg made some stupendous comment him being the OG anti-fascist. I can't remember who it was but lots of tories and melts don't half love keeping that meme alive!

Even Dan Hodges isn't challoping about the statue.

Imagine how little we’d know about Hitler if it weren’t for the statues of him everywhere

— rachel shabi (@rachshabi) June 7, 2020

So @pritipatel thinks toppling the statute of slave trader Edward Colston is utterly disgraceful. The real disgrace and the horror which echoes down the centuries is the slave trade itself #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/n5TaRqLTFH

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 7, 2020

He was likely responsible for many more deaths than all of Britain's serial killers combined so maybe just stick up a statue of Dr Harold Shipman instead.

I’m normally an optimist,but I feel we’re heading towards something grim and ominous. Mobs being egged on by our intellectual and cultural elites won’t have a happy ending .....

— Douglas Carswell (@DouglasCarswell) June 7, 2020

Replies to the carswell tweet are a handy list of people who are likely to go out and commit a hate crime at some point.

I think they should have a health and safety officer next time they bring down a statue, would hate to get a life changing injury from a falling cast stone/bronze model of a scumbag imperialist with a stupid fucking dick turpin hat.

a lot of the usual wankers are saying the avon/somerset police superintendent admitted they stood off and let the protesters take the statue. lol that is gonna boil some piss!

This Metropolitan Police could learn a lot from this statement by @abennett_police. pic.twitter.com/jSJE6ulQVM

— Owen Jones says join a union🌹 (@OwenJones84) June 7, 2020