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

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?"

look i'm sure that all the possible individuals and companies able to afford to run a TV station will represent a broad variety of political views

still would be fun if the first station to launch was hardcorecommunism.news

oh god yeah, i still miss the ufo conspiracy channel that used to go out free on satellite

would subscribe to Mao TV

did grade leave the bbc under a cloud or was he always like this? because he seems very anti.

anti Auntie

(ha, i wrote that, but deleted it)

kieth knocking it out of the park

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 40% (-)
LAB: 36% (-2)
LDEM; 8% (-1)
GRN: 5% (+1)
BREX: 3% (-)

via @KantarPublic, 05 - 09 Nov
Chgs. w/ Sephttps://t.co/MFUCqWla5m

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) November 11, 2020

Wait till chiefgate really hits the —- oh it’s too shit to think about. Fuck these fucks, again.

"i will love it" when uncool Kieth is finally 20 pts ahead... oh actually scratch that .. I will love it when he decides to test the crash readiness of his Tory-Boy SUV against a brick wall at high speed, rather than against a pedestrian .. the utter cunt.

Who could have guessed that saying "I support the government" 100 times a week while dispensing of anyone who threatens to even glance to the left would render your opposition pointless?

Still, we've got Marcus Rashford to find scraps for the children so we'll be OK.

one of the worst things about the moral vacuum of Starmerism for me is that empty posturing professional politician lego-man landfill cunts like Burnham (who are no better than him) get to play like they are big heroes by doing the bare minimum you'd expect from opposition.

I take it back about chiefgate, it is now juicy enough for Cummings to be briefing that he is thinking of quitting too. Tease.

^ I just appeared to post about that. I don't really understand the significance of the PM's senior aide quitting as a news story (on a day that the Covid-19 death toll has passed 50000).

In news from the 15th century, we hear the Indolent King has banished one of his jesters from the court, which your humble scribe will now fixate upon as distraction from the Great Plague ravaging the realm

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) November 11, 2020

This is absolutely too close to GBD for it to be anything more than a posture/negotiation from Cummings but the fact they’d all piss about like this as they take us past 50k tells you everything, really.

The significance I think is that it’s the first public signal of exactly how dysfunctional/collapsing the No 10 operation is. Not only can they clearly not manage Covid, they’re also pitting Brexit against, er, the appointment of Stratton.

Just spent 10 minutes googling chiefgate, fuck's sake this country

I read one Laura K tweet and chucked it

If you are following Chiefgate...
1. 2 tory sources confirm Cain was offered job by PM at weekend after talking about it for few weeks
2. PM's fiance, Carrie Symonds, however, said to be deeply unhappy about the plan
3. Not now clear what outcome will be

Aren't PM's partners supposed to concern themselves with simple charity work, gardening and alcoholism?

Yeah that’s another thing that makes this a story. It’s beyond cronyism now, the exec is being run by decision-making non-elected advisers and the PM’s partner has a direct say in their appointment. Elected officials are a distant fourth behind “business associates” in this operation.

I know it’s a bit of a “what did you expect” situation, but it’s worth noting, like those lists of norms-Trump-destroyed that were going about.

Just spent 10 minutes googling chiefgate, fuck's sake this country

but yeah what stet just said, this is exactly what we’ve been becoming accustomed to for the last four years

Difference being, CS was head of press for the Tories before she hooked up with BJ.

fifty thousand dead and just shy of 1 in 20 classed as unemployed, this is a fucking joke isn't it

I can't even

Dr Peter Gammons (@Gammons4London) is UKIP's candidate for London Mayor, taking our fight to the Khanage left behind by Labour.

WATCH: https://t.co/52T2dMmlzn pic.twitter.com/XBreMfZdW3

— UKIP (@UKIP) November 12, 2020

Dr Gammon I presume.. is he related to Dr Max Gammon is the big question

not sure what accent you need to put on to make "Khanage" happen

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/590x/secondary/Brexit-news-Max-Gammon-1715421.jpg?r=1548899244225

you can't really mix him up with that much more grumpier looking UKIPer Dr Max Gammon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Dr Gammons was born to be a Kipper

- anti vax ☑
- poppies ☑
- voter suppression/fraud ☑
- covid isn't that bad ☑
- scary Muslims ☑

@gammons4london is so on-the-nose it’s in fact through the nose and burrowing its way through to burst out the back of the skull

timber euros (seandalai) at 12:59 12 Nov 20

not sure what accent you need to put on to make "Khanage" happen

something in the Newcastle area I would have