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

Lol omg

something for everybody, brilliant

Fucking hell! Green party policy on trans rights is pretty clear btw: https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/rr.html

Fills you with confidence in this watertight deal.

Netscape Communicator is mentioned in Brexit document ... Almost feels like it is 40 years old ...1K RSA and SHA-1 ... one day we will build a digital world fit for the 21st Century ... pic.twitter.com/1cg6uX3clw

— Prof B Buchanan OBE (@billatnapier) December 26, 2020

lol NickB

I think Kieth might be on a mission to see if he can be even more widely despised amongst teachers than Gove was, he's succeeding with flying colours if that's what he's going for.

to the students who follow me on here: i would strongly advise rethinking plans to come back to student halls or shared houses if u have other, safe options. the uni will keep sending you upbeat emails & making unkeepable promises about testing & safety & the student experience

— Sita Balani (@sitainshort) December 29, 2020

Incredible to think that even worse is yet to come

This is so bleak, supposedly Sage are doing an announcement tomorrow at ten, hopefully is about the schools.

Pic of ambulances stacked up outside @RoyalLondonHosp pic.twitter.com/unZUhixOuk

— Shaun Lintern (@ShaunLintern) December 29, 2020

anybody want to read a load of FBPEeps falling out of love with Kieth on Twitter?

no, nor me

#Coronavirus cases in last 24 hours:
🇬🇧 UK - 53,135
*more than all the below combined*

🇫🇷 FRANCE - 8,816
🇩🇪 GERMANY - 10,976
🇮🇹 ITALY - 8,937
🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS - 9,108
🇵🇱 POLAND - 3,211
🇵🇹 PORTUGAL - 1,577
🇮🇪 IRELAND - 735

— Michael Cowan (@mrmikecowan) December 29, 2020

anybody want to read a load of FBPEeps falling out of love with Kieth on Twitter?

no, nor me

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Will they self-combust when Corbyn abstains or votes against?

I do, actually. Is it Lineker? O'Brien? Grayling?

I don't know the details of any deal, have given up on this stuff by now, but for the sake of it, in the circumstances, I hope that JC votes against Brexit.

(1) Just a reminder that the "People's Vote" campaign had a strategy called "Last Man Standing" of pushing MPs to vote against any 'softer' Brexit deal, because they claimed stopping any compromise would, by "remorseless logic" force a second referendum and the end of Brexit. pic.twitter.com/jcjLJk4h6p

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) December 30, 2020

On a different note, I am just in despair looking at this stuff:

Wetherspoons literally filling their windows with anti-lockdown propaganda. Repugnant. pic.twitter.com/R69VZKs4yv

— Elainovision, Tiered and Tired (@scattermoon) December 29, 2020

And, as ever, illuminating to see how long you can have the whip if you’re from the party’s right

at what point is something going to be done about this? pic.twitter.com/biUn0unjMz

— bread and poses (@breadandposes) December 29, 2020

jfc the replies on that one are grim

this one was good:

Let's quit with the pretence that your concern here is about female sexuality or upholding the rights of lesbians, Jackie. https://t.co/OCZnEB6n9H pic.twitter.com/PPdw5c2OyV

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) December 29, 2020

If this is their plan it is almost the worst possible way to go about it

In contrast to Starmer's reported comments in the @guardian interview, Labour clearly do have ambitions to improve the Brexit deal. They're laying 9 amendments today on issues including SIS II, economic impact, employment and environmental standards and Erasmus.

Thread 👇👇 /1

— Mike Buckley (@mdbuckley) December 30, 2020

oh ffs have you got be on that irritating melty twat Izzard's side now? Fuck the bigots but I voted twice to keep her off the Labour NEC cos her politics suck and she's a irritating dickhead.

If this is their plan it is almost the worst possible way to go about it

It's not a plan, it will have the same impact on the deal as waving it through. He's just playing a different tune for a different audience.

Yes that’s more like it; it’s like his leadership campaign again

I disagree when people say he's *absolutely* unprincipled, he's a committed unionist whilst despising the unions and his conservative values have been a constant throughout his time as head of DPP, and he loves cops and armed forces - but yeah all else is up for grabs.

i think i've finally lost my mind. every time i hear a senior minister talking to the press it's just this stream of infantile fantasy adspeak, but then when i listen to the news on the BBC nobody's challenging a word of it, in fact they're amplifying it in their own version of baby talk.

i assume this is a delusion, there's no way a nation state can actually function like this.

Who knows, it might not at some point.

I cannot vote for this deal, which this Government will use to drive down rights and protections, and step up the sell-off of our vital public services.

We need instead to break with failed race-to-the-bottom policies and build a Britain that puts people before private profit.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 30, 2020

huh? I thought he was a closet hard-brexiter - my pathetic brane has just imploded!

Haha amazing.

<3 you Jez

Passed with no amendments

Recording this shit here for posterity:

That was the second reading vote. But the bill has to pass its committee of the whole house stage and third reading before it can go to the Lords.

However, according to the business motion agreed this morning, there is no time left for further scrutiny. The deputy speaker, Eleanor Laing, took the chair for the committee of the whole house stage. There was no debate, but there was some laughter when she declared the committee had gone through the bill.

MPs are now voting on the third reading. There was no third reading debate, and the result of this vote should be identical, or almost identical, to the result of the second reading one. (See 2.43pm.)

lol we’re all gonna die

Third, the general implementation powers contained in cl 31 allow ministers to make any law that is required to implement the agreement by regulations - and that this power can be used to do anything an Act of Parliament can do (including amend the bill/Act itself).

— Jeff King (@jeff_a_king) December 30, 2020

deeply worrying twitter thread

In total, 37 Labour MPs are believed to have rebelled – almost one in five of the total – with three voting against the legislation, although the numbers are still being checked.

it's weird, i swear when Corbyn's front-benchers resigned the BBC was all over it, again i must have dreamed it

Left twitter shit poster Vs Guardian columnists screaming 'fiction'

Amazing really isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/c5unJ6u60y

— Peter (@pickyouredge) December 30, 2020

No-Deal was always a hoax, says Tom in the Graun after deal is voted through parliament

this guy

You’ve wanted Brexit al your political life. You knew it was based on lies & false promises but rather than call them out you undermined those of us who did, because you wanted to hijack a right wing Brexit & turn it into a left wing one. You own this with Johnson & Farage. https://t.co/M9kthTsgZs

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) December 30, 2020

Eddie Marsan is Unwell

Looking forward to checking out Francis Barber, Weetman, Rachel Riley and some other comedians reactions later when they've had enough wine.

RR is just a grifter, she won't care

Eddie was already a very uncomplicated lad and now his brane has melted

there's a lot of jobs where posting pished bullshit under your own name to a largeish Twitter audience would at least get you a disciplinary

*four years of losing your shit* It is what it is.

Well that’s that then. Triumph? Disaster? My view was that it’s like changing your broadband provider. A load of hassle, admin, paperwork & faff. And after all that, not that much will actually change. And your neighbours still have better speed. But it is what it is. Onwards.

— Ayesha Hazarika (@ayeshahazarika) December 30, 2020

nothing says "strong principles" like working for Times Radio

Stronger restrictions from midnight:

"Millions of people across England will be placed under the tightest restrictions from Thursday as the government aims to halt the rapid spread of coronavirus.

The Department for Health announced on Wednesday that large parts of the country would be moved into the highest tier of restrictions, which means non-essential shops, pubs and restaurants must close, as well as gyms and leisure centres."

No areas in Tier 2 now.

thank fuck there will be no large obvious vectors for the disease opening next week

981 new deaths recorded, fuck

Confirmed that primary schools are opening again

Except in these places (because this is how we release this information now)

Primary opening delayed in:
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Hammersmith and Fulham
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Kensington and Chelsea
Merton
Newham
Richmond-Upon-Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster

— Chris Smyth (@Smyth_Chris) December 30, 2020