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

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.

socially distanced theatre would be a loss-maker and they can't bullshit their way through it like the pubs will, if they don't want subsidise them then they will die for now, simple as.

Black British people didn’t support Corbyn because loads of us are left wing socialists, on an average day you’ll see Black people complain about taxation! Most supported Corbyn because he actually seemed to “get it” with regard to race and for once a leader cared about us

— Jase (@jasebyjason) July 2, 2020

I think the plan is to just let theatres die and wait for them to be bought up dirt cheap when this over.

In smaller and medium sized towns in particular lots of people, particularly older people, who otherwise never go out will go to the theatre, and they'll go for lunch or dinner afterwards or for a drink with family or whatever. The knock-on effect of losing a successful theatre is likely to be substantial for a lot of local economies.

Theatre is completely impossible at the moment but things are this are going to be essential in making sure that town centres retain some actual life to them, especially as High Street retail is unlikely to come back in the same way.

Post end of furlough there is no support to businesses. There was, what, 20k let go yesterday across a number of big companies.

And the pressure will be on pubs to crack the whip, but beyond any madness this weekend how many people will spend. Many staff are being let go.

My BF works in a pub and they've asked him to do an 11 hour shift this Saturday. He's told them he's not comfortable going back this weekend as he's diabetic. This is their response.

Oh, and the pub is owned by millionaires @IanMcKellen, @mrevgenylebedev and Sean Mathias. pic.twitter.com/iSQNmgQkVJ

— Cassie (@Cassiesmyth) July 2, 2020

And with universal credit sanctions restored too it's a toxic environment. So many ppl will be fucked now that the high, daily mortality days are past.

That's the Grapes in Limehouse and it's so pokey it would be almost impossible to open in a socially-distanced way.

the grapes is basically a wardrobe, its one of those pubs that people claim is great bc its a pain in the ass to get to (i used to work in limehouse btw)

Can't believe millionaires are treating employees like shit

My guess is that the text comes from some middle manager but yeah.

A guy who lives across the road from me is diabetic and works in the structural steel side of construction which usually requires a fair bit of van sharing for long journeys. I was completely sympathetic towards him telling me his fears about going back to work until he proffered that the UK hasn't got the worse Rona death/infection rates in Europe because of a bungling tory govt, no it is because "we've already got got every foreign cunt in this country spreading it about".

xp aye I assume it's a jobsworth employee, presumably their bosses are now aware and they will intervene appropriately

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

― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 12:38 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Pubs in Victoria still limited to 20 people, can only drink with a meal and all table service. But then we’re putting some postcodes into lockdown again safer a surge back into double figures of new cases a day.

Other states have fully opened pubs but they all went through a table service and limited numbers phase. This is in states that haven’t had a case for weeks.

Queensland is opening clubs this weekend but with limited numbers and you have to sit down.

It's seven months since the Sun's Tom Newton Dunn promoted "Hijacked Labour", a far-right hit-list based on neo-Nazi sources, and the British media is still maintaining near-complete omerta about it. The HL website now has an interesting message: 1/https://t.co/x9nNMFoxgj pic.twitter.com/XPGHW04Cdf

— Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) July 2, 2020