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

Yeah funnelling money into takeaways still stimulates the economy, so I can only assume this is about promoting/simulating the sense of getting back to normal.

The Treasury appears to believe its the lockdown itself causing the economic hit rather than the virus. It's wrong in that but I think it's very hostile to the idea that people might want to continue social distancing until it's absolutely safe.

the more restaurateurs go bankrupt, the less people die of Rona. It's a win-win equation for me!

Deputy CMO telling everyone to lose weight before the second wave hits - gyms are shut, pubs are open and we’re being urged to get to Nando’s so good luck with that

The article that wrote itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/08/imagine-the-state-wed-be-in-if-corbyn-had-been-in-charge-the-view-from-the-red-wall

Good old Jenny Harries, remember how she said it was ok for big events to go ahead in March?

Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, came into Downing Street to answer some of the most commonly asked questions on coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/jByRhFFfat

— Boris Johnson #StayAlert (@BorisJohnson) March 11, 2020

why so incurious the ten million+ who voted for him? not really a question, + not really a serious newspaper.

Love me I'm a liberal, updated. pic.twitter.com/qLN1z55lJw

— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) July 8, 2020

Labour might yet find itself with a substantial poll lead but that's down to what the Tories can and can't accomplish more than anything else, but that Twitter thing shows the inability of a certain group of voters to let go of the idea of a uniquely unpopular Tory party that was there for the taking.

why so incurious the ten million+ who voted for him?

Sadly the answer is 'FPTP'. They might find themselves with good cause to ask the question if Starmzy gets a surprising by-election result in a metropolitan seat or student town though.

it's easy to like (/be likeable if you're) the guy handing out all the money.

I hate the guy handing out all the money tbh

Let's see how popular he is in October when they kill furlough.

coming around to the idea that the Tories will find a way to mask potential unpopularity with populism at every turn. they'll kill furlough but announce a tenner's worth of mcdonalds vouchers for every adult under 30 or something

Let's see how popular he is in October when they kill furlough.

Pensioners aren't furloughed

Let's see how popular he is in October when they kill pensioners.

killing pensioners is the one thing boris’ government has excelled at so far tbf

talk about smiting the hand that feeds you

if you can inculcate the basic principles of conservatism (i.e. blind ignorance + hateful bigotry) in younger ppl then you don't need pensioners any more!

another day, another set of headlines about thousands of job losses. grim

I take inspiration from this slogan I saw painted on the dining room wall of this rich guy's house (who has a hydraulic steering business) and I was being a nosy cunt peering into his house earlier, on it was written "Be the teamwork that makes the dream work"

Oh my God

"I fundamentally believe that you should not be stopped on the streets of our country simply because of the colour of your skin"

Former Prime Minister @Theresa_May tells @Sarah_Montague. "Sadly, we're seeing some of the figures go back up again"

https://t.co/Hk1GDUCMM4 | pic.twitter.com/MDkhyFTwhH

— The World at One (@BBCWorldatOne) July 9, 2020

the architect of *friendly environment* speaks

brb gonna go stand in the garden and scream myself hoarse

I think she's done a Thatcher and forgotten who she is.

we should all be so lucky

Osborne and Rudd also suffered similar bouts of forgetfulness or perhaps denial if you are going to be unkind. More infectious than the bloomin' Rona!

it's like her "nasty party" speech or the anti-racism thing she did when she became PM, just a load of fucking words she doesn't mean

she got a good grounding in hypocrisy and talking meaningless twaddle, her dad was a vicar!

Matt beat me to suggesting she's got the Alzheimers

she was talking about the domestic abuse bill 2020, which completely excludes immigrants apparently. so vmic. She's another of these arseholes who repped for (and unveiled the cursed piece of rubbish) the Astor statue

Pools, gyms and sports facilities will be able to reopen and team sports and outdoor gigs resume, the government has announced.

Outdoor pools and performances can resume from Saturday with social distancing in place, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said.

Indoor gyms, sports facilities and pools will be able to reopen from 25 July.

Guidance will be published for team sports to return from Saturday.

Outdoor gigs is insane.

you wouldn't catch me going into a changing room as much as I'd love to go swimming. Lol might have to go speedo mick stylee!

Oh god here come some shitty festivals

Not sure how the science works for watching some cunts playing guitars but not watching live sport

Sunak has thrown a lifeline to hard-up members of Reef and Cast, down to headline every shonky Village Picnic-type festival in the country.

Also seriously, how does the government think people get to and from these events?

Thanks for reminding me of the upside as nimbies across the country have radge induced heart attacks

It's almost as if this plan has got fuck all to do with not spreading the rona

Says the hypocritical scamp who went to the pub yday

you can't have rick witter on UC

I'm that hungover I can't remember which one he is. Shed 7? UC's too good for them

yep, Stella Creasy's fav band

God imagine standing in a bog somewhere near Saffron Walden surrounded by cunts bellowing along to the Fratellis

opening up indoor swimming pools might just work if people get changed in the car park

Spraying rona with every lurching cokey knees-up nuhnanuh, and the red death holds sway over all

The Kaiser Chiefs Live From The ICU

tbf the quicker the country is laid waste and its fields ploughed with salt, grey squirrels lynched in rows from Giant Hogweeds and a giant picture of Ian Brown's gurning face carved over the Cerne Abbas giant the better, come friendly germs and fall on Slough

oi

Beautiful, like a batsignal 😁

nothing learned from the great Stereophonics death wave in Wales, obv gigs are an appalling idea rn.

Going to call my new band The Great Stereophonics Death Wave