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

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.

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— 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

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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.

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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

after the unguarded offensive comment by Boris on devolution, Douglas Ross says it's the SNP's "obsession with another independence ref that has been a disaster". Very strange position to take considering they probably would have been as nearly wiped out as Labour in Scotland if not for the sectarian bigotry they could whip up in response to SNP's calls for indie-ref 2.

Boris has clarified that it's separatists and nationalists that are (checks notes, twice) bad.

give rashford LOTO job til end't season

Boris Johnson clarifying devolution is ok but only if you vote for unionist parties.

arguably if not for the SNP giving a new lease of life to Unionists in Scotland, not only would the tories have got wiped out - we might have had a Corbyn minority govt! But Scottish Tories do love that cake you can have and eat.

ffs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54974373

i'm sure this is perfectly normal and he has no personal connections to the government whatsoever

there is nothing we can do about this now that both main parties are in agreement that the only efficient way of doing grand political corruption is through the private sector and keeping onside with our billionaire donor pals. I don't even get mad any more, it's a waste of time even giving any modicum of a fuck!

Jeremy Corbyn readmitted to Labour!

the statement today was pretty unarguable, got to admit i was disappointed by some of the Twitter Left calling it a capitulation

time for a leadership challenge

You jest but..

Centrists on the NEC are furious. One says Starmer's team are 'utter wankers' for ensuring the panel had a natural 3-2 majority for Corbyn. "They've now pissed off the Left and the Right over all this."
Says the right course wdve been to wait for new independent panel to decide.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) November 17, 2020

“3-2 majority” leading to a 5-0 decision fwiw.

labour having a mare as per.

look that natural balance won't ensure itself

Centrists furious because Team Starmz, who are different from the centrists made "the Right", who are different from the centrists and Team Starmz, cry. Got it.

I am waiting.

Understand a group of Labour MPs have warned Sir Keir Starmer they may resign the whip if Jeremy Corbyn has the whip reinstated. They're furious, gutted and feel it undermines work done to rebuild bridges with the Jewish community.

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) November 17, 2020