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

Another thing about Ashworth is that Enoch Powell hairstyle. I bet he's an even bigger Morrissey lover than Starmzy. Never trust wankers with 50s hairstyles Lamarr, Starmzy, Comode etc..

He looks like John Parrott.

I'd love to snooker him so badly.. no I meant beat him repeatedly with a snooker cue!

saw that on Twitter, then got depressed reading Twitter, then drew up some ground plans for gulags

― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Hope this cheers you up.

As my friend, Jeremy Corbyn, gets on with job of being an incredibly hard working local MP & throwing himself into huge range of international, humanitarian campaigns I see the campaign of character assassination continues apace.They just don’t get it. You’ll never break this man

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) July 26, 2020

<3

McD sadly reminds me that I used to be naive enough to believe this country could have a future as anything other than a right wing hellscape and that it was worth supporting the Labour Party and voting for them. And like this was only 8 months ago and now all I see is despair and a party I despise as much as the tories, what a shitty turnaround.

“We had a lovely holiday, really relaxing, and it’s all gone out the window now because we’re just going to be stuck at home.

“I’ve got this beautiful tan – I’m not going to be able to show it off to my family or anything like that.

I'd kind of assumed that Shapps has done something to piss Cummings off?

The timing is weird, though, isn't it? I'm a big believer in holidays/time off and the need for people to look after themselves but it seems odd for Shapps to have taken himself to Spain, unless I'm missing something?

Surely there's other places he could have gone? I know no one's letting us in right now but Tory MPs are generally not short of cash and there's presumably some rona-free island he could have gone to.

little st james also not taking bookings at the moment

their laund(e)ry service is still operating as per

People with houses in Italy are also going, and two friends have gone to France in the past week.

One for Calz:

Camilla Long not happy with Twitter & I take her point on the appeal process funnily enough in her article I found the spiteful way she wrote about anther woman Ghislaine Maxwell equally offensive.

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) July 26, 2020

Baz Sheerman, feminist

more power to the super rich paedophile sisterhood eh bazza?

the best holidays I go on are the two co-dydramol and a bottle of wine induced deep sleep dreams, where I travel not just this world but also deep intergalactic space and then get rudely woken up by a Yorkshire Water engineer in next door's garden shouting " yeah the shite should be coming through now mick"

lol

Could go for a couple of cocodamol now tbh

Surely there's other places he could have gone? I know no one's letting us in right now but Tory MPs are generally not short of cash and there's presumably some rona-free island he could have gone to.

Shapps certainly isn't short of cash hasn't he got a track record of ducking and diving.

Really get away from it all on North Rona.

it's been a pleasure listening to these brit wankers that own bars in Spain crying like babies on the radio, thumbs up to the tories here!

Westminster abbey begging for state charity while its parasitical royal owners are very quiet. Let the scrappers at it, burn it down imo - which is exactly what the Tories and Labour have effectively been doing to the rest of the UK's national assets for decades now.

can you get maccyDs on the #eatasstohelpout scheme

after listening to Jamie Oliver commending Boris earlier am going to have a deep-fried pizza washed down with a guinness

More and more of my radical friends are having a deep-fried pizza washed down with a Guinness. There's a growing sense that we need to destroy ourselves in a way that spites Jamie Oliver

one of the few positive acts still open to us

For this reason, we have taken the decision to continue our social media activity over the next few days.

We will challenge the Government on its delays to the Online Harms Bill that would hold social media companies to account for the content on their platforms.

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) July 26, 2020

Safe to assume there won't be significant opposition to the Online Harms Bill - this has the potential to be terrible.

Fucking hell, two tory parties now, cheers Starmzy

I note that Paul Mason is also campaigning for new regulations that mean anyone sending him 'Stoya Come To Athens / England Facepaint' memes needs to do so with their full legal name.

When has the Labour Party not been as authoritarian af?

At least under Corbyn he wasn't playing this narrow Mr invisible game and encouraging the tories more often than opposing them.

Has Brenda jumped on the bandwagon over the huge head like a penis memes? Oh no lol he can't because it would rendered 90% of his written content void!

Brenda who?

lol that was my phone autocorrect, I meant everyone's fave rugged libertarian, Brendan O'Neill. Who recently was exposed as a sensitive snowflake when people took the piss out of his grotesquely distended bald head!

I imagined it might be your latest name for the LOTO.

Politics discussion is getting like the Wimbledon ilx threads used to be, where no player was actually referred to by their real name.

LOL yes!

i think that's largely due to the boredom induced by repeatedly discussing the worst offenders

If you thought the police policies under Corbyn were bad ... honestly this is absolutely terrible https://t.co/XBCAuaLfaF

— 🌷 Chlöe 🌹 (@ChloeAHopkins) July 27, 2020

"When has the Labour Party not been as authoritarian af?"

it just got slightly more!

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article22426152.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Nicklaus-Thomas-Symonds.jpg

Nick Thomas-Symonds, 40 years old? lol being a complete tory wanker barrister cunt has been much less kinder on him than it has been on Starmer!

Instead of gaslighting their citizens, or shaming them for their behaviour, or creating smokescreens via fatphobia, Vietnam have gone with effective governance. Seems to be working overall. https://t.co/EmelubHRE1

— Justin Hancock (@bishtraining) July 27, 2020

communist govt better at protecting their citizens from Rona shocker

This is an extraordinary poll.

Who voters think would be the best party at handling the economy:

CON: 40% (+3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
LD: 5% (-)
OTH: 3% (+1)
None: 8% (-2)

Via YouGov, 18-20 July (changes since 20-22 June)

— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) July 28, 2020

Labour only two points ahead with Remain voters on the same question.

Let's see what happens when the furlough funding ends.

Usual caveats for YouGov, etc.

unlike all the unprecedented new factors in uk politics this just feels like reversion to an age old stereotype

not just the end of furlough, let's see how badly a no deal Brexit tanks what's left of the economy

Hmm, not sure what's extraordinary about it. Sunak has largely followed through with furlough.

Lab are v quiet

Starmzy doesn't present any alternative visions for the economy just for the sake of them the financial backers that have to started to donate to Labour again since Corbyn went.

it's very odd strategy of sir starmzy to cautiously plough such a narrow path and seemingly abandon many of the very popular economic policies of Corbyn and for a style of *electability* that has him 10 pts behind in the polls and considered economically incompetent by the electorate.

If I was Starmer's director of comms I'd keep him quiet as possible as well tbf

once Roy Cropper starts talking he makes Rishi look interesting and probably fiscally less conservative than him.

Hmm, not sure what's extraordinary about it. Sunak has largely followed through with furlough.

Lab are v quiet

I would be very surprised if yr average voter knew who Anneliese Dodds was. Thinking back through the last few shadow chancellors:

- big John: instantly notorious once appointed for his views, iconic throwing the red book at George Osborne moment, constant source of stories ajout being a thug. Yet despite all that plus his frequent cuddly red jumper news appearances, he’s still only 24th most recognised Labour politician according to Yougov.

- Chris Leslie: yes he was previously acting shadow chancellor in the brief post-Miliband, pre-Corbyn period. Would even his own mother recognise him as shadow chancellor?

- Ed Balls: had a funny name, then did Strictly.

Honesty they’re barely putting her out there, in contrast with Reeves, and her announcements are barely worth quoting. People like the furlough scheme.