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

i think that might be bantz tbh

Not a Shreddie of evidence.

'Moves are afoot' is garbage.

He won election as leader by nearly 60%? He's not going anywhere.

The other thing about that poll, though - 6% is awful for the Lib Dems, and even 5% SNP looks low (but maybe the latter is normal given # of MPs in Scotland etc).

I mean it might be true to some extent, but this probably says more about Boris right now.

Preference for Prime Minister:

Keir Starmer: 37% (+3)
Boris Johnson: 35% (-)

via @OpiniumResearch
Chgs. w/ last week

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 27, 2020

Sorry for misreading that tweet as serious. Daft of me.

Can’t believe spending the past five years shitting on the Labour Party tarnished the brand.

The other thing about that poll, though - 6% is awful for the Lib Dems, and even 5% SNP looks low (but maybe the latter is normal given # of MPs in Scotland etc).

― the pinefox, Friday, July 10, 2020 9:10 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The SNP won 4.7% of the popular vote in the 2015 election winning 53 out of 56 seats in Scotland

Yes, believe me, the SNP are popular in Scotland at the moment.

Boris has already lost the personal lead. The Tories don't lose theirs until post-Brexit and/or the Covid collapse bites is my guess. Polling suggests opinions rn basically amount to "it's not their fault/they're doing the best they can". Definitely on Brexit, more mixed on CV. But with added "Sunak helps working heroes doesn't give benefits to immigrants like the other lot".

Can’t believe spending the past five years shitting on the Labour Party tarnished the brand.

More like 11 or 12 years at this point.

08-15 didn't have quite so many Labour people doing the shitting, that really helped matters.

Yeah that’s why I said five years.

Polling suggests opinions rn basically amount to "it's not their fault/they're doing the best they can"

Unsurprising consequence of years of attacking Tories on moral grounds instead of competency grounds

Starmer Chameleon, enjoy. 😂 pic.twitter.com/UOzcPetNme

— Labour Are Toast! (@LabourAreToast) July 10, 2020

I have been roundly abused on iMessage for sharing the above tweet and not looking at the account it was from in my haste to laugh at Any Other Leader

Oh wow

#SuperPriti

I saw someone make the comment that she was a deranged sociopath and then was told off for pathologising her, well fuck it they were correct.

that account though wow

lol was reading it on my phone and didn't see the account. Thought you were on about the 11 year old vulnerable girl who is likely to get deported under her watch

Lads come on I feel bad enough already

My enemy’s enemy is my friend, swivel eyed tories are good now — gyac and calz

Rude

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53365062

I think this might be the first time Boris has ever been in a shop like this. Maybe he's popping in for some Haribo or to top up the credit on his phone?

Sorry I shouldn’t have called your pal swivel eyed you’re right xp

I offer full support to all DomCum bots that clown Sir Kier and don't care if I lose all 64 of my followers!

just turned on the radio. Claire Fox diminishing BLM and the threat of the Rona. Wes Streeting talking about civility and nuance. Just turned off the radio.

Claire Fox gonna Claire Fox, that's why broadcasters love her.

lol i was in the kitchen just then too, i heard the words Claire Fox and leapt across the room to change the station just in time

The only way to respond to the likes of Fox is to say "I broadly agree" and then say something completely different

Up to a point, lord copper...

I think some synapses would blow if you said to Claire Fox you agreed with her ... then she'd try and sign you up for the cult.

Always agree with a contrarian. And then twist their words

https://www.christian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/RogerGodsiff01.png

"swivel eyed tories are good now"

civility and nuance pls. this (through no fault of his own) aesthetically challenged fellow here was a Labour MP for the last decade, being an ugly swivel eyed tory cunt is an affliction that doesn't see party lines!

https://www.christian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/RogerGodsiff01.png

Freedom

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-53361906?

what has happened to all the disaster capitalists who apparently were doing high stakes short bets on the UK economy crashing post brexit? now it has crashed anyway do they still get paid out but with a Rule 4 deduction or something.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/10/vast-brexit-customs-clearance-centre-to-be-built-in-kent

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-accuses-brits-loving-22336640

Operation 'get everyone out there spending money' has gone from 'hype' to 'guilt trip' to 'shame' remarkably quickly.

"Some people have loved it – I mean, let's be honest, some people have actually loved it."

people have just been "loving" members of their family dying of C-19 and then receiving their ashes in the post like you would from a veterinary clinic when your poor dog is put down. people "loving" going into depression because they fear for the future where all they can see is UC and more mass layoffs happening every day. Read the room as they say, you thoughtless prick.

there might be a point where Boris stretches this - got a huge working majority, can say what I fucking like - to the point where there is a backlash.

To be honest I've had a better time in lockdown than, I suspect, most people but I'd struggle to say I've loved it or that life wouldn't be infinitely preferable without it.

For a lot of the country it's removed some sources of everyday stress, but it's also replaced them with some gigantic ones.

What he's doing is seeding the idea that anyone not getting straight back to working and spending is being silly or even selfish. It's very conscious, coming after Wednesday's statement.

Most of us have acknowledged some of the positive experiences of lockdown but I wouldn't raise that in the same post as what Johnson is doing here which without exaggeration is a new depth of wickedness in his evil career. Shaming people into death and/or exploitation ffs.

Wonder whether this is going to rub against companies that now would actually like their employees to stay home as it might save on office costs?

http://www.unknown5.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Carthaginian-Fire-Pits.jpg

One of the biggest sources of my potential return to depression at the moment - I'm OK now but I'm monitoring the warning signs - has been this unseemly rush to ignore any good lessons the lockdown might have offered for society and to return to the most broken of systems as quickly as possible, except with extra background death.

It's likely to enrage parents who have been juggling working from home with full time childcare and home schooling, for one thing. That's a big group.

Austerity let's be honest some people have loved it.

From the same people who brought you “people love benefits they’re having kids just so they can get more benefits they’re making more money than you, get ‘em”

Most of the papers are, via their editorial and columnists, already well into trying to bully and shame the public for not going out and spending more.