Katie Puckrik weighs in on the Moran Twitter thread if anyone's interested
Not loving the Cultural Revolution-style snitchery, here.— Katie Puckrik (@KatiePuckrik) April 11, 2020
― sonatas and interludes for prepaid nando's (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
Lol exposing the sanctimonious bullshit of a Murdoch columnist is very comparable with the cultural revolution!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
Puckrick is my friend and stuck up for me on another person’s FB thread - the person being critical of me going out at all was not aware that WC1 and most of zone 1 is an absolute ghost town to the point where there’s empty squares, no queues and a handful of people out at any given time. Also I live alone and am not willing to have deliveries unless a) I get miss rona and b) it’s a local friend dropping milk off in that situation.
Also, while we are here, and without naming names, why do melts consider Jeremy Corbyn ‘arrogant’? IDGI.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
trying to make them recognise their own privilege? god knows tbh
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
I still think Puckrik is talking a load of shite. Highly paid Murdoch columnist writes piece saying lockdown is a piece of piss, whilst considering themselves quite above the rules of the lockdown is a very deserving candidate for derision and contempt imo. You know she is isn't literally getting struggle sessioned, people are just saying she's a hypocritical bullshit merchant on twitter. And that is correct.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
Fucking hell they've dug Patel out from beneath her rock for today's briefing, tell the gammon!
― sonatas and interludes for prepaid nando's (Matt #2), Saturday, 11 April 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
she says they've done 300,034,974,000 tests.. that is impressive.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
we're doing great numbers, great numbers of tests, very clever doctors are telling me they've never seen such great numbers, really good tests, everybody's saying how good the tests are [fade to theme from Casualty]
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Catmo is a total hypocrite obvs.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
Patel can presumably come out of storage as her bullying report, which was meant to come out yesterday, has been delayed a few weeks.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
i’m sorry if anyone is offended by my burning desire to see the entire british cabinet eased feet-first into a woodchipper one-by-one
Patel, when pressed to apologise to NHS workers over a lack of personal protective equipment, couldn’t quite do it. She said:I’m sorry if people feel that there have been failings.After being asked twice if she would apologise to NHS staff and their families over the lack of “necessary PPE” that has been linked to NHS workers becoming infected and dying, she said:I’ve been very clear in what I have said and I’m sorry that people feel that way.
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
never apologise, never explain. never give a shit.
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
can vouch that wc1 is a desert, have been going there for walks as islington is full of dimwit twentysomethings who hog the pavement holding hands and have seemingly not realised there's a pandemic.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
what is alarming about the current situation is not that thugs like patel, raab etc exist. there will always be craven lunatics searching for power and with little regard for anything else, but that they can reach such high office and once there have no accountability whatsoever is deeply concerning.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
otm, the most broken thing about our wonderful "system" over the last two to three years (and arguably a long time before that but hey) has been the absence of restraint or control on the executive. even the logjam over Brexit was incapable of anything more than, well, a temporary logjam
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
i mean "decency" and "honour" were fucking bullshit or they wouldn't have disappeared so easily, but the faux shocked reaction of the pundit class to the way that a government can just discard that shit and literally do what the fuck they wanna do given the votes is
i don't have the words, it's not like i ever thought parliamentary democracy was more than a sham anyway
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
My neighbourhood's WhatsApp group has been fine, but I guess Cambridge is a bit different. Nobody even mentioned Boris.
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
we had a maybe stereotypical encounter with some irish travellers a couple of years ago. they came to the door and offered to clean and sand the patio, my wife had no idea who they were or what they wanted and said she would ask me. Then the next day they just came and did it, my father-in-law was at home and he speaks no english, he thought they were from the council or something, then they presented him with a bill for £600. I talked to the guy and said I wasn't going to pay it (aside from anything else it's a rented house and I don't have £600 to spare) he was not at all happy but didn't threaten me.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
My mum who is Irish herself paid this dodgy lad a small sum to take a few branches off a tree at the front. He had a business card with his mobile number so to her that made him a consummate Pro! One of the branches he carelessly cut took out the neighbour's BT line and before he made a fast exit he was asking if she could give him the card back!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Oh, I remember you saying that at the time (or thereabouts) (if it was you..) it seemed like a dangerous standpoint, but hey I wasn't there. (xpost)
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/11/uk-lockdown-police-apologise-after-man-threatened-with-pepper-sprayMore exuberance from the filth
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 11 April 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
look they only threatened to pepper spray the guy taking food to vulnerable relatives, what more do you expect them to do
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
"de-arrested" is not a word that tv cops say much
― mark s, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
An extensive internal investigation into the way Labour handled antisemitism complaints will not be submitted to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, after an intervention by party lawyers.The 860-page report, seen by Sky News, concluded factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to "a litany of mistakes" that hindered the effective handling of the issue.The investigation, which was completed in the last month of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, claims to have found "no evidence" of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being "motivated by antisemitic intent".
The 860-page report, seen by Sky News, concluded factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to "a litany of mistakes" that hindered the effective handling of the issue.
The investigation, which was completed in the last month of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, claims to have found "no evidence" of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being "motivated by antisemitic intent".
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-antisemitism-investigation-will-not-be-sent-to-equality-commission-11972071
― ShariVari, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Conversations in which the same group refers to Mr. Corbyn's former chief of staff Karie Murphy as "medusa", a "crazy woman" and a "bitch face cow" that would "make a good dartboard"
― ShariVari, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
love to see that "plurality of voices" coming back to the party and the bullying Corbyn era ending.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
well if i was in any doubt about cancelling that direct debit before now
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
Wow. Somehow it's even worse than I thought.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to "a litany of mistakes" that hindered the effective handling of the issue
this isn't quite the picture Starmer painted at the Jewish hustings during the leadership election.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
just heard Nick Thomas-Symonds being interviewed on the radio, he was shit
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
never apologise, never explain. never give a shit.― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, April 11, 2020 5:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Pliny O'Toole (Noodle Vague), Saturday, April 11, 2020 5:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yes, when I heard that crap on the radio i involuntarily shouted out 'so what are you doing about it then, do your fckng job'
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 12 April 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 12 April 2020 07:43 (four years ago) link
that report is both entirely in detail quite staggering. plenty of wtf examples in the excerpt here:
The whatsapp messages, which the report claims were leaked to the investigation by one of the group's members, show the private conversations of senior party managers & staff in Labour's Southside HQ during the time of Lord McNicol's tenure as general secretary - they reveal: pic.twitter.com/c6BA0xplGL— Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) April 11, 2020
Ooft, hadn’t clocked this one - that’s an extremely serious allegation and if there’s evidence for it, it’s very definitely in the public interest for it to be released. pic.twitter.com/gDp5bkhR8b— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) April 11, 2020
― Fizzles, Sunday, 12 April 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link
‘now is not the time to ask difficult questions’*18 months passes*‘now is not the time to dwell on the past’
The leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer, has said now is “not the time to ask difficult questions” on whether the government was too slow to act on the coronavirus crisis, but said more scrutiny of decisions is needed.“I challenge the government hard on this, not just to score a point, but to fix it,” said Starmer on Sophy Ridge on Sunday, adding that challenging questions will need to be asked in future.“I’m trying to resist calls for apologies or criticising past decisions. I will work with the government on this, we will support them in trying to get this right.”
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:10 (four years ago) link
look asking for accountability of those responsible for the decisions that have killed 10,000 people in the uk in the last few weeks is the old politics
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
and yes, tens of thousands more will die in the coming weeks, but now more than ever what we need to do is resist the urge to sit on park benches
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:14 (four years ago) link
ah, it's another grand day for ruining ilx
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link
I'm basically a lame placeholder who serves no purpose other than reassuring the establishment everything's cool now - the opposition is gone says Sir Kier. If he fell down a sinkhole and was never seen again who'd fucking notice?
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link
Because how politics works - the leader of the Labour Party asks the tories to be a bit nicer and they listen and act accordingly then everything turns out OK. Real opposition - the adults are back.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
The Private Godfrey of Dad's Army Britain.
Meanwhile thousands of people have no money and nothing to eat.
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
1.5 million according to latest YouGov polling. As in people going a whole day without proper nutrition. Anyone there Kier?
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:02 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWtSLEXgAEG-oy?format=jpg&name=medium
this bumpf from last month seems embarrassing now, but much of how the media are dealing with is not going to age well. Constantly spinning a fictional narrative straight from cchq while a thousand are dying a day.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link
can't blame the government for this stuff calz, it's an act of god
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
FAN SERVICE ENSURES CITIZENSHIP
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
There is paywalled piece in today's Times where some Cambridge think tank academics are saying if the death rate spirals out of control this could end up breaking up the UK. Starmer might be treading on egg shells but I bet Sturgeon won't be scared of "politicising" the UK government's clown shoes bungling of this pandemic from the start.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE LESS
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
Sturgeon is in a different position to Starmer in that she's actually in power rather than in opposition and can make decisions that have a concrete effect. I don't know the extent to which Scottish policy has diverged up to now but if the situation deteriorates north of the border then her name is on it as well.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
she did hang the chief medical officer so at least she's tough on lockdowns
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
she also took the bold step of refusing to suck the fingers of an entire ward of coronavirus patients, unlike boris
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link