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

electricity, not energy xp

Someone asked me to sign a petition to get JC restored to the Labour whip.

Is this a good thing?

My instinct is that JC is better off without these wankers and KS should deal with the problems of his own making.

🐦[I’ve read the full 46 page report from the National Audit Office on PPE procurement and it’s a doozy.

This government has awarded over 1300 PPE contracts without any competition, for a total of £10 billion.

This is corruption to the core. pic.twitter.com/8A9gqXArIX🕸
— Dr Meenal Viz (@meenalsworld) November 18, 2020🕸]🐦

i love how the NAO are just like 'we have literally done the work for you'

helen lewis is just fucking awful. i realise this doesn’t contribute much bu

i love how the NAO are just like 'we have literally done the work for you'

it makes me really wish in understood how newsrooms editorial boards etc worked. like how has consent manufactured itself so homogenously that the obvious main story is just flapping about in the wind, unloved?

All journalists get pavlovian boners on hearing the words "Jermy Crobyn"

All this the week the Labour Islamophobia report has also been published eh.

The problem with the "let's move this away from Corbyn" stance is what makes you think they'll stop at Corbyn? "Let's move this away from Labour" might be a more sustainable position.

That’s correct. This has never been about Corbyn or his mistakes. Thirteen socialist MPs (or twelve and Rayner) are currently under investigation following complaints from the CST. We can expect these tactics to be used indefinitely, as they are now, to target the rest of the SCG, socialists on the NEC, prospective councillors and MPs, etc, etc,

Jenrick is currently highlighting that four of Starmer’s current shadow communities team alone have had complaints raised against them by the Campaign Against Antisemitism - and why not? Why would he stop?

The defence of the realm is the first duty of government.

We are investing an extra £16.5 billion in defence to end the era of retreat, strengthen our Armed Forces, and extend British influence as a force for good in the world 🇬🇧 https://t.co/SWRzM8Pdhu pic.twitter.com/j9EARz2DV9

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 19, 2020

the magic money tree is blooming

not sure what the "era of retreat" is, don't remember us being in any wars where we weren't the aggressor lately

next time China dismissively treats the UK like an insignificant little gadfly they can threaten to invade them lol!

jeez ...imagine the widespread media indignation if Corbyn had been systematically purging all his factional rivals.

Era of retreat? They surely can't mean all the swingeing cuts on the Armed Forces carried out by Tory governments most of the current cabinet served in.

maybe they should be thinking about some PIP reforms so some of these soldiers that come back with PTSD (no doubt from the trauma of retreating!) and get ejected onto the streets by an austerity welfare state get some help maybe? Without getting all Help Our Heroes about it, going into the army seems to be a good way of ultimately getting into the homeless street begging sector.

The soft left.

Politicised Labour process let Corbyn back in, says Anneliese Dodds https://t.co/k2z5K9AdAe

— Guardian politics (@GdnPolitics) November 19, 2020

what an absolute Dudd, it will also be part of a politicised Labour when Kieth gets rid of her because she's so crap!

process

I mean fancy that, even the leaders DID selections were part of a politicised process.

Brexit catching Covid is exactly what today needed

There's nothing the PLP could do to more effectively torpedo faith in the independence of a new review board than advertising the conclusions it will be required to make in advance.

Back to Jeff and the boys in the Political Football studio for updates on the Starmer-Corbyn derby, where it sounds like Margaret Hodge has taken the game by the scruff of the neck... pic.twitter.com/IQs60ArmD8

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) November 18, 2020

beat me to it

cheap lousy maggot

"Why have a minister for women, but not for men?"

Speaking in the International Men's Day debate, Conservative Ben Bradley says "can we ensure equality means just that, rather than positive discrimination at the expense of certain groups"

Watch: https://t.co/fci0RxYjAp pic.twitter.com/79MkEWm9wi

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 19, 2020

why don't we ever have a white history week asks Ben Bradley

the right honourable member for Mansfailed

Why isn't there a member from Womansfield

She-ffield has several members!

just heard Kieth boldly praising the government's "reboot the Empire" initiative then trying to criticize him in that stupid voice for not describing our new space navy forensically enough

oh and Crombone's lawyers are challenging his suspension

Lollolol

Holy shit, he's doing it https://t.co/sSHoVceOVD

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 19, 2020

I heard Nandy earlier complaining that Boris needs to cut the armed forces budget to build more drones rather than the cutting the foreign aid budget. Of course we need continue giving aid to poor countries and project more soft power before we start bombing them or supplying the weapons to bomb them to other rogue regimes. Labour are a fucking mess.

omg I've never felt so much goodwill towards lawyers as I do towards Jez's rn. Take 'em to the fucking cleaners lads.

tbh getting your lawyers to ask for clarification on a procedural point is a long way from taking them to court but good luck to him.

A misleading and unhelpful intervention from @AnnelieseDodds. ⁰⁰The panel was chosen by Party officials who report to the General Secretary and the panel was staffed primarily by supporters of Starmer. If it was politicised it could only have been done by Starmer or his allies https://t.co/UJF3KL7Vev

— Momentum 🌹 (@PeoplesMomentum) November 19, 2020

Momentum tell Dudds to reel her neck in and stop misrepresenting a situation she seems to know nothing about.

Corbyn’s suspension is apparently for three months, per Sienna Rodgers. Seems bizarre to indicate that he should have been expelled permanently from the party if that’s the case.

I’d guess some are hoping the other investigation into the former shadow cabinet gets heard under the new board and expels him then but there is a strong ‘making it up as they go along’ vibe.

They're obviously writing off Islington North for the foreseeable future because as long as Corbyn's still standing they haven't a hope in hell of winning it. Scotland's gone, the North and Midlands is gone, let's lose London next. Great stuff.

I'm really looking forward to finally being one of these aprocyphal "voices on the doorstep" that tell campaigners: I can't possibly vote for Labour with Joromy Crumblyn that tory cunt who has follow-throughs in his troosers leading them.

Well well look at what we have here

This latest YouGov poll reported in @NationCymru has independence on 33%. The fourth poll in a row to show support for #IndyWales on 32-33%. Support is solidifying. Here's the historical trend in a graph (which anyone's welcome to pinch).https://t.co/ApEEABacxu pic.twitter.com/kGVIXCmlKC

— Math 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wiliam (@MathGW) November 19, 2020

Lab to lose Wales next!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnQFTo6XIAAf4IK?format=jpg&name=large

dexy's then the pogues. good couple of days for 80's music biz veterans twitter accounts... less said about boab the better!

a pro-Corbyn "gang of three" Labour councillors have quit in Hudds which has torpedoed their wafer thin majority! I didn't realise there actually were councillors with a backbone .. amazing!

That guy Lee is the former head of editorial at Faber responsible for all the music books. A writer on his list invited me to a launch party for their new book and I watched Lee spend the entire night not speaking to any of the female critics and editors there. Just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating a vibe, I checked with my friend J, who grew up with Dave Peace (also published by Lee at the time). J is a fashion gay and he actually stopped going to Dave’s launches because Lee was such a laddish twat he couldn’t unsee the effortless sexism (and had to wonder if dude was quietly homophobic too).

People who vehemently despise Corbyn rather than just indifferent or not particularly a fan usually are wrong 'uns.

https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/an-open-letter-to-morrissey/

just listened to what KS had to say about his Orange Juice pick on DID. nothing. reminds him of university and he still plays it from time to time.

boss level crashing bore alert!

Just a typical DID guest, some middle aged bore who has never had the slightest interest in music beyond a few years in his late teens/early 20s when he had to fit in with the crowd at uni before settling down to his boring life.

To give him the tiniest sliver of credit, he’s a classically trained ex-Guildhall student and Norman Cook said he was schmindie at school. But his answers were super-boring and there was no follow-up by Lauren.