711 more deaths in england alone todaytime to open this baby up and see if we can make it to 2,000 a day
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Where's that from? I'm seeing 205 deaths in the UK total.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
🥳🎆🇬🇧STREET PARTY🇬🇧🎆🥳 🤪🍾🇬🇧TO HONOUR🇬🇧🍾🤪🥰🎉🇬🇧THOSE WHO DIED🇬🇧🎉🥰 🤡🎂🇬🇧OF PREVIOUS🇬🇧🎂🤡 😂🥂🇬🇧STREET PARTY🇬🇧🥂😂— Tom Little of "Grandstand Theme Tune" Fame (@ThisIsTomLittle) May 9, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
oh wait, was looking at an old email sorry
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
200 for the day, but that's just hospitals.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
And it's a Sunday.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
and a bank holiday weekend
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
and The Italian Job is on the telly
― anvil, Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
“It’s the self deterioration society”.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
🎙️ Historian @Rog_Anderson and I deconstruct VE Day and other British wartime myths on the #JeggitPodcast. This is a really eye-opening discussion - not to be missed. https://t.co/Zr6r1ZwIVM— Jason Michael (@Jeggit) May 10, 2020
good little discussion here about the addled exceptionalism of brit nationalists and their crazed delusional ww2 mythology. not like I learned anything new, but just nodded in agreement.
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
There should be no return to work until it is safe to do so.If work cannot be done safely, it should not proceed.People must come before private profit.— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 10, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
miss u king
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
this rent biz is the most perfect faultline exposing issue
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
It has also exposed how there now could be 20million+ people who could make the most credible claim of "political homelessness" yet
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Boris trying his best to be serious with this completely confused and befuddling prime ministerial broadcast.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
He wants me to go to work tomorrow, get tae France, ya wanker.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
The weird thing is that it kind of is and kind of isn’t. I’m struggling to imagine how substantial the difference in policy would have been if RLB had won or Corbyn had stayed. It’s also not unthinkable that the bulk of the Labour policy will also end up being implemented by a government with no better ideas for averting a major housing / economic crisis.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
we’re gonna end up with a six-figure death toll, easily
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
I'm not watching but by all accounts this is a vague incomprehensible mess.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
the two years thing is, as stephen bush says, not even coherent. spain are doing a similar thing with six years which softens it but idk how you'll administer that. sorting out housing benefit seems the more obvious route. as it stands this won't even help landlords as many will be unable to pay, and we may see a lot of these small time 'good landlords' trying to sell and making house prices crash, and ofc even if it doesn't it will make the economy tank further
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
House prices are going to crash whatever happens.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
open labour are backing rent cancellation
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
a q of degree
The government is going to absolutely desperate to get people out spending disposable income before too long and I don't know how that would square with having hundreds of thousands of people whose disposable income is completely swallowed up with rent arrears.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
reforming housing benefit is extremely overdue and the easiest lever to pull in a crisis
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
there'll just be widespread bankruptcy if there's no rent cancellation, plus ppl disappearing
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Yep, though one of Bush’s objections to the two year thing is that the Labour policy of expanding housing benefit means there shouldn’t really be any arrears to pay back (which idk).
― ShariVari, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Economically I guess the route out of this for the govt will involve gigantic rounds of QE which has the knock-on effect of feeding asset bubbles, including in housing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
"ppl just disappearing"Lol once got caught doing a flit by a fairly dangerous landlord. I laugh about it now but it was a very dodgy situation to get through unharmed!
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
This "I'll be the PM of the whole nation" is going to play v. well for Scot Nats. Especially now England is the last country in Europe with "extremely high" excess deaths.
― stet, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
It seems his announcements only really apply to England so he is the Prime Minister of the whole nation of England.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
I think that's a ref to Sturgeon's public dissing of "Stay Awake" or whatever it is, and her demand it not be used in Scotland.
― stet, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
My interpretation of Boris Johnson this evening: the pandemic of COVID-19 in the UK is much more serious than we have been led to believe. Johnson was unusually serious, fists clenched, no jokes about squashing sombreros.— richard horton (@richardhorton1) May 10, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
He recorded the message before Sturgeon's "diss"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
Just watched boris hands for 15 mins pic.twitter.com/BZpUiKMyK0— John McGinn (@jmcginn7) May 10, 2020
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
I felt like I was in the room and he was talking to me...what a brilliant speech @BorisJohnson well done 👏— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) May 10, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
That corkie must have hit his head hard
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Horton is right, I think. In practice all secondary school and most primary school has been cancelled for the academic year. Restaurants aren’t going to reopen for two months. It’s an admission that the U.K. is absolutely nowhere near being ready for the end of lockdown and wouldn’t be out of step with the suggestion in the ST this morning that the real rate of new infections is 18k per day. That’s the context Johnson’s telling people to go back to work in.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Poor people, mostly
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Working class people in the likes of construction are going to risk getting this disease and die, whereas people who can work from home can jog more than once a day. Seems fair.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
from the comments to horton’s tweet thread
Rightful #VEDay75 focus on #WW2 sacrifices puts #covid_19 UK tragedy in chilling perspective: civilian deaths in 6 years - 60,595; excess deaths in 7 weeks - 55,000 @ChrisGiles_ Photo: Jonathan David Shepherd pic.twitter.com/0kNvBx9QEA— Nigel Taylor (@SilverLotheni) May 8, 2020
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Did anyone here seriously believe that bars and restaurants would be open in July? Does anyone believe it now?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
people in England will be allowed to sit in parks within their household groups, to drive to beauty spots for walks, and to take unlimited amounts of outdoor exercise. People will be able to meet and sit down with a single other person from another household outdoors as long as they stay two metres apart. this is all already happening
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
people who cannot work at home will now be “actively encouraged” to get back to work with social distancing where possible, an announcement that prompted trade unions to raise concerns about employee safety.this is beyond fucked up. where’s the enforcement mechanism? let’s just trust the boss to sort it out????
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
^also already happening tbf
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
shithole country
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Law prof says this is a tightening not a relaxation. Wonder if they know that, or are just incompetent beyond all measure.
I’m also confused after Boris’ speech: (1) going to work when you can’t work from home was already the position but now you should avoid public transport: that’s an additional rule not a relaxation; and [Thread] https://t.co/1tFaGOXqwU— Tom Hickman (@TomRHickman) May 10, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Gone unlocked to state the following: * Familiaraise yourself with s44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. * If you do not feel safe to go to work and you are an employee - then do not go. State your reasons in writing and send an email to your manager, cc-ing HR (1/?)— Magic Money Tree 🌳 (@charlottor) May 10, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
This is what happened!!!! pic.twitter.com/YcNAZE1TP4— lovelife (@Rashidhussain69) May 10, 2020
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
That lawyer thread - isn't this a relaxation of rules for outdoor activity and a slight tightening for enclosed spaces? The risk involved in sitting in the park at a safe distance for everyone else feels pretty low.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link