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

Attitudes on the generosity of the welfare system have shifted dramatically over the last 7 years.

Are benefit payments...
Too high 17% (-20)
Too low 32% (+11)
About right 23% (-3)
Don't know 27% (+11)

Changes since April 2013https://t.co/z03BWUeWpl

— Chris Curtis (@chriscurtis94) October 26, 2020

Previous participants a decade ago might have blithely listened to the tommyrot from politicians about how UC was fair and incentivised work rather than welfare dependence. Now that millions of people have either had to sign on, who otherwise might have felt somewhat insulated from the world of benefits scum. Well now they really know firsthand or possibly from friends what a fucking shit show it really is.

obv by politicians I don't mean exclusively Tories, because the project to demonise the concept of the benefits system was a cross-party project that was ongoing for decades. Like with a lot of things, Blair attacked this right-wing project with much more gusto than the sputtering Major regime thought they could get away with, without getting an electoral kicking.

Apparently if you disagree that vouchers is the only way to solve poverty this is what happens. Some on the left always try to bully their way through politics & caricature the right as evil (or scum) for merely disagreeing. I’m afraid that sort of politics just doesn’t work pic.twitter.com/0wEjZtBdmP

— Gary Sambrook MP (@GarySambrook89) October 26, 2020

30 something yr old Tory MPs have been a real force on twitter lately, although I'd like to see some ID to confirm he's in that category.

Inevitable but still

pic.twitter.com/h0QKSDVTCU

— Andy (@bigandylock) October 26, 2020

Such odd graffiti.

We had a wall in town once with 'PC Morton Canny Run!' on it - stayed there for months

My car now stinks after picking up over 30 boxes of fish and chips. The things I do for the Tory Party!

— Gary Sambrook MP (@GarySambrook89) November 27, 2013

I can't help wondering if PC Morton had a bad case of the wirrums

100% the other 29 Tories just wanted to get him away from them for half an hour.

What kind of fish?
What?
What kind of fish?
I don't know... The kind you eat? A fish!
You don't know what kind?
No I don't.
Where'd you get it?
What the fuck? A fish place!

When your dinner is big https://t.co/f9z5YZLNOS

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 26, 2020

at times like this I love twitter

alexa, play The Poor Law

SUN EXC: Sir Keir Starmer under police investigation following car crash that hospitalised a cyclist on Sunday: https://t.co/jIDKKCtBdI

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) October 26, 2020

Starmer in his bid to be not 20 pts ahead of the worst Tories we've had since the early 20th century is doing a fucking stellar job.

pretty sure he injured them forensically

this will probably help him

especially if the cyclist had lazy school meal chomping parasites

might have been better if fatally injured some kid on an electric scooter, one to focus group next methinks.

Something something veering to the right

lol something Kieth come and join us

Sajid Javid
@sajidjavid
The Left really, really do detest ethnic-minority Tory Cabinet ministers.
9:19 PM · Oct 26, 2020

^ fixed it in post

finally

I also detest a few minor (Keith doesn't give them the big portfolios) Labour shadow cabinet members and one particular mayor who are all from ethnic minority backgrounds. So go fuck yourself with with that bullshit game, Jav.

#FoodPoverty: What They Say vs. What They Mean pic.twitter.com/ljco3DLGSo

— DocHackenslash 2: The Re-Hackening (@DocHackenbush) October 26, 2020

Antonio Carluccio could have taught any of us some valuable foraging lessons, but it was about enhancing your meals not a desperate scramble for protein because you live in a collapsed state where the demented bourgeois commentariat classes deploy vicarious 1940's nostalgia to justify child poverty as a policy.

Bananarama
Trending with Sir Keir Starmer

lol no idea if this is good

so Kieth's mowing down Corbynite cyclists now?

ok lol i read this last night while pished and forgot :D

Keith's chauffeur said something similar I think, the fucker started a bit early yesterday!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElU5GGtXgAAxPoc?format=jpg&name=large

Keith's fanclub has logged on

somebody else on Twitter made that point, the melts continually called Corbynism a cult but some of these cunts would take a bullet SUV for Starmzy

"Y'all"? Joanna plum logged on to give us a li'l country wisdom on SUVs in Central London.

Corbyn, often going about on his pushiron was absolutely loathed by the leader of the Green party to the point she attempted a GNU that excluded him and included Tories. Check out MC Starmzy larging it about in his SUV, mowing down cyclists like they are subhuman roadkill. Get out of my fucking way losers!

Any other Labour leader would have twenty points on his license already imo.

there’s already a truther movement for it pic.twitter.com/lUtxmt7pCk

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) October 27, 2020

Only interesting part of this story imo is that he apparently left the scene before police arrived, which you’re not supposed to do? Or does it matter for minor incidents, idk, I can’t drive

Neither can Kieth

Pleased to note that Baz S’s strong performance meant he was one of the 7 runner-ups to go through

WORLD CUP OF WORST LABOUR MPs - ROUND OF 32 - GROUP 4

TOP TWO QUALIFY

— World Cup of Stupid Centrist Hacks (@centristhacks) October 27, 2020

I'm Backing Barry

just like with Bazzas 50 year political career, he always manages to plod on under the radar because there is always some other Labour MP marginally worse than him catching all the heat.

He is like the platonic ideal of a wasteman MP who's somehow wriggled his way into the cushiest job his meagre abilities qualify him for

in some ways he's even more objectionable than the dearly departed Frank Field in the sense that Fieldy had some pretty strong convictions, mostly Tory right-wing convictions, but Bazza might often get into trouble for parroting bigoted tory talking points - but I get the sense he's barely even sentient + doesn't believe in anything other than Baz Sheerman - professional lobbyist for hire.

It's the one thing Gary Sambrook didn't want to happen pic.twitter.com/PlxtiPURPu

— Spooky 'Client Journalism' Expert (@ClientJournoExp) October 26, 2020

I would like to emphasise the fag paper between appetite shaming and body shaming in order to continue to rubberneck this pile on

Some of those piling on will be straight up body-shaming wankers but for some reason the phrase "big dinners" is intrinsically funny

Really looking forward to the reveal that Sambrook wrote the graffiti himself.

Calculated manoeuvres all within a week of a young black footballer taking the government to task for not doing what you may well call a socialism

The Right sending out a distraction chaff drop that "The Left are the real racists" is a trick right out of Goebbels' propaganda playbook #BigLie

Sadly our outrage just fuels their game

I wish Team Johnson put as much thought into saving lives as they do into telling lies 🙄 pic.twitter.com/CvWJj36sm3

— Jane ⭐🌱✌️🖤 (@localnotail) October 27, 2020

Those who serve...their families?

It was an honour and privilege to launch the new Veterans Railcard with @CaptainTomMoore 🎖️

Those who served their country - and their families - can now get discounted train fares 🚆 pic.twitter.com/AFUMsBgGAy

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) October 14, 2020

You should get an extra discount for every person you've killed

Re: Gary Sambrook - I personally found the humour in the intrinsic hilariousness of the phrase, and the fact he posted it to complain about it. Onimo otm re distinction

THREAD: The ten constituencies in England with the largest absolute number of school children on free school meals:
1. Birmingham, Ladywood (8943)
2. Birmingham, Hodge Hill (7492)
3. Bethnal Green and Bow (7014)
4. Poplar and Limehouse (6954)
5. Blackley and Broughton (6421)

— Joe Twyman (@JoeTwyman) October 27, 2020