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

(this is nothing like the above so ..)

One time, I was coming out of WHSmiths at Reading Station, into the main concourse (not railside). Two inspector/security guys nearby.

One comes up to me and says "Can I see your ticket please?" I say no, I've just come out of the newsagents. He says "I saw you go through the barrier without putting your ticket it, and so did my colleague. Can you stand over here please?" at which point his colleage goes "NOT HIM!"

So, you know, observation is a wonderful thing.

As a mate used to say to comic effect: "I'll be a witness, what happened?"

just read the timeline and it's unbelievable that nobody was seriously held to account

Yep. I think the decision not to take criminal action against any of the officers was correct, legally - there was a chain reaction of catastrophic errors that compounded each other without any single one being grounds for a manslaughter conviction - but there should have been far more severe professional consequences for the senior commanders.

Apparently in PMQs Johnson claimed Britain "leads the world" in tackling Russia.

"This is about pressure from Islingtonian Remainers who have seized on this report to suggest Russia was responsible for Brexit."

My statement today - https://t.co/B2X0Kzf3gM

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 22, 2020

lol at Boris Johnson of Highbury Fields taking jabs at Islingtonians.

Worse, Boris formerly of Colebrooke Row.

leads the world in tackling russia the same way we lead the world in tracking apps?

i think he might have an errant 'asc' in his query

Lol this guy’s a fucking moron

Keir Starmer’s spokesman says Nicola Sturgeon should make a public statement condeming Alex Salmond for hosting a show on Russia Today.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 22, 2020

is that worse than participating in a show on LBC, lol worra clown

lol we're all gonna die of embarrassment

It's bizarre and pathetic.

Imagine having a report which, if nothing else, outlines that wealthy business people are buying influence with government and this is what you, as a 'centre left' leader do with it.

warped priorities is a recurring theme with Starmer, it's almost like he overthinks every position to take - just to make it that bit more wrong. But I do think Hitler should have been condemned for his penchant for baked beans.

starmerism is starting to take shape and it’s drugs bad russia bad minorities shut up

even with intermittently sympathetic media coverage i don’t see how this is going to work. blairism took a while to get this negative & defensive

I mean RT is a blatant propaganda broadcaster full of useful idiot cranks and liars, in what way is it different from the bbc other than its funding model?

how dare you compare auntie to the enemy

James Schneider goes in

The below is my experience of self-styled whistleblower Sam Matthews' commitment to and competence in dealing with cases of antisemitism in the Labour Party.

Some journalists writing Labour antisemitism stories were aware of this but didn't include it in their reporting.

— James Schneider (@schneiderhome) July 22, 2020

I was surprised that Matthews had suspended a Jewish peace activist, who barely appeared in the report.

when you are dealing with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party don't go easy on Jewish anti-Semites

... and don't be beastly to the holocaust denier! fucking unbelievable

But I do think Hitler should have been condemned for his penchant for baked beans.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6686535/Cold-Tesco-baked-beans-sitting-floor-singing-IRA-songs.html

well there we the definitive proof that Jezza was a nazi!

Hitler was notorious for singing IRA songs too, after a few steins.

tbf some of the IRA were probably singing Adolf Hitler songs back in the day!

Extracts from Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot For Power, by Tom Bower

is the thing here that Corbyn is seen as a sort of class traitor or something, from both angles? an embarrassment to middle class aspiration and respectability but too posh to be a proper working class hero

tbh that describes a lot of professional revolutionaries, maybe they were right to be scared

A certain crank centrist is claiming John Ware is suing Corbyn for libel, though idk over what exactly.

Hate to say it lads but it's starting to look like Starmzfront Labour might not be very good

Earlier this year, John Ware joined a consortium specifically designed to keep Stephen Pollard in his post. Pollard's star columnist Melanie Phillips helped inspire the worldview of Anders Breivik, who cited her extensively in his manifesto. https://t.co/d76aayyPYe https://t.co/tXEbNDqPdI pic.twitter.com/mI4GUZi30s

— Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) July 22, 2020

did HIGNFY turn parliamentary politics into an establishment roast or was it already like that

Oof. PM takes aim at Starmer for having more ‘flip flops than Bournemouth beach.

But Starmer prepared this time and comes back with a zinger. “This is the former columnist who wrote two versions of every article he every published” #PMQs

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 22, 2020

By my count Keir was at least 20 zingers ahead.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) July 22, 2020

the hedges reply to that made me chuckle

when does he become so good at this that it becomes part of the problem all over again, but like once removed

the nuclear option that will annihilate Starmer's career will be when Boris just simply retorts "Shut up Roy!".

Oof

prepared this time

@tnewtondunn
3h
Down pointing backhand indexCorbyn accuses Starmer - a senior QC - of making "a political decision, not a legal one".

KBerg also astonished by the...leader of a political party making a political decision apparently against his legal team's advice.

“law is apolitical so this is politics not law” is pretty shit hard leftism tbh

when they dig up Tony Benn so they can expel him from the party for a day's positive press coverage, still years out from an election pic.twitter.com/6PhuSm72KP

— LES MONUMENT (@wariotifo) July 22, 2020

Iain McNicol is suing the Labour Party over the leaked antisemitism report, lawyer Mark Lewis tells Newsnight

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) July 22, 2020

why did Corbyn ever give this cunt an inch?

"Left" -- "pretty shit hard leftism tbh"

it's always been the most comfortably entrenched tory cunts in the labour party who have excelled at stalinist purges, unfortunately.

I was hoping by now that people on the nonright would be acknowledging just how shit Corbyn was and what a useless fucking waste of everything the whole half decade performance was but this current shower is just making them more nostalgic for the old bastard and his comfortingly reliable tepid britleft shitness. awful country

SickFuck Productions

— wint (@dril) July 23, 2020

(xp) Oh great, it's the morning ray of sunshine.

Petition to have Left evicted from his username

No, you don't understand, he's called Left because he is the Left, the only one worthy of the name in this whole godforsaken country.

Corbyn was the best Labour leader since Michael Foot and brought a lot of hope to people even who had become disengaged with politics even though he was doomed to failure and sabotaged by the lowlife in his own party/campaign team. And he is a very decent human being as well. ffs!

xp right, he didn't choose the game, the game chose him?

Free speech is under threat, which is why i have decided to bring libel actions against everyone who thinks i'm terrible.

John Ware here arguing that in today's world of social media "identity politics", free speech is not "sacrosanct", and that he intends his libel cases to discourage Twitter users from calling him a "rogue journalist". pic.twitter.com/7grydg6DUr

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) July 23, 2020

I am still sceptical Ware is actually going to sue anyone tbh.

is john ware jessie ware's da