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

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (4053 of them)

the broad correctness is less of a worry than what a winning Labour Party under Kieth might actually be prepared to do, never mind what they might be capable of doing

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2020 16:32 (five years ago)

what ship

You guys are ridiculous because I’m more on the left than you (Left), Friday, 13 November 2020 16:33 (five years ago)

take it to ao3, you can find all kinds of ships there

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 November 2020 16:53 (five years ago)

hang on, Cummings is gone immediately? now we're talking

stet, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:19 (five years ago)

👌

conrad, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

RIP Dom, you hated the Tory party but not enough, obv

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:23 (five years ago)

rip big man, heaven needed a sneering william gibson misunderstander

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:25 (five years ago)

Tonight at Downing Street (via Reuters) pic.twitter.com/XArKS5TWvG

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) November 13, 2020

stet, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:27 (five years ago)

Hope they manage to sort out whatever's wrong with his head 👍

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

have a word with Shane Waune maybe

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:32 (five years ago)

i would like to claim that was a typo but my brain just went all old

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:33 (five years ago)

So I can't keep up, is Carrie Symonds running the country now?

lots of people in a line, waiting for a number 9 (Matt #2), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:05 (five years ago)

why not?

big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:06 (five years ago)

she is a more likable Tory than Keith tbf!

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:10 (five years ago)

Can’t be any worse than Johnson.

Dan Worsley, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

Suppose someone has to

lots of people in a line, waiting for a number 9 (Matt #2), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

Someone has been running the country? Ok

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:27 (five years ago)

Mr Johnson held a 45-minute meeting with Mr Cummings and Mr Cain on Friday to discuss their “general behaviour” this week, according to individuals with knowledge of the conversation.

In tense exchanges, Mr Johnson accused his aides of briefing against him and his partner Carrie Symonds and criticised them for destabilising the government in the midst of tense Brexit negotiations.

Mr Johnson showed the aides text messages that had been forwarded to Ms Symonds, who opposed Mr Cain’s appointment as chief of staff, to show they had briefed against her. He told them to get out and never return.


https://on.ft.com/2IBppjq

stet, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:29 (five years ago)

this seems like real stagemanaged nonsense to me. walking out with a cardboard box. its like a firing from a 90s film.

plax (ico), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:36 (five years ago)

I love the way Starmer Labour are attacking this from a party disunity angle, lol

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:42 (five years ago)

Utterly stage managed. Twat to the last (this isn’t the last, ofc)

stet, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:44 (five years ago)

at least Lord Mandelson liked mushy peas.

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:47 (five years ago)

a positive of the rona is that it not only killed Peter Sutcliffe but it has also extended my partners top rate PIP award until July '22, a very selfish perspective I know!

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:55 (five years ago)

KIP! That’s great news.

scampopo (suzy), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:56 (five years ago)

Narrator: successful parties give voters what they want, not members https://t.co/83q2cSx8k0

— John McTernan (@johnmcternan) November 13, 2020

an ILX lurker who basically agrees with 8/10 policies you do!

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 21:48 (five years ago)

A blog..

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 22:18 (five years ago)

John McTiernan > John McTernan

Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 November 2020 22:22 (five years ago)

oops, the donkey did a whoopsie, soz Mc Tiernan.

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 22:27 (five years ago)

BBC news lead story with 'end of an era'

away and shite

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Friday, 13 November 2020 22:32 (five years ago)

Cummings being the era

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Friday, 13 November 2020 22:32 (five years ago)

it's like when that overly ambitious posh cunt at school got sacked from tuck shop duties for getting caught knicking a fucking box of caramacs, who gives a shit?

calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 22:41 (five years ago)

In the middle of all this, Boris Johnson’s new press secretary appears to have accidentally tweeted a photo of...Tony Pulis pic.twitter.com/RkFjnZvRkz

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) November 13, 2020

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 22:48 (five years ago)

📢📢 BREAKING: We won our groundbreaking legal challenge against the government about extending health and safety rights to precarious workers!

Workers' rights are a public health issue. The UK government must extend protections to ‘gig economy’ workers! https://t.co/KQKiurX6wE

— IWGB (@IWGBunion) November 13, 2020

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:46 (five years ago)

oh yeah and Keith is on DID next week!

― calzino, Friday, 13 November 2020 11:56 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink]

Tune in, turn on, nod off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pdqz

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 09:43 (five years ago)

I can't wait for the extremely witty and hilarious left-wing twitter responses to whatever shite or even good stuff he has chosen/focus grouped, actually I tell a lie - it will be more tedious than actually listening to DID.

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:15 (five years ago)

It might have bearable with Kirsty Young but Lauren Laverne? No thanks.

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:39 (five years ago)

By the way...

UK Viewers - who saw Lauren Laverne on Never mind the Buzzcocks tonight? Pwoooooar! Chris Martin you're shagging the wrong blonde! (started by Calz (Calz) on board I Love Music on 02-Jun-2003)
]

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:41 (five years ago)

lol that's not me talking about that gritty daughter of toil, Laurene there - I didn't even come here till 2009. I know there is a certain R4 tory middle England demographic who absolutely hated her appointment to DID, probably out of snobbery or something, and I wouldn't want to be associated with them. But I thoroughly agree with them - I can't bare a minute of that fucking horrible middle-class Sunderland accent and she's a total knobhead!

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:48 (five years ago)

it’s weird to think that at one time she was The Future of radio at the BBC.

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:12 (five years ago)

Nah, she’s OK - and probably limits party political comments due to BBC rules for DJs - her brother Pete’s Twitter account is very left and suggests that she’s probably not some kind of Muswell Hill Melt.

scampopo (suzy), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:17 (five years ago)

Didn't she once call the Spice Girls Tory scum?

boxedjoy, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:20 (five years ago)

wasn't there also a point when some daft NME hacks were saying her godawful indie band were the future of music!

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:21 (five years ago)

From shit band to regular panel show guest spots to DID presenter is not the wildest of career trajectories. I fully expect Gaz Coombes to be presenting Today when the Beeb start some shedding some more old bastards!

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:30 (five years ago)

the reboot of sir kenneth clarke of civilisation's civilisation, presented by john squire

mark s, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:37 (five years ago)

Tim from the Charlatans has finally developed enough gravitas and grey hairs to be the new Alistair Cooke, sending a letter from America.

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:47 (five years ago)

A Tweet From Northwich.

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:49 (five years ago)

lol I don't where I got the idea he now lives in the US from, maybe it's Rick Witter I'm thinking of

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:50 (five years ago)

TimsListeningParty is probably higher-brow cultural content than most of R4 these days anyway

imago, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:55 (five years ago)

after StarmersListeningParty Tim will soon be forgotten

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:59 (five years ago)

it will be a classic DID ep in the sense that the guest is a boring millionaire tosser with all the charisma of a block of wood.

calzino, Saturday, 14 November 2020 12:05 (five years ago)


This thread has been locked by an administrator

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.