Tarby, Cilla, lorra lorra celebrity Scouse Tories.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
Jimmy Tarbuck
Cilla Black
Esther McVey
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
Esther McVey. Case closed.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
John McDonnell outweighs all that lot
― gyac, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
Grew up in East Anglia though. God, a Scouser in East Anglia, talk about a big fish in a small pond.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
This is good
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― gyac, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
my Scouse friend Dave is from a public school background. But his family fell into abject poverty when his dad got sent down for fiddling the books at his accountancy firm to cover up loads of money his business partner had stolen off him. It's basically a plot from Brookside!
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Cilla has done terrible things
this video about how cilla black used to eat oranges covered in oxo does not end where you expect it to pic.twitter.com/9Ksx6WBQy0— hoops (@itsmatthooper) May 8, 2020
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
This has been a thing for the best part of a decade - poorer councils have disproportionately borne the cost of austerity compared with richer authorities which tend to be in Tory areas.
Funnily enough it was Liverpool back then as well.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/most-deprived-english-councils-suffer-biggest-cuts-in-spending-power-10045665.html
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
yes, council funding formulae are boring but v important. the first round of crisis funding factored in deprivation & the second round didn't, I'm guessing due to pressure from Tory councils
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
liverpudlians love it when you remind them that they had a significant Tory vote until the 60s
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
The Court of Session has found in favour of ex-Scottish Labour leader @kezdugdale in the defamation appeal brought by Wings Over Scotland editor Stuart Campbell. The appeal has been refused, ending a long, expensive legal drama that goes back to March 2017.— Michael Gray (@GrayInGlasgow) May 27, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
rip big man, you were my favourite amiga power writer before you went crackers
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
xxp yeah the Scousers had been a Tory and Liberal Party stronghold for most of the 20th century!
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
https://vole.wtf/this-mp-does-not-exist/
― nashwan, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
some *normal news here, complete arsehole bankrupts himself with costly legal fees hopefully
* non Bo-Dom non Rona news
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
what a way for gyac to find out that calz has her killfiled
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
eh?
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
gyac posted the same exact same twitter link a few posts up
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
oops sorry, just didn't notice!
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
well it is an echo chamber after all!
no one posted this yet, I see, some non-domcum news for once
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:20 (four years ago) link
I've killiefied 90% of this thread so every day I tell myself I'm easily in the top three best poster of regular contributors here
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
just admit you refer to this thread as 'the calzone' or resign
― nashwan, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
that will be Tell Kier Starmer to fuck off thread I'm going to start!
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
I'm fuming. I wrote to my MP, Sir Christopher Chope, about Cummings, and in his reply he not only defended the man but also managed to find a way to blame migrants.Don't vote Tory, folks, especially if you vote in Christchurch. pic.twitter.com/mcpXq8rCiW— Benjamin Chadwick (@bchadwickfrance) May 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
Don't vote Tory, folks, especially if you vote in Christchurch.
Good luck with that one.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
Noted epidemiologist Sir Christopher Chope telling everyone how it works on viral transmission there
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
He's the upskirt guy?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
Who ya gonna call? FILIBUSTERS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chope#Blocking_and_filibustering_of_bills
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
Repulsive man.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
I ain't afraid of "no" votes
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
vg
― stet, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
calzino hasn't even killfiled me, he's a softie really :D
― imago, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't even killify a Danish fly
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
I hate Scousers as well tbh even though my best pal is one, but he's a Berlin Scouser and also hates Scousers!
Liverpool way cooler than Berlin ftr.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
I've not been to Berlin but that seems unlikely
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
lol we're all gonna die
A retired doctor who set up the UK’s first Covid-19 contact-tracing scheme has warned the Government faces major challenges after they struggled to persuade health and care workers to self-isolate.Dr Bing Jones told BBC Radio 4’s The World At One programme that only a third of people involved in their testing scheme agreed to self isolate. He said: “The other two-thirds were mostly co-operative but we didn’t complete the follow-up. One of the reasons was that three-quarters of these people who we were unable to follow, so that is around 30 people, were employed in the health service or care homes or home care.“They generally said ‘we’d like to help but I discussed it with my manager and my manager says no’.”He added that “this is a major challenge for the government”.Greg Fell, a director of Public Health in Sheffield, added: “I hope the app will do what it was built to do but certainly I’m not building my hopes and aspirations about the app being there to save us. I’m building my hopes and aspirations about having skilled humans.”
Dr Bing Jones told BBC Radio 4’s The World At One programme that only a third of people involved in their testing scheme agreed to self isolate.
He said: “The other two-thirds were mostly co-operative but we didn’t complete the follow-up. One of the reasons was that three-quarters of these people who we were unable to follow, so that is around 30 people, were employed in the health service or care homes or home care.
“They generally said ‘we’d like to help but I discussed it with my manager and my manager says no’.”
He added that “this is a major challenge for the government”.
Greg Fell, a director of Public Health in Sheffield, added: “I hope the app will do what it was built to do but certainly I’m not building my hopes and aspirations about the app being there to save us. I’m building my hopes and aspirations about having skilled humans.”
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
xp reminds me of a thought I had the other day, is Johnson the only British PM to be unable to enter a part of the country he governs* for fear of being lynched? I doubt Thatcher was too popular in Liverpool either but she could probably have at least visited without being strung up.
* as so often different circumstances probably apply in Northern Ireland
― Neil S, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
Having been to both, unlikely doesn't really cover it.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
(xp) Pretty sure Churchill avoided South Wales like the rona.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Dundonians otm.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/1315993/this-city-will-kill-me-churchill-the-maggot-saga-and-how-the-cigar-puffing-statesman-came-to-despise-dundee/
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
I like Liverpool well enough but, no.
The contract tracing thing seems dead in the water.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
oh no
‘A good strong daddy’ pic.twitter.com/b7i5UIFFtG— Harriet Williamson (@harriepw) May 27, 2020
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
I've been to both, so nyah.
Viewpoint somewhat coloured by the fact that Berlin is the number one destination for obnoxious rich kids throughout the continent, mind.
xposts
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
yeah, can't say i'm surprised that we appear to be on the verge of fucking up the one thing that might help us get some control over the spread of the disease but this doesn't look good
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
so not "world-beating" then, there's a surprise it's not like boris to talk in excitable terms about something he has no chance of delivering
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
Has anyone implemented contact tracing effectively without making it a social necessity?
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
see that south korea are thinking about introducing some tightening measures again - and that’s with quite a sophisticated track and trace program in place
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
xps so what you're saying Tom D is that Johnson is well and truly Churchillian
― Neil S, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link