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

They're Polish builders not media elites, so no Caitlin I don't think

Leave them be at their own risk and hopefully no-one else's and enjoy how angry this would make Priti Patel.

nice big clap of thunder here in e5, if ʻoumuamua won't save us maybe ragnarok will

perfect govt. response re. whether workers on furlough can be forced to take holiday time during it

The Guardian attempted to clarify the confusion. The Treasury press office redirected the inquiry to HM Revenue and Customs which, in turn, insisted it was a matter for the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy department.

BEIS stated that it was a Treasury responsibility.

pointing_spiderman.jpg

somehow this quote gets me even angrier at these people than Patel's "I'm sorry if you feel unhappy" from yesterday

Charles Walker, a Tory MP who knows Johnson well, said that when he received a text on his phone relaying the news, he and his wife – like much of the country – found it hard to take. “We had watched the Queen on Sunday night, one of the anchors in our lives. She took us back to the moment in her reign when she broadcast during the war with her sister. Then to suddenly hear that our prime minister had been taken into intensive care … in my 52 years I really have to say I think it was the darkest hour. We had lots of friends and family contracting the virus, and had news of so many people dying, then you think, ‘my God, we could lose him as well’.”

"everyone else is dead but as long as Big Ben is bonging and Boris is bonking, Britain will never be defeated"

nice big clap of thunder here in e5, if ʻoumuamua won't save us maybe ragnarok will

just remembered that Big Ben has stopped bonging, Boris truly is our last hope

She took us back to the moment in her reign when she broadcast during the war with her sister. Then to suddenly hear that our prime minister had been taken into intensive care … in my 52 years I really have to say I think it was the darkest hour.

So it took him back to that moment the Queen broadcast during the war, 28 years before he was born - honestly, these people want locking up. Also, it was during her reign, you fucking cretin.

I'm surprised he didn't say it was the darkest hour the nation had faced since the Winter of Discontent tbh.

(xp) it wasn't during her reign, ffs and I'm calling him a cretin.

"then you think, ‘my God, we could lose him as well’ and won't even be able to have a good pissup to celebrate the worthless prick's death"

"Myself and my wife were engaging in our traditional Sunday pastime, shared by many here no doubt, of rewatching the 2017 Gary Oldman film while mutually masturbating..."

raincloudy with enough blue sky to paint an old-school enid blyton book cover imo, breeze just slammed half my flats doors so i closed some windows

Raincloudy is a beautiful and evocative word.

There’s some evocative words in this report, though not quite as pretty.

Labour staffers discussing me in 2015. Lol. pic.twitter.com/uuTq7sSbrY

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 12, 2020

was lolling at some OJ/Chris Williamson interaction earlier!

it's worth watching that turkey of a movie (Darkest Hour) for some of the lols tbf. The scene on the tube is hilarious on a few levels and is probably the worst acting Oldman has done since director Julian Schnabel (in a blatant vanity move) cast him as himself in the Basquiat movie!

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

there has been much lip service from Sir Kier on Labour AS but he clearly doesn't give a fuck about racism in the party if he thinks burying this report is the best option.

EXCLUSIVE: Labour Party internal report on Antisemitism

"The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019"

Leaked (in full) by Jewdas ✊https://t.co/9PA6d8IH4V

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) April 12, 2020

full report leaked

lol!

Magnificent work.

Can Corbyn or someone sue these people or something? Make them stand up in court and admit what they were doing?

Love those guys.

That scumbag McNicol was on the news during the week giving it the "We've got our party back" routine.

can’t believe those antisemitic monsters at jewdas are up to their old tricks again, and at easter too

We knew it was bad, but fucking hell.

Senior Labour officials laughing at the "truly repulsive" Diane Abbott for crying in a toilet, mocking Dawn Butler for daring to mention racism in Labour, and saying Iain Duncan Smith was "better than most of our shadow cabinet". These people ran Labour until very recently. pic.twitter.com/DKELoIN47s

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) April 12, 2020

fuck this fucking party, and fuck Corbs for not purging the cunts

raincloudy with enough blue sky to paint an old-school enid blyton book cover imo, breeze just slammed half my flats doors so i closed some windows

and now having made my way through the rest of the thread - i was wondering on whether this stuff was actionable as well, Tom. doesn’t feel in character for corbyn but the things people are identifying on this thread alone are utterly disgusting.

sun back out after very b flurry of drops

just remembered when corbs was branded antisemitic for the way he pronounced jeffrey epstein’s name

that were good, that

I have emailed my (Labour) MP to say that unless they are expelled I will quit the party, so guess I'm going to quit the party.

Who is your MP cams?

Patrick Henegan who is implicated in that report mocking Diane Abbott (and I’m sure much more) was the chief executive of the People’s Vote campaign, and asked to leave after harassing female employees. Yet more evidence that the People’s Vote was a wrecking campaign 2.0

— Jase (@jasebyjason) April 12, 2020

I had thought this of Labour for a long time - one of the articles where a councillor had been expelled for calling a Jewish Labour member “Shylock” mentioned in passing that the guy who’d been expelled had been pulled up for referring to “P**is” and using other racial slurs previously. Including to constituents! Why wasn’t he expelled before then?! Well I guess now we know why.

Daniel Zeichner xxp

How come? Sorry if a stupid question, there’s so much stuff coming out atm.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVai_D1XsAMocoo?format=jpg&name=900x900
This thing being leaked in a million low quality JPEGs. This ones after the 2017 exit poll.

What a truly bizarre, carefully co-ordinated attack on Starmer this is pic.twitter.com/LyW00vnzEU

— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) April 11, 2020

Well this was predictable.

Even the most uncontroversial criticism of the government is whipped up in an attempt to generate hysteria but apparently political point scoring in a crisis is fine when the CCHQ social media team do it.

Also you've got to be pretty dumb to retweet several other posts that confirm how obviously pre-scripted it all is.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-government-close-to-lies-over-coronavirus-deaths-warns-expert-11972083

it's possible that their realisation of how badly they could come out of the other side of this is gonna make them hyper-aggressive but it's Steer Karma ffs, it's like savaging a dead sheep

chill the fuck out Kier for goodness sake, you impetuous angry radical firebrand you!

So what’s the story on how this child of a nurse and tradesman named for an ancestral Labour lion grew up into a doughy lad that calzino loathes? (I only looked at Wikipedia for about six seconds here)

it’s a real nature-vs-nurture case study

xp oh mate

Was it due to a grievous illness, didn’t mean to offend

Kinnock had a grittier origin story and was still a complete plank!

he was bitten by a radioactive centrist iirc