You’re dead right about Morgan Marty, the man’s a cynical troll who latches on to a controversial subject and does everything he can to become the leader of a baying mob. He just so happens to have picked our side this time, and I doubt he cares even a jot about the actual cause. But because he’s such an accomplished professional agitator he’s making all the arguments we want to hear and getting a huge audience for it. So let’s be glad of that, without giving him any credit at all for actually caring about any of us. It’s all just a game to him.
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https://twitter.com/dmitryopines/status/1260122363384954880?s=21
This is chilling. It’s not ineptitude, it’s a deliberate reframing of the narrative to direct blame to subgroups who don’t have the COMMON SENSE to avoid spreading the virus. This will be cheerfully lapped up by the Brexit voters who can now go about their own business and mock the lefties for not understanding the simple rules. The mounting piles of corpses will be someone else’s fault, Boris is doing his best, give him a break, what do you want a handbook on what to do? Use your common sense.
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I think we are fubar’d and 100% reliant on one of two things happening: summer causing the virus to disappear, or a successful vaccine widely available soon.
Looking at the timelines and numbers, if any countries are going to successfully crush this virus through good policies it isn’t going to be us. We started much too late and allowed it to get too strong a foothold. ldo
It’s all very well reopening in some ways when the R is “between 0.5 and 0.9” (lol) and you’ve got a very low infection rate, but with potentially hundreds of thousands of infections still out there if R creeps back much above 1 we will soon be back where we were a few weeks ago (because the exponent will be seeded with a much larger number), having ruined many peoples livelihoods not to mention consigned tens of thousands to early deaths, and having spent a large amount of GDP getting nowhere.
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Sickening. And on the same day this is reported:
wtf is wrong with this world
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Meanwhile the writers of The Thick Of It must be readying the legal team for a copyright case against the government:
https://twitter.com/hsjeditor/status/1260469435183357954?s=21
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The first place I’d look would be Cummng’s rucksack.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1260568972929519616
https://mobile.twitter.com/ofwcff/status/1260573160585531392
Forgot to reply to this - sorry.
My thing is US based so don’t qualify for this either. Coming up to my “get to know how much you get” date wrt UC - hopefully Sunday isn’t too depressing.
In an interesting article on the impact the coronavirus crisis is having on the union of the four nations of the United Kingdom, CNN’s Luke McGee says that Boris Johnson himself thought the message he was delivering in his speech on Sunday night was confusing. McGee writes:
Since the late 1990s, Westminster has ceded much power to legislative bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, allowing devolved governments to set domestic policy in areas such as health and education.
So it is little surprise that [Nicola] Sturgeon {the Scottish first minister] was confused when Johnson began talking about the opening of schools, among other things, on Sunday night. “Discussing schools, for example, he used year group terms that don’t even make sense in Scotland. It wasn’t at all clear in the statement what guidance applied to the whole UK and what applied to England specifically,” says Nicola McEwen, professor of territorial politics at the University of Edinburgh.
Sources inside Downing Street have told CNN that Johnson himself thought the message was confusing. “Filming was a total nightmare. He was stopping and starting, asking to change bits, complaining about the length, saying it was all too complex,” said one government source who was not permitted to speak on the record.
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I remember posting on 2+2 after the transition accord, or whatever the agreement to agree was called, that the language on the border was just nonsensical fantasy, and that everyone knew it would either be on Ireland or in the Irish sea. Literally nothing changed in the two years before the UK actually left and the issue was only ‘resolved’ by a government transparently lying and everyone just pretending that maybe they weren’t.
The water’s well under the bridge by now and personally I’m out of it, but at some point reality is going to come along and make a mockery of it all. At least everyone in NI has had some time to understand they’ve been sold down the river, and hopefully will just decide they’re all better off elsewhere.
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I guess if either the Unionists are happy to continue to pretend black is white or can be bought off so no trouble results, then it’s only us mugs who care about reality that suffer. You’ll know far better than me on that score, so fingers crossed.
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Made the mistake of watching QT tonight… 
They had some crazy old dude saying he does not know what’s safe or what to do in general, but still asked him all the questions and let him blather about getting the plebs back to work.
Talking about the lockdown being worse than the virus because more people may surcum to misery, then says austerity actually helped to bring society to a place to be able to meet the requirements of today, no shit sherlock.
I say we reward those Austerity hero’s starting yesterday mister minister.
“I’m not even talking about football at the moment – I’m talking about my family’s health. If I feel that I’m not looking after my family, then I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to put my family at risk,” Deeney said on Instagram.
“What are they going to do, take money off me? I’ve been broke before so it doesn’t bother me.
Bravo! Deeney always says what he thinks.
but of course it’s ONLY because Watford are in the relegation zone
sigh
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