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

Banky's done it again

Only one hope for a pv-shaped recovery - give me my voucher Sunak you little cunt

yeah if he'd bought me a PS4 we'd be top of the world by now

Not about to go about scampocalypse prepping with my own saving ffs

In Churchill’s shadow: these two gentlemen Gavin and Keri have been regularly keeping watch over the Churchill statue, in scorching heat. pic.twitter.com/RRdrQiw2n9

— Peter Whittle AM (@prwhittle) August 11, 2020

I certainly hope a freak accident doesn't cause the statue to tumble over and crush the fragile skulls and ribcages of those two gentleman who I'm sure are not racist or cunts

The simultaneous shift towards treating children like politically-sophisticated mini-adults via shows like Blue Peter, while at the same time treating adults like overgrown children via news shows, is grimly fascinating.

tbf children in the UK seem more politically sophisticated than adults in the UK

Two quickies for why the UK recession is deeper than other European countries.

1. Tory support schemes not generous enough. Poor sick pay and social security, plus the significant gaps in Sunak's package compound the shrinkage.

2. UK most service-oriented economy in Europe.

— Phil BC (@philbc3) August 12, 2020

the Super Rishi myth starting to fall to pieces in the cold hard reality of the the deepest recession in Europe. Perhaps the inadequacy of his support schemes should have got more scrutiny at the time of announcement rather than the collective UK media jerking the little twerp off.

I noticed the other day that everything that is likely to be popular has his face plastered over it (Free stuff! From Rishi! Personally!) and everything that is likely to be unpopular is from The Taxpayer.

> the deepest recession in Europe

world-beating

pls don't make me think about the shrinkage of rishi sunak's package

Stimulate me daddy

worst recession, highest death toll, probably nothing a bit more clapping can't fix though

I'm at the pandemic
I'm at the recession
I'm at the combination pandemic and recession

I'm at the recession (what?)
I'm at the pandemic
I'm at the combination recession and pandemic https://t.co/FrKSWhc2EP

— K-Os Eats Fascists 🏴 (@rollerska8er) August 12, 2020

Things that are responsible for the recession: Black Lives Matter, teaching unions, BAME families, people who won't go out, people who go out, Corbyn, the PRC, fast fashion

Things that aren't responsible for the recession: the government, employers

How will this all affect housing is the question..

xxp Incredible work

Also responsible: 60,000 people who probably would have died anyway so why did we even bother

Not to worry Brexit will sort everything

If there's one party I trust to create millions of quality jobs it's oh bollocks

Not sure I want to live in a world where I'm fretting about creating quality jobs

Seems an opportune time to observe we only have one pack of scampos left and future supply is uncertain

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/08/why-britain-failed-coronavirus-pandemic/615166/

We know a lot of this already (it's not written for a UK audience) but what's surprising even now is quite how many people in direct proximity to the government think they are falling badly, and also how many people think the current structure of the British state is basically set up for failure on moments like this.

on moments like this

Sunak definitely needs to work on curbing his twinkly grin when delivering the news that, yes indeed, lol we're all going to die.

I quite like it, gives you a grisly faceapp quality to the news

He is really struggling to suppress it during this interview I'm watching.

Is it more of a "I'm here to make your death as comfortable as possible" twinkly grin or more of an "oh, have we had a little accident again?" twinkly grin?

Britain’s leaders asked their people to do three things, captured in one pithy slogan: “Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.”

that's one thing ffs

consumer-facing service sector is now 80% of economy per FT, which goes on to quote

“We expect pent-up consumer demand to drive a strong recovery in the third quarter, although this momentum will gradually fade as the outlook for the labour market deteriorates"

(xxp) It's like Priti Patel's smirk, he can't help himself.

this momentum will gradually fade as survivors resort to eating one another

Cannibalism provides strong downward pressure on supermarket sales.

Putting the Dom in holodomor

But upward pressure on flatware and prion treatments, so it’s not all bad news for industry

BREAKING: @scotgov has announced its commitment to extending the protections against eviction until March 2021.

This helps thousands hit hard by the pandemic to keep a roof over their heads.

This is a big win for our supporters and us.

Thank you all! 🙌🙌🎉#shelterscotland pic.twitter.com/ZkkKkdDNtr

— Shelter Scotland (@shelterscotland) August 12, 2020

Look out for the Scottish government bending over backwards to be nice guys after this exams debacle.

Truss is back on her cheese game, when you are barely even in the league one of European cheese producers it probably isn't best to draw too much attention to a national product that might be ok, but due to lack of demand you can only really export in micro quantities.

it's a crackers strategy

Good Stilton and Cheddar are A-listers tbf, pretty fond of Stinking Bishop too

^

good cheddar what's that?

Truss Liz to be grating on my nerves

As someone who loves British cheese and always looks for it when they are abroad and has spent 15 years living in different countries around Europe and Asia, I have to report that we apparently do not export any cheese at all.

good cheddar what's that?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, August 12, 2020 3:36 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

egregious cathedral city shade

Cheddar is almost never not dull and Stinking Bishop is rubbish. The UK does some brilliant goats cheeses but plenty of the bigger names just can't measure up to Europe's

I've got no prob with UK cheese, just saying the global demand for it is relatively miniscule.

Stilton is unfuckwithable though yeah, liz truss otm lol

The UK cheese deficit is in the region of 40,000 tonnes per month.

Some of you are apparently more acquainted with crack than cheese

Whereas I suspect if you look at France they are exporting millions of tonnes of cheese a month and would look at you with baffled disgust if you mentioned that other countries make it at all.