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

is it me or was there an oven-ready deal a few months ago?

No one said anything about whether or not there was an acceptable oven.

My gut feeling still is that this is brinkmanship and theatre and the EU at least has something up its sleeve given its track record of suddenly finding solutions at 11.59pm but who even knows with our government.

my gut feeling is people in the orbit of Boris have a lot of money on no deal

yep

Yeah I go back and forward on the disaster capitalism angle but that's more to do with whether the Conservative Party would be happy killing off the rest of British capitalism as part of it, rather than whether or not the disaster capitalism itself exists.

I think ovenready just meant combustible

It's OK, high demand for British iron ore, gold and aluminium will see us just fine.

UK Independence Ponzi.

isn't most of the uk's gold welsh?

Cornwall, which geologically is a part of France that shifted to England has lithium!

Lbr Farage has found his niche

Re no deal investors upthread - wasn’t there some meeting with a load of Tory donors reported on around this time last year and Cummings promised them the country would exit by year end? Reminded me of that. Very strange.

You know a country’s failed when

Sex banned indoors for Tier 2 couples living apart, No 10 confirms https://t.co/4unztCwtWL

— Evening Standard (@EveningStandard) October 16, 2020

a gift to the dogging lobby

I was just thinking, is dogging even a thing in London? I always think of it as something that happens in the suburbs/provinces.

being dommed but it's getting a parking ticket from a sexy meter maid

Lol FUCK’S sake

NEW: Labour frontbench appointments – Wes Streeting has replaced Margaret Greenwood as shadow schools minister.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) October 16, 2020

THINGS

CAN ONLY GET BETTER

Kieth's got his narrative sorted now, he tried to build a broad based coalition of Labour factions but those lefties with their purity politics are just incapable of compromise

Guarantee he finished watching Bossy Cop and immediately texted Streeting

just need to find a more prominent role for babs now and a Rachel Reeves promotion ... fucking taking the piss! This shit is what Tracy Brabin described as " a welcome return of a plurality of voices back to the fold" ... FUCK OFF!

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-waters-down-criticism-of-government-by-its-own-shadow-disability-minister/

you know the scumbag melts are back in charge when the shadow disability minister is having her criticism of the govt's neglect of disabled people edited and toned down, seriously fuck these arseholes.

From a piece in The Atlantic about the Dems which could just as easily be applied to Kieth

for too many of America’s leading liberal politicians, “realism” has become an identity unto itself, unmoored from any programmatic orientation toward the future or sustained effort to bring about significant change.

Who is having the last Big Mac before the world burns? That's right

Having grown up on a council estate, on free school meals, experiencing child poverty in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be where I am today without a great state education. I am absolutely thrilled @Keir_Starmer has asked me to join @KateGreenSU’s team as Shadow Minister for Schools.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) October 16, 2020

Ffs Alphie I posted that hours ago

You posted about the appointment. I'm giving the free school meals a bit of focus

Ffs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkengywXEAYKfER?format=jpg&name=large

I don't know what salary they were offering originally but I'm pretty sure they'd get a very wide range of applicants for it if they weren't dicks

Falling upwards with jet-powered anti-gravity boots

some people charge a penny for their thoughts - Gideon charges £12500 for them

Pretty cool to be learning that basically no small outlets will be exporting to the UK after New Year through the twitter account of William Shatner https://t.co/OyhAYRk6oy

— Stefan Bielik (@prstskrzkrk) October 16, 2020

lol! Shatner dropping knowledge

UK credit rating downgraded by Moody’s https://t.co/0TW2snPOvV

— FT Markets (@FTMarkets) October 16, 2020

It's going to be like watching the walls crumbling in on a condemned building, from inside the building

‘Shitness Protection Programme’ is truly one for the ages. ⁦
@MarinaHyde at her peerless best once again.

and no doubt thousands of other melt-adjacent, most-easily-impressed-crowd-ever will be lapping this up as well, can't wait till she uses something similar like ‘Vapid Response Team’ and some sophisticated simp declares it the gag of the century.

lol she's recycling this material as well, it's the third time she's used it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/16/jennifer-arcuri-admits-to-boris-johnson-affair?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1602888416

i never want to find out who the girls have been screwing and i never wanna know who the guys have been doing but this feels like another "lol nothing matters" moment

how quaint, a sex scandal with added corruption and missapropriation of public funds - but enough 90's nostalgia - nothing matters!

Arcuri says she has been working on “fictionalised comedy drama about a young American woman and her political encounters in London” and plans to return to the UK once restrictions have been lifted.

Just another day in SuperWorld

I just had to check if Shatner was collecting tax for imports into Australia as he should be (he isn’t) and nearly ended up with a TJ Hooker patch and a 1987 Mardis Gras Doubloon featuring Mr. Shatner's as King Bacchus of Mardis Gras.

Posting this one again.

France needs high quality, innovative British jams & marmalades #EXportingisGREAT #ExportOpps https://t.co/TsnsjUCVxX

— Department for International Trade (@tradegovuk) October 3, 2016

xp

I think the last time I ran to catch a bus (which thankfully was a long time ago) it brought back memories of a TJ Hooker chase scene.

One of the ridiculous things about the Osborne story is: "they're going to increase the salary by £60k / 100k / 160k, to get better applicants".

Imagine that happening to the jobs that you or I apply for.

Well exactly, they're not even aware of the insult

They've buried the lede in that article that they are prepared to pay up to £280k specifically to get Osborne. There are people running much smaller, shittier, less complex and less politically fraught media organisations than the BBC for much more than £100k although not for three days work a week. Osborne was probably earning more than that at the Evening Standard.

But the job of the BBC Chairman isn't to run the BBC - it's to oversee the board, ensure editorial independence, and they can appoint and dismiss the Director General as well. It's largely ceremonial but also very powerful, and a job for which Osborne by his very nature is fundamentally unqualified.

This salary itself isn't about getting the best candidates at all, it's about attracting someone who can cement Tory hegemony over the BBC - a fact that should come as a surprise to precisely nobody.

It would also have the added bonus of keeping him out of Parliament where he might prove bothersome to the government.

More on the outsourcing of Government, this us on food parcels:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/10/208m-food-box-rip-off-private-outsource-government-contract-covid-corona-virus

Does Labour have a position on the government pulling out of Brexit negotiations? I haven’t seen any of the senior ppl mention it but presumably they must have somewhere?

the position is "please vote for Kier"

Keir Starmer is not a leader of courage - but he may soon lead the UK
Peter Oborne

yeah.. but naw. Not even by default mate!

government of national unity featuring the Tory backbenches, Kieth and the usual suspects