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

he can hold a pen in his hand, pensively studying some legal documents on his desk while jerking off with the other hand.. he's a fucking miracle!

I can cook dinner and tea at the same time pal, so get fucked!

Lads GQ, bestowers of Politician Of The Year on Rory Stewart last year for his many many achievements, are not easily impressed.

Rory Stewart can make a cup of tea in Dari tbfttm

which is the most difficult language to master? Dari or the often arcane and oblique language of the barrister, sometimes known by laypersons as Wanker-ese.

Johnson doing the presser this afternoon, some more announcements incoming

it's PUB DEATH TIME

Meanwhile Neil Ferguson is fucking it up for them in ctte: "earlier lockdown would have prevented half of the deaths".

so that means they saved 30,000 people? yay!

Literally a week earlier would have prevented 50% of deaths. Fucking hell.

and now they can't play the man and dismiss this as coming from mr lockdown-breaker, either

the current line appears to be "if we hadn't acted it would have been even worse so fu"

look we could have seen 470,000 more deaths in the uk so stfu

Ferguson: "The policy has always been to protect care homes... the policy was always clear...the problem-this is not unique to this country-was that the policy simply failed to be enacted, at least until v recently."

Doesn't sound much like a "protective ring" as Hancock says...

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 10, 2020

have seen more effective iterations of "protective ring" on 80's era Catholic altar-boys ... never mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52993734

the UK's coronavirus epidemic did not have one origin - but at least 1,356 origins. On each of those occasions somebody brought the infection into the UK from abroad and the virus began to spread as a result.

Good job we quarantined our little island before things really kicked off

European holiday season is going to be a real clusterfuck.

he's brushed his hair for this one

bubbles, eh

Anecdotally, people are reserving hotel rooms across Europe - and the UK - like it's going out of style.

DIDN’T HAPPEN 🚨 pic.twitter.com/irqLV9Dm8f

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) June 10, 2020

good work, wish i'd thought of that

schools "catchup" over summer

Breaking News: R Number between 0.7 and 0.9

(ie same as it's been for weeks)

although boris has just said "we've got it right down", to a mere 39,000 new cases a week.

Anecdotally, people are reserving hotel rooms across Europe - and the UK - like it's going out of style.

A bunch of hotel chains are offering flexible booking, which is going to come in handy when more countries put up big NO BRITS signs at the border.

Add Austria to that list

tbh I fear the Southern European countries will be sufficiently shook by the idea of tourism collapsing that they won't leave the brits out

Portugal have already said some come one come all.

.@BethRigby: "What do you now wish you had done differently?"@BorisJohnson: "We're going to have to look back at all of it and learn the lessons we can, but frankly I think a lot of these questions are still premature."

Follow live: https://t.co/4sGQDLLTHi pic.twitter.com/EsO3tghtQR

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) June 10, 2020

Fucking hell this is honestly even worse than it looks in print.

boris in full 🤷‍♂️ mode

What's with all the #ScumMedia replies to that tweet? Is that some coordinated right wing thing?

good replies to this

The madness of censoring shows like Little Britain, by Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/e8XCfpzdAJ

— Coffee House (@SpecCoffeeHouse) June 10, 2020

"Cancel culture", that's the new one is it?

[Thread]1/ The hashtag "Scum Media" is trending in the UK as some people rally to defend #DominicCummings. With democracy constantly under attack, it's important to understand attacks on our media. I downloaded around 19000 tweets from 7030 accounts. Some findings 👉 #CumGate pic.twitter.com/InBQ5hBlsu

— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) May 25, 2020

Thought this thread was interesting on #ScumMedia - does seem to be a coordinated thing with a lot of bots involved but also a lot of sincere idiots fuelling it.

Also straight up Nazis but that's par for the course.

Cheers

Boris Johnson has had to go on the telly today and specifically make having sex legal again, and yet Labour are still behind in the polls. Starmer must walk

— LES MONUMENT (@wariotifo) June 10, 2020

yeah the scummedia cloud are mostly bots and people so demented they think the bbc political dept are lefties.

look champ, your mummy and I love each other very much but... pic.twitter.com/kKQWACDU25

— Liam Williams (@funnylad5) June 9, 2020

I had a good laugh at that earlier. As soon as CCHQ cotton on to how ripe the style of PR the Starmzy office puts out for public consumption are for such easy parody and clowning he is so doomed if he is still here for the next election!

already today Boris has used his early lame (or some would have it, forensic) attack lines against the tory govt, it's only gonna get worse for him unless he stops being a pathetic reconstructed tory melt wanker.

it's a race to the bottom with Starmer because no matter what his intentions are, he doesn't explicitly promise much. So the Tories can just go back all that to well look what you lot did towards the creeping privatisation of the NHS etc type arguments, that do actually hold water.

at least when Corbyn was there these arguments were often specious nonsense because he came with different ideas. I'm not saying he was perfect, but he was good enough to make me and many others who previously wouldn't vote, actually vote with some level of enthusiasm. That's all gone now.

I'm a bit drunk rn, but just saying this Starmer fellow is rotten to the core and I saw it early not because I'm Nostradamus with x-ray eyes. But I just simply looked at his short but revealing voting record, his wretched cop-loving, poor-hating DPP record, that's all you needed to see to get the measure of this slimeball.

Some ministers want Boris Johnson to go act against his scientific advisers:

"We want things open as quickly as possible. I don't think some people realise just what this is costing the country, but the PM is listening to the scientific advice.”https://t.co/OaFLbLqgiX

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) June 10, 2020

LET RLB SPEAK ON HER OWN FUCKING BRIEF YOU CUNTS https://t.co/f33xJJJwM6

— sam (rejokerfied) (@sapphite2) June 10, 2020

disgraceful and fuck off Reeves, I'll never vote for a party that puts an arsehole like you in the shadow cabinet.

The FT story above to be read in conjunction with Stephen Bush:

So far Starmer appears to be succeeding. Most people encountering him for the first time like what they see, and in polls he is beginning to draw level with Boris Johnson. If he continues on this course, he will end the parliamentary year with a decisive lead over the Prime Minister on issues of leadership, competence and trust – political advantages that tend to lead to election victory.

So why aren’t the Conservatives more worried? In part, because the challenges of the pandemic transcend the difficulties created by having a competent and popular Labour leader, and a more effective opposition. But there is also a sense that, as one minister put it, Labour is a “one-man team”. If perceptions of the party are changing, it is because people warm to Starmer and are inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, rather than because they are enthusiastically backing the party as a whole.

Tories might agree that Starmer is doing an excellent job of making the case against Johnson – but they don’t believe he is yet convincing voters that the Conservative Party needs to be thrown out of office. His arguments – against Johnson’s lack of grip and his fundamental unseriousness – all seem like equally good reasons to replace Johnson with his Chancellor, Rishi Sunak.

Sunak perceived, at the same time, the rock-solid voice of stability and the leader of the 'get back to work / school / TK Maxx, you slackers' faction. Something will have to give.

one of the 'save the summer six'!

lets see how much they love deep pockets Sunak when he stops printing money and makes some difficult easy decisions.