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

lol

I made my last ever in my lifetime donation to the labour party in November '19. Good luck lads, but you do deserve to die.

Much amusement in Scotland over Boris Johnson big One-Chance-to-Save-the-Union-saving trip to, er, Orkney.

https://www.touropia.com/gfx/b/2020/07/scotland_map.png

I believe bad weather scuppered his plan to give a speech on St Kilda.

Norway Plus Plus

good birding on orkney

there was more chance of the Kriegsmarine invading them in the 40's

Norway Plus Plus

There's actually a bit of film of Boris' entourage driving past the one roundabout on the island with a standing at the side of the road waving a dual Scottish/Norwegian flag. Probably a Shetlander.

Can someone explain in laymans terms what this AS report legal action stuff is. None of the stuff around this has ever really gone in, finding it difficult to register

aiui, there are two potential routes - libel (the information is untrue and defamatory) and data protection (personal identifying information being misused through leaked publication). The former is highly contentious and unlikely, imo, to go anywhere unless the party settles to get it out of the way. The latter is more of a problem - but people are getting very excised about multi-million-Pound payouts when the reality is likely to be a lot less catastrophic.

... a plausible threat of bankruptcy.

me, reaping: this owns so hard
me, sowing: wth this sucks

The biggest impact is expected to be on Dyson’s head office in Malmesbury, Wiltshire https://t.co/ZDaEQu9cHQ

— The London Economic (@LondonEconomic) July 24, 2020

me, posting: this owns
me, realising I fucked up the order of reaping and sowing: wth this sucks

aiui, there are two potential routes - libel (the information is untrue and defamatory) and data protection (personal identifying information being misused through leaked publication). The former is highly contentious and unlikely, imo, to go anywhere unless the party settles to get it out of the way. The latter is more of a problem - but people are getting very excised about multi-million-Pound payouts when the reality is likely to be a lot less catastrophic.

Is there a link to something that isn't confusing on this. The link above and the twitter thread seem to presume you already know about it all and have opinions to match. Not so good for anyone who's tuned this whole thing out and is none the wiser

probably more chance of a frozen shaft of urine taking Starmer out of the game than Labour going bankrupt, but I will keep praying every day.

Would it also be true to say that the contents of WhatsApp conversations etc are not the private property of the individuals in the chat if the devices they used to have the chat were furnished to them as part of their jobs? Because I cannot imagine Iain McNichol paying for his own phone etc.

I think it’s a moot point if they got caught out by emailing the archive to themselves on their LP email account, by which I assume that archive becomes the party’s property?

But yeah, I assume that anything I do on my work devices can be seen by my employer, it’s their equipment.

I mean, it’s surprising how easy it is to not chat shit about colleagues when you’re busy doing the work you are contracted to do, right?

xps I haven't seen any particularly useful articles.

I would guess that even if it's the property of the organisation, failing to keep it secure is the issue. The stronger case would likely be people who'd registered complaints and had their names shared unredacted.

Yeah, wonder how all of this crosses over with GDPR.

Btw, Lab party in deep shit financially is a story the Telegraph has often run over the years (before twitter it wouldn't have been a thing I'd pay attention to)

I really regret being a member of this party and even giving them an additional donation for their election fighting fund after what has come out in the wash, never again in my life is a political party getting a fucking penny (nor a vote!) off me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/24/russia-report-uk-intelligence-services-moscow-mi5-mi6

Consider the following highly topical example. The potential break-up of Britain that might have resulted from the 2014 Scottish referendum is axiomatically not in the interest of the UK and is also a major problem for UK national security. It therefore has to be a concern to MI5, not least because breaking up the UK is obviously also in the interest of a hostile power such as Russia. The large political constraint is obvious. A majority in Scotland could have voted for it – and may yet do so. The agencies’ role here is obviously immensely delicate, but it is hard to argue that they should just do nothing.

Martin Kettle having a normal one and seemingly suggesting our secret services need to consider Scottish nationalism as a branch of domestic terrorism that is a threat to the state, maybe that is my bad reading comprehension and I'm on my second beer, but it's sure what it sounds like to me!

CON: 44% (=)
LAB: 36% (-1)
LDM: 8% (=)
GRN: 5% (+1)

Via
@RedfieldWilton
, 22 Jul.
Changes w/ 15 Jul.

even Ed was 3-6 points ahead at this point of his leadership and he isn't even getting trashed in the press on daily basis ... fucking useless.

Kettle is definitely saying that MI5 should 'do something'.

This is anti-democratic.

reminds me of this...

When you're definitely not run by cops https://t.co/s5zdzjJmmI

— t_om_s (@T_om_s) July 23, 2020

I heard the MI5 will at least match or increase what the Graun pay you if you are a useful asset

Deeply saddened by the passing of Paulette Wilson who dedicated her last years to highlight the terrible injustices faced by the #Windrush generation.

Together we must continue on her mission to right the wrongs.

— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) July 23, 2020

oh christ Wiley needs to log off twitter

if you knew anything about either then you'd know that the 2nd KKK of the 1920s strongly targeted Jews across the US with violence, boycotts and the kinds of conspiratorial discourses that you're engaging in right now https://t.co/clPKWOIlkX

— michael (@Sisyphusa) July 24, 2020

"I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere / so it started there" https://t.co/COnqBMbVV9

— John B (@johnb78) July 24, 2020

I don't know if I'm fully appreciating how ridiculous he looks on my small phone screen, but he looks plenty ridic!

Every public figure in a masked photo op looks like they’re sucking gusset.

Corbyn could do social media photo ops with the public without looking like some awkwardly haughty time travelling Tory from the 1950ʼs

True, even the masky ones are OK.

"Excuse me madam, what year is this?"

xyzzzz__ at 11:13 23 Jul 20
"what is right with pop music ppl!"
Only the grime crowd were good not bad

Wiley is a braindead prick, using his influential position to disseminate some good old fashioned elders of zion tropes, great fucking work you weapon.

I shouldn't call him thick because that would a be a form of apologism, his anti-Semiticism game seems like a long term project of his, borne out of hatred more than ignorance.

Innovation is helping us through the crisis and will be crucial to our economic recovery.

We must nurture it to create high quality jobs for the future. pic.twitter.com/xFt4ojXmRK

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 24, 2020

jobs for battery cells w/ processors and profits for billionaires, yeah thanks kier - please die soon.

can't we replace you with Big Trak, Kier?

Dan Hancox, who is Jewish and writes about him a lot, was not on social media to see or react to the Wiley bullshit but I was heartened by the number of black lefties calling him a crackhead hotep arsehole, because that’s who he seems to be now.

Just feel sad about it

I'm not familiar enough with Wiley to be able to tell, but is this a total surprise? It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators

He usually bubble

I think he has history of going for big twitter numbers by flaming with Stormzy but the AS stuff is new I think

people have found a minor example from 2010, so looks like he's just been keeping it to himself before yesterday.

It seems weird that an outspoken personality (with penachant for stirring things up?) is able to keep something like this under wraps for a long time with no outwards signs whatsoever?

I would assume either he's had a full on breakdown, he's doing it for the notoriety/attention or he's really trying to piss off his manager, who's also Jewish. But also, if it quacks like a duck for hours on end...

Also no one, let alone an account with half a million followers, should be able to go on a ten hour antisemitic rant without Twitter lifting a finger to stop it.

his management dropped him straight away

BIG TRAK