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

good keith shade

Jeremy Corbyn
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This u-turn from the Government wouldn't have happened without the #Alevelprotests from so many young people, the important work of the teaching unions and everyone who spoke out.

My solidarity to all those who took a stand.

kieth shade, that's what they call him

Lads Corbyn is going to ask us to vote Labour. Ye know that, right?

Already? I only just voted

fluffed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-IQAdFU3w

Has Cronus been replaced with... a riding crop??

Photo du jour: Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson in his office at the Dept for Education today after announcing a change in the way A-Level grades will be awarded. By Stefan Rousseau/PA pic.twitter.com/yI3ICFEMBR

— Stefan Rousseau (@StefanRousseau) August 17, 2020

i presume nobody thinks williamson is indispensable as they clearly think that creepy guy who works for gove is, wonder if they think keeping him on is worth it for the implicit "fuck u everyone!"

Jenrick is still in position so yeah probably. Difference is that the public actually cares about this.

also firing jenrick might have signalled to potential donors that they weren't completely open to business for favours, not really sure what keeping williamson communicates aside from the obvious

Lads Corbyn is going to ask us to vote Labour. Ye know that, right?

― caută tu singur (gyac), Monday, 17 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Take a #chillPill

Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England https://t.co/bVobVZmECe

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 17, 2020

Disaster at Talk Talk, disaster as head of the track and trace system, put in charge of the successor to Public Health England.

apparently the whip under the book in that gavin williamson pic ^^^ is some *very subtle* symbolic menace that he's got plenty of dirt from when he was chief whip and he ain't afraid to use it if he gets pumped.

Obviously Harding is a totally incompetent crook but it's annoying that we now have to pretend that public health England isn't a sham organisation itself a symptom of mismanagement of the NHS

Between this and the exam stuff we've had a whole week of partisan support for rubbish institutions

Gavin Williamson saying on sky he shouldn’t resign essentially because he’s always been right and it’s anomalies that’s the problem, so everyone can stfu. It’s fascinating how much they dgaf and Williamson has that look of not even really understanding why he has to be questioned on tv.

Would pleading the government to give this Department to Grayling be accelerationism?

expecting someone with the dynamism of a rusty sack cart to hasten the demise of capitalism? The only practical insurgent application of Grayling would be to strap a bomb to him.

Liverpool remains the best.

Social media attack tells 'Brylcreemed sh******e' Labour leader he and deputy Angela Rayner 'should be worried' https://t.co/yUgReSP4Bx

— Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) August 18, 2020

shitlorde?

shiteface imo

shtakhanovite

shitehole

Good on Sarah Morton obviously, but I've been struggling with that cryptic clue for a while now: shitehawk(e)? shiteheel(e)? Is this an esoteric Scouseism?

xp see ilx is already on the case

Sir Shittyarse having a bad day again

Cllr Morton wrote: "Watched the first 5 mins of ITV News and it wasn't a Tory that had me shouting at the TV, we know they are self interested, elitist sh***hawks. But Keir Starmer, the alleged leader of the opposition (Trading Standards should be having a word there) attempting to bask in the victory of a hard won U-turn by the thousands of students who took to the streets in the last few days to demand that the government treat them fairly."

she's wrong, it was a Tory that had her shouting at the TV

Shitehawke imo. Don’t understand the extra E but I’ll let it slide for such excellent scouseness.

its canon

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91I-TnVLnqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

fuckin' hell, look at the height on matthew broderick's forehead

clearly the skull of a future double-murderer

i think the hawke is sat on the top of his head if you look closely

ladyshitehawke one of my fave bands

I've not been this impressed with a Labour Councillor since I saw one remove a dead rat that was lying in the middle of a ginnel, with her bare hands!

I've read a lot of good commentary on the lines of: no matter the crimes of Blairism, being soft to non-existent in opposition wasn't one of them.

so scotland’s schools have been open for a week, let’s check in and see how that’s going

Four more pupils at separate schools have tested positive for Covid-19.

Two of the cases are in Perth and Kinross, one in Renfrewshire and one in North Lanarkshire.

One pupil from Newhill Primary in Blairgowrie and another from Oakbank Primary in Perth are now self-isolating at home. The third attends Todholm primary in Paisley.

A fourth pupil, who attends St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge, has also tested positive.

Three other pupils from St Ambrose High had already tested positive, along with one from St Andrew's High in Coatbridge and one from Caldervale High in Airdrie. There are a further three linked cases, who are not staff or pupils, and 14 cases in north-east Glasgow.

That doesn’t on its own tell you opening schools was bad. Is four kids getting it in a week above what it was before they opened?

as I understand it none so far are suspected of getting the virus *in* school

this hasn't stopped shitty scare mongering headlines about outbreaks being "linked to schools"

what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?

Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?

All of this shit is in the hands of Gavin Williamson so good luck England.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools

This would have been helpful for virtually the entire world and unless they've started collecting some serious data since it appears that Sweden bungled it.

Be an um, interesting experiment if the UK didn't do this.

Germany to extend coronavirus furlough to 24 months https://t.co/pVmoKAMTvH

— Kam Sandhu (@Kayayemela) August 18, 2020

what is the Scottish govt's stance on teachers wearing masks?

― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:58 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Teachers may choose to wear masks but are not required to unless they are in sustained close contact with pupils (less than 2m for more than 15 mins iirc)

Do we know what the procedures are if a pupil gets covid and has gone to school?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:00 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Isolation and contact tracing, same as anyone else. Schools will remain open if track and trace is judged to have contained any outbreak.

Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?

Never saw this coming.

Breaking: A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UK

French authorities announced the death with "immense sadness" after his body was washed up on Sangatte beachhttps://t.co/5DKv1KtiZq

— Lizzie Dearden (@lizziedearden) August 19, 2020

horrific

remember when three-year-old alan kurdi washed up dead on a greek beach and the world recoiled in horror at the picture of his corpse for all of 15 seconds before going back to gleefully murdering refugees through neglect and inaction

The unabashed glee on the Mail’s Facebook page about this is the most repulsive thing I’ve seen in the area for a long time. Blaming people for attempting to get to the UK when ... we insist they have to come here to make claims.

refugees: we make 'em, we don't take 'em

Is it up to the council to make the decision on whether the school has contained it?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

As I understand it track and trace will inform contacts of the need to isolate/test then monitor for related cases - so, contained until they know otherwise. Once those pass what I'm assuming is an agreed threshold in terms of cases and (in)ability to trace it will go to an incident response team who will then make recommendations to the government regarding any required measures such as closures, lock downs, etc.
Going by the Aberdeen outbreak, it looks like councils are informed and consulted but don't get to make decisions on control measures.