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

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.

OBR forecast was 35%, so the question is by how much will they get their wildly optimistic recovery wrong by in the next quarter?

At least that racist show is cancelled

Fast-track prosecutions lead to grave miscarriages of justice which can ruin lives forever. Under the Bail Act 1976 those charged with an offence are entitled to be granted bail at the first hearing. This is effectively being suspended so that racist showmanship can take place. https://t.co/3ds83wV0fC

— Jase (@jasebyjason) June 12, 2020

If we had got to grips with the virus properly then that 20.4% (or bigger) drop would have been worth it and we probably would be looking at a swift rebound right now. As it is we aren't anywhere close.

Thank God we have a Labour leader who led the charge against fast track prosecutions during the London riots to oppose thi...oh.

Nice pic of two men in brown shirts from a paramilitary organisation not looking fascist at all.

Love to show up to defend someone who *checks notes* oh Christ

Starmzy swore a solemn oath to the night courts watch that can't be broken, I saw it in game of melts!

Poole harbour is very shallow, chucking the bust in will only encourage them to come up with a statue rescuing badge.

Just realised it was Thursday yesterday, has the Clap for the NHS thing wound down now? Apologies if this was discussed already.

I didn't hear anything but it was pissing it down.

Lol nothing will happen

The Home Office is being investigated over whether it breached equality law when it introduced the “hostile environment” immigration measures that caused catastrophic consequences for thousands of Windrush generation residents living legally in the UK.

As part of a drive to end the “systemic and entrenched race inequalities that exist in our country”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission will use its legal powers to examine whether, and how the Home Office complied with the public sector equality duty, when it implemented tough new immigration legislation aimed at making life extremely difficult for undocumented illegal immigrants.

I was getting funny looks when I was out on my doorstep with the massed pipes of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards at my back, must be why

xpost

We can't just discard our history, this Baden-Powell statue has stood since, er, 2008.

They took all the statues
Put 'em in a statue museum
And they charged the gammon
£14.99 (inc. VAT) just to see 'em

The collapse in the economy (whether because covid or no deal Brexit) will fuel discontent. Tomorrow might not be the day but confrontations are coming.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/11/blm-organisers-call-off-london-event-to-prevent-clashes-with-far-right?

A lot of funny posts just now.

Question.

People on this thread now seem to assume that BJ will stop being PM, eg next year or before the next election.

Why? What circumstances could be contrived to make this happen?

if he doesn't want to stop, I don't see how he can be stopped. And even if he did want to, it would be an odd event.

some kind of speech regarding batsmen at the crease is required, aiui

I think the most likely scenario is that his fundamental laziness will kick in and he'll decide he can't be bothered going through an election campaign that is showing every sign of being much more difficult than the last one. On the other hand Tories love a bit of regicide so it depends what happens to the polls, in local elections etc.

no obvious reason he can't remain PM and do fuck all, he's done it throughout this

check out them operation ore vets on the times front page guarding the baden-powell statue, lol don't mess with the adult scouts they are tough as teak!

just imagining the humiliation of being citizen's arrested by two adult venture scouts!

it's like paedo SA

But BJ needs a rationale for quitting as PM. Having been elected, quitting doesn't look logical.

Maybe the rationale would be: 'We have delivered Brexit'.

Or maybe it would be: 'I am ill'.

But I'm not sure I see any of this actually happening.

NEW @IpsosMORI / Evening Standard

- Starmer holds best net satisfaction scores for a leader of the opposition since Blair

- But Johnson still holds narrow lead over Starmer on 'most capable PM'

Context important - read on for more... pic.twitter.com/eNZ7VPrqm3

— Keiran Pedley (@keiranpedley) June 12, 2020

imo bj's rationale is "i died of covid in march 2020, rip me, nigerian_funeral.gif"

I think the party will want to keep him in place until the chalice looks less poisoned