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

To be fair the Guardian reporter did bring up Stanley the Greek and Cummings and was the only reporter not offered a follow up question.

without recreational cricket, where is joy

Literally the only good thing about cricket is the fact that after exporting it Britain is now soundly thrashed by her colonies on the regular. Long may this continue

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:58 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"and what does the British press do when given the opportunity to quiz Johnson?"

Tories want to know.

The boiled piss of County Cricket fans >>> a cup of Rishi's brew made with Yorkshire canal watter

Disgusting:

NEW: a candle will be lit on the steps of Downing Street tomorrow for the 44,131 people who have died in the UK

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) July 3, 2020

Bring cricket back, kill more Tories.

one... candle? stirring stuff

It will be a world-beating candle

sorry I don't believe in gestures

https://i.imgur.com/CXFV7md.gif

Starmer supports worthless gesture from failed UK govt and says "I admire empty gestural politics a lot and am impressed with the manner in which candles melt at a much slower rate than me"

Literally the only good thing about cricket is the fact that after exporting it Britain is now soundly thrashed by her colonies on the regular. Long may this continue

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:58 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

― glumdalclitch, Friday, July 3, 2020 7:01 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not actually true though.

Lol Eng are *checks notes* current holders of the world cup!

Some v interesting polling from @RedfieldWilton for @BBCNewsnight. Among other things, says that 70% of those polled think that the UK will see a second Covid wave. pic.twitter.com/If73azrMwP

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 3, 2020

OK I'm going to call the second wave for January.

Seems very unlikely there'll be one with the polling that way unless people massively relax, and even then it's still summer and no one's moving from one part of the country to the other. If this continues - bar the occasional localised outbreak - people will feel fine by December and there'll be an explosion of social activity, people travelling round the country etc.

It also means a gigantic recession between now and then so yay.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcCOb1MXgAY4RSo?format=jpg&name=900x900

I'm too irredeemably Catholic to comment on this

Dying that this is the line you draw.

God, imagining walking into a pub and seeing him at the bar, you'd be like, "Nah, let's go somewhere else".

I had been figuring September/Oct for the first big flare-ups, depending on weather and how many are forced back to work but if the US continues to get worse like it is that will scare people all summer.

Hard to imagine us getting through Christmas safely though so yea, a Jan/Feb disaster (with added flu + Brexit) seems likely.

anyone been down the pub yet

What pubs are actually open already? Just spoons?

must only be spoons and some other odd outliers

Here it is, the Moon Under Water in Colindale, the pub I *believe* will serve the first pint in London for three and a half months, at 8am. Fairly sure there will be an earlier starter somewhere out there in England. If so, let me know about it. pic.twitter.com/OBKgcdBu40

— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020

Ah, the classic English pub experience. pic.twitter.com/MMg3znMkvr

— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020

Here it is...what I believe may be the first pint served in London since March. pic.twitter.com/m2PT0TXV1m

— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020

This is all very low energy. Draft Michaelia Cash.

Employment Minister @SenatorCash rather enjoyed the idea of Australians "having a curry for the country" to help support re-opening small businesses 🍛 🇦🇺 #auspol @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/4b6hnEJQ1H

— Brett Mason (@BrettMasonNews) May 15, 2020

I think Wetherspoons normally opens about seven or eight, idk.

The Spoons in Cannon Street station was a 7am opening godsend one morning after going clubbing a few years back.

Spoons round here opened at 7 but didn't use to serve booze until 8 or 9, can't remember, fucking lightweights. queues outside one of the Spoons in town here this morning apparently, nearest open pub to me booked to capacity, no walk-ins, i've had a skeg at the rules and regs for a couple of places that are open, fuck this grim parody

(reserve the right to go and join the grim parody if anybody i know gives me a shout)

I know you've all been hammered for four hours but this is much better from Labour and sounds like a more promising approach to welfare:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/04/labour-unemployment-could-go-way-beyond-anything-weve-experienced?CMP

who'd have thought going for a few scoops in the pub could rendered into such a joyless bourgeoisie kind of activity!

there's a bit of me that looks round at the UK in July 2020 and contemplates the future and is glad/sad i don't keep a loaded revolver in the house

oh well, there's always pretend football to look forward to

Thinking about that Lewis Goodall thread - 7% of the UK population is still enough to keep socially distanced pubs at capacity I'd guess?

and then some, bearing in mind there were fewer and fewer pubs before lockdown and a chunk of them will have shut forever in the last 3 months

But is “socially distanced capacity” enough to keep smaller places going

as always happens in moments of capitalist crisis only the strongest biggest chains will survive. and we know that's because they're the best, right?

Labour need to sort out their message discipline, the leader doesn't support an indefinite furlough, the shadow employment sec says it needs extending. They are all over the place and every time Starmer is putting his Tory fucking bat signal up it's undermining anything good coming from the shadow cabinet.

I am just concern trolling really. I couldn't gaf about message discipline, put the whole fucking party on a bonfire with Starmer on the top!

Imagine going to a pub and seeing this. Safest never to go again. pic.twitter.com/ZSZXNiIlr5

— Dawn “Join A Union” Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 4, 2020

Christ.

I saw a different one of the same ghastly quartet from hell last night and just assumed it was photoshopped, the humanity!

reading the mood of the nation by hanging out with everybody's favourite Tim Wetherspoon while Gove nervously clutches his milk stout and wonders which end you drink out of

even more so than Theresa May, Gove is very bad weird and I say this as a confirmed weirdo myself! He always looks like he's just hatched out of an egg and using a drinking receptacle for the first time in his life.

timmy spoons rubbing his hands together there looks like a composite of all the sheriffs of nottingham from cinema history

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/comedy/2015-08/28aug/comedy%20duos/burke-enfield.jpg?imwidth=450

L-R: Gove, Martin

Well well

Why Rebecca Long-Bailey had to go, by Paul Masonhttps://t.co/8xsx2yTycG

— The Spectator (@spectator) July 4, 2020

Sorry I meant to the revive the British right-wing pundits thread

I think to encourage social distancing in pubs they should place a sat down model of Mason at every second table! It's hilarious looking at some of his old posts on Starmer from back in February/March, he is such sad old bullshit merchant I almost feel sorry for him and then you see him writing in The Spectator.

stoya come to Spoons