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

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.

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— 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

Fucking hell

@ everything

And we still haven’t really seen the impact of the plague trains & Christmas mixing, right

guessing that the numbers are only going to be moving in one direction for the next week or so

Fucking hell

That's just the London boroughs affected. You can add on most of Essex to that along with bits of Kent, Sussex, Herts etc.

TH but not hackney, southwark but not lambeth. whatever.

It is how it is, they will go up before they fall. Infection rate in our ward has halved but the deaths always have a lag on the cases. Don’t know what else to say.

981 new deaths recorded, fuck

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

One more day and we could break three digits. Magic.

its so nonsensical though. there are definitely boroughs that have a lot of crossing back and forth. i feel like inner london has v twinned boroughs almost. th and hackney, lambeth and southwark. camden and islington. etc

like its so numbers-ey. these areas are just adminstrative and maybe not the most useful way of thinking about concentrations of infection or potential vectors

The Ayesha person is dreadful.

JC has, as usual, magnificently shown all his critics to be corrupt criminals and pathetic pipsqueaks.

Tom Kibasi isn't mostly as bad as that one tweet would suggest. I don't get his enthusiastic support for KS, but on Brexit I think his judgment has often been quite fact-based and sensible, and his politics are way to the left of most KS supporters.

Like on gambling forums when people boast about their winning sports bets and people might call them an "after timer" if they don't ever post about them before the result. Kibasi going on No-Deal Hoax all week after it is completely certain No-Deal is not happening makes him a bit of an "after-timing" wanker!

Checking out the local school closures and openings, certainly looks very #scientific! pic.twitter.com/O08nkHlWbq

— Simon (@simonk_133) December 30, 2020

But Kibasi has been saying this about no-deal hoaxes for years.

I didn't know that, but I do tend to ignore him!

Kibasi is a strange one but tbftfdoippr he was saying no deal was a hoax at least 2 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/no-deal-brexit-eu

Kibasi: a sober Paul Mason?

he must have been on the spice as well if he thinks Starmer is useful!

It's hard to disagree with that.