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

meanwhile

Kayla Williams died of coronavirus after being told she was not a priority and not taken to hospital despite symptoms of cough, high fever and severe chest and stomach pains https://t.co/OL9Cus96Se

— ma rc us (@marcusjdl) April 13, 2020

Yes that was linked here a couple of weeks ago when it happened. Awful.

Yes that happened right before cases started to tick up as well. Fucking appalling.

kindof amazing how little interest the guardian has shown in the labour leak. there is one article about it on the website. they are as we know very capable of publishing unreadably large bulk of material on one single topic. during the peak of the anti-semitism stories, they were publishing several many about it every day over a period of weeks. often with very little in the way of new material. seems odd that, given the editorial interest in this topic, that such a large amount of new information would prompt so little coverage. possibly i'm being unfair and they are simply caught offguard as the leak went to sky news, maybe there's panama papers style coverage of this and they already have several journalists pulling different stories out of it to cover. it would be odd as they do not really have a reputation for cautious reporting on national politics but its possible. i won't hold my breath though.

I cannot find any coverage whatsoever on the bbc

there is, but its similarly workaday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52271317?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics&link_location=live-reporting-story

22 minutes ago! think I checked half an hour ago.

long weekend, many people taking a break for the first time since the pandemic hit, its someone else’s exclusive.. let’s see what happens tomorrow.

I'd be surprised if either give it much if any time tbh

but hey at least we have a real opposition now

Labour leader Keir Starmer says govt will face tough questions over #coronavirus response, but tells Sky News 'now is not the time' https://t.co/cLrQX6pV0x

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) April 13, 2020

He's right, best to wait until everybody who's gonna die has died

questions will be asked

they were going to die anyway

Finally, Keir and Angela release a joint statement :-/

Joint statement: “We have seen a copy of an apparently internal report about the work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism. The content and the release of the report into the public domain raise a number of matters of serious concern.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) April 13, 2020

“We have seen a copy” - presumably they saw a copy quite some time ago?

Oh good, they're going to track down the whistle-blower. That's the important thing.

Serious concerns have been raised, guys

We are very concerned about the reports of the theft of the crown jewels being stolen, and will urgently hold an investigation into

1. Why the report was made and who made it
2. The details of what "stolen" means, if anything
3. Who leaked the report and what action can be taken to stop them embarrassing us again

cunts

"Our investigation into Watergate will focus on 3 equally important things:
1) How & why those journalists came to be investigating Nixon in the 1st place
2) What Nixon said
3) Whether the journalists were justified in making what Nixon said public & what should be done abt them" https://t.co/J4CtkBQ8r1

— Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) April 13, 2020

better effort than mine! Guess I'll stick to making mixes of old music.

questions will be asked

lol they’re going to be left with no fucking members, seriously fucked it

Lot of people saying this is a GDPR breach, but isn’t something like this, especially over something like party members allegedly trying to throw an election, a matter of public interest? Agree that names of complainants should have been redacted.

I think part of the reason this is slipping under the radar is that it's all very dense: lots of characters who aren't household names and difficult to follow who has done what exactly, especially when there's censored names etc.

Wait, the complainants are named? That's massively fucked up. xpost

The unredacted version is circulating.

Are there any MPs in the party worth supporting, I hear you ask
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVfxJi_WoAA0NT1?format=png&name=900x900

imagine being a chief shadow minister and not being able to sign that letter :(

idk what jezza's excuse is tho ;)

the unredacted version was posted in this thread (dropbox link)

Oh no we'll have Steer on our backs

bastadi is saying the NEC should have been informed about an investigation into the leak and due process isn't being followed ..shambolic not forensic.

Strong and stable and electable

even the Maybot was a comparatively decisive, competent + capable party leader next to Starmer, he's started weaker than gnat's piss and just got weaker!

you'd think at least a basic level of competence would take you to the top of the DPP. or maybe you just need a 50's style hairstyle and be a complete establishment feeb.

can someone... explain Labour to me? as an institution?

like... why was someone who looks fresh out of undergrad literally in charge of compliance?? how do these people already have lifelong grudges at the age of (i presume) 23? pic.twitter.com/AxshBdmUfW

— Sophie Hill (@sophie_e_hill) April 13, 2020

did a GiS of that young guy in the pic and the latest Guy Ritchie movie came up

The Labour A/S report has raised a lot of crucial questions for the Jewish left - In particular, is Max Lansman single? pic.twitter.com/3QdXK4dlGF

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) April 12, 2020

too left wing ... too Jewish but also the most qualified candidate for the job ....hmm.

Interesting polling from the Telegraph, and The Times finding very few people think lockdown is too severe, and people in the UK are less willing to risk lives to protect the economy than other countries pic.twitter.com/Js21b0WP7L

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) April 13, 2020

interesting disparity between mixed messaging from the UK govt and polling in tory right wing rags that suggests people are much happier to lock down than some of their messaging suggests and don't want risk more death for the fucking economy.

Hearing that @Keir_Starmer had the #LabourLeak report for a WEEK and did nothing

— Harriet Williamson (@harriepw) April 13, 2020

The message I’m getting from someone whose opinion I respect is that the outrageous bullshit behind the scenes is not news to the pundits and that they don’t think it’s particularly interesting or relevant. Which is in itself quite interesting and relevant to me, if not to them. pic.twitter.com/4o2y9S3c87

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) April 13, 2020

Nobody in the press is going to care either but from what I have seen this is the most the left have been angered since the election and it's how we organise in the party to get some of these people out that us the question.

A whistleblower has told @Channel4News they fear Coronavirus is sometimes entirely left off death certificates in care homes and in the community, meaning the true number who die from the virus may never be properly recorded. https://t.co/l2JOEqhCww

— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) April 13, 2020

xxp much to the disgust of the owners of said rags

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/uk-missed-three-chances-to-join-eu-scheme-to-bulk-buy-ppe?CMP

Fucks sake.

open labour response to the leaks perhaps an indication of the way the wind will blow https://openlabour.org/break-the-cycle-open-labour-response-to-the-leaked-internal-investigation-on-anti-semitism/

hard to believe that a plan for one small medical device company and a bunch of fucking car mechanics to make thousands of desperately-needed ventilators has failed but here we are

A plan to buy thousands of medical ventilators from a group including the Renault and Red Bull Formula One teams has been cancelled amid signs that symptoms specific to Covid-19 could make building new devices more difficult than hoped.

The NHS needs to increase its stock of ventilators from 10,000 to at least 18,000 and the government has been scrambling to procure enough in time for a peak of cases expected by the end of the month.

Efforts to source more have involved enlisting UK manufacturers, importing devices from overseas and even borrowing them from the set of the BBC medical drama Holby City.

The Cabinet Office confirmed that a provisional request for thousands of one model, called BlueSky, would not go ahead because clinicians feared the device was not sufficiently complex to be suitable for treating Covid-19.

I know all the statistics are basically made up so I don’t know why I decided to look at them last night but I was very struck by

ww 116,098
uk 11,329

We have 10% of the recorded cv deaths in the WORLD? It feels like there’s a disconnect: I remember a week or so before the lockdown - so, a month ago - people at work talking about Italy like “welp, they’re finished”, because that was the nature of the coverage. Can the bbc and starmzy’s air of mild concern really fit the public mood right now with lockdown set to be extended?

a lot of bbc domestic coverage has an odd denialist tone to it, while they are much less shy with quoting the brutal figures when covering other parts of the world. It's bizarre at times.

Not unexpected though.