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

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

GTF

it was bad enough when Richard & Judy were more rad than Starmer... now the ginger slaphead of Sussex as well... a new low for the PLP!

lol MDC icwydt

(can we have a new thread? Over 10k posts here and the Americans get to pick a new name every month...)

i know job losses are bad but fuck weeping over the air travel industry

these fuckers aren't right in the head:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/01/twitter-users-condemn-met-police-kicking-down-doors-tweet

the whole "cuddly community fascist" tone of UK police Twitter accounts is enough to give the lie to Starmzy even if every other thing wasn't enough to give the lie to etc etc

And in the same edition, an astonishing lack of irony from Vikram Dodd over Met “funding fears”. Not a sentence on BLM, or the suddenly thinkable demands to defund police departments.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/01/police-warn-of-cuts-to-funding-even-worse-than-in-austerity-years

tbf this is a country where cunts get the vapours if you suggest cutting down expenditure on weapons of mass war criminality

Even the political journos are starting to call out Labour's Janus-faced position of supporting the easing of lockdown while raising worries about it pic.twitter.com/NrEoeYTnfK

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) July 2, 2020

FT hack otm

A thread about some of the worst takes on Covid, from UK pundits.

Herd immunity is the strategy: https://t.co/9FsDU3QuWZ

— Richard James (@RJSHutton) July 1, 2020

Good overview of our great journalists holding the government to account

I'm still trying to acquire wanker immunity, but it just ain't happening!

so the 'New Deal' in Cornwall is basically enough money to upgrade a single roundabout (£14m). the largest allocation is to the South East, which gets enough for some fairly minor A-road improvements or ~four miles of railway (£85m). and it's not new money https://t.co/AZgHoisB4e

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 2, 2020

rooseveltian

Got to say I share the astonishment that it costs £14m to upgrade a roundabout.

chucking a bit of chump change about after a decade of austerity sure does remind me of FDR's radical spending plan.

That really depends on the roundabout and the upgrade, Matt.

Tell me more...

what is all this talk about "there won't be more austerity" when did it fucking finish?

Haha maybe in (or near) a pub sometime.

I'll do the roundabout for 7 mil, where do I write for my cheque?

ffs I can do it cheaper and my Irish DNA gives me a natural disposition for bodging the fuck out of groundwork and running with the dosh!

Yeah my plan is to hire a couple of lads for a grand apiece and keep the rest of it

They're renovating the swimming baths round the corner from me and there's a sign up saying it's a million pound project and I just can't imagine. The scaffolders that were up there the other day must be minted.

when did it fucking finish?

around the time the hostile environment ended I think

*burns Daphne & Celeste playlist*

@MaxTundra
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Wild that Corbyn fans are out there criticising Starmer for adopting a different strategy to the guy who gifted Johnson an 80-seat lead. What happened to “get the Tories out”?

love Max but he's always been a bit melty and wish he wouldn't talk about it, same goes for a lot of other artists on twitter

That Max and Mutya collab can't be far now.

Luckily I've never knowingly listened to the cunt's melt-tastic music

Corbyn fans out there saying maybe it would be an idea to stop gaslighting Black and Muslim people who want overeager policing and structural discrimination towards them acknowledged by the leadership?

I've heard MT is the musical equivalent of a Dunty barbershop quartet covering Belle & Sebastien. Never heard either tbh!

I'd never tell anyone not to vote for Labour, and some smug prick telling you it's practically your duty to vote for them really gets my blood up.

scientists have been warning us for years about tundra melt

lol!

I am low-key Twitter pals with the great man but I certainly don't engage him on politics, lol (and not because I completely agree!)

So basically an semi-informed semi-celebrity called Max is going to indulge in a bit of vote-shaming every Thursday from now on?

Meanwhile, schools basically back to normal in September with all the difficult stuff left to headteachers to decide.

imo we should all hold hands and forgive the melt friends we all have, they know not what they do

alternative point of view: execute the fuckers, they will never be of any worth

my son is going back tomorrow. they've closed the dinner hall and food is brought to the classroom, they have a serious social distancing regime as much as is possible for an autism school. They have fucked off local authority transport and doing in-house transport. He is only going one day a week to acclimatise him to the new regime. Barnsley where about three quarters of the staff come from is a Rona hotspot, so I'm slightly nervous about all this still.