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

the far right are in government now

turns out gove’s a big old fascist, shocking I know

Holy fucking shit. As well as Irving Michael Gove has books from prominent French New Right authors (fascists). Here's Why We Fight by Guillaume Faye - a core reading for new recruits of Generation Identiy. Before his death Faye spoke at events hosted by Richard Spencer https://t.co/BSnWNTbegj

— 12 Rules For WHAT (@12rulesforwhat) May 5, 2020

real nerd shit

Holy fucking shit. As well as Irving Michael Gove has books from prominent French New Right authors (fascists). Here's Why We Fight by Guillaume Faye - a core reading for new recruits of Generation Identiy. Before his death Faye spoke at events hosted by Richard Spencer https://t.co/BSnWNTbegj

— 12 Rules For WHAT (@12rulesforwhat) May 5, 2020

oops sorry

all tories are fascists at this point afaic

I see now I’m late to the party as usual

🔴Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover https://t.co/eLOfVjgHPL

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 5, 2020

the bookshelf of a true galaxy brain:

https://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/459000/Thomas-Mair-s-bookshelf-721459.jpg

This is essentially making constructive dismissal easier, and will let companies advertise the same roles for less pay

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) May 5, 2020

lol that mair houses his gerald posner oswald-did-it-alone jfk books along with all the nazi stuff

belgian chips are mad overrated
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

belgian beer otoh

Wasn't aware Belgian chips had any kind of rep except when they came with mussels.

Wait I just remembered there's a literal Frites Museum in Bruges.

Among Mair's other nazi possessions was a dvd of that HBO movie about the Wannssee conference with Branagh playing Heydrich and him from shameless playing some nazi fucker I cant recall! His Britain First brainworms version of Batman Begins or something perhaps.

from the ferguson article:

She and her husband live together with their two children in a £1.9 million home, but are understood to be in an open marriage. She has told friends about her relationship with Prof Ferguson, but does not believe their actions to be hypocritical because she considers the households to be one.

i lol'ed

big week for people in open relationships fucking up in public

who was the other one?

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman I'd guess.

dare not think about it

Gove and Sarah Vine.

BRB, getting the brain bleach

Negativity problems itt

Wow. @RussInCheshire: "Until midnight tonight, we are still inside the 5 year term of David Cameron's last election win."

A lot has happened...

— David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) May 5, 2020

No way, we've been on lockdown longer than that

i lol'ed

Oh the fun knobheads will have with that scientist knobhead breaching lockdown.

I’m boggling at that dawn foster tweet xyz posted - I know these fuckers were elected on a “drive us off a cliff and do disaster capitalism” ticket and I was never as hypnotised by sunak’s ~unprecedented package~ as some but turning their usual murderous punitive bullshit on their own job retention scheme seems unwise?

They are fucking this up so badly. As tracer says we haven’t even really locked down, and shit like “isolate for 7 days” does feel like the let’s spread it and be legends strategy by stealth. Meanwhile this is tearing through poor and nonwhite communities and frontline workers still don’t have adequate protection so the endless theoretical debate from amateur virologists/economists/behavioural scientists feels very bleak to me. Public mourning can be grotesque obv but I’m looking around and it really feels like 50,000 people just died and nobody gives a shit.

OTM

I think when the figures are that big and people are dying that rapidly, all that "you can't accuse them of social murder" stuff should go out the fucking door. Just because the media wont hold them to account it doesn't mean the lame opposition should follow suit, even if it makes them unpopular in a few fucking yougov polls

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I like my bowel movements to be dull and maybe with the odd bit of inspiration from a book I'm reading rather than my occasionally inflamed and painful Starmeroids. But "inspiring movement" lol.. seriously just fuck off!

addicted to furlough scheme?! imagine a population addicted to having in *some* cases enough money to support themselves https://t.co/g005RgiF4I

— Joe (@steamedhamms) May 5, 2020

addicted to cuts

hot for austerity.. hot for austerity tonniiight!

mmm yes britons must not become addicted to receiving the 80% of their wage they are being paid because going to work might kill them, their friends, family members or strangers, better cut that back so that they can make more desperate risks for the good of the economy

Genuinely gasped that Raab's response to having the worst death toll in Europe was to claim we're world class at counting bodies.

Grant Shapps said more or less the same thing on Sunday. Not that anyone cared.

it really feels like 50,000 people just died and nobody gives a shit.

they just use counting squads wandering about hospitals armed with mechanical click counters in Germany, that's why their figures are so low.

they should make every arsehole who wrote so much risible bollox about Rishi after the feb budget eat a few kilograms of wood pulp for every word of wildly wrong bullshit they wrote about him.

I suppose cutting the furlough money from them and dragging over a million(?) previously salaried workers into the loving bosom of Universal Credit and sanctions, zero hour contracts etc is sort of socialism in a way!

There's definitely a belief in the Treasury that some businesses are taking the money that just don't need it. But a lot of those businesses aren't going to do anything (bar make redundancies) while the virus is still ongoing.

This feels like a gigantic gamble from the government that the virus will have substantially receded by July - and if it hasn't it will likely be their fault. If it hasn't I don't think they'll be able to get away with it either economically or politically - like ending lockdown too soon it undermines the point of having done it in the first place.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-britain-elderly/

another good reuters piece on the UK govt's outright negligence in the huge number of care home deaths. it's heartbreaking reading about the care assistant who had bought her own PPE from amazon and by the time it arrived she was already dying of c-19 in hospital:(

I hate to say it but even Jeremy Cunt was showing more forethought and competence than the UK govt on care homes, ffs!

Jeremy Hunt, a former Conservative Party health secretary and now chairman of the House of Commons health select committee, advocated banning visits to care homes by friends and family from early March, advice that wasn’t followed.

Three days into the lockdown, on 26 March, the nation was urged to stand at their doorstep or window on a Thursday evening and applaud the NHS. Boris Johnson, by now already infected himself, led the cheering on the first occasion.

For some workers in Enfield, the chants left them uneasy. Working 12 hours shifts for barely £9 per hour, below the non-statutory London Living Wage of £10.75, they wondered if those cheers for caregivers were also meant for them.

What the far right have been doing is spreading and reacting to news stories from before lockdown that when shared read like mosques have been open since lockdown. And last week Nigel Fascist-Partridge, exploiting 'key worker' status, tweeted a video of himself on the beach speculating about how people enter the country by boat and are taken off in vans, some to jobs they've lined up, and others 'bringing the virus', putting words into the mouths of some locals and that they don't believe the official figures.

Status he doesn't have, of course

METRO: Boffin quits over affair in lockdown #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/qx8fCZaI5Q

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) May 5, 2020

didn't realise the scientist was a bonking love rat. h/t hendo

Into the sea
You and me

Good Farage headline. He looks even worse than he ever did before.

he looks very haggard + sunken eyed and his hair makes me feel sad, hope he isn't dying!

he looks a lot like david icke with his lockdown hair

Allegedly, someone just triggered the fire suppression system in one of the hangers at Heathrow, after BA announced they were sacking 900 staff. pic.twitter.com/yMmhYrTAS0

— Lenny Etheridge ⭕ (@lennythepen) May 5, 2020

u loves to see it

Rory S is dropping out of the London Mayoral race.

his decision to campaign solely in dari was, in retrospect, ill-advised at best