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

well Kier says wishing death on fascists isn't "progressive politics" so therefore it must be good praxis imo, bring on the political death fantasises I say - more the merrier. Kier reminds me of P Badshaw of the Graun when he was saying it wasn't nice to celebrate Thatcher finally getting planted, because this abhorrent celebration of political enemies deaths is so crude and beastly and downright common!

colour me common

Apparently cineworld are closing until next year, making most staff redundant.

Cineworld to close its cinemas until next year, making most of its 5000+ staff redundant, reports Sunday Times pic.twitter.com/lBTiRpkfJy

— Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) October 3, 2020

I presume it's the hedge fund that owns that is really blaming the delayed release of a lousy James Bond movie that would have saved them - yeah sure!

why didn't the Nolan movie help their finances after S&S declared him the saviour of cinema? Money talks, hyperbole walks!

From what I have read Tenet has more than broke even globally but had fairly disappointing box office receipts in the US and the UK. Would a James Bond movie been such an allure to get bums on seats in those Rona chambers?

Spiked frantically dusting off the CVs

Charles Moore pulls out of BBC chairman race, sparking new hunt for the role - if true good - utterly unsuitable as I pointed out ⁦@CommonsDCMS⁩ Committee https://t.co/8vj6emuqOq

— Kevin Brennan MP (@KevinBrennanMP) October 3, 2020

Paul Dacre, Anthony Bamford, Hitler...

Toby Young is currently taking his phone to the toilet with him just in case the PM's office calls.

His wife keeps complaining that she can tell the phone calls aren't real because she can hear him doing the voices. Also the wanking.

So here’s something that’s slipped below the radar: the official House of Commons Twitter account has been banned from tweeting the result of votes after Tory MPs complained it was biased https://t.co/5jhoUC0XVq

— alex hern (@alexhern) October 4, 2020

lol just heard this phrase-meister on The The World This Weekend: "I came up with this phrase earlier that I refer to as...Boris Derangement Syndrome"!

Prefer the other BDS tbh.

How are you enjoying all the grizzly political death fantasies (San hammers) on the US threads calz?

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo)

Yo, if you're going to bring this up all the time, let me clarify my stance as an individual mod: it is fine (necessary sometimes even) to hope for a fascist's death, or even a centrist melt's death. If calzino had previously been saying "I would enjoy it greatly if Keir Starmer was burnt alive slowly and painfully until his eyes melt and his spleen pops out", that would be cool by me. What is not fine is posting stuff that makes other members of the board reasonably believe that they are sharing a space with someone who is actually violent and would actually carry out acts of violence.

"What is not fine is posting stuff that makes other members of the board reasonably believe that they are sharing a space with someone who is actually violent and would actually carry out acts of violence."

lol is that is some risible bullshit and I've got nothing more to say on the matter because I'll just end up blowing a gasket. bye!

I'm not going to bring it up all the time and I will likely never do so again, I brought it up because we've had a weekend of 1000 (perfectly understandable) 'die ya bastard' posts including some fairly detailed and hyperbolic fantasies of the exact messy painful nature of that death.

I wonder how many people (with the wilfully bad reading comprehension that middle class arseholes like to adopt occasionally when it suits them) reported me to Prevent over my "plot" to commit violent acts lol. Well sometimes it's instructive to find out which posters aren't worth taking seriously anymore.

So glad this has come up again, great work lads.

Not sure why you've put "plot" in quotation marks. Nobody suggested you were plotting. You also keep trying to make it political, when actually it's about the safety of other members of this board. If you're the sort of person who would happily stab someone, then why should we think it's only politically-motivated stabbings that you'd do? I don't know you - if you don't want people to think that you're violent, don't post that you want to behave violently.

I'm not making anything political here, just taking your offensive slurs against me quite personally and pushing back because they are utter bullshit. This really is my last post, time to killfile some arseholes whom its a waste of effort to bother with.

Sorry for stirring this back up.

Back to the bread and butter of we're all going to die uk pols...

"I tell you in all candour, it will continue to be bumpy through to Christmas and may even be bumpy beyond."

I expect we'll be at >100 daily deaths this month. Fuck knows what BJ's idea of 'bumpy' is.

I'm surprised if the government is considering the third rail of closing pubs, but not surprised that they're not publicly talking about it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/leak-reveals-possible-harsher-three-tier-covid-plan-for-england

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjeMdE5XcAACmzi?format=jpg&name=large

Starmer doesn't like their early postcard records era stuff, it was just music for the sake of music.

"That dates when I went to university" - at least some of these other melts can get a bit emotive about shed 7 or even Baggymp get's carried with his enthusiasm sometimes, there is more sentience and life in a dusty rug than in this dullard.

Sadiq Khan is, let's say, not always a comrade but this seems like an unambiguously good thing:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/03/dramatic-plunge-in-london-air-pollution-since-2016-report-finds

Almost 23k new cases, fuck.

NEW: Public Health England has found 15,841 positive cases that weren't registered on its data system

As a result, 22,961 have been reported today for England

The graph of cases now looks like this 📈 pic.twitter.com/fA5KTgERy7

— Rowland Manthorpe (@rowlsmanthorpe) October 4, 2020

they are adding figures lost due to a technicality last week onto this weeks daily figures.

"Eight days - EIGHT DAYS - of #COVID19 case numbers were being under-reported due to “a technical issue which has now been resolved”.
And even tho it’s “resolved” no clarity abt how much of the shortfall is left to be reported. Hundreds? Thousands?"

not that it makes the situation any better, it just means any reportage last week that things were getting slightly under control was completely WRONG!

Were the missing cases still contacted for tracing?

If not that's a shitload of positives out in the wild for a week.

"“This issue did not affect people receiving their Covid-19 test results and all people who tested positive have received their Covid-19 test result in the normal way. It also does not impact the basis on which decisions about local action were taken last week.”

(No idea if that's true, though)

Public Health England provided a breakdown of how many cases were not included in each day’s figures, which are as follows:
957 cases were not included on September 25, when the original figure given was 6,874
744 on September 26, when the original figure given was 6,042
757 on September 27, when the original figure given was 5,693
none on September 28, when the original figure given was 4,044
1,415 on September 29, when the original figure given was 7,143
3,049 on September 30, when the original figure given was 7,108
4,133 on October 1, when the original figure given was 6,914
4,786 on October 2, when the original figure given was 6,968

From The Guardian live feed

Starmer says if there were rapidly escalating rona infections and deaths under a Labour government then the correct figures would be released in a competent and timely fashion.

Can't tell if that's a joke

Hat Mancock, not at all shook

Bloody hell. Asked a fairly reasonable question in the Commons, Matt Hancock replies: “I will not have this divisive language. I will not have it.”

You will not have Parliamentary scrutiny? Then you may be in the wrong job, sir. pic.twitter.com/gTQ6pLWGWo

— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) October 2, 2020

Matt Hancock response chart. pic.twitter.com/5Pitdy1jPF

— Imranbristol (@Imranicus) October 3, 2020

I think a few blood vessels just burst

In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.
But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.

The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum. pic.twitter.com/X4a8keSEHK

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 5, 2020

Lol

PHE 🤝Kelly Rowland

catastrophic misuses of Excel

lol gyac

row numbers = 1048576, columns (A-XFD) = 16384

XFD is not where *i'd* choose to end but you do you excel

Trying to work out if that Hancock response is butthurt or if it's now part of a deliberate communications strategy. Slough isn't going to return a Tory MP any time soon so why bother saying anything at all?

suspect it might be a deliberate "lol nothing matters" strategy

I mean leaving aside the elephant in the room as to why he might take that tone with Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi and Dr Rosena Allin-Khan.

Oh god the fix these geniuses came up with is to split the results into multiple sheets. Switching to rows apparently unthinkable.

xp was going to mention that i'm sure he's had run-ins with Singh Dhesi before

bring down the government by showing them pivot tables