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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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By not going to an office, socialising, buying all groceries in bulk and planning meals I have saved about 5 grand this pandemic.

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Boris' default retort is TLOTO is an IRA supporter, hasn't yet moved on.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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The best hangover cure is pinapple juice and a wake and bake.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1303742350003445761

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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The government have finally released the contact tracing app.

https://protect.scot/

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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I hope rees mogg dies.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Another lockdown would make the money sad. Better just digging some mass graves.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Weird story, PM apparently in secret weekend trip to Italy last week. Downing Street have issued a vague denial.

https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1307773779272179713

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Did he confirm with the priest?

Like its not illegal for the PM to travel, just really weird to lie about it. The airport staff seemed to be pretty sure that it was him, perhaps it was another fat dishevelled blond posho.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Bobby Deluxe posted:

Peston perfectly exemplifies lazy :thunk: journalism. "Hmm. Did Boris lie? Was he at the airport?" Hey how about we find out the answer to those questions and more by doing YOUR loving JOB.

Chris: Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your head stone?
Peter: "News".
Chris: Peter, thank you.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Brave of the Prime Minister to take a back seat and let the experts handle the briefing.

Good job that schools /unis are back and that the furlough scheme ends next month. Can't wait to spend Christmas dying alone in a makeshift ICU.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Great of the government to arrange a press briefing with no questions allowed, giving dire message to public but no announcements of policy measures that will support prevention of the disease. Fully expect Kier Starmer to frown extra hard and support the government fully while demanding that they do more to get things back to normal.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Jel Shaker posted:

i wouldn’t be surprised if Mi5/6 know boris is compromised in some way and won’t let him near some top secret stuff

This is tinfoil hat stuff, you probably also believe that it wasn't just a coincidence that Boris was in Kirkaldy Fife last month at the same time the yacht beloning to a Russian billionaire was moored offshore.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Why is it so hard for England/Wales to release a working contact tracing app?

https://twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1308014407935500288

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Communist Thoughts posted:

Oh gently caress yeah we're doing the foreign Catholic thing again. Do cultures ever overcome their baggage or do we just loop forever?

Cabinet ministers were musing over starving the Irish to get a negotiating advantage last year so probably the latter.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Imagine being a Labour MP and quoting Thomas Mair, even if it was accidentally.

gently caress Nandy, and the rest of the dead useless party.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Unironically hoping that Alison Pearsons idiot son dies of covid.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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stev posted:

So the app constantly uses bluetooth to scan nearby phones for positive test results?

That sounds like something I don't want constantly running on my phone.

Singapore have a contact tracing keyfob thing.

Much cooler IMO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53146360

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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The protect.scot app doesn't need to be active but does need Bluetooth on at all time (dunno if it is the same as the English app).

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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I knew a German that ate raw bacon, must be a thing.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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These days if you say your English, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Beefeater1980 posted:

Someone was posting in the USpol thread that Bojo and Bolsonaro both had short term popularity bumps from getting the disease. Depending on severity the same might happen in the US I guess.

Boris at least has a basic level of likeability, outside of his base Americans loving hate Trump.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Libs gonna lib.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Sorry no vaccines for those outside the core tory demographic. Hope you like long Covid.

https://www.ft.com/content/d2e00128-7889-4d5d-84a3-43e51355a751

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I don't normally go on twitter but I did this morning and this tickled me

https://twitter.com/jodyaberdein/status/1313092452266504195

Copy_of_Track_Trace1_thisone.xlsx

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Good job the government made the most of lockdown to drive down the case numbers and build a world beating track and trace system.

Oh.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Well we need low income fruit pickers so get all the theatre kids and non independently wealthy musicians to do that.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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What other SNP policies currently being enacted by the Scottish Government will the Scottish Tories support? Free personal care, universal childcare, free school meals, prescriptions, national investment bank, independence from the UK and membership of the EU?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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forkboy84 posted:

Isn't it a Labour/Liberal policy that the Nats just claimed as their own

Labour/Lib Dems/SNP can all lay claim (Labours claim is the weakest imo as they introduced them 3 years earlier).

Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that the SNP ended tuition fees is not entirely accurate. Up-front fees were abolished by Labour in Scotland (after Tony Blair’s government introduced them in 1998) under pressure from the Liberal Democrats and many students were exempted from the Graduate Endowment scheme the coalition put in place. The SNP can, however, accurately say it introduced free university education by scrapping the graduate endowment.

https://theferret.scot/sturgeon-snp-scrapped-tuition-fees/

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Real image from the government.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Has anyone done the National Careers Service skill assesment yet. Mine suggested that I try my hand at homeopathy or possibly becoming the head of IT.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Death to America inshallah.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Perhaps if those young savers spent less on avocados and takeways, and had non-ballet related jobs they'd be able to save for a housing deposit.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Why would MI5 asset Kier Starmer want to antagonise the American president?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Gonzo McFee posted:

At this point I have absolutely no clue how to break that 40% hold the Tories have beyond letting Covid rampage through the home counties.

Sadly its probably this

https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Nothing will ever happen to them, but we really should strongly consider bringing back hanging just for this incompetent government.

Happy Christmas, don't bother getting anything for your nan.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Our only hope is that Covid kills off enough Tory voters that the competent seriousface guy and his shower of melt cunts can scrape enough of a majority together at the next GE to maybe not take us to full facism.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Ooft

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1316333444654301184

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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sebzilla posted:

Scottish independence and Irish reunification within this parliament is going to be pretty exciting.

English politics should probably take seriously the likeyhood of massive constitutional change happening in the near future. But then again Brexit happens on Jan 1st and no one has bothered to come up with a plan for that.

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Wish we had nice weather and Börek.

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