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

That is excellent but I'd be very nervous indeed about installing that browser extension.

I dunno if it's the safety of my seat but I never get any political advertising of any kind on Facebook. It's all single malt, food delivery services and (in the old days) concert and theatre tickets. So while they've probably got me bang to rights it's hard not to feel a little offended when you aren't considered a valued demographic for dark money.

Good thread (and I was about to install it but bowed out when it asked for my postal code).

oddly i looked up SaveBrexit (.org) and it was a full page, not as he described it.

would a whois lookup on these sites show useful information? (that one seems to be godaddy. i guess the arizona address is theirs.)

that site, btw, seems aimed at getting farage to not stand against boris.

The Guardian Business pages seem like a bloodbath:

"That slump forced aerospace giant Airbus to announce 15,000 job cuts last night, including 1,700 in the UK."

"Furniture chain Harveys and shirt maker TM Lewin both fell into administration on Tuesday, costing 800 jobs - with another 1,300 at risk."

"British travel food group SSP has confirmed it is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs"

"The pandemic is forcing Britain’s manufacturers to keep slashing jobs.

Data firm IHS Market reports that employment at UK factories fell for the fifth consecutive month in June."

This is all before furlough will supposedly wind down.

... doesn't even include john lewis or ryanair

I remember getting bombarded with Tory ads in 2017 which was weird as we live in a safe seat. I have adblockers and content blockers on everything so I rarely see anything anyway apart from the rare occasions I go on Facebook.

... doesn't even include john lewis or ryanair

― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

And Harrods.

I guess local lockdowns may stop re-hiring too...

NEW: Boris Johnson has just confirmed the UK will open a path to citizenship for almost 3m Hong Kong residents in a bold riposte to China's security crackdown on its former colony.

— Laura Hughes (@Laura_K_Hughes) July 1, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/01/data-reveals-coronavirus-hotspots-in-bradford-barnsley-and-rochdale

This is the data we've been needing for ages. Looks like levels are pretty low in London right now and across the South in general (although Kent is a weird anomaly, maybe Dover-related?), and they shouldn't even be considering reopening pubs in some Yorkshire cities this weekend.

wonder what would happen if you broke Kent down into say Medway / Dover / Posh bits / other

That 'bold riposte' by BoJo is... good not bad. Don't care about his motivation but if it can save dissidents from being crushed in Hong Kong, I'm all for it and think EU should follow suit in someway.

is red bad

xxp

Re: London - there's noise about local lockdowns being required in K+C, Ealing, Hammersmith and Richmond but I don't see that in the Guardian story

is that Hammersmith (W6) or Hammersmith (constituency)? - i'm in the one but not the other.

(if it stops the pub over the road becoming the modern equiv of that cholera pump then bring it on)

That 'bold riposte' by BoJo is... good not bad. Don't care about his motivation but if it can save dissidents from being crushed in Hong Kong, I'm all for it and think EU should follow suit in someway.

― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:41 (seventeen minutes ago) link

It's whether his voters think this is good or not, given so much of the damaging rhetoric was over EU migrants in the last 15 years.

H&F is the actual area, I think

I guess all the other former colonies must be doing OK and not oppressing folk.

It's whether his voters think this is good or not, given so much of the damaging rhetoric was over EU migrants in the last 15 years.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, July 1, 2020 4:03 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well, yeah. And I wouldn't put it past bozza to make a weasely u-turn once he's read a couple of fuming tweets, but

Even allowing for the fact that Hong Kong is a unique case I doubt Boris would be rushing to offer citizenship if Hong Kong was off the coast of Pakistan or Bangladesh.

Come on guys, the tabloids won't spin the Hong Kong measure as a bad thing and so 90% of his voters will either not know about it or think it's good too.

They presumably assume that almost nobody is going to come.

I imagine so.

Who'd want to live in this fucking dump?

In terms of inflicting a brain drain and capital flight on China it will only cause short term and limited damage to the mighty Leviathon! and will there actually be enough quality jobs on this little racist island of Rona with a rapidly shrinking economy to even attract that many HK citizens beyond the low thousands?

My friend's mum is moving to the UK right now so that's one person. xposts

To qualify, you need to be over the age of 23 (which excludes a large proportion of the protesters). aiui, the proposal gives a right to work / study for 12 months without additional visas - an upgrade from the 6 months at present. However, you also get 'no recourse to public funds' status, meaning the government provides absolutely no support.

I'm not sure "Global Britain" can afford to piss off China now they are a lower league feeder club!

Seems like rich Hongkongers would be the main beneficiaries then?

fuck this country

A very telling paragraph from the Guardian's article on Coronavirus and Leicester's garment industry. pic.twitter.com/3dUTKujaEQ

— Carl Spender (@CarlSpender) July 1, 2020

In part it's about undermining another world financial centre before shit gets real with Brexit, and an influx of Hong Kong bankers might make a few institutions think twice about moving operations out of London.

this page has actually good figures for H&F

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

(Kensington and Chelsea are above the line, Ealing pretty much on the line)

but i'm wondering if the two hospitals are skewing things.

although that data seems to stop about 11 days ago.

The Indie says the following

"Some of the sharpest increases were in London boroughs, where the weekly figure rose from 7 to 18 in Hammersmith & Fulham, from 9 to 15 in Hounslow, 5 to 14 in Ealing, 6 to 14 in Westminster, 7 to 13 in Brent and 8 to 12 in Kensington and Chelsea."

countdown to the whole sitch in Leicester being blamed on shifty Asian employers outside of any UK immigration context starts now

They presumably assume that almost nobody is going to come.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

True, but it does depend on how bad things get. Even presiding over tens of thousands could be quite damaging to the Tories. Remember a lot of people voted for migrants to fuck off back to wherever it is they came from.

i think the current wheeze is to blame the Labour council, isn't it?

True, but it does depend on how bad things get. Even presiding over tens of thousands could be quite damaging to the Tories. Remember a lot of people voted for migrants to fuck off back to wherever it is they came from.

This is still taking the hostility towards immigrants as an organic feeling derived from people's experiences and not a hysteria propped up by the press; I'm sure it's a little bit of both in the end but it seems very naive to me to think any real outrage could gain momentum without the latter, and that's never going to happen.

i think the current wheeze is to blame the Labour council, isn't it?

i doubt the Tories will make it racial openly, damn sure their (social) media arm will push it hard tho

OTM on both of those.

I’m not sure HK bankers have ever had much trouble moving here - or many will want to in the current economic circumstances. We will see.

I don't think that needlessly pissing off Asian businessmen in Midlands marginals is going to be in the Tories' plan somehow. If they blame anyone it will be the workers.

https://www.ft.com/content/87e6acfe-010f-4e4c-b1d8-142378a1ba4c

May be paywalled but:

This is not about a few unscrupulous suppliers, it is Boohoo in particular who’s driving production during the lockdown,” Ms Lewis said.

"You should only leave the house to buy food, to exercise once a day, for medical reasons, to care for a vulnerable person, or to go to work (if you cannot work from home)".

These were the government's own guidelines during lockdown, they allowed clothing factories etc to stay open and left the choice up to employers, suspect they will prefer not to be reminded of that now it's fucked up in Leicester.

sure, but they're are plenty of agitated loons in the country ready to make shitty connections

His bio makes it sound like he's married to one of his kids. pic.twitter.com/Uys4dru3wH

— H🍊🍊🍊ps (@HoopSketty) July 1, 2020

not long til super saturday now lads

get plastered for the NHS #plasterforcarers

Prince Harry for LOTO

When the monarchy (ex-monarchy?) is more rad than the Labour party. 🤣 https://t.co/abzLqzfz8Y

— Chardine Taylor Stone 🌹 (@ChardineTaylor) July 1, 2020

How will GFT look when we re-open?

Social distancing guidelines will mean that GFT will re-open with reduced capacity in all of its screens, using only approximately 20% of normal capacity. This means that the significant majority of seats will be kept vacant to allow adequate spacing of customers. Initially there will be fewer screenings per day, to avoid bottlenecks and to ensure we have the time for enhanced cleaning to be done between shows.

going to the cinema sounds like it will be fairly miserable