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

This already failed last spring when she was running for election in the European constituency that contained Warrington. Her views on Gary Glitter, on the other hand?

Lots of white men telling dawn butler that being pulled over by the police is nothing to be worried by...

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that an officer had "incorrectly entered the registration into a police computer which identified the car as registered to an address in Yorkshire.

News reports just trotting this out as if it's a reasonable explanation. So they just type the registration of every car they see driven by black people?

why would they pull over a car for being registered in Yorkshire?

Suspicious innit

me and some friends got pulled over by the met once allegedly because we had out of town plates, felt like that was ex post facto bullshit too

I heard some guy got killed in Yorkshire and they never solved the case. But you wouldn't know anything about that now, would you, Dawn?

This bad treatment of Dawn Butler can be added to the shocking treatment that she has already received, and for which she really needs ... police protection?

People talk a lot about 'mental health' nowadays, usually meaning Prince William talking about going for a jog. But if anyone is having their 'mental health' damaged surely it is someone who is threatened every day by members of the public and then victimised by the state that is supposed to protect her. It must be very difficult for her to know where to turn.

luckily her party leader is taking a strong public stance to protect her

Whereas the other party leader, uh

Boris Johnson has said the police should treat people with "fairness and equality" after Labour MP Dawn Butler accused Scotland Yard officers of racially profiling her https://t.co/IEh4q759zt

— LBC News (@LBCNews) August 10, 2020

Even Corbyn has been quiet about this :(

I can understand Corbyn is reticent about commenting on anything right now as it plays like he's trying to undermine Starmer. At this point though he might as well say "fuck it" and go ahead.

Jesus christ imagine what a repulsive human being you would have to be to just sit there and watch. https://t.co/xMwUBNUknG

— Tom Munday (@tommundaycs) August 10, 2020

BBC impartiality

Corbyn only made one comment about the leaked Formby report, didn’t mention it at all when it leaked, and all Hell still broke loose.

that’s happening whatever he says or doesn’t say so what does he have to gain by being such a melt

It’s actually understood that past leaders will not criticise their predecessor so Corbyn can’t really do this, he is very much not like that. So idk.

I thought he was supposed to be a different kind of leader :’(
what a bullshit convention

meanwhile this fucking twat with the racist cop loving party line. destroy this party

Completely understand why this was so upsetting. I take allegations of racial profiling very seriously & welcome @DawnButlerBrent taking her concerns up with senior Met officers.

It’s crucial that there's better trust & confidence between the police & London’s Black communities. https://t.co/PRXh5aeFMN

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) August 10, 2020

"I thought he was supposed to be a different kind of leader :’("

He is not a Stalinist, no.

just a liberal

That's just what many Liberals accuse him of. Funny innit

mid century liberalism looks like stalinism to avowed post-thatcherites

or disavowed

but his respect for parliamentary & other political conventions is underacknowledged and quite strange given his reputation. it has some tragedy to it

anyway death to britain

The UK pivoted real quick from "Black lives matter, let's end racism" to Black people lie about police brutality, f*ck Black MPs, and let's use gunships on refugees.

Bleak.

— Nadine Batchelor-Hunt | נדין ציפורה (@nadinebh_) August 10, 2020

Real feminism is defending a woman's right to have a baby with someone her Dad's age.

A feminist who doesn’t believe a 32 year old woman can make her own decisions. https://t.co/yIw4UtWkbG

— Nick Timothy (@NJ_Timothy) August 11, 2020

Ageism is completely lame, though BJ's year of birth seems like least of her worries.

BJ is younger than me so he is bad is how I break it down to an extent

tbf to Boris at least he's acknowledging this latest sprog is actually his.

Almost half of Britons (49%) say they have little (22%) to no sympathy (27%) for the migrants who have been crossing the channel from France to England https://t.co/vjnNs8zUff pic.twitter.com/xCJHVbP8sG

— YouGov (@YouGov) August 11, 2020

really just the least racist country nothing to see here

Asked for comment on migrant boat crossings, Labour’s shadow immigration minister Holly Lynch said: “The Immigration Minister's emergency visit today to France today shows the lack of grip and competence shown by the government on this issue...

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) August 11, 2020

Love living here

Home is pretty far from any kind of paradise but I was astonished at seeing this ad in a cinema the last time I was home, I can’t imagine it running before films here.

I think this ad would be run in a lot of cinemas, you'd get the silly culture war crap here but it would happen.

Labour's shadow immigration minister today v her predecessor yesterday. pic.twitter.com/EtJyB9sryi

— bat020 (@bat020) August 11, 2020

Night and day between these responses

I've just checked and apparently politics has got fuck all to do with morality, only forensics

LOL @ Boris using the M word the other day when talking about re-opening schools

Old hamface getting outflanked on the left by a brand is it

People cannot be illegal. And, it is enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention that crossing a border ‘illegally’ should not impact your asylum claim https://t.co/gcY0W0n5Dr

— Ben & Jerry's UK (@benandjerrysUK) August 11, 2020

I certainly hope no harm comes to Starmzy, he's a model human being

That Lynch statement is completely meaningless, appearing to say something for the sake of it while saying nothing at all.

Haha OK:

Labour's instincts on most issues - save ones where the direction of travel is already pretty clear, e.g. school meals over summer - is come out with some garbled managerial-speak at the expense of moral clarity.

It's a way of saying nothing while physically moving your lips. https://t.co/MnbIWHYeAN

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) August 11, 2020

This is a recipe for disaster:

NEW: We saw a retreat in Edinburgh, looks like we're seeing one in London too. Gavin Williamson is set to announce that students can keep their mock-exam grades if they're higher than the calculated grade they receive on Thursday.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 11, 2020

They’re clearly making it up as they go along.

sure aren't we all

just listened to some wittering about this on BBC radio. as you've already said this stuff is covered from a position of utter ignorance; even when you suspect a journo does understand the process they're duty bound to report it in fictional terms

when as the education system in England not been understood as a mash-up of snobbery and nostalgia?

BBC: Did you consult universities on this last-minute change to A-level results?

Schools Minister Nick Gibb: "No, not on this precise change"

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) August 12, 2020

Ah well, it’s not like it’s admissions week or anything.

Gibb's being pressed on the use of mock exam grades being unfair as different schools do different mocks, marking is unstandardised and subjective, different standards of security apply, etc, etc, and the response is basically 'yep'.

It's interesting to see the volume of attention this is getting now vs the tiny blip of coverage you had when the decision to cancel exams was made and BAME MPs were highlighting the historically biased nature of predicted grades.

a 7-year-old would be embarrassed by this pic.twitter.com/BFQ14GlHVx

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) August 12, 2020

credit to the bbc, they keep finding new lows