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

We've heard so much for decades, especially from the Conservatives about the dangers of "returning to the 1970s". Ironically it could be this moment which has most parallels- with equivalent levels of political peril for the government of the day.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 20, 2020

I vaguely remember the 70's, as grim as it was there might not have been as much cheap food but also there wasn't millions of people using foodbanks, people who needed to sign on didn't have to deal with UC and there was no Rona. It's *funny* thinking that your childhood years were much closer to WW2 than this here now era is to the 70's!

_Might be a good time to consider deferring the end of the transition period yet again…_


that boat sailed on june 23rd iirc. a massive blunder given the circumstances.

Bendy or?

To be clear: German citizens flying in from London have been able to proceed into Berlin. All others without a recent negative test, Brits and others, legal residents or not, in limbo, possibly forced to return to UK.

— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) December 20, 2020

3: We have just learned that there will be no agreement today. Therefore, the European Parliament will not be in a position to grant consent to an agreement this year.

— davidmcallister (@davidmcallister) December 20, 2020

lads, lads, no need to worry, Twitter user nx1987 has a plan to get us out of this

We need #ExtendEUTransition trending to send them a message

— HiS (@nx1977) December 20, 2020

Yes, the EU defer because of twitter trending, also they déposé Bill Bailey from his Strictly win because his partner has won it twice and that's not fair...

Bendy or?

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 December 2020 22:39 bookmarkflaglink

*very straight bananas*

Coming out of hibernation to speculate:

Have we ("we" - people with vested interests) used this new variant that isn't actually new to create chaos and ensure there's no chance of any last minute EU deal?

good to see you onimo. i think the whole shitshow reflects so badly on the government it’s probably hard to see how this has any desirable impact by anyone’s standards tbh. but other more suspicious people may differ!

can't run out of space at the ports if you just close the ports *taps brane*

Think tbh it has every hallmark of a toad of toad hall genius panic plan to justify the lockdown that was required weeks ago

The knock on effects having not occurred (or not being seen as important) would seem likewise characteristic

yes, my view as well. it has all the hallmarks of a badly run project at work. insufficiently thought through, an overplus of 'how hard can it be' and 'we've got to think positively' people, leading to a last minute chaos of underthought consequences, which pure messaging cannot contain.

Toad Hallmark, obv

https://i.imgur.com/HYNsv6M.png

phew! at least they aren't running out of any proper food!

Nicola Sturgeon going all in behind the UK panic seems odd.
I get that she was never fully on board with the five day kill yr granny for Christmas thing but our cases, prevalence, hospitalisation and death numbers were all going in the right direction without the new measures.
She seems to have latched onto New Variant as an excuse to really screw everything down further. Possibly a good move politically as UK gets more of the blame while keeping the numbers down.

fuck this guy

Pressed again on Brexit, Starmer says: "I don't want an extension, I want the deal."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) December 21, 2020

surely his focus groups have told him his public image is "whiney ineffectual wanker" by now?

Starmer really is calling the SNP separatists. Read the room mate. Seriously. https://t.co/nlf4e1pG35

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) December 21, 2020

And also fuck him for this, melts are so bad at politics! Is he really so deluded that he thinks that this insipid drivel with extra helpings of offensive condescension is going to cut it in Scotland?

my main conclusion is yes, this is his tribe and these are his beliefs, i don't think there's much cynical calculation and certainly no smart electoral branding. maybe he knows more about croissant-munching propensities of red wall voters, fucked if i know.

I'm not taking this shit anymore! sorry but...FUCK STARMER!!

lots of platitudinous drivel about devolution and shifting the balance of power and then this.. yeah if I lived in Scotland I'd vote SNP (with a nose peg on) as well.

do all those EU flag lamers who tagged onto this piece of shit when he was Mr People's Vote not want to kill him now he is advocating for either bad-deal/no-deal during the public health crisis since the plague days?

worst

it seems that a lot of peoples passionate remain positions evaporated around the same time as starmer's

Focus groups obv. telling Starmer that people in Scotland are not exactly thrilled about having another referendum, however trying to outflank the Tories and make a bid for the Loyalist bigot vote in Scotland is not the best way to try to capitalize on ballot weariness.

Today I wrote to the PM demanding that Britain leave the EU at midnight on January 1st — no ifs, no buts. I have also written to Father Christmas saying that I have been a very good and constructive boy this year and can I please have 20 points and also a choo choo train

just when u think u WTF enuf:

Apologies if you've already seen this pic.twitter.com/TsRoQbLpvY

— Ben Jones (@ben_patio) December 21, 2020

it seems that a lot of peoples passionate remain positions evaporated around the same time as starmer's

"Immediately as soon as the French said, perhaps slightly surprisingly, that they would stop hauliers rather than just passengers, we were in touch with a group known as the Kent Resilience Forum,” Shapps told Sky News on Monday morning

Kent Resilience Forum got this one

fantasy GNU time again is it, me now they've got a Murdoch hack as equalities minister everything is going to be aaallllright.

just when u think u WTF enuf:
🐦[Apologies if you’ve already seen this pic.twitter.com/TsRoQbLpvY🕸
— Ben Jones (@ben_patio) December 21, 2020🕸]🐦

jesus christ just ban journalism sorry ilx journos it's the only way

Suzanne Moore as Equalities Minister obv

Starmer: “The Labour Party was first led by Keir Hardie - a Scot - who ended up representing a Welsh constituency. And such was the influence of that boy from Lanarkshire, that many years later a family in Oxted, East Surrey, decided to call their son Keir too."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) December 21, 2020

Interestingly @c_drosten, one of Germany’s top virologists, is cautiously relaxed about the coronavirus variant and sceptical about claims of 70% increased transmissability. Suggests local factors in UK may explain that. https://t.co/NVujqD6y3l

— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) December 21, 2020

i can't read german! if anyone has the gist

Englander schwein, for you the trade deal is over.

Do not be alarmed! We have all your cabbages.

xps thread here has you covered

A little public service: the main arguments from Germany’s chief virologist @c_drosten, on the new UK #mutation – from this interview in @dlf this morning. https://t.co/0cBt48OTx6

— Christian Odendahl (@COdendahl) December 21, 2020

(there's always a babelfish level translation built into twitter if you click through to the tweet itself)

"you lot are at it" - @c_drosten

Reality pic.twitter.com/drjWFxVLef

— Vinnie Jones (@VinnieJones65) December 21, 2020

I was a bit sceptical about the New Variant doubters this morning, but not any more.

Why is Vinnie posting pics of a mud orgy

wimbledon vs newcastle, 1993 (not colourised)

why did kieth even make that speech about scotland today

Just so he could drop that cool story about the origins of his name and what a reveal it was