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

Soho lockdown is over pic.twitter.com/Oa683CfxsM

— Jamie Roberts (@visitjamie) July 4, 2020

super saturday baby

I don't see how anybody could've foreseen this

what's the point of the rozzer in the pulpit

Eternal q

... I know I know it's serious (xp)

Victory for Rona day

Rozzer in the pulpit
You'd better not kill the groove

To be honest just looking at that Soho video filled me with an overpowering desire for this gamble to pay off.

Yes, I'm afraid watching footage of people in pubs makes me want to go to a pub.

trying to come up with a list of things that don't make me wanna go to a pub

Starmzy made a haircut tweet earlier. that v much made me want to go to a pub.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcHRVsqWkAAJiUt?format=jpg&name=large

Walking past this shithole earlier I was thinking I'm quite happy to drink tinnies and be anywhere but there.

truly a place you turn to when you have no heroin

"Your Local" Heroin dealer!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53063047

this exhibits so many levels of fuckedness for the uk in 2020 it seems like a good exemplar

lack Horse

We’re opposing stuff now? Great https://t.co/GB7UXoPGVM

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 5, 2020

lol welcome to the resistance DomCum

So glad she didn’t stand again

“Could you attend a Labour Party meeting with the Daily Mail under your arm?”

Times Radio's Gloria De Piero challenges Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, to answer the charge that the party does not understand ‘ordinary working people’.@GloriaDePiero | @tnewtondunn | @lisanandy pic.twitter.com/K0GtkU3Q3u

— Times Radio (@timesradio) July 5, 2020

Nandy not Towns and legit concerns for some people, lol what a party of garbage.

Wrong person to take your complaint to Gloria

maybe Lisa understands that the terms in which she gave her answers are gross simplifications that might be ok for a pub argument but are completely asinine in terms of economics or the mechanics of governance. or maybe that's the actual level that she and many other "senior" MPs think at. I couldn't possibly say.

I was on my phone and didn't click on the vid because I now enough about both parties and the shit they talk. But I'm guessing De Piero will have adopted the Times Radio house style now and be even fucking worse than she was before

I prefer alessandro, if I'm honest

https://twitter.com/havinganormalo1/status/1279773522202636288?s=20

It's been deleted...basically bad ppl begging for Sunak to save the arts.

If you vote Tory but wish the NHS a happy birthday later by clapping make sure you shit in your hands first.

— Hannah O'Hanrahahanrahan (@buntyhoven) July 5, 2020

all these arseholes that don't care a jot about zero hours/UC/foodbank fuckery suddenly care a lot about workers in the theatreland. I mean I think they should subsidise and help them survive, but some of these fuckers are very selective with their sympathy aren't they?

Think today's clapping at five was a total flop so there's that.

The 72nd anniversary of the foundation of the NHS - get tae fuck!

Lol I didn't even know there was meant to be clapping, was sitting out on a street with friends in Brixton, didn't hear a thing

I send a message of solidarity to the ⁦@CampaignUyghur⁩ rally today and urge support for the campaign to oppose the brutal internment and attacks on the Uyghur people and in condemnation of the Chinese state’s attempt to eradicate Uyghur culture. Solidarity . pic.twitter.com/9tlRwirC6z

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) July 5, 2020

The show must go on.

We’re introducing a world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions weather the impact of coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/J3KXUOxJEE

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 5, 2020

always a bit sceptical when tory cunts use "world leading" but this sounds basically ok on paper, but I don't think they had a choice tbh.

if Starmer rebelled against them on their lack of care for the heritage sector they could be in trouble!

I would also be interested to see how much some other European countries have spent bailing out arts and culture in recent times, already seen 7 billion euros quoted in France, but that was by emma kennedy!

that was for everything though - they mentioned the same thing on Front Row last week and then corrected it the next day.

it's quite reassuring to know Emma Kennedy is still an idiot

as constant and reassuring as the north star, although not nearly as bright

What's interesting is how some areas of the UK - especially London - are now back to a rate of COVID-19 cases last seen in *early* March - several weeks before lockdown. pic.twitter.com/9f6bbrS1Rr

— Russ Garrett (@russss) July 5, 2020

the govt's idea of controlling COVID - 19 is just basically working it towards 300 - 500 dying from it daily being normalised, but don't worry our largely underpaid NHS can cope with that, keep squelching turds between yr hands!

Thanks for responding and helping the arts @RishiSunak 👏🏻👏🏻

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) July 6, 2020

is this like a "thanks for washing your hands" sign?

a victory for civility!

next time ask them very nicely and politely to all please kill themselves, gary. And then kill yourself.

Keir Starmer tells LBC he will undergo unconscious bias training in the wake of his Black Lives Matter comments (will be available to everyone else in the party too)

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) July 6, 2020

God he's unconscious enough already

it's not his fault, he got mesmerised by a hypnotist decades ago who managed to convince him he isn't a deeply conservative reactionary and a languorous middle manager cunt with no personality.

the govt's idea of controlling COVID - 19 is just basically working it towards 300 - 500 dying from it daily being normalised

The time to control it was in February and March, everything else is just playing catch-up sadly.

Hasn't Germany allocated something like 50bn?

https://frieze.com/article/can-germanys-cultural-bailout-set-groundwork-21st-century-new-deal

fucking hell!

those radical christian democrats in Germany eh?