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

Absolute archaic bullshit, as if there is no possible way of enabling MPs to vote other than physically walking through a lobby.

It’s just dickwaving, isn’t it. Is that Mrs May in the orange skirt behind her?

Rees Mogg is the number one dick who loves to wave

this is fundamentally all about whips, right? They're scared that MPs will get their brave pants on voting from home, away from the scowling eyes of the whips. That's a hell of a price to pay for discipline.

my school just sent a letter. they’re not reopening.

good shout

my wife disagrees with it. she says what about all the kids in bad homes that are stuck with terrifying parents, what about all the people who can’t go to their jobs. i mean - i disagree but i get where she’s coming from.

they would have got brutalised by their cruel violent parents anyway... sorry i'll get my coat.

i understand about that stuff and it ought to be addressed, but piecemeal reopening of schools doesn't seem to be honestly about that to me, nor even honestly about education.

is it fuck.. it's all childcare for people in shit jobs.

and there's a whole lot of "lesser of various evils" decisions to be made now and for the forseeable future, but on the whole i trust the judgement of teachers as to their own health and safety more than i trust the government.

Last Year In Westminster

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZhDkPyXkAAd7Kx?format=jpg

seems pretty telling that i've heard no sensible discussion about how to address state school kids's loss of education when schools are able to return to something closer to normal functioning, which could be thought through and planned for now instead of just desperately trying to kickstart the status quo ante asap

my borough has occasionally had the highest death rate in the UK and among the highest BAME population so there’s that as well. i think it’s the right decision. i can’t even imagine the amount of flak they’re going to get for it.

ours is just back from his first day and tbh I haven't seen him this happy in months. The staff also told us they were relaxed with the arrangements around safety etc, which was a big concern for us. We're incredibly lucky – the school has an enormous campus for a london school and even in pods they all get a lot of outdoor space

lucky that this was my youngest's last year of school/college and because of the way the BTEC is structured she was able to finish at home, because i wouldn't be happy at the prospect of her going back

I'd love to send my lad back to his NAS college because he's a nightmare at the moment and missing it badly. But I'm in complete agreement with his teacher that it isn't the time yet.

thank you, comrade ukip https://t.co/XymU9j1X1Y

— hk (@HKesvani) June 2, 2020

All this shit because Rees-Mogg has only a typewriter at home imo.

HANG ON. https://t.co/eMsb1hKGtu

— MXM (@mxmsworld) June 3, 2020

🤔🤔🤔

quel fucking surp

BREAKING: Bank of England warns banks to prepare for Brexit without a trade deal https://t.co/qUsflnhTdD

— Metro (@MetroUK) June 3, 2020

Found calz’s alt

keir starmer is hilariously shite. sunburnt barrister forgot where he parked lookin cunt

— catholic goth (@antibloom) June 3, 2020

it would seem that he is not "playing nice" any more, at least if you read the melt commentariat. So does that mean at the peak of a severe public health crisis where the govt did next to nothing to protect its population and NHS staff this cunt was just doing a little political theater for the consumption of a tiny irrelevant faction of the chattering media classes and just fucking playing nice?

pic.twitter.com/BQ1VVYvJhd

— Ewan (@Ewannash06) June 3, 2020

lol beautiful

Lol

Two weeks ago Keir Starmer privately raised concerns about the government’s handling of school reopening and offered to help the PM get it right. “I have tried to be constructive but boy he makes it difficult to support this government” #PMQs

— Lisa Nandy (@lisanandy) June 3, 2020

it's hard out there for a Labour leader to support Boris Johnson

'And then when I went to the parking lot where he said my Gameboy would be, there was nobody there. Except it seemed like I could hear somebody laughing in the bushes. I asked him about it the next day at school he got a kind of funny look in his eye. So I'm sorry I don't have the Gamebody dad, but I still think he's a top bloke'

Given that the government actually wants Starmer's fingerprints on anything that goes wrong I'm surprised they haven't called his bluff and offered him a job.

I sent a letter to the Government the other day
They never opened or read it because I'm a sucker

Heartwarming that Keir still wants to support the government that's responsible for the highest covid deaths per capita. He still believes in you Boris! 🥲🥲🥲 #forensics https://t.co/DshbZMlq5Y

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 3, 2020

I'm guessing the intention behind it is to lodge "it makes it hard for me, an undecided voter, to support this government" in the minds of the public, but I don't think it quite landed. (Subtext 'we wanted you to succeed because success would mean saving thousands of lives but everyone can see you are failing now'). It's the only reason I can think of for using the word 'support' in that context.

just heard sir wotsisname from 1922 committee with a tacit admission this is the worst shithole in the world for the Rona by saying the govt plan to put incoming visitors to the UK into a 14 day quarantine "makes no sense" because where else in the world has a higher infection rate.

Also, The Disgraced Liam Fox castigating it for "unnecessary economic isolation" despite having spent at least four years telling us that unnecessary economic isolation is a good thing.

Lads.

Update. I'm told there is currently a long suspension of the Commons while there is a 'deep clean' of the despatch box and nearby area after Alok Sharma's appearance. https://t.co/uTf6AMABNq

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) June 3, 2020

fingers crossed for Comrade Rona

it's a good job they don't have mike gapes on the front bench

Rona got some serious deselecting to do, don't be shy it's a big room!

That picture of their stupid fucking queue should haunt them. And what now? Are they going to isolate basically all of parliament, as they'd have to do under their own t&t rules, or are they going to Barnard Castle this next phase too?

LADS.

NEW: Business Secretary Alok Sharma self-isolating and has been tested for Coronavirus.

He began feeling unwell in the chamber today, spokesperson says.

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) June 3, 2020

Comrade Karma also reporting for duty

Jacob Rees-Morgue

— Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell) June 3, 2020

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte this evening:

Tourists from the 🇬🇧United Kingdom and 🇸🇪Sweden are not welcome in the 🇳🇱Netherlands from June 15 but people from other EU/Schengen countries are.

— Simon Gleave (@SimonGleave) June 3, 2020

literally the sick man of Europe

this fucking country

How many MPs of advanced age or with other underlying health conditions had to walk through the lobby yesterday?

thoughts and prayers for Peter Bottomley rn, my rosary beads are on fire!

and big bazza!

maybe the legendary miasma in the HoP of leaking piss will be some kind of antiseptic barrier