my school just sent a letter. they’re not reopening.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
good shout
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
they would have got brutalised by their cruel violent parents anyway... sorry i'll get my coat.
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
is it fuck.. it's all childcare for people in shit jobs.
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
Last Year In Westminster
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZhDkPyXkAAd7Kx?format=jpg
― dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
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
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
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
― stet, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
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
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
thank you, comrade ukip https://t.co/XymU9j1X1Y— hk (@HKesvani) June 2, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
All this shit because Rees-Mogg has only a typewriter at home imo.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
HANG ON. https://t.co/eMsb1hKGtu— MXM (@mxmsworld) June 3, 2020
🤔🤔🤔
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
quel fucking surp
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
BREAKING: Bank of England warns banks to prepare for Brexit without a trade deal https://t.co/qUsflnhTdD— Metro (@MetroUK) June 3, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
Found calz’s alt
keir starmer is hilariously shite. sunburnt barrister forgot where he parked lookin cunt— catholic goth (@antibloom) June 3, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
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?
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/BQ1VVYvJhd— Ewan (@Ewannash06) June 3, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
lol beautiful
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
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
― gyac, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
it's hard out there for a Labour leader to support Boris Johnson
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
'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'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
I sent a letter to the Government the other dayThey never opened or read it because I'm a sucker
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
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
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
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
― gyac, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
fingers crossed for Comrade Rona
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
it's a good job they don't have mike gapes on the front bench
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
Rona got some serious deselecting to do, don't be shy it's a big room!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
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?
― stet, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
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
― gyac, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Comrade Karma also reporting for duty
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Jacob Rees-Morgue— Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell) June 3, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
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
― stet, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
literally the sick man of Europe
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
this fucking country
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
How many MPs of advanced age or with other underlying health conditions had to walk through the lobby yesterday?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
thoughts and prayers for Peter Bottomley rn, my rosary beads are on fire!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
and big bazza!
maybe the legendary miasma in the HoP of leaking piss will be some kind of antiseptic barrier
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
I once had this smackhead electrician friend who had his own "lungfish theory" that if you were a smoker, the layer of phlegm on your lungs created a protective barrier from the asbestos that we had breathed in on a school job. it sounds about as convincing as that piss theory!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
his theory was based on this 80+ years old old smoker we once met who worked in a factory in the late 60's where his duties included sawing asbestos panels and having snowball fights with clumps of the deadly mineral on his lunch break and he said what people said about its deadly carcinogenic effects on the lungs were "a load of bollocks"!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
a useful fact i just learned is that the word "empiric" means "1: one who is guided by practical experience rather than precepts or theory" and also "2: An unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan"
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
the lungfish guy is 1 and so am i
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link