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

Christmas Day only = lol fuck you if your family aren’t within walking distance and you don’t have a car, basically

This is kafkaesque

Intimate footage of Keir Starmer warming up to hold the government to account! pic.twitter.com/cxybIPwq17

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 19, 2020

Communal worship may continue.

Pathetic

You're just being trolled by BoJo at this point lads

well boris johnson just said “we have to face up to reality” and i for one believe it’s time the public finally listened to him

can’t wait for boris’ approval rating to briefly dip two points over this latest fuckup

if they always gave absolute credulity to any public health announcements he and the govt made in the last year you'd also be taking on ideas like herd immunity without a vaccine, the patriotic duty to go to pubs/prets, the selfishness of work from homers all sorts of crazy bullshit. Not that I completely disagree with him this time (but I've accepted I'm living a monastic existence to the death now!), but it won't be surprising if many people don't feel inclined to listen to him. He should never have been dangling this idea of a mangled Christmas for months now, good leadership or opposition isn't about doing or saying what makes you popular during the worst public health crisis since the 20's. But unfortunately we have neither.

"Surrey excluding Waverly; Hastings and Rother; Havant, Gosport and Portsmouth"

sub-editor (mE) angry at the work being done here by semi-colons until fact-checker (also me) beladedly points out that hastings is in east sussex not surrey

can’t wait for boris’ approval rating to briefly dip two points over this latest fuckup

Yes indeed.

He is fucking around specifically with Tory heartlands this time..

It’s what you asked for? You also abstained at the point you had the chance to re-shape the rules ! https://t.co/B72h0eGCiw

— Gary Neville (@GNev2) December 19, 2020

thank u based gary

that's why Labour can't take any gains from this, no-one wants to hear "I told you so" from this abstaining wanker. Lol @ Gaz "busy cunt" Neville getting the measure of Kieth!

mind you, declaring yourself more competent than the PM without ever showing a trace of "clear, decisive leadership" is a real winner tbf

Lol Gaz otm, everybody already knows what Kieth is, he might as well retire to his office with his service revolver now

Last train out of Saigon. Queue at St Pancras as we wait to board the Leeds bound train. pic.twitter.com/cFDBDNnYFC

— Harriet Clugston (@HarrietClugston) December 19, 2020

that really couldn't have been predicted and wouldn't have happened under Sir Kieth Abstarmer's watch

The Spectator describes me as “the permanently outraged MP”.

Highest excess death toll in Europe.
Deepest recession in G7.
Unicef forced to feed our kids.
Billions to Tory mates in dodgy contracts.
Climate catastrophe looming.

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 19, 2020

my first response was that it was a bit rich the spectator calling somebody else permanently outraged

more like the only decent MP

well there are about 3 more tbf!

but real grownup headz tell you Stella Creasy is a cracking constituency MP

she did come to my neighbourhood's street party tbf

sorry to hear about that

Oh fuck

— Anneka Rice (@AnnekaRice) December 19, 2020

what's the sympathy rating for Anneka's ruined Christmas?

she'll be reet, the pigs can't stop you travelling or having parties when you are a millionaire with a chopper

Labour's position on schools, which they sacked RLB to change, was pure populism. Shameless.

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) December 19, 2020

this is mostly why Starmer is so easy to dismiss by the Conservative Party and whole swathes of the electorate and why the polling will be mostly tidally locked until the smear campaign at the time of the next election, when he offers some crumbs and the Tories will be 10 pts ahead. He's depressingly predictable and an absolutely dud. The Graun/Observer will keep putting out their desperate fanfic in vain, but he's got his nakedly cynical electoral math badly wrong. He's come up with a losing formulae and he'll stick to to until the death.

You'll think I'm dead/but I'll sail away/on a wave of devolution/a wave of devolution/a wave of devolution/way-ha-hay-ha-hayve/way-ha-hay-ha-hayve https://t.co/wuTNrVZEsa

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 20, 2020

oh lord he's trying the classic staples (Enya, The Pixies, The dud labours) offering a wave of devolution and “a positive alternative to the Scottish people”. Wow I bet Sturgeon is really shitting it!

Starmer will say that he is offering “a positive alternative to the Scottish people” while at the same time seeking “to preserve and renew the United Kingdom”.

Does. Not. Compute.

Jays twould make you wonder what he might promise us to rejoin

A wave of De Valera.

Nice

John Humphrys, in his final pants-pissing days as the main Today presenter had many senior moments like calling Chris Patten "the former governor of China" and then once suggesting the best solution to the NI border issue would be the Republic of Irelend re-joining the United Kingdom or as he put it "throw in their lot with this country".

Irentry?

Eirentry?

ROI-t EU lot, lets be avin you?

To be fair to der starmer there is literally nothing to be done for labour in Scotland wrt the constitutional question. too yoon for the nats, not yoon enough for the brit nats, and seemingly the majority resides in those two camps

I think there is a similar transposition of electoral doom for him in England as well but I just call him a cunt

but at least he's got one MP in Scotland, the one looks like pickled egg and who almost jumped ship to CuK and is widely despised everywhere apart from seemingly within the vile labour party membership. At least that is something positive to build on!

John Humphrys, in his final pants-pissing days as the main Today presenter had many senior moments like calling Chris Patten "the former governor of China" and then once suggesting the best solution to the NI border issue would be the Republic of Irelend re-joining the United Kingdom or as he put it "throw in their lot with this country".

― calzino, Sunday, 20 December 2020 02:00 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc this got days of coverage on irish social media as people's jaws just collective dropped. i think it was the moment ireland realised how bad things had gotten re brexit and all that shite.

Nandy thinks schools can be turned into mass testing centres and reopen safely in a couple of weeks, just like that, and the National Education Union's Kevin Courtney begs to differ and says they should be closed until the 18th ... hmm I wonder which one is talking out of their arsehole?

my son's secondary has said the he's 'working from home' the first week back to give the school time to prepare and train staff to administer tests to 1500+ students and staff the following week. the irritation and contempt in the email to parents about this was palpable. i have to say i find it amazing that education professionals are being press-ganged into being front-line COVID health workers.

wait a minute... are teachers expected to do the testing in schools

Was reading the other day about how the operation moonspaff “pilot” in Liverpool was a total fakeout ito (among other things) army helping to administer tests

I think a mass testing regime, that many schools might not even have the space/resources/ability to put into place properly in a couple of weeks, is only going be slight damage limitation against a variant with a much greater R rate. Jesus, just listen to unions for once ffs, it's in the name of the party.

according to the school:

Yesterday (Thursday) we were advised that school should not start again until 11th January to enable us to manage infection control before this testing process can be implemented and staff trained to administer, process and record outcomes.

Oh well seeing as Christmas is cancelled and seeing as weren't doing anything anyway you might as well do this covid-medic short course just for the love of your job!

Police will be asked to stop families from driving out of tier 4 areas, the health secretary has said, while extra officers will be deployed at railway stations.

The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, warned that extra police would be at London railway stations to stop people leaving the city for “unnecessary” journeys following images of chaotic scenes on Saturday night.

really bad combination of ill coordinated messaging that was always going cause a panicked exodus/potential superspreading event that also aids the spread of the new new variant and then followed up with heavy-handed policing when the horse has already bolted. Dangling this idea of a normal Christmas for months and then this, it might even finish him off.

can’t wait for boris’ approval rating to briefly dip two points over this latest fuckup

― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:18 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

surely there are limits to the old rule of thumb: Tories can get away with anything!

we’re gonna find out i guess

if cancelling christmas doesn’t drive voters into kieth’s flaccid embrace then nothing will