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

"Don't kill your granny by catching coronavirus and then passing it on" - Matt Hancock on Radio 1 Newsbeat https://t.co/pVJFzZazJd

— Emily Ashton (@elashton) September 7, 2020

matt hancock otm, great advice

with the caveat that if your granny is one of them Mail-reading tory-voting curtain-twitching narks, then give her a hearty hug!

Terrific work, thousands of children now going home petrified that they're going to kill their granny and/or parents just because they went to school. Perhaps that might have been a better message to give to Gavin Williamson around the Cabinet table.

I haven't seen a great deal written about how a socially distanced hall of residence is supposed to work either because piling loads of 18 year olds together for the first time has very predictable results that aren't going to change much because we're in a pandemic.

And of course the catchment area for a uni is somewhat larger than for a school.

Failure to do anything to address the imminent return to HE is probably even more irresponsible and likely lethal than the back to school push

And that's before I even think about how the tensions between students and locals are gonna play out in socially distanced pubs, residential areas etc. Legit scary.

This government's entire steez is looking at car crashes in the rear view mirror and blaming other drivers

I wonder how many of the returning students are just back from breaks in Spain, Italy, Portugal, etc.

And then imagine if we get thru to December without a national lockdown and everybody goes home for a family christmas

On top of all this a 15 year old boy has been fucking shot in Suffolk on the way to school.

I heard that but I figured "just East Anglia things"

Christmas is the big thing I'm worried about: I can't see this ending well in any way, let alone w/Brexit

xp wtf Suffolk

"piling loads of 18 year olds together for the first time has very predictable results that aren't going to change much"

Loneliness, rejection, alienation, isolation, despair.

all right thom yorke

lol was gonna say Morrissey

i wd never

It was amusing seeing Diane Abbot spoonerising Keith's name on Sky news yesterday. This is going to be my regular slot where I gather the previous days low hanging fruit! But tbf I think at least two ilx posters used the same one as a dn in recent history.

BREAKING: The government has increased the length of time that those charged with criminal offences can be detained in custody before trial by 2 months to from 182 days to 238. https://t.co/czwFcovHn0

— Catherine Baksi (@legalhackette) September 6, 2020

The Government has whipped its MPs to defeat @UKLabour’s new clause to the #FireSafetyBill which would have put into law the implementation of the recommendations of #Grenfell Inquiry Phase I. This is a shameful dereliction of duty on fire safety.

— Nick Thomas-Symonds MP (@NickTorfaen) September 7, 2020

not good, but I still can't stand Nick Thomas-Symonds. He's only slightly less repellent and worthy of a good shoeing than sir keith and that fucking Enoch Powell alike cunt, Ashworth.

Oh yeah he's shit, that was the first tweet that came up with this awful news on.

oh of course, didn't mean anything other than maximum ill will to these Labour wankers within the comment!

Lol

Starmer needs to go full prosecutor mode on the Grenfell recommendations being blocked, enough with civility

— jacob richardson (@jjarichardson) September 7, 2020

an establishment melt will take the knee as a stunt but not take the gloves off!

You wouldn't like him when he's angry

when he angrily takes his hand of his edwardian oak mantelpiece, the guy is a fucking force

his trembling hand on the mantelpiece even scares me

https://24.media.tumblr.com/5690eac39d8f848475872c77317c98fa/tumblr_n0nf58wycJ1s0a80fo1_500.gif live footage of Starmer in action at pmqs after his statements supporting the government get read back to him

Details of the £12.2bn Affordable Homes Programme released this morning.

Couple of key points:https://t.co/nnpS9xV10p

— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) September 8, 2020

Theresa May...thank you

Theresa May is second on the list of urgent questions to NI Secretary Brandon Lewis in Commons at 12.30 - after Labour NI lead Louise Haigh - who is asking about plan to weaken the NI protocol and Withdrawal Agreement

— seanwhelanRTE (@seanwhelanRTE) September 8, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/07/eu-has-powers-to-punish-uk-if-it-breaches-brexit-treaty-experts-warn

This is good on what could actually happen to the government if it breaks the agreement.

🚨 Brandon Lewis confirms the Government will break international law on EU Withdrawal Deal:

"Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way". pic.twitter.com/6B8pU5M2cH

— Adam Schwarz (@AdamJSchwarz) September 8, 2020

The Empire's back, baby

https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdyd1cbIqU1rby04wo1_1280.gif

quotes to live by.

everything's shit and it's getting worse and we're all going to die but hat tip to the first wag who came up with "Brittania waives the rules" which I've seen scattered around social media today

ha that phrase is fucking ancient

the Exploited had a single with that title in 1982!

Look it's limited and specific not deliberate ffs.

The departures of the two most senior civil service lawyers - the head of the government legal service and the director-general of the Attorney General's office - made public the same day as a minister announces in Commons that government will deliberately break the law

Well

— david allen green (@davidallengreen) September 8, 2020

Brandon Lewis has real bent copper who spent it all on a pub energy.

It is telling that in “Left Out” the authors insist Starmer wasn’t particularly Remain-y until he saw it as the way to connect with the broad base of the party, isn’t it?

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) September 8, 2020

some interesting excerpts from Left Out on Starmer in the thread. I didn't realise he was previously a get brexit out of the way pragmatist (as opposed to the pioneer of lol progressive pragmatism© he is now) and he switched to a 2nd ref position to curry favour with the sizeable remain chunk of the membership, the little schemer. I always used to switch off when he was on Marr, but just thought he had strong FBPE energy, but it obv wasn't as clear cut as that.

fbpe had big starmer energy

It’s cool how I remember Corbyn being targeted for exactly the same sentiment when Labour were actually in a place to influence the outcome 🙃

"Get that deal over the line."

Labour leader Keir Starmer tells @GaryGibbonBlog "the Leave-Remain argument is over" when it comes to Brexit. pic.twitter.com/4XfNT5mYBN

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) September 8, 2020

I guess if you look at Starmer's career path it should have been obvious that his core belief is "I like being a boss"

This “yeah we might break the law, but only a bit” has a certain type of Tory going pop-eyed. Real meaningful vote vibes again

It's the old 'I did nothing wrong' as opposed to 'I did nothing illegal'

😵😵

The party is over: Boris Johnson announces tonight that from Monday, it will be the law that nobody can socialise in a group of more than six people, inside or out, even if they’re from the same household. It’s going to be a quiet Christmas if it isn’t lifted by then.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) September 8, 2020

Gatherings of more than six people banned in England unless its a wedding, funeral, workplace, educational establishment or 'organised team sports conducted in a safe way', or for support bubbles larger than six people. Apparently this counts as simplifying the rules.

Getting this grim looking over the cliff edge feeling right now.

I think we can safely ignore this

Would you settle for you can ignore it?