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

492 deaths reported today.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 November 2020

mentioned this today while on my daily call to my 74 yr old mum in defence of why we have to just kickback for a few weeks and enjoy TV/jigsaws etc.
she totally went into full on denial mode.
this was a new thing for us.
i usually avoid all things political as normally i just cant deal with her old person racism/right wing crap.
but to actually deny the official figures is into a new level of denial, even for her.
in order to justify my numerical quote, i had to use, and yes this is the level i had to go to, piers f&cking morgan as he had tweeted the figure.
she quickly moved onto a very different topic after that.

despite the fact that me and mk2 may get out of the annual pre-xmas family gathering that we hate (i may end up loving the "rule of 6" if it happens), i am totally fed up with all this shit.

My mum was parroting right-wing "no worse than flu" talking points back in March, but she's got a completely different attitude now. She survived breast cancer 6 years ago, buried a brother at the start of the year and now her twin sister has inoperable cancer and she's not in any hurry to die herself now and wears masks and avoids crowds and respects the rules etc and it's quite good that her attitude has radically changed because I was worrying earlier this year.

Anyone following the Corbyn suspension broigus, this is superb: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/11/why-i-oppose-jeremy-corbyns-suspension-as-a-jewish-labour-member?fbclid=IwAR0ar1Yse07sXHq_JH0aNz4pUB5t7WZGggyM1oEbNKv8bGKxMs-4FZGAgLE

When sharing a Maxine Peake interview get's a left-wing cab minister (who was being a thoughtful and a+ shadow education minister, that put her at odds with Starmer's pathetic everyone back at school - no ifs no buts stance) unceremoniously ejected out of the Shadow cab in minutes and when the ghoulish Reeves expresses approval of a statue of a pro-Hitler piece of shit that was even an unmanageably embarrassing anti-Semite for the 40's model of the Tory party. Then fuck this party and Starmer and his superficial, factional AS stance.

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Front page of the times includes a claim that the “radical left” are in “control of much of the cultural, media and corporate landscape” 🤨

The plucky Murdoch media organisation standing proud against an onslaught of woke

The cunt that wrote that is a "whites are the real victims of racism" guy

also former EIC of the WSJ

I can't help feeling that instigating a lockdown on Fireworks Night was a bad idea

What are the people of lewes gonna do, dress up as zulus on zoom

Effigy of the Pope going cheap on eBay atm.

Lol we're all going to die

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/05/operation-moonshot-rapid-covid-test-missed-over-50-of-cases-in-pilot

operation moonshit morelike

If you cynics would stop moaning and get behind the government I'm sure they'll be on top of this thing by spring 2030

they've been at this almost all year now, be nice if they'd get the odd win occasionally and manage to institute (to quote some Biden camp merican I've just heard on the radio) a "pro-virus-eradication testing program" as opposed to a pro-virus-spreading program!

kieth must take action !

On Tuesday, we wrote to @Keir_Starmer to outline our concerns about the horrendous antisemitism in the Labour Party.

He has failed to respond.

Is Sir Keir's commitment to "root out antisemitism and rebuild trust" more than just words?

Full text: https://t.co/QBJT0JE70x pic.twitter.com/7qTKhIzOoM

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 5, 2020

* crickets *

Good to see Nandy getting dragged for that "punches upwards" comment on Today, because Starmer won't do anything about it.

when you look at that little dossier above and compare and contrast with RLB's treatment, all I can think of saying is fuck off and die Starmer you worthless little moral midget.

Stephen Bush having an extremely normal one

the stefano shrub piece which kicked it all off
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/11/there-are-45000-reasons-jeremy-corbyn-s-suspension-one-each-jewish-voter-abandon

“disdain for people who voted tory/lib dem at the last election” without caveat

when you need caveats to pour scorn on tory/lib dem voters ..lol gtf out of here Stephen.

I don't think i've seen him this wildly aggro and incapable of accepting correction about anything other than Arsenal in the past.

Attempt to fence in University of Manchester halls going as well as could be expected.

Fence is well and truly down at UoM ✊ pic.twitter.com/BXfUMukACj

— Ben McGowan (@BenMcGowan_) November 5, 2020

LAB: 40% (+2)
CON: 35% (-3)
LDEM: 7% (+1)

I don't if latest YouGov poll was done before furlough extension, but not a good day for Tories (or at least the ones in the Conservative party).

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The streets and public spaces are far far busier than last London lockdown. People are definitely still mixing households in gardens and parks too - the message of “outside is pretty safe” has possibly gone in too deep to reverse.

This fucking shower basically has one trick for dealing for an outbreak and it feels a bit like they’ve now broken that as well. Whether it was Cummings or fatigue or woeful messaging or protecting landlords or anti-maskers almost doesn’t matter at this point.

also there will be a lot more people being forced to risk their lives going to unnecessary jobs than there were in May and they might be asking themselves what the point of anything is

Boris Johnson’s government is quietly working on creating its own in-house consultancy arm — dubbed “Crown Consultancy” — to cut its dependence on high-charging private sector firms.

The idea, driven by efficiency minister Theodore Agnew and championed by Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings, would bring bright civil servants and graduates together in a new division to improve delivering policies across Whitehall.

Creating a nationalised consultancy is the most Cummings thing I think I've heard this year. You could just ... not have fucking consultants in.

I'm guessing this will be staffed by recruiting a bunch of consultants and paying them permanent not-quite-consultant rates along with a CS pension that results in the same costs. They will, of course, like all good consultants, demonstrate savings by pointing out which other CS jobs should be cut.

lol otm

also surely one of the supposed points of consultants is that they're external and therefore untainted by fear or favour?

Might run into trouble using ‘crown’.

Cummings is so obviously very very thick

lol "take back control" literally that's it.

Biden’s win will be good for the Paris climate agreement, NATO and in general, for calming nerves.

Just watched episode 1, series 1 of the West Wing to celebrate.

— Mary Creagh (@MaryCreagh_) November 6, 2020

I think Mary's West Wing fandom might just be mimetic grown-upness, surely a real grown-up-in-the-room head would pick a specific fave episode!

nah i'm pretty sure they just are that stupid

Lol fuck NATO

been listening to old episodes of Yes Minister on R4X this morning, it was quite good fun apart from Blair and Edwina Currie offering some rl shade in between eps _(´ཀ`」 ∠)_

crpwnd consultancy

It’s been a long time since I watched it but I also believe the first episode of the west wing has the democrats act like idiots who have to give concessions to religious nuts and the old doddering white guy president rides his bike into a tree.

Seems appropriate for Biden winning.

I wonder if Mary's fave Larry Sander's Show ep is also ep1 s01, maybe she just watches the first ep of everything!

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hello UK,
Biden won because everyone who wanted rid of the blond lying racist dictator, put their political preferences aside and voted for the only alternative leader on the board who could beat him.

That's a lesson that all Labour factions, Libs and Greens need to learn.

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 8, 2020

you're only 2-3 years and one astroturfed second referendum campaign (in the furtherance of wedging labour for the benefit of entitled blairites) late lad

with Larry Sanders you've got the extra "real heads" gatekeeping of seeing if they name production order s01e01, or transmission order like a giant n00b

Allowing myself to daydream bout Starmer's storming, inspirational victory in 2024. Can't wait to be immediately temp-banned for not liking him enough

who would temp ban u 4 this?

I reckon the threshold will be like five FPs from the twenty remaining users at that point but I was mainly goofing on the latest yellow card in the admin log

I know !!!! I was shouting at telly too. I think we’ve made the point, Joe will have taken note.

— Karin Smyth MP (@karinsmyth) November 6, 2020

vote Labour

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

after studying their adults-in-the-room quotient I propose a GNU led by hologram Mandela and with a cabinet featuring Klopp and Rashford. lol at Ed Davey - give it up as a bad job pal!

These are the guys we give a job for life

What happens if Biden moves on and the Indian becomes President. Who then becomes Vice President?

— Lord John Kilclooney (@KilclooneyJohn) November 9, 2020

i just saw that yeah, trying to work out how to demand he be struck off