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

I don't really get why the thread is so much about Starmer's electoral chances, years away as they are, and whether he can forensically panenka Johnson's head into the onion sack tbh

But on that note, he's obviously harder for the press to attack than any Labour leader since Blair. They'll probably focus more on trying to split the left and centre over BLM etc.

IN THE DOCK Former Labour MP Eric Joyce admits making ‘child sex movie’ involving one-year-old baby
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omg @ Eric Joyce, another one of Labour's fine ex-armed forces boys and India Knight's husband!

jesus christ

xxp

yeah it's a boring riff by now, he's much more of a symptom than a cause. the depressing part is trying to see past this phoney meme war into the realm of political possibility, or to find any kind of hope for the future tbh. i've said for long enough that the UK deserves to sink, guess all that's left is to watch it.

Trump will win because he's been the incumbent for four years and has bungled it every step of the way.

Would have been with you on this until April 2020. Big material changes since then though, landscape different

But on that note, he's obviously harder for the press to attack than any Labour leader since Blair.

The urgency isn't there since the title was won, imagine they'll take the foot off the gas, maybe give some of the reserve journos a run out

omg @ Eric Joyce, another one of Labour's fine ex-armed forces boys and India Knight's husband!

I posted about this story on the Politics' Hardest Men thread but I didn't realize he'd gone full on Ian Watkins.

Lol people may not like care homes but we forget that's where Theresa May really fucked up. The Tory lot do care about this.

Goes without saying LOTO should not go under unconscious bias training, it's utterly ludicrous!

Yes, they care about paying money to them because they don't like them.

forensically panenka Johnson's head into the onion sack

Lol people may not like care homes but we forget that's where Theresa May really fucked up. The Tory lot do care about this.

IIRC that was more about social care at home than care homes per se. Specifically the bit about having to sell the family home to recoup the costs.

But yes in principle it is a very bad idea for the Tories to be seen to be too cavalier with the lives of the elderly.

I imagine the idea is for the care homes to be the cavaliers here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-53313640?

Watered down Lab policy. They'll need many of these to cover up what's coming.

Yay! I'm going to get me a ten grand boiler with a Rishi voucher and then sell it on e-bay

forensically panenka Johnson's head into the onion sack

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Not much that can be done about the FB/army of bots stuff, admittedly.

Which is a worry, because they're going to matter a whole lot more, the invisible WhatsApp/Telegram groups they feed even more so. The press in 2024 isn't going to look much like it did in 2016, the economics and demographics are collapsing.

But the trollbots rely heavily on the press for their material in the first place.

The right-wing campaigns are pretty good at filling any vacuum of source bullshit on that front

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/coronavirus-vaccine-antivaxx-conspiracy-theories-one-in-six-brits-refuse-a4490866.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1594118495

Can someone debunk this for me? Numbers seem preposterously high!

RIP chukka

https://www.ft.com/content/00170888-ec98-4d12-ba5e-458e7bf8b5bc

Former MP Chuka Umunna is to join communications company Edelman as executive director and head of environmental, social and governance consultancy, drawing a line under his turbulent political career. 

The former frontbencher, once touted as a future Labour party leader, will be advising the capital markets and financial services arm of Edelman on topics such as audit, embedding ESG factors into decision-making and managing corporate transactions.

“Whereas in politics you do the theoretical side, I wanted to roll my sleeves up and get involved at the coalface,” Mr Umunna told the FT. “I’m a capitalist but we need a different model for capitalism.”

can't understand why the Labour Party didn't work out for him

If there's anyone who can rehabilitate further tarnish the image of ESG as a rubber-stamp, it might be this young chap!

Berger also at Edelman.

Angela Smith, inevitably, working for a water company. Amber Rudd now at Norwegian state oil so.

first they had their songs sampled without attribution by early hip hop producers, and now this

Head of environmental 'at the coalface'...

Poor Mike Gapes, sitting forlornly by the phone, thinking to himself, 'we'll always have Nandos'.

Gapes has to get a job with the Miwk Marwketing Boarwd

Poor old Gapesy on the Universal Credit ;_;

mckinsey will be announcing gapesy any day now

True colours. These jackals are so predictable.

Edelman UK is at Southside, 105 Victoria Street :-///

lol?

You’d think these fuckers would read the room.

EXC @theipaper

Govt confirms it will drop funding for NHS staff free parking at hospitals

Ministers resist calls to make emergency scheme permanenthttps://t.co/qSaxPPFz6N

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) July 7, 2020

Clap for key workers, though, eh?

well they have this unbiased member of th le public on their side at least

Most people, whatever their job, don’t get free parking at work.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) July 7, 2020

Incredible that they are spraying money virtually everywhere right now, paying the wages of a third of the workforce, announcing even more spending today, there's a billion for theatres, and they're penny pinching over hospital car parks. IDGI.

they can do anything now and they don't care

Fucking hell, Dawn Butler has had to close her office

Finally, whilst not the primary reason for its closure, is the continual security risk to everyone working within a very visible high street office. My staff have been attacked in the office, verbally assaulted coming and going from work, bricks have been thrown through the windows and the frontage has been smashed. I have had to work extensively with police and security staff to simply try and create a safe working environment for my employees. Many of these incidents were not made public in order to not encourage copycat attacks.
Sadly in recent months, the threat to myself and my staff has drastically escalated. Last month the police arrested one person and are currently pursuing others as I continue to speak out on key issues such as the impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community, the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. I continue to receive on an almost daily basis threats of violence and death threats.

that different-to-the-US form of much more polite + genteel racism that is throwing bricks through black people's windows

Most public figures, including MPs, who have claimed to be fighting against racism and for civility for years will not show any concern about this.

perhaps it was just unconscious bias on the part of the brick thrower?

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#PMQs begins with a straight question - what will the PM do to stop Boohoo paying workers £3.50 per hour? Boris Johnson: It's up to the Labour mayor of Leicester.

Damn he got us. He got us.

rishi 'moneyguns' sunak

mofo has sure got some paper

wtf even is this shit:

Sunak announces discount worth up to £10 per head for eating out in August

Sunak says his final measure has never been tried in this country.

It is an “eat out to help out scheme”, offering customers as discount worth up to £10 per head when they eat on from Monday to Wednesday in August.

fuck's sake i thought he was handing out the Argos vouchers for a second, settle down

actively subsidising spikes 2 thru 5 is a new wrinkle, i'll give you that

Sunak announces discount worth up to £10 for giving head or eating out in August

eat ass to help out, an initiative never before tried in this country

green home improvements scheme england only, thanks lads