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

Didier Raoult, the French physician who's one of the original sources of Trump's dubious hydroxychloroquine #Covid19 "cure"... damn, just who IS it he reminds me of? pic.twitter.com/4KKGC0kpT5

— Ian Penman (@pawboy2) April 7, 2020

trump only trusts doctors with a very specific look

https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-05/harold-bornstein-facebook_650x400_61525239277.jpg

sarah vine for medical attention

lol, well-played vladimir

Vladimir Putin's telegram to Boris Johnson:
"I am sure that your energy, optimism, and sense of humour will help you defeat the illness." https://t.co/PlNfJNNfZA pic.twitter.com/OzjspRfaHl

— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) April 7, 2020

fuck sake drago himself wouldve stopped at optimism

pic.twitter.com/UJNT7sMaHM

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) April 7, 2020

flippin' 'eck Tucker Covid 19!

Sarah Vine struggling with her sums, thinking 37% of 6.2k is 6k.

shhh don’t dissuade her from exploring this very promising avenue of scientific inquiry

huge if true

Boris is 100% going to hell - "I took a moment to sanitize my hands and when I turned back around there were bloody hoof prints leading all the way up to the prime minister's bed" pic.twitter.com/rffhqoROZP

— eustachio r. d. wo (@phlespp) April 6, 2020

there is no. fucking. way.

Britons demand #ClapForBoris as voters rally support for PM: "We need him more than ever."

Tonight, 8pm. Spread the word! https://t.co/iN0n19YnDY

— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) April 7, 2020

he does seem to have the same emotional appeal to Tories as Thatcher tho, if he had her work ethic it would be terrifying

I'm sure he's had the clap before, on numerous occasions.

I see the BBC have dug up two of Bojo's friends to talk about the current situation: David Cameron and Ruth Davidson. Can you believe people once thought Ruth Davidson was something? Terrible woman.

fresh off her success of pinpointing the home address of the new head of mi5 on twitter, great job ruth

#fapforboris

DON'T RUIN FAPPING FOR ME

#makebabiesforboris, it’s what he would want

The clapping is lame enough but when you get the very PM that's bungled this crisis from the start piggybacking himself onto what is supposed be for support for crucial front line workers, it's just extremely wrong.

That tweet was obviously written by Dominic Cummings and fuck giving it precious oxygen right now.

All for denying these ppl precious oxygen

I'd engage with the clapping if it was followed by a minute's booing for this shit shower of a govt.

broke: #clapforboris
woke: #orangemarchforboris

The head of Scotland’s Orange Lodge has called for a special march through Glasgow honouring the Conservative government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic to be held later this year.

Jim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said Boris Johnson’s government had stepped up to provide a “package of support unlike anything we have ever seen before”.

I don’t even get it on a basic level - what does clapping mean here, congratulations for getting sick?

Me at a loved ones death bed: bravo!

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

‘thank u based boris for putting your moist, undulating corpus on the line for us, the poor undeserving sinners of this united kingdom’ is basically how i break it down to an extent

A round of applause for your pancreatic cancer, dear uncle!

if he goes after the shops shut and i can't run out for a bottle of fizz i'll be peeved

Do we still clap if he dies before 8pm?

the most bizarre and inappropriate responses so far have come from literal tory mps. absolutely bananas https://t.co/H2hozyHLzf

— tristandross (@tristandross) April 7, 2020

definitely blasting stephan f across the street if this gets traction

(it won't in hackney tho)

not remotely surprised that there's a bunch of Bufton-Tufton backbenchers in a constant state of arousal at the possibility of a real war

all of them still itching to nuke corbyn on his veg patch

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/07/uk-workers-economic-coronavirus-guarantee-universal-basic-income?

Good piece with a nice but on the clap at the end 👏👏👏

I think that "pillock in Iran" might be a bit too preoccupied with their own problems to be harbouring dastardly plans to land occupying artesh forces in Jersey!

854 new deaths seems bad

yeah it's one short

Cmon lads, we can take Italy's record. Less clapping more dying!

ok a "clap for boris" meme just went up in the homerton mutual aid whatsapp, stoked for the response

I'm dreading the horror when this lying racist amoral cunt recovers and gets out of hospital - as we all know he will. He's going to be Churchill and post-Brighton Bombing Thatcher all rolled into one, we are NEVER going to hear the end of this. It'll be like the Winter of Discontent, still be banging on about 50 years later.

response on the whatsapp so far has been hostile tbf

I'm dreading the horror when this lying racist amoral cunt recovers and gets out of hospital - as we all know he will. He's going to be Churchill and post-Brighton Bombing Thatcher all rolled into one, we are NEVER going to hear the end of this. It'll be like the Winter of Discontent, still be banging on about 50 years later.

But if he croaks it this will be even worse, he'll be a consensus figure and whoever's in charge will get to coast by on that.

He's not going to croak.

I disagree anyway, it'll be far worse if he lives.

They may as well make him Prime Minister for life.

Alternative possible bojo legacy

https://66.media.tumblr.com/252f62070064080e551e2b2ddd2a2d6d/tumblr_inline_o8hi7dAMLX1r18uik_500.gifv

one nice thing about all this has been seeing families riding their bikes together on the roads... you know, like is commonplace in many other european cities who privilege cycling infrastructure over cars.... still a lot of xunt drivers about. it's like, mate, nowhere's open, why u in a rush tho

I'm not wishing death on anyone but the sanctimonous pleas for basic human decency from right wing fuckers who shed not a single fucking tear for ten years of austerity, poverty and suicide are getting right on my tits.

Doesn't really need repeating, but Johnson popping his clogs would possibly impact these shitebags on a personal (i.e. financial) level, hence the self-pitying pleas for decency. Some cash-strapped disabled person starving to death in a council flat doesn't, so they don't even think about it. Now just picture the bemused incomprehension if this was pointed out to them.

otm xp