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

18 bookies on every town centre high street is another great New Labour legacy, wankers.

It's still astonishes me that we had a nationalised bookies until 2011. (Surely also the least controversial privatisation of all time?)

It's pretty funny and I didn't know it was still nationalised as late as 2011

I worked as a betting shop manager for an independent chain. Before the planning laws were liberalised they were turning down seven figure offers from the big three for little shithole bookies that didn't even have toilets in places like Hebden Bridge and Marsden and overnight they became worth the price of the bricks and mortar!

i think the Tote was an anomaly because most of the money it took was on track as far as i remember and it recirculated most of it back into the industry

now we have a national lottery which is effectively a PFI Tote and it's apparently used to keep people alive so i'm not sure we've progressed

it's only fair that disabled people should have to win their mobility scooters

In statue news, 16-pinter Essex bloke gets 2 weeks in pokey for pissing near Palmer. Probably would have been 2 years if his wazz-aim had been better, lucky fella.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/15/man-given-14-day-jail-sentence-for-urinating-near-pc-keith-palmer-plaque

a gambling addict will literally bet on two flies walking up a window, there is always something to bet on, even at the peak of the lockdown. Numbers games, Albanian netball, Moldovan welly throwing..etc

― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 10:31 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Early in lockdown I decided to run down the £20 or so in my online account by betting on whatever was available in play - I migrated from table tennis to esports (FIFA, CS:GO) and finally a chess tournament that was abandoned midway. My win rate was much higher betting on those than it ever was with regular old fitba.

confessions of a sad bastard: I do the Irish, French, Spanish, German and New York lotteries on a regular basis.

I'd assume that bookies are raking it, the usual suspects might be reduced, but there's a captive audience without much to do, some of whom would be averse to the general ambience of the bricks and mortar places. There's weird effects in the stock market (the US one at least) from people with apps day-trading.

We'd noticed one day that 70% of the ads we saw in live TV were bookies saying "careful now with the gambling! Call this number or go to this website if you have a problem!" - we were wondering if legislation was coming in, or if someone had had a quiet word to say "We've noticed you've got a new audience, a bit of care here could stop the boot coming down". We were watching Challenge, mind you, that might be a closer fit for some of the new gamblers?

Lammy on point:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/boris-johnson-racism-inquiry-plan-written-on-back-of-fag-packet-says-lammy

my friend and his brother have spent most of this time in their garden, which they can socialise with their two neighbours. I went around last weekend and they have a roulette wheel and table made up.

and yeah, they are compulsive gamblers (to the point that one of the brothers was banned from Betfred for a year)

A friend of my wife's has constructed an open-air pub in the back garden, complete with a bell and those cardboard things of scampi fries and peanuts that you hang on the wall. Until this year building a pub in your own garden was 100% the preserve of washed-up football managers and ageing rock stars but having seen the photo it looks like utopia.

Scampi fries are praxis

correct

correct

kindly help try to oust this awful turd who has found their way to the top of a manchester charity set up after the 2011 riots (insert yr own thoughts abt govt response to this) and is now slagging off BLM

https://www.change.org/p/the-board-of-mancunian-way-petition-to-remove-nick-buckley-ceo-from-the-youth-charity-mancunian-way

more info here:

The CEO of Manchester's 'post riot integration' charity describing BLM as postmodern neo-Marxists...just in case you weren't sure what most of those kinds of charity are about! pic.twitter.com/8PccWtrNNW

— t_om_s (@T_om_s) June 15, 2020

does the bar stock erotic nik naks. asking for a friend

xp

Keir Starmer is getting outflanked to the left by CBeebies https://t.co/yaLkgbwswR

— Rory (@Moffat_Agnostic) June 14, 2020

xp niknakskes abound

Lol this racist cunt Nick Buckley who doesn't know the difference between proscribed, prescribed and described.

I bet that tosser's never eaten a scampo in his life

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Good to see the growing realisation that a huge amount of the money that has been thrown at NGOs over the last ten years has gone to Tory chancers, undercover cops and MI5 assets.

i have ilxor Tim H to thank for introducing me to the Scampi Fries gestalt. I can still remember the place: The Old King's Head on Borough High Street. Every subsequent Scampi Fry (Frie?) has tasted.... just as good

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/branding-news-brief-nik-naks-brings-naughty-n-saucy-variety/233632

^^^this was the second time this idea had been unleashed on GBP (the first was in 1994, when it contained libido-enhancing ginseng rather than aphrodisiac guarana seed)

Good to see the growing realisation that a huge amount of the money that has been thrown at NGOs over the last ten years has gone to Tory chancers, undercover cops and MI5 assets.

Absolutely convinced this guy was in The Bill for a couple of years:

https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/charity-leader-nick-buckley-awarded-mbe-for-services-to-the-community/

he does have strong bent copper energy

Ok @GOVUK @BorisJohnson I know how averse you are to erasing the past, but you should *really* look into your latest COVID-19 immigration form pic.twitter.com/i1qSFITQkN

— Max Fras (@maxfras) June 15, 2020

Travel corridor with Prussia plz.

Stanley Johnson doing a bit of work to help his son out

https://youtu.be/BvQpdb2jGgs

brb, off to Siam

Burns beat me to it, d'oh

Ceylon, Ceylon
Oh mighty ship of state

the FO discussing the Nyasaland question, earlier today

https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/iW5AH7XDKwL7xWrCYDPqv684KmU=/3384x1903/smart/filters:no_upscale()/commonwealth-group-3366649-5b9206a8c9e77c00826ea87b.jpg

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/15/boris-johnson-rejects-marcus-rashfords-plea-for-free-school-meals-over-summer?

bodes well for reconstruction

"(Rashford) has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some very important issues"...

...that the leader of the Labour Party couldn't be arsed with until today because it was focused grouped and wasn't likely to bring him a 2.7 point poll boost with tory voting cunts and he was trying a forensically constructive approach to Tory-policy child poverty which involves not giving a flying fuck about it.

This is what's coming.

Priti Patel just called Jeremy Corbyn's politics racist in the House of Commons

The home secretary said: "I am saddened that the leader of the opposition has effectively failed to depart from the divisive, hateful, racist politics of its former leader"

— Lizzie Dearden (@lizziedearden) June 15, 2020

hope she said something similar to her dad when he was going to stand as a UKIP candidate

It gets worse.

Labour has sought to avoid being dragged into the debate over trans rights after it emerged that the government is considering scrapping plans to allow people to self-declare their legal gender https://t.co/VFP0E3mt6a

— The Times (@thetimes) June 15, 2020

i'm sure this is just negative spin and the LOTO is not in fact a cunt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/dismay-over-adviser-chosen-set-up-uk-race-inequality-commission-munira-mirza

It is understood that Mirza has said she hopes to recruit Trevor Phillips as part of the commission. Phillips, the former chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

even Theresa May was too much of a wishy washy anti-racist for Mirza liking, a real piece of work.

profiles in courage

I mean they are just taking the piss, like when they made Liz Truss the equalities minister, you just know they are pissing themselves laughing at what a top notch windup that is.

OTM "We don't give a fuck, we've got the majority, what are you going to do about it?" New Labour were similarly cocky.