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
that's why you haven't got CB FRCP FFPH FMedSci after yr name!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
CB DSc FRCP FFPH FMedSci.
oops I missed one
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
CB DSc FRCP FBPE FMedSci
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
the mekon, secret remainiac
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Dan Dunty and the Mekon.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Gammons are from Venus, Remoaners are from Mars
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
Peter Bottomley and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
So, every front page (apart from the Guardian, Metro and the FT) have the front page given over to the latest 'developments' in the Maddie story.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
More deaths today than the rest of Europe combined? pfft
― stet, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
it’s fine, global cases are only at 100,000A DAY
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
lol
Figures obtained by the Guardian showed that in large parts of the north-east not a single primary school opened to more pupils on Monday, the government’s target date for reopening after the 10-week lockdown.Data from 11 of the 12 biggest local authorities in the region, which has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the UK, showed just 12% of their 856 primary schools admitted additional pupils on Monday.Across England, a National Education Union poll of members suggested, more than two in five schools (44%) decided against admitting more pupils on Monday, contrary to government expectations.In the north-west, the proportion of schools opening to more pupils was even lower, at just 8%, according to a survey by the country’s biggest education union.
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 June 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
So proud:
Yesterday the UK, population 66 million, had more deaths from #COVID19 than the *entire* EU, population nearly 450 million.Not even @10DowningStreet can spin that fact away - it is utterly, irredeemably damning. pic.twitter.com/4NworFV1hb— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) June 4, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 June 2020 08:39 (three years ago) link
So so sorry we're not accepting you ppl from the UK, along w/ only Sweden, to smoke weed here lol
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 June 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
It’s really unfair to those of us who live here too. :,(This is a remarkable piece
Why Scotland needs to acknowledge its role in creating the racial dystopia that is modern America https://t.co/hRboCSMzBx— NeilMackay (@NeilMackay) June 4, 2020
― gyac, Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
I'm very pleased to say that @Keir_Starmer is joining @LBC for a new, monthly phone-in. He'll be taking calls with @NickFerrariLBC starting at 9am on Monday. #CallKeir pic.twitter.com/ualYlKxOm6— Tom Cheal (@Tom_Cheal) June 4, 2020
― gyac, Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
That Madeleine story is such a dead cat. "All Lives Matter"... but we've decided a missing white girl from thirteen years ago does matter more than the failure to protect BAME people from being three times as likely to die, during our catastrophically mismanaged handling of a pandemic.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:32 (three years ago) link
Ok last ones:
No coincidence, IMO, that political movements offering the kind of fundamental change (via democratic process) urged by young people generally, BAME communities specifically, have been thwarted both sides of the Atlantic in last half year. A wellspring of impotent rage out there.— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) June 4, 2020
Another commonality is that both were turned back in large part by a coalition of white middle-aged and older people apparently representing the spectrum of acceptable politics in both nations, and this most evident in the media treatment of both movements.— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) June 4, 2020
― gyac, Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
(xps) I've talked on ILX before about the fact that Scotland has a history of producing, and exporting, dangerous fanatics - though I usually just blame Ayrshire. The Wha's Like Us tendency of Scots to blow their own trumpet about being 'more progressive ' than the English hardly stands up to close scrutiny when there are Orange Walks the length and breadth of the country every summer. And how's that 'we don't vote Tory' thing going?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link