oh, I see xyzzz and calz - the only two ppl I have blocked! what are the odds? - have posted about it, carry on
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
This is surprisingly great, what’s the catch?
UK moving further alongside the US in tensions against China, I guess? Still unequivocally a good thing tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
The government might want to avoid a second spike on the basis that a really bad outbreak would obliterate much of their remaining credibility especially if Cummings remains in position. Which makes me think they've been floating the idea of regional lockdowns for a reason.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Gives London the opportunity to undermine another world financial centre as well.
Scotland's minor relaxation of contact rules has resulted in dozens of households congregating at the bottom of my road and all their kids running around together with not a 2m gap to be seen. If that's what it's like here in a community broadly supporting of the Scottish government it'll be a nightmare in Tory/Orange heartlands.
Oh, and my son's friend, whose father has just recovered from the rona, is having a big house party tonight (my son isn't going).
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
ogmor - hope you have learnt your lesson.
So we are at + 8k infections a week. The government may not give a shit but should we get a 2nd spike there will be enough people not going out and spending to tank the economy further?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
If the infection rate stays the same it won't *look* like a spike, so much as the unfortunate but necessary sacrifice we all have to make, we're all in this together blah blah. Less of a surge than a constant swell, is what I'm saying - a slow-motion tsunami.
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
Cummings is such a gift to Cockwomble Twitter: yet another means of avoiding structural analysis, protecting their own class interests and very public virtue signalling. They could simply have voted Labour in 2019, of course.— paul longue durée ewart (@paulewart23) May 29, 2020
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
It is an excellent coinage
― Mambo Number 5 was a number one jam (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
what a brainfarting thundercunt cumcums is!
― imago, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
Matt 2 OTM according to this. 80 deaths a day to become background noise:https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-scientist-who-advises-government-warns-lockdown-being-eased-too-soon-11996946
― stet, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
the stench of brooker and iannucci is like what you get exhuming a recent mass killing site of rotting cockwombles, next to a maggot farm on a hot summer's day. With a nice flask of smelly warm urine for refreshment.
― calzino, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
And even 80 deaths a day, averaged from July to the end of the year, is another 15,000 or so. Except it'd be more. Plus the excess deaths figure will become clearer, and that HAS to be added to the total death toll. So we could conceivably be at 100,000 deaths by 2021, just in time for the much-desired no deal crashout of the EU. *waves tattered flag*
cockwombling xpost
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
I’ve seen this letter on our local FB page from the Totnes Tory MP who has obviously forgotten to remove the cut and paste instructions from Tory party Central office. Just shows how uncaring they are - do feel free to RT #BorisJohnsonMustGo #SackDom pic.twitter.com/Nchf3XQwq2— georgie #revokeA50 #FBPE (@getback2thebeat) May 29, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
graph on p17 of this - the yellow line has a pretty severe uptick this weekhttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888254/COVID19_Epidemiological_Summary_w22_Final.pdf
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
Scotland's minor relaxation of contact rules...― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, May 29, 2020 6:21 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
cycled through pollok park earlier - lots of young team out cradling empty bottles of MD2020, plus several groups > 8 having BBQs, and one group playing touch (!) rugby
― ||||||||, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
But they were fucked up in their turnBy fools looking for some 2020 vision
― calzino, Friday, 29 May 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
lol we're all gonna die pt. 94
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdown
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Saturday, 30 May 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
Never discount local laziness from local mps! xxp
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
That London uptick in the graph Stevie talked about is worrying, let's see it it continues. I guess it might be a correction of the data as well?
Test and trace article would be terrifying if anyone was actually using the app and I'm not seeing much evidence that anyone has actually downloaded it.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-52858392
Judging by this, some of the scientists are very nervous and in mutinous mood. We haven't seen a high profile resignation on scientific/political grounds yet and one has to be coming.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
the FBPEs were all having a massive pop at Edmunds last week after a misleadingly edited clip of his appearance against Pueyo on C4 did the rounds. They've shut up now, weirdly.
― stet, Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
Delightful final para in this otherwise deeply depressing article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-teflon-dom-sets-his-sights-on-one-thing-only-brexit-bw6cbf8cs
― Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 30 May 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
May be paywalled so:“He is the person who pushed for a £20,000 fine if you broke the border quarantine, who himself drove up to Durham. It’s like The Wizard of Oz — everyone has just pulled back the curtain and it’s like some bald bloke in shit clothes.”
― Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 30 May 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdown?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1590816367
Wednesday came (day four) and we got a message assuring us that we were getting paid – and to please wait. The comments came in “LOL getting paid by the government for this”, and “they’ll be clapping for us on Thursday”. It went downhill from there, and people started writing derogatory remarks. Others suggested we use the company phone system to practise calling each other on our computers. Again, supervisors didn’t interject or offer any guidance. One person set up a Facebook group (for the people in out chat) and called it Panic Room.
inside the ‘world-beating' track and trace system that is going to be a big success for the rona.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jun/23/daniel-sturridge-chelsea-manchester-city
― Mambo Number 5 was a number one jam (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 May 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Rona FC just signed Mo Salah
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
Tonight’s Opinium/Observer poll: 😯— James Endersby (@JamesEnders) May 30, 2020
I get the feeling the melt knight of the realm will have some happier reading than boris tonight.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
can we start polling how many people want BoJo's head on a spike, the only poll that matters?
― Mambo Number 5 was a number one jam (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
gnna need a bigger spike
― mark s, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Oh it's coming.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
by the time Starmer loses to Johnson― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:28 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:28 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
;)
The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024.
― ||||||||, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
three short years and eleven shorter months away!
how does the festering corpse of the tory party pick itself up here. some sort of war?
― imago, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
At some point in the coming couple of weeks they're going to clock that the honest-to-god last chance for a Brexit extension expires at the end of June. That has the potential to get spicy, even if they all promised to be rabid Brexiteers in the Before.
― stet, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
Eh, they got rid of everyone who believes anything other than "Johnny Foreigner doesn't like it up 'em" last year.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Tears for Dominic Grieve rn
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 May 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
I know, and they all signed their little pledge too. But I wonder how much that will count for when push comes to shove with Dom's Hard Brexit. (I mean, if the govt wants it then it will happen, but I reckon there'll be a row, it won't be all flags and bulldogs)
― stet, Saturday, 30 May 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Starmer won't beat Johnson because Boris is highly unlikely to contest the next election. Why would he when he could fuck off to the most lucrative after dinner speech market of all time? (Assuming he doesn't become Neville Chamberlain in the meantime that is).
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
Eden liked taking a Caribbean vacation while his reputation and standing went down the pisser as well, although in completely different circumstances.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
Tory lead down to 4 points. The fact that they have a lead at all is shocking.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Have the Lib Dems just given up?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
I just read John Smith had a 20 point lead post black wednesday and all the other shit, the last time the Tories were probably even more competent than they are now!
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
xp
the LibDems still haven't got a new leader, they are probably doing much soul searching about flanking fucking lame-melt Starmer Labour from a few microns to the the left.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
was sure Ed Davey was their leader, or is that interim
― imago, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
no the leadership LibDem race is still a going concern, even more riveting than a amateur riders' selling hurdle at Towcester
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure Ed Davey has been LibDem leader for longer than Jo Swinson who actually beat him in the contest.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 May 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
that light that burns twice as shite...
― calzino, Saturday, 30 May 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link