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

that may not work, but the new guy's name is practically corbyn

I knew but I thought it would too stridently tryhard!

but I do believe at some point the Oh Jezza Crobwynne chant will be adapted by fans, who possibly never even liked the fella!

The AFC statement is bad in so many ways. But the most obvious is that no-one thinks KS is being competent or doing well.

the utter lack of self-deprecation in Starmer makes him too much of a smug boss-wanker to pull off any kind of humour, even if he was 20 pts ahead it would still be awful.

I'm currently a bit fuzzy brained and not getting stuff but I feel the Arsenal/Starmer advice thing is very Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man dot gif and finishes the season with both of them looking for their missing 20 points

arsenal would be 20 points ahead if kieth was in charge

starmzy in

pic.twitter.com/3bRG4eMF28

— Ian Ford (@ij_ford) December 9, 2020

this seems a lot worse than when Cameron declared himself a "thronie" because who cares about that shite!

I can take or leave Coronation Street, but I have loved it for several periods in my life. My partner has been watching it almost consistently for 45 years - that's quite a head fuck really!

pigs gonna pig

Four people have been charged with criminal damage after a statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour in June.

Rhian Graham, 29, Milo Ponsford, 25, Jake Skuse, 32, and Sage Willoughby, 21, are all due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on January 25, pic.twitter.com/T16Rs87ToG

— London & UK Crime (@CrimeLdn) December 9, 2020

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/9/uk-pm-gets-confuses-indias-farmer-protest-with-pakistan

new brexit deadline is it?

Funny how the complete shafting of NI Unionists by the Tories has been largely unreported now that their votes are irrelevant and no-one cares about NI again.

hah nobody even answers the phone when Arlene calls these days

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55247033

meant to post

International Criminal Court says it won't take action against the UK, despite finding evidence British troops committed war crimes in Iraq https://t.co/QHrC67TiWm

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 9, 2020

However, it could not make a determination as to whether the UK had acted to shield soldiers from prosecution.

Good job we're making that absolutely unambiguous going forward.

almost as tho the ICC is not that interested in atrocities visited by 'the west' on other countries.

idk they've let India get pretty powerful

sorry that is a bad cricket joke

Not bad so much as somewhat inappropriate.

the timeless tests are a kind of torture, to me

https://t.co/2GoBTNgWMV pic.twitter.com/9pAdxz8J1d

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) December 10, 2020

sorry that is a bad cricket joke

― imago, Thursday, 10 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

No please, sir, carry on with your racism

so i guess johnson has a lot of pals shorting the pound

I can't wait for the deep planting, close cropping system that will bring record agricultural yields!

98% voter turnout and 97 of it for the Tories!

sadly I think that stat will be true for the rest of my lifetime tbh

apart from true turnout

This is imago country now xp

oh blimey there is a new Perry Anderson piece. I'll have look at this later ..or maybe when I've got a spare lost weekend!

all hail the glorious march of reaction

In recent weeks there has apparently been a shortage of timber and screws... stockpile it as much as you please lads, but previous modern famines have proven that wood and iron are not useful forms of sustenance without a bit of gravy!

Why in fuck does he keep talking about an Australia-style deal, Australia has no deal and is trying hard to get one. The irony would be if Australia got a deal before the UK.

The emperor isn't wearing no clothes. He's wearing Australian style clothes!

— Ray Monk (@Raymodraco) December 11, 2020

woke: Castlemaine XXXX broke: Lowenbrau

Btw the Australian option includes getting royally fucked by China.

I was reading in a blog somewhere that Australia does in fact have some trade agreements with the EU, so in fact the UK would be worse off than Oz. Johnson should be talking about a Moldova style deal or something

Moldova has a deal! A Belarus-style deal would be more accurate, or maybe a Transnistria-style deal.

it was mentioned on Today earlier Australia do have some limited arrangements on standards etc... but lol probably more than what the UK will end up with!

David Graeber in January this year:
"In Brexit the right had discovered an almost perfect political poison, not only dividing British society into two hostile camps, but bringing out the absolute worst in both of them."

— rachel shabi (@rachshabi) December 11, 2020

Graeber knew the score

for those who liked this govs handling of covid, get ready to love their handling of no deal brexit!

i mean maybe who knows right

I wish there was some profit to be made from the potential end of this grim Boris and the Britannia Unchained crew iteration of the Tories. But now we've got the other Tory party as well, with the promise of competent and sensible stewardship and trusted by the status quo for another decade of austerity. I knew there would be very grim long term consequences from what happened on that very shit day a year ago, and here they bloody are.

lol, when Kieth leaks an exclusive about his bold new vison for Labour that will be revealed in his New Year speech, to The fucking Spectator, that tells you all you need to know about where he is going.

it does interest me about the spectator. like you can see the reasoning with the mail, as given the size of the its readership, it actually* has more labour voters reading it than the guardian (*is this a factoid? i certainly read it somewhere). but the spectator is just ideological wingnuts and dyed-in-the-wool Tories, so no real advantage you'd've thought. i wonder if there's some sort of attempt to shape right-wing messaging against current gov, so you get right-wing commentators saying things like 'when even Kieth Starmer is outflanking the Tories on x the Tories need to start looking at their etc.'

More likely it's the boring pragmatics of a political editor saying 'fancy an interview here kieth we'll make it sympathetic.'

Boring pragmatics of a Kieth countenancing collaboration with a hate rag

yeah the spectator circulation is only around 80000+. But then again a lot of his electoral math is screwy and seemingly more concerned with winning small numbers of grim troglodytes possibly at the expense of many many more BAME and younger voters. He doesn't know what he's doing imo!

In his head I imagine this is statesmanlike, engaging with the grown-up agenda setters. Agendas like transphobia etc