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

Dr Gammon I presume.. is he related to Dr Max Gammon is the big question

not sure what accent you need to put on to make "Khanage" happen

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/590x/secondary/Brexit-news-Max-Gammon-1715421.jpg?r=1548899244225

you can't really mix him up with that much more grumpier looking UKIPer Dr Max Gammon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Dr Gammons was born to be a Kipper

- anti vax ☑
- poppies ☑
- voter suppression/fraud ☑
- covid isn't that bad ☑
- scary Muslims ☑

@gammons4london is so on-the-nose it’s in fact through the nose and burrowing its way through to burst out the back of the skull

timber euros (seandalai) at 12:59 12 Nov 20

not sure what accent you need to put on to make "Khanage" happen

something in the Newcastle area I would have

"How to pronounce Khan" the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

i would generally pronounce it like "Kahn" but maybe i'm wrong?

sometimes long a sometimes short maybe

I pronounce it with a long 'a', the Mayor with a short 'a' - which is before you get to the question of the hard and soft 'K'...

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.