Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

he makes the Maybot look like a dynamo

Presumably the terrible PR is also down to the people he's got around him but I assume they're his appointees. Fucking Campbell must be spinning in his grave

if only

Forever dead in my heart

xps

tbh the guardian types (readers not writers) in my acquaintance are mostly maintaining an embarrassed silence over starmer these days after initial cautious optimism (ironically or not the same trajectory they went on with corbyn but way quicker)

look if corbyn was somehow PM or still leader of HMMLO last year he would have been deposed almost immediately over his covid response regardless of what it was. Labour MPs, Tories & others would deliberatly sabotage any effort, helping spread the disease which the entire media (guardian and all) would happily blame on Corbyn and the left in general. tell me that's not believable as counterfactuals go

this is super sad - people with downs are one of the most at risk groups out there:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/04/husband-from-uks-first-downs-syndrome-marriage-dies-of-covid

City lost €6bn of trades today.

EU share trading flees London on first day after full Brexithttps://t.co/ZcLV0j4Lkz pic.twitter.com/AT8S7xF7n4

— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) January 4, 2021

Worth it

First day of the transfer window

My brother works in a school & spent all day today trying to figure out how to administer covid tests to entire year groups. He’s convinced that the reason govt waited until today to announce closure is so that they can be shanghaied into operating as test centres now that they’ve been sent all the kits & been “trained”

Han was sent home at lunchtime because of not having test kits available or something

Very light on details here apart from schools.

this fucking cunt is hopeless

everyone over 70 vaccinated by mid-feb is absolute fantasy, get fucked boris

Well, the number of people over 70 left to vaccinate will get exponentially smaller each week so they just might do it

What happened? Just checked the tl and it was just people calling Johnson a cunt

He has an announced a new lockdown into February, closing all schools. Everyone to stay at home. But 0 details on closure orders/financial support

no mention of universities either

also he justified opening schools for just one day because every day of education is valuable

and then kieth said he'd done the right thing

This thread is the nearest thing I can find to the documented changes:

An immediate stay at home order. You can only leave home for:
1. Work, if impossible to WFH (eg critical worker or construction)
2. Shop for food or medicine
3. Exercise, once per day and only locally
4. To help vulnerable people
5. For medical appointments or fleeing harm

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 4, 2021

kieth: "it's inevitable that some schools will have to close in this situation... I am not calling for schools to close."

What do you do in this situation pic.twitter.com/pRQA29g46W

— 👽Arobzz👽 (8-8) (@Arobzz_) December 2, 2020

In a round of broadcast interviews ahead of the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Monday night, Sir Keir said a March-style lockdown was needed, with a tougher “stay-at-home” message.

ITV News Political Correspondent Dan Hewitt reports that Sir Keir Starmer wants a national lockdown like November, not March, with the national 'Stay At Home' message brought back.

Fuck I don't know if I'm a critical worker or indeed what the fuck's happening

Me neither but come now we were discussing covid etc

Anything missing, Starmer is asked.

Golden opportunity to talk about proper money to support people isolating / unable to work

He says nothing missing

He is a waste of space

— CarolineJMolloy (@carolinejmolloy) January 4, 2021

Boris looks like he's got a shiner (left, his right, eye)

Kieth will have to get one as well now!

Lord save me from parent whatsapp group lol alcohol chat

oh and covid pls lord

ha are we in the same group kinder

the crap memes, oh god

So I'm not sure what I was hoping for re schools, 2-4 weeks then everything ok enough to open. Being another half-term block is killing me.

Any idea which painting was hidden behind that pair of Union Jack flags for BJ's speech?

Could someone with more talent and energy than me edit Limmy's "yes or no" video into Kieth's Sky interview?

That was worse than Ed Miliband in full robot mode.

Read it and weep:

This lockdown is desperately needed.

For the best of chance of success in driving down COVID-19 levels, it must be accompanied by urgent action to support jobs and livelihoods.

This should include fixing the furlough scheme, raising Statutory Sick Pay for all and boosting UC.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) January 4, 2021

A story in four images, here: pic.twitter.com/og8PyQRDUq

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV2) January 4, 2021

Potential mileage

Cheers for the new meme template Kieth pic.twitter.com/FCy80LWqDh

— Kieth Starmer, zoo harmer (@SurskitNation) January 4, 2021

lol!

I noticed my deposed in 2019 ex-local MP who unfollowed me for repeatedly making unkind comments about Starmer and retweeting posts like the one above is still uncritically simping for Kieth after today's embarrassing shitshow - it's a hell of a strong drug is party factionalism.

sad lol

“Leave it, Jez” https://t.co/9G9JY1oaCh pic.twitter.com/e7RbCATCCi

— The CWU (@CWUnews) January 5, 2021

Calling bullshit on this: the vast bulk of the 80,000 new 29/12 cases were already known about before yesterday - eg in England only 775 further cases were reported with over 70,000 already in the figures from previous days pic.twitter.com/ccvOiSLW16

— Simon (@simonk_133) January 5, 2021

Apparently Kieth didn't want to close the schools until all the correct support was there for parents/kids say his apologists. He had the perfect opportunity to bring these issues up yesterday and had nothing to say so perhaps they are talking shit, again.

I guess I’ll dust off this old complaint from the spring: it’s insane that “essential work” is still being defined as “whatever bullshit job you can’t do from home”

how dare you denigrate my flagpole-licking consultancy

Another fucking press conference??

I think that's just to explain the logic behind decisions and plead with people. The reality of this lockdown is that it won't work in the same way due to it not being novel anymore, Cummings, etc.

Border closures I think

Gove letting the cat out of the bag about the lockdown probably going on till March.

Cant even keep a cat in a bag, but are closing borders

will confidently predict the press conference is 10 minutes late and I think I will read other people summarising it rather than playing bullshit bingo or letting this twat's bluster spoil my tea.