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

Dodds on break with McDonnell approach: "We're in a different set of circumstances now, very obviously. Labour has suffered from a number of general election defeats. We've got to face up to that... understand why people may not have trusted us or might have turned away from us"

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) November 23, 2020

It's a vote winner tho

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 38% (=)
LAB: 37% (-3)
LDM: 7% (+2)
SNP: 6% (+1)
GRN: 6% (+1)
BXP: 4% (=)

Via @YouGov, 17-18 Nov.
Changes w/ 11-12 Nov.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) November 23, 2020

to quote one of twitter pals: this season -1 is the new 20!

Why are Lib Dems moving back, Keith is giving Jezza a good kicking? Fucking libs man.

the slow Ed Davey bounce eh?

LibDem voters just need a bit of time to consider Ed's complex history and decide whether or not to vote Tory again!

Keirmit has shown that he is a mere puppet of the hard left, only sensible choice is to vote Lib Dem

just in time for the Oxvax eh

The PM appears to have a nasty cough.

— PARLY (@PARLYapp) November 23, 2020

please tell me this festival of superspreading at the end of December is some kind of joke?

Downing Street press conference: do we really believe that Johnson can't appear in a proper quality broadcast rather than the laptop-y one we're seeing?

I mean, someone could PPE-up, run in with a remote controlled camera and run out again.

Monty Don managed to film himself for Gardener's World in better quality than the fucking Prime Minister.

Just opened up the “winter plan” pdf and on the 1st page

January and February are traditionally the hardest months for the NHS, the depths of winter, when our hospital wards are under the greatest pressure. We cannot afford a third or even a fourth spike of the disease. And yet a new surge in the new year is exactly what will happen unless we fail to take adequate precautions.

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— Ilyas Nagdee (@ilyas_nagdee) November 23, 2020

Ian Dunt and all that shower to back this too.

Reeves made the case that a deal – even if inadequate – is only the start. It would be a platform for building on, and would show Labour is listening to voters. Told this received support from MPs including Hilary Benn, Liam Byrne, Harriet Harman, Sarah Owen, Yvette Cooper.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 23, 2020

lol nothing matters

this plan has received support from some of labour’s top-flight unprincipled idiots and cowards, we should definitely get behind it

You've got to give it to the Keithsy and Reevesy show ... they've managed quite well to suck at least as much shit as the Tories

13 NEC members say: "We have decided not to remain in the NEC meeting today in order to show very clearly how factional the decisions of the current Labour leader have become. We will be returning to future NEC meetings to be the legitimate voice of the membership"

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 24, 2020

mass NEC walkout earlier over the Beckett vote they couldn't win or something.. it's a war.

well a walkout figuratively speaking in the zoom era I should have said.

13 NEC members say

Siri, define "faction"

well a war might mean there would be some return fire by the other side, but this is just a shooting fish in a barrel purge for Kieth.

at least Beckett get's to make up for her biggest political mistake (that she literally cried over), which wasn't backing the Iraq invasion, no is was lending her nomination to Corbz in 2015!

Warning ...contains Yogic Flying.... From a 1994 Natural Law Party Party Political Broadcast pic.twitter.com/9G1dAsX6LB

— Alan Kinsella (@electionlit) November 24, 2020

just looking at ideas for a new party, fancy bouncing around on your arse whilst listening to some George Harrison with a bifta!

I see..

Impossible situation for Labour this. Any option - support, oppose, abstain - full of danger and ultimately makes no difference to the final outcome. https://t.co/913p0SsHmi

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 24, 2020

There's something perfect about deciding in advance whether you're going to support or abstain on a bill you haven't read yet.

"Impossible situation for Labour this" it's quite touching how much this former remainiac supports the Labour leadership these days.

would've been good to think about the danger of grafting the undemocratic, unpopular people's vote campaign on to the Labour Party before the last election

Starmer whipping MP's to vote for ANY deal to apparently win back 4050 grim white lives matter troglodytes in Burnley and Workington just sums up what an unprincipled dickhead he is, and if it is a shit deal that impoverishes millions in the north it won't win him anything. People's Vote always was just a bunch of soft Tories more concerned with destroying Corbynism than stopping brexit, some said it at the time and they've been proved correct.

There is definitely something in this though. It was part of 2017's Lab surge. Except what Starmer is doing is supporting any piece of paper on the table.

Labour did very well in the North of England in 2017, partly on the promise to respect the referendum result. It's a genuine failure of Corbyn's time that he didn't insist on this at his point of maximum authority. https://t.co/Ir0fYpYVEP

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) November 25, 2020

wasn't McD at fault there as well? I recall him as part of the pressure to appease the Remainer clique

that's the problem when you've got the most left-wing Labour leader since the 40's. One misstep and the whole project crumbles to pieces.

while all the usual tory cunts queue up to gleefully piss on the corpse

TBF to them both, 70 per cent of Lab members wanted Remain, including virtually all my friends who supported Corbyn.

and at least six of them have Ilx accounts!

By and large it's the 30 per cent spread over 2-3 dozen constituencies that delivered the 2019 majority. Which means remainers get nothing.

IKR? If cooler heads had prevailed we might be in EEA membership but technically out of the EU, with no upset to EU citizens long settled here and no loss of rights around travelling or working abroad.

imagine the vitriol if Corbyn was still leader and he said: I'll do a three line whip on any old turd of deal, who cares?

and that Kieth fed this straight to the fucking S*n. remember when he told a crowd of scousers he wouldn't deal with them and then the next he told a load a fabian society wankers he would. That should have been enough to put people off voting for this cunt, but here we are.

Austerity sequel looks lit lads

we are still in the first Austerity movie - it never ended, and it makes Bela Tarr look like a maker of short jaunty comedy shorts!

I trust them to up the stakes, we’ve had it too good for too long

Surprise announcement of £500 rishmas bonus will sweeten the pill

I think my shithole of a one-horse Town got a hundred mill in the Towns "thanks for voting tory" Fund. It still doesn't look like austerity ended, fuck knows where it went! Yeah of course they can use all this Rona splurging and furlough debt as an excuse to kill more disableds and keep poor ppl even poorer, run down the public sector even more. At least we used to have that fine social-political writer suzy moore calling them out on it every week in the Graun!

this cheered me up a little

In order to regain the confidence of the Jewish community it is vital that Keir Starmer urgently say "oy" and sigh dramatically.

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 25, 2020

He should definitely think about slipping some Yiddish words in here and there, a lot of them work well in a political context.

In order to regain the confidence of the Jewish community it is vital that Keir Starmer urgently weigh in on the Duolingo Yiddish dialect dispute.

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 25, 2020

lol !

Lol jewdas have been doing the Starmer tweets all day. I really hope the humourless thin-skinned knight of the realm is not reading them.

Another 10 years

Laura Kuenssberg talking absolute twaddle on #PoliticsLive. Repeating the "no money left" nonsense from 2020. Talking about "maxed-out national credit cards". @BBCPolitics this is an utter disgrace and totally irresponsible. Please educate your reporters in basic economics.

— (((Frances "Cassandra" Coppola))) (@Frances_Coppola) November 25, 2020

The interest rates are like free money ffs! Economically illiterate lies from the BBC shocker!

funny how economic illiteracy in the media always works in favour of entrenched power structures innit

Yeah, what if these tales are convenient..