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

well done daniel rashford

At least he managed not to describe "Danny" as very articulate!

Hancock is an embarrassment.

eat the rich

https://i.ibb.co/TbpzRC3/Screenshot-2020-06-17-at-10-46-21.png

https://www.ft.com/content/8ea1c992-89f8-11ea-a109-483c62d17528

how nice it must be to be so completely oblivious

I like how it's a harmless but unflinchingly honest portrayal of super-rich disconnect up until the point where she tells her ageing mother, on the other side of the world, to rewrite her will just in case.

this piece is wild +harrowing enough in of itself without the fact that @DWP// @dwppressoffice refused to give a comment unless they were provided with the ADDRESSES and NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBERS of those interviewed for the piece. we obviously declined. https://t.co/VU12hdk4Ne

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) June 17, 2020

some of ordinary practises of the DWP in the last decade have been taking a more sinister turn, for example offering "deals" to stressed out learning disabled claimants where they get a fraction of what they are entitled to or requesting the names and NI numbers of claimants who are interviewed for articles that highlight their immoral shitty conduct.

https://t.co/8tjwxvuHea pic.twitter.com/VApmFM0f5B

— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 17, 2020

Right now I bet you Alistair Campbell is telling everyone who will listen that you wouldn't have caught a senior minister not knowing the name of an England footballer in his day.

Mandelson

What is Gazza?

Matt Hancock demonstrating the part of his 2m social distancing rule that says 'stand as close as possible and pat them on the shoulder'. pic.twitter.com/2eMimLmzsU

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) June 17, 2020

Mandellson probably thought people still wore rosettes and brought rattlers to football matches in the 90's

get his (car's) arse

Bois Johnson in car crash at Parliament. Just now. Security drives into back of his car as Kurdish protester runs into road. pic.twitter.com/k1kCplzyZ5

— Steve Bray #HoldThemToAccount (@snb19692) June 17, 2020

LOL Keystone Cops

Go Kurd Team

"Failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving injury or damage is an offence which carries a maximum penalty of 6 months imprisonment. If you are charged with failing to stop after an accident you should seek legal advice as soon as possible."

Cops are such tools

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/17/private-rents-england-record-high-coronavirus-lockdown?

thisisfine.jpg

this is why i'm staying in Hull

Might have to live there...one day

Oh and:

BREAKING Cecil Rhodes statue will be taken down at Oxford's Oriel College #RhodesMustFall #RhodesWillFall

— Camilla Tominey (@CamillaTominey) June 17, 2020

Honestly surprised by that given oriel’s rep.

wow! you'll be able to see the piss boiling from satellite pics.

Will Labour keep to its 2019 election campaign pledge of free broadband for all?

“I was sceptical in that campaign” says MP Stella Creasy “There are ways we can deal with the pricing”#Politics Live https://t.co/QXHpQBgJgq pic.twitter.com/Jw2ghpiXtG

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 17, 2020

Stella didn't approve of the free broadband policy under Corbyn and seems to think there was any inequality in terms of access to it, pre-Rona, another fucking clueless melt.

*wasn't*

just admit that you let factionalism distort what was a very good policy by your party leader, rather than talking a load of convoluted crap to cover your embarrassment.

lol just turned om r4 and the first thing i heard was the unmistakable voice of Matthew Parris saying "Rhodes was a bit of a rascal"

A rascal without a statue to him, read it and weep, Parris.

i don't understand how that is even a question now given that labour can't really do anything until at least 2024

^ re free broadband

I know, nothing of what the very conservative and cautious leader of the opposition nor any of their MP's says publicly has any significance, I just keep forgetting. Any ideas of offering anything radically different to what we currently have to the electorate is an exercise in futility..

it's a quite a pertinent question because she publicly dismissed the free broadband policy of Corbyn's during an election campaign, but is now saying it is a good policy.

but here is me feigning outrage that a hypocritical melt tosser like her doesn't seem to have any kind of moral consistency or ideological beliefs underpinning her "politics".

it's easy media money to just get the new shadow cabinet to distance from the previous one by saying their ideas are bad and they should feel bad

she didn't make it into the current shadow cabinet through recently having a child I think, but she would have been odds on in there otherwise. probably a stalking horse for RLB's education brief going by the way she has been undermined by Reeves recently.

It is factional bullshit to some extent - it nearly always is - but offering free broadband on pre-existing networks to deprived parents with school age children during a school-closing pandemic is not the same policy as building a national broadband network and offering it to everyone in the country for free.

Why she couldn't just say that instead of spinning out multiple rhetorical contortions is beyond me.

because she's a melt is the simple answer. Oh right the universalism of nationalised broadband was bad then was it? lol!

sorry if I'm being rude Matt, but she's Tory slime to the core imo

that was a brilliant policy idea and making out you could oppose it previously because there wasn't a global pandemic is just nonsense.

broadband inequality existed long before the Rona, she's a fucking wanker and I can't take anything she says in good faith, like about 90% of Labour MP's.

𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦

Also on the #peston team tonight is Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence @jessphillips, a left-winger who can also cut inside and play a more central role if needed#Peston | 📺 @itv | 💻 @itvpeston | 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗧 𝟭𝟬𝟰𝟱𝗣𝗠 pic.twitter.com/TmneuNivVI

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 17, 2020

I'm not watching Peston rn, but now apparently now Jess Phillips can talk freely over RLB's education brief. She will be gone by autumn.

“I want the children to go back to school now.”
@JessPhillips tells @Peston the government should have been planning for schools to reopen from the moment they closed. #Peston pic.twitter.com/giPYoF6olh

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 17, 2020

jess phillips being a moron on pesto retweeted by Labour Press just to diminish RLB a little bit more.

we are still on around 200 deaths a day and this mumsnet karen is partly blaming the schools without being very specific on the govt's failures, and she is deemed better to speak on this than RLB. Fuck this party.

“Taking the knee” began in 2016 with American athletes refusing to stand for US national anthem. They were protesting police brutality and racism. But @DominicRaab thinks it comes from Game of Thrones!!! https://t.co/9spuAqWSQV

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 18, 2020

we always knew this tory cabinet is made up of the absolute dregs of their party, but they can still occasionally take you by surprise by plumbing new depths of stupidity.

wow

That's not even the most stupid - it's entry level now.

That's genuinely bizarre about Raab.

I agree that Creasy has turned out bad. I think I actually voted for her in the 2015 Deputy Leadership contest or something.

Apart from anything else it's dire that Phillips is billed as 'a left-winger who can cut inside'.

I agree about the awfulness of these people and their disdain for RLB, a person with vastly more value and integrity.

I watched a Novara Media debate between two factions of Momentum. It became somewhat bitter.

Two factions of an organization that has little influence on Labour, which has little influence on the UK.

I suppose it was Borges on the Falklands all over again.