#uk lockdown

[tweetingukpolitics]

#russ jones #political twitter #boris johnson #conservative party #lockdown rules #uk news #uk politics

[draqonsblues]

you gotta understand how sad and lonely yeong's situation as well. she remembers nothing before jinyowon and was locked up by her supposedly mother until some man walked in and turned the entire situation. but that man is still mourning his past lover (which is her but she doesnt remember) which makes her think she really doesn't fit in or is not needed. both of them are walking in circles that it ends up hurting them and id be eating up the angst

#alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #WE'RE HALF WAY THROUGH #I HOPE NEXT WEEK UK KNOWS SHES NAKSU #the hong sisters really went how much angst we could fit in these characters #and gave them heart wrenching plotlines #aos lockdown

[11905deadweaselroad]

2020

#me #photography #gay photography #my post #men #gay art #post #2020 #lockdown photography #gay uk #gay men

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

just so you know how normal the UK is, left wing climate change activists and anti-monarchy protesters are getting jail time and beaten for simply holding up banners and being considered disruptive whilst right wing bullshitters against shit like ULEZ (literally about having areas that are specifically for ultra low emissions so we, y'know, don't constantly have to breathe in fucking car fumes and other pollutants because some fucking people actually bizarrely want to???) and road safety limits EVEN FUCKING RIGHT NEAR SCHOOLS are driving basically massive vehicles through the streets and are not considered a disruptive protest

#this is also after being a year or so into a fucking protest bill where the government can cherry pick which protests to break apart #also naturally police are turning off bodycams because of course they are #and a van was stopped by police because 'they had reason to believe they were going to disrupt the tory party conference' #also laurence fox - known fascist - was yelling in public about protecting children from trans people #and i haven't heard shit about the covid inquiry because bozo the clown stepped down in a tantrum when he wouldn't hand over his phone #despite the fact that probs about 17 parties that he was involved in took part in and around 10 downing street #DURING A FUCKING PANDEMIC IN DECEMBER 2020 #WHEN EVERYONE WAS MADE TO FOLLOW THE RULES OR BE SANCTIONED #there's a giant wall in London with all the Covid victims and with the darkest irony #it's literally opposite the Houses of Parliament #and i highly doubt any of those people in there - especially the higher powers - have even fucking visited it #this is also the same fucking country that attacked a vigil for a woman brutally murdered by a police officer #claiming it was an unlawful gathering #whilst ignoring the christmas parties at downing street and the anti lockdown protestors #vent #rant #uk politics #my heart is fucking dead i don't have the fucking enthusiasm anymore #i wanna go back so damn much #my family and I do not have many friends now as a result

[dreamings-free]

If you’re in the UK, please sign the petition and help to stop Manchester’s Night & Day venue, a small venue that has been threatened with closure due to a noise complaint from a new resident who had moved to Manchester during lockdown.

Read NME’s report here:

26/10/22

#this has happened to so many venues in the uk post lockdown #and it’s shit #letthemusicplay #night & day #manchester #uk live music #an A to D of indie #smart tagging louis in this #26.19.22

[kinsey3furry300]

Cunts.

#tory cunts #covid lockdown #nobody like a tory #uk politics #Youtube

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hello and welcome back to kais blog is just more awful english politics news (:

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Fines during Covid pandemic three times more likely to be given to black people in England and Wales

Exclusive: research is most detailed yet of who got fined and fairness of use of police power to enforce rules

Vikram Dodd, 31/05/2023

Fines during the pandemic were three times more likely to be given to black people and seven times more likely to be issued in the poorest areas, research commissioned for Britain’s police chiefs has revealed.

The study covering England and Wales showed racial disparity for every single force. In one area, ethnic minorities were up to eight times more likely to be fined. It presents further evidence of ethnic disparity in the use of police powers. Most forces deny they are institutionally racist, as does the government.

The report was commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and conducted by academics at the University of Edinburgh. The NPPC did not publish the findings, to the surprise of those who produced it.

The report’s co-author Prof Susan McVie said: “There was not a single force area that did not have a higher disparity rate for ethnic minority groups.”

Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, said: “The research highlights yet again that policing has a systemic issue with racism which needs to be admitted and dealt with.”

The study also found people living in the poorest areas were more likely to experience fines than those in the wealthiest areas.

Policing claims it is committed to a race action plan, triggered by the mass protests after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the US in May 2020. Critics say three years on policing in the UK has achieved little or nothing.

full article here

so like tl/dr: this is a water is wet article and study. as soon as they began fining people during lockdown, we knew that poc were going to be targeted more than white folks.

weve known the police system in england and wales has systemic racism issues for decades. at least since the murder of stephen lawrence in 93.

and obviously, water is wet studies are still important because we can then point to them as empirical evidence when discussing politics and public policy, etc.

but whats very important to mention is that despite commissioning this study, the national police chief's council decided to not publish it. the npcc is the representative body for police chiefs in britain, and unsurprisingly, they decided to just not release the evidence of systemic racism that they found.

dont you love living in this "democratic" country where peaceful protest is illegal, politicians tell poor people to just not eat if they cant afford food, and the police specifically hide clear evidence of institutional racism?

#ukpol #uk police #uk politics #british politics #britpol #british police #systemic racism #institutional racism #covid fines #covid #lockdown #npcc #stephen lawrence #the guardian #vikram dodd #susan mcvie #andy george #england #english politics #english police #acab #england and wales #national black police association #covid inquiry #if im missing any tags please let me know and ill add them

[feralracoon]

I understand that UK politics has gone to shit but GOD DAM who ever is naming the scandles is doing a good job.

Like partygate and the lockdown files 👏👏👏 10/10

#credit where credit is due #10/10 no notes #great names #partygate #lockdown #lockdownfiles #uk politics #uk #fuck the govt #fuck the government

[53rdcenturyhero]

UK Covid Enquiry, or How the Tories allowed well over two and a half hundred thousand people to needlessly be infected with C19 and die.

Ignoring sensible advice to further their own careers. How the PM behaved. C4 news 01-11-23

Register to vote in England Wales & Scotland. Vote them out.

I am begging you

VOTE THEM OUT

#uk politics #lockdown suffering wasted #creeping eugenics #unfeeling but elected #covid enquiry #I've reached the end of my tether on this two years lockdown alone was hard and horrible and they were laughing at this sacrifice level #personal post

[bottlesandbarricades]

People are acting like the lockdown files are a revelation. They tell us nothing we didn't already know.

It's been well-known that Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock and all the other tories are complete cunts for quite some time.

#british politics #uk politics #the lockdown files #fuck the tories #rishi sunak #matt hancock #covid pandemic #the conservative party #the uk government #boris johnson

[tmae3114]

*finds a bookshop gift card in my room which clearly hasn't been used* "wow! I wonder how I misplaced this and why I haven't used it ye-"

*the gift card says 'happy birthday' and has £21 on it* "....ah, that'd certainly do it"

#me #for context: I turned 21 in 2020. and my birthday party was. one week before lockdown started in the UK.

[tweetingukpolitics]

#tony gardner #political twitter #boris johnson #conservative party #uk news #uk politics #lockdown rules #lockdown parties

[draqonsblues]

GUYS U HAVE NO IDEA I LITERALLY JUMPED OUT OF MY SEAT WHEN YEONG TOUCHED THE SWORD AND REGAINED MEMORIES IM SO FUCKING EXCITED AND THE JADE EGGS?? THE FACT THE FIRST MEMORY SHE REGAINED WAS HER ASSASSIN WORK BUT HER SECOND WAS UK GIFTING HER THE MATCHINF JADE EGGS IM IN SHAMBLES

#alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #i have no idea how will uk react #im scared #NAKSU SHE'S GONNA BE BACK SO SOON IM SO EXCITED #SCREAMING CRYING SHAKING #aos lockdown

[lemonflavouredspatula]

he really just thanked his children when he doesn't even acknowledge how many he has LMAO

#the fastest exit from lockdown #he really is just spouting a load of shit right now isn't he bloody hell #just when i thought he couldn't be more delusional #i mean boasting about us having is truly not the take he thinks it is #he threw money at his mates to develop ppe other companies were willing to give away #he pushed the 'world beating track and trace system' that...didn't work #he pushed care home residents BACK into care homes WITHOUT tests and THOUSANDS died #he broke the rules he'd made by laughing and drinking wine and eating cheese behind our backs #when all of us were terrified to breathe near a relative just incase we were the catalyst #he laughed whilst saying 'let the bodies pile high' #hundreds of thousands have died and all the while he lined his and his mates pockets #so sure‚ maybe we came out of lockdown the quickest #but by percentage of population‚ we also buried the most bodies #put that in your pipe and smoke it you sleezy‚ mop haired slimeball #uk politics

[edandstede]

another interesting (read: dystopian) day to be british

#today on hell island boris johnson and nadine dorries quit parliament #and when i say quit i mean pushed. because they held parties during covid lockdown #and johnson is STILL insisting he didn’t lie or mislead parliament #and priti patel and jacob rees mogg are now dame and sir #meanwhile millions of us can’t afford to eat or pay bills #uk politics #quill to paper

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Does it annoy anyone else how certain people have retroactively redefined what Lockdown was in order to downplay it?

"Oh yeah it was 3 weird months" is what I came across today. Three months?! No, for some of us it was over two years of a total change to our lives, lifestyles and liberties.

Whether or not it was 'worth it' is another issue that has strong arguments in either direction that I don't need to get into on this post. But Jesus Christ. People who bleat on about how "oh that was just Restrictions" as if a different name transforms your lived experience and trauma are absolutely infuriating. Sorry but a nice rebranded euphemism doesn't change what actually happened!

As a society we were fractured. Not for three months, but for literal years, depending on where you were. There are young new humans that have grown up never seeing anyone beyond their parent(s) or immediate guardians. There are older folk who have heavily deteriorated through lack of social contact and become shadows of themselves. People with poor mental health going in who've found themselves struggling, and fraying, and coming close to the edge. Some haven't made it across.

And people who experienced none of that have the NERVE to say that as long as it wasn't strictly CALLED 'lockdown' as we lived through it, then it was perfectly fine and nothing to worry about?!

What privilege and small mindedness.

#lockdown #society #mental health #text post #covid #privilege #suffering #class #uk government