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

i would like to claim that was a typo but my brain just went all old

So I can't keep up, is Carrie Symonds running the country now?

why not?

she is a more likable Tory than Keith tbf!

Can’t be any worse than Johnson.

Suppose someone has to

Someone has been running the country? Ok

Mr Johnson held a 45-minute meeting with Mr Cummings and Mr Cain on Friday to discuss their “general behaviour” this week, according to individuals with knowledge of the conversation.

In tense exchanges, Mr Johnson accused his aides of briefing against him and his partner Carrie Symonds and criticised them for destabilising the government in the midst of tense Brexit negotiations.

Mr Johnson showed the aides text messages that had been forwarded to Ms Symonds, who opposed Mr Cain’s appointment as chief of staff, to show they had briefed against her. He told them to get out and never return.

this seems like real stagemanaged nonsense to me. walking out with a cardboard box. its like a firing from a 90s film.

I love the way Starmer Labour are attacking this from a party disunity angle, lol

Utterly stage managed. Twat to the last (this isn’t the last, ofc)

at least Lord Mandelson liked mushy peas.

a positive of the rona is that it not only killed Peter Sutcliffe but it has also extended my partners top rate PIP award until July '22, a very selfish perspective I know!

KIP! That’s great news.

Narrator: successful parties give voters what they want, not members https://t.co/83q2cSx8k0

— John McTernan (@johnmcternan) November 13, 2020

an ILX lurker who basically agrees with 8/10 policies you do!

A blog..

John McTiernan > John McTernan

oops, the donkey did a whoopsie, soz Mc Tiernan.

BBC news lead story with 'end of an era'

away and shite

Cummings being the era

it's like when that overly ambitious posh cunt at school got sacked from tuck shop duties for getting caught knicking a fucking box of caramacs, who gives a shit?

In the middle of all this, Boris Johnson’s new press secretary appears to have accidentally tweeted a photo of...Tony Pulis pic.twitter.com/RkFjnZvRkz

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) November 13, 2020

📢📢 BREAKING: We won our groundbreaking legal challenge against the government about extending health and safety rights to precarious workers!

Workers' rights are a public health issue. The UK government must extend protections to ‘gig economy’ workers! https://t.co/KQKiurX6wE

— IWGB (@IWGBunion) November 13, 2020

oh yeah and Keith is on DID next week!

― calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 11:56 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink]

Tune in, turn on, nod off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pdqz

I can't wait for the extremely witty and hilarious left-wing twitter responses to whatever shite or even good stuff he has chosen/focus grouped, actually I tell a lie - it will be more tedious than actually listening to DID.

It might have bearable with Kirsty Young but Lauren Laverne? No thanks.

By the way...

UK Viewers - who saw Lauren Laverne on Never mind the Buzzcocks tonight? Pwoooooar! Chris Martin you're shagging the wrong blonde! (started by Calz (Calz) on board I Love Music on 02-Jun-2003)

lol that's not me talking about that gritty daughter of toil, Laurene there - I didn't even come here till 2009. I know there is a certain R4 tory middle England demographic who absolutely hated her appointment to DID, probably out of snobbery or something, and I wouldn't want to be associated with them. But I thoroughly agree with them - I can't bare a minute of that fucking horrible middle-class Sunderland accent and she's a total knobhead!

it’s weird to think that at one time she was The Future of radio at the BBC.

Nah, she’s OK - and probably limits party political comments due to BBC rules for DJs - her brother Pete’s Twitter account is very left and suggests that she’s probably not some kind of Muswell Hill Melt.

Didn't she once call the Spice Girls Tory scum?

wasn't there also a point when some daft NME hacks were saying her godawful indie band were the future of music!

From shit band to regular panel show guest spots to DID presenter is not the wildest of career trajectories. I fully expect Gaz Coombes to be presenting Today when the Beeb start some shedding some more old bastards!

the reboot of sir kenneth clarke of civilisation's civilisation, presented by john squire

Tim from the Charlatans has finally developed enough gravitas and grey hairs to be the new Alistair Cooke, sending a letter from America.

A Tweet From Northwich.

lol I don't where I got the idea he now lives in the US from, maybe it's Rick Witter I'm thinking of

TimsListeningParty is probably higher-brow cultural content than most of R4 these days anyway

after StarmersListeningParty Tim will soon be forgotten

it will be a classic DID ep in the sense that the guest is a boring millionaire tosser with all the charisma of a block of wood.

LL lost a lot of cred points by being the voice of sky TV ads. And is that her on those Get Ready For BREXIT bits?

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/govt-calls-uk-seize-opportunities-brexit-transition-campaign/1689201

LL is a godawful schmindie maroon but I accept she might be a decent human being in non aesthetic areas

I used to like her on popworld

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/14/dominic-cummings-relationship-with-boris-johnson-fell-off-cliff-says-ex-minister

Neil Tweedie, who was not found to have been responsible for any leak, said of Cummings and Cain in the Daily Mail that “fear was their tool”.

“The Vote Leave mob, drunk on their success in the referendum and the election, believed they were untouchable,” he wrote. He told how Cummings, who demanded utter loyalty from special advisers to other ministers, held egotistical “spad school” Zoom meetings delivering monologues while “sitting at the end of the cabinet room table, the union flag draped behind him”.

Don't know if that's actually true but I can just imagine it

I know spad is an abbreviation but it sounds like such an 80s school insult I'd never want to be one.

Is Brexit happening or not I'm confused.

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incredible that it’s still there.

oh hey calzino here’s some nightmare fuel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pdqz

we're discussing shitposting about it on the "when did you leave Labour?" thread

ahh