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

Poor old Gapesy on the Universal Credit ;_;

mckinsey will be announcing gapesy any day now

True colours. These jackals are so predictable.

Edelman UK is at Southside, 105 Victoria Street :-///

lol?

You’d think these fuckers would read the room.

EXC @theipaper

Govt confirms it will drop funding for NHS staff free parking at hospitals

Ministers resist calls to make emergency scheme permanenthttps://t.co/qSaxPPFz6N

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) July 7, 2020

Clap for key workers, though, eh?

well they have this unbiased member of th le public on their side at least

Most people, whatever their job, don’t get free parking at work.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) July 7, 2020

Incredible that they are spraying money virtually everywhere right now, paying the wages of a third of the workforce, announcing even more spending today, there's a billion for theatres, and they're penny pinching over hospital car parks. IDGI.

they can do anything now and they don't care

Fucking hell, Dawn Butler has had to close her office

Finally, whilst not the primary reason for its closure, is the continual security risk to everyone working within a very visible high street office. My staff have been attacked in the office, verbally assaulted coming and going from work, bricks have been thrown through the windows and the frontage has been smashed. I have had to work extensively with police and security staff to simply try and create a safe working environment for my employees. Many of these incidents were not made public in order to not encourage copycat attacks.
Sadly in recent months, the threat to myself and my staff has drastically escalated. Last month the police arrested one person and are currently pursuing others as I continue to speak out on key issues such as the impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community, the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. I continue to receive on an almost daily basis threats of violence and death threats.

that different-to-the-US form of much more polite + genteel racism that is throwing bricks through black people's windows

Most public figures, including MPs, who have claimed to be fighting against racism and for civility for years will not show any concern about this.

perhaps it was just unconscious bias on the part of the brick thrower?

@CLASSthinktank
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Damn he got us. He got us.

rishi 'moneyguns' sunak

mofo has sure got some paper

wtf even is this shit:

Sunak announces discount worth up to £10 per head for eating out in August

Sunak says his final measure has never been tried in this country.

It is an “eat out to help out scheme”, offering customers as discount worth up to £10 per head when they eat on from Monday to Wednesday in August.

fuck's sake i thought he was handing out the Argos vouchers for a second, settle down

actively subsidising spikes 2 thru 5 is a new wrinkle, i'll give you that

Sunak announces discount worth up to £10 for giving head or eating out in August

eat ass to help out, an initiative never before tried in this country

green home improvements scheme england only, thanks lads

eating a very substantial package

I hope it's eating Boris up to know Sunak is setting the things up very nicely for a palace coup some time in the future.

i don't think any more free govmint insulation will fit in my loft

can i take it in Argos vouchers instead?

luv2contract the rona while eating my government-subsidised nandos

i think the extra hot peri peri is antiviral

do not use extra hot peri peri when eating out to help out

they can't give enough of that itchy stuff away, you should try wiring some upstairs lighting in a loft with 3 layers of fucking insulation!

the hot sauce isn't gonna be the only thing i'm superspreading

the £500 voucher got homeopathically diluted

Spare a thought for all the unsuspecting grandparents searching 'eat out to help out' in a few days' time.

They could let cafes/restaurants have pavement/road space and restrict cars until October if they were serious

they're serious about pursuing herd immunity by stealth tbf

stealth?

that stealth in full

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F3o85xDazgkTMedOX8A%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1

There must be several parts of the country now where it's pretty safe to go into a restaurant by this stage but that is transparently not true of the whole country, telling people in Bradford to go out and spend money in restaurants is completely different to doing it in Cornwall, or even in London.

It's also going to be less predictable when we hit school holidays and people start travelling all over the country.

would think about using this if the vouchers can be used to get food delivered. wonder if that's covered?

are there actually vouchers or are they just going to pay participating restaurants directly?

also wondering if edible vinyl is a thing so then i could blow the money on records instead

Give me my £500 Sunak you little fuck

was hoping to get an edible mountain bike with my helicopter £500 but alas

Rona aside, there are people in the poorest parts of Bradford, like the Windhill estate who struggle enough to eat in, but these aren't people Rishi gives a flying fuck about.

would think about using this if the vouchers can be used to get food delivered. wonder if that's covered?

Eat Out To Help Out say the jug-eared messiah.

It wouldn't be so classist and irresponsible in terms of public health danger if the offer was extended to takeaways as well

Lol, these dorks are going to end up killing people

Thanks for the meal deal, but we were promised a new deal. #SummerStatement pic.twitter.com/c3AOUhgdGT

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) July 8, 2020

That isn't forensic