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

Not even got it in her to spout fake standard garbage "any death is tragic ... lessons to be learned to make sure this doesn't happen again ... thoughts and/or prayers etc"

Thank you Andrew Bowie

I regularly get asked as Conservative Vice Chair for Youth if 'Social Media' might put people off getting into politics.

Last night I posted a picture of my dinner, a plate of fish and chips.

These are a selection of the responses. pic.twitter.com/EE6QBjNCmv

— Andrew Bowie MP (@AndrewBowie_MP) September 2, 2020

love playing jenga with 4 frozen chips from jack fultons because I'm a tory cunt.

Dunno how he got all those responses to a tweet that he restricted responses on.

If it's any consolation you could easily become a 5 chip twat by eating one of the chips 👍

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 2, 2020

Hold the phone, I've just thought of a way you could become a 4 chip twat

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 2, 2020

Absolutely under no circumstances did he get his assistant to make these up so he could throw his hands up in outrage.

If they were real someone might have mentioned his use of emojis because wow.

basically it's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SslXv_Ja8

Oh dear lord I didn't realise that what I really needed this morning was the knowledge that this guy I had never previously heard of is going to be called Scottish Tory 6 Chips Twat for the rest of his political life and it's entirely self-inflicted.

meanwhile Hat Mancock acquits himself beautifully when faced with the woke fascism of, um, Kay Burley

“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist”

Health Sec @MattHancock: “He’s also an expert on trade”#KayBurley

JM pic.twitter.com/92IFWVcDYH

— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) September 3, 2020

oh mattpaws

Is Tony Abbott an expert on trade?

I thought Liam Fox was our expert on trade.

@josiahmortimer

In London, I was directed to a Covid testing site over 40 miles away. With no car, it was a non-starter

So I booked a testing kit. Which arrived too late for it to be usable

Visited Paris a couple of months ago - they have walk-in testing sites on the banks of the Seine. Why do we not have walk-in centres across the UK??

Seems like the replies are real xps

Spent the evening talking fish? Only one option for dinner 😏🐟 #seaofopportunity #britishfishandchips pic.twitter.com/SeMrb7cb2w

— Andrew Bowie MP (@AndrewBowie_MP) September 1, 2020

Try again

I only see two replies from people he follows and I can't reply

Why do we not have walk-in centres across the UK??

First one opened in Scotland last week with another 21 to follow.

You need to look at the 'Retweets with comments" xp

Scottish Tory 6 chip twat https://t.co/OjBijjDAMt

— Aaron Harvey (@whitelined) September 2, 2020

He's talking about the times when he was subtweeted. Sadly 'Scottish Tory 6 Chips Twat' is real, which has ruined everything.

Meanwhile Hitler, Fred West, Dr Harold Shipman and Jimmy Saville are all trending at once and they're all going back to that Matt Hancock interview.

If I was working in Westminster at this time and fancied fish and chips, I would simply go to the Laughing Halibut* on Strutton Ground rather than the six-chip silverware version you get in the subsidised HoC restaurants.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/19/6f/1a/ca/the-laughing-halibut.jpg

*I just broke out in a cold sweat wondering if it had closed; it has not. Phew!

That does look good and with one or two exceptions I'm a fully paid up member of the 'London fish and chips is shit' club.

Even then it does still astonish me how awful the immediate Westminster area (as opposed to Westminster borough) is for restaurants. Given the concentration of highly paid MPs in the area you'd assume they'd be amazing but it's a desert.

the mps have their own secret restaurants where they feast on the souls of the poor iirc

xp it’s dire, Strutton Ground is where a lot of people go (i learned about the chipshop from reading an old D Miliband interview- it’s near the foreign office so they used to get their fish and chips from there). There are only so many good places, Farage has been sighted in all my former favourites. 😞

There seems to be nothing other than sandwich shops and absolutely bog standard pub food which I suspect says a lot about the tastes or working patterns of our political class.

I mean most ministries have a heavily subsidised canteen as well I guess.

Re: that secretary of work and pensions statement - I helped a friend try to get the HO support she mentions. We were on hold for 40 minutes and after we got through there was no follow up for months. Going through that channel would hardly have prevented starvation.

Yeah in some ways the Burley line of compassion isn't great, what about breaking down how difficult it can be to get help in the first place? All very easy to deflect when you have someone like Coffey.

Here is Hancock today.

“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist”

Health Sec @MattHancock: “He’s also an expert on trade”#KayBurley

JM pic.twitter.com/92IFWVcDYH

— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) September 3, 2020

That was posted a couple of hours ago

👍

Sturridge has gone to Chelsea. He's also an expert in trade.

i assume this means that government support for those suffering mental ill-health will be massively ramped up now, fantastic news

The husband of Conservative minister Chloe Smith has claimed that coronavirus is a “mental illness”. Sandy McFadzean, who married the Norwich North MP in 2013, attended last weekend’s march against coronavirus restrictions. He has previously re-tweeted posts describing the Government as “globalist puppets” and “tyrants”, the Eastern Daily Press reported.

A poster for the Unite For Freedom March, held in London on Saturday, called for an end to social distancing, track and trace and the use of face masks, PA Media reports.

McFadzean, who is employed by Credit Suisse as a vice president, wrote on Twitter: “Covid-19 is most likely an outbreak of mental illness.” A further post read: “Government need to be clear. Either there is a killer virus on the loose or there isn’t. (Spoiler alert: There isn’t).”

Smith, a Cabinet Office minister, told the Eastern Daily Press that her husband was a private citizen, that he was entitled to his own views, but that she did not agree with him on this.

This piece on the Pret economy is a good way of looking at the way work is changing and how it could be beneficial to all however it doesn't take account of what the impact would be in the collapse of commercial rents. Tories are so incompetent I doubt they could manage the change.

McFadzean, who is employed by Credit Suisse as a vice president

Omg his handle

Sandy McFadzean's Twitter account which was deleted after Ms Smith was contacted for comment by the EDP pic.twitter.com/akgkPU7D7D

— BoneyMcBoneface 👬🌈 (@enobkered1) September 3, 2020

It was interesting to see near uniformity in the comments under that FT article - although perhaps not surprising given how expensive and onerous the business of having an office job has become.

I'm a lot less bullish about the idea that the economic benefits will genuinely be diffused, though. Spending in independent shops might be up a bit but it's going to take a more skilled hand than this government has if the future isn't a collapse in transport infrastructure, millions more unemployed and an even greater market share flowing to Amazon.

Almost everyone who works at a Swiss bank is Vice President of something. They hand the titles out like toffees.

lol at @stateistoobig, just laying out the entire stall in one handle

and an even greater market share flowing to Amazon.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-54009484?

Yep, Amazon's international growth in recruitment has been extraordinary over the last six months.

Love Ian Lavery but you've almost gotta hand it to all these rage-addled Blairites who seem to continuously pick him as the Corbynite they want to square up to. Bollocks of steel. pic.twitter.com/HfKlNHF8oJ

— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) September 3, 2020

wouldn't even piss on a Times hack book on Corbynism, but it is quite fun reading short select cuts from it tonight.

Ian Murray, now shadow Scotland secretary, was the eighth original member of the Independent Group before pulling out at the eleventh hour. Here he is rehearsing their launch:https://t.co/4GxcdJTqKr pic.twitter.com/DAy59mvQhQ

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) September 3, 2020

Almost everyone who works at a Swiss bank is Vice President of something. They hand the titles out like toffees.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:10 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, I have a friend who is a VP at Morgan Stanley and he's just an IT guy, not some executive

you don't get highfalutin titles like "supervisor" until you can fly at Fox's Biscuits!

Gotta say, not usually a big fan of Rayner but all the quotes from her in this so far are class. pic.twitter.com/YJZPQ90p2g

— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) September 3, 2020

Chris Leslie apparently has a "lilting West Yorkshire accent" in what was a big blow for regional accents amongst people that actually fucking have them.

Michael Gove's doric tones

doric pilla[ck]s of society, please don't unite and take over!

Yes this is all making that book sound, as I think Mark S would say, 'good not bad'?

So they assumed that Labour Party activists, many of whom ran themselves ragged to support the 2019 campaign, are stupid. Btw I am not a Labour Party member. pic.twitter.com/oZNQI82NSq

— Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🌋🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) September 4, 2020

looks like a real hack job

In ‘Left Out...’ Pogrund and Maguire tell on themselves in every other paragraph. They see politics as a game to be played and are baffled that Corbyn sees it as something else. pic.twitter.com/BOqvgaDV7K

— Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🌋🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) September 3, 2020