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

There's gonna be lot of angry Waitrose loyalty card holders this evening: https://t.co/cbkFYPVq4j

— Paul O'Connell (@pmpoc) December 24, 2020

of course he still is a duplicitous slimeball, but now it isn't the time to be doing anything with the slightest chance of resuming the no-deal roulette

Basically Johnson et al detonated the nuclear option/uncaged the angry tiger/whatever, and I can't see how it's been within anyone's power - Corbyn, Starmer, whoever - to do anything about it. Anyone who thinks Labour should have settled on a firm remain stance doesn't get that there's a vast reserve of dull, reactionary Brits - of all party affiliations - who know in their heart of hearts that Britain is the greatest country in the world and let's take back control etc etc. Now let's watch the UK revert to its pre-Acts of Union configuration as a bonus treat!

yeah to be clear i don't really care about the brexit deal one way or the other tbh. just it's laughable to me that starmer seems to continually take the chance to say how whatever the govt. is doing is bad while not doing anything about.

fair enough the mp count means any opposition is futile but also leaves me with the impression that if he were pm he would have made exactly the same decisions johnson has from everything from covid to schools reopening to brexit deal to landlords etc etc he is boris johnson with a slightly less ridiculous haircut

he often gives me the impression of someone with the potential to be even more fiscally hawkish and more small c conservative than lots of actual members of the Conservative Party and sometimes I think he could be worse than Johnson, who at least flip flops under pressure. At least he's more forensic though!

Lol I hope Corbyn votes against the deal just to fuck with them

all the Corbyn hating FBPEs outraged that he hasn't voted for hard-brexit might melt their brains even more!

Venezuelan socialist style scenes at the local Waitrose, for which I personally blame Mr Jeremy Corbyn. pic.twitter.com/wsiUOAa2Lu

— bat020 (@bat020) December 24, 2020

good day to get this deal done when i couldn't give less of a shit

I'm in a cab home and LBC is about to ask their listeners what they think of the deal. A true race against time, pray for me

hahaha

we will be exceeding 1,000 cases per 100,000 people today. the most shocking part of the statistics here for me, is that out of all the covid cases recorded since March, over 1/3 of them were recorded last week.

― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 23 December 2020

from which statistics did you get the 1/3 figure?

I meant locally where I live. 2400 cases recorded. 900+ last 7 days

Long as we don't have to bust you down to private poo

source: BBC. just looked it up again - total cases 2459. last 7 days 968 (I was wrong about passing the 1,000 point, although it was going up 50-100 per day the last couple of weeks)

lol fucked that up though. 968 is per 100k. actual figure is 897. still over 1/3

you know it's been a long and shit year when CP is recklessly rounding up figures by the dozens! I just heard from someone that this there new strain has turned up in Heckmondwike.

can't remember if I posted about it on ilx but my dad came home from hospital yesterday afternoon. he got "lucky" I suppose. caught covid in hospital but very minor case of it, so far. had a fever and breathing problems for 2 days. chest x-ray clear. 2 more days observations, no further problems, sent home to self-isolate for 10 more days. but at least he's home for Christmas

ah good to hear CP

Ditto!

It's about time something went right for you

After a really tough year and irrespective of political differences, I wish everyone a Happy Christmas.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) December 24, 2020

(apart from all those malcreant wankers that have cancelled their Labour membership subs and won't vote for me!)

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 re cp dad news

replacement for Erasmus is gonna be hands on experience of agriculture in the beautiful British countryside, and unlike the elitist EU scheme all young people will be strongly encouraged to take part.

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) December 24, 2020

Great to hear cp

xp

ah the Down to the Countryside stage of our cultural revolution!

yeah the big win out of all of this is CP’s dad being home.

pic.twitter.com/wHe4Qv4znC

— LEXIT_LOVER69 (@coso9001) December 24, 2020

can't remember if I posted about it on ilx but my dad came home from hospital yesterday afternoon. he got "lucky" I suppose. caught covid in hospital but very minor case of it, so far. had a fever and breathing problems for 2 days. chest x-ray clear. 2 more days observations, no further problems, sent home to self-isolate for 10 more days. but at least he's home for Christmas

Labour is a pro-EU Social Democratic Party - it's not radical to abstain or vote against this crappy deal - why destroy your reputation? Our movement is anti-Brexit.

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) December 24, 2020

alls that I saw was "it's not radical to abstain"

Good news CP!

Christmas Eve is always special. But just maybe Santa needs more than the carrots, milk & biscuits on offer from our kids! pic.twitter.com/v8DrYCKa0u

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) December 24, 2020

when you indoctrinate your own kids into austerity loving tories!

Haha what a terrible tweet.

OK, I've taken everything into consideration from you guys, and some other things too, and have now decided I don't like him.

His political standpoint is almost by the way...

he can't even switch off the terrible boss smarm for his Christmas twee(t). It doesn't compare well with Corbyn actually looking like Santa in a homeless shelter on Christmas day.

next year santa gets nothing ungrateful git

eat your fucking carrot

“jemma showed me your text. i’m sorry daddy”

It'd be different if Boris had imposed "one carrot, one pie" restrictions

fair enough the mp count means any opposition is futile but also leaves me with the impression that if he were pm he would have made exactly the same decisions johnson has from everything from covid to schools reopening to brexit deal to landlords etc etc he is boris johnson with a slightly less ridiculous haircut

In fairness to him (again, the worst kind of fairness), the voice in his ear seems to have told him to do them quicker, which would have made some difference.

(It's arguable whether he would or wouldn't have copied Johnson's prime cuntery, hinting that people shouldn't go out to businesses but not officially ordering them closed for two weeks, so as to cut down on insurance claims)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/24/brexit-talks-followed-common-pattern-but-barrier-raising-outcome-is-unique

"This is the first trade deal in history that has been about erecting barriers rather than dismantling them. There will be more red tape, more friction."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqF961JXEAIaOwL?format=jpg&name=large

he's done the Atkins Diet, he's done the steroids - now he's embracing krishna consciousness for the next stage of his journey

trying and failing to comprehend the mindset of a man who would conceive of, create and post that image, on xmas day no less

I was like eh whatever about that tweet but a few proseccos in and remembering the bile corbyn used to get any time he just dared to breathe i'm now like lol fuck sir quiff and his weird stilted patter

I've never put much stock in highfalutin ideas like taking some moral high ground over the melts by not acting as hateful as they did, fuck that shit why should they have all the fun?

Yeah fuck the moral high ground it's just sometimes i can't muster the energy to care deeply about every last feckin semi colon the way the melts can with corbyn

Only high ground i'm interested in is the physical, as order a rain of ordnance down on the hapless melt trenches while they give it the full willem dafoe agnus dei in platoon

there is a twitter account where they do a screenshot of some melty or bigoted tweet with an expanded picture of the poster above who is usually either quite ordinarily old, ugly, bald, overweight - usually a combination. Because of course it's fair game to appearance shame people as long as their politics suck shit! We all get dragged into sometimes I suppose, but this fucker is a consistent repeat offender.

it'll end in tiers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/24/from-tariffs-to-visas-heres-whats-in-the-brexit-deal

Quite something. Arbitrations, adjudications, committees, reviews. Nobody is really, really leaving.