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

Guarantee he finished watching Bossy Cop and immediately texted Streeting

just need to find a more prominent role for babs now and a Rachel Reeves promotion ... fucking taking the piss! This shit is what Tracy Brabin described as " a welcome return of a plurality of voices back to the fold" ... FUCK OFF!

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-waters-down-criticism-of-government-by-its-own-shadow-disability-minister/

you know the scumbag melts are back in charge when the shadow disability minister is having her criticism of the govt's neglect of disabled people edited and toned down, seriously fuck these arseholes.

From a piece in The Atlantic about the Dems which could just as easily be applied to Kieth

for too many of America’s leading liberal politicians, “realism” has become an identity unto itself, unmoored from any programmatic orientation toward the future or sustained effort to bring about significant change.

Who is having the last Big Mac before the world burns? That's right

Having grown up on a council estate, on free school meals, experiencing child poverty in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be where I am today without a great state education. I am absolutely thrilled @Keir_Starmer has asked me to join @KateGreenSU’s team as Shadow Minister for Schools.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) October 16, 2020

Ffs Alphie I posted that hours ago

You posted about the appointment. I'm giving the free school meals a bit of focus

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

I don't know what salary they were offering originally but I'm pretty sure they'd get a very wide range of applicants for it if they weren't dicks

Falling upwards with jet-powered anti-gravity boots

some people charge a penny for their thoughts - Gideon charges £12500 for them

Pretty cool to be learning that basically no small outlets will be exporting to the UK after New Year through the twitter account of William Shatner https://t.co/OyhAYRk6oy

— Stefan Bielik (@prstskrzkrk) October 16, 2020

lol! Shatner dropping knowledge

UK credit rating downgraded by Moody’s https://t.co/0TW2snPOvV

— FT Markets (@FTMarkets) October 16, 2020

It's going to be like watching the walls crumbling in on a condemned building, from inside the building

‘Shitness Protection Programme’ is truly one for the ages. ⁦
@MarinaHyde at her peerless best once again.

and no doubt thousands of other melt-adjacent, most-easily-impressed-crowd-ever will be lapping this up as well, can't wait till she uses something similar like ‘Vapid Response Team’ and some sophisticated simp declares it the gag of the century.

lol she's recycling this material as well, it's the third time she's used it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/16/jennifer-arcuri-admits-to-boris-johnson-affair?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1602888416

i never want to find out who the girls have been screwing and i never wanna know who the guys have been doing but this feels like another "lol nothing matters" moment

how quaint, a sex scandal with added corruption and missapropriation of public funds - but enough 90's nostalgia - nothing matters!

Arcuri says she has been working on “fictionalised comedy drama about a young American woman and her political encounters in London” and plans to return to the UK once restrictions have been lifted.

Just another day in SuperWorld

I just had to check if Shatner was collecting tax for imports into Australia as he should be (he isn’t) and nearly ended up with a TJ Hooker patch and a 1987 Mardis Gras Doubloon featuring Mr. Shatner's as King Bacchus of Mardis Gras.

Posting this one again.

France needs high quality, innovative British jams & marmalades #EXportingisGREAT #ExportOpps https://t.co/TsnsjUCVxX

— Department for International Trade (@tradegovuk) October 3, 2016

xp

I think the last time I ran to catch a bus (which thankfully was a long time ago) it brought back memories of a TJ Hooker chase scene.

One of the ridiculous things about the Osborne story is: "they're going to increase the salary by £60k / 100k / 160k, to get better applicants".

Imagine that happening to the jobs that you or I apply for.

Well exactly, they're not even aware of the insult

They've buried the lede in that article that they are prepared to pay up to £280k specifically to get Osborne. There are people running much smaller, shittier, less complex and less politically fraught media organisations than the BBC for much more than £100k although not for three days work a week. Osborne was probably earning more than that at the Evening Standard.

But the job of the BBC Chairman isn't to run the BBC - it's to oversee the board, ensure editorial independence, and they can appoint and dismiss the Director General as well. It's largely ceremonial but also very powerful, and a job for which Osborne by his very nature is fundamentally unqualified.

This salary itself isn't about getting the best candidates at all, it's about attracting someone who can cement Tory hegemony over the BBC - a fact that should come as a surprise to precisely nobody.

It would also have the added bonus of keeping him out of Parliament where he might prove bothersome to the government.

More on the outsourcing of Government, this us on food parcels:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/10/208m-food-box-rip-off-private-outsource-government-contract-covid-corona-virus

Does Labour have a position on the government pulling out of Brexit negotiations? I haven’t seen any of the senior ppl mention it but presumably they must have somewhere?

the position is "please vote for Kier"

Keir Starmer is not a leader of courage - but he may soon lead the UK
Peter Oborne

yeah.. but naw. Not even by default mate!

government of national unity featuring the Tory backbenches, Kieth and the usual suspects

nah he's still too human rights adjacent to ever be forgiven by the Bufton Tuftons

4 years ago I was doing trollies at Sainsburys on a Monday night. I left, worked hard and got a degree from the University of Sheffield. Now I’m doing trollies at Waitrose on a Friday night. Never give up 💫💯💎🛒 pic.twitter.com/ikCevoDVCy

— tom de silva (@t0m_deSilv4) October 16, 2020

tweet of the day is this one

That's good.

Peter Oborne seems uncannily sound these days.

Oborne is an old-fashioned Liberal Christian isn't he? Current gov committing every sin in the book

pic.twitter.com/ZiOlrNLPRJ

— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) October 17, 2020

yeah nice try Cllr Laurie Burton

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkjKSEIW0AE4aZv?format=jpg&name=900x900

erm.. Telegraph hack political cartoonist otm tbf.

I thought farts died until I zoomed in.

dignity to the left of me.. farts to the to the righ...

CHILDREN

There is a probably an anti-lockdown agenda being angled at there that I would deeply disagree with, the cartoonist is bad obv, but the concept of a useless piece of human garbage as LOTO is otm. that it was re-tweeted by Hitch tells it's own story obv!

Feel good story of the year so far

Coronavirus: Tony Blair denies breaking COVID rules after trip to US https://t.co/AkzM5n1Pdm

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) October 17, 2020

"special dispensation" the fucking frequent flyers club have been the Rona's best friend right from the start.

He probably went skiing in February in Italy too.

The 9 voters in Stoke that Keir is going to win back pic.twitter.com/NnchuhlP6T

— the spectre haunting europe 👻📕 (@sheevpaIps) October 17, 2020

Andrew Adonis reminds me of Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes, tumbling off a waterfall, locked forever in a fatal embrace. Except Jeremy Corbyn hasn't noticed. https://t.co/TRJ5l6DR6m

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) October 17, 2020

lol even the windmill has noticed how shit some of the Blairite debris is next to corbyn

The Mail on Sunday reports that an official inquiry has confirmed that MPs were drinking in a Commons bar beyond the nationwide 10pm curfew. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has reportedly refused to answer 30 times whether he was among the group flouting the rules.

The fox beater only really cared about Corbyn as far as his response to Brexit was concerned and even he eventually admitted it was proving counterproductive.

Adonis is a clown but he's also a highly partisan player in an internal Labour fight that most of the country doesn't especially care about right now.

Also for real the ongoing obsession with what MPs do and don't say on Twitter, as it it were the full encapsulation of all their political beliefs and priorities, is just another reason to nuke the entire site from orbit.

Twitter centrists still obsessed with Corbyn cos their boy isn’t doing well and we all know it? Well I never. Fuck Adonis, absolute joke of a man.