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

Yeah see too many of these canisters around the park and surrounding streets - doesn't bother my more than any other litter although litter brings out my inner Tory more than most things tbh. People just tossing their masks on the ground mid-journey also seems to be happening way more than you might expect.

I don't know, I think they're more pleasing to the eye than most litter.

... the canisters not the masks.

Maybe we should make it harder to buy masks and takeaway food

the cannisters make a good sound when wheels ping them across the tarmac

The ease with which the youth can buy dogs is a real environmental issue too

I don't moan about litter and sometimes wang the odd empty can into tories hedges myself, but was very irate when I had wrestle a shitty nappy out of my dog's mouth because he thought playing for keeps is a fun game, that's where i draw the line.

Need to make it harder for people to buy nappies, obv

the adult baby takeover is back on!

There's no point moaning about litter in London, you just have to accept that the place looks like a tip and always will. Dependant on which borough you live in, of course.

Big Baby Nitrous

Like a lot of picturesque hippyish towns Canterbury has quite a serious drug problem under the surface, you'd find all sorts of shit in the area around the Westgate, including the bit in the park along the river that clueless property supplements sold as a picnic spot. Would have thought that canisters would have been the least of their problems really.

let's face it people that moan about litter during a global pandemic and an incoming depression of the like not seen since the 30's are too bourgeois and need to stfu.

stupid fucking meltish Labour MP's just need to stfu full stop

As with basically every issue, this has turned into a weird brand-building exercise for all involved - the Novara cru get to fire off some zingers for numbers, Duffield gets to fulminate about "far-left bully-boy trolls", boosting her credentials as the no-nonsense, star of the Sensible Centre, everyone profits. It's all so immensely stupid and tiring.

Idk I wouldn’t bother my hole criminalising littering? But I guess Rosie reads Kent Online and knows she needs to get votes from somewhere next time.

Sadly already knocked off the front pages by "Giant grass snake in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in Cheriton".

SV OTM about the brand-building, as soon as these people start subtweeting each other you know what they're up to.

(xpost - the giant snake would shit me up more tbh)

Really glad it’s not my money paying for this, lads.

Labour offers “unreserved apology” to former staff who contributed to BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’. Party expected to pay six-figures in damages. pic.twitter.com/mcxmENHsnX

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 22, 2020

I mean it really is massive, they should make these things illegal.

There's no point moaning about litter in London

I got a local bin actually removed because of how much litter it was actually causing (council cuts meant the bags from it were left next to it for a couple of days after being emptied and getting torn into by foxes spilling shit everywhere). Bourgeois? Moi?!

The harmless snake's average lifespan is 15 to 25 years.

Maybe BBC will just give the money straight to the Tories after their biased interviewing of Labour activists for the Panorama on PPE shortages.

sadly, all the grass snakes have been killed by ingesting small metal canisters,

at least they died laughing

Nature is buzzing

I don't understand people that go to the trouble to bag up their dog's turds and then leave it on the ground or throw them into some bushes or even throwing them up trees and leaving them hanging off the branches. They do it a park I frequent where there are seven litter bins dotted around for their convenience.

From debates on decriminalisation in a parallel Corbyn era to a twitter morning storm about laughing gas is just so where the left are at.

it's the desperation of political homelessness driving them loopy!

I got a local bin actually removed because of how much litter it was actually causing (council cuts meant the bags from it were left next to it for a couple of days after being emptied and getting torn into by foxes spilling shit everywhere). Bourgeois? Moi?!

As I said depends on the borough, a friend of mine lives on a road which has the border between Camden and Islington going right down the middle and it's true that the Camden side of the road is a lot cleaner than the Islington side.

I find it hard to be rational and calm about the current state of the Labour party and the kind of despicable wankers are the mainstream of the PLP now, it's a burning hatred I feel for them. It actually goes as far as I would celebrate if a load of them died of the Rona or went down in burning 737.

Love to listen to opinions on racism from members of the *checks notes* Henry Jackson Society?!

If you remember that killing, do you remember the stories about "suspicious behaviour" at the time? That Menezes' tool belt looked like a suicide bomb? He wasn't wearing one. That he jumped the barriers, running into the station? He went through them normally using his pass.

— James B (@piercepenniless) July 22, 2020

I genuinely didn't know this about the barriers!

pigs putting out misinformation, like who the fuck would wear a tool belt on the tube?

well at least Starmzy had their backs.

i remember the report and i wasn't aware that he'd gone thru the barriers normally but i need to read that somewehre that isn't some dude on Twitter

Given that the investigation concluded that there were too many instances of sheer incompetence, mistakes, bad planning, miscommunication, etc, for anyone to be held criminally liable, it's scandalous that Cressida Dick came out of the whole thing essentially unscathed.

ok a quick read thru the reports is even more horrific than what James B tweeted

He definitely used his Oyster card - that's part of the official report.

just read the timeline and it's unbelievable that nobody was seriously held to account

(this is nothing like the above so ..)

One time, I was coming out of WHSmiths at Reading Station, into the main concourse (not railside). Two inspector/security guys nearby.

One comes up to me and says "Can I see your ticket please?" I say no, I've just come out of the newsagents. He says "I saw you go through the barrier without putting your ticket it, and so did my colleague. Can you stand over here please?" at which point his colleage goes "NOT HIM!"

So, you know, observation is a wonderful thing.

As a mate used to say to comic effect: "I'll be a witness, what happened?"

just read the timeline and it's unbelievable that nobody was seriously held to account

Yep. I think the decision not to take criminal action against any of the officers was correct, legally - there was a chain reaction of catastrophic errors that compounded each other without any single one being grounds for a manslaughter conviction - but there should have been far more severe professional consequences for the senior commanders.

Apparently in PMQs Johnson claimed Britain "leads the world" in tackling Russia.

"This is about pressure from Islingtonian Remainers who have seized on this report to suggest Russia was responsible for Brexit."

My statement today - https://t.co/B2X0Kzf3gM

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 22, 2020

lol at Boris Johnson of Highbury Fields taking jabs at Islingtonians.

Worse, Boris formerly of Colebrooke Row.

leads the world in tackling russia the same way we lead the world in tracking apps?

i think he might have an errant 'asc' in his query

Lol this guy’s a fucking moron

Keir Starmer’s spokesman says Nicola Sturgeon should make a public statement condeming Alex Salmond for hosting a show on Russia Today.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 22, 2020

is that worse than participating in a show on LBC, lol worra clown