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

Welsh government to review ban on sales of non-essentials

who needs tories with friends like Mark Drakeford, seriously what a fucking prick.

a lot of this food poverty doesn't exist discourse used to be "they can't be poor, they've got 44" tv's and smartphones" during the dying days of the Blair era. It isn't really worth replying to them, they are doing a good enough job of showing themselves up as subhuman scum already.

It doesn’t make sense that people can order non-essential stuff online when the in-person iteration of that retailer is shut. They tried the non-essentials thing for about a week in England and ISTR bits of Superdrug (cosmetics etc) getting blocked off. Eventually they had to relent.

as soon as you start to think about it it's pretty hard to draw lines around non-essential. i know back in spring i was probably unsympathetic to unnecessary stores being open but clothes, toiletries, even tech stuff feels pretty essential depending on your circumstances

The example people are citing most is ‘what if my kettle breaks?’ because nobody in the UK can fathom that being on the non-essential list.

kieth's gonna love this

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— Dawn Butler MP✊🏾 (@DawnButlerBrent) October 24, 2020

<3

Tories need a "posts you had second thoughts..." board to throw all this shit at

https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/tin-eared-tone-deaf-selaine-saxby-gets-it-very-very-wrong/

I am delighted our local businessses have bounced back so much after lockdown they are able to give away food for free, and very much hope they will not be seeking any further government support

Lol. Brandon Lewis bizarrely tells @SophyRidgeSky it is misleading to say NHS Test & Trace costs £12bn as that is the cost of both testing and tracing

Sophy: “Yes, the clue is in the name” 💅

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) October 25, 2020

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/keir-starmer-labour-antisemitism-criticism-israel-kinnock

Hardline leftist firebrand *checks notes* Stephen Kinnock given a ‘dressing down’ by Nandy / Starmer for suggesting goods from illegal Israeli settlements should be banned.

i mean lol fuck SK but this is still bad not good >:(

"A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914."https://t.co/57MiYsCji9

— The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) October 25, 2020

Not a coronavirus fan but this is class.

Hahaha oh my god. More like Gallipoli.

ben bradley discourse (= his claim he was suspended for being "cheeky") has delivered an excellent twitter series of "the most insane scandal that happened at my school"

I am trying to hold it together on the bus. When I was 7 the OFSTED inspectors caught the headmaster shagging his secretary by not knocking on his office door first & when we asked my teacher (his wife) why he’d disappeared she said “because he’s a prick,” & wrote it on the board

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 25, 2020

The bishop asked if there could be a 24-hour “circuit-breaker” put in place on December 25, comparing it with the ceasefire on the Western Front during the First World War.

Have the bad guys indicated their willingness to join in this ceasefire yet?

(btw this started a great Sunday morning "chat" with my wife ending with me reminding her to put money by for the funerals where at least more people could be invited - I'm such an arsehole)

I believe we just into no man's land and have a kickabout with the virus.

Just realised that the the Christmas ads are going to be off-the-scale mawkish this year.

Really want to know what Bradley got expelled from Primary school for. Also seems quite unusual he quit two universities before eventually getting a first only seven years ago.

Empty plates left outside the local Tory HQ and Con Club after Southend West MP voted against feeding children most at risk of going hungry. @BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/zQcN3ufF0s

— Scottee (@ScotteeIsFat) October 25, 2020

HAPPENING NOW: a merchant #tanker off the Isle of #Wight in England appears to have been seized by #hijackers who stowed away on the ship. Authorities have established an exclusion zone around the ship on the SE coast of the Isle. Developing story https://t.co/0XTkYfB1ST pic.twitter.com/xAVNQUK1Pd

— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) October 25, 2020

Let's hope they don't try to crash it into Tower Bridge

they usually have a chef who is a tough as nails former Navy SEAL on these big boats iirc

also a topless Erika Eleniak in a giant cake

My immediate assumption was that this was some harmless environmental protestors who somehow managed to board the ship but stowaways suggests something worse.

Maybe they were intending to ram the tanker into Ryde Pier, "the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier". To what end, who knows?

those "brave personnel" of the special forces overpowered these 7 unarmed hijackers in 9 minutes I hear this morning. Which is roughly the same amount of time it takes Andy McNab to decimate a whole battalion of Republican Guard with a pen-knife and then go for a wank in a cave.

https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/boshirov-petrov-russia-poisoning-interview-ht-mem-180913_hpEmbed_2_16x7_992.jpg

“There’s a famous model village on the Isle of Wight, the Godshill model village. It’s famous not just in all of Europe — it’s famous all over the world, I think. It’s famous for its 123-centimetre spire.”

Lincolnshire farmer and former North East Lincolinshire councillor who laced baby food with razor sharp metal has been jailed.

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/tesco-blackmail-metal-baby-food-4599355

They managed to miss out "Conservative" from virtually all of this o_O story, but they also can't spell Lincolnshire so perhaps that's just incompetence

BBC manages not to mention it at all https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54512783

i'm sure they wouldn't have mentioned it whatever party he represented

cough

Not sure we're demonstrating sufficient fealty today lads.

back in the day if we found sharp bits of metal in our food we didn't moan about it. we'd put in the scrap bin and by the end of the year we'd have enough scrap to buy a tin of condensed milk that would last us for weeks, we'd even use the mold as seasoning.

What connects the Chelsea coach Frank Lampard and Boris Johnson? They're both identified with the colour blue, went to private school and are trying to find a way to contain Marcus Rashford. There is one important difference, however: Lampard managed it.

ho ho (SBush)

and also they are both complete c... erm I mean both completely contemptible posh wallies!

Earlier I saw one of these food budgeting egg-spurts who seems to think you can boil an egg in two minutes, get that scorching protein drink in a shell down your neck kids.

I like how they never address what happens as soon as an expense like shoes comes along, fuckwits. Ignorant, soulless fuckwits

some people don't have the energy and time to cook from scratch, and lots of quick to cook stuff tends to be relatively expensive. Not that any of these arseholes seem to have the first clue about cooking themselves.

Mate I find it hard as fuck to manage myself on UC, having a family must take incredible reserves of energy

at least in Wales the First Minister has tried to make it easier for people facing tough budgeting decisions by declaring anything but potatoes and milk as frivolous and sinful!

Obv your kids can go to school barefoot and nekkid

yeah but they've all got smartphones (on 36 month contracts) and 44" tv's from Legbreaking Electricals. Nuff GDP (got decent products!)

And some of the parents eat food too, the feckless parasites

Those will be the same phones people need to look for work

Hadn’t seen them calling for fucking foraging but don’t put it past them

Right let's clear a few things up about food...

1. A £2 chicken won't make 3 family meals without A Lot of help. Potatoes, carrots, peas, gravy, bread, butter, salt, pepper & oil. Minimum. 1-2h of fuel for the big oven. Hot water to wash up.

£10ish provided you have utensils?

— Roadside Mum 🐯 (@RoadsideMum) October 25, 2020

plenty of protein in nettles, lad!

https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/images/Nettle-Benefits.jpg

Bring back Woolton Pies

Having grown up with a mum who practically weighed out our Rice Krispies to make sure it didn’t run out before her next payday, I would like to throttle every Daily Mail contributor/reader with ‘helpful’ food advice.

unspoken (6) on the nettles, tricking pampered townies into getting themselves hideously stung

"the big ones are the worst, the little green ones barely hurt at all!"

That thread from @roadsidemum is a world of otm. So many patronising clowns out there reminding us how much we could save if only we could deny our children protein and fresh vegetables.

Boris Johnson has defended his refusal to extend free school meals for children in England over the half-term holiday, saying he was "very proud" of the government's support so far.

"I totally understand the issue of holiday hunger," he said. "The debate is, how do you deal with it."

Pretty sure you deal with it by feeding them. There appears to be a vast propaganda machine grinding into operation to explain to everyone how complex this really is and how FSM isn't the solution, probably because the public mood is against them.

We've seen this happen before, most obviously after Grenfell, when the country appears to realise that something had become dangerously unsustainable, so the government has a vested interest in making sure the country forgets about it and moves onto something else as quickly as possible. Credit to Rashford for keeping going (and clearly this is happening because it's coming from a footballer rather than a politician).

I chuckled at that scene in The Sopranos where Feech makes Junior a foraged dandelion salad and Tony says oh yeah he just saw a dog pissing on that patch.

some of these people post like they really haven't cooked before. And they are probably aren't rich enough for a below stairs in their house, so I presume they live on M+S readymeals, incinerate the odd brisket and occasionally pretend to have some culinary skills for the sake of dumping on poor people.