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

this alex bourne guy used to run a pub called the ‘cock inn’ btw

no contact vs many emails and whatsapp messages over several months - i can see how it would be easy to confuse the two

i wish things mattered

If there wasn't something at least somewhat untoward about the prices they're paying / profit margin, you'd have people out there spinning this as a wonderful story of small businesses chipping in to help the national cause.

Nothing matters in the sense of any hope of personal accountability but, at least a little, the drip drip of these stories might undermine the 'maxed-out national credit card' narrative a touch.

Seriously I wish nothing but death upon this man, he's the worst possible LOTO you could have during a crisis like this. I'd love to batter him! I don't mean kill him - just swing a shovel into his bollocks and listen to that satisfying crunch as he falls to the ground in agony!

I derive mild catharsis from these regular, justified, comments on KS.

"In his call with the Guardian, Bourne also played down his relationship with Hancock. “I’ve never once been to his house,” he said. “He’s never been to mine. I’ve never once had a drink with him.”

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(posted twice for emphasis, or because i thought i got it wrong the first time but in reality i just had images off. sorry)

an appropriately-named pint to be pulling

He means that once, he didn't have a drink with him.

Just got a nightmare report that I've been put into a bad kier

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Envb_wtWEAEMaZB?format=jpg&name=medium

I wish there was some English press slamming the BBC like this

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xpost to koogs

Hugely important point: https://t.co/0quy1A1w1i

— Ben Judah (@b_judah) November 26, 2020

the bbc quoting straight from the Thatcher book of using a simplistic analogy to justify deadly and cruel austerity, nothing new like - they refused to report on the BMJ study on disabled deaths they were very quiet while the UN rapporteur was here - they fucking love it!

if we want to go all-in on household finance analogies let's look at how people buy houses and cars in this country

when it comes to spending money on actual people let's just pretend we live in literally pre-medieval times when credit didn't exist. when it comes to hedge funds though? let the derivatives fuckin fly!! CDOs? that's child's play, kid

I've seen it suggested that car finance might be the next derivatives bubble, even if you are poor as fuck I bet it would be easier to get a car on finance than a bank loan or an overdraft extension. Here! seeing as we aren't talking household budgets here, have two cars mate!

The household metaphor thing is standard simplify it for the plebs austerity 101 stuff. Absolutely shameless bollocks.

In a work call this morning someone said 'I hear Rishi is trying to confiscate Boris's credit card hahaha' which is so funny because we all have jobs and stuff and no-one is throwing us out of our houses.

*disconsolately waves battered miniature union jack*

The sad thing about Starmer and the PLP's pivot from PV to voting for Boris' deal is that we'll now have a much harder brexit than the one Corbyn proposed with none of the radical and transformative policies that would bring forth a new settlement for the people in this country

— Universal Basic Income Now, Fuckers! (@holski_beat) November 25, 2020

gosh i wish somebody had pointed this out earlier

https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_article_image/public/blogs_2017/05/gettyimages-490521592.jpg

Realise opinions vary here, but Novara is pretty much the only political discussion media I can stomach at the moment. James Meadway was great last night on Kberg's economic illiteracy and Dr Bastano's interview with Dave Edgerton from last week is outstanding (not only for DE's awesome bookstrewn room)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7sRMIxYVVk

I like a bit of Dave Edgerton and a few of his books (britain's war machine, shock of the old, rise + fall of the british nation), he is a bit of an fbpe ultra at times, but he certainly isn't full of shit.

I don't watch much Novara tbh, too many of them (even though I agree with their politics) they do my nut in!

"keir starmer vote of no confidence"

About 209,000 results (0.43 seconds)

great that should be enough!

lol it's just pantomime season stuff but Thornberry has absolutely pounded an ashen faced Truss over her bulshitting about the difference between UK-Japan/EU-Japan deals, it's pretty funny really.

If unsure what the tiers mean are then read below :

Tier 1 - Pints
Tier 2 - Pints with chips
Tier 3 - No Pints

— Mark Hayes (@northernpromise) November 26, 2020

I've been in the mainly only drinking pints in your own yard section for years, like a true ahead of your time tier 3 trailblazer

whats tier 4

Tier 4 - Fuck yr pints, cunt.

drones shoot the glass out of your hand through your own kitchen window

pic.twitter.com/aozAczsra6

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 26, 2020

lol, best ever iteration of this meme

tier 3 ? pssssssh, u are like little babies

Good, I was worried about missing out on pints.

I'm just going to calmly carry on drinking red wine out of a pint glass whilst eating fuckin' chips

^you have broken tier law and have been visited by a powerful (and very upset) kieth. please visit your local cop shop at the earliest opportunity

Before we know it it'll be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZthPs8NpU

Downing Street tried to get doses of the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine labelled with an image of the union jack, it has been reported.

No 10’s newly formed “Union unit”, which is tasked with combating calls for Scottish independence and other campaigns to break up the UK, had wanted injection kits to bear the flag, according to the Huffington Post.

Good job guys get your fleg all over the 'half dose first we think we're not sure why but it might work' vaccine that'll stop people voting for independence.

John Bull says take your English medicine

Union Unit? More like The Onion Unit.

(xp) Rebranded in Scotland as John Knox Says Take Your Protestant Medicine.

trumpet blast against the monstrous regiment of the uninocculated yadda yadda

thing is your Venn diagram of flag waving/wearing unionists and covid denying antivaxxers is basically a circle

the flag on the vials will be more of a minor annoyance to pragmatic indy voters than a fillip to the union

Pretty sure the SNP are rubbing their hands with glee at the advent of No. 10's Union Unit.

the Liberal Democrats's own Billiam Bragg to rerecord "There Is Power in a Union" for the occasion

aye it's the unit that keeps on giving xp

I mean it's in the title of their party - they shouldn't even need a "unit" lol! But of course so much they've done in the last decade and new labour before them has done the SNP's work for them!

Accept our deal..that we think we'll be..better off without..yeah

@Daily_Express
Boris Johnson orders Barnier to agree Australian-style pact or watch UK prosper in no deal