People who definitely don’t believe in cancel culture
Pinterest UK rather surprisingly posted this today,
and the responses are absolute gold.
It’s good to know the great British public stand so strongly against cancelling things!
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Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street — BBC News – Home
Ch Supt Mark Sutherland says the pair had to be let go to protect safety and public health.
Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street — BBC News – Home
You can’t tell from just the headline, but this is a geniunely good story about people coming together and taking a stand.
Epic Rant Time — Meerkat Musings
The UK has one of the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 of any country on earth (7th), as a direct result of Tory incompetence. Billions have been spaffed up the wall on Track and Trace systems that have taken forever to actually work (and Tory cronyism has seen the mates of Tory ministers get…
Epic Rant Time — Meerkat Musings
I agree with this rant. What an incredibly disheartening day it’s been. :(
Boris Johnson said bodies ‘could pile high’ during lockdown discussion — BBC News – Home
The BBC has been told Boris Johnson made the remarks during discussions in No 10, which the PM denies.
Boris Johnson said bodies ‘could pile high’ during lockdown discussion — BBC News – Home
So there’s a fair amount of discussion at the moment about “Did he really say that? Those exact words?” and yes, I absolutely and thoroughly believe he said that in those exact words.
I also absolutely and thoroughly believe the Conservatives will win in another landslide next election.
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: We Had No Escape Route, Say Disabled Residents — Tory Britain!
Originally posted on Same Difference:
Disabled residents of Grenfell Tower have told a public inquiry that no-one discussed with them how to escape the 24-storey building in an emergency. One woman said it took her 30 minutes to walk down from her 20th floor flat when lifts were not working. Lawyers for residents and the…
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: We Had No Escape Route, Say Disabled Residents — Tory Britain!
More details of the Grenfell Tower case. It’ll be four years since it happened come June. And I can’t even describe how angry this part of the story makes me.
Victoria Park signs multiply in support of Sarah Everard movement — Leicestershire Press
Men have joined a public demonstration of support in Leicester for the nationwide Sarah Everard movement.
Victoria Park signs multiply in support of Sarah Everard movement — Leicestershire Press
From my neck of the woods.
Prince Philip
Turned on the TV around noon and got-
I was like, what happened?! Was there a terrorist attack? Did someone get assassinated?! So I turned over and turned out Prince Philip had died. Of natural causes.
(Also, wait, does the BBC actually own the Dave channel? Who knew.)
ANYWAY yeah, I’m surprised he didn’t make it to 100 but there’s not that much to say about a guy who lived by all accounts a very full life and died at 99. And, you know, he wasn’t exactly a great ambassador for the UK at the best of times. I wish the TV (it’s showing very little else except Prince Philip right now) would stop describing his racist comments as “gaffes” since that implies he didn’t mean to say them while he very much did.
That’s… pretty much all I got. Please enjoy this very bad photograph I took in 2014 of a moving car that had Prince Philip in it.
Policeman Oliver Banfield given curfew after attacking woman — BBC News – Home
Oliver Banfield’s victim says she thought he was “fulfilling a violent cop movie fantasy”.
Policeman Oliver Banfield given curfew after attacking woman — BBC News – Home
Well, at least we can all take to the streets and protest about this.
Oh.
The Sarah Everard vigil/protest
You’ll probably hear more about it tomorrow. Based off Twitter alone, what happened (officially, the protest wasn’t supposed to go ahead due to pandemic fears, or that’s what I heard) was really, really bad. It almost feels, looking at these photos, like the police took it personally since it’s one of their own accused. I hate this.