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

The decision to leave the European Union can no longer be regarded as valid or legitimate we must now delay our departure & hold a fresh referendum!

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) July 22, 2020

but regardless of party leadership this risible cunt has been the same for over 40 years now, christ I can still remember meeting this contemptible prick in 1979 and he's still there!

She Her constituents pic.twitter.com/lwOzh51zGq

— BolshySquirrel (@Squirrel69Red) July 22, 2020

Duffield is appalling but a lot of the commentary on this is a massive stretch, tbh.

tbh I've never done nitrus oxide and don't know much about it. Just hate arsehole grandstanding pols getting on their high horses about recreational drugs and trying to make dubious arguments about the environmental benefits of criminalising another recreational drug and sounding like a moron!

a moral panic over fucking laughing gas, hasn't she got anything better to do?

Duffield is awful, yes, also first elected and then re-elected under Corbyn...it's all very Labour Party.

Legislation on nitrous oxide might be the kinda of thing left for MPs to do. They can't stop NHS sell-off, nor scrutinise trade deals..

It's stupid but the kind of thing MPs do when they're getting a lot of complaints (mostly about littering aiui) from constituents. Positioning it as 'she wants to criminalise non-white youths' when she's a) in a very white, very student-heavy area and b) not in favour of criminalising possession or use, is an over-reach. She's just proposing restrictions on sale to over-25s.

I'd support making 18 the boundary for absolutely everything as the weird half-adult status ppl occupy in their early 20s wrt pay and, under the imaginary duffield order, nos, is an unjust nonsense

lol the idea of being underage for something at 24 is ridic

I don't mind people overreaching with dubious arguments to dunk a fucking clown like her, it's all she deserves!

Yeah the race angle is weird here, it may be different in other parts of the country but in my experience this is an overwhelmingly white middle class thing. TBH handing balloons out to be inhaled is not an especially sensible thing to be doing in a pandemic but no worse than a lot of stuff that teenagers are doing right now.

100% this is about the litter really. It's otherwise basically harmless as far as I know.

Positioning it as 'she wants to criminalise non-white youths'

Who is doing that?

i don't think it's particularly or exclusively a middle class thing

Squirrel in a hat on Twitter.

Goes without saying the cunt banging on about Asian gangs wouldn't be doing it if they weren't tagging in Ash Sarkar.

i always presumed those canisters you sometimes see in the park were vaping related.

Is Canterbury in East London now?

Oh right, some stupid cunt on Twitter, the bread and butter of the ILX UK politics thread.

Yeah see too many of these canisters around the park and surrounding streets - doesn't bother my more than any other litter although litter brings out my inner Tory more than most things tbh. People just tossing their masks on the ground mid-journey also seems to be happening way more than you might expect.

I don't know, I think they're more pleasing to the eye than most litter.

... the canisters not the masks.

Maybe we should make it harder to buy masks and takeaway food

the cannisters make a good sound when wheels ping them across the tarmac

The ease with which the youth can buy dogs is a real environmental issue too

I don't moan about litter and sometimes wang the odd empty can into tories hedges myself, but was very irate when I had wrestle a shitty nappy out of my dog's mouth because he thought playing for keeps is a fun game, that's where i draw the line.

Need to make it harder for people to buy nappies, obv

the adult baby takeover is back on!

There's no point moaning about litter in London, you just have to accept that the place looks like a tip and always will. Dependant on which borough you live in, of course.

Big Baby Nitrous

Like a lot of picturesque hippyish towns Canterbury has quite a serious drug problem under the surface, you'd find all sorts of shit in the area around the Westgate, including the bit in the park along the river that clueless property supplements sold as a picnic spot. Would have thought that canisters would have been the least of their problems really.

let's face it people that moan about litter during a global pandemic and an incoming depression of the like not seen since the 30's are too bourgeois and need to stfu.

stupid fucking meltish Labour MP's just need to stfu full stop

As with basically every issue, this has turned into a weird brand-building exercise for all involved - the Novara cru get to fire off some zingers for numbers, Duffield gets to fulminate about "far-left bully-boy trolls", boosting her credentials as the no-nonsense, star of the Sensible Centre, everyone profits. It's all so immensely stupid and tiring.

Idk I wouldn’t bother my hole criminalising littering? But I guess Rosie reads Kent Online and knows she needs to get votes from somewhere next time.

Sadly already knocked off the front pages by "Giant grass snake in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in Cheriton".

SV OTM about the brand-building, as soon as these people start subtweeting each other you know what they're up to.

(xpost - the giant snake would shit me up more tbh)

Really glad it’s not my money paying for this, lads.

Labour offers “unreserved apology” to former staff who contributed to BBC Panorama documentary ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’. Party expected to pay six-figures in damages. pic.twitter.com/mcxmENHsnX

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 22, 2020

I mean it really is massive, they should make these things illegal.

There's no point moaning about litter in London

I got a local bin actually removed because of how much litter it was actually causing (council cuts meant the bags from it were left next to it for a couple of days after being emptied and getting torn into by foxes spilling shit everywhere). Bourgeois? Moi?!

The harmless snake's average lifespan is 15 to 25 years.

Maybe BBC will just give the money straight to the Tories after their biased interviewing of Labour activists for the Panorama on PPE shortages.

sadly, all the grass snakes have been killed by ingesting small metal canisters,

at least they died laughing

Nature is buzzing

I don't understand people that go to the trouble to bag up their dog's turds and then leave it on the ground or throw them into some bushes or even throwing them up trees and leaving them hanging off the branches. They do it a park I frequent where there are seven litter bins dotted around for their convenience.

From debates on decriminalisation in a parallel Corbyn era to a twitter morning storm about laughing gas is just so where the left are at.

it's the desperation of political homelessness driving them loopy!

I got a local bin actually removed because of how much litter it was actually causing (council cuts meant the bags from it were left next to it for a couple of days after being emptied and getting torn into by foxes spilling shit everywhere). Bourgeois? Moi?!

As I said depends on the borough, a friend of mine lives on a road which has the border between Camden and Islington going right down the middle and it's true that the Camden side of the road is a lot cleaner than the Islington side.

I find it hard to be rational and calm about the current state of the Labour party and the kind of despicable wankers are the mainstream of the PLP now, it's a burning hatred I feel for them. It actually goes as far as I would celebrate if a load of them died of the Rona or went down in burning 737.

Love to listen to opinions on racism from members of the *checks notes* Henry Jackson Society?!