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

haha yes hancock is the only irresponsible actor. it is funny how we literally just expect the press to be malignant and ill informed.

My exclusive in today’s paper - Carrie Symonds has been named Peta’s person of the year because of her animal welfare campaigning - & she’s been congratulated by Angela Rayner https://t.co/Nw8ULFR1uy pic.twitter.com/pkPg6xOGX9

— Helena Horton (@horton_official) December 15, 2020

one party state

PETA can go fuck themselves - I'm going to buy myself a mink fur coat for xmas and then eat a huge beefburger.

same as every year eh?

Why did so many people vote for Carrie Symonds ffs!

She might want to try some human welfare campaigning some day.

xp she is truly the people's princess

I meant to say why did so many people vote for the people's empress (again)!

The People's Mistress morelikeknowwhatimean

Great times for animal welfare, just as we're about to undo most of the environmental regulations that prevent farmers from basically salting the earth

I understand most schools in Redbridge will move to online learning tomorrow. I'm told there were *7,000 pupils* isolating in the borough as of yesterday.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 15, 2020

bad news for the racists and their muslamic ray guns

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/15/child-sexual-abuse-gangs-white-men-home-office-report

On UK unemployment:

Unemployment rose again today...or did it? A large fall in part-time and self-employment offset an "increase in full-time employees, up by 135,000 on the quarter to a record high of 21.24 million" according to the Labour Force Survey (ILO methodology)... https://t.co/vMJxv5dCuj pic.twitter.com/0Zb2tPVrfk

— Rory Macqueen (@RNMacqueen) December 15, 2020

some non covid festive cheer that’s really made my week.

1.
a thorough piece on Grenfell and corporate malfeasance and regulatory laissez faire that deserves in a court as corporate malfeasance and i hope will be after the report, but none of it changes these greedy laughing motherfuckers were responsible for people dying in flames in their own homes. don’t forget only four i think? of the 46 recommendations have been put in place, and they only relate to the emergency services. and ofc the torues votes down an amendment to add additional fire safety regulations to the relevant bill, including sharing fire safety design with local fire prevention teams and councils.

2.
*29* asylum seekers have died this year under home office care and protection - i joke. under a institutionalised policy driven culture of hostility, aggression and indifference. *29* ffs. that is clearly the statistic of system that is not working unless you assume “working” is “damaging, demoralising and killing asylum seekers”

3.
COVID-19: For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK

one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

hey it was making *me* fucking sick so i thought why not.

For the first time UNICEF has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK to help feed children hit by the COVID-19 crisis on Universal credit.

^

Kieth: it is quite wrong that 29 asylum seekers died before they got competently processed

optimistic of you to think he will even mention it

I don't know when his next slot on the radio is .. perhaps the Julia Hartley-Brewer show or maybe Rush Limbaugh ... has Farage still got a show? Lord Haw Haw.. Hitler!

It's our 'Bernie going on Fox News'. Fuck...

I think Jezza once appeared on the same Nick Subaru show as Kieth, but just a one-off offence rather than a regular slot

I don't know what I expected to happen today but "Edwina Currie recommends pegging to Paul Joseph Watson" was not on the list.

I prefer my pegging to Barry White, but it takes all sorts.

I'm still haunted by cursed images of Currie pegging with John Major

pic.twitter.com/jao1qj7ims

— Big Rob (@RobSkilbeck) December 16, 2020

Eggs and Pegs with Edwina.

Hang on:
No change on Christmas #Covid regulations.
'The nations are unanimous in agreement'
- Boris Johnson

Minutes later:

Scotland: People to meet up only on Xmas Day in bubbles

And

Wales: number of households allowed to mix reduced to two

-Extraordinary

— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) December 16, 2020

Edwina Currie with the face of Neil Warnock. pic.twitter.com/99UWc6x6Le

— Football Manager Hair on Politicians (@visualsatire) December 16, 2020

I'm blocking "pegging" forever now!

Hmm, nothing happened today

Everybody's lost interest in the news, they're just too battered after everything.

The brexit news seemed to be that the UK has quietly conceded on the law point and probably won't kick up too much of a fuss about the fishing because it's just not worth ruining the whole thing over. but they have to be seen to kick up some fuss.

532 UK people died within 7 days of a positive test. Australia went into stricter lockdown because of 17 new cases and the UK wants to open up for Christmas despite 23,000 positive tests.

Today is Black Eye Friday. It seems to get earlier every year.

Oh and JRM said something objectionable but I forget what.

Disgusting.

In Parliament, I just challenged Jacob Rees-Mogg about UNICEF having to feed working class kids in the UK.

His reply? "UNICEF should be ashamed of itself". He accused it of "playing politics".

It's shameful for kids to go hungry. It's not shameful to feed them.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 17, 2020

and the other day in the Senedd, Welsh Labour voted down a bill to extend school meals for children on Universal Credit into the Christmas holidays. That is why you have to vote for Labour - they are completely different from the Tories.

Liz Truss spouted her usual vacuous dogwhistle bullshit (wah working class white kids etc.) and said her school in Thatcher's 80s was PCGM thanks to those all powerful Labour concils

liz truss says she can’t read or write because when she went to school she was only taught about racism and sexism instead of ‘business opportunities’ https://t.co/T9c6jPKOT3 pic.twitter.com/m0nnZsGeEX

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) December 17, 2020

pioneered by foucault is a nice touch

tell me more about this Foucault lad Liz, i'm sure you're familiar with his work

lol I keep forgetting she's one of the Britannia Unchained crew. Probably because I assume she can't read or write so couldn't have contributed to such a great political treatise of the ages.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpgeGp2XcAEfgt9?format=jpg&name=large

some further reading for Liz

Unconscious Bias Training being scrapped in government and Civil Service because "it doesn't work" (as in they don't want it). You would if your party was less than 25% women though wouldn't you.

The brexit news seemed to be that the UK has quietly conceded on the law point and probably won't kick up too much of a fuss about the fishing because it's just not worth ruining the whole thing over. but they have to be seen to kick up some fuss.

'Twould seem that fishing rights are indeed the remaining sticking point in 'negotiations'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBZnfB46es

Trucks queue down the M20 for mile upon mile at the entrance of the Eurotunnel in Folkestone, as companies rush to stockpile as the deadline for a Brexit trade deal looms.

Latest politics news here: https://t.co/6Bko58ES8q pic.twitter.com/rRBiIZ5hYK

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 18, 2020

here we go

one of the funniest parliamentary clips of recent history was seeing Thornberry absolutely stripping lumps off an ashen faced Truss for what no doubt seemed like eternity to her. She had been doing her usual talking dubious blather game on what an amazing Japan trade deal she had secured or something and was way out of her depth, it was such a mismatch it was hilarious.

That Foucault page is not from an actual standard INTRODUCING FOUCAULT ... is it?

The trade deal with Japan was just ensuring relative continuity rather than any actual improvement.

That Truss is winging it would be a fair bit of standard bullshitting for a student I suppose, but it's always going to attract scrutiny and jeering when it is some thick as pigshit, lying out of her arse Tory minister!

xxp

dunno.. just saw it context free on twitter, it's probably more than what Liz knew!

I read the Truss transcript for rage lols and a 'highlight' was Truss arguing the Equality Minister has to be someone who has another (more important) role in the Cabinet to avoid equality being siloed and for greater transparency. Britannia Unbrained.

Foucault page looks like it's from Foucault for Beginners, one of a series of illustrated guides to ppl like Foucault, Marx, Lacan etc. R Crumb illustrated the one on Kafka, far and away the best drawn 'for Beginners' title.

https://londongraphicnovelnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/father.jpg?w=640

The Speaker encouraged me to show "Christmas spirit" to Jacob Rees-Mogg...

His comments to me about Unicef don't deserve it, but I thought I'd try all the same 🤷🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/MXgU0Wkcah

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 18, 2020

can see why they voted Limpid Arse-Hoyle as the new speaker now!

Yes, it looks exactly like a FOR BEGINNERS book, but also like a naughty parody of one rather than a real one. But I don't have that real one, so perhaps it really is like this.

Lenin & Marx were the first in the series I think, long ago.