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

I’d have been shiting on about how terrible it was if they hadnt done this with cases getting out of control and lockdowns coming down like dominos all over Europe but that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna complain about it now obv

So many people gonna be distraught after having this false promise dangled in front of them

Hundreds of people dying every day and Christmas cancelled, def worth it for 3 weeks of joyless scotch egg boozing tho obv

at least in part because the cunt prime minister didn't have the guts to be honest about this a month or more back and manage expectations

big sympathy for others but of course i dunno whether i'm in "the east" or not yet

Despairing lol at this thing about the mutant strain forcing them to cancel, rather than the numbers that have been rising steadily for months

“I’d love to let you have Christmas, folks, but the MUTANT STRAIN had other ideas, nobody’s fault”

Yeah that excuse came fucking gift wrapped for them, cunts must have thought Chr***mas had come early

he was taunting Kiermit with "you want to cancel Christmas" when? This week?

Muppets christmas carol

I’m so furious. We’ve got no food in the house cos we’d planned a Christmas bubble. Now, I need to go to my local supermarket, in a shopping centre on the Sat before Christmas, in London’s COVID hotspot, all because these cunts buried their heads in the sand and ignored reality.

— alex hern (@alexhern) December 19, 2020

This is fkn incredible

How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/eNcDpvuYLX

— 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐀 𝐏𝐇𝐏𝐁𝐁 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐌 🅰🅳🅼🅸🅽 (@TypingOfTheRed) December 19, 2020

Gov press conference on this in eight minutes i think

Did not want to watch this cunt but I have to now..

This is 10 mins late..

harrumph! not happy with my football commentary on R Leeds getting interrupted by this bumbling arsehole.

Tier 4 restrictions in London and other parts of England tomorrow
London, the South East and East of England will enter a new tier four level of restrictions from tomorrow morning, the prime minister says.

These will be broadly equivalent to national restrictions which were introduced in England in November, Boris Johnson says.

Residents in those areas must stay at home, with limited exemptions. Non-essential retails and indoors gyms must close.

People should work from home when they can, and should not enter or leave tier four areas. Communal worship may continue.

The restrictions will last for two weeks and will be reviewed on 30 December.

"there's no evidence" vs "there's evidence that it doesn't"

We escaped being put into tier 3 on Thursday so I guess we’re not going into tier 4 then?

And nothing about restricting the Xmas window for the rest of the country, do I have that right?

no, i think it’s changed for everyone. no staying overnight (hello drink driving), “stay local”, and one other household only?

and it’s just christmas day, sorry, i think?

I saw "Reduced to 1 day" for the rest of the country

Ah sorry reading the shitty graun summary, don’t wanna watch

So, I guess that's the hotel in Newcastle cancelled then.

I think I’m gonna be breaking the law & going on the 27th after my isolation period is done rather than bringing it forward 2 days which would be less safe

Christmas Day only = lol fuck you if your family aren’t within walking distance and you don’t have a car, basically

This is kafkaesque

Intimate footage of Keir Starmer warming up to hold the government to account! pic.twitter.com/cxybIPwq17

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 19, 2020

Communal worship may continue.

Pathetic

You're just being trolled by BoJo at this point lads

well boris johnson just said “we have to face up to reality” and i for one believe it’s time the public finally listened to him

can’t wait for boris’ approval rating to briefly dip two points over this latest fuckup

if they always gave absolute credulity to any public health announcements he and the govt made in the last year you'd also be taking on ideas like herd immunity without a vaccine, the patriotic duty to go to pubs/prets, the selfishness of work from homers all sorts of crazy bullshit. Not that I completely disagree with him this time (but I've accepted I'm living a monastic existence to the death now!), but it won't be surprising if many people don't feel inclined to listen to him. He should never have been dangling this idea of a mangled Christmas for months now, good leadership or opposition isn't about doing or saying what makes you popular during the worst public health crisis since the 20's. But unfortunately we have neither.

"Surrey excluding Waverly; Hastings and Rother; Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth"

sub-editor (mE) angry at the work being done here by semi-colons until fact-checker (also me) beladedly points out that hastings is in east sussex not surrey

can’t wait for boris’ approval rating to briefly dip two points over this latest fuckup

Yes indeed.

He is fucking around specifically with Tory heartlands this time..

It’s what you asked for? You also abstained at the point you had the chance to re-shape the rules ! https://t.co/B72h0eGCiw

— Gary Neville (@GNev2) December 19, 2020

thank u based gary

that's why Labour can't take any gains from this, no-one wants to hear "I told you so" from this abstaining wanker. Lol @ Gaz "busy cunt" Neville getting the measure of Kieth!

mind you, declaring yourself more competent than the PM without ever showing a trace of "clear, decisive leadership" is a real winner tbf

Lol Gaz otm, everybody already knows what Kieth is, he might as well retire to his office with his service revolver now

Last train out of Saigon. Queue at St Pancras as we wait to board the Leeds bound train. pic.twitter.com/cFDBDNnYFC

— Harriet Clugston (@HarrietClugston) December 19, 2020

that really couldn't have been predicted and wouldn't have happened under Sir Kieth Abstarmer's watch

The Spectator describes me as “the permanently outraged MP”.

Highest excess death toll in Europe.
Deepest recession in G7.
Unicef forced to feed our kids.
Billions to Tory mates in dodgy contracts.
Climate catastrophe looming.

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 19, 2020

my first response was that it was a bit rich the spectator calling somebody else permanently outraged

more like the only decent MP

well there are about 3 more tbf!

but real grownup headz tell you Stella Creasy is a cracking constituency MP

she did come to my neighbourhood's street party tbf

sorry to hear about that

Oh fuck

— Anneka Rice (@AnnekaRice) December 19, 2020

what's the sympathy rating for Anneka's ruined Christmas?