ForenSix Opposition - Politics in the Soon To Be Former UK in Autumn 2020

Fucking hilarious.

"Labour-run urban authorities – especially the mayoralties of London and Manchester – have been treated by central government as rivals rather than partners in tackling a public health disaster."

Sad to say I couldn’t agree more with @owenhatherley ⬇️ https://t.co/wHIOrICy5m

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) September 30, 2020

can't wait to see Mayor Khan retweeting Owen's takes on "affordable housing"

Mr Khan please condemn the destruction of Elephant & Castle shopping centre and the displacement of communities that you *checks notes* could've highlighted, or even helped to stop.

For ppl saying 'Sunak PM by this time next year':

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/01/more-than-third-uk-employers-planning-make-staff-redundant-job-losses

Wonder if he'll still get a shout-out in the Spoons app after that

Don't think Tim Spoon will be fretting about sacked drones

The United Kingdom is now about to discover what happens when a 'sovereign' nation makes and then reneges on international agreements

— david allen green (@davidallengreen) October 1, 2020

🤔🤔🤔

"The infringement procedure is a common tool used by the commission against member states. Last year there were 800 open cases. Germany had 47 pending cases and France 34. Each procedure takes an average of 35 months to complete."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/01/brexit-eu-launches-legal-action-against-uk-for-breaching-withdrawal-agreement

Fuck w/some actual sanctions or gtfo

It's fine, we'll be imposing economic sanctions on ourselves in three months time.

This is a bit amazing. Am surprised she didn’t ask seven friends from four households to join her in the train

Statement: pic.twitter.com/rdWYhIauYv

— Margaret Ferrier MP (@MargaretFerrier) October 1, 2020

So parliament now has to isolate due to track and trace?

pic.twitter.com/rI8wuojwe9

— Jeremy Westhead (@JeremyWesthead) October 1, 2020

Ms Ferrier said: “Dominic Cummings’ actions have undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus. His position is untenable and he must be removed from his post now.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-mp-calls-dominic-cummings-22084664

jinx!

Very relieved to discover that's not fake.

“The fact that Boris Johnson and senior Tories have backed Dominic Cummings, in the face of widespread and understandable public anger, demonstrates a total failure of leadership at a time of national crisis.

“The public health advice is crystal clear. For the safety of others, anyone with coronavirus symptoms must self-isolate, in line with government guidance. They should not leave the house for any reason.

“Anyone who needs help during periods of self-isolation should make use of the support offered through local authorities, which is open to anyone who needs it.”

And then this... pic.twitter.com/9STscr6JCt

— Hammy (@aureliano_81) October 1, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjQ0IV2X0AE2CDF?format=png&name=large

Margaret...thank you.

margaret ferrier is my mp, feeling very blessed tonight

christ, how fucking daft

bg doxed himself

i am margaret ferrier mp and i call for me to resign

First Jezza violates the rule of six and now this

I thought we were keeping quiet about that one.

It was looking that way a bit

He should be heavily fined and forced to invite his brother Piers to the next dinner party of six.

again fucking stupid. why post a picture of a rule-breaking dinner party? not that corbz's reputation is that important at this juncture

If I was Corbyn's age I would not be going to a dinner party with seven other people (I wouldn't do it at my age frankly).

Every single time something like this happens it undermines everything even more. Corbyn should make a big deal of publically paying the fine.

(This is the first I've heard of it fwiw)

I was off doing stuff today so I did not see that someone who hosted Jeremy Corbyn or was at the dinner sold the photo to The motherfucking Sun, but he made a statement that the group of five he was part of got extra people added to it after his arrival, he's sorry, and he'll pay any fine levied. It's down to his host to say 'no more people' though...

Lads that “dinner party “ was a wake, David Graeber’s in fact.

Oh man, then whoever flogged that photo is going to Hell.

I read that the Sun lifted it off social media - shouldn’t have broken the rule, but a wake’s not really like a dinner party, people come and go. He’s said he’ll pay the fine.

(Is it vmic for me to be more sympathetic to a wake? No shit.)

Relevant:

I have been told that the picture was taken during David Graeber’s wake — his partner is in the picture — but as yet the method by which The Sun journalists obtained the picture is not clear. I suspect it was taken from a private Instagram or Facebook page. https://t.co/9GzDHwPK5A

— Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🌋🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) October 1, 2020

It was originally a party of 6. Others arrived. They failed to send them away. Have some heart. Professor Graeber was only very recently dead ffs. https://t.co/TGMc4PrL7u

— Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🌋🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) October 1, 2020

that puts all in a different light I mean ffs who could turn someone away from a wake.

I'm sure keith the ham-faced killer would though!

Weirdly there's a reasonably sympathetic article, both in explaining who David Graeber is and that Corbyn was within the rules when he arrived, has apologised, has paid the fine - in the Mail.

(I suppose any chance to fuck with the Sun?)

Weirdly sympathetic = He's no longer a threat. Starmer has cast him aside. There's no mileage in going after him.

Yeah, but it could have thrown in a 'commie' or two.

Nah there’s nothing in it - guessing the party have told them that’s that and there’s no real mileage in the story? Anyway Starmer didn’t do anything about the member for Canterbury breaking lockdown to see her (married) lover, so.

The entirety of a boxout:

David Graeber: anarchy and anthropology
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at Yale University but is most famous for his activism.

He worked on the initial stages of the Occupy Wall Street movement which saw crowds mass by the buildings to stop them functioning in a protest against economic inequality.

Mr Graeber was also a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

He was born in New York before moving to London and was married to artist Nika Dubrovsky.

He said in 2015: 'Huge swaths of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they believe to be unnecessary.

'The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.'

honestly my old man opinion here is why is someone posting a social media picture from a wake? put your phones down people, live in the mourning

Maybe because it's all made up.

I'll go you one better: maybe life is just a simulation.

clawing my fucking eyes out at the synopsis https://t.co/NuKbPuel81 pic.twitter.com/DtE10rlsne

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) October 2, 2020

looks like Baggymp has got some more competition in the already crowded political fiction market

setting your political thriller in 1997 is the act of a coward

let's roll back the dial to before the modern world was born in fire and blood and greed and tyranny so i don't have to offer any insight into our times, because i am an empty-skulled moron and am afraid to try