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

the uk is technically not a majority racist country

Don't read the responses to that.

"33%? fuck me"

Sounds about right.

Yes. If not too low.

hey 87% of Britons, go fuck yourselves

Full support to those Labour MPs facing a torrent of abuse for standing up to racism and pointing out the barbaric history of slavery and colonialism.

This history should be taught in schools.

We must all be clear that #BlackLivesMatter.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 8, 2020

miss u king

At the risk of turning into calz, lol

Lmao he triangulated his fucking NAME pic.twitter.com/3Z3DzD6S4l

— social equidistancing (@revskaben) June 8, 2020

his "working class" factory running labour history geek dad cursed him by naming him after a talented orator!

Loooooollll how funny is this, lads trying to get the statue out today 😭 pic.twitter.com/kqem7KdjGM

— MADELEINE (@Frenchd0gblues) June 8, 2020

what on earth are these idiot tribe morons trying to do here, lol a pole - talk about the wrong tools for a job!

Scrap metal tatters or white supremacist scumbags?

is it made of copper perhaps?

That's my first guess

Bronze iirc.

'Justice will follow' anti-racism protest clashes

Gonnae guess this BBC headline doesn't lead to what you'd hope.

the scrappers have been asleep in recent weeks, there was a beautiful wrought iron gate just sitting there for weeks outside one of the houses on "millionaires row" recently!

you better have a good functional backyard foundry if you fancy shifting a bronze statue that is all over the news right now, some of these more professional scrappers might but your average copper thief wont!

i think my absolute favorite thing on this website is the way you can spot a calzino post inside the first half dozen words.

(not a joke, i love it, great poster)

lol way too generous, but thanks anyway!

Lol

#SittingInLimbo epitomises the unimaginable suffering endured by the Windrush generation. On behalf of successive governments, I apologise again to victims & their families. I will do all I can to ensure @ukhomeoffice protects & listens to every part of the community it serves.

— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) June 8, 2020

She is laughing at all of us.

"Only £360,000 of a compensation pot meant to pay out £500m has been distributed"

there are other ways to apologise for such a crime against humanity other than more worthless fucking lip service from the dead eyed psychotic daughter of a former UKIP candidate

"face the full force of the law" is a statement implying and encouraging police brutality so of course Johnson ended his statement with it

Meesa surely Jar Jar Binks wish yess. Weesa say nosa

— Layla Moran 🔶 (@LaylaMoran) June 8, 2020

Keir Starmer you are finished! please make way for our next leader

lol, was just about to post that.

Genuinely impressed how quickly politicians and the press have managed to pivot to making analysis of racism in the UK, at a time thousands of BAME people are dying needlessly of an avoidable disease, an argument about whether statues need to be reviewed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/sadiq-khan-orders-review-of-all-london-statues-for-slavery-links

cursed tweet. mods ban user alphabet pls

Top story on the Guardian website - statues, next story, Boris Johnson's statement on BLM and statues, next story, Sadiq commits to reviewing statues...

Bronze Racists Matter

There's a huge amount of great, positive energy out there but you'd be forgiven for thinking that racism ended 200 years ago and the debate should be about how we memorialise it.

instead of getting stuck on statues, let's move on to this

If we’re gonna talk about the UK’s history with slavery, how about we talk about the MPs whose money + power comes from slavery?

Thread:

— Griff Ferris (@g__ferris) June 8, 2020

Putting on my mask for a day trip to the statue museum

that's excellent work xp

lol no shock that Drax is the first name in the thread.

a literal supervillain

And a power station to boot.

he definitely looks like an evil plantation boss

plantation but turns out it was in ulster

lol the plunketts predate the plantation, it's some proto-tudor shit

wikipedia sentence casting the shade here: "Debrett's single sourceless sentence on the subject describes the charter of 1439 as a writ, although Cokayne denies that Ireland recognised the creation of peerages by writ; some websites have copied Debrett"

cokayne: helluvadrug

I feel like an absolutely massive churl but i honestly care less about what Drax's ancestors did in the 1700s than what Priti Patel is doing now. I'm fully on board with the idea that fundamental change isn't going to happen until Britain properly understands and reckons with the legacy of colonialism but at a point where people in the US are looking at ways to think beyond policing, the UK government has just forced through a new immigration bill that will severely impact the rights of migrants, there are allegations of suppressed / ignored evidence in the BAME COVID report, the hostile environment policy still guides immigration strategy despite promises it wouldn't, etc, etc, it might as well be a psy-op.

Isn’t the point that many of the UK’s establishment got their wealth through slavery and many of those people are in positions of power today? But yes, agree on you being a colossal churl.

sv and gyac otm

❤️❤️❤️

these things are deeply connected and agitation that churns up the deep placid assumptions abt the eternal truths of the british is where genuine movement comes and can somewhat stick: this is norman-yoke shit

it absolutely needs the two seemingly difft things being fought for tho

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o85xIO33l7RlmLR4I/giphy.gif

cok-ay-ne knee's up.

(that's all i have)

the del-boy through the bar thing makes me think that maybe rolling a statue into the river in bristol should become a yearly event. there are worse. could be new statues, made especially, topical, like the effigies in lewes.

I was watching that Jane Elliott piece on racism that was done here and the levels of resistance and blindness to privilege were unreal. People here complaining about Trump’s birthright citizenship proposals while Thatcher passed that legislation before I was even born. So yeah the conversation here is really behind in many ways.

They're absolutely connected but shifting the focus of action back to Oxbridge and Rhodesia is territory the UK establishment is fundamentally comfortable with imo.

But yes, both,

highlighting the racism entrenched in the state now helps to spike the guns of all the "they've got nothing to complain about" scumbags to some extent

it's not at all comfy abt the issue of long-standing land ownership and predatory landlordism