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

Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter: All nurses on the front line should have their student debts written off.
Kier Starmer's Twitter: All nurses on the front line should receive a medal.

Centrism is back guys, in all it's non-descript and useless glory.

— rebelpaws (@rebelpaws) April 10, 2020

extremely ‘hmmm, curious’ para from that farm-worker story

Around 80,000 migrants are usually needed. Most come from continental Europe, and their numbers had been declining since Brexit because many appear to feel unwelcome and the fall in the value of the pound has, anyway, made working in Britain less rewarding financially.

One of them is good now.

More like one of them was always fucking terrible and continues to be fucking terrible and his (younger) brother bursting his balloon on the biggest stage imaginable will never not be sweet.

xp

yep, brexit always meant UK ppl would have to do more of their agricultural labour again, but now they are going to have to do all of it. Never mind lads, Sir Kier might offer you a medal!

Me taunting the pigs like pic.twitter.com/hmzaKBbLAZ

— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) April 10, 2020

Delicious @tildarice rice pudding, finished to the last morsel. A great argument for the Customs Union and Single Market! pic.twitter.com/5UK75Vsaqc

— David Miliband (@DMiliband) May 14, 2018

one of the Milibands shills for big rice (and bananas)

if for one am shocked that Big JO'B likes the filth

I think the police are mostly doing a good job in very difficult & confusing circumstances. It seems unlikely that they would be deliberately trying to make things any harder than they need to be. Perhaps we could all be a bit more supportive?

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) April 10, 2020

He's one of them posh middle class white people who says you've nothing to worry about with pigs unless you're a crim.

it seems unlikely that coppers would be trying to make things any harder

I had completely forgotten who Jo Swinson was.

she's the easter bunny, that's you crossed off her list

means-tested easter eggs for all! some!

you get vouchers for 3 free easter eggs during your working life

Lol! SKILLS PACKETS! what a hoot that wa.

skills packets would make no sense and therefore sound ridiculous, it was of course SKILLS WALLETS

probably the best Digital Economy Underground album tbf

short sharp shock g

Sex Packets was a tune!

I'm not lying me and Alex and the mutt just walked past two coppers. I have a Tescos carrier bag with some cans and fruitshoots in it and they just said hello to me! I think I'm getting absolute Immunity because of Alex's disability. They were female pcs though.

These Miliband tweets are confusing. I don't understand what any of them mean, if they are good or bad and which one is the supposedly now good one. You're definitely sure there's two? The 5G conspiracy was bad enough so I'm just a touch wary

As a socialist I have voted for many of the parties (Lib Dems, Greens, Conservatives)

Oh my god, I've just discovered Emma Kennedy's blog and it is every bit as cursed as you'd expect. There's also this first 100 days of Corbyn article that is wild. Wait until you get to misattributed Mother Theresa quote. 😲 Although I think it's biggest crime is the Web design. pic.twitter.com/hkGDrXMs4s

— CEO of Antifa (@RebootedStef) April 10, 2020

Alcohol absolutely is an essential - some people will just die if they stop abruptly. Again, so glad I’m on the wagon atm.

I’m writing to Michael D to strip her of her citizenship as we speak. I’m sure he’ll take my side.

Oh lol it’s a parody. Still writing that letter though!

i never used to fall for shit like this but the last decade broke me

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/nhs-111-staff-work-coronavirus-symptoms-call-centre?

This is just something else

Has that Emma Kennedy blog post been ghostwritten by Talk To Transformer? I cannot parse a single idea from it.

980 today :(

*imagine* if Diane Abbott had signed off on purchasing 17.5 million faulty CV tests.

— Jonny - Universal Basic Income now (@sensiblehuman96) April 10, 2020

we’re gonna crack 1,000 a day, we can fuckin’ do this lads, let’s show those pissant Italians and spaniards how it’s done

We should give the government much more credit. Have 1000 people died today? Or, have 65 million people stayed alive?

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 10, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs

Yeah no offence Matt, but the existence of David Miliband disproves your argument

It does not. Both brothers would have understood it, Ed chose to laugh along and gave it a sly like for the lols. David would have tutted and registered his stern disapproval.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/10/matt-hancock-urges-public-not-to-overuse-ppe

Bold new strategy of blaming nurses for wasting PPE.

we've got the tories blaming them and the LOTO offering them medals. What a fucking great time to be alive.

Going well:

More good news on Boris Johnson’s recovery... I’m told he’s now doing su doku puzzles and has been watching films, including Lord of the Rings and Withnail & I... Full details in tomorrow’s @DailyMailUK

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) April 10, 2020

"I have come to this hospital by accident.."

Boris, you terrible cunt.

Are you the Prime Minister?

one does not simply walk into nightingale

We have 130 students in Bristol going on ren strike over their agents response to Covid-19 and rents. Please consider dropping the agents an email and sharing this to add pressure and raise awareness of their campaign! ✊https://t.co/tFPrl0jz1U

— d a i s y 🥀 (@daisycarter__) April 10, 2020

we’re gonna crack 1,000 a day, we can fuckin’ do this lads, let’s show those pissant Italians and spaniards how it’s done

We already have - the brief fad for counting care home deaths in the total has faded.

Official 1000-a-day should coincide nicely with official 10,000 in total

We already have - the brief fad for counting care home deaths in the total has faded.

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 11 April 2020 08:01 bookmarkflaglink

What happened with this? aiui this was going to be counted and included on a weekly basis and i seem to remember on Tuesday the figures (possibly in the FT?) said 'this is the first time care home deaths have been included in the totals.

I know in France, Italy and Spain, when this came up, partly as a consequence of the horror Spanish society felt at the images coming out of care homes, that questions of how to get numbers without post-mortems and lack of official diagnosis came up, but it doesn't seem too difficult to me to have a 'suspected Covid' status on the death certificate (as in fact that Guardian article suggests).

also, while we're on it, has anyone seen any 'excess deaths' figures for the UK?

i'm not a statistician, but when i get onto my laptop which has excel on it, this looks like it might be the place to go to at least get a sense of comparative numbers.

We're at the end of the third week of lockdown. Over 1.5m in Britain couldn't feed themselves - and that's limited to who is acknowledged. Over 1m people have reported losing *all* of their income due to COVID-19. The food banks are running empty. https://t.co/lUsuyTcZ3K

— GlumBird (@GlumBird) April 11, 2020

Thank god for potatoes

Just went all the way through a Universal Credit calculator, it would seem that our eligibility is somewhere in the region of £0.00. We're fortunate enough to be able survive I guess, but no doubt there will be huge amounts of people who fall through the cracks, many of whom were way below the poverty line already. How strange, that the Tory response to this vast, unforeseen shock to the economy is a disdainful shrug.

"and charity was not enough on its own."

it never should have been in the first fucking place. These cunts are terrified of reversing austerity because it would be a tacit admission that it was all based on a lie to start with... even if it means people might starve to death they are still trying preserve the integrity of a big lie rather than protect their citizens. Time to start murdering tories imo.

Big fuck up from Hancock on PPE today. Blaming NHS workers for misusing the meagre resources they have isn't going to reassure the public when the one thing that is almost certain to incite mass panic is the idea of doctors and nurses dying in their droves.