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

Must have been tough for him, but at least he's all those apolitical ice-cream eating feeb's votes in the bag now.

aww, diddums xp

The big donations to Keir's leadership campaign have FINALLY been revealed. He was swimming in cash from super-rich donors, including £95,000 from hedge funder Martin Taylor.

Not sure we'll be hearing much more from Labour about hedge fund billionaires.https://t.co/RFeTeWoFzU

— EL4C (@EL4JC) April 17, 2020

lot of construction industry ppl in there. baron alli, the guy who helped create survivor and worked at endemol with a cool 100k. longstanding supporter of the labour right trevor chinn w/ 50k, likewise fbaron hollick w/ 25k. green energy company w/ 20k, baron myners formerly of the guardian group, M&S and some big property company w/ 10k. joan bakewell in there too.

I take back everything I've ever said about Starmer, he is a much much more of a Tory arsehole than I ever inferred he was.

barons4keir

mark burnett the producer of survivor also one of the biggest trump supporters and produced the apprentice

makes unison's 10k seem p irrelevant

Labour will need more donations after they haemorrhage 200k members, but who needs members any more, eh?

Might wanna cross-reference those donors with the construction firms building ‘affordable’ and social-rent flats in Camden.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/apr/17/woman-90-climb-highland-mountain-home-help-nhs-margaret-payne

A 90-year-old woman hopes to climb the equivalent of a Highland mountain by taking repeated trips up and down her stairs, to raise money for the NHS.

Maybe Boris Johnson can speed his recuperation by swimming the Thames or something, should be a doddle for someone who thinks ill people are all malingerers.

fuck this fucking shithole country

NHS bosses are preparing to ask doctors and nurses to work without full-length gowns when treating Covid-19 patients, as hospitals across England are set to run out of supplies within hours, the Guardian has learned.

The guidance will be a reversal of Public Health England (PHE) guidelines stipulating that full-length waterproof surgical gowns, designed to stop coronavirus droplets getting into someone’s mouth or nose, should be worn for all high-risk hospital procedures.

In a significant U-turn, PHE is set to advise frontline staff to wear a flimsy plastic apron when gowns have run out, in a move that doctors and nurses fear may lead to more of them contracting the virus and ultimately put lives at risk.

Easy to forget, and maybe I was naive to start with, but I remember a few weeks ago thinking "bloody hell, this could kill 10,000 people. Even 20!" And now we're at 15,000 official fatalities, plus however many in care homes etc. So given that we're nowhere near the end, and there will probably be further outbreaks once rules are relaxed, we're maybe looking at an eventual six-figure death count for the UK? Hard to predict, obviously. It just seems to be normalised now, and still most Britishers are right behind the Tories. Sigh.

that report from the us that said we could be heading towards 60,000 deaths and which was roundly rubbished by those in power isn’t looking too fantastical nowadays, it must be said

they subsequently revised that figure down to 37,000

why that’s barely any at all!

just ftr

no thanks for mentioning it

37,000 feels all too plausible rly

Still on target for the highest in Europe though? I wonder how many people were tut-tutting at feckless and slapdash Southern Europeans and saying. "That won't happen here, you mark my words."

As soon as the lockdown is over the Tories should call an election and double their majority.

don’t fuckin tempt them

there was a lot of, 'well it's a different culture in Italy...'

Too much of de hugging an da kissing!

We survived the Blitz we can survive thisuuughghh *drops dead of COVID-19*

One good thing is that Boris isn't around, so I assume he must genuinely be fucked... either that or he's done an Eden and has gone gaga under the pressure, doped up to the eyeballs, hugging his knees and rocking back and forth.

Boris, earlier

https://i.4pcdn.org/tv/1448848060136s.jpg

Always fun to check the letters pages and see that another couple of Express readers have basically reinvented slavery. pic.twitter.com/TkOzf2tBM8

— Pointless Letters (@pointlesslettrs) April 17, 2020

clap for enslaved labour!

calzino fun fact we basically do that in America

not with crops but with prison labor (paid at pennies an hour)

We have prison slave labour too, it’s how our shitty plastic poppies are made just to join some dots

Aye Silby, a few years back i read some book called A Colony Within a Nation or something like that. Since the days of abolished slavery the US exercises legalised slavery - even more of an evil failed state than the UK.

Wasn’t workfare the second letter basically?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfare_in_the_United_Kingdom

One good thing is that Boris isn't around, so I assume he must genuinely be fucked... either that or he's done an Eden and has gone gaga under the pressure, doped up to the eyeballs, hugging his knees and rocking back and forth.

Oh and on another note entirely, this is peak

These days you can't even buy golden syrup for your 5 year old son to make gingerbreadmen without an enforced 5p donation to people who shot several of his extended family. It's genuinely political correctness gone mad. pic.twitter.com/WOXhRBwKpY

— Tre Vorba-Stard III (@TreborRhurbarb) April 17, 2020

xp
well yeah, only marginally less evil than the US. I'm very lucky in the respect that my last dealings with UK benefits system as an unemployed person were often short and before the evil UC reforms.

I'm going to stop buying Lyles fake maple syrup just because of them pulling wanker moves like that!

Councils on the brink:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-52331282?

Give it Tommy Corbyn at the end of the season.

Seriously, hats off to Rosie who's been furiously tweeting for 4+ years saying that I'm getting a healthy salary as dads "chauffeur". I think it's time to come clean and say I don't actually have a drivers licence. https://t.co/5Dj4bVCNGE

— Tommy Corbyn (@TommyCorbyn) April 17, 2020

fuck he’s been driving his dad without a licence for four years???

The large Lavery donk sons and the Corbyn sons are proof that you don’t have to melt if you’re a child of a leftist.

This lockdown is doing strange things to some people pic.twitter.com/yWlwxJmkI1

— Liam Lavery (@LiamLavery1) April 17, 2020

look at Lavery - doesn't look a day over 34 there - respect!

Lol he has an incredibly Irish-looking face tbf.

I’m currently being baited by Chris Williamson supporters alleging I supported the West’s bombing of Libya, which is unfortunate because I explicitly campaigned against it and he *voted for it* https://t.co/w2bnWYG3oB

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 17, 2020

starmer voters vs williamson apologists, which suck most shit?

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/18/britain-one-party-state-tories-coronavirus-power?

If Tom D were to write for The Guardian..

We've hardly had a government for the last five years, what with referendums and three general elections, people have been thinking an awful lots about politics.

In one sense, our democracy is healthier now. Labour and the Tories disagree much more profoundly than they did during the Blair years – voters have a proper choice.

Labour has never been allowed to forget its smaller failure to halt the winter of discontent, more than 40 years ago, when strikes notoriously delayed the burial of some people who had died of natural causes.

He forgot the uncollected rubbish in Leicester Square, a crime not far short of the Nazi death camps for right wing wankers who were born 10 years after it.

And anyone who uses the phrase, "I'm old enough to remember British Rail" should be held in an internment camp indefinitely.

They reported he was convalescing at Chequers. If he had a bad case (and I am not a truther), then he’ll be fucked out of it with exhaustion most of the time.

Cummings meanwhile seems to have completely disappeared since he was seen running away from Number 10 and no one has been suggesting his case was anywhere near as serious.

Oh wait the Mail is on the case:

Mr Cummings, 48, finally returned to Downing Street this morning with a very healthy-looking lunch in a clear plastic bag, containing what appeared to be an unpeeled carrot, a clementine and a processed soft cheese, plus a soup carton.

"right wing wankers who were born 10 years after it."

Wes Streeting got a bit confused about the General Strike of the 20's and the so called winter of discontent, but he only joined the Labour Party by accident.