Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Some mash of the two anyway

Common (area) as muc, perhaps

as a nation i'm sorry to say we probably deserve to have this man as our prime minister.

Boris Johnson answers ... is Joe Biden woke? pic.twitter.com/RAOKWusEQO

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) January 20, 2021

The Yanks have got rid of Trump and we're stuck with this absolute cunt for the foreseeable.

I hope Biden turns round and says "Up the RA!" and then declares war on us.

Sleeper Joe

xp get your passport if you’re entitled to one!

anybody who doesn't want Joe to say "up the ra!" is a cop imo

Boris could reply "Hey! I'm Turkish"

oh man i've just remembered when that attention-hungry flag shagger tried to reboot Clap For Heroes, how's that working out?

I didn't hear any clapping, not even in the posh Tory voting side of Town

the magic's gone!

I think it is much harder to get this kind of mass fake spontaneous applause thing going for a 2nd time after the novelty has gone. And also with the apocalypse in full swing and lots of NHS workers saying they'd rather get a decent wage instead - it's perhaps got to a rather awkward stage.

I think my fave NHS worker comment was: If you voted Conservative and intend to clap for us, then take a good shit in your hands first.

ha I had this in drafts for one of the rona threads: I know I’m a broken record on these threads but I keep thinking of that weird “missing the mood of the nation” copypasta from last spring and how it feels a bit like that and yet not, now that the govt’s whole thing is “weee vaccine number go up” while lockdown is barely keeping a lid on infections & the death toll is catastrophic and ppl seem to be going along with it ime (not just credulous journos). Obv people have been in denial passim - eat out to help out, back to normal by (insert ludicrous timeframe here) - but it feels strongest now, or maybe just more jarring given how fucked we are

But as I say it’s not quite that because anecdotally everyone is fucking miserable (cf no fucker bothering with clap for carers this time round) so I have to think people are aware of how terrible the situation is, just nobody is talking about it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/21/ministers-ponder-paying-500-to-all-with-covid-in-england

I wonder why countries that started doing this last March have much lower covid new case/death rates than this hellhole.

mind you Tories will say you can't incentivize people to get the Rona just so they can stay at home rather than spreading it to dozens of other ppl in some fucking sweatshop.

Wait does this mean if I can catch the Rona Rishi will finally give me my fucking PS5?

finally games console socialism is here

I wouldn't even be 100% sure what Kieth would do if this was put to a vote. He's already shown from time at DPP that he despises ppl who are on benefits

Hm. This is the same guy talking to PBS in 2018: https://t.co/iSevnbKzkT pic.twitter.com/MD8rXaI2k2

— Jack Seale (@jackseale) January 22, 2021

another fishy brexiter with buyer's remorse, sorry mate I'm not herring a word of it.

Surprised and confused how?

You only get what you give iirc

There’s always a catch

Don't quota him on that

Farage straight up trawling at this point

I'm not biting.

Once you start with the fish puns you're hooked.

^thatsbaitmadmax.gif

^^ back of the net.

Hate it when ilx starts codding

Always enjoy a whole flurry of “ministers are considering” stories floating covid control measures we should have had since the start, best part is they’re not gonna do any of this shit are they lol

floating covid control measures to be introduced due to inadequate flood defences in manchester

come on, be fair, they will likely adopt new measures long after they would make any difference to the current state of affairs, like how they've only just tightened international travel restrictions nearly a year after the pandemic started and killed 100,000 people in britain

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/21/ministers-ponder-paying-500-to-all-with-covid-in-england

how much is the new playstation?

Interesting the "should we pay folk who are clearly at it" story gets floated on the same day as "400 people attend secret wedding" story

xp whatever the scalping cunts on ebay are demanding, currently

I’d be surprised if they went ahead with that, the very possibility that someone might claim a poxy £500 who wasn’t “entitled” to it is so horrifying to them that they would rather deny support to people who actually have the virus just in case, and the great British public probably with them on this

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/21/johnson-raises-fears-of-covid-lockdown-in-england-continuing-into-summertime

While the vast majority of Tory MPs have toed the line since the new variant of the virus sent cases soaring, Downing Street’s reticence is already causing anxiety among a few backbenchers, who are urging an easing of the restrictions if vaccination rates stay on target.

Here we fucking go, the 1922 Committee making sure the pandemic rages into 2022 by herding the populace into the grave in their thousands.

Probably too much to hope the 1922 lads are antivaxxers who were born then?

They have to celebrate next year's centenary somehow.

is it awful of me to regret that probably not a single one of these fuckers is going to die from this thing?

awful of you to conjure the picture of them not dying

1401 dead today, UK now the 6th worst in the world for total deaths per population.

more content from an upcoming briefing being leaked by bobby pesto is it

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (or Nervtag) has concluded that the new Covid-19 strain may be a bit more lethal than the existing strain. I've spoken to the influential Nervtag member, Prof Neil Ferguson (@neil_ferguson)...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 22, 2021

The new variant is especially dangerous for people who spend long hours on latest generation games consoles. Just following the science.

Of course it "may" be more lethal ("some evidence") but in any event if forced to better support people isolating they'll find it impossible to resist doing messaging to disuade teens from having presumed rona parties.

From that Twitter thread - how and why are only 25% of those who go on to die with it getting pillar 2 tests before being hospitalised? Are they not getting the main 3 symptoms, are they unable to test for some reason, or don't want to do to lack of support for isolating? or just putting it off/too dozy/selfish to realise it might be an idea to test (a la someone in my family)?

It seems a bizarre stat and obviously not having a confirmed positive test they're unlikely to have been isolating?

yes x3. not everyone can get a test so easily

while I can believe this strain could be more deadly I can’t believe that won’t become the all purpose excuse now for an inexcusable death toll (i.e. more tory eugenics)

don't want to do to lack of support for isolating is a known issue that there is no will to do anything about

It’s interesting to note that other countries (Ireland eg) list shortness of breath on top of the 3 “main symptoms” we have as criteria for getting a covid test

We have a huge lack of capacity in Ireland, health service has been a disgrace probably as long as I’ve been alive