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

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!

A blog..

John McTiernan > John McTernan

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

BBC news lead story with 'end of an era'

away and shite

Cummings being the era

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?

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

📢📢 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

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

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.

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

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)

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

A Tweet From Northwich.

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

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

after StarmersListeningParty Tim will soon be forgotten

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.

LL lost a lot of cred points by being the voice of sky TV ads. And is that her on those Get Ready For BREXIT bits?

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/govt-calls-uk-seize-opportunities-brexit-transition-campaign/1689201

LL is a godawful schmindie maroon but I accept she might be a decent human being in non aesthetic areas

I used to like her on popworld

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/14/dominic-cummings-relationship-with-boris-johnson-fell-off-cliff-says-ex-minister

Neil Tweedie, who was not found to have been responsible for any leak, said of Cummings and Cain in the Daily Mail that “fear was their tool”.

“The Vote Leave mob, drunk on their success in the referendum and the election, believed they were untouchable,” he wrote. He told how Cummings, who demanded utter loyalty from special advisers to other ministers, held egotistical “spad school” Zoom meetings delivering monologues while “sitting at the end of the cabinet room table, the union flag draped behind him”.

Don't know if that's actually true but I can just imagine it

I know spad is an abbreviation but it sounds like such an 80s school insult I'd never want to be one.

Is Brexit happening or not I'm confused.

Thank you for that information. We apologize but upon reviewing your location you're in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don't have the rights to other territories. ^RS

— Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) November 14, 2020

incredible that it’s still there.

oh hey calzino here’s some nightmare fuel

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

we're discussing shitposting about it on the "when did you leave Labour?" thread

ahh

incredible that it’s still there.

Maybe they have to keep them up "for training purposes"? The first reply is them going "yeah, whoops, we fucked this one"

Do these people never learn?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/15/boris-johnson-told-to-self-isolate-after-coronavirus-contact

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a8a713ff23ad1bcc6e9654617508a3406295eeb9/0_361_1200_720/master/1200.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e583a6ab81a26b99bc0ddbe154368496

good week to hide in a fridge/self isolate

Lee Anderson was the one who got himself filmed canvassing a mate who had to pretend he didn't know him but didn't know he'd left his mic on and had already given the game away.

Carrie Symonds may now become the most powerful figure in the Johnson administration. She'll return him to the diversity-conscious LGBT-friendly liberal Tory that was the London mayor. Instead of Brexit, Biden, Climate and COP26. https://t.co/yxSdL1vGCL pic.twitter.com/ikedYh0378

— Iain Macwhirter (@iainmacwhirter) November 15, 2020

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gather round children, it's the shit version of Jackanory time.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/ea18aaee-527b-483c-a637-8b4b73da06f2/d4m5orm-50abeea6-64a8-4e98-827f-4313962863e2.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwic3ViIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTpmaWxlLmRvd25sb2FkIl0sIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi9lYTE4YWFlZS01MjdiLTQ4M2MtYTYzNy04YjRiNzNkYTA2ZjIvZDRtNW9ybS01MGFiZWVhNi02NGE4LTRlOTgtODI3Zi00MzEzOTYyODYzZTIuanBnIn1dXX0.eS0p0zbtih81ni7RUhXA9fObNOJmMOUpqCfCf_awlK0

Those halcyon days of LGBT-friendly liberal Tory "tank-topped bumboys" Johnson.

“If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog,” said the liberal, LGBT-friendly Tory.

So far, the UK does not stand to benefit from the vaccine. Moderna has agreed to provide the US with 100 million doses, with an option to buy 400 million more. Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Qatar and Israel have also signed agreements, and the European Commission has a “potential purchase agreement” for 80 to 160 million doses. The UK chose not to participate in the EU vaccine purchase scheme, with Matt Hancock arguing in July that the government could source vaccine faster on its own.

Wonder how this will pan out

#LolClassicBrexit

Hat Mancock addresses the nation: "I don't know lads, I'm thinking we should take this virus thing seriously maybe"

this new vaccine is 94% effective so we've ordered enough to cover the 6% who are left #maths