Perfect Tory wife.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
has she even given a moment's consideration to poor Boris Johnson who might possibly feel slightly embarrassed in the unlikely event someone mentions it to him when he's in front of a camera?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
New lock down measures in Greater Manchester/parts of West Yorkshire. Seemingly just "don't go in other people's homes" unless I'm missing something and with a definite message of "You've been a bit naughty".
Am expecting a lock down in Oxford (County Council messaging "Social distance or else ..." and I didn't really notice any distancing today).
― djh, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Blackburn with DarwenBurnleyHyndburnPendleRossendale
BradfordCalderdaleKirklees
all back under some kind of nonsense partial lockdown. It's absolute violence to my ears when I hear London based tories refer to Kirklees like it is a town or a city, there are multiple regions in Kirklees that all have reasonable grievances that mainly all the funding goes to Hudds! And why isn't Leeds subject to this as well, it isn't like The Rona get's bored of infecting ppl when it gets to Shaw Cross.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
So as I understand it you can't meet people in their house but you can go the pub as long as you don't meet people from another household?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
well that's pretty much it! It's beyond a joke really
― calzino, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
People on Twitter mentioning it’s Eid tomorrow and lots of these areas have significant Muslim populations, fu Hatt Mancock for fucking up all their family plans.
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
I mean on saturday night I saw a hundred + people in a field getting shitfaced with a big marquee + with Jermaine Stewart blasting out the sound system. No pigs hassled them because they are white and middle class, but it was reckless behaviour in current conditions.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
You can go to the pub or a restaurant, but stay within your household bubble... eh?
― calzino, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
usually drink usually dance usually bubble er nevermind
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Still no details yet. You might well ask about the efficacy of announcing this change on twitter three hours before bringing it in...— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 30, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
There definitely feels like there's an Eid al-Adha element to this (which I'm feeling as being punishing to the communities that celebrate that rather than protective but maybe it is something inbetween).
― djh, Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
NEW FROM GOVERNMENT SOURCE: “Eid was discussed in the gold command meeting today, and was a factor towards the decision to implement these restrictions particularly because of household transmission.” @SkyNews— Inzamam Rashid (@inzyrashid) July 30, 2020
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Thursday, 30 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
i downloaded a pdf of jess phillips book and she's got some very interesting ideas about prison reform pic.twitter.com/GZJYTuU1tO— gart/barfield (@wurrance) July 30, 2020
if you want to read more like this, you too can illegally download the Jess Phillips ebook from libgen proxy .com
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
the curious case of Kent having over 3000 more cumulative cases of Rona than Bradford in the last week but not being subject to le prank lockdown pretty much sums up this failed state and the increasingly desperate attempts of the UK govt to use all means possible to deflect their incompetence through fat-shaming, racial scapegoating .. whatever works for them.
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
The garden of England cannot be shut down, especially when the gvt. are actively endeavouring to build three huge customs lorry parks on it while also pretending that nothing is happening although it's most likely that nothing is actually happening. All very confusing with many caveats, like any sentence from the PM.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 31 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
Kent’s total historical number of positive tests is higher (8k vs 5k) but the running weekly total is lower (approx 150 vs 250) and Kent has five times as many people as Bradford.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
Has that been proven with mice though?
― koogs, Friday, 31 July 2020 06:11 (three years ago) link
was just talking to my son's Asian school transport escort, Anisha, and she feels very attacked by the timing of this and the ridiculous pub/house discrepancies.
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
500 jobs to go at NatWest, the first ones I've heard of in banking since covid began
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/31/natwest-pushed-to-loss-by-coronavirus-crisis
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:03 (three years ago) link
Well, as Bob Marley once sang, "I'm going underground"
― Mark G, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:07 (three years ago) link
Matt Hancock has confirmed that households in the areas affected cannot visit each other at home – but they can visit households outside the affected areas as long as they observe social distancing.— Josh Halliday (@JoshHalliday) July 31, 2020
This makes no sense at all. So you can't meet people and spread the rona inside the restricted areas but you can go and spread it in other parts of the country?
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:09 (three years ago) link
I clicked through to that tweet about JP because I thought it was off that it refers to a clash song as a weller reference, and saw a bunch of people pointing out it’s clearly fake - which yeah it clearly is, but funny it was only the song part that registered as such on first glance
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Friday, 31 July 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link
xp, it's unenforceable any other way, i think, even if it's illogical.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 31 July 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
Hancock was jabbering about some mysterious stats that indicate more people have been getting infected in other people's homes. Are these stats from when every pub in the country was closed or after because I'm pretty sure pubs have become the worst places for practising social distancing since they opened up again. I can't bear to listen to him.
Read a funny comment the other night: the tories have finally taught you English people what it is like to be ruled by the British!
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
honestly can't discern between real/fake Jess. Someone said it was real!
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:49 (three years ago) link
lots of butthurt racist white tories from the Holme Valley part of Hudds really don't like being associated with the riff raff in the Heavy Woollen District who are fault for the Rona for working in bed factories and food processing plants that have had outbreaks. Fuck 'em all and fuck their last summer wine as well!
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
Makes no sense and is wrong
It’s not what it says in their official guidance which says that is illegal! pic.twitter.com/WJIue7ibCI— Abbie Jones (@abbiedjones) July 31, 2020
― オニモ (onimo), Friday, 31 July 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/l8eCYc6aiD pic.twitter.com/z3Z15OGYUY— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) July 31, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
It's a fucking shambles
This is officially a disaster of commsJust got off phone with another Dept of health source. They’re saying that neither briefing given to me (you can meet in pubs) nor that given to others (that you can’t) is completely wrong. No, I don’t understand either.— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 30, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 31 July 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
But at least it's racist
You know what’s really infuriating me w/ this last min lockdown rule for people (ie Muslims) up North is not only seeing the use of racially-coded lang but also these blatantly racialised images of, mostly women, in hijabs, niqabs, shalwar kameezes,etc. The utter incompetence smh pic.twitter.com/0amOBUCChn— Fatima Rajina (@DrFatimaRajina) July 30, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 31 July 2020 09:37 (three years ago) link
Decolonize The Guardian images department
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Despite poor communication from the government, it's crucial that we all follow the advice to help prevent another outbreak. If you live in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire, West Yorkshire or Leicester City please follow the new restrictions.— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 31, 2020
Starmer doesn't seem to realise it isn't West Yorkshire that has been locked down, talk about poor communication ya fucking tool!
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
there are at least 750 000 in West Yorkshire that have not been subject to the new lockdown ftr mr forensic
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
"Leicester City"
― nashwan, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
they thought they had that 4th champions league slot locked down!
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
correction there are at least a million in West Yorkshire not subject to new lockdown
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
Lol please follow this poorly communicated advice. Never mind I said it's bad comms just follow it!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
Covid is being blamed on 'dirty' BAME and the obese (at the start of the week). Great week!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
Man in pub said it was real. Can anyone explain to me what the point of these fake tweets are? And who is doing them?
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
disgusting racist scapegoating from Burnham too pic.twitter.com/nmlld7yISe— Jake May (@__jakemay) July 31, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeP8tfrWAAA2Neo?format=jpg&name=medium
"in multi-generational houses" you say?
― calzino, Friday, 31 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
Novara had Paul Mason on yesterday to self-immolate trying to pitch Starmer to the left. Not gonna waste my time but if anyone feels like a hatelisten...
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 31 July 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
I suspect the pubs are gonna be as rammed as they're allowed to be today and all
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 July 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Mason sounded pragmatic insofar as he was saying: you have to back this if you want Labour to win.
But I don't see much difference between that and saying: let's face it, we have to go back to Tony Blair - winning is what matters.
Mason says KS can bring a 'left government' but can't point to any evidence that KS would do that.
He's an endearing character but I fear that he's living in a kind of fantasy if he thinks his pragmatic pro-KS outlook and sociaist values are aligned here. They're ever further apart.
― the pinefox, Friday, 31 July 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
[sp: socialist]
― the pinefox, Friday, 31 July 2020 11:43 (three years ago) link
Hi djh - how did you get/see the council message?
I haven't seen anything from the council but I did get a text from my GP, which may be the same:
The number of coronavirus cases in Oxfordshire is rising. It is up to each of us to stop the virus spreading - we must act now to protect ourselves and others. Our safety is literally in our own hands - wash your hands regularly, avoid busy gatherings, keep your distance and wear a face covering where appropriate. If you have any symptoms, you must self-isolate immediately and call 119 to book a test. <name of GP surgery>
I guess the text is supplied by some govt/NHS body as I can't imagine any of the staff I've met there would be writing this "literally in our own hands, so wash them, DO YOU SEE" stuff.
― L. Prague de Scamp (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 31 July 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile a lot of people seem to have given up on distancing whenever I go outside. At least most people are wearing masks in shops, but not all, and hardly any masks outside shops.
And my o/h goes back to work along with his whole department in a week or so - should have been back already but is waiting on some paperwork from the facilities dept. Apparently the advice is "no need to wear masks but look away from each other when someone comes in the room", because the desks nearest the door are within 1m of the door/aisle.
We're all gonna - oh yeah, that thing it traditionally said in the thread title. Hope someone will break the door down to rescue my cat and not put her down as an infection risk.
― L. Prague de Scamp (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 31 July 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
peerages for Kate Hoey and Claire Fox
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 31 July 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
And also:
#Breaking Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson, former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham and newspaper owner Evgeny Lebedev are among 36 nominations for peerages announced by the Government pic.twitter.com/6QrBOyLuQU— PA Media (@PA) July 31, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 July 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link