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

Years and Years in 2019 (yeah I don't know either)

Dystopic sci-fi series about Britain plunging into worse chaos and economic/refugee strife than the rest of the world over the next decade+, told through the locus of one family from Manchester getting on with their increasingly-fucked daily lives as the circumstances change. If you're able to enjoy The Crown, you might love this.

the team that made

not the team as in any of the same people, just a Manchester-based division of a French-ish multi-billion-$ media asset leverage company

oh so it's a documentary!

xp

that will be where Kieth starts to surge ahead after recycling some previous Tory campaign slogans interspersed with Jobs Jobs Jobs

The economy is the thing that's might burst their balloon.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Landlords will be making less, both at the commercial and residential sectors, for one. Brexit and it's implementation will hit the economy.

Plus when the racists still see migrants haven't packed up they won't like it. Although Priti Patel will do her best.

Landlords will be making less, both at the commercial and residential sectors, for one. Brexit and it's implementation will hit the economy.

Not sure any of that leads to any gains for Labour. I'm sure there will be some discontent but mostly people will come to the conclusion they're still better off with proper Tories than pretend ones.

How German public TV is illustrating an infographic on the new #Covid20 mutation. pic.twitter.com/nlqiDBpDO7

— Christian Odendahl (@COdendahl) December 22, 2020

They don't like it up 'em

More areas will enter Tier 4 from Boxing Day

Hancock has announced Essex, Norfolk, Sussex, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Hampshire will enter Tier 4 restrictions from Boxing Day.

we will be exceeding 1,000 cases per 100,000 people today. the most shocking part of the statistics here for me, is that out of all the covid cases recorded since March, over 1/3 of them were recorded last week.

Herefordshire and Bristol were moved to T1 and T2 respectively last Saturday. Those moves will have lasted for a week.

Nowhere is now left in T1. Virtually all of the south of England will now be in T4 or T3.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 23, 2020

At what point will they bin this tiers bollocks and just lock the entire joint down until vaccine-assisted herd immunity is achieved? Probably never I guess.

Meanwhile we will leapfrog 3 completely and go straight from 2 to 4 on BD, sure there’ll be a crush of ppl on one last scotch egg bender tomorrow

xp wondering same

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/23/eu-countries-prepare-for-possible-imminent-brexit-deal

I haven't really followed the minutiae of what's happening elsewhere, does any other country have something analogous to the tier system or is it a peculiarly British approach based in the historically-approved class system?

It's the same here in Quebec except we mostly use colours (red, yellow, green).

Ireland has one

they robbed it off us in fact

Correct. And “substantial meals”. And the six counties.

Seamus Heaney, Paul Mescal, Zig & Zag...

Terry Wogan, Anne Marie Waters...

Daniel Day-Lewis, when sober

Seán O'Casey

I once worked on a stage set during work placement for a production of Juno and the Paycock, which was quite fittingly being staged at the Bradford Playhouse (where the OG Labour Party was formed to keep it on topic).

everything is now tier four = everything is now on topic in all threads

Free yourself from the quarantines of your mind. #onethread

Just wait till they bring in Tier 5.

robocop shoots u if it finds u out of doors

Nearly 40k new cases and 744 deaths. The situation in South Wales looks even worse than Kent.

this is becoming apocalyptic again, dreadful figures are them

Trying not to think about where we'd be if no vaccines had yet emerged, I suppose there's no point in inventing even more horror.

fuck this

all of it

Always liked those Sikhs

— Andrew Marr (@AndrewMarr9) December 22, 2020

🐦[Always liked those Sikhs
— Andrew Marr (@AndrewMarr9) December 22, 2020🕸]🐦

it’s hypnotising.

I;m thinking about thos Sikhs

i’m just imagining if you said something like this in an interview, or in fact in many professional environments including the bbc. uneasy looks and a big red cross by your name.

Yeah Andrew *those* Sikhs were always always considered jolly good fellows within the Raj caste system, not like those other *%$£**s

remember those sikhs? always liked them. whatever happened to them?

love a model minority

a l w a y s

Liked

those

Sikhs

A great bunch of lads.

This makes me happy. The wonderful Japanese... https://t.co/yWDiSehVzg

— Andrew Marr (@AndrewMarr9) December 22, 2020

there is absolutely no question he didn't like Shami Chakrabarti when she was on his program

he's not even a closet skull measurer

Our estimates suggest that control measures of a similar stringency to the national lockdown implemented in England in November 2020 are unlikely to reduce the effective reproduction number Rt to less than 1, unless primary schools, secondary schools, and universities are also closed. We project that large resurgences of the virus are likely to occur following easing of control measures. It may be necessary to greatly accelerate vaccine roll-out to have an appreciable impact in suppressing the resulting disease burden.

I'm going to do a contrarian number on this widely-praised thread (nothing personal: I just don't agree with it). https://t.co/PIsoEihST3

— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) December 23, 2020

(read the thread that thread is in response to first if you like)

I couldn't give less of a fuck about the moronic ramblings and lousy politics of your idiot father just as much as I didn't give a fuck about my own before he died, but let's go make a thread about it eh?

Who even gives a fuck about old bastards not voting Labour at the moment anyway? I don't even care if nobody votes for them.

who is widely praising that thread?

well some FBPE types for a start, fuck it anyway - not wasting any more energy on this.

#BREAKING Britain has made "huge concessions" in Brexit talks, according to a French source pic.twitter.com/3lB79ODCOH

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 23, 2020

has anyone done a welfare check on Farage?

Nigel forage

going back to back to that inane thread, it isn't any of kind insight that lots of teh UK electorate (not just old people either) like simplistic narratives and shit politicians and err towards the status quo - even if it damages them - yeah we know that from 2019. Isn't the point that Starmer is pandering to them and not gaining any ground and looking like a lock in for a GE loser more interesting than talking about your stupid fucking dad like there is some lesson to be learned there? Sorry I'm drunk now and my pathetic brane is imploding!