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

There's some speculation right now that the R rate is now over 1 in the North West.

Aaaah!

congrats to niccy sturgeon for successfully puttin everyone who reads this off shaggin for life x pic.twitter.com/hAxFX5bk4j

— erika (@erikatkatcat) June 6, 2020

Poll needed!

I really want to see Johnson reading that list out in a sonorous voice, flanked by Whitty and Vallance.

won't brb. I'm off to join a monastery for the rest of my life!

t/s: saliva or poo

chief political correspondent from the scottish sun: “first minister, when can I lick around the anus?”

chris mustn't

I believe rimming is Phase 3 of the lockdown routemap xp

NEW @Survation Poll – UK General Election Voting Intention:
CON 41% (-4)
LAB 39% (+5)
LD 7% (-1)
GRN 4% (-)
SNP 4% (-)
BXP 1% (+1)
OTH 4% (-)
1018 respondents, fieldwork 3 June 2020. Changes w/ 22-26 May 2020.https://t.co/62TcP0gIzi pic.twitter.com/eGI4eqnYlT

— Survation. (@Survation) June 6, 2020

lol Brexit Party cunts

They'd be 20 points clear rn with a shoe throwing tankie leader in a Lenin hat..

*shakes fist at Greens*

I know the greens are bad people but theres no guarantee that that 4% would go to Labour if they disappeared. I know this, because the greens are bad people

All the people I see howling abuse about the George Floyd protestors 'risking lives' are the same people I saw furiously defending Dominic Cummings.
I see you, shameless hypocrites.

Piers Morgans latest tweet.

Nature is healing

This is the shit u see on disaster movies, this ain’t real😭 pic.twitter.com/Pl5IbHhc2S

— Capo (@vincentt_tvt) June 6, 2020

seems like that ^ happened just after this

I’m sorry what the fuck is this guy thinking pic.twitter.com/yMTpcGR9KE

— Dr. "ACAB" Strategy (@inthesedeserts) June 6, 2020

Lisa Nandy on Marr this morning - "I have no idea if Donald Trump is a racist."

ffs. say what you like about Thornberry, she wouldn't be such a fucking coward.

even pin up boy of the FBPE's, Bercow was heaping pure fucking hatred on Trump on AQ on Friday evening. Does Starmer instil such a fear of talking about politics in his shadow cabinet that they dare not even call Trump a racist?

Lonely guy just thinking baout things. Matt Hancock claiming that 'in a way' the figure of 40,000 deaths isn't as important as the story behind one death...

when Matt's brain clicks into 2nd gear and starts thinking about the immense grief caused by 40,000 whoopsy-daisy death stories, he might be better off not talking aloud or having this moment of revelation during a coronavirus briefing!

I actually wonder if there's ever been a more low-key reviled front line politician than Hancock. Obviously there have been loads who are more hated but Hancock has this particular default mode of snivelling invertebrate pissiness and condescension which is particularly ill suited to managing a pandemic response.

This was on Marr's show. People one day will look back and wonder how this complete vacuum ended up with this most important of jobs at this particular juncture in the nation's history.

He’s no better on Sky

Matt Hancock here struggling for 2 minutes to remember the number “zero”. pic.twitter.com/lS3HlHZeOm

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 7, 2020

I think he's very much in the tradition of other snivelling Tory creeps like John Selwyn Gummer and Kenneth Baker but with some additional repellent quality.

Lisa Nandy on Marr this morning - "I have no idea if Donald Trump is a racist."

I guess she means "does Donald Trump consider himself to be a racist," which is totally irrelevant - most racists are of the "I'm not racist, but" type. You're judged by your actions, not your self-identity! What a fucking dishrag. Is there another party to vote for in, er, 4.5 years' time?

A local former "progressive" Tory candidate who ran in 2017 used to be always re-tweeting everything by Hancock, and let's not forget this big beast was a leadership candidate at one point! Anyway this local "progressive" tory *friend* of mine now keeps re-tweeting everything by Jenrick, so she's definitely grown weary of this clown!

seeing some opposition to BLM protests on my FB feed today thanks to horses being hurt after a week of relative silence in response to literally hundreds of videos of police brutality against protesters

yeah, me too

like using horses in amongst protestors isn’t an aggressive act in itself

Prominent scientists now publically calling for an inquiry between now and the winter with the explicit intention of preventint a second spike in flu season.

Literally “I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty”. As though police use animal units without a view to attracting this kind of reaction.

longish thread here about the charge at downing street last night and the kettle that followed. everyone was photographed on way out and names were taken and they were all banned from westminster for 24 hours (ie today's demonstration).

About 5-10 minutes ago a number of police on horses charged at hundreds of peaceful protestors outside Downing Street, causing panic and putting us in danger. Reinforcements have arrived and seems like we’re now being kettled.

— George Starkey-Midha (@GStarkeyMidha) June 6, 2020

I saw someone tweeting that disabled protesters need to cover their faces as per usual, because as in previous protests the filth will ID them and shop them to the DWP. God knows why attending a legitimate protest affects their PIP entitlement but it's another good reason to say fuck these scumbags and this failed state.

Edward Colston statue pulled down by BLM protesters in Bristol. Colston was a 17th century slave trader who has numerous landmarks named after him in Bristol. #BlackLivesMattters #blmbristol #ukprotests pic.twitter.com/JEwk3qKJx2

— Jack Grey (@_jackgrey) June 7, 2020

love seeing a statue of a scumbag getting toppled by the people

bald guy doesn't seem impressed!

speaks volumes that these statues are still standing

meanwhile on the radio i heard a show about the prospects for the housing market post-lockdown. fuck this country.

They’re rolling the statue into the river!

THEY ARE TAKING THE STATUE TO THE RIVER WHERE HE DESERVES TO BE DUMPED pic.twitter.com/cKturaJOEs

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 7, 2020

just mind the fish

We love to see it

#Bristol statue of Edward Colston has been pulled down and pushed into the harbour during the #BlackLivesMattter march pic.twitter.com/ME1yxAhw7G

— BBC Radio Bristol (@bbcrb) June 7, 2020

looking forward to all the "they're censoring history" thinkpieces

and that's just on ILX

😍😍😍 xp

What a lovely story told w/ three tweets <3

Think you mean four

they fucking changed the location already 😂 https://t.co/zs5Moli4ob pic.twitter.com/dlbbg0cuH4

— heard in mutiny where possible (@selfisoceles) June 7, 2020

Ha! Beautiful kicker.

if you look up 'statue of Edward Colston' on Google Maps it now shows up as 'permanently closed' and in the bottom of the water pic.twitter.com/lgsGTOx9bg

— Josh Salisbury (@josh_salisbury) June 7, 2020

I was thinking of suggesting that Edward Colston be replaced by Tony Blair in Bristol

But maybe there isn’t yet a national consensus

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) June 7, 2020

he almost makes me feel sorry for Blair, couldn't imagine what it is like to have such a shit stalker

They've defaced Churchill! pic.twitter.com/rkINK4oac6

— Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020

fuck yes I’ve been waiting for this

churchill cult needs to die yesterday

i remember this happening during the 90's as well and back then there was always multiple dickheads with tenuous grasp on history who will say "he was anti-fascist, he defeated hitler ..durr"