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

i always hold to the "Tories know what they're doing" line as far as economic destruction is concerned but this is somewhat different, one of the unpleasant side jobs of governing a country is supposed to be dealing with shit like this and much as they don't really care they *are* also really incompetent to do that

New. @Keir_Starmer is self-isolating for Covid. Spokesman:
“This morning Keir Starmer was advised to self isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus...

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 14, 2020

god speed comrade rona

No ifs, no buts!

The creatures outside looked from virus to Kieth, and from Kieth to virus, and from virus to Kieth again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eh3tun4WsAAxM04?format=png&name=large

praying for Rona!

Rona the knight-slayer!

I’m nearly sure this must be one of his children and like bitter bitter laughs

Good things are possible

Or are they

'I think we should call the authorities, yes, all of us have a responsibility to act'@Ed_Miliband tells @shehabkhan he would call the police on his neighbours if they were having a party and encourages the public to do so too https://t.co/nQI5BVmo5T pic.twitter.com/JVrGxGzudy

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 14, 2020

The party of curtain twitching narcs is back

All the way through the initial months of the lock-down I could often hear loud groups of pissed up people in houses. How does a f/t narc work out how many people are in the house?

The Six are absolutely selling the rest of us out in some form or another, can hardly be a coincidence that the latest transgression you can be fined for is breaking “the rule of six”

Rules are rules

what happens if six people from England meet six people from Wales and cough in each others faces across the border? how about if we are all hunting grouse?

I like how the sirens wail as soon as Ed says "alert the authorities"

i for one hope that an unknowingly virus-shedding sir keir starmer has not passed the rona onto beloved lbc broadcaster nick ferrari and wish both men and their families a swift recovery, should any of them develop symptoms

https://youtu.be/c5fts7bj-so

We laugh at Ed but..

Man iviewed on Radio4: “if I found out my neighbour were a terrorist, I would report them because they’re potentially a killer. Covid in my opinion is a killer...therefore anyone who flouts the rules is basically the same as a terrorist walking down the road with a machine gun.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 14, 2020

xps

oh the humanity. I also hope (if Keith's got da Rona) he hasn't been in contact with Rachel Reeves or Jonathan Ashworth during the pre-symptomatic most infectious period.

man on radio 4 otm, boris must be extraordinarily renditioned to a secret cia blacksite for killing 60,000 or more britons in the worst terrorist action this country has ever faced

It's weird because there is a truth and a horrible lie in the same thoughts

NEW: Boris Johnson's Rule Of 6 has a controversial exemption - for grouse shooting and similar field sports.
Upto 30 people can gather to hunt with guns cos classed as a licensed outdoor sport.
EXCLUSIVE: Cab Office drafted special meeting on exemptionhttps://t.co/ENegIZlOL1

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 14, 2020

Oh just fuck off.

EXCL: There are currently no tests at all available in ANY of the top 10 Covid-19 hotspots in England, LBC can reveal. No walk-in, drive-through or home tests available for people in Bolton, Salford, Bradford, Blackburn, Oldham, Preston, Pendle, Rochdale, Tameside or Manchester.

— Ben Kentish LBC (@BenKentish) September 14, 2020

A friend works at a track and trace has just told me they're restricted to 60 a day bexausr the lab is the choke point

so they just need another 166,667 testing stations to hit the moon!

Astounding.

@afneil
7h
Even the eurosceptic British papers do not hold Brussels to account or scrutiny to anything like the same degrees as the UK media holds Westminster to account.

Rupert Myers
@RupertMyers
Replying to
@afneil

That’s true. Poor coverage of the EU is how we got here.
8:35 AM · Sep 14, 2020

Rupert, Rupert Myers
Everyone knows he's lame
Rupert, Rupert Myers
Everyone come and laugh
At all his bad taked

Ffs Alphie

Ed M enjoying himself tonight

How can you debate with a man not remotely on top of his brief? ‘He didn't read the protocol, he hasn't read the bill, he doesn't know his stance.’ pic.twitter.com/WUt4XUhIBe

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) September 14, 2020

I've never seen that before - an MP 'giving way' to prompt someone else to say something, when they have nothing to say.

It does make BJ look peculiarly ignorant (of his own policy) as well as foul and disgusting.

Unlike others here (and elsewhere), I have always liked Ed Miliband a lot.

A gobsmacked Boris Johnson getting his arse handed to him by Ed Miliband is one of the best things I've seen for months. 😄 pic.twitter.com/triNXKNovM

— JackJazz (@JayJay08752584) September 14, 2020

churlish silence from ukpol crew

Nice bit of political theatre sure, would perhaps be cheering louder if he hadn't given that interview asking everyone to grass on their neighbours the same fucking day.

yes yes he is a cop etc, but you can't deny a) a bodying and b) 'the narrative'

Gyac - this better?

Well... https://t.co/jevbnpalYI pic.twitter.com/X9sfeMNNEm

— marcus (@marcusjdl) September 14, 2020

he should have said he'd give the partying neighbours a warning and then call the cops if they did it again, reckon that answer would have pleased most. or idk he could have shown some moral backbone and told the interviewer to fuck off and that all cops are bastards, would have played p well I reckon

("it's none of my business" met with immediate rejoinder "yes it is it's all of our business", whether true or otherwise, I am the master of realpolitik vote imago)

A truly amazing achievement, but I remember austerity lite, the controls on immigration coffee cup, the Edstone. He was absolute turd as a leader.

yes yes he is a cop etc, but you can't deny a) a bodying and b) 'the narrative'

― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

The narrative is that you are a cop lover.

i do not disagree

xpost ffs

The optics understander has fallen into another xpost trap

lol

I am terribly torn on Ed Mili always (v Gemini, that) because on the one hand he was weak as shit as a leader and controls on immigration/cop shit/all the stuff we went through in 2015 and on the other, when he’s being himself and hammering right he’s very good at it. Also, he beat his cunt of a brotherand people who do scathing well are automatically 100000% more attractive to me.

Alphie, I beg you, I’ve tapped the damn sign so much I’ve worn holes in it.

What are you are supposed to be non judgemental about bad politicians and their shitty legacies, imago? You might be but I'm not that easily impressed by them and it'll take more than some pantomime gotcha clip in parliament to impress me pal!

Just remembered the Sunday Times poll in 2015 that asked whether Ed Miliband ‘looked prime ministerial’, which was not a dogwhistle to such an extend that they had to rouse Danny Finkelstein from beneath his ermine bedspread to explain exactly how much of a dogwhistle it wasn’t.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 14, 2020

Also also, Boris still looks awful, which is why I entirely believe the rumour about him parachuting out early next year.

When Ed did that Russel Brand interview I've never felt such profound embarrassment for a Labour leader I was going to vote for, he had all the gravitas and authority of a slightly overconfident 18 year old student at a freshers ball.

Gonna make up for some cop lovin' by shooting fish in the commons barrel in the evening, even if nobody is going to care by next week.