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

the real blue labour was the friends we lost along the way

Struck in particular by this ... Lab-to-Con switchers in 2019 are to right of even most *Tory* voters on social values issues. It is not going to be easy for Lab, with its current metro-liberal, soft Corbynny base, to get these people back. pic.twitter.com/JYvUscfZNR

— Rafael Behr (@rafaelbehr) June 30, 2020

no fan of landlordism, but i'm going to have to get the bailiffs round to evict sir keiron starmer from my head and collect 5 months of unpaid rent

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) June 30, 2020

fuck me the difference here between the blue bars (which the govt publishes) and the red (which it doesn't) is stark. This graph is for Leicester:

But the govt is sitting on a much more complete dataset including pillar 2, which tells a completely different story

More than 90% of new cases in Leicester are now under pillar 2, yet these numbers are not public. If you’re a local biz owner in Leicester, you only see the blue. pic.twitter.com/aZY20EuOGc

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) June 30, 2020

Jesus Christ.

So what exactly do the blue and red bars represent, ie what is the diff?

Possibly a good question in there for the next PMQs. Oh no never mind, let's not politicise this and no questions!

uhhhh can we get the pillar 2 data for glasgow pls

Why oh why didn’t I take the blue pillar

Blue is positive tests handled in hospitals, red is positive tests outside of hospitals iirc.

Have literally no idea what that graph means, but I'm going to go with yikes!

Xp okay yikes! confirmed

Test (but hide the results) & Trace (using untrained testers) is going to save us!

It means the UK govt are putting out misleading data and causing even more unnecessary deaths because spin is more important than keeping people alive.?

There must be shitloads of red pillar data right now b/c no one I know has had any real trouble getting a test in recent weeks.

OTOH publishing it all would have a real negative impact on the reopening of the Dog & Duck in Solihull this weekend so maybe just leave it yeah.

My friend and her 11yo daughter have been low-grade I’ll for weeks and haven’t been able to get a test. Apparently they credit-check people and if you haven’t got a credit footprint and they can’t find you in the system, no test for you!

If this doesn’t seem right can anyone recommend how my pal and her girl could get a test?

Yeah stay away from the pubs lads going to be (literal) carnage.

A Public Health England official, who declined to be named, said non-publication was a ministerial decision. “The Department for Health and Social Care need to make the decision to publish — and they should — but we can’t push them because we are their arms-length body.”

all signs point to the pubs stuff being absolute madness.

skol we’re all gonna die

This just in, from a professionally well-informed source in Leicester: in one three-bedroomed house in the city, into which around 40 workers have been squeezed, all c.40 inhabitants have tested positive.

Death toll up 155.

40 people in a three-bedroom house??

Can believe it.

It'll be one of those places run as a dormitory, maybe for East European or Middle Eastern itinerant workers. Expect health and safety measures to be hovering somewhere around zero.

My immediate assumption was that they would all be working in the same place as well.

Some enterprising local businessman will have employed them, let's applaud the fellow's entrepreneurship.

looking at that suppressed pillar 2 data from upthread and enjoying the rich psychological terrain from which our government is operating, whereby if you simply do not show the community infection numbers to the public there will be no second spike

My immediate assumption was that they would all be working in the same place as well.

Each of those poor people probably have £100/week taken off their wages for lodgings, and might even be sleeping in beds in shifts.

Would it be too much to ask some of those freedom-loving statue protectors to come and protect some real live human beings ?

yes

He repeated it three times today so it seems a fair guess that Boris Johnson's next big slogan is "When you're in a hole this big the only option is to keep digging." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Back to Brexit, is this actually genuine? Funniest/saddest thing for a while if so.

Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.

The blame apparently is with "Brussels".

— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020

Lol no.

that should be on the reddit house calamity thred imo

Yeah he blew it with the mayor stuff.
A friend's family divide their time between UK and an EU country for tax purposes, I do wonder what arrangements they've made though.

kinda stinks of a FBPE parable but i guess there could be a kernel of truth in there

It's clearly fake, as is the book series he claims to have written afaict.

I haven't seen anything so obviously made up since the ILX trucker hat story.

I mean there are a lot of dumb expats out there who haven't thought things through properly but this guy just doesn't know when to stop.

That’s the most obviously fake story I’ve ever seen on Twitter and I follow relationships.txt

I haven't seen anything that fake since user gyac's user bizarro gazzaro and user sharivari sock accounts

Starmer’s Labour is doomed to repeat the mistakes of 2010-2015 with its predeliciton for short-term thinking. For @LRB, I discuss how centrism offers no answers to the problems of today https://t.co/zEDUHvFAF3

— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 30, 2020

Good to see someone who is a great poster and absolutely loathes Starmer getting published in the LRB.

The eternal question, are the soft left malign fuckers because they’re naive or because they know precisely what they’re doing? https://t.co/keSuyvoa0f

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) June 30, 2020

burn it down and salt the earth below it!

xp yayyyyyy Jude! This is good.

Might be the first twitter thread as lrb blog

True, and it’s a banger but now she’s got FBPEs up in her mentions trying to say there’s no such thing as centrists.

It is bad enough when tories are trying to say austerity doesn't exist, but it is even worse when melts try and pretend they are the nice guys and get pissy about being called what they are!

That’s the last Brexit extension deadline passed now.

haha this guy https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/tech/nick-clegg-facebook-boycott-reliable/index.html

(please note his predecessor as mp for sheffield hallam is director of policy for facebook in europe (and my old boss))