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

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(xp) No way!

Brave look having his personal email on view on his blog imo: https://dominiccummings.com/about/

So Cummings had to stop on his 30 minute drive home from Barnard Castle to let his son have a wee but didn't need to stop once on the five hour journey from London to Durham?

NEW: Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance left No 10 at approx 1820.

Earlier we were told they would be appearing with the PM at the daily press conference.

Why did they turn up for the presser and then leave?

Have asked No 10 for comment. pic.twitter.com/1rE8H48y5H

— Joe Pike (@joepike) May 25, 2020

According to Andrew Bridgen, Dominic Cummings is a key worker. Let's all get out there on Thursday night and give him the applause he deserves!

Killer fact from that is this.

The Cummings/Wakefield family ended up in a hospital in Durham - 260m from home.

That is precisely the reason the lockdown told people to stay at home if they get sick.

So as not to spread the virus around the country.

— Prof. Colin Talbot (@colinrtalbot) May 25, 2020

sorry for Twitter

The question isn’t ‘did he stop?’ but ‘would a reasonable person expect not to stop?’ Which, of course, they wouldn’t. Getting lucky with your young child’s bladder doesn’t mean it was a reasonable thing.

Turns out Cummings' wife can drive but she was too busy retweeting #stayhomesavelives during her husband's eye test

And on said birthday (whilst not staying at home) she retweet’s gov advice telling others TOO stay at home pic.twitter.com/5PiW3UKvY7

— Paul Simms (@AdrenalinJunky) May 25, 2020

Bridgen explains the Barnard Castle trip by saying that recovery from COVID-91 can affect your judgement. Good job Cummings' eyesight was good enough for him to drive back to London and take up his role in goverment again in that case.

Benedict Cumberbatch is at home crying rn because he has to remember all of these lines

— Olivia Fletcher (@livfletcher_) May 25, 2020

The UK that has now the highest rate of confirmed deaths from #COVID19 worldwide.

[Link to the source: https://t.co/h7heGYlU2X] pic.twitter.com/HTYCFdBsq4

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 25, 2020

Barnard Castle might be the dead cat here.

Lol at pesto, fucking craven

The director cutting back to Peston's reaction is just too perfect pic.twitter.com/18wXoXMW9I

— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) May 25, 2020

Umm... did they try to announce what can reopen today? Other than lol car showrooms I can’t seem to find anything.

Sorry to post anything other than a Cummings meme. I’ve had 3 different, usually non-political, neighbours WhatsApp groups share memes about how horrible he/Boris is. One group trying really hard to get a #booforboris going on a Tuesday night

booforboris sounds like a terrible idea, yeah

Yeah, it’s not great. Just adding to the “what do people actually think” hivemind

Car showrooms and outdoor markets iirc.

On June 1, other shops by June 15. But they have to have a poster in their window saying that the virus is bad.

and they are doing this despite the UK posting the highest per capita deaths in the last 7 days?

so, back in lockdown by mid-July or are they just gonna throw up their hands and say ‘we tried to warn you, sorry you’re gonna die’ as the bodies pile up again?

how long has wuhan been out of lockdown now and how are things going

I can't see UK going back into lockdown in July regardless of numbers

Possibly September but I think they'd rather tough it out

If the news stops covering it we can just carry on with a steady stream of quiet deaths and get back to making money for rich people

on the day they had to close a hospital because of a spike, too. Now we really are in "they don't care if you die" territory

They might do a second lockdown if they can fit it around a second wave narrative as the weather worsens in autumn but otherwise nah

For reference, my 60-something, married-to-an-older-pilot, Brexit-y-and-mates-with-loads-of-old-racist-cunts, probably-a-racist-herself, shares-lots-of-racist-memes-and-stories-about-Sadiq-on-Facebook-even-though-she-doesn't-live-in=London Aunt is today sharing a Cummings-must-leave petition on Facebook

Its classic, let any bad feeling stored up all funnel its way into this Cummings story. Then either toss him aside if its too high or ride it out if not

i've seen friends/friends of friends on social media drawing the distinction between the Bad Cummings and the Virgin Boris

Those petitions are like trying to vote cockroaches out of your flat but good to hear the tides are turning on these turds

all we need now is for those people to hold onto that anger for another four and a half years or so

Its classic, let any bad feeling stored up all funnel its way into this Cummings story. Then either toss him aside if its too high or ride it out if not

otm, we are all morons for paying attention, rich irony in all the ppl wetting themselves over crerar's rope-a-dope genius

all we need now is for those people to hold onto that anger for another four and a half years or so

good luck, lads

Plenty of other opportunities for them to make people angry, the biggest recession in 90 years included.

nothing mobs love more than forensic analysis in a funny voice

The same old shite about the morality and character of an individual that proves the system is just fine, it's just the one bad guy. Liberals really are some dumb motherfuckers

Lets roll our eyes and tut like clapping seals at Laurence Fox again

The coming year has a second spike, an endless supply of “worst in the world” stats, economic catastrophe and fucking Brexit still to come. Tossing Cummings is not enough to draw the venom from all that - and they genuinely want to keep Cummings.

Following on from the tweet about the use of Barnard Castle in slang...

https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/4wyllxa

barney n.1

[? the holding of dubious sporting events, e.g. bare-knuckle boxing, in or behind the barn, and thus a fig. use of barney n.2 . However, Partridge, quoting Apperson, refers to the phr. come, come, that’s Barney Castle, a response to anyone making a particularly specious excuse. This in turn, it is claimed, refers to the Catholic earls’ Northern Rising of 1569, when Barnard Castle was held by Sir George Bowes who refused, despite many challenges, to leave his fortifications and engage in battle. The ‘Rising in the North’ certainly created the Durham dial. Barnard Castle, a coward, taken from the jibe ‘A coward, a coward, o’ Barney castle/Dare na come out to fight a battle’]

Johnson for some reason is desperate to keep Cummings, lord knows why. The rest I suspect would be happy to throw him in a dumpster to the bottoms of the Tees, though none of them will do anything to rock the boat at the moment.

The coming year has a second spike, an endless supply of “worst in the world” stats, economic catastrophe and fucking Brexit still to come. Tossing Cummings is not enough to draw the venom from all that

It depends on whether enough of the country takes a "well, what you can you expect, there's been a global pandemic" line. TBH I think this entire episode has been profoundly unhelpful to that, killing off a lot of the performative Blitz spirit goodwill that the govt had been coasting on, but these things can be pretty difficult to wash away.

Also Boris Johnson could literally turn up and machine gun a socially-distanced supermarket queue and there would still be a good 30% of the country that would still turn up and faithfully put a cross in the Conservative box.

This is absolute fanfic, but I wonder if anyone in the cabinet is figuring that the backbenches would be the best place to be for a spell, and "Well, this is absolutely intolerable" would be a decent reason to try this - they'd be betting that even if nothing happens now, there will be a bad by-election in the next few years, and people will be casting around for someone to replace Boris.

No one in the Cabinet has that kind of backbone.

xp (no-one else is Boris, and the position described is already occupied by Jeremy Hunt, but this idea doesn't require accurate self-reflection on the part of the cabinet member)

For reference, my 60-something, married-to-an-older-pilot, Brexit-y-and-mates-with-loads-of-old-racist-cunts, probably-a-racist-herself, shares-lots-of-racist-memes-and-stories-about-Sadiq-on-Facebook-even-though-she-doesn't-live-in=London Aunt is today sharing a Cummings-must-leave petition on Facebook

― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:10 (forty-eight minutes ago) link

lol, this makes me hope the cum dog rides this out. Whole buncha dumb animals getting mad at the farmer imo

I think “what do you expect” is going to founder hard on the rocks of “to not be either the absolute or relative worst in the world on nearly all fronts tbh”. Johnson as captain of the Concordia yet again there.

I hear those other countries count things wrong, don't even have the right calipers, it's in fucking metric.

there will be a bad by-election in the next few years, and people will be casting around for someone to replace Boris.

They're not ditching Boris anytime soon and even if they do, for what? Gove?

They'll ditch him before the next election, guaranteed, but any time soon? Come on now