Kinda hoping the small portion of people wfh increases. The office cost saving is huge and hopefully the capitalists will not miss this trick.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Anyway the commuting in and out of London is such a fucked up thing and that's where I'm coming from. Might be different in other cities.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
I guess you could argue that shops make contact tracing impossible and offices and pubs don't but, again, it's not actually looking to stop anyone from getting it, just making it slightly easier to find them if they do.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:06 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
get your contact tracing agency access to credit card payment systems and GPS records and bob's your uncle. of course people will consider that a greater infringement on their rights than being ordered not to leave the house, you could probably turn that into one of those clown memes
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah, for a lot of people the benefits of being able to socialise where they live immediately after work are equal to the appeal of the Z1 mix MDC describes. School events, neighbourhood stuff, parent pal socialising, these all become much more accessible if you're not commuting an hour away every day. It's a reconfiguring of our assumptions about socialising as well as about workingI think ideal for me personally is a mix of a small percentage of time in a shared location, the rest from home.
― stet, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
Keep the show defund the host
@LondonEconomic4mUnknownThe Andrew Neil Show has been cut, as the BBC announces more than 500 job cuts.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
It's amusing when you hear tories and Labour melts pretending to have heartfelt concerns about mental health/domestic abuse issues relating to homeworking when you know they have landlord friends and taken many sizable donations from Big property concerns who are shitting it over lost rent income
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
The government response to Gove being papped coming out of a Pret without a mask is to announce that you don't need to wear a mask if buying takeaway food.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Same but weirdly I miss it as well, I used to use the train journey to sort of get over anything I was angry about/start fights on ilx/listen to that album I’d been looking forward to all day.― scampos mentis (gyac), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Sure I get that, my "calmly posting" was posted was on a train from Leeds I think :-) And I've read a ton on the commute in the past but idk, we'll (to borrow from stet) reconfigure. I've actually got round to doing a ton of stuff during lockdown (including reading through my pile of books).
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
No fucking way re the Pret thing
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
The Conservative Party fast-response leaves its Labour equivalent in the dust again!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Isn't Pret also a sit in eatery like Greggs?
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Lol we are all going to etc.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Away in a Pret a Manger, no bib for a pleb
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
if the price we must pay for deplatforming brillo pad is tens of thousands dead, is it still too high
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
getting sick of having to think of a breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
Sounds like Johnson admitted at PMQs that he hasn't read the second spike report yet.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
Pret is not good, change my mind.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
XpMurk him, Roy Cropper!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
No melt will ever come up with a zing as perfect as the Roy Cropper one
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Truth zing!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
if Boris calls him Roy Cropper in a PMQ exchange that will be the final fatal blow to his chances of ever being PM
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
it would end up being the clip that got replayed 18 times throughout the news cycle as well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink
pic.twitter.com/cQnvx9z2r8— Cameron (@TheStirlingWolf) July 15, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
seen off
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
i still bet those two kids reluctantly voted Tory
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Nah, Laura K outed them as Labour activists and put their addresses on Twitter.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
I’m gonna need a decoder ring to keep track of what I’m supposed to do
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
do all our partners have to write for the Mail now, is that it?
― stet, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chris-grayling-intelligence-committee-julian-lewis-boris-johnson-a9621131.html
I suppose this makes it that little bit less likely that we're all gonna die, so small victories.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
And this is how it's done.
EXCLUSIVE: Julian Lewis has had the Conservative whip removed.— Emilio Casalicchio (@e_casalicchio) July 15, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah, they're not fucking about. I mean it's in the service of god knows what corruption and dark money but they do not fuck about.
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
That's fucking mad.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
He owes them nothing now and he has access to the Russia report they've been sitting on for months. Presumably they knew he was planning to go ahead and release it anyway.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Well yeah..
I’m told Intelligence & Security Committee, after humiliating Boris Johnson & his choice for chairman Chris Grayling by electing Julian Lewis instead, will meet again tomorrow & is expected to agree to publish long-suppressed report on Russian meddling in UK politics next week.— Jon Craig (@joncraig) July 15, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Can't help wondering why BoDom didn't choose a less risible stooge than Grayling
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
because that wouldn't have been as funny
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
This is amazing. Giving up control of ISC is mad enough, but before the Russia report to boot.
― stet, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah they really bungled it picking Grayling. If they'd just put some grey haired nonentity up they'd have got away with it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
I'm sure they only did it for lols as well, in fact I'm convinced!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Makes me wonder how many useful idiots that are fully on board with the project they have access to.
Meanwhile I've just seen the horrible new advert for Brexit, I'm sure that was a good use of public money.
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
I can't quite work this out - as an ERG member and brexiteer, wouldn't Lewis be exactly the kind of person that gvt. would want in this position? He seems to be a sort of Christopher Chope type.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Cummings hates the ERG and wants them all gone. And they just want yes men scattered about the place, fundamentally
― stet, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
I didn't know that he did. Makes a bit more sense.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Absolutely incredible, this. According to Newsnight he told the Con. whip shortly before the meeting started that he wasn't standing even though he'd agreed to stand 48 hours earier.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
I wonder if this signals open hostilities between BoDom's Libertarian nutbag wing and the England Uber Alles nutbag wing of the Tories. Should be a lot of edifying fun if so
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Was thinking the ERG thing would make him want to suppress the report but he also appears to be a military nut and Russia hawk so probably not.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
The cancellation of @afneil's show is great news for those in power wishing to avoid scrutiny and a shame for everyone else. https://t.co/2yRL5O8Jrf— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) July 15, 2020
lol stop it Wes, you are killing us. No I mean really!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
"a shame for everyone"!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
Such a drama qunt
We've never met or talked. You have no idea what my views are on any major issue today, tho you think you do. To call me "scarily right-wing" is inaccurate, a smear and a hard left trope. You should withdraw it. https://t.co/gOf3XQjGln— Andrew Neil (@afneil) July 15, 2020
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Ah yes, those in power such as the PM who took a pasting from Andrew Neil before the election oh wait
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link