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

The fire alarm in our halls went off on average once a week, astonishing that the university hadn't seen that coming.

Never had a single fire alarm when I was at university. Pretty sure they didn't have smoke detectors and none of us would have known the evacuation procedure anyway.

Here were the biggest Labour poll leads in 2019:

+10 (Panelbase, May 2019)
+10 (ComRes, April 2019)
+9 (Hanbury Strategy, May 2019)
+9 (Kantar Public, May 2019)
+9 (Panelbase, April 2019)
+9 (OnePoll, April 2019)
+9 (Hanbury Strategy, April 2019)

just a bit of a cooler after reading some excitable melts with short memories declaring they can't remember how long it is since once single pollster gave Labour anything near a 3 point lead.

yes it was the hope that killed me

I've been there. pic.twitter.com/01wE4hcABa

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 27, 2020

lol Paul Mason tweeting that very high-minded novel of his Rare Earth @ Tooze in response to a serious tweet he made about extreme pollution in one of China's rare earth mining sites!

That was the result of the Brexit Party polling at 14% and the Nando's Party at 9% (!!!). Finding it almost impossible to believe that was less than a year and a half ago.

we had an actual fire in my halls. someone's lava lamp fell off a shelf onto a bed and the duvet caught fire. incredible days. right after 9/11 iirc.

“We must all obey the rules” update pic.twitter.com/WgmiKQkWsr

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 28, 2020

thing is if they do shut it early, they'll only all end up gathering in numbers at Neil Coyle's flat to get totally paralytic on hard liquor with him.

The Shadow Secretary of State for Education is on the news now. Presenter asked “do you support students being refunded accommodation & tuition costs?”. Her answer - “well it’s complicated... let’s keep all options on the table.” What a fucking waste of space this woman is.

— Magic Money Tree 🌳 (@charlottor) September 28, 2020

BREAKING: Boris Johnson is to return 30% of the U.K. to the wild by 2030 https://t.co/rscXQbfp0t

— Helena Horton (@horton_official) September 27, 2020

Should be enough time for 30% of the population to starve to death

Thread by Monbiot on Boris's idea of "wild"

The photo used on the BBC's story about Boris Johnson's pledge to increase the area of the UK's "protected" land illustrates our bizarre notions of protection. Anywhere else on Earth, we would recognise this scene, in our temperate rainforest band, as an ecological disaster zone. pic.twitter.com/ogWfZtpDm9

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) September 28, 2020

George probably cool with the "cull 30% of the population" bit tbf tho

well it depends which 30% I suppose

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjAQTyPWoAEOge6?format=jpg&name=small

Chuka finally officially joins a PR giant after feigning being in politics for over a decade. lol getting turfed out of yr constituency and with nowhere else to go = "turning your back" in PR speak of course.

Ok no offence but what is that filter on him, I could have looked at that picture without text and never guessed it was him.

Is this satire?

So that’s 30 years then, but if Paul Dacre and Charles Moore take those jobs we’re unlikely to see another five, and nor is the BBC. pic.twitter.com/MY7Xo8sFZ2

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) September 28, 2020

if I was editor of PR magazine I'd have used that FMHoP pic where Chuka has the hair and eyebrows of Neil Warnock just for the lols

it makes him look like my old school pal Mark Nash (who is current doing life in Dublin prison for a string of murders in the 90's!).

if i was editor of PR magazine i would numb myself into a full time pharmaceutical stupor to avoid the horror of where my life had led me

non anti-racist

It’s an appalling picture of him to boot - one thing I never thought I’d say about toxic dreamboat Chuka Umunna.

quite instructive that Chuka thinks advising megacorps on their PR strategy is turning his back on politics

he's been hired by Edelman to do PR for ugly men - just by being himself he helps to perpetuate the myth that most handsome men are complete arseholes!

The government has just banned schools in England from teaching material from “anti capitalist groups”. What would you ban next? #Peston

— Peston (@itvpeston) September 28, 2020

We are all long past expecting the British media to take any of this seriously but this is still quietly spectacular.

Is that real????

Yes, the tweet has the little Peston face so you know it’s legit.

if it wasn't Pesto you might tempted to think its an ironic swipe at the tories post, but alas its Pesto

A light hearted look at how you'd like the fascist state to police our children

This was a good one

Robert, don't listen to the trolls saying things like "LOL I'd ban Peston". I'd like to see them try to make current affairs topical and interesting without cheering on the destruction of liberal norms which underly any functioning democracy!

— Jurgen K-Pop (@BadStairlift) September 28, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/28/covid-19-tests-that-give-results-in-minutes-to-be-rolled-out-across-world?

OK I'll believe this when I see it.

lol Jesus Christ

NEW

British Labour MP @RhonddaBryant (Chris Bryant) has nominated @JoeBiden for a Nobel Peace Prize.

He tells me: "When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument."

more ...

— Joe Murphy (@JoeMurphyLondon) September 28, 2020

he's not gonna fuck you

Is he clapping and shouting 'more' there?

Bryant goes on: "Because guns can stop a heart but well-placed words can change many hearts."

he's not a poet and he doesn't know it!

anyone who actually has any regard for the nobel genocide prize is actually gone in the head, i.e. most liberals/melts/centrists whatever the hell you want to call them.

Best friend’s dad nearly got the Nobel science prize in ‘85 for inventing medical ultrasound, will allow the science prize (he did win the Japan Prize for that achievement which is about as lucrative).

I heard on this radio program t'other day that often scientists don't want to win the Nobel Science prize because it precludes them from any chances of winning other prizes and can be a bit of a cooler on your career.

and also whatever notes the judges have made about their decision, even if they gave the science prize to Gaz Coombes there is zero accountability and you can't even read their notes for 75 years or something like that! I was only half listening but it was pretty strong condemnatory stuff for a BBC WS program.

True, but friend’s dad was 71 in ‘85 and pretty much retired after years of battling with the University of Minnesota over credits/patents and the like. The family still thinks some dickhead at the U had a quiet word. He won Japan in ‘91 and if you’re ever in DC, his early instruments are in the Smithsonian.

Gaz Coombes deserves all the Nobels thank you very much

give the nobel to gaz you cowards

they should retract Bama's nobel peace prize and give it to Gaz just for keeping politics out of the bloomin' pub!

No Supergrass saved their politic for the beerhall table

Oh lol I got that the wrong way round!

the beerhall pfft.

Gaz Coombes sings the songs of Billy Bragg could be a contender for the Nobel Lit Prize if shit lyrics is all it takes to win it.

Marie Curie won the nobel in two separate fields and Gaz is equally accomplished and technically in the running for at least three.

Gone around and around but got no place to go now