Now we're all sovereign citizens (NB: non-sovereign citizens please submit for a points evaluation before posting)
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 January 2021 11:51 (three weeks ago) link
Blue passports, though...
― koogs, Friday, 1 January 2021 11:54 (three weeks ago) link
johnny eu doesn’t like it up ‘em
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 January 2021 11:58 (three weeks ago) link
Shant be asking permission for anything as long as derry aint free, son
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:11 (three weeks ago) link
Pls don’t deport me for posting here
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:23 (three weeks ago) link
So happy for my new life of only eating true British gruel out of a used Wellington boot
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 1 January 2021 12:29 (three weeks ago) link
lol we're all gonna die all over again
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:29 (three weeks ago) link
whats next for the plucky little kingdom
― mark s, Friday, 1 January 2021 12:33 (three weeks ago) link
Secession
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:37 (three weeks ago) link
repatriation of the normans
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:38 (three weeks ago) link
Trying to look on the bright side for 2021 in the UK but really coming up short here.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:39 (three weeks ago) link
the trembling flatulent rotting corpse stage of a long dead empire or as Perry Mason might put it Ukania Ultima
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 12:46 (three weeks ago) link
Holyrood and local elections, nothing to piss anyone off there
― stet, Friday, 1 January 2021 12:48 (three weeks ago) link
Jess Phillips and Starmzy feeling the wrath of FBPE today, extremely bitter laughs
Enough of ‘Remainers’ and ‘Leavers’ – we are all in this together now | Jess Phillips https://t.co/LaiytlNLSV— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) January 1, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:22 (three weeks ago) link
it's been fun watching them turn on their own
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:27 (three weeks ago) link
there is a horrible layer of irony wherein even Jessbabs is...not wrong...to tell the FBPEewees to give it up now ffs, but obviously there's more than enough plague going round for both their houses
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:28 (three weeks ago) link
Did anyone get a FBPE in the new years honours
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:04 (three weeks ago) link
I think big Dunty told them to chillax as well.. a lot of them won't be reasoned with and now that Corbyn has been marginalised they need someone to kick.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:15 (three weeks ago) link
The defeat of Corbynism won't be good for Babs career either.. Now there is no point to her people who previously liked her now see her as the self publicising vacuous fule she is.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:20 (three weeks ago) link
Wonder if 2021 will see another doomed breakaway party, most likely people are too dispirited at this point, but you never know.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:21 (three weeks ago) link
The main problem with starting a new political party in the UK is that it's always going to be the first 50-100 years that is a hard and pointless slog for absolutely nothing!
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:25 (three weeks ago) link
also the next 100 years after that, and the next, and so on
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:27 (three weeks ago) link
As we saw the last few years, there’s an endless pool of money for any number of centrist projects
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:33 (three weeks ago) link
Joylon might start a Barristers that think Kieth is a Tory cunt clique, but that wouldn't count as a party.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:35 (three weeks ago) link
when we get near another election somebody might decide it's worth a few quid just to muddy the waters some more, why take risks when you've got all the money and there's an endless supply of idiots who want their wallets inspecting?
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 January 2021 15:36 (three weeks ago) link
Surely top rich melts like the visionary who made a few quid posting dvds through letterboxes wouldn't need a new centrist project now Kieth is running the show.
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:42 (three weeks ago) link
pic.twitter.com/Y3KDO36Ngv— Sarah_Woolley (@Sarah_Woolley) January 1, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:51 (three weeks ago) link
is that bernie
― ||||||||, Friday, 1 January 2021 15:53 (three weeks ago) link
it's the constellation known as the old nonce!
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 16:04 (three weeks ago) link
Could Britain rejoin the EU? It seems like a hopelessly lost cause – but so did leavingJonathan Freedland
"Did anyone get a FBPE in the new years honours"
someone needs to put in a good word for this lad
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 16:14 (three weeks ago) link
this fucking guy
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/5/21/1400698424922/Jonathan-Freedland-009.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=f0f6c5ef45cc7dbc31e79b67d3f24eae
― Left, Friday, 1 January 2021 18:02 (three weeks ago) link
he has a look in his eye like he waking while watching you get converted into a cyberman
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:30 (three weeks ago) link
waking = wanking
autocorrect on my phone has clearly sided with him
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:31 (three weeks ago) link
Another government u-turn! London primary schools this time, what a shock. This is like yer lads doing doughnuts in stolen cars at this point.
― meanwhile back at the song (Matt #2), Friday, 1 January 2021 19:01 (three weeks ago) link
they need to close them in the rest of the country as well ffs! maybe they'll save that announcement for a day before they are due back
― calzino, Friday, 1 January 2021 19:07 (three weeks ago) link
Took the threat of legal actions by council's too.
Thinking there has to be a U-turn in the vaccine roll out too.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 January 2021 20:10 (three weeks ago) link
I hope so re the latter, where is the pressure coming from tho? They don’t listen to scientists
― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:17 (three weeks ago) link
I know, it's really grim
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 January 2021 20:27 (three weeks ago) link
I have been reading a little about that and apparently there might be some benefit to extending the intervals?
This issue is, appropriately, contentious. As a vaccinologist - & citizen & relative of people in at-risk groups - I fully support the UK decision to increase dose intervals of both our Ox/AZ product and the Pfizer product. I'd happily receive either with a >8w gap. Here's why 🧵 https://t.co/PZaxgGJUj4— Sandy Douglas (@sandyddouglas) January 1, 2021
I'm not the only immunologist happy enough with it. I get the tories have been awful through the pandemic but its important to bear in mind this was not a political choice, it was advice given by the MHRA. https://t.co/UWVkahRjHV— Dr 「サマンサ」Sammie 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈➡️🇺🇸 (@curexcomplex) December 31, 2020
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:32 (three weeks ago) link
would I be rude in suggesting a UK covid thread? I can't keep up with the general ukpol one but the covid stuff is useful to me. however I understand if it'd get too messy.
― kinder, Friday, 1 January 2021 20:43 (three weeks ago) link
> this too
Based upon the biology, I'd eat my hat if the Pfizer vaccine is substantially less effective with a longer dose interval. Most vaccines induce stronger immune responses with longer intervals. A couple of examples below. There are more. pic.twitter.com/pxJTqjchpz— Sandy Douglas (@sandyddouglas) January 1, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:45 (three weeks ago) link
i guess we’re gonna find out one way or another
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:51 (three weeks ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/37bSTa0.jpg
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:53 (three weeks ago) link
Thanks, that’s quite persuasive as far as ultimate efficacy - but the worrying thing is still the potential for vaccine resistant strains to evolve if millions of people are going around for months not fully vaccinated, no?
― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:56 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah was thinking we could use a UK Covid thread even though it’s massively political anyway. (I wouldn’t put it past them to somehow fuck up the second dose in the name of the economy)
― stet, Friday, 1 January 2021 20:57 (three weeks ago) link
It'd only end up being about the US anyway.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 1 January 2021 20:59 (three weeks ago) link
the Outbreak thread is quite US-centric already tho
― kinder, Friday, 1 January 2021 21:01 (three weeks ago) link
Yes, I'm joking but...
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 1 January 2021 21:02 (three weeks ago) link
xp I agree but they don’t seem too concerned about it? I wonder if there was the same concern about MMR vaccines where the spacing is years apart? My practice asked me (as they don’t have my vaccination records) if I had had the MMR booster, incidentally, and I said I thought I had but wasn’t sure, but they want me to get it anyway because there’s always outbreaks in the area.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Friday, 1 January 2021 21:03 (three weeks ago) link
see also: Suzanne Moore
― calzino, Friday, 22 January 2021 23:07 (three days ago) link
Kenneth Branagh to play U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Sky Original drama This Sceptred Isle The five-part drama will chart the events surrounding the U.K. Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.
goddamn everyone involved with this project to hell, oh sorry I forgot we are already there
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:13 (two days ago) link
Maybe he'll be portrayed as a cunt
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:37 (two days ago) link
will they show his domestic violence that everyone pretends to have forgotten
― Left, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:42 (two days ago) link
who’s playing starmer? will jezza be in it too?
― Left, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:44 (two days ago) link
Will it be one of those novelty pornos like Who's Nailin' Palin or something?
― mirostones, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:49 (two days ago) link
Michael Winterbottom has co-wrote it, that's all you really need to know
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:54 (two days ago) link
Nobody’s forgotten it but the victims and witnesses won’t stand up the story. They’ve been approached multiple times.
― scampopo (suzy), Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:54 (two days ago) link
So it will be one of those novelty pornos like 9 songs xp
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:55 (two days ago) link
Xp lol yeah i bet they've been approached
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:36 (two days ago) link
Untitled UK Pandemic Project (TV Series) (pre-production)
there is something quite jarring about the imdb entry for it, especially as the UK govt is still editing the untitled UK Rona death project even before they've got to the post-production stage
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 22:58 (two days ago) link
They'll just make it up as they go along.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 23 January 2021 23:04 (two days ago) link
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:54 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
at least this way there's half a chance it'll be about the making of a fictional series called This Sceptred Isle about the pandemic, which would be more interesting
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 23:06 (two days ago) link
all the other recent pusillanimous attempts at dramatising UK politics on tv in some kind of knockabout feelgood fashion without addressing the evils of this tory govt have been so fucking execrable, but I reckon The Trip to Fascist Isle of Death with Branagh could be a fresh start!
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 23:27 (two days ago) link
Keith @Keir_Starmer has a message for @KetamineLovejoy pic.twitter.com/xMZ74RhwpS— Yer Da After Too Many Drams (@Ecoclown) January 22, 2021
"who’s playing starmer?"
reckon this lad could do a job
― calzino, Saturday, 23 January 2021 23:50 (two days ago) link
UK Minister provokes 500 Covid cases at DVLA Swansea as symptomatic told to work, vulnerable refused home-working, Covid absences over 10 days trigger warnings & workers told turn off test-and-trace apps so phones don’t ping RESIGN @grantshapps 👎🏻 https://t.co/yURBp9eteM— Geraint Davies (@GeraintDaviesMP) January 23, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:28 (yesterday) link
I've been waiting for the "fury" over that "explosive row" to show up anywhere on the BBC or sky news websites since last night.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/23/minister-faces-fury-over-mass-covid-outbreak-at-top-government-agency
― ledge, Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:43 (yesterday) link
lol at this from 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/28/grant-shapps-profile-farce-to-tragedy
and yet...
― koogs, Sunday, 24 January 2021 11:57 (yesterday) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/24/scotland-independence-referendum-nicola-sturgeon-snp-wins-may-?
Britisher tanks in Glasgow by October 🤣🤣🤣
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:54 (yesterday) link
Broon and Gove are going to save the union ...loool
― calzino, Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:13 (yesterday) link
English council chiefs back postponement of May local elections https://t.co/spcvIjMch2— The Guardian (@guardian) January 24, 2021
This is bullshit, we've had elections in the US already. Should've been able to work out the logistics by now.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:15 (yesterday) link
for local elections this should've been a piece of piss
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:56 (yesterday) link
there are a lot of logistics you’d think they’d have worked out by now but... y’know
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:56 (yesterday) link
An example we should follow.
Breaking: Chicago Teachers Union members vote to defy Chicago Public Schools' reopening plans and continue working from home tomorrow because of health and safety concerns, a source says. About 86% of CTU members voted, and 71% of those members approved the collective action— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) January 24, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:41 (yesterday) link
xp seems like whatever dept signs big checks for mates has been running v smoothly they should get a performance bonus
― plax (ico), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:23 (yesterday) link
maybe it's just me but i don't believe Tory MPs give one fuck about the wellbeing or mental health of children
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 January 2021 08:12 (eight hours ago) link
nor some of the Labour MP's who have happily voted/abstained to fuck them over for the last decade but have suddenly developed a great hitherto unseen sensitivity about the state of their mental health
― calzino, Monday, 25 January 2021 08:22 (eight hours ago) link
probably the most egregious Tory example of a *sensitive* covid hawk is Graham Brady from the 1922 committee. lol There is someone who really cares deeply about the mental health of children and the class driven educational inequalities that comes with a lockdown.
― calzino, Monday, 25 January 2021 08:34 (eight hours ago) link
it was a clever move from the Scottish independence movement to put agent Broon on the radio babbling on about citizen's assemblies and sounding like an irrelevant desperado with nothing of substance to say other than the threat that the UK *might* become a failed state
― calzino, Monday, 25 January 2021 09:03 (seven hours ago) link
Our research showing a pretty shocking one in ten people say they're being asked to re-apply for their jobs on worse terms and conditions: https://t.co/eesXe4JaAW— Kate Bell (@kategobell) January 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 January 2021 09:32 (seven hours ago) link
The people: The government have really mishandled the situation.The government: WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE OF OLD AGE, FATTY. https://t.co/mGj3TFrPhY— PIP (@papa_anastasis) January 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 January 2021 11:03 (five hours ago) link
Lol
NEW: @BorisJohnson tells broadcast pool he is 'looking at the potential of relaxing some measures' before mid-February.— Joe Pike (@joepike) January 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 January 2021 11:16 (five hours ago) link
seriously fuck off Boris
― kinder, Monday, 25 January 2021 11:46 (five hours ago) link
fuck's sake, what is going on
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 January 2021 11:55 (five hours ago) link
i can already tell you with 100% certainty my kids are not learning a single fucking thing right now despite our best efforts
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 January 2021 11:56 (five hours ago) link
Backbenchers gearing up for another assault on reality.
― eating a jester in the blacksmith's shop (Matt #2), Monday, 25 January 2021 11:57 (five hours ago) link
My birthday is mid Feb, sick
― imago, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:03 (four hours ago) link
If the government were serious about home learning during lockdown, they would have hired strings of experts in our fields - writers, scientists, historians, geographers etc and got us to talk directly on zoom to different ages of students for 20-30 minute chunks.— Michael Rosen 💙💙💙🎓🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) January 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:06 (four hours ago) link
Couldn't move in my school back in the day for all the writes, scientists and historians walking around whilst the teachers all smoked behind the bike sheds
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:09 (four hours ago) link
we got this eminent slaphead called Prof Sal Solo from Classix Nouveaux (who had become a born again christian) lecturing us on how to stay away from the reefer and satanic music! But come on Michael are you sure you'd want to let this Tory govt choose which UK PolProfs are to be let loose on the nation's kids, that could end badly.
― calzino, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:24 (four hours ago) link
Love Michael, but last thing we need is more passive lesson-watching, we already have plenty of that on BBC Bitesize
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 January 2021 12:29 (four hours ago) link
NEW: No 10 source says PM meant that the 'looking at' will happen before mid-Feb, not the 'relaxing'.— Joe Pike (@joepike) January 25, 2021
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Monday, 25 January 2021 12:29 (four hours ago) link
Looking at both An Post and Royal Mail last night, I realised I had no idea what the lack of guidance on either meant in terms of how I would send stuff to Ireland or vice versa. Very minor both in the grand scheme of Brexit fuckups and for me, but also upsetting because that has always been an easy link for me and it’s gone for the time being at least.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Monday, 25 January 2021 12:41 (four hours ago) link
Sher look, ordering anything at all has just been an act of faith punctuated by a shrug since early December.
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2021 13:18 (three hours ago) link
Incredibly tone deaf response to the pandemic from the Chorlton estate agents who once tried to keep my deposit pic.twitter.com/ifGGKMnFKp— James Jackson (@derJamesJackson) January 25, 2021
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 25 January 2021 15:16 (one hour ago) link
Say what you like about the Blitz but it was a catalyst for redevelopment
― the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 January 2021 16:01 (fifty-five minutes ago) link
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Monday, 25 January 2021 12:41 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
It’s a limited amount of experience because I’ve gone from 45% of my orders bein eu bound to umm 8% (and just told my commercial landlord lol if you think I’m paying you rent) but we (and the couple sellers groups im in) have had no trouble sending stuff under £135. I’ve already got lazy about declaring the right codes too, pretty much labelling everything as Clothing Accessories (this catagory doesn’t need to change, whereas say Trousers changes per type of material, denim, cotton, synthetic fibres, cut corduroy etc).
Obviously there is a hell of a lot more things to send than clothes though. And things that should definitely be declared at over £135 (not 100% sure why this is the magic number, vat iirc?). You can also declare “gift” and a small description on a cn22 label, and should not be treated the same as someone sending something commercially. God knows if this helps in a world where mans can’t even keep his sandwich meat though.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 25 January 2021 16:08 (forty-nine minutes ago) link
IIRC the threshold for import VAT and duty on gifts arriving in the UK remains £39 but for commercial items is now £135 (in theory - supply VAT is supposed to be collected by the seller but nobody knows exactly how this working yet).
― fist of micro bunter (Noel Emits), Monday, 25 January 2021 16:26 (thirty-one minutes ago) link
I think i missed this when it was reported earlier but the FT is suggesting that around 1.3m people born outside of the UK have permanently left the country in the last 12 months, 700k of which were in London.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 25 January 2021 16:37 (twenty minutes ago) link
is that a euphemism for 'died'
― kinder, Monday, 25 January 2021 16:44 (twelve minutes ago) link