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

Political Correspondent, The Sun

a paper costs less than a cup of coffee

why not put your life at risk by leaving the house to buy one

don't think he factored in that everyone is making coffee at home at the moment, probably costs about 11p per cup or something

In other news The Evening Standard was delivered to my door 😷

Gove apparently self-isolating.

Lol

Gove is the one I really want to see struggling into a hospital tbh

Yeah but is he ill?

It's not self-isolating if everybody hates you

No he isn't ill, sending thoughts and prayers tho'

Gove apparently self-isolating.

I'm beginning to think there is a God after all.

dan S, don't read this

agent COVID-19, pls get sarah vine

thoughts and prayers

One of John Cale's best songs that, "Dying on the Vine".

welp

Labour has just released a statement about a video meeting that its new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, and his deputy, Angela Rayner, had earlier with representatives of the UK Jewish community from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Community Security Trust and the Jewish Labour Movement.

After it was over Starmer said that he had used the meeting to stress his commitment to setting up an independent complaints process for the party, cooperating fully with the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into Labour and getting reports on all outstanding cases sent to him personally on a weekly basis. He added:

Over the last few years, we have failed the Jewish community on antisemitism. Labour is a proudly anti-racist party and, going forward, it will not be enough to ‘pass the test’ on antisemitism. We need to set new standards for best practice.

In a joint statement after the meeting Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl, JLC chair Jonathan Goldstein, CST chair Gerald Ronson and JLM chair Mike Katz,said:

While we would have fully understood the need to focus entirely on coronavirus at this time, Keir Starmer has already achieved in four days more than his predecessor in four years in addressing antisemitism within the Labour party.

Gove has a family member with symptoms.

VINE VINE VINE please VINE

She's three steps ahead of Coronavirus already:

I don't trust WHO on this. If 6k actual doctors say #Hydroxychloroquine works, I'll take that over the opinion of an organisation that at every stage of this contagion has been at best sclerotic, at worst incompetent. https://t.co/ABdIZtOhwT

— Sarah Vine (@WestminsterWAG) April 3, 2020

nor sure how mouthwash is supposed to help

i for one encourage sarah vine to purchase and consume large quantities of hydroxychloroquine, for science

30 compromised polycules

Didier Raoult, the French physician who's one of the original sources of Trump's dubious hydroxychloroquine #Covid19 "cure"... damn, just who IS it he reminds me of? pic.twitter.com/4KKGC0kpT5

— Ian Penman (@pawboy2) April 7, 2020

trump only trusts doctors with a very specific look

https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-05/harold-bornstein-facebook_650x400_61525239277.jpg

sarah vine for medical attention

lol, well-played vladimir

Vladimir Putin's telegram to Boris Johnson:
"I am sure that your energy, optimism, and sense of humour will help you defeat the illness." https://t.co/PlNfJNNfZA pic.twitter.com/OzjspRfaHl

— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) April 7, 2020

fuck sake drago himself wouldve stopped at optimism

pic.twitter.com/UJNT7sMaHM

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) April 7, 2020

flippin' 'eck Tucker Covid 19!

Sarah Vine struggling with her sums, thinking 37% of 6.2k is 6k.

shhh don’t dissuade her from exploring this very promising avenue of scientific inquiry

huge if true

Boris is 100% going to hell - "I took a moment to sanitize my hands and when I turned back around there were bloody hoof prints leading all the way up to the prime minister's bed" pic.twitter.com/rffhqoROZP

— eustachio r. d. wo (@phlespp) April 6, 2020

there is no. fucking. way.

Britons demand #ClapForBoris as voters rally support for PM: "We need him more than ever."

Tonight, 8pm. Spread the word! https://t.co/iN0n19YnDY

— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) April 7, 2020

he does seem to have the same emotional appeal to Tories as Thatcher tho, if he had her work ethic it would be terrifying

I'm sure he's had the clap before, on numerous occasions.

I see the BBC have dug up two of Bojo's friends to talk about the current situation: David Cameron and Ruth Davidson. Can you believe people once thought Ruth Davidson was something? Terrible woman.

fresh off her success of pinpointing the home address of the new head of mi5 on twitter, great job ruth

#fapforboris

DON'T RUIN FAPPING FOR ME

#makebabiesforboris, it’s what he would want

The clapping is lame enough but when you get the very PM that's bungled this crisis from the start piggybacking himself onto what is supposed be for support for crucial front line workers, it's just extremely wrong.

That tweet was obviously written by Dominic Cummings and fuck giving it precious oxygen right now.

All for denying these ppl precious oxygen

I'd engage with the clapping if it was followed by a minute's booing for this shit shower of a govt.

broke: #clapforboris
woke: #orangemarchforboris

The head of Scotland’s Orange Lodge has called for a special march through Glasgow honouring the Conservative government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic to be held later this year.

Jim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said Boris Johnson’s government had stepped up to provide a “package of support unlike anything we have ever seen before”.

I don’t even get it on a basic level - what does clapping mean here, congratulations for getting sick?

Me at a loved ones death bed: bravo!

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

‘thank u based boris for putting your moist, undulating corpus on the line for us, the poor undeserving sinners of this united kingdom’ is basically how i break it down to an extent

A round of applause for your pancreatic cancer, dear uncle!

if he goes after the shops shut and i can't run out for a bottle of fizz i'll be peeved

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

the most bizarre and inappropriate responses so far have come from literal tory mps. absolutely bananas https://t.co/H2hozyHLzf

— tristandross (@tristandross) April 7, 2020