Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

nice krautrock event for people with a can do inclination

kier probably still trying to figure out how to walk back his no ifs, no buts, no equivocation hardman stance on this thing

What a troll.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a national lockdown within the next 24 hours. Says it is "inevitable" that more schools will be closed so plan needed now, but won't call for schools to close as of tomorrow as it would add to the chaos.

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) January 3, 2021

profiles in courage

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Kieth is the tail, Boris the dog that wags him. More school closure are "inevitable" says Kieth the casual bystander, without exerting any political pressure to close schools. Seriously, I hope this cunt gets the rona and dies.

boris: we should do something
kieth: we should do something MORE QUICKLY
kieth: ...
kieth: err, that’s it
uk public: *continues dying by the hundreds every day*

lol get fucked

My understanding is Keir Starmer wants a national lockdown like November, not March. Tougher than Tier 4, closing more places (an eg given is zoos which are open in T4) & bringing back the national “Stay At Home” message.

Schools should be “the last to close” says senior source.

— Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) January 3, 2021

tbf to Kieth nothing of note has happened today that would give him a clear and visible cause to back immediate school closure

bold to demand the closure of zoos in...checks notes...January

Fat big cats have had it good for too long!!!

It's the November style half-arsed tiered lockdown that has got us to the terrible position we are in but lets try it some more and hope for a different result, but he's right - closing empty zoos could be a gamechanger tbf!

Starmer just adding to the polar-cat-isation of political discourse

i think we should oust starmer

Fucking Zoos? Sage were saying last week that a November lockdown won’t do it; it needs to be March-like.

"zoos" is one of those things where if you don't realise what a dick you sound saying it you're never gonna realise what a dick you are

any functional human being would've thought about it for a second

idk zoos is a fun word to say

'zoos'

unless he's got the January issue of Zoo Afficionado and it's full of pictures of absolutely jam-packed Christmas zoo action

yeah plax i just reached the same conclusion about the word zoos

maybe i am a zoophile

Kieth clearly a zoophobe

Fucking Zoos? Sage were saying last week that a November lockdown won’t do it; it needs to be March-like.

anyway enough tired old zoo tropes

Kieth clearly a zoophobe

no zoos for the likes of youse is it?

still i guess it was zoonosis that got us here in the first place

otm

The weird smell coming off the party this year hasn’t so much been of the New Labour years - it’s been a whiff of Change UK, a party that mainly appeals to pundits and has little to say except “Things would be better if we were in charge, because are smart”.

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 3, 2021

The typo adds to that tbh.

Which means furlough money.

Someone on twitter pointed sometime ago that Starmer is carrying on from where Harriet Harman left off. Just so weak-minded, even before the zoo thing I am reading now.

left shitposters: big announcement from Labour tomorrow, Starmer is going to resign

sensible people: pah! bah! don't be ridiculous! you children, you idiots! Sir Keir is not some common circus clown!

actual Labour announcement: WE MUST CLOSE THE ZOOS

— stefan mohamed (professional account) (@stefmowords) January 3, 2021

there is, of course, a lot of this going down right now

I closed a zoo and I liked it

— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) January 3, 2021

i mean expecting the leader of the Labour Party to say anything about the largest trade union meeting ever in the UK taking place today is naive i guess

remember he is a zoo-master not a zoom-master, it's easy to get them mixed up

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this fucking country

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this is the opposition you get when you vote for Corbynism without Corbyn for all those who kept saying "why can't we just replace him with someone with nicer hair and lacking the troublesome political history baggage"

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As a black guy born and living in the UK this article makes me fear for my own destiny and for my family. Be clear these headlines are not far removed from 1930's Nazi Germany. I call on everybody to support the growth of #BlackLivesMatter to fight this in 2021 ✊🏿✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/JiisJuZImX

— Nick (@Nclarke30) January 3, 2021

THREAD - Covid-19 in England.

Things are going from very bad to much worse.

Here is where we are in 9 tweets. 1/9

— Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) January 3, 2021

Yeah...saw that yesterday...we have gone down such a bad route of just not thinking about schools that 'further restrictions' is what we might be left with.

Iggy Pop on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall is the most poignant thing I’ve read all week. https://t.co/jksAqwnpAQ pic.twitter.com/sG5aW5gN9h

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) January 3, 2021

Lol that is for the books board

The government has lost control of the virus. That’s why @UKLabour is calling for further restrictions to stop the spread while we roll out the vaccines and keep children learning. pic.twitter.com/GzgxzKqWr5

— Kate Green (@KateGreenSU) January 4, 2021

And 'further restrictions' will never be a curfew. Instead it will turn into a blame game where the public are turned on each other.

Kate Green go throw yourself in a skip you useless melt

"we don't think schools should close... but more closures are inevitable."

this is such a pathetic line

They won't even back the unions now.

blaming the population and saying non-essential retail needs to close before schools is just the kind of pathetic response from a non-opposition that will keep the right-wing press and the Tory party happy