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

make people who vote to starve children afraid again

*fires up hansard*

I have been called “Tory scum” for years and had insults in the streets, and I am pretty used to that. It is part of the process, and although we might say that it should not happen, it does. What happened at this election, however, was different. I never thought that in my own constituency someone would come up to me and shout the name of the Leader of the Opposition, then describe me as, “Israeli and Zionist scum.” I never thought that my posters would be ripped down and posted on social media under the phrase, “Fuck the Tories #CorbynIn”. I never thought that my staff would be spat at in the street by activists, by people naming the Leader of the Opposition as their motivation for calling my staff “Tory fucking scum.” That is what is happening in our democracy.

Andrew Percy back in 2017, on something that definitely happened exactly as he describes

From a Lancaster shop window. @davidmorrisml you’re not welcome. #FSM pic.twitter.com/fssUhpOGId

— Michael Gibson (@LancasterIsHome) October 24, 2020

footnote worth the extra money ink

My phone added money to that sentence wtf

That private school video looks like a satirical attack on private schools? I don't really get it.

it appears to be a bunch of rich kids trying to be self-deprecating but instead it’s just another reminder of how completely insufferable and useless rich kids can be

some of the accents are too on the nose to be not-rich kids pretending imo

"A further 174 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Saturday, bringing the total to 44,571. There were 224 deaths on Friday."

~500 deaths a day by Xmas? What's the trend with cases?

Yes I think El Tomboto is correct - it's self-deprecating self-celebration, or the like.

remember the hazy lazy days of spring when we were pondering whether the ongoing death toll could just become background noise to the media?

around 200 dead people per day in this country directly attributable to this disease. and then the next day 200 more. and then the next day. and the next. it’s fucking mental!

Sorry SV covers this a bit in the outbreak thread:

"New cases up about 10% on this time last week but hospitalisations up nearly 50%."

Now fair’s fair, credit where credit is due. Well done Andy Burnham https://t.co/XJbsV8VaDB

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) October 24, 2020

We're back to arguing about whether pencils and toasters are essential shopping.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4a27481b1e21d71baa0753942711dc546cb02e12/c=0-21-4379-2495/local/-/media/2017/02/02/USATODAY/USATODAY/636216233907056760-AP-Groundhog-Day.3.jpg

I blame people for arguing back tbh, nobody showing us how you can budget to live on fuck all money is arguing in good faith and I suspect none of them have ever had to do it

pic.twitter.com/LGxjLEHQs9

— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) October 24, 2020

this is good!

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

🤔 pic.twitter.com/pNNfEfA1iH

— 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.