Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

+5 for the next poll

don't remember a Home Secretary with this much "bullied at school" energy since Jack Straw

the horror of the "if they can't afford kids they shouldn't have them" daily mail reaction aside, the photos of these fucking food parcels seem to be doing their job. Whichever galaxy brain thought they spotted an opportunity to bung some money to their mates while appearing to cave to Marcus Rashford should be made to live off them for a month.

and today they've chosen Priti Patel to face the music. amazing.

― stet, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 5:14 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the thing about these "if they can't afford kids they shouldn't have them" ideas, that even if you, for devil's advocate reasons, accept that premise as correct, the kids haven't done anything to deserve not having enough to fucking eat!

The birth rate has gone drastically down anyway so riddle me this: who will be the next set of deliveroo-style servants? They'll be begging the country to procreate.

try telling them that unemployment is a structural element of market economies

when I was a kid I used to think the dinner ladies at the school canteen ate all everything from the leftover bin, so they'd be eating a mixture of boiled cabbage, pink custard and cold roast potatoes.

Ugh, you got that pink custard too? *boak*

The birth rate has gone drastically down anyway so riddle me this: who will be the next set of deliveroo-style servants? They'll be begging the country to procreate.

gulf country* ffs

Sainsburys have emailed today saying you need a mask unless medically exempt and will be challenged.
but yes I thought this was already The Law

the thing about these "if they can't afford kids they shouldn't have them" ideas, that even if you, for devil's advocate reasons, accept that premise as correct, the kids haven't done anything to deserve not having enough to fucking eat!

― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:28 (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The birth rate has gone drastically down anyway so riddle me this: who will be the next set of deliveroo-style servants? They'll be begging the country to procreate.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:34 (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, otm

Maybe ye could've 'afforded' the kids before the incident

carrots have remained so consistently cheap in recent years that anyone approving of a policy of putting a quarter of a carrot into a food hamper should be subject to a summary execution by firing squad.

hear hear *bangs gavel*

otm

The birth rate has gone drastically down anyway so riddle me this: who will be the next set of deliveroo-style servants? They'll be begging the country to procreate.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:34 (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol the retirement age keeps going up for a reason. I’m gonna be 87, on a moped, getting some toff a McDonalds, just counting the days till I can finally retire or crash to fiery death.

the "if you can't afford kids" narrative is completely backwards, around the world countries without a social safety net have much larger family sizes because you need kids to look after you when you get old.

Something deeply spiritually impoverished in how we all consume a 5pm daily death total from a press conference alone at a screen, no moment of silence, no wishing that those lost rest in peace, or anything that would bring people to share in the enormity of grief for a moment

— Sean Bernard (@seanbgoneill) January 12, 2021

The birth rate has gone drastically down anyway so riddle me this: who will be the next set of deliveroo-style servants? They'll be begging the country to procreate.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:34 (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yep https://knock-la.com/vons-fires-delivery-drivers-prop-22-e899ee24ffd0

most cretinous twitter take on that voting intention poll: "kier seems to be outperforming the rest of the team"

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 41% (+1)
LAB: 37% (-)
LDEM: 8% (-1)
GRN: 5% (-1)
REFUK: 2% (+2)

via
@RedfieldWilton
, 11 Jan
Chgs. w/ 02 Dec

some more great news for the Starmtroopers and lol @ REFUK

hypothetical: as a simple measure of the state of the UK electorate those poll numbers would look no different if Crumhorn was still leader of the Labour Party

The economics of a system in which Amazon apparently believes it makes financial sense to offer to next-day courier eighty pence worth of salt to me is fascinating.

I think the jury is probably still out on whether Deliveroo can make money. It seems very likely it can’t make money competing with UberEats and JustEat, though. I could see consolidation/ monopolisation being a route out of total collapse.

Cool

Temporary morgues set up as UK hospitals run out of space https://t.co/OiA4xJhtrC pic.twitter.com/yqDYPECagc

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 12, 2021

yeah fuck off sheldon.

The economics of a system in which Amazon apparently believes it makes financial sense to offer to next-day courier eighty pence worth of salt to me is fascinating.

I think the jury is probably still out on whether Deliveroo can make money. It seems very likely it can’t make money competing with UberEats and JustEat, though. I could see consolidation/ monopolisation being a route out of total collapse.

that uh fuck off sheldon was a fragment from another post. i stand by it.

HLew: still a cunt

N Ireland food shortages set to worsen, say UK supermarket heads https://on.ft.com/3nDtz9s

apologies $$$ but cool headline:

The UK’s largest supermarkets have warned the government of “significant disruption to food supplies” to Northern Ireland because of “unworkable” post-Brexit border arrangements.

Many supermarkets in the region have already been hit by rows of empty shelves because of the new border regime.

But in a letter to Cabinet Office secretary Michael Gove, chief executives of companies including Sainsbury, Marks and Spencer and Tesco UK warned that shortages would worsen when a Brexit grace period, which has exempted retailers from some arduous red tape, ends on March 31.

Wonder who they will blame

The economics of a system in which Amazon apparently believes it makes financial sense to offer to next-day courier eighty pence worth of salt to me is fascinating.

I once bought an hdmi cable off Amazon that was shipped next day after being made in China and shipped to Amazon probably two months earlier in order to get to me just at my hour of slight need.

It was £1.79 in total.

I still can't make that make sense for anyone in the supply chain except me.

I ordered 18 cans of rubicon mango flavoured pop for £7.49 inc delivery on e-bay and it arrived the next day in a huge Amazon box full of bubble wrap and I didn't even know I'd bought from them!

Feel like there should be a metaphor for this purchase

we've crossed the mango pop threshold

I ordered 18 cans of rubicon mango flavoured pop for £7.49 inc delivery on e-bay and it arrived the next day in a huge Amazon box full of bubble wrap and I didn't even know I'd bought from them!

It's hard these days to avoid contributing to the evil rapacious empire, sometimes you cross the river of mango flavoured pop without even realising it

i like Rubicon tbf, if they do Quattro as well i'm in

fuck me apparently Quatro stopped manufacture over here in the mid 80s

their sparkling passion fruit pop is boss as well

I used to buy it from the local Asian Supermarket back in the good old days. The two things I look forward to most when the Rona is under control is going shopping there for fresh herbs, spices, garlic, their store made bhajis, white onions etc and rubicon pop and also going to swimming baths.

U ever do a gag comedy confusing cointreau and quattro, good times man

I’m not a huge soda person but I will cross the Rubicon occasionally.

Good god. pic.twitter.com/scyv1rTdXO

— Miriam Brett (@MiriamBrett) January 12, 2021

Brb going to become a businessman

are those cops going to shoot the virus?

They'd only shoot the wrong one.

that would be funny if it wasn't not funny

(i lolled anyway)

Create a hostile environment and send the virus to an island somewhere

These fools didn’t learn a single fucking thing from 2015, did they?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ermcc2yW4AEnpoA?format=jpg&name=large

she has previously said Labour spent too much in the past and she's allegedly from this mythical Soft Left, it won't save her cabinet position though - she'll probably be replaced by Reeves in the next reshuffle because the melt commentariat seem to see her as an "under-performer" whatever that means