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

Have you guys run so low on narrow minded evil resist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, friends of pederast archbishops, that you had to send out for fresh ones?

https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/12498386/tony-abbott-britain-trade-deal-supremo/amp/

You’re welcome (and welcome to him)

Oh jesus it gets worse and worse and worse

jesus fucking christ

ffs

just get Shane Warne in next, who the fuck cares any more!

Next up: Steve Bannon.

that’s unbelievable

destroy this fucking country

If Britannia had not ruled the waves there would never have been a Royal Navy strong enough to abolish the slave trade, intercepting 1,600 ships and freeing 150,000 Africans while sustaining major casualties. Guess it’s too late to delete your tweet ... https://t.co/UEt12KkSfC

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) August 25, 2020

death to britain and europe

Far-right groups targeting hotels housing asylum seekers during coronavirus pandemic

Anger over rising English Channel crossings ‘uniting different strands’ of extremistshttps://t.co/g4ThPZ1eh9

— Anti-Fascism & Far Right 🥤 (@FFRAFAction) August 25, 2020

Remember #Greencore, the M&S sandwich supplier that had 300 staff go down with COVID at its Northampton site, & sent everyone home a few days ago to self-isolate for 14 days?

It’s calling staff back in and re-opening its production lines from *today*.https://t.co/vbqLQJiLv6

— CarolineJMolloy (@carolinejmolloy) August 26, 2020

Is it bothering to test them all again first? Surely the capacity to do that exists in a town with a significant outbreak happening right now?

Greencore says that only workers who have finished the 14 day self-isolation have been called back into work but staff tell a different story.

"It's crazy, we have received numerous calls from our members to say they are just four or five days into their self-isolation period and they are already returning to work,"

I mean I know the demand for pre-packaged M&S sandwiches must be crazy right now with so many people in the office but this might be considered just a little short sighted, delusional and idiotic.

https://media.apnarm.net.au/media/images/2014/10/03/abbott_togs-g15qlmcd30rnpzifxi2_t1880.JPG

Keep him or we send Clive Palmer in budgie smugglers.

In the past few days, I’ve had multiple broadcast producers ask me to come and debate whether Rule Britannia should be dropped.

And I said sure - as long as I can say that this whole thing is a media confection, designed to wind up apoplectic baby boomers and delegitimise BLM.

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) August 26, 2020

Sir Keir Starmer weighed into the row defending the “pomp and pageantry” as “a staple of British summer.”

Asked if he backed the move to censor the words to Rule Britannia, a Labour spokesman said “enjoying patriotic songs does not - and should not - present a barrier to examining our past and learning lessons from it."

But they stopped short if demanding a uturn, insisting the running order was a matter for the organisers.

The spokesperson said: "The running order is a matter for organisers & the BBC, but enjoying patriotic songs does not... present a barrier to examining our past."

Labour's Lord Adonis said today: “It’s part of being English, I don’t understand what the problem is.

"It seems almost laughable to think we are going to start censoring some of these great national songs.

"What are they going to next, the national anthem? It’s ridiculous this whole thing."

Keir Starmer 'weighs in'.

Latest Westminster voting intention (24-25 Aug)

Con - 43% (+3 from 19 Aug)
Lab - 36% (-2)
Lib Dem - 6% (n/c)
SNP - 6% (+1)
Green - 4% (-2)
Brexit Party - 3% (-1)https://t.co/rtBcHmS3Gh pic.twitter.com/VqIQILDQux

— YouGov (@YouGov) August 26, 2020

I bet Sir Melt regrets that bend the knee photo he did now it's pretty clear that pandering to racists is his priority. At least he's 20 pts ahead tho!

Argh I was hoping we would take the collective decision to ignore this obvious diversionary bollocks, it's the National Trust thing all over again, Ash Sarkar OTM.

That goes for the Labour Party as well... it's almost as if there's a massive government clusterfuck happening right now that they're desperate to deflect attention from?

I'm ignoring the bollocks, just not ignoring the bollocks that felt he had to weigh in on the bollocks

Maybe pointing out that performed singing is off for the rest of the year because of COVID risk would be a way to dodge this bullshit topic?

I mean these things are almost good for how much they make elite forensic interrogators shit the logics bed time and again.

If Britannia had not ruled the waves there would never have been a Royal Navy strong enough to abolish the slave trade, intercepting 1,600 ships and freeing 150,000 Africans while sustaining major casualties. Guess it’s too late to delete your tweet ... https://t.co/UEt12KkSfC

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) August 25, 2020

what I'd like to see is some performed singeing, as the hapless melt LOTO is slowly lowered into a volcano, because he is no use to anybody but the tories.

he is such a predictable conservative reactionary you don't even need to be a master of the dark arts to lay a trap for this likely lad to walk into. I just wish that during the leadership election he'd declared that he's a complete cock rather than pretending to be a unity candidate who was going to maintain the centre-left direction Corbyn had taken the party in.

Britania rules something

#GDP in @OECD area showed largest fall ever recorded in 2nd Quarter 2020.
Falls in #G7 countries:
🇬🇧 -20.4%
🇫🇷 -13.8%
🇮🇹 -12.4%
🇨🇦 -12%
🇩🇪 -9.7%
🇺🇸 -9.5%
🇯🇵 -7.8%

🇪🇺 -11.7%
👉https://t.co/McMlbAnJYr
For up-to-date analysis on #COVID19 visit
👉https://t.co/l83pRaLPFP pic.twitter.com/yQpV5jtwCj

— Anthony Gooch Gálvez (@pitres) August 26, 2020

the UK media: France and Italy suffer the worst financial crisis since WW2. Nothing to see here get back to your offices and die!

Letter in The Guardian, 19 June 1997. pic.twitter.com/fkUsLhfXai

— Francis Wheen (@FrancisWheen) August 26, 2020

Every area of a school is a communal area pic.twitter.com/6yNWkccYfv

— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) August 26, 2020

So is the game here to blame schools for not policing mask wearing properly when the infection rates go up and the govt has to potentially close schools again.

i stand with gavin williamson, national vice-chairman of conservative students

They’re sacking both the Perm Secy and the head of ofqual to try and save him, perhaps now he can realise his dreams.

As this stage I can only assume he's being kept in place as a human shield for Boris. Either than or he has some major dirt on someone that they don't want him to spill.

A lot of people are guessing that he's lined up for the chop when COVID's rampant in schools but idk. I'm not sure they have a lot of competent people to replace him or that a more competent Education Secretary would have done a lot different. As with Jenrick and Cummings, Johnson seems keen to send the message that he's not going to be pressured into firing people by the papers.

Well, he's already exhibited enormous courage by refusing to remove the statue of Churchill and preventing the Proms from taking away "Land Of Hope & Glory". Impressive stuff.

He's a former Chief Whip, so dirt is probably the better guess.

Don't forget the Brave Bazza intervention also saved the Harold Wilson statue in Hudds from getting dynamited by the out of control commie hate mob. Well one excitable egg on twitter that got 4 likes.

I think it’s a Cummings-inspired attempt to make “Nothing Matters” as real here as it is for Trump. There’s no consequences if you refuse to resign and you can use it as a pretext to sack bits of the blob, so win-win.

(Also helps to defang any “I have dirt” threats for when you do decide Williamson is a useful fall guy)

Johnson seems keen to send the message that he's not going to be pressured into firing people by the papers.

This would be Johnson like Cameron before him forgetting his place in the chain of command.

stet's is more likely explanation tho

They're probably counting on their voters indifference regarding the tendency of cabinet MPs that step down to just re-appear a couple of years later e.g. Patel, Johnson himself.

Can anyone identify the fifth book along on the top shelf? Because apart from that one, top shelf from left to right goes: The Subtle Knife, Fahrenheit 451, Betrayed, The Resistance, The Toll, Crisis Point, Glass Houses, and The Twits. Supreme trolling from the school librarian. pic.twitter.com/z0I2vJValB

— Nicholas Pegg (@NicholasPegg) August 26, 2020

nice work

Exodus is a science fiction novel written for teens to young adults by Julie Bertagna, published in August 2002. The story is set on an island faced with the problem of a rising sea level, caused by melting ice caps and other forms of global warming.

I know all the most irritating people on Twitter will shortly ruin this moment forever, if they haven't already, but this is good work from the school librarian nonetheless.

one of the comments said it was the previous librarian who did it when they left several months ago as a dig at the school governors, and nothing to do with boris at all.

You will notice that every book on the top row is carefully chosen. It was political pop, but not at Boris, more the leadership of the school . Interestingly not a book has moved in the last 6 months since the last Librarian left.

— Jonathan Rennocks (@JonathanRennoc2) August 26, 2020

lol, good reminder of the entrenched layers of shittiness effecting education in the UK that goes way beyond "anyone but tories"

affecting even!

I mean the school has been closed to everyone but a handful of kids for the past six months so that's hardly surprising.

£13

in Germany ssp is 100% of salary for up to 6 weeks, 50% in France up to 43.80 euros per day. In this country our state broadcaster indulges in contrived talking points about gaudy old national anthems while people live on pennies.

So for a standard working day that's about £1.50 an hour not to spread the rona.

when i was suffering serious depression last year one of the things that really helped was the government's attempts to leave me homeless and starving to death, the only thing missing from the equation is workhouses but maybe that's a policy goal. if i wasn't lucky enough to have people that were able to support me then fuck knows where i'd be now.

luckily this is nobody's fault and nobody should be held accountable for the ongoing murders.

When I broke my ankle I used up what holiday pay I had left got deep into my overdraft and received pitiful ssp. And this was in the New Labour golden era when poverty was eradicated and everyone was now middle class!

Could imagine these days what used to be a life changing injury could well end your life now.