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

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

imagine if you bumped into him irl and he pulled out a bag of spice and said get some of this snorted up and we'll talk some politics!

also he thinks Homeland is the greatest tv series ever, fuck me that is most dismal US centist bullshit propaganda since the West Wing.

lol whut

Claire Danes performance in Homeland has to stand as a landmark in 21st century acting / dramatising a thing most ppl don't even know exists, via a vulnerability that is all too familiar. Homeland is over but the reality it portrays sadly not... pic.twitter.com/iW9QNfVlHw

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 3, 2020

Claire Danes come to Spoons looking confused and annoyed

first two series of WW at least have some p funny sit-com-style ensemble work abt how wonks who consider themselves super-smart and in certain specific (wonkish) ways *are* super-smart, are also often p dumb

i was gonna joke it was a Danes crush even before you shared that tweet calz lol transparent

I’ve spoken to regulars Chris and Jimmy. Jimmy hasn’t gone to bed after his night shift tarmacking the roads. He had a shower and came straight here. He described the taste of his first Carling as being like an ‘angel p***ing on the tip of his tongue’ @MENnewsdesk #citybacktolife pic.twitter.com/sUAKwlstwt

— Rebecca Day (@RebeccaDayMEN) July 4, 2020

I have bumped into him and my (probably unreliable) memory is that he’s about 5’5”.

homeland ruined clare danes who was good in MY SO-CALLED LIFE (1994) and er also TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)

tbf if stoya had gone to athens everything might be different

I think they are on season 8 now or something now, Mark, it's a different show to the first two seasons. And yeah Mason should just log on to Xhamster the stupid old ridiculous man!

i will never watch HOMELAND (2011- )

my critical objectivity is at stake

i thought it had finished now idk i only see the endless trailers when it's on Channel 4, tbf Claire Danes is very good at looking confused and annoyed at the same time unless that's just her face

I see some lefty types who enjoy it as guilty pleasure trash, but not making any high minded claims about what the show is or Danes apparent tour de force!

FBPeeps tweeting calmly as they always do

1.08m leavers are dead
0.36m remainers are dead
0.38m leavers turned 18
1.53m remainers turned 18
1.05m leavers are now remainers
0.16m remainers are now leavers

The Brexit vote is now 54% to 46% in favour of remaining in the EU & rising.

Still @10DowningStreet pursues Brexit?

— Steve Lawrence (@SteveLawrence_) July 3, 2020

fuck me The Rona is an FBPE

I have bumped into him and my (probably unreliable) memory is that he’s about 5’5”.

Who, Jimmy?

Would buy Jimmy a pint of angel piss sounds like hes doing life right tbh.

tbf I think the changing electorate/dubious mandate problem does undermine the already piss weak claims of living in a proper representative democracy so its one of the fbpe points I'm most sympathetic to

i will never watch HOMELAND (2011- )

HOMELAND (2011-the infinite) is one of those grown-up adult realpolitik shows that thinks having bipolar disorder gives you superpowers

I bailed after 3 but I was going through a stage where I watched lots of garbage TV, including goth vampire shite and that crap about oh noes for some inexplicable reason the electricity has stopped working on all of planet earth!