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

yeah i was just thinking different people are pronounced differently plus there's a spectrum between long and short a depending on accent amongst other things? almost like there are lots of phonemes you can't transliterate into the Latin alphabet with exactitude

lol we're all gonna die

COVID-19: Sunak declines to rule out return of Eat Out To Help Out https://t.co/z8965uNmXI

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) November 12, 2020

:D :D :D oh ffs

surely that's simply a case of it being too painful to just answer "fuck no" on Rishi's part?

i fear you might be giving the chancellor too much credit there

NO WE'RE NOT GONNA PLAY 'STONEHENGE'

Massive rise in cases today..

Surely we could've had takeaway tokens the tight prick

still waiting for my Argos voucher

BUY ME A PS5 SUNAK FFS

Not nominative determinism

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ehrc-uk-racism-watchdog-david-goodhart-hostile-environment

Wasn't it calculated, at some point, that around 17% of Covid cases could be attributed to Eat Out ... ?

x-posts: Is there a rational reason to subsidise eating meals out rather than takeaway? I guess involves the employment of waiting staff? And the purchase of vast quantities of wine? (I may be months late to this conversation).

That was more of a joke although I'd be paying people off but also keep some of these things going where it's safe to do so.

Quite good on the EHRC nonsense.

Appointing Goodhart to the ECHR the day after a report gets very quietly released saying it has been failing women and black people is one of those things whose implications are clear and obvious but everyone will pretend to be outraged if you say them out loud.

— Phil McDuff 📕⁷ (@Mc_Heckin_Duff) November 12, 2020

this appointment is perhaps the worst example of lol nothing matters yet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54925322

Hard to say if that makes a trade deal with the EU less or more likely but you'd lean towards more

I think there would've been a trade deal either way, but slightly surprised he has only lasted a year.

I'd welcome this news but at this rate he's just going to be replaced by some G Fawkes cnut

i thought new bbc social guidelines state that reporters should not break news on their own personal twitter feeds??

it’s so fucking perfect that cummings has evaporated on his first contact with actual administrative politics. crashing into the ground from out his own ooda loop. these people, this government have absolutely no idea how to implement structural change, and basically think change solely comprises tonal shifts brought about by start up rhetoric.

anoosh chakelian made what i think is probably a correct point on the NS podcast that one aspect of austerity is that people in this government literally do not seem to get that local government/final mile delivery is a thing.

you could argue that’s crediting them with too much ignorance but i think ideology-enabled laziness (or vice versa), a sort of laissez-whatevs approach has rendered them incapable of understanding the levers and state instruments you have to create change. in fact there is no instrumental heft at all, and no serious value rationality either. god what a bunch of vacuous cunts.

but yeah. cummings is pure chef kiss.

I dreamt he was dead earlier, but I fell asleep with the radio on and it was feeding my dreams.

anoosh chakelian made what i think is probably a correct point on the NS podcast that one aspect of austerity is that people in this government literally do not seem to get that local government/final mile delivery is a thing.


incidentally this ^ is one reason why it’s useful to have politicians with a background in actual politics rather than blogging and spectator hackwork.

my local MP Helen Hayes is a little bit ed vanillaband labour but she gets my utmost respect for doing a fuckload of painful administrative local gov work to sort constituents’ problems out (which she usually discovers via regular expenditure of shoe leather).

I dreamt he was dead earlier, but I fell asleep with the radio on and it was feeding my dreams.

After going on rent strike and tearing down fences across campus, students at the University of Manchester have begun an occupation. Their aim: to confront a university sector which sees them as little more than cash cows. https://t.co/hxl8JfsQ0n

— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) November 13, 2020

Cummings is going to stay long enough to deliver us unto a fairly disastrous also-undeliverable Brexit, which will satisfy him, I think.

I’d have loved to have seen some actual consequences for him, such a pity.

No consequences for any of them till the planet burns us all

It's a shame they can't make him pay Sonia Khan's settlement out of his salary.

some of these big dogs of left twitter don't half post some utter drivel when it comes to music! Some of them make ILM look good.

it might be a bit too depressing posting about the Labour party but some of them are like Turrican in disguise!

Oh god I can imagine

Taste is a helluva drug

their discussions are very 6th form common room myopia/ class of '93 or something! Not quite as sharp or interesting as their political commentary that have brought them so much infamy!

maybe it is something to do with posting with same kind of sure-fire certainty as their political commentary that also makes it bad or something!

I'm sort of floundering here and not really nailing it. I'll come back when I've listened to 45 NME top 100 albums lists and kNoW wHaT I'm tAlking abOut!

oh yeah and Keith is on DID next week!

Vulgar Reynoldsism via Kpunk and teenage Manics fandom has a lot to answer for.

dreamt he was dead earlier, but I fell asleep with the radio on and it was feeding my dreams.

sorry for your non-loss

xp

I think that is one element of it you've nicely nailed there.

Music and culture in general. The poets they venerate are odd ones too.

An appteciation of shit posting Dril is the only link I can think of as having in common.

I'm sort of floundering here and not really nailing it. I'll come back when I've listened to 45 NME top 100 albums lists and kNoW wHaT I'm tAlking abOut!

― calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 11:54 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I would join in this easy ridiculing but I've just saved an article of the 'best ten shoegaze albums that aren't Loveless' and have the musical taste of someone who regularly sees Scotland play in major football tournaments.

You could listen to anything anything from Jiminy Cricket & the Scat-munchers or the Rolf Harris collaboration with Gaz Coombes, it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference if your discourse is as stale and self-consciously bad as these lads. Maybe its trying too hard to sound so urbane and interesting to their legions of followers that does them in.

maybe they are just a load of wankers tbf!

Cummings is one of those rare individuals who has bent the arc of history. From the Euro to Brexit, this country's path might have been very different without him https://t.co/7yyMY3x1qR

— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) November 13, 2020

Not reading this but really he wa one of many people who helped convert a decades long racist moan about migrants into Brexit. Lasted mere minutes once he made contact with any sort of government machinery.

this clown watched that ch4 movie with Cumbersnatch playing him and bought all that "dark genius writing random words on a whiteboard" bollox

yeah that arc of history stuff is utter horseshit. and we shouldn’t forget it was cameron who crashed the country into brexit to solve a tory wonk problem. agree about the racist moaning obv. xpost

this clown watched that ch4 movie with Cumbersnatch playing him and bought all that "dark genius writing random words on a whiteboard" bollox

Good news.

May I draw people's attention to this small but fine piece of prose in today's Daily Mail?

A free press is a fine thing--when combined with the obligation to tell the truth, and being held to account when that obligation is violated. pic.twitter.com/NusI8xgjpa

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 13, 2020

I know everyone hates it, and often for valid reason, but between this and the constant stream of decisions against Lee Harpin and pals, British libel law has looked pretty effective recently.

Carter Ruck is...good now?

There will be boundary changes with less seats on offer, but broadly this is correct.

The two parties are in effective stalemate. Starmer has done a good job steadying the ship and we're in a period where noises off are just that. Next election will decided by the extent and fairness of a recovery and housing market.
https://t.co/woUddFd5xJ

— Carl Shoben (@Survationpolls) November 13, 2020