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

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on Priti Patel suffering no consequences for being found to have broken the ministerial code by bullying others, Keith says:

“It is hard to imagine another workplace in the UK where this behaviour would be condoned by those at the top.”

Haha really Keith? Is it?

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 November 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link

The reference made in his statement to a ‘damning dossier’ sitting on his desk that the PM was ignoring absolutely could not have been made with a straight face.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 20 November 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link

Guillotine the soft left please.

I’d drop mass nationalisation and the vapid Stop the War foreign policy for starters.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) November 21, 2020

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 November 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link

From the same guy who was fuming on Twitter about the 'raging antisemite' Jezzbo Crombein.

fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link

The Picture of Dorian Lynskey: they find a portrait of a really cool and interesting man in his attic

— WARIOSOCIALISM 📕 (@wariotifo) November 18, 2014

Evergreen tweet

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link

You improve messaging and priorities instead of complaining about a media you can’t change? No it’s not fair. And?

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) November 21, 2020



Cunt talks about “the media” as if it’s the weather and not, like, him

Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link

of all the prominent melty bullshit merchants about, the real Orwell_Fan is one of the worst - an even bigger dickhead than Dunty!

calzino, Saturday, 21 November 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link

FFS how do you let the public know they are being gaslit by the media unless you... say so?

scampopo (suzy), Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link

fascinated by this genre of post-hope liberalism- yes everything is terrible, but trying to change it in any way is not just delusional but basically evil

didn’t these people pretend to believe in things at one point

Left, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link

you certainly don't allow yourself as a sort of fait accompli to accept a 'reality' a set of powerful interested actors are trying to impose on you. suzy and left otm.

Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link

I suppose believing that the Labour party should be a reactive, shadow version of the tories with all the left-wing nullified or systematically booted out - just waiting to capitalise when they fuck up rather offer an alternative mandate to the electorate. And having an implacable belief that maintaining the status quo is "grown up" politics could be described as believing in something, but to me these wankers are godless heathens, deranged nihilists etc..

calzino, Saturday, 21 November 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link

To believe that you can change thing but then not vote to do so is maybe too bitter a pill for some melts, better to embrace nihilism

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link

This what embracing nihilism looks like?

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 41% (+3)
LAB: 38% (-4)
LDEM: 6% (-1)
GRN: 4% (+1)

via @OpiniumResearch
Chgs. w/ 06 Nov pic.twitter.com/F8IT0HoaC6

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) November 21, 2020

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 November 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link

these just seem to have been entirely static for some time. i guess one explanation for that is that this might be because covid is seen as an exceptional period, with people allowing latitude to the existing government due to extraordinary circumstances. ofc, this means the government could easily get a boost as a vaccine is triumphantly rolled out.

Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link

I think it will depend on how that stable coalition takes the impacts of Brexit, e.g. racists still hear 'funny' accents being spoken in the streets (I wish I was joking).

Other than that Lab are utterly shambolic, though there isn't a sense that if they were absolutely on it would make a difference rn.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link

it could also mean that Keith has got his electoral maths terribly wrong and too many people just don't care much for the arrogant tory cunt when the real thing is there, and him making a similar misjudgement as Miliband Labour will put him on course for a worse defeat than 2019. But I've become so spiteful now I'm like Jess Phillips and will be bitterly disappointed if he doesn't suffer the humiliating political death he has earned and I sorely want to witness!

calzino, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link

Keith has got his electoral maths terribly wrong

this is so relentlessly a given that it's already painfully to repeat it

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link

"People bang on about benefits culture, all that. There are piss takers, no doubt that.."

yeah it's always good to reiterate that good old fashioned deserving/undeserving poor distinction that both parties use so successfully to undermine the welfare state. Danny Dyer doesn't have to do much to get widespread applause these days, fuck him, shit actor and overrated gobshite.

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link

he's like Marina Hyde, any basic criticism of the tory govt is widely celebrated by melty twats, but I can't remember them ever giving any support when there was an alternative to the tories.

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link

there are pisstakers, therefore we must make the entire benefits system as punishing, humiliating and hostile as possible

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link

"I'm not no mug me, not like that bleedin' Corbyn geezer right? i'm 'ard but fair me old china, give some benefits to these 'ard working bleeders, not those facking lazy scroungers!"

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link

Lol at this letter

70-strong Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs have just published letter to PM warning they won’t support his plan for new tiered restrictions “if it cannot be shown that they are saving more lives than they cost” & have asked for “full cost benefit analysis to be published” 👇 pic.twitter.com/edHF6S6wFz

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) November 22, 2020

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link

Lab soft left 🤝 Tory hard-right

Full cost benefit analysis

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link

tfw priti fucking patel isn’t fascist enough

Despite telling MPs last week to “form a square around the Prittster”, insiders say the prime minister has tired of Patel’s repeated failure to get a grip on the flow of asylum seekers across the Channel.

“The view of the political operation in No 10 was always that she should be protected,” a senior Tory said. “But there is also a view that she should be reshuffled on competence grounds. There is continual frustration that the Home Office has not got a grip on things, the small boats in particular.”

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link

lol at "the Prittster", her and Incey and their self-naming game.. you better fucking call her the Prittster or she'll flush your head down the toilet and tippex "Tramp" on the back of your blazer!

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link

This went by almost without a murmur:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-gas-contract-corruption-nigeria-process-industrial-development-b1759441.html

Patel’s judgement is consistently appalling and frequently gives the impression it’s motivated by personal interests but I guess you could say the same about Jenrick and nobody particularly cares.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link

The Prittster? It was either that or Herr Prittler.

Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link

caring about naked political corruption is the old politics

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link

The Prittstick
The Pritt Brit

Only way to solve the small boats 'problem' is to blast them out of the water and they all know it, either that or admit it's not a problem.

fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link

No idea what the 'Covid Recovery Group' are on about - either you keep people away from an infectious disease or you don't. Mealy-mouthed bunch of Tory grandees who want the proles to take their chances in order to keep their gravy train rolling, but I suppose they can't quite say that outright - yet.

fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link

thought experiment- if an imaginary person was not in theory opposed to violence against those who support violence against refugees, how much of british public would they not in theory be opposed to violence against?

Left, Sunday, 22 November 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link

The P&ID thing is before her being Home Secretary though - she was still the disgraced former Secretary of State for International Development then, so that's alright.

It is bleakly funny that the alleged reason for her dismissal is not telling civil servants that they're fucking useless, but that she just didn't try hard enough to stop refugees - when she'd clearly be out there with a motorboat and a Sten gun given the chance.

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 November 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link

Compelling analysis of why feminism has put society in the gutter, by new EHRC commissioner Jessica Butcher

She added: “Working-class girls have been deprived of jobs that they love such as Page 3 girls and [Formula One] grid girls because other women disapprove of them. What happened to ‘my body, my choice’?”

timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 22 November 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link

thinking of those F1 grid girls, in greyhound racing in the 90's they usually had a glamourous looking woman wearing tight jodhpurs and a blazer who would walk past all the traps to check none of the dogs had backed up + raise the white flag to signal for the electric hare to be set off. One day for the first time there was a black guy who came out with the flag and just about everyone in the betting shop I was in erupted into laughter, they were about 80% afro-Caribbean punters ftr!

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link

The Guatemalan people are the most advanced of democracies, so impressive.

Protesters in Guatemala brought a guillotine to Congress pic.twitter.com/aNPwQy7kSo

— lime 🖤🤍💙 (@Hezbolsonaro) November 21, 2020

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 November 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link

Left I'm with you on this, if you fancy going full Baader Meinhof hit me up on webmail, also anybody with access to a stash of weapons

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link

stoked for the madness. chalk this up as one more in the incompetence column for kieth
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/22/labour-infighting-inquiry-damaging-starmers-position

reggae kraftwerk (||||||||), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link

I'd like to damage Keith's position, preferably by pushing him off a bridge.

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link

^if you see this guy walking around carrying a bridge, be v afraid imo

imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link

I actually keep a few rusty old suspension bridges in my pocket with my spare change tbh. But I'm usually good enough to yell incoming Brunel!! before getting any out.

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link

wait so Labour cunts are worried that an inquiry into Labour cunts will reveal that there a bunch of Labour cunts?

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link

you are supposed to loyally support them through thick and thin like a football club or like the Dems, no matter how fucking evil and useless they are!

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link

visions of calz erecting a replica of the royal albert (tamar) bridge and then putting effigies of tony blair on top of it to lure starmerites

imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link

one of brunel's more underrated imo

imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link

I think these days the current Dems leader is actually less conservative and more willing to piss off right-wing bigots than Starmer is, at least in the messaging he puts out.

calzino, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link

Yeah, when the creepoid US prez to be acts lefter than you you know you're fucking useless

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link

we need an international movement that connects migration, climate change, economic development, and income inequality while promising more money in your pocket every month. it’s all fucking connected. every little boat trying to cross the channel or the mediterranean is a stain on the conscience of the global north and a direct consequence of political decisions to redistribute income upwards instead of using all this spare capacity to actually fix our fucking problems. people need work. there is work to be done. energy production is not fit for purpose. there is work to be done. hospitals are full. there is work to be done. let’s match up investment with what’s needed. frankly by some measures things were better in eastern kentucky in the 1930s. at least there were evil mining companies willing to exploit your labor. now you’re just left to rot and die of opioid addiction. sorry i realise this is a uk politics thread but i feel like we need to get joined the fuck up

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link

i have good news and bad news

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you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link

we await king charles iii's socialist cavalier revolution

imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link

Tracer I know what you're saying, when I watch generic US history of the 20th century documentaries on TV I get a kind of nostalgia for the paternalistic care big companies used to show their employees

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link


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