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

Lots of Scottish historians lining up to point out Neil Oliver is a mere archaeologist, i.e. someone who digs up pots for a living.

oh man i hated Neil Oliver before it was trendy, preening cunt

never trust anyone fae renfrewshire, especially with that fuckin hair

not even a prehistoric archaeologist, just some floppy haired pleb with a metal detector.

(xp) Here you. Anyway, he grew up in Ayrshire, enough said?

the worst of both worlds, clearly

Not enough attention has been paid to what the government intends to do to support and boost any recovery or reconstruction because its very likely to be inadequate.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 June 2020 9:05 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The answer seems to be do a brexit in the most incompetent way possible.

I wonder what proportion of Brexiters consider it already done. Johnson himself was saying that a lot in the early stages of the pandemic "I can assure you no one in Number 10 is talking about Brexit much right now, it's in the past, it's done". There might be some danger for the government in having turned that page too quickly in the minds of the electorate.

Meanwhile this far right counter demonstration is starting to look very ominous. Good luck anyone out there today.

i thought BLM cancelled because of the nazis, is something still going on?

Neil Oliver, armed with a massive claymore, cutting the marxist mob in twain as they try to push a monument celebrating the Highland clearances into the north sea.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 10, 2020

oliver's army...

An ‘All Lives Matter’ protest is currently taking place around the Cenotaph. pic.twitter.com/fLNXsUHQ3y

— Martin Booth (@beardedjourno) June 13, 2020

Briefly thought they were aiming their protest at the lead singer of Ocean Colour Scene, but apparently not.

‘not far right’, claim protestors who couldn’t look any more far right if they were actually festooned in swastikas

this group composed exclusively of burly bald bearded white men loves diversity, actually

There’s only a couple of hundred of them, they’re throwing up Nazi salutes. No doubt we can expect all the classics like No Surrender later.

Burly is being kind tbh

My Wehrmacht helmet is raising a number of questions already answered by my ‘not far right’ poster.

There always seems to be a large contingent of bikers at events like these.

In an effort to kip about historians, David Olusoga has been uncompromising in his support for the statues being taken down. He's in the middle of another season of A House Through Time, this one in Bristol and they're rerunning his Black and British series as well.

State of them
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaY9QKdWkAAG78f?format=jpg&name=large

xp the massive Soldier F protest i saw was thousands of bikers

we're running out of non-cunt TV historians, thank god for David Olusoga

xp i'm sure those lads are Norn Irish and have a strong grasp of the history

Doesn't stretch much beyond 1690 though.

LOL it's the Queen's birthday too, perfect.

Singing God Save The Queen while giving her a race riot for her birthday. Cracking stuff.

Thank fuck the pubs are closed tbh.

BBC "historian" Neil Oliver is "concerned" that "anarchists and communists" are trying to "eat into the fabric of British society"

strange feeling when your enemies are constantly exaggerating the impact of your efforts. flattering but sad

Nurse to bloke opposite: “Your urine is dark.”
Bloke: “The times are dark.”

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) June 13, 2020

all these nazis should be dead imo

All races eh
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaZIP2YWkAEEpY0?format=jpg&name=large

Despite a planned protest in Edinburgh’s St Andrews Square at the Melville monument, there are maybe 4 or 5 people here, no demonstrations as yet. One man did turn up with a hubcap strapped to his head, with KKK written on the front. pic.twitter.com/jxfxhaO7MB

— Jack Foster (@jackfostr) June 13, 2020

lol wtf!

Wow. A huge argument has broken out between two men, one who is claiming that White Lives Matter, the other claiming that All Lives Matter.

“You’re a fucking racist,” shouts the All Lives Matter man. pic.twitter.com/OMT1i0y1ME

— Ed Clowes (@EdClowes) June 13, 2020

ahhhh, they'll sleep tonight

Moreincommon#

Someone gaffer taped a cushion with Winston Churchill's face on it to the outside of the Winston Churchil box. The British national psyche is a depraved and mysterious thing. pic.twitter.com/fIH1tHAWsc

— Statue Defriender (@MediocreDave) June 13, 2020

Beeb really determined to run with the "BLM agitators stirring up the Nazis" angle

without calling anyone a nazi, obv

must we be beastly to the fascists who would gladly see every bbc employee buried alive

strangely silent on the fact that these patriots and free speech fans seem to be attacking journalists and pigs just for the release of Stella/roid hormones lulz

Nick Robinson just repeated that nonsense that there have been "calls for the Harold Wilson statue to taken down". Whatever the arguments for doing this, these "calls" were a single tweet by that got 7 likes and Barry Sheerman saw an opp for some outraged grandstanding. Complete non-story.

going to be interesting to see how this clip is used / not used on the news tonight

Parliament square today pic.twitter.com/bmFb1P82Pv

— Jamie Roberts (@visitjamie) June 13, 2020

Kinda hypnotised by the guy in the torquoise coloured tshirt.

*Sound on* pic.twitter.com/YLg6kSDI9e

— KatⒶstrophe Cake (@anar_catt) June 13, 2020

The gammon hired a ninja

there's another clip from a slightly different angle, he does his little Queensberry rules fist roll and then fronts up to a cop who might well be a woman

this one

https://twitter.com/search?q=Engerland&src=trend_click

oops

Engerland twitter spent two weeks complaining about BLM protests being violent but have already had a fight with the police within a few hours of their first day.

Brainless isn’t even the word to describe them. pic.twitter.com/9ZIcCJAudE

— مجهول (@G4FFER_) June 13, 2020

not gonna share it all, there's tons of vids all over Twitter already, attacking people sat in the park, nazi salutes, racial slurs, throwing shit at cop horses etc etc

i'm sure this will generate the same level of press brow-furrowing as last week's peaceful dumping of a racist effigy in a harbour

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaaEoHpWkAAHy6i?format=jpg&name=900x900

Has this one been covered yet?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/man-urinates-keith-palmer-memorial-westminster-tobias-ellwood-a4468271.html

Go outside your house, pop to the shops...especially if you live on Downing St., talk to your voters.