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

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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

having said that, if it ends with the dashing journalist gil peck preventing 9/11 from happening i will buy three copies

Good thinking, avoiding any plot twist that could be undone by the presence of a mobile phone.

otm

i can't wait to hate-read excerpts of this on twitter tbh

I certainly hope Pesto isn't killed in a hit and run in the near future

huge striker by steve bruce vibes pic.twitter.com/xAT0ItaA8e

— cruyff guy (@clxpnd) October 2, 2020

End of discussion frankly.

Lets get that on Ian Penman's desk, give him some proper meat for the next LRB.

100% this is ghost written by the way, Peston is basically always working afaict, he doesn't have time to write even a shitty novel, unless he's literally been working on it since 1997.

I dunno man Gil Peck's work doesn't seem that onerous, you can save a lot of time by never fact-checking

Wait did he actually name his alter ego after two imperial measures?

Could've gone with Robin Carbonara ffs

Gil Peck Heron

the infection will not be herd immunitized

Is tweeting stupid questions about five times a day really “always working” though

it is if you're a lazy dullard

i speak from a place of deep personal experience

I have time to write a shit novel I simply choose not to, my protagonist would be called Rod Ounce

Isn't he basically always on TV? IDK, he seems very difficult to avoid right now.