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

He's just shaming your lack of capitalization.

I commit to calling imago a Tory (capitalization included)

Lol @ that Starmer clip. Sounds like his LBC appearances will be something to look forward to.

Ffs lads it’s capitalisation, ye should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Matt - right, and James Schneider as well!

Posting again:

pic.twitter.com/pIG97cv7hO https://t.co/sUuq0sq026

— Louis (@Louis_Allday) July 6, 2020

On the arts bailout and the BBC story:

"He said institutions would have to apply through industry bodies and would be asked to prove how they contribute to wider economic growth."

So basically there will still be quite a lot of redundancies. Ideology on what the arts are, the good they provide, etc. will be applied as some grants are approved and others are denied.

No further action to be taken against @SteveReedMP. Labour spox says: "Steve deleted the tweet and did not mean to cause any offence.”

Understand he deleted tweet after sending - and before Labour party knew about it - and regrets language used. https://t.co/gdyuA25BW6

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2020

I knew that was gonna happen

It ain’t over yet

This afternoon I wrote to Sir @Keir_Starmer about my concerns over the antisemitic language used by Shadow Communities Secretary Steve Reed MP. pic.twitter.com/La7cu2BdpG

— Nicola Richards MP (@Nicola4WBE) July 6, 2020

Ms Marshall described Mr Elphicke's behaviour immediately afterwards.

She said: "He was chanting in a sing-song way: 'I'm a naughty Tory, I'm a naughty Tory', as though it was the school playground."

Where is the Labour Party? Where are the trade unions? Because the right is losing no time in pushing their own version of things anywhere I look. pic.twitter.com/ZKIwoHjJp6

— Sonia (@yet_so_far) July 6, 2020

Starmzy will say that RLB refused to delete and Reed did was the difference. But Reed's was a direct offence rather than a shared link with an element of offence within it. Going by Starmer's previous words he should be gone imo

Sir Haircut showing commitment to standing alongside the Tories as the pubs re-open

BrewDog might have had their first weekend back serving customers but they never stopped working. They’ve helped in the national effort against coronavirus by making free hand sanitiser. Today we were here to say thank you. pic.twitter.com/OlGOFou2kb

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 6, 2020

that would be the same brewdog whose hand sanitiser got knocked back for being subpar

also that is not one metre of distance between sir keir and the others there ffs

Would be more inclined to drink the hand sanitiser than the horribly marketed piss they put out

How can they get even a simple photo so wrong?

Is it photoshopped?

He's the closest person to the taps, is he supposed to have poured that pint himself?

I'm going full Bellingcat here. It's a digital composite.

it does look... odd, yeah - could just be weirdly processed tho

Looks fake to me.

Tbf Starmer can't help that

this the same brewdog who are scabs / swerfs / homophobes is it

v on-brand for starmzy tbf

fucking state of this

Keir Starmer says he's glad people are "beginning to notice the Labour party has changed" after Jeremy Clarkson said he could vote for Labour if Mr Starmer changes his hair.#CallKeir| https://t.co/E6xJQIDUL3 pic.twitter.com/yCJHCay00E

— LBC (@LBC) July 6, 2020

xp starmer's not photoshopped in, it just looks a bit weird cos they've tinkered with the levels. here's the original clip:

Labour leader @Keir_Starmer poses with a can of Brewdog's 'Barnard Castle Eye Test' beer which was created after @BorisJohnson's aide Dominic Cummings made his infamous trip to Durham pic.twitter.com/B8fQZ3LRSw

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 6, 2020

Clarkson wouldn't really vote for him, he was just making the point of how much he hated Corbyn. I think he says in the same interview he's always voted tory!

when I google "SS haircut" all the barnets look like kieth's can someone explain me this

for all that i occasionally criticise the discourse itt, it is helpful to reassure myself, reading the replies to Crerar's tweet up there, that at least this is not the rest of the uk politics discourse

the lack of physical distancing is even more apparent in that video, another incredible victory for labour's pr team

starmer is just a dork, worse than miliband

Complete fucking dimwit.

when I google "SS haircut" all the barnets look like kieth's can someone explain me this

sorry to link to the express but apparently it's a morrissey thing:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1273030/labour-news-keir-starmer-pmqs-shadow-cabinet-the-smiths-spt

Keir Starmer's love for Morrissey and The Smiths exposed

KEIR STARMER has been obsessed with Manchester-based rock band The Smiths since university - to the point that his inspiration for his haircut comes from the band's former frontman Morrissey, a senior barrister who has known Sir Keir for many years has claimed

So not too far off with the SS comment then.

Oh dear.

my search did lead me here...
https://machohairstyles.com/best-nazi-haircuts/

50 Dashing Nazi Haircuts – Smart Military Inspired Looks For Guys

Omg. I already knew Barristers are mostly human garbage, and that this slimy turd is no exception. But couldn't predict he would be this bad!

That pathetic little thumbs up:
“You did it. You pulled your very own pint”

good to see that the uk government is no closer to achieving competence as we cruise towards a six-figure covid death toll

The prime minister’s spokesman said that the government has now abandoned attempts to provide a daily figure for the number of individuals being tested for coronavirus. Early in the crisis the government did publish daily figures for the number of individuals tested, alongside figures for the number of tests carried out. But the figure for the number of individual figures became increasingly embarrassing because, as the government intensified testing to meet its target of 100,000 tests a day by 1 May, the gap between the number of individuals being tested and the number of tests being carried out became ever larger. (On 30 April, when the government hit its target, 122,347 tests were carried out, but only 73,191 individuals were tested.) In May the government stopped publishing daily figures for the number of individuals being tested. Officials said that the government would resume publishing this figure once it had found a way of ensuring that the statistics were robust, and that people were not being counted twice. But today the spokesman said that that goal has now been dropped. He explained:

DHSC [the Department for Health and Social Care] will no longer publish the number of people tested daily any more, and will instead publish the number of daily tests processed. This is because the daily people tested statistic only counts new people being tested. For example, someone who was tested in February, and then tested again this month, would be counted once. Considering hospital and care home staff will now be tested on a regular basis, we don’t think this statistic would be an accurate reflection of the amount of daily testing that is taking place.

Test and trace statistics published weekly will include the number of people who have been tested.

But when the spokesman asked why it was not possible to change the system so that it could count a person being tested on a given day, even if they had been tested before, the spokesman was unable to give an explanation. He was also unable to explain why the government has continually given a figure for the number of testing kits sent out, but no figure for the number of testing kits sent out that do not get returned.

He was also unable to explain why the government has continually given a figure for the number of testing kits sent out, but no figure for the number of testing kits sent out that do not get returned.

I think he's the only person in the country who doesn't already know the answer to this.

xp Keir Starmer already shared his fave group: Orange Juice.

That is not Starmzy’s hand or body. He was never in the same room as that pint. In this essay I will

Starmer is just a dork and at the same time worse than the guy who did the racist mugs! This is also better than UK pol discourse outside of this thread.

In 1921, 30 Labour councillers were imprisoned for their resistance to govenment policy that would disproportionately harm the poor. Minnie Lansbury caught pneumonia in her cell and died.

These days Labour councillors want applause for only shutting down one library, not two. https://t.co/6LqO0nn9y0

— Dan Fisher☭ (@DanFisha) July 6, 2020

wtf @vittleslondon called this pic.twitter.com/UX67cWrOiJ

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) July 6, 2020

> 122,347 tests were carried out, but only 73,191 individuals were tested

yeah, because each testee had two nostrils, both of which had to be tested, in the same way they counted each individual glove as a separate piece of ppe.

and yet people were still repeating the amount of the money given for the arts as if it was accurate and real when it'll turn out to be neither of those things, again.

re: unconscious bias training, it's an extremely silicon valley technocrat solution, and it measurably doesn't work/makes things worse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/

Shelley Correll, the faculty director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford, gave her first unconscious-bias talk, at Cornell University, in 2003, when, she says, the topic was mostly of interest to academic departments. Now, she says, demand has spiked as tech companies have adopted the training. “Virtually every company I know of is deploying unconscious-bias training,” says Telle Whitney of the Anita Borg Institute. “It’s a fast and feel-good kind of training that helps you feel like you’re making a difference.”

But there’s a problem. Unconscious-bias training may not work. Some think it could even backfire. Though the approach is much more congenial than the “sensitivity training” popular in the 1980s and ’90s—in which white men were usually cast as villains—it suffers from the same problem: People resent being made to sit in a chair and listen to somebody telling them how to act. Forcing them to do so can provoke the fundamental human urge to reply: No thanks, I’ll do the opposite.

Worse, repeatedly saying “I am biased and so are you” can make bias seem inescapable, even okay. People feel more accepting of their own bias, or throw their hands up, figuring that nothing can be done.

They may even become more biased. A 2015 study by Michelle M. Duguid of Cornell University and Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt of the University of Virginia demonstrates the peril of normalizing bad behavior. Stigmatizing certain behaviors, such as littering and alcohol abuse, makes people realize they are acting outside the norm and has proved to be a powerful way of changing these behaviors. Conversely, messages presenting good behavior as a social norm—“the majority of guests reuse their towels”—can make people embrace this behavior.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156032/diversity-training-isnt-enough-pamela-newkirk-robin-diangelo-books-reviews

Newkirk proposes that diversity initiatives have met so little success in these areas because they diverge in ideology and intent from civil rights–era programs that sought to put the nation on a track to racial equality. Rather than agitating for social reform, today’s massive diversity industry functions instead to shield institutions from discrimination litigation and public scrutiny.

By contrast, she argues, Great Society programs such as the Civil Rights Act and Higher Education Act led to significantly increased numbers of African Americans in many public schools that had once been almost exclusively white, as well as within colleges and universities. Though that’s true enough, it’s also here that her diagnosis of the diversity industry’s deficiencies falters. Simply put, while Lyndon Johnson and other architects of Great Society reforms may have sought to create a “racially just and inclusive nation,” as Newkirk puts it, the actual measurable successes of those programs weren’t the result of a “moral imperative” so much as they were the result of public policy. And the former without the latter, which is essentially what Newkirk offers, poses little threat to today’s ineffective diversity industry.

While ruminating on one’s internalized prejudices may require some psychological heavy lifting, there’s little evidence that it helps produce or sustain material change. And though whiteness educators like DiAngelo may employ the radical-sounding language of critical race theory, self-reflection is ultimately a much easier undertaking than working to build a durable political coalition that actually has the leverage to remake society.

rupa... waht

Scary incident in South Ealing. Luckily everyone unscathed.

Makes this proposed madcap scheme that will gridlock the hood and cause mayhem for emergency vehicles even more ludicrous. Please object https://t.co/5SjhNV4Xns https://t.co/KwO6Er7Knj

— Rupa Huq MP (@RupaHuq) July 5, 2020

Starmzy has already been to Paul McKenna who managed to hypnotise him into believing his voice sounds like Redd Pepper rather than Kermit. But he's still a fucking tory twat!