Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

it's very bad for the mental health of my son to keep him out of school and I can see how hard it hits him, but these are desperate times. Of course lots of these politician arseholes from Labour + the Conservatives who've previously been ruthless in their parliamentary voting on matters that badly affect millions of children are suddenly very *concerned* about what lockdowns are doing to their mental well-being.

So this is another reading of that nytimes article.

i've seen plausible threads saying this is worth doing, but it's being done because we don't have enough vaccines, which make the justifications look like policy based evidence making. https://t.co/n1qB3j6ReZ

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) January 1, 2021

It does read like gyac says but perhaps because it is This Lot after all that tweet feels closer to it - they are giving doctors a way out a difficult situation: a situation they created by fucking up procurement.

Weren’t they boasting of having ordered 30 million vaccinations not that long ago?

Kinder’s right about the weird effect schools being open has on parent behaviour too. Even this week I noped out of a park because of the fucking big gaggles of parents. Tier 4, with schools shut, and apart from a scared-looking masked grandparent hiding in a far corner you really wouldn’t have known there was a pandemic on.

Unions are gunning for Williamson now. Pity nothing matters, that should have been an easy scalp

Unions should be gunning for Starmer as well, his job is to back them and put political pressure on the UK govt instead of expressing admiration for Theresa May's moral framework - the fucking waste of space.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqvcHLTXAAI0PF9?format=jpg&name=large

#Wes4Leader

#StarmerShits

the bed, or something similar trending

just be "buhbye dodds, hellow shadow chancellor reeves" no doubt

or more likely just boberto pesto being shithoused by left twitter shenanigans

I hope he's reading it and getting very pissed off

Hearing this leaked video may hold some clue to all the chaos this afternoon #starmerquits pic.twitter.com/ZbgnbclVRS

— So I Says to Mabel... (@ISaysto) January 2, 2021

fs lmaoooooooooooo

dead

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/02/battle-brixton-texas-dj-taylor-mcwilliams-electric-avenue-20-storey-tower-block

Sadiq Khan won't lift a finger.

ffs trust hilarity to break out on Twitter while i'm trying to watch the football

xp

yeah but at least he snubbed Trump, what a hero.

NYT seems to have fucked that tale just like gyac said, while BBC 5 Live has kicked off a scare about kids getting sick that the rcpch is trying to squash https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/news/rcpch-responds-media-reports-increased-admissions-children-young-people-covid-19

Sorry what happened with the NYT, stet?! I haven’t been online much today so I’ve missed everything

Such vultures lol

Anyone standing in the way of CVAs right now is an enemy of society. We ought to have tens of thousands of them. We've got a legal system that allows companies to go bankrupt then reappear as phoenixes with the same staff and owners doing the same thing, let's use it for good. https://t.co/jSY0ZqZtly

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) January 2, 2021

Nothing spectacular yet just lots of condemnation/calls to retract among media Twitter and general rinsing xp

Thanks for that reassuring link, stet!

Breaking News:

Teaching & Headteaching Unions have had enough. They’re commencing legal action against this government & advising teachers to stay away from schools until SAGE’s advice is listened too.

I stand in solidarity with them

— Claudia Webbe MP (@ClaudiaWebbe) January 2, 2021

politico asked uk politicians and commentators how they got through 2020

among a load of shite about family and takeaways and we’ll-stocked booze cupboards, there is this

Priti Patel, home secretary: “Showing the perpetrators of crime that they have nowhere to hide and joining our police on early morning raids — reminding the criminals that we’re coming after them. Supporting our front line and watching them keeping us safe has been humbling. They are real heroes.”

i wish i was fucking joking

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-london-playbook-christmas-special-how-they-got-through-2020-viel-hummer-kein-hammer/

I hope ms Patel didn't watch doctor who over the new year, it would only give her ideas.

The reason stories like that NYT one get commissioned is because in most of the world that's the narrative now: Britain is a dumbass that does dumbass things, look what they've done now lmao

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) January 3, 2021

'tolerable levels of death'

U.K. needs to confront

‘The challenge that faces us is to decide - are we going to try to pursue the elimination of Covid-19 regardless of the costs or decide on a tolerable level of deaths (like we do with the flu) in order to return to a normal life?’

https://t.co/9hWbHIPJUq

— Esther McVey (@EstherMcVey1) January 2, 2021

I can think of a few people whose deaths I could tolerate. This tweet brings one in particular to mind.

What could be worse than a Tory some might ask, well a fucking Tory-Scouser evil gobshite for starters.

The NEU called a members meeting and 26,000 registered making it the biggest union meetings in the UK ever, and one of the biggest political meetings in UK history too. As Zoom capacity is 20K they're live streaming it on Twitter, Facebook and herep https://t.co/cvYhX4rhOO

— Petros Elia (@elia_petros) January 3, 2021

someone tell Kieth there is a big kraut-rock revival going down on zoom.

nice krautrock event for people with a can do inclination

kier probably still trying to figure out how to walk back his no ifs, no buts, no equivocation hardman stance on this thing

What a troll.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a national lockdown within the next 24 hours. Says it is "inevitable" that more schools will be closed so plan needed now, but won't call for schools to close as of tomorrow as it would add to the chaos.

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) January 3, 2021

profiles in courage

https://i.imgur.com/Y0qFfvS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NxhIDeT.jpg

Kieth is the tail, Boris the dog that wags him. More school closure are "inevitable" says Kieth the casual bystander, without exerting any political pressure to close schools. Seriously, I hope this cunt gets the rona and dies.

boris: we should do something
kieth: we should do something MORE QUICKLY
kieth: ...
kieth: err, that’s it
uk public: *continues dying by the hundreds every day*

lol get fucked

My understanding is Keir Starmer wants a national lockdown like November, not March. Tougher than Tier 4, closing more places (an eg given is zoos which are open in T4) & bringing back the national “Stay At Home” message.

Schools should be “the last to close” says senior source.

— Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) January 3, 2021

tbf to Kieth nothing of note has happened today that would give him a clear and visible cause to back immediate school closure

bold to demand the closure of zoos in...checks notes...January

Fat big cats have had it good for too long!!!

It's the November style half-arsed tiered lockdown that has got us to the terrible position we are in but lets try it some more and hope for a different result, but he's right - closing empty zoos could be a gamechanger tbf!

Starmer just adding to the polar-cat-isation of political discourse

i think we should oust starmer

Fucking Zoos? Sage were saying last week that a November lockdown won’t do it; it needs to be March-like.

"zoos" is one of those things where if you don't realise what a dick you sound saying it you're never gonna realise what a dick you are

any functional human being would've thought about it for a second

idk zoos is a fun word to say

'zoos'