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

every day he grows more pathetic and useless, he'll be literally wearing a nappy and sucking a striped lollipop by 2024

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkHfULSXkAAsfqG?format=jpg&name=medium

lol those halcyon days when Keith was a radical lefty

To be honest I sort of see the argument from a diplomatic point of view but the chances of Trump and Starmer both being in power at the same time are so vanishingly tiny it seems like an irrelevance. Even if Trump does win there'd need to be a General Election in the next four years, and I can see the Tories wanting to bitter-end this Parliament.

i would simply express my support for Ralph Wiggum

This morning's "opposition" is criticising govt for not consulting enough with local leaders before imposing restrictions.
Not criticising the measures or explicitly supporting the local leaders who are fighting against the restrictions. Just finding the narrow window of "things we can point out without taking any position."

Lol.

A story in three parts. pic.twitter.com/902fFnxrjB

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) October 12, 2020

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Interesting piece on black British politicians (and I agree with the piece’s conclusion that the first black PM is much more likely to be a Tory).

if i was a ballerina, i would simply forget about the agonising years of physical pain, intense discipline and constant competition i spent to work in my chosen profession and L E A R N T O C O D E

Yeah, S Bush was saying the same thing — think it's linked in that piece but: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/09/why-first-black-british-prime-minister-likely-be-conservative

Also Kieth has taken a position on something shocker. He is in favour of investigating Darren Crimes for stirring up racial hatred.

Isn't that just another non-story, in that the police are obliged to investigate if someone complains but definitley won't actually do anything?

yeah but it’s a great opportunity to look like you’re Doing Something, which is all that matters

Great to see Jeremy Corbyn, the nasty man of British politics and stain on Labour’s conscience, got destroyed so sensible Labour peers can call for concentration camps to be built on national radio and get zero pushback on it https://t.co/EUBLv4tuXX

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) October 11, 2020

he's come a long way from offering Gove a square go

looking how to become more cyber

— wint (@dril) September 27, 2015

Starmer squandering the political capital he carefully built up by not being recognised by the public

— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) October 12, 2020

CON: 41% (+1)
LAB: 37% (-1)
LDEM: 7% (-)
GRN: 4% (-)

via
@Survation
, 05 - 06 Oct
Chgs. w/ 16 Sep

fucking dismal

Starmer would be 20 points ahead by now

I can't wait until you start hearing reports from party activists of discontent on the doorsteps of former Labour strongholds: "I'm not voting for him - he's a f-ing Tory!"

Only one MP for Sunderland was invited to the call. She had to inform the government that there are actually three MPs for Sunderland, apparently to some surprise.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) October 12, 2020

I think after another 4 years of this govt an opposition leader who gets accused of supporting terrorists would be looked on more sympathetically than one who has been supporting the Tories, then opportunistically changing their mind every time the shit hits the fan

Huge Will from the Inbetweeners trying to buy a pint with a carvery dinner but with super spreaders https://t.co/asrasNxwm4

— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) October 12, 2020

I remember pubs in Scotland could open early if they sold food. This would result in 6 winos sitting around a slowly curling ham sandwich at 7am.

In Ireland, they initially only reopened pubs that served food

and you had to buy a "substantial meal" which turned out to mean it had to cost at least €9

also we have five ambiguous tiers

it's been an emotional pandemic even the alert system is in tiers

The new Survation poll has 27% of people responding that Starmer would be handling the pandemic better despite only 32% thinking Johnson’s handling it well.

His net favouribility(sic) has gone into the negative for the first time since becoming leader with ipsos mori.

Corbyn was so bad people are still booing after he's left the stage

lol, he’s apparently saying that if the Labour amendments to the covert intelligence bill fail, they still should not vote against it.

Of course.

I'm told only Neil Coyle so far has spoken in favour of the leadership's position on the CHIS bill, calling colleagues "perverse" for wanting to pit PLP against Labour members, which led Ian Byrne to say he was "disgusted" by the comment.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) October 12, 2020

Frustration among Labour MPs is growing over the leadership’s ‘abstention strategy’. One predicts 7pm PLP meeting over Zoom tonight will be "rowdy": https://t.co/Gy6orjr8Js

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) October 12, 2020

the unpleasants are revolting!

Seems odd to send out the scientists this morning to show scary charts of accelerating cases up and down the country then announce you're closing pubs in Liverpool.

I heard this Scouser on R4 saying he'd heard the hospital wards are practically empty rn and this is a conspiracy because they are a Labour city

i thought we all assumed that was the case

johnson has previous with liverpool and he really, really loves to govern by trolling the libs, cf the grouse hunting thing

all in very plain sight

Sat on front bench today as the PM made his announcement on Covid restrictions in the regions. In Parliament l wore my new @Bunnymen Ocean rain face mask which arrived today. A posh Tory MP said to me “that’s a quaint face mask Angela” 😂 The Bunnymen quaint? 😳😝😝😝😝 pic.twitter.com/DVIpo6i1BY

— 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 (@AngelaRayner) October 12, 2020

at least Labour members voted for the white frivolous and fun deputy leader in great numbers - rather than for the best option Dawn Butler, because that is just what is needed right now

Nothing more quaint than getting butthurt about aging alternative bands

lol I was glad the possibly youngish person who retweeted this on my twitter dismissed them as a "90's band"

imo this kind of stanning is one of the worst possible looks for anybody over 16

https://i.imgur.com/9qMtCC3.jpg

xps good to see her priorities right when Duffield was in the Times saying she’d probably be killed because of her, eh, views on trans rights

Every time I think about the Dawn Butler result I get angry over again

Screaming from beneath the second wave

(lol)

Spare us the corona

never pls stop