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

(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

"How to pronounce Khan" the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

i would generally pronounce it like "Kahn" but maybe i'm wrong?

sometimes long a sometimes short maybe

I pronounce it with a long 'a', the Mayor with a short 'a' - which is before you get to the question of the hard and soft 'K'...

yeah i was just thinking different people are pronounced differently plus there's a spectrum between long and short a depending on accent amongst other things? almost like there are lots of phonemes you can't transliterate into the Latin alphabet with exactitude

lol we're all gonna die

COVID-19: Sunak declines to rule out return of Eat Out To Help Out https://t.co/z8965uNmXI

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) November 12, 2020

:D :D :D oh ffs

surely that's simply a case of it being too painful to just answer "fuck no" on Rishi's part?

i fear you might be giving the chancellor too much credit there

NO WE'RE NOT GONNA PLAY 'STONEHENGE'

Massive rise in cases today..

Surely we could've had takeaway tokens the tight prick

still waiting for my Argos voucher

BUY ME A PS5 SUNAK FFS

Not nominative determinism

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ehrc-uk-racism-watchdog-david-goodhart-hostile-environment

Wasn't it calculated, at some point, that around 17% of Covid cases could be attributed to Eat Out ... ?

x-posts: Is there a rational reason to subsidise eating meals out rather than takeaway? I guess involves the employment of waiting staff? And the purchase of vast quantities of wine? (I may be months late to this conversation).

That was more of a joke although I'd be paying people off but also keep some of these things going where it's safe to do so.

Quite good on the EHRC nonsense.

Appointing Goodhart to the ECHR the day after a report gets very quietly released saying it has been failing women and black people is one of those things whose implications are clear and obvious but everyone will pretend to be outraged if you say them out loud.

— Phil McDuff 📕⁷ (@Mc_Heckin_Duff) November 12, 2020

this appointment is perhaps the worst example of lol nothing matters yet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54925322

Hard to say if that makes a trade deal with the EU less or more likely but you'd lean towards more

I think there would've been a trade deal either way, but slightly surprised he has only lasted a year.

I'd welcome this news but at this rate he's just going to be replaced by some G Fawkes cnut

i thought new bbc social guidelines state that reporters should not break news on their own personal twitter feeds??