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

he's right though. The pubs being open is not only going to became a major transmission vector, it also reduces any authority the government have in bringing in local lockdowns. Because why should people accept any restrictions when people are getting pissed and not practising social distancing, just walk past any pub tonight and bear witness to everything just as it was pre-Rona.

you can't seriously prohibit people from visiting other houses and expect them to follow the advice when people from multiple households are getting shitfaced together, it doesn't make any sense and often people will respond to such a contradiction by just saying fuck your rules.

I think he's right as well and that's why it's such a smart intervention - basically saying you can have pubs or schools but not both right now is going to at least provoke a debate and focus a few minds.

I went into two pubs a couple of days ago and they were totally empty inside with booking only spaces in the beer gardens, which seemed safe enough but that's clearly not sustainable past September and obviously not being observed everywhere. Pubs are just more dangerous than anywhere else for all the obvious reasons.

Tbh I only had a pint and the socially distanced pub felt so unconvivial that it's cans in the park from now on.

cans in the park rules!

Don't like parks and don't like drinking from cans :(

Have to say though everything we know about this govt suggests they are absolutely going to try and have their disease ridden cake and eat it.

future epidemiologists will refer to their response as The English Muddle of Death, well see also Brazil and USA tbf.

how to get the worst of both worlds during a pandemic, the highest death-rate and the most acutely damaged economy with the most prolonged recession and then get brexit done!

What the fuck is this? What is he even on about? https://t.co/qVKF4eX0fH

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) August 1, 2020

good job he isn't remotely left-wing or he'd be toast already

@Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @UKLabour @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS
Veiled antisemitism on show here. Considering the follow up tweet. Swift action is required, please pic.twitter.com/izm1r1JzKw

— Den Of Scholes😷 (@den_jw) August 1, 2020

That’s right, just post through it

My attempt at irony talking about thirty pieces of silver has been misrepresented by some comments & I am deleting it! Serves me right for rereading the entire bible in the lockdown!

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) August 1, 2020

What is going on.

wow, mask off pic.twitter.com/aeTWelWAfj

— gart/barfield (@wurrance) August 1, 2020

Lads stop posting obviously fake tweets - the account has the same name as the Jo Swinson squirrel story

Calz, c/d?

@politicaltrims Best haircuts in Yorkshire XTG in Byram Arcade in Huddersfield!

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) August 1, 2020

Think the "everything's gone to hell!" model is just the middle aged version of the "everyone's stupid except me!" model, which is something we were discouraged from doing when we had to do a short film for uni in my class. I think both are pretty much timeless, alas.

Xp
I got barred from all byram arcade hairdressers for the double offence of being a mirror breaking balding ugly bastard! But taking in mind the sky high rents businesses pay in the byram they probably saved me a pretty penny or two.

The day Bazza S made an openly antisemitic joke and then deleted it and got away with it

Can't throw you out of the shadow cabinet if you're not in the shadow cabinet *taps forehead*

Whitty was quietly hinting about pubs yesterday I think - said we are at the limits of what we can reopen, and if we want to loosen more things we will need to tighten them elsewhere. Pubs for schools being the obvious one, I guess.

Lads stop posting obviously fake tweets

I don't remember posting this?

Bazza needs throwing out of the party. His twitter account has been carrying racist and xenophobic comments going back years now. In fact probably a decade. I'm surprised he hasn't got into more trouble than he has.

He thinks he's a bit of a no nonsense character does Bazza.

A straight talking Yorkshireman from Sunbury-on-Thames.

Who as far as I can remember has always lived about 40 miles outside his constituency.

In Lancashire.

when Town were playing Sheff Wed in the playoffs he went into a Hudds pub to watch the game, jumped up and celebrated when Sheff Wed scored. Then stormed out of the pub when people started taking the piss out of him.

BREAKING: A Conservative MP has been arrested and is currently in police custody after a woman accused him of rape, sexual assault and coercive control

The Metropolitan Police has launched a criminal investigation into the ex-ministerhttps://t.co/dyWvnB9RP3

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) August 1, 2020

Toryism is just little more than organised [insert whatever evil here]

Labour, losing thousands of members subs and now Len threatening to hold back Unite funding, they must have a lot of additional wealthy donors now to feel confident enough to carry on in this fashion.

EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨 The government has abandoned its pledge to conduct regular testing in care homes this summer

A civil service whistleblower reveals more than 60% of care homes have not received a new test, risking thousands of deaths in second wave

Story with @andrewgregory https://t.co/MR1HID2Jhl

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) August 1, 2020

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

business as usual in other words.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeXVPCMXkAAuHqv?format=jpg&name=medium

yet he's still there.

when you don't want to upset the bad apple cart having just been given an orchard

https://t.co/SFDDOBmMA6 pic.twitter.com/6T13IFiC6c

— 'Client Journalism' Expert (@ClientJournoExp) August 2, 2020

there isn't really much benefit when every other news outlet in the UK is reporting "Tory MP arrested" but I suppose it is just showing a bit of gratitude to the PM and giving a Tory rapist an even break.

I gotta say given the number of dirtbags and sex offenders in the PLP I would avoid trying to score political points off this if I was team social democracy

I saw the edgelord of Bolsover joking about it how it can't be Grayling ho ho ho, isn't rape hilarious

Apparently easy to work out and it's some nonentity.

From now on when a public figure on multiple rape charges is afforded anonymity then Cliff Richard will be trending

Twitter seems to think it knows who the MP is, and if it's true, well, let's say you couldn't wish for anyone more suitable to suffer public disgrace.

Obviously if he did it then it's still terrible & disgusting

https://worldofcrapblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/123025_mfi_store_300_elvis.jpg?w=474&h=283

MFI

The company I work for decided to get rid of half of the employees last week (despite saying they see a return to normality in Q1 2021)

Now they're putting back their decision another week while they decide what to do. Their original statement doesn't make sense to me. If they think normality is returning in 6 months, dismantling a successful team (that you can furlough for 3 of those 6 months) seems counter-productive

They either think normality isn't returning for much longer than 6 months, or they're getting cold feet and want to be ready to scale up when recovery happens. Or more likely they're split between the two camps and can't decide what to do

Twitter seems to think it knows who the MP is, and if it's true, well, let's say you couldn't wish for anyone more suitable to suffer public disgrace.

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, August 3, 2020 12:51 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Can someone explain why this is kept under covers? UK tabloids otherwise don't exactly hold back shaming someone w/ full name and photo. Is it one of the perks of being a PM? Why is there no outrage about this?

I think they can't be named till they've been charged.

Hmm, ok.

Regular people can, just not MPs aiui.

Twitter has a very good idea of who it is, n’est ce pas?

that's the most plausible one i think

so much stupid tho on Twitter i'll believe nothing until there's confirmation

quelle domage!