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

definitely both parody accounts

Can't believe Sarah Oxford Law Degree is a parody account.

well yes obviously I meant the other one!

It's Friday Who's up for some follow back Friday! #FollowFriday
Let’s get some follow back action Like, retweet and follow!

FBPE = Follow Back Pro EU #FBPE

Pop it in your bio, follow and follow back retweet like FBPE people, grow the movement
Christmas ⭐🌲#foreverEuropean pic.twitter.com/DthkZUYZRi

— 🇪🇺Charlotte I am a Remainer #RejointheEU #fBPE (@Charlyf_81) December 18, 2020

like for example, is this a parody account? I can't tell the difference

I often think stuff the Remainiacs podcast and the Dunty's How To Be A Liberal book are really part of a world building effort by a bad parody account

GOD IF ONLY

i'm gonna start a podcast called Guilloteenies, it will not be a parody

just killing some time class enemies

never too young to learn class consciousness

itt: everyone turning into tom d

this is what happens when you spend too much time staring into the burning white light of the discourse, it burns permanent blind spots onto your retina.

kinda funny that a suspicious use of The Toons tipped me off more than the blame Corbyn for everything vibes

I'm just laughing to myself thinking of a fake geordie with a rosette and a rattler shouting "blooming well play up The Toons!"

Why yes man

Hon the Penguins!

It does do my head in to see otherwise intelligent people recommend the Remainiacs podcast. My fave was when they used a Reagan campaign slogan for a FBPE march.

astronaut staring at Earth labelled REMAIN: so it's just about crushing the poor?
astronaut behind him pointing gun at his head: always was

i mean ive never listened to a single second of the remainiacs pod bcz why wd i but its producer is the editor of Q during its least imaginitive period lol

(someone i am of course two degrees of separation from and once met and he seems nice enough in person and friends tell me he absolutely is, and also anything but posh -- but that period of Q was bad bcz if anything it was even LESS alert to cultural politics than its of its earlier phases ffs)

yes this is the lens i see everything thru, when life gives you degringos make degringolade

is that he said when he declared Toploader album of the century!

My @guardian story: Marcus Rashford to discuss the future of the £20 a week Covid rise in universal credit with work and pensions secretary Theresa Coffey, as he turns his poverty-fighting focus onto the social security safety net. https://t.co/ay6pyn6DfK

— Patrick Butler (@patrickjbutler) December 24, 2020

god bless that man

maybe slow down Marcus, you're making the Labour Party look bad

Why is "Marcus to hatch a plan to kidnap and guillotine Coffey on Xmas day" not a thing I'm reading XP yeah he's great.

Maybe Starmer asked for a phonecall too but Coffey just didn't know who he was.

Starmer phoned up Coffey and heard her phone ringing a few feet away in the Carlton Club

Lol at this misspelling of "deal":

Dead is done. Everything that the British public was promised during the 2016 referendum and in the general election last year is delivered by this deal.

We have taken back control of our money, borders, laws, trade and our fishing waters
The deal is fantastic news for families and businesses in every part of the UK. We have signed the first free trade agreement based on zero tariffs and zero quotas that has ever been achieved with the EU
The deal is the biggest bilateral trade deal signed by either side, covering trade worth £668bn in 2019
The deal also guarantees that we are no longer in the lunar pull of the EU, we are not bound by EU rules, there is no role for the European Court of Justice and all of our key red lines about returning sovereignty have been achieved. It means that we will have full political and economic independence on 1st January 2021
A points-based immigration system will put us in full control of who enters the UK and free movement will end
We have delivered this great deal for the entire United Kingdom in record time, and under extremely challenging conditions, which protects the integrity of our internal market and Northern Ireland’s place within it
We have got Brexit done and we can now take full advantage of the fantastic opportunities available to us as an independent trading nation, striking trade deals with other partners around the world

both the EU and Boris have needed all day to find a way to turn this into a victory for their own side

remember though, this only affects the working class. children of the rich will still be able to experience the benefits of erasmus-like trips, whilst working class kids are pushed further into disillusionment https://t.co/FZWOi5pmBN

— chris.🧃🏄‍♂️ (@chrisstaley_) December 24, 2020

Breaking: Ursula von der Leyen says there will be an overall review after four years to ensure the level playing field is being abided by...

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) December 24, 2020

Oh good, “no non-tariff barriers” lies the PM

Interesting graphic from the European Comission: pic.twitter.com/LQTBNGLmJH

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) December 24, 2020

Financial services passporting being excluded looks huge.

lol that's massive

so now that one thing is place, how many more trading deals does boris need to negotiate?

seeing as it's only like three quarters of the whole UK economy, maybe one of the Keunssberg/Pesto cru could have asked a FS question!

Q. Do you accept that you’ve compromised in the last 11 months/days from your earlier absolutist positions?

Can you address services - 80% of the UK economy - will they be able to do more or less trade?

Johnson says they compromised on fishing in terms of the transition period.

He says there isn’t as much in the deal about financial services as they would have liked.

dublin/paris/frankfurt must be rubbing their hands at that.

LOL UK

Financial services passporting being excluded looks huge.

tho i suspect barcode is right that over time a european centre will emerge.

globally getting its business-ass kicked Britain

I know the focus has been on fisheries, due to (probably) some past EU deal that fucked off a lot of the UK industry. Meaning that a lot of the narrative focused on that but leaves out all sorts of goods and industries that will inevitably be fucked over by this deal.

UK leaving Erasmus, RIP

Whatever you think of the prime minister, and few are indifferent, today is a moment of triumph for Boris Johnson.

When he became prime minister, he had no majority, no mandate to call his own, an angry country and an angry Parliament.

My analysis: https://t.co/E3gI1trV7c

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) December 24, 2020

When you're the political editor of The Sun and you have to go out every day and bat for the man who took your girlfriend pic.twitter.com/COxX0KqfF1

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) December 24, 2020

lol I was just thinking about this when Harry Cole asked some pathetic question like how are we supposed to celebrate this fantastic deal when we are all in tier 4. Lol well we know how Boris likes to celebrate!

Starmer is doing a press conf now and is saying the deal is bad but he'll be voting for it on Wednesday

BREAKING: Keir Starmer says Labour will vote for the deal.

— Balance of Power (@BalancePowerUK) December 24, 2020

I should be happy that the worst has been averted if only because it directly affects me as well, but it all feels quite hollow.

Starmer is doing a press conf now and is saying the deal is bad but he'll be voting for it

starmerism in it's purist form.

disappointed he didn't go for a half arsed abstention tbh