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

Sorry, I'll knock it off on the tweets after this

One final comment this evening on my firm's new poll.

This is the most consistently one-sided political topic I have ever ran a poll on. I expected nuance, there was no nuance. Public completely united in their views https://t.co/jaTdkhB7QF

— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) May 26, 2020

This might still all be forgotten in a few weeks but I think the people itt and elsewhere who are confidently claiming it will be, or claiming it's of no real significance, don't seem to have factored in the unique situation literally everyone in the country is living through.

I always said The Star was the last bastion of the mofofucking fourth estate!

Oh here comes Cap'n-Save-A-Dom Claire Fox

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/poorer-mersey-councils-crisis-funding-18314443

be interested to see more comprehensive figures for this if anyone can find the labour report mentioned in this article

Liam Thorp does very admirable work on The Echo.

makes u think

https://scontent.fgba1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/100073450_10157430796873443_700210146059485184_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_sid=8024bb&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=3zCLaLYS7fAAX9EaWWu&_nc_ht=scontent.fgba1-1.fna&_nc_tp=14&oh=c5219e399e22740f738336cc993d3b86&oe=5EF3CD25

Difference between two rounds of virus crisis government funding:

Liverpool (Labour) - cut of 32%
Knowsley (Labour) - cut of 39%

Wokingham (Tory) - increase of 83%
Buckinghamshire (Tory) - increase of 41 %https://t.co/bKytzkVneB

— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) May 26, 2020

that's the punishment you get for being the most anti-tory region of England, mind you it's probably the same levels of cuts in some of the red wall constituencies that voted for that knave to get brexit done and for a bit of the old leveling up.

They hate Scousers.

I hate Scousers as well tbh even though my best pal is one, but he's a Berlin Scouser and also hates Scousers! Totally jealous of the boycotting Murdoch rags and hating Tories thing they've got going on though.

Scousers are good, change my mind

Ken Dodd

Bread

Carla Lane

The *******

Tarby, Cilla, lorra lorra celebrity Scouse Tories.

Jimmy Tarbuck

Cilla Black

Esther McVey

Esther McVey. Case closed.

John McDonnell outweighs all that lot

Grew up in East Anglia though. God, a Scouser in East Anglia, talk about a big fish in a small pond.

This is good

BREAKING: HUGE RISE IN TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP

🔺91,000 in the last year
🔺170,000 female members in the last year
🔺Almost 200,000 in two years
🔺Third consecutive year of rising membership
🔺Highest female membership since 1995

There’s power in a union. Join yours today.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) May 27, 2020

my Scouse friend Dave is from a public school background. But his family fell into abject poverty when his dad got sent down for fiddling the books at his accountancy firm to cover up loads of money his business partner had stolen off him. It's basically a plot from Brookside!

Cilla has done terrible things

this video about how cilla black used to eat oranges covered in oxo does not end where you expect it to pic.twitter.com/9Ksx6WBQy0

— hoops (@itsmatthooper) May 8, 2020

This has been a thing for the best part of a decade - poorer councils have disproportionately borne the cost of austerity compared with richer authorities which tend to be in Tory areas.

Funnily enough it was Liverpool back then as well.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/most-deprived-english-councils-suffer-biggest-cuts-in-spending-power-10045665.html

yes, council funding formulae are boring but v important. the first round of crisis funding factored in deprivation & the second round didn't, I'm guessing due to pressure from Tory councils

liverpudlians love it when you remind them that they had a significant Tory vote until the 60s

The Court of Session has found in favour of ex-Scottish Labour leader @kezdugdale in the defamation appeal brought by Wings Over Scotland editor Stuart Campbell. The appeal has been refused, ending a long, expensive legal drama that goes back to March 2017.

— Michael Gray (@GrayInGlasgow) May 27, 2020

rip big man, you were my favourite amiga power writer before you went crackers

xxp yeah the Scousers had been a Tory and Liberal Party stronghold for most of the 20th century!

https://vole.wtf/this-mp-does-not-exist/

The Court of Session has found in favour of ex-Scottish Labour leader @kezdugdale in the defamation appeal brought by Wings Over Scotland editor Stuart Campbell. The appeal has been refused, ending a long, expensive legal drama that goes back to March 2017.

— Michael Gray (@GrayInGlasgow) May 27, 2020

some *normal news here, complete arsehole bankrupts himself with costly legal fees hopefully

* non Bo-Dom non Rona news

what a way for gyac to find out that calz has her killfiled

eh?

gyac posted the same exact same twitter link a few posts up

oops sorry, just didn't notice!

well it is an echo chamber after all!

no one posted this yet, I see, some non-domcum news for once

The Court of Session has found in favour of ex-Scottish Labour leader @kezdugdale in the defamation appeal brought by Wings Over Scotland editor Stuart Campbell. The appeal has been refused, ending a long, expensive legal drama that goes back to March 2017.

— Michael Gray (@GrayInGlasgow) May 27, 2020

I've killiefied 90% of this thread so every day I tell myself I'm easily in the top three best poster of regular contributors here

just admit you refer to this thread as 'the calzone' or resign

that will be Tell Kier Starmer to fuck off thread I'm going to start!

I'm fuming. I wrote to my MP, Sir Christopher Chope, about Cummings, and in his reply he not only defended the man but also managed to find a way to blame migrants.
Don't vote Tory, folks, especially if you vote in Christchurch. pic.twitter.com/mcpXq8rCiW

— Benjamin Chadwick (@bchadwickfrance) May 26, 2020

Don't vote Tory, folks, especially if you vote in Christchurch.

Good luck with that one.

Noted epidemiologist Sir Christopher Chope telling everyone how it works on viral transmission there

He's the upskirt guy?

Who ya gonna call? FILIBUSTERS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chope#Blocking_and_filibustering_of_bills

Repulsive man.

I ain't afraid of "no" votes

vg

calzino hasn't even killfiled me, he's a softie really :D

I wouldn't even killify a Danish fly

I hate Scousers as well tbh even though my best pal is one, but he's a Berlin Scouser and also hates Scousers!

Liverpool way cooler than Berlin ftr.

I've not been to Berlin but that seems unlikely