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

xp I'm not sure if that'll save them though - the trick is to screw the poor but allow the natural class stratification to mean that most of 'your voters' never have to hear about this (or never hear about it in enough quantity that they can't brush it off as "probably just a lowlife/druggie/criminal"). That's not a trick you can do if you torpedo small and medium businesses willy-nilly.

"You know it's time" - I mean, it's well past time for this, but it's time for what exactly? It's time for nothing at all to happen because it's 4+ years until an election?

to be clear, I am pleased people are finally beginning to push back, and hope they carry on even though it feels slightly futile - it's newsworthy that we're fucked and being lied to, even if I can't see a route to anyone doing anything about it

help us keir starmer, you're our only hope

brb just making a noose

rlb just making a noose

Keir could our very own Bernie.. if he worked on his comedy routine and got a dog called Schnorbitz.

sad news for these headline-chasing corporate punks cunts

The independent brewer BrewDog is considering reformulating hand sanitiser made at its distillery in Aberdeenshire after it was turned down by a local hospital because it did not meet medical standards.

The firm said last month it would be giving away its “punk sanitiser” free to charities and to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, but a donation of thousands of bottles was turned down by the hospital.

While the sanitiser is 68% alcohol, well above the 60% minimum recommended by the Health and Safety Executive in the UK, it does not meet more stringent requirements for a medical environment, which requires more than 90% alcohol.

Who Will Run The Prog Hospital?

Looking at https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus showing deaths in the UK having doubled in three days. Fuck.

you absolutely do not love to see it

We are starting from a relatively low base, Italy is doubling every six days and that's absolutely terrifying.

When were the people currently dying over here likely to have been infected?

hatt mancock on the tv now giving off powerful nervous-supply-teacher energy as he addressed the nation

Errr also what the fuck is Matt Hancock doing taking a press conference right now? Wasn't he isolating with symptoms two or three days ago?

he said last week he’d be self-isolating until today

he still should have a permanent Twat sticker on his back

well, yeah

100,000 tests a day in the uk before the end of the month u say

mark your calendars

Germany were doing that a week ago.

yeah but we’re doing red white and blue tests

Who did the sums on this repeated no test > bad test claim?

no deal test is better than a bad

deal

fucking formatting, you get the idea

what an elegant joke

I don't really get the clapping thing when the people who are being applauded aren't here to hear it?

some of them might be? I mean I don't like it either, but plenty of NHS staff will be home at 8pm.

every time you clap your hands, an nhs worker gets a piece of ppe

So bang a pot in the hope and expectation an NHS worker lives in the neighbourhood?

And it's not a case of liking or not, it's just a bit strange.

I think it's basically fine in and of itself, just depressing in how it reminds me that the British public will choose sentimental gestures over real change 9 times out of 10.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/coronavirus-took-hold-in-uk-earlier-than-thought-data-reveals?CMP

yes i live three streets from one of london's big hospitals, and at least one medical professional definitely lives in my building

New "Stay Home" advert tonight, featuring a quick shot of some doorstep applause.

oh god was that the Jess Phillips advert as well?

lol i mentioned on my busiest friends-only whatsapp that CMO chris whitty is three aliens in a trenchcoat and two unconnected ppl said they knew him and had worked with him and he's lovely so i am shamed as a dick

obviously i blame you lot

Those two “unconnected people” are the two aliens on the bottom

chris whitty: three lovely aliens in a trenchcoat

> chris whitty is three aliens in a trenchcoat

"IT'S A TRAP!"

I was clapping the Labour membership earlier myself, for showing such great wisdom and forethought by voting for a jellyfish to replace Corbyn.

hope you were shouting "THIS CLAPPING IS SARCASTIC" to make sure the neighbours didn't misunderstand your intent

damn, I put up a "SARCASTIC CLAPPING" sign, probably no good in this context :(

signs aren't really good unless you make them fairly big and use fairly lights to illuminate them

Errr also what the fuck is Matt Hancock doing taking a press conference right now? Wasn't he isolating with symptoms two or three days ago?

The strain contracted by politicians, actors, newspaper columnists, and other assorted blue ticks is a completely unrelated virus that just happens to share the name. It is without symptoms and not contagious. The risk is that, unknowingly, carriers may also be carrying the more well know version which is contracted more generally by members of the public.

WHO say 14 days self-isolation is required, is the UK govt saying it knows better than them again?

earlier Dawn Butler posted that her uncle took a fall, ended up in hospital, contracted covid-19 in hospital then died a la Eddie Large. I was telling my mum only yesterday, whatever you do and whatever chances you take .. just don't end up in a hospital right now or the rest of the year and beyond if possible.

i mean i kind of hated eddie large but this was not the way for him to go out, poor guy :(

At least he wasn't Syd Little.

tbh they always seemed like the most harmless of those club comics made good, no dark secrets, no shitty political grandstanding as far as I remember

(cue somebody digging up dark secrets and shitty politics)

They were actually signed up as replacements for ITV defectors Morecambe and Wise. No pressure lads!

Jesus that's the most inadequate replacement this side of a Dyson ventilator.

Always found the differing attitudes towards alcohol & betting genuinely curious. UK on lockdown leads to (as of yet unfounded) concerns about more people betting at home online. We rightly take that seriously. UK on lockdown, let’s all get drunk at home - no problem, apparently. https://t.co/Wk9iWz3glu

— Michael Dugher (@MichaelDugher) April 2, 2020

Tom Watson's Music UK mate seems to be a gambling industry shill now - wow very subtle. Like there is a distinct difference between supping 9 ales in your living room and completely emptying your account in the bet 365 games room. cunt