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

In cheerier news, there was nothing to worry about with Alex Salmond after all.

i am finding myself getting instinctively cross at totally innocuous and safe behaviour (kid learning to ride his bike with a parent, in the empty road most recently) until I catch myself. Scowling at people simply going outside isn't helpful to anyone.

Wow. Now Tory MP Steve Double says "many people that we consider to be low skilled are actually pretty crucial to the smooth running of our country". Calls on Priti Patel to review the new points-based immigration system "to reflect the things we've learnt during this time".

— Benjamin Kentish LBC (@BenKentish) March 23, 2020

"We've"

i just can’t with this

I know there is growing anxiety about the spread of the coronavirus, the severe pressures on our National Health Service and the risk to people’s lives.

Labour has supported the social distancing measures that have been introduced.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 23, 2020

I think the Keirbot is malfunctioning.

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Watch Kier Starmer Softly Ripple The Hair Of The Conservative Party In This Vague Tweet

less of a tweetstorm, more of a tweetmist

like a fool i read some of the replies, now i'm sad

best thing about this style of insipid opposition from Starmer is I won't even give a shit when US style voter suppression is employed by the tories.

cunt starmer morelike

i'm thinking of dobbing the grown-ups in to social services

opposition diluted to homeopathic concentrations, supposed to increase the potency don't you know

it works if you just believe hard enough

The trick is to spend as much money on it as you can. Pure, unalloyed belief will follow.

Lol at that Starmer tweet

like a fool i read some of the replies, now i'm sad

imagine living through the last couple of weeks and thinking what we need more of is more middle-of-the-road milquetoast say-nothing 'politics'

it's almost as if nah you know what never mind that let's just build bigger gulags

There are more replies dunking on him than supporting him fwiw.

I know I've ranted about the preposterous length of this leadership contest but I didn't expect capitalism to end in the middle of it.

For all our sakes I am appealing to Boris Johnson personally to just get on with it now and introduce measures to enforce social distancing. In London especially we can’t wait any longer. Lives are at risk. https://t.co/wwEHfiHghf

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) March 23, 2020

The Labour membership that voted for Starmer still trying their best to conceal their buyers remorse and talk up this wet lettuce while inwardly despairing.

can't wait for COVIDs 20 through 100 (over the next few years) to put paid to any prospect of another UK general election

serious questions are being predicted guys

"measures to enforce social distancing" is martial law talk again innit? not sure I'm happy with that John McD tweet.

French-style lockdown maybe? Only one person per household out at a time?

friend of mine (who has an auto-immune disorder) just got one of these today

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PM to address nation at 8:30pm. lockdown? their comms have been chaotic and they still haven’t done anything for the self-employed. would be pretty bad imv.

people today in the park were being v considerate about each others’ space presumably because this weekend was the first time when serious comms about social distancing were available (tho that still wasn’t thru government of course).

see jim waterson’s piece here.

boris is gonna announce his resignation

NEW: The government hasn't run a single ad about coronavirus from its official Facebook or Instagram accounts

Or the PM's official account

Or Boris Johnson's personal account

Despite being offered millions in free ad credits by Facebookhttps://t.co/psC1wXT2rF

— Rowland Manthorpe (@rowlsmanthorpe) March 23, 2020

the Conservative Party piss away millions on FB advertising during election campaigns but can't even be arsed using free ad credits to help save lives during the worst public health crisis in a century.

"i'm resigned to watching a bunch of you die"

or i’m resigned to bringing in authoritarian measures because you didn’t respond properly to our confused economic and social messages. no i don’t care it’s been half cocked you will have to pay for our uselessness.

authoritarian measures for at least 2 years, maybe. you love to see it.

too bad Theresa sold the water cannon

here we fuckin’ go

Would he not brush his hair for this

Fuck that shit University Challenge is on then there's a brand new Family Guy

Should have done a bingo card

He’ll say OUR NHS by the time I’ve finished writing this

a brand new Family Guy

“If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no”
lol

“The police will have the power”
oh no

German rules!

nice to see boris boasting about building up our nhs seconds after a devastating c4 report on ppe shortages

OUR NHS

there it is

Speaking to the nation, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the coronavirus is "the biggest threat this country has faced for decades".

He says "without a huge national effort" there will come a time when "no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses".

maybe, but it would certainly cope a lot easier if we had actually looked after the NHS properly you absolute fucktards

Wondering if going to the allotment counts as exercise or if it'll get me put before the firing squad

Jeremy Corbyn wondering the same thing

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Instructed to use food delivery services as much as possible, which is great if you don’t need groceries any time before the first week of May,

BoJo boasting abt “our NHS” made me chuck my tv out the window

starting to get nervous about how a uk of this character will start to view its smaller prosperous neighbour in the next wee while