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

RLB's melt replacement supports the govt's compulsory school attendance in sept, but not fining parents of students who don't return. No opposition just for the sake of opposition.

it's all very well finding yourself accidentally aligned with the countryside alliance on the broad topic of conservation until you realise they just want to hunt grouse and shoot hen harriers so that they don't get the grouse instead

oh sorry an actual politics has happened

Pretending that you can make a decision on September now is ridiculous – the conditions could change massively by then.

Fines should be opposed on principle, but the real question today isn't "do you support it', it's "we now have to time to preapre, so what are the plans for sustained schooling under the four phases, and what are you doing to support the likeliest scenarios?". This "we'll open schools come what may" is the "GBD we're leaving on Dec 31st GBD" approach, and both could end the same way.

if shadow education listened to teacher's unions she might be fit for purpose because they are talking more sense than the UK govt, but unions are bad in the Labour party now.

fuck off apostrophe, I'm multi-tasking at the moment - not as if my grammar is shot at the best of times!

banging revive

Why bother doing elaborate photoshops of Keir Starmer in an attempt to make him look bad when you can just post this clippic.twitter.com/Upv5ZFLOzT

— Labour 'Legitimate Concerner' (@LabConcerner) July 2, 2020

This paragraph from the DfE guidance is so depressingly centralising it is hard to believe it comes from the government of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. Even the best-behaved pupils are going to struggle to adapt to getting back after six months at home. pic.twitter.com/GUSXucp2ba

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) July 2, 2020

"sanctions" ffs

Does that mean food and water deprivation if you are naughty?

Betting Tory schools going to be cracking out the isolation again

kids crave boundaries, the narrower and more airless the better

I once did a rewire on a J+I school near Leeds where a caretaker informed me they used mains room as a cooler if kids got a bit too violent. Yes locking a child in a room with a HUGE 3 phase electrical distribution board in a cupboard!

hey, some of those kids weigh 17 stone

pmsl at that hotel story

just.... waht

me when I see stamrzy

Boredom and a need for a creative outlet pic.twitter.com/BmwAAikyOV

— H🍊🍊🍊ps (@HoopSketty) July 2, 2020

Apparently A&E departments have been told to prepare for this Saturday like it's New Year's Eve.

are there other countries with our approach to booze who have reopened bars? curious how it went there

My friend in Brussels was a bit taken aback that they went from full lockdown to boozers open with next to no restrictions.

NEW: Sir @Keir_Starmer has told @BBCNews he regrets his use of language in calling the Black Lives Matter movement a “moment” and has apologised for his words. Clarifying his position, he said he meant this was a “defining moment” and a turning point in race relations.

— Rianna Croxford (@The_Crox) July 2, 2020

okay so now he's accepting clarification and apologies? wish he'd make up his mind

Wish he would apply a zero tolerance policy to himself

that starmzy video nv posted is absolutely nightmarish

very charismatic adult

are there other countries with our approach to booze who have reopened bars? curious how it went there

Would assume Australia but they've not had it anywhere near as bad with the rona.

that starmzy video nv posted is absolutely nightmarish

And in case anyone wanted that out of context clip of him... https://t.co/AZjwTZZWVx pic.twitter.com/oI6FGav6ca

— Labour Vault (@LabourVault) April 23, 2020

that starmzy video gyac posted is absolutely the hottest thing i’ve ever seen

Honestly that video NV posted is fpworthy.

a lefty twitter comedy account made his voice slightly out of sync to make it look like they'd done a genius parody of him. even i didn't believe the smug boring cunt could be possibly be that bad when I first saw it.

And soon, to the traditional sounds of an English summer, the drone of lawnmowers, the smack of leather on willow, can be re-added the sound of battering rams on doors

"Housing minister Lord Greenhalgh said ending the ban on evictions was was an 'important step towards ending lockdown.'"

if ever a statement was more revealing of what these ppl's conception of "normal life" actually is... https://t.co/7uhQI2NLOI

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) July 2, 2020

a lefty twitter comedy account

Let me stop you right there.

Tom...Tom

banging revive

🐦[Why bother doing elaborate photoshops of Keir Starmer in an attempt to make him look bad when you can just post this clippic.twitter.com/Upv5ZFLOzT🕸
— Labour ’Legitimate Concerner’ (@LabConcerner) July 2, 2020🕸]🐦

pubs in Ireland that serve food have been open since Monday. The rest are opening on the 20th

Haven't ventured in yet, although I'm braving the local tomorrow

you have to book ahead and you're limited to 105 minutes but I presume enforcement is lax

Honestly that video NV posted is fapworthy.

― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:49 (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

steady

He shd've chosen a career in stand up comedy. Anything but politics, tbh.

Lefty twitter comedy needs all the help it can get.

Sowing: haha fuck yes!!

Reaping:

NEW: Labour leader Keir Starmer appeals to Black people not to leave the party. It comes after we revealed in June that scores of Black members and voters had abandoned the party membership following anti-Black racism concerns. https://t.co/8SNKbxOVl6

— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) July 2, 2020

play the legit concerns game, get banged you fucking melt!

In that piece he offers no reason for black people to stay other than the needs of the Labour Party. Classic wife-beater's feigned remorse.

Corbyn energised so many young black voters who could see he wasn't an establishment cunt, he's probably calculated he can lose their votes - what a fine position for the leader of the Labour to take after feigning like he wasn't a Tory during the leadership contest. fuck him!

can't say i blame them at all, but where do those votes go now?

Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre is closing for good. 60yrs of investment, training & serving its community. All profitable in normal times, just needed shortfall funding while closed & it didn’t come in time

So sorry to the 86 made redundant, & the locals who loved their theatre pic.twitter.com/zPT98oVy7b

— James Graham (@mrJamesGraham) July 2, 2020

Redundancies keep piling up.

Johnson was insultingly dismissive about this yesterday. And I'm not quite sure why. Since when has investing in the arts been a Tory vote-loser?

shit, I completely missed that this "end of quarantine 75 countries you can visit hooray" bonaza is almost entirely without reciprocation. There will be quarantines for Brits arriving in most of them. Top work, chaps.

the arts are probably too close to 'the elite' in the cummings megabrane xp

Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre has cut 65% of employees. The Theatre Royal in Plymouth has cut all creative staff.