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

aw man i remember all those crushed saboteurs, tragic

It's still unclear to me whether Leicester's title win was the cause, or the first effect, of the unraveling of reality.

of course! it's the tell-tale glitch

My god, have they really got Williamson doing the press conference today?

if that isn't god telling you to not watch it i don't know what is

It's still unclear to me whether Leicester's title win was the cause, or the first effect, of the unraveling of reality.

not entirely sure why ‘Bbc’ is there but I feel comfortable blaming the Mayans

someone's mad. (The Cygnus rebuttal is the weakest one, i reckon) https://healthmedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/19/response-to-sunday-times-insight-article/

There's an almost Trumpian petulance to some of that. So basically they're saying that their response has been A+ - no mention of the death stats, of course. The claims about threat levels are weak too - makes it look like events can only be reacted to, not foreseen. Wah wah wah

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/19/disabled-people-left-off-coronavirus-vulnerable-list-go-without-food?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

When Denise Stephens, 41, who has multiple sclerosis and is immunocompromised, was rejected, she followed instructions to call her GP but hit a brick wall. “My GP said they couldn’t help me and they didn’t know why the government is directing people to them about this,” she said. Last month, Stephens contracted coronavirus. She has had to call an ambulance twice to her London home but is still not eligible for help with food or medication.

"highly selective criteria" for the vulnerable list, they've likely missed thousands of vulnerable people off it, many of whom would have died this year anyway no doubt.

Cycled past Downing Street and these signs thanking our ‘dear leader’ are everywhere pic.twitter.com/2QBI5oyZ3S

— Bruno Leipold (@BrunoLeipold) April 18, 2020

Dear Leader.. please die next time you contract the Rona

The French conference sounds wild, and good compared to ours (not that this is difficult):

French PM Edouard Philippe about to give a press conference on Covid-19. Will tweet the best bits.

— John Lichfield (@john_lichfield) April 19, 2020

Details/statements on what their reopening will look like for work, schools etc.

so which sinister dark money group do we reckon is propping up the awesome movement then

Goodness me!!!! Whoever thought of free broadband? They’ll be nationalising the railways next. Sorry, they already have. https://t.co/sfrLl2dV4r

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) April 19, 2020

https://sd.keepcalms.com/i/john-you-are-my-king-and-i-love-you.png

That doesn’t scan at all

let me have this one thing

The weird meme is correct.

Diane and big John truly out of fucks, a small bit of light in these dark times.

Just realised that today is #DianeMojitoDay Thanking you all for your kind thoughts and raising a glass to everybody🍹 pic.twitter.com/53WwZcjI5V

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) April 19, 2020

This is quite good on the restaurant industry and yes, government support and communication will need to be very sensitive to that industry and many other sectors too. Expecting some bug fuck up somewhere post-lockdown with more damage than necessary.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/apr/19/will-britains-restaurants-survive-coronavirus

I had been thinking about that too, especially reading about how it went in Wuhan. The restaurants reopened but people didn’t come back. Me personally, if we’re back in London then I’ll be going to places, because I’m probably at far higher risk commuting than in a restaurant.

Also, fuck the landlords trying to evict restaurants! Who are they going to be renting to?!

i don't know how it works for retail landlords but i've seen plenty of places left to stand empty for years, presumably rather than offer affordable rents to would-be businesses

Just thinking about those thousands of pubs and restaurants sitting there in perfect working order - they're just going to be hoovered up by whoever does have money at the end of all this.

Tbh if I can afford it I will be straight back into restaurants at the earliest opportunity. There is nothing I want more than to have a stranger pouring wine for me right now.

I hope you’re right. All I want to do is book a massive table somewhere if it’s still open and get roundly fucked up with about fifteen of my friends.

i don't know how it works for retail landlords but i've seen plenty of places left to stand empty for years

As a trip down the High Street in Paisley and hundreds of other towns will quickly demonstrate.

hoping some of these fuckers are going to get ruined by being unable to service their own debts shortly

"Of course, I want nothing more than to see schools back, get them back to normal, make sure the children are sat around, learning, and experiencing the joy of being at school."

rofl

how benign of the bizarre creep who once offered putin out on sky news!

all cops are brilliant

Black guy being told to leave Clissold Park by 2 police officers while white guy practises handstands nearby. pic.twitter.com/xGjm6Ybz6Y

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) April 19, 2020

Has the government's furlough website crashed yet?

#jobrejectionscheme is trending so i assume everything is going swimmingly

oh god

That #TonyBlair has a lovely smile. #bbcnews pic.twitter.com/sesFRUyLGT

— Peter Laws (@revpeterlaws) April 20, 2020

ha.

Pretty sure that happened in an Aphex Twin video.

I think #jobrejectionscheme is for people who started a new job in March and are now ineligible for furlough cash.

from what I've read so far Tony Blair is doing a better job of opposition than Starmer today. He's that forensic he's got rid of all evidence of himself.

calz you just kind of praised Blair have you checked your temperature this morning?

it's just a measure of how lousy Starmer is. I've stopped checking my temperature because according to google my average temperature of 96.4 f means I'm either dead or hyperthermic!

:D

i believe that's known as Rentoul's Syndrome

oh well I'll be able to sit out another 50 years of Labour being a completely useless opposition party and it'll be no biggie!

THere's always a chance they'll be a completely useless govt

I think by the time that happens it won't even make any difference.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWC6OvPXkAA8wiu?format=jpg&name=small

that first great meme of the day is always the freshest one

iirc he hasn't been seen since they weekend-at-berniesed him out of the hospital approx one COVID-19 ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/image/11826304-3x2-700x467.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWC3fDCWsAAqnVU?format=jpg&name=900x900

the image used by itv news tweet attached to his statement where he forbids anybody from the proletariat outliving him and to start digging now or he'll rain diseased blood on us!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWDDAI3XsAMyGXy?format=jpg&name=small