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

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.

i've never been to this thread before, just came to post about this "lord kilclooney" character i just learned about

come for the lord kilclooney, stay for the nihilism

Can we send @pritipatel back to Uganda ? https://t.co/C85faCvydS

— Primal Scream (@ScreamOfficial) November 9, 2020

lol, ha-ha. you daft racist!

Boaby's tone deaf racism aside are there still not a whole bunch of people who'll be able to come to the UK because of where they're from? Just fact-checking the advert

they must be from No-skillzland

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

The very people who have provided so many US presidents and are responsible for so much shit in the US.

kilgeorge kilclooney

The thing is Taylor is an official Ulster Unionist, they're considered relatively moderate.

Taylor hasn’t been a UUP member for over a decade

(He is a clown with a history of shitty comments; tbh I half-thought he joined the DUP back when he was still a party member)

https://nation.cymru/news/trucks-to-wales-from-ireland-will-have-to-drive-to-england-for-check-in-after-brexit-transition/

lol

So Claire Fox robustly defended the government's Internal Market Bill in the Lords last night only to then accidentally vote against it - helping defeat the very bill she'd spoken so passionately in defence of. November just keeps getting better.

— Otto English (@Otto_English) November 10, 2020

also lol

also re trucks far be it from me to wonder why a government that's really into Brexit doesn't seem to have sorted out any of the infrastructure to make it work

relaly hoping this election isnt a repeat of '04, when i got trapped in a brushpile and mistakenly voted for a bird

— wint (@dril) November 6, 2012

(xxp) She's lost without Chairman Frank around to control her thoughts, movements, breathing etc.

In other utterly embarrassing news, Johnson's weird jpeg statement congratulating Biden 'accidentally' has "Trump" in faint text in the background. Barely anyone picked up on it for a couple of days so someone had tipped Guido the wink. There's obviously no earthly reason a white text on black background image would need to be erased and written over and "Trump" is out of line with the rest of the text. It looks like a bizarre, childish attempt to signal to a handful of Tories that, of course, we wanted to be congratulating Trump instead.

Of course, this is misdirection for the real message:

just had a little play with photoshop and something weird going on with boris johnson's message of congratulations to joe biden pic.twitter.com/48LLjnWqjv

— Ed Jefferson (@edjeff) November 10, 2020

One for blobismus!

he sees you when you're sleeping

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.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, November 9, 2020 8:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks for posting this. I really struggle with this - that Cummings has a say on this stuff. It's different even from all the "economy v health" arguments and seems so vile and uncomfortable.

we're following the science

to Durham

to check our eyesight

A thread of some of the key findings of this report (updating as I read)... https://t.co/OpO0UfSlqi

— David Chipakupaku 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇲 (@David_Chippa) November 11, 2020

Good thread summary on the new Parliamentary Human Rights Committee report.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54894221

The Public Accounts Committee has also said that the Towns Fund was not transparent or impartial in how money was allocated.

Labour called the process "murky" but Mr Jenrick said it was "perfectly normal"

Perhaps they're both correct.

50 covid deaths in Scotland today. That's the highest figure since 20th May and that's with a change to the calculation which pushes the total down.

The seven day rolling average has risen from 3 to 25 in a month.

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 13:31 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Add a week and it's 64 today, highest since early May, and a rolling average of 31 daily deaths.

We're now losing more people daily than we lost in July, August and September combined so of course our government has started talking about Christmas relaxations and letting the students out in the wild. Nothing could possibly go wrong...

UK likely to top 50K deaths today too :(

frustrating lack of infections among the government too. surely there are few enough cabinet members with any power under Cummings that Brexit could have the wheels knocked off with a selective death or two

"oh the Minister For Calling EU Negotiators A Cunt has died, and Dom is too ill to speak or blog, sadly we must postpone our departure in order to marshal the full blitz spirit against this insidious enemy."

friends in NZ are posting pictures from all-age gigs full of people without masks getting on with life like it was 2019. i think they've had fewer deaths IN TOTAL than our daily numbers.

New Zealand (totals)
Cases 1,988
Recovered 1,911
Deaths 25

(he did have to stay in a hotel for 10 days, have multiple tests, and pay 3000 $NZ when he arrived)

(money was to cover the hotel stay, if that wasn't clear)

They've been staging rugby matches in front of crowds of 50,000 for a good few months now. Mind you have you seen where New Zealand is on an atlas?

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/g/c/n/v/x/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1420x800.1gcnvy.png/1482533605997.jpg?format=pjpg&optimize=medium

Ha, exactly.

I already immensely disliked Simon Armitage (none of them Marsden lot are reet in the head) but since he became poet laureate and all the worst ppl twitter are insincerely pretending to cry over his dry, horrible shit-poetry, he seems like an even bigger twat!

I'm not massively fond of the front pages yesterday magnifying the one professor of medicine at Oxford sating that the vaccine could see life return to normal by Spring - there's no fucking way that's happening.

tbf what do you expect newspapers to do, report things responsibly?

Government adviser Lord Grade says the era of impartial TV news is coming to an end in UK: “I don’t see why the Daily Mail shouldn’t have its own news channel with its point of view... We are moving inevitably toward relaxing the rules on impartiality."https://t.co/cZKImbLWVg

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 11, 2020

can't see that ending badly at all. Combine that with lifting the restrictions on political advertising and we are off to the fucking races

...coming to an end?

"Broadband Communism?"