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

‘He’s just knocking things out of the park and people can’t stand it’

This audience member says Boris Johnson has done a ‘brilliant job’. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/ut0vZY6hVT

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) October 17, 2019

"knocking it out of the park"

scarily well did

Question Time 2048 pic.twitter.com/URDFi6VC8C

— Dr. Jennie Bujold🌹🏳️‍🌈 (@JennieBujold) June 10, 2020

lmao

Farage fired from LBC.

silenced by the establishment yet again

thanked for his service

Times or TalkRadio to the rescue perhaps, or he's off to the States for the rest of the year.

throw him in the harbour ffs

UK about to slip into the bronze medal position in the Coronalympics btw, what with Brazil steaming up on the inside and almost topping 40,000 deaths already. I have a feeling plucky Mexico might beat us to the podium over the long run too. #FlatteningTheCurve

India coming through fast as well.

UK applying for silver medal.

Rishi Sunak held a 1½ hour session with 1922 committee today:

* He suggested 2m rule should be cut to save jobs and help schools reopen

* Warned 3.5million people could lose their jobs

* Urged Tory MPs to encourage constituents to go shopping next week

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) June 10, 2020

Tory MPs driving round their constituencies in those megaphone cars shouting "GET TO ARGOS YOU FUCKING COWARDS"

*doing absolutely nothing to prevent getting covid when going to IKEA* please go to IKEA 🙏

3.5m is a fuck of a lot of additional job losses, that's more than were officially unemployed at any point during the early 80s.

Is Sunak thick or malicious, you have to wonder. It's going to be both, as always with this shower. Better 3.5m lost jobs than 1m dead

TBH I think what will happen is that a lot of people will get a sense of what non-essential socially-distanced shopping is actually like and go "fuck this, I'm ordering off the internet".

I don't enjoy shopping at the best of times, but speaking as someone who is absolutely desperate to go to the pub again the very idea of a socially distanced pub feels like such a profoundly joyless experience you might as well not bother.

yeah i've been pondering that sad vision

however if the rain would just fuck off again i am prepared to sit on me own in a beer garden with a book for a month or two

Is Sunak thick or malicious, you have to wonder. It's going to be both, as always with this shower. Better 3.5m lost jobs than 1m dead

― stet, Thursday, 11 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink

If he could sacrifice a 1m people so that our IKEA shopping experience is back to normal he'd do it yesterday, and a lot of the population would be like 'jolly good show'.

"Rishi Sunak held 3 separate sessions with groups of around 20 Tory MPs a time to ensure social distancing rules were observed

They were impressed

One Tory MP said it was a 'star-turn' and he was 'incredibly well-briefed'"

You really have to laugh.

maybe ikea should start selling flatpack coffins. grab a bag of charcoal on your way out and you're all set

They aren't going to be able to keep the shops open in the event of a spike and even if they do no one will go.

not (chortle) even if their (choke) Tory MPs beg them to?

Seventy years of Tory rule, with the leader changed every eighteen months to someone who absolutely isn't like the last one, honest.

Other European countries appear to still be on the decline after relaxing lockdowns but they relaxed from a much lower base and with wider social distancing still in place. Chucking the 2m rule out of the window would just be asking for trouble.

Their lockdowns were in general more comprehensive as well. Remember in France, needing a piece of paper just to leave your house?

something something French toilets gag

Tories still on a solid 40% despite everything, they'll push it as much as possible.

Getting a strong sense of deja vu about all this - Johnson very possibly out next year, to be replaced by placeholder/ventriloquist's dummy Gove, followed by a few years of declining popularity then a soft Tory Labour leader coming in. History repeats itself etc., the difference being that this time it's after the end of the world re: climate change, not the oblivious run-up to it.

Keir is Labour to the core and knows how to write the agenda for a climate change enquiry

the war boys will take immaculate minutes when immortan joe’s inquiry into the people eater’s tax affairs kicks off

Only on ILX could we get a sense of deja vu during a once in a lifetime pandemic.

speaking as someone who is absolutely desperate to go to the pub again

I hear you, brother.

NV and once the enquiry takes place he can write the minutes!

58% want the two metre rule to continue in latest YouGov poll, the tory govt is effectively giving people permission to copulate during this shambles. If we had a decent opposition leader, Labour would be ....points ahead right now .. blah blah!

As the flood waters close over my head i ask, "is Starmer condemning this strongly enough?".

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-cases-uk

Has there really been a 47% decline in new cases in a week or is this just flawed methodology?

the Isle of Man has completely defeated the Rona and is now ending social distancing. Perhaps the Rona struggles with narrow gene pools.

Maybe the virus decided to go easy out of respect for the online gambling industry.

xp v sus imo

their own version of the swastika flag is pretty otm seeing as Churchill imprisoned lots of German Jews in camps there in '39 :

On Sept. 3, 1939, England declared war on Germany. As the Nazis marched across Europe, details emerged of traitors and spies in Norway, Holland and other countries assisting Hitler. British newspapers initiated editorial campaigns, demonizing them to a public woefully ignorant of Hitler’s policy of Jewish persecution. Subjected to tribunals and screenings, 99 percent of the Jewish and German refugees were classified “as posing no threat,” to no avail.

Fueled by anti-Semitism, hysteria escalated until Winston Churchill issued an order to “collar the lot,” arresting both the dangerous and the harmless. Men were taken from homes and offices in police cars, while crowds gathered in the streets to jeer.

It doesn't sound sus to me, they just love freedom!

freedom and the dark arts

don't even think for a second I'm joking either I didn't know this dude when he grabbed hold of my ass like it was his ticket to the Hale-Bopp. I turned to my husband at the time who was like "oh that's just Nick" pic.twitter.com/i2rHGrwtod

— Rebecca Watson (@rebeccawatson) June 11, 2020

oops worth checking out her first non-libellous post there

Sure someone will DM her that deleted thread on the topic.

Plenty of rats to bite in prison

BREAKING Justice Secretary @RobertBuckland confirms public sector will take over case management and delivery of rehabilitation of all offenders on licence and serving community sentences in England and Wales

— Danny Shaw (@DannyShawBBC) June 11, 2020

another fine mess Chris Grayling caused iirc

Economy shrank by 20.4% in April. Fucking hell.