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

Come on, you can’t tell me they didn’t laugh their holes off doing that one.

Look it was either him or

if pubs and restaurants are making 50% of their pre-COVID turnover, how on earth do they survive, even if there isn't another lockdown? idgi

carving off their own Rona infected flesh and making blood sausages to help out, and serving their own Rona infected urine as beer. paying their staff in blood sausages and urine!

do you ever get the feeling that perhaps Rishi is a little bit out of his depth?

I can remember when you can buy a pint of piss and still get some change from a fifty pound note, and you wouldn't die of the Rona on the way to the chippy.

Has there been a good write-up of Rishi's summer statement (I was away for a couple of days so didn't see much)?

I can't unpack the 1k per employee. It doesn't look like it will stop mass redundancies in Retail, what with Boots announcing job cuts yesterday.

Summer Statement?

It's important to support business, within relevant budgetary constraints, but meal vouchers are no substitute for effective public health messaging and measures, which need to be effectively messaged through available communications channels, focusing initially on digital and social.

Yes, the summer statement.

I was close yesterday but it turns out you get to catch the rona surrounded by Gaz Coombes fans in a field in Newcastle

This is a crisis,, now.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘em pic.twitter.com/O3JL7aczhd

— keir starmer retire bitch (@alexeptable) July 9, 2020

I can't believe they didn't show the innovation displayed elsewhere in the London restaurant industry and deliver breakfast cereal for people to eat in the comfort of their own home.

so are these guys proper working class or metropolitan elite I can’t tell

Cheerio(s)

that's grrrrrrrreat

^

Broke bro flops

Never understood why people were annoyed at these guys but don't seem to care about Cafe Rouge or any of the other shitty upmarket-styled chain outlets.

It's an almost sublimely irritating concept in fairness.

I can just about imagine wanting to go there at 5am wasted on drugs.

I don't find it irritating, it's at least something different, a few hipsters with a weird business idea are not the vanguard of gentrification at all. I know hate of them is not intended as a deliberate distraction from the companies who are fucking up our cities, but that's still the end result.

That's a very good point.

A sublimely irritating concept by two sublimely irritating looking wankers.

look at his adorable TMNT bowl, so whimsical

I've got more respect for crack dealers that open up terrible sandwich shops as a laundering operation, that you might just buy a coffee from at a push!

I don't think Cafe Rouge or whoever is really the issue here either. In any case gentrification is at heart about displacement, it's really got very little to do with owners of twee cafés or microbreweries who tend to get all the blame while councils and property developers get off scot free.

I'd hesitate to even blame councils at this stage given that their sources of funding have been deliberately squeezed by central government for a decade now.

An old housemate of mine worked in mental health in South London and they would regularly take patients out for a nice cup of tea and a bun or whatever and there was this one cafe that started being requested more and more. There was a massive blowup when the penny finally dropped that it wasn't just a nice treat for them and they'd been taking patients straight to the crack dealer the whole time.

lol that's a good 'un!

one of my local crack dealers has a tanning parlour, he must have had a bit of a clearout and there is skip outside full of blinds and old household junk. He has put up a sign by the skip that reads: Stop Going Through My Skip, You're on CCTV! I was thinking what a mean spirited git, but he is a crack dealer after all!

I was very annoyed at the lads selling cereal for a fiver but then I also shout at millennials paying a fiver for toast just to be consistent. I am Richard Littlejohn btw

Cereal Killer guys probably did themselves no favours when their place got painted over by anarchists and they called it a "hate crime".

But yeah obviously it's a drop in the ocean and not the motivating force of gentrification, panem et circenses.

Lol a hate crime against the memory of Dennis Nilsen.. sob.. RIP legend

thank god we finally got these pricks cancelled

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whoops

Latest Westminster voting intention (8-9 July)

Con - 46%
Lab - 36%
Lib Dem - 6%
SNP - 5%
Green - 3%
Brexit Party - 2%https://t.co/sY3tMwoKw3 pic.twitter.com/4O8AfbyPGs

— YouGov (@YouGov) July 10, 2020

lol!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EckpIPoXkAIix2B?format=jpg&name=small

That was definitely worth alienating BAME voters and the total despondency of your activist base, well done forenzo

the tories were always going to get a bit of a poll boost this week, but still ten points behind isn't good enough and he should reconsider his position etc..

how many people does boris need to kill to lose that lead?

A: one - keir starmer

imagine how bad the next Labour leader will be

it will be Dominic Grieve wearing a Wes Streeting mask!

I nearly ended up renting the original Cereal Killer after they moved over the road. Have the contract somewhere under the stairs. Also know most Brick Lane business owners and ended up with our shop on Cheshire Street. By all accounts they are dickheads, would treat everyone else like garbage and the contract had a bunch of things specific to their behaviour. The landlord is the guy who lives upstairs and they would regularly fuck him off, throw closed door parties, leave their joint access point open and invite undesirable types in, leading to him getting broken in to a couple times by who he suspected to be their coke dealers.

Can’t say the street will miss them but that’ll also be the 5th post-lockdown shop/restaurant to close, all the curry houses are struggling and I know a few (including ourselves) considering our options. I know I only became a brick lane trader post-gentrification (2014?) but it can’t go back to what it used to be and doesn’t have a positive looking future if a lot of independent traders can’t stay. The past two years has seen Adidas, Subway and Pret move in, I presume it will continue going in that direction, unfortunately, unless the tourists/Sunday visitors who also go to Columbia Road etc. can come back asap.

2025: the reanimated corpse of Oswald Mosley is still 10 points behind the Tories

"The past two years has seen Adidas, Subway and Pret move in, I presume it will continue going in that direction"

Pret announced closure of 30 stores last week, though, that's the scale of the crisis.

I don't know if they're a good representation. Do they even have 30 branches outside of London?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So instead Brick Lane will just be a deserted waste land of empty shopfronts that no one is willing to pay £60-100k a year for.

I have noticed some of the more astute lefty commentariat posting that a right-wing coup might be on the way if Starmer's performance doesn't improve. A depressing reminder that there is a big clique in the PLP that thinks Starmer is too moderate, and might start sowing dissent against him soon enough. lol what a shithole party!

might open a fash cereal cafe called oswald muesli

None of those are Brick Lane though - three around Strand/Fleet Street alone.