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

Lol we're all going to die

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/05/operation-moonshot-rapid-covid-test-missed-over-50-of-cases-in-pilot

operation moonshit morelike

If you cynics would stop moaning and get behind the government I'm sure they'll be on top of this thing by spring 2030

they've been at this almost all year now, be nice if they'd get the odd win occasionally and manage to institute (to quote some Biden camp merican I've just heard on the radio) a "pro-virus-eradication testing program" as opposed to a pro-virus-spreading program!

kieth must take action !

On Tuesday, we wrote to @Keir_Starmer to outline our concerns about the horrendous antisemitism in the Labour Party.

He has failed to respond.

Is Sir Keir's commitment to "root out antisemitism and rebuild trust" more than just words?

Full text: https://t.co/QBJT0JE70x pic.twitter.com/7qTKhIzOoM

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 5, 2020

* crickets *

Good to see Nandy getting dragged for that "punches upwards" comment on Today, because Starmer won't do anything about it.

when you look at that little dossier above and compare and contrast with RLB's treatment, all I can think of saying is fuck off and die Starmer you worthless little moral midget.

Stephen Bush having an extremely normal one

the stefano shrub piece which kicked it all off
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/11/there-are-45000-reasons-jeremy-corbyn-s-suspension-one-each-jewish-voter-abandon

“disdain for people who voted tory/lib dem at the last election” without caveat

when you need caveats to pour scorn on tory/lib dem voters ..lol gtf out of here Stephen.

I don't think i've seen him this wildly aggro and incapable of accepting correction about anything other than Arsenal in the past.

Attempt to fence in University of Manchester halls going as well as could be expected.

Fence is well and truly down at UoM ✊ pic.twitter.com/BXfUMukACj

— Ben McGowan (@BenMcGowan_) November 5, 2020

LAB: 40% (+2)
CON: 35% (-3)
LDEM: 7% (+1)

I don't if latest YouGov poll was done before furlough extension, but not a good day for Tories (or at least the ones in the Conservative party).

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The streets and public spaces are far far busier than last London lockdown. People are definitely still mixing households in gardens and parks too - the message of “outside is pretty safe” has possibly gone in too deep to reverse.

This fucking shower basically has one trick for dealing for an outbreak and it feels a bit like they’ve now broken that as well. Whether it was Cummings or fatigue or woeful messaging or protecting landlords or anti-maskers almost doesn’t matter at this point.

also there will be a lot more people being forced to risk their lives going to unnecessary jobs than there were in May and they might be asking themselves what the point of anything is

Boris Johnson’s government is quietly working on creating its own in-house consultancy arm — dubbed “Crown Consultancy” — to cut its dependence on high-charging private sector firms.

The idea, driven by efficiency minister Theodore Agnew and championed by Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings, would bring bright civil servants and graduates together in a new division to improve delivering policies across Whitehall.

Creating a nationalised consultancy is the most Cummings thing I think I've heard this year. You could just ... not have fucking consultants in.

I'm guessing this will be staffed by recruiting a bunch of consultants and paying them permanent not-quite-consultant rates along with a CS pension that results in the same costs. They will, of course, like all good consultants, demonstrate savings by pointing out which other CS jobs should be cut.

lol otm

also surely one of the supposed points of consultants is that they're external and therefore untainted by fear or favour?

Might run into trouble using ‘crown’.

Cummings is so obviously very very thick

lol "take back control" literally that's it.

Biden’s win will be good for the Paris climate agreement, NATO and in general, for calming nerves.

Just watched episode 1, series 1 of the West Wing to celebrate.

— Mary Creagh (@MaryCreagh_) November 6, 2020

I think Mary's West Wing fandom might just be mimetic grown-upness, surely a real grown-up-in-the-room head would pick a specific fave episode!

nah i'm pretty sure they just are that stupid

Lol fuck NATO

been listening to old episodes of Yes Minister on R4X this morning, it was quite good fun apart from Blair and Edwina Currie offering some rl shade in between eps _(´ཀ`」 ∠)_

crpwnd consultancy

It’s been a long time since I watched it but I also believe the first episode of the west wing has the democrats act like idiots who have to give concessions to religious nuts and the old doddering white guy president rides his bike into a tree.

Seems appropriate for Biden winning.

I wonder if Mary's fave Larry Sander's Show ep is also ep1 s01, maybe she just watches the first ep of everything!

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hello UK,
Biden won because everyone who wanted rid of the blond lying racist dictator, put their political preferences aside and voted for the only alternative leader on the board who could beat him.

That's a lesson that all Labour factions, Libs and Greens need to learn.

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 8, 2020

you're only 2-3 years and one astroturfed second referendum campaign (in the furtherance of wedging labour for the benefit of entitled blairites) late lad

with Larry Sanders you've got the extra "real heads" gatekeeping of seeing if they name production order s01e01, or transmission order like a giant n00b

Allowing myself to daydream bout Starmer's storming, inspirational victory in 2024. Can't wait to be immediately temp-banned for not liking him enough

who would temp ban u 4 this?

I reckon the threshold will be like five FPs from the twenty remaining users at that point but I was mainly goofing on the latest yellow card in the admin log

I know !!!! I was shouting at telly too. I think we’ve made the point, Joe will have taken note.

— Karin Smyth MP (@karinsmyth) November 6, 2020

vote Labour

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

after studying their adults-in-the-room quotient I propose a GNU led by hologram Mandela and with a cabinet featuring Klopp and Rashford. lol at Ed Davey - give it up as a bad job pal!

These are the guys we give a job for life

What happens if Biden moves on and the Indian becomes President. Who then becomes Vice President?

— Lord John Kilclooney (@KilclooneyJohn) November 9, 2020

i just saw that yeah, trying to work out how to demand he be struck off

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmY-SffXEAA_6Vi?format=jpg&name=small

my man baron harkonnen here is doing a classic dig yourself in deeper, one ignorant and racist tweet at time manoeuvre

he knows what he's doing, it's pure troll

is there owt worse than authority figures doing feeble football analogies?

what about people claiming that the problem's solved live on tv about 30 minutes after someone says they may have a vaccine?

'we cannot let our enthusiasm run away with us'

*you're* the one on tv promising things with your big numbers.

actually authority figures doing laboured train analogies might be worse but at least he sounded like he knew whereof he spoke with that one

I am a USian and I just looked at Lord Kilclooney's Twitter feed and I don't really understand what is a Lord Kilclooney and what are this guy's politics? It is some mix of "I can't remember the Indian lady's name, sorry of people were offended, NOT RACIST" and "Biden is Irish, very suspicious but might be OK" but also "Biden is pathetic, I fear for the USA" and also "Israel's government is barbaric and people are wrong to call Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite for saying so" and "is freedom of speech going too far in France, I mean what if they started making cartoons about Jesus, are you saying we should allow that???" like, this is not a politics any American can recognize

he's an Ulster Unionist i think so file it under "batshit anti-Irish Protestant bigot"

Switched on the beeb and saw some military type addressing the nation and thought for a second goddamn Labour finally isn’t taking Tory shit no more this is a coup!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/uk-set-to-cut-covid-self-isolation-period-from-two-weeks-to-10-days

Cut to self isolation period planned to ‘placate Cummings’. Also suggests that only 11% are abiding by the 14 days at present.