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

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Still somehow hopeful that the sheer blinding necessity of just unequivocally guaranteeing incomes will make it happen very soon but can't help but see their fear of this as the reason for the lack of decisively shutting everything non-essential down.

I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Friday, 20 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link

bread's all been panic-bought, circuses closed down by the so-called politically correct brigade

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link

Aviemore Coylumbridge Hotel sent this letter to staff today. Not just fired but chucked out of their accommodation with no notice and no redundancy pay! @BritanniaLtd Britannia Hotels should be ashamed of themselves. Certainly no "room at the inn" here, disgusting. pic.twitter.com/p6ZB2IYfoK

— John G. Burns (@ScaryHighlander) March 19, 2020

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 March 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link

LAURA K: Prime Minister, in the wake of a million deaths, food riots, and cars burning in the streets, could you still say that people were right to vote Conservative?

BORIS JOHNSON (Surrounded by riot police): Yes I would, Laura! Attempts to salute and falls over Cripes!

ASSORTED PRESS PACK: Thank God for the Prime Minister keeping us all jolly in such dark times!

PESTON: Viewers trying to obtain paracetamol scrapings from the ruins of Truro may ask could the Prime Minister have done anything more? But in my opinion, we have the right man for the job.

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link

i'm looking forward to next year when bog roll hoarders get their heads forcibly shaved in public

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link

Yeah this crisis is really bringing out the capital punishment enthusiast in me

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link

SOME CUNT ON TWITTER: Jeremy Corbyn though 😂😂😂😂😂😂 can’t believe you’re STILL trying to score political points off this “crisis” 😂😂😂😂😂 you lost get over it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link

Capital punishment for the punishing Capital xp

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link

The status quo is over, you can't claw the money back, people paying tax in 2080 will still be paying for the response to this crisis, and that's fine. It requires a fundamental change in our attitude to government debt and the money supply more generally. What happens to the economy from now on is 100% dependent on what the government does. Obviously this doesn't necessarily mean the return of the social democratic consensus - what's coming might be considerably worse than the status quo.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link

Make sure you let Johnson, Cummings et al clear on that dude.

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link

Are they particularly interested in or driven by austerity? Serious question. Obviously they're no fans of the welfare state itself but Cummings doesn't appear to be cut from the same ideological cloth as Osbourne.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link

But yes I think in general that they and the party behind them lack the capability to think long-term about what this crisis means for the relationship between government, business and individuals. Subsequent governments might not.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link

He seems like a classic Internet libertarian to me. Probably not interested in the kind of bovine punish-the-poor shit of your IDS types but I feel like the opportunity to reframe the social contract will be irresistible to Cummings, and why would Johnson, a vain moron fixated on personal legacy, not want to buy into that?

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link

You're probably right, the question is whether internet libertarianism is really compatible with the gigantic amounts of government intervention that will be required to prevent Boris's legacy being 'PM of a pile of smouldering rubble'. Unlike in 2008-2010 there probably won't be a change of government between the intervention and the clear-up, so they can't blame the deficit on previous incumbents.

For the avoidance of doubt I don't think even the best case scenario is leading us anywhere good, but wherever it is it won't be a return to the status quo.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link

Sure, I'm just quite concerned that we'll end up looking back fondly on this shit show status quo. Apart from their likely incompetence this is the worst imaginable government to be running this crisis and the aftermath, possibly for a long time, with the most likely near-future change in direction only coming from within the Tory Party itself. And that's before we factor in the vast tranche of the UK electorate filled with masochism and love of the jackboot.

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link

The strategy of leaking stuff as a trial balloon, officially denying it, and then u-turning on that is also making everything worse, as a lot of people have access to multiple contradictory statements, and are muddling through (and muddling through on the side of "doing what I want to do").

On of the journos attempted to get the PM to call his father immoral.

This is regarding the "I'm going to go to the pub no matter what" from Stanley Johnson? The tragedy of Boris is that he'd be far more comfortable in his father's position. Well, the tragedy other than the fact that he's not hanging from a lamppost, but it's early days.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link

We'll know we're fucked when there's a glowing Polly Toynbee article proclaiming a bright new political consensus.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link

I'm sorry, this performative despair isn't helping either. Every crisis is, in some sense, an opportunity to effect change for the better, at least in theory.

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link

My landlord, Golden Equity Properties, is sending eviction notices out in the middle of a pandemic. Today, they shut our water off without notice again, the third time since #COVID19 crisis started. pic.twitter.com/WUWOGo7ApK

— Emina Gamulin (@EminaKosjenka) March 19, 2020

At least now lovers of Mao's deadly but effective approach to land reform wont be so against the grain! Ready to pour one out for the first millionaire landlord/property company scum that get's strung up on a DIY gallows.

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link

(I meant *my* despair, to be clear)

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link

lol alltime top 10 dn there

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link

Who exactly do Golden Equity Properties think is going to be contemplating moving or viewing houses right now? The only people looking will be other people made homeless because they can't pay their rent.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link

probably cut their losses and sell them off to some dodgy billionaire using them as the oligarch equivalent of shoe-boxes full of money under the floorboards.

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link

AF going full xyzzzzz is it? We do love to see it.

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link

Golden Equity Properties setting up all the conditions for a rent strike.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link

That sucks, but it's in Canada

Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link

My landlord or rather letting agent has sent me an urgent questionnaire I have to fill in, tbf it's mostly about whether I'm in a vulnerable group rather than outright saying are you planning to pay rent next month. I guess this means I have to tell them my wife died, although I dunno if that would actually change my tenancy at all

Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link

I don't think my mum is going to survive this, she's a recentish breast cancer survivor in her late 70's. Her partner is a cantankerous old Ukippy type fuck who still goes to the library every day to read all the newspapers, then the pubs, then the "funhouse". She's not self-isolating and when her I told it's quite likely going to be as deadly here as in Italy, she was quite dismissive + said "you can only do your best, no point worrying".

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link

I was thinking yesterday in the absence of bog roll we may see a resurgence for UK newspapers

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link

Make a killing, start buying shares in Izal.

God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Friday, 20 March 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link

using newspaper as bog roll is more like 70's nostalgia, which is good honest nostalgia imo - unlike all that propaganda hangover ww2 shite!

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link

Colonel I'm so sorry.

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link

provided they are in joint possession of one (1) human soul they will respond by leaving you the fuck alone for six months or so

strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 20 March 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link

This was my commute to work in London this morning @BorisJohnson. This is what you get on London underground when you reduce the service but people still have to go to work. There was a lot of coughing too.

How do we stay safe in this environment?#CoronaVirusUpdate pic.twitter.com/wT345MEjND

— David Riley (@DRileyamusing) March 20, 2020

Number None, Friday, 20 March 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link

Incredible.

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link

CP feel free to forward that questionnaire to your MP and ask them straight out what they’re going to do about it

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link

hastings mp = the tory who succeeded (hence is even worse than) amber rudd

mark s, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link

which is not to say don't bombard em with this stuff, love and solidarity CP and everyone else

mark s, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link

Pubs, restaurants, gyms, leisure centres and cinemas across London will be told to close in a massive ramping up of measures to slow the coronavirus surge.

Boris Johnson chaired an emergency meeting this morning to decide what will be the most drastic action yet to try to shield the capital’s NHS from being overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients.

Shops are not expected to be in the first wave of closure, but it is understood that non-essential stores could be included if they fail to stop customers handling items that could then pass on the virus.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/coronavirus-clampdown-london-cinemas-pubs-shut-a4392981.html

I don't really understand the way of communication here. If this is the decision, why not make it known yourself immediately? Or is the Standard just guessing here?

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link

All the best to you CP

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link

it is understood that non-essential stores could be included if they fail to stop customers handling items that could then pass on the virus

you what?

Number None, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link

Routers, radios, tv's spread the virus across the seven seas!

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link

Best wishes to you Colonel. I'm very sorry to hear that.

Alain the Botton (jed_), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link

Tellys and freezers spread diseases

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link

So sorry, CP

the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

Best wishes CP.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link

Been thinking of you CP, sorry you have to deal with this shit on top of everything else

ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link

Letting agents are scum

Our housing manager is about to retire so the Housing Association our building was a part of (which is very small and would I’m sure have done right by us) is being taken on by a much bigger HA. They have a lot more money but I have no idea what they’re like to deal with and I’ve had no communication from them about Coronavirus, though I did get something through my door confirming that my standing order had been set up

This article doesn’t inspire much confidence in the larger ones

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/17/housing-associations-under-pressure-to-offer-covid-19-rent-holidays

felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link

This is a report on Germany's response (not looked at yet):

I asked this question on here the other day and got a bunch of conspiracy theories and over-complicated answers in my mentions. Basic answers: massive testing (up to 160,000 per week) catching cases early, demography (young ppl) and high hospital capacity. https://t.co/zTPiIunMs0

— Ben Gook (@bengook) March 20, 2020

xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link

I was thinking yesterday in the absence of bog roll we may see a resurgence for UK newspapers

I stopped doing the free-if-you-spend-£10 newspaper offer from Waitrose, because I never get round to reading them and they're just clutter/a waste of paper - but on the way home from failing to buy some loo rolls there it occurred to me that I should've taken my free inky alternative instead.

When they evicted us from the office to work from home I did nick one pack from a small pile of sealed double-packs of cheap nasty loo roll from work, and felt guilty all the way down the stairs until I saw there was a giant pallet of loo roll and cleaning products beneath the stairs, for a mostly-empty building. (There are still a few people left working there so hopefully they won't go entirely to waste and people will help themselves or redistribute them to other buildings.)

Sorry Col. Poo, good luck wins.

UK govt response really disappointing/worrying - hard to know how much due to incompetence and how much because they really don't care (or worse), but it's really not looking good for the future. ugh - good luck everyone.

a passing spacecadet, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link


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