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

Like right now child poverty and homelessness are two ills that have exponentially shot up in the last decade. There used to be a Labour Party committed to ending these ills - there isn't anymore because apparently they were evil!

I find the cant about "child poverty" rather than just "poverty" pretty suspicious tbh

If I won the lottery I wouldn't give a penny to charities. I'd just go out distribute a few grand here and there to homeless people or people in need. If they spent it all on crack then fair play, better than pissing it away in toothless charities that have signed gagging orders to never criticise Tories.

xp well yeah one is the chief cause of the other

the misery of adult working poverty and the experiences of their children is all part of the same disease

Aye and somehow I think if you gave every kid in the country an education all the way to degree level there'd still be Amazon and Sports Direct and the care sector and the gig economy exploiting people into poverty

When Kieth started his Jobs, Jobs, Jobs campaign I thought he might have found a new billionaire Labour donor from the darknet end of the Recruitment Agency sector, someone who helps coerce vulnerable women into sex work with a sideline for human trafficking. Because that would be his level tbf!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqRG36JXMAEjl4m?format=jpg&name=medium

I just got this image off Kieth's ebay, he's selling his old mattress "infused with genuine LOTO sex sweat that still hasn't been washed off it" OMG that is a new low!

sorry - gone too far here!

Not an image I wanna contemplate tho it's hard to imagine Kieth working up a sweat

He does like to play a bit of energetic 5-a-side football with teams made up of human rights barristers I've heard

Kicking around the head of a Brexiter

often taking on metropolitan police sides and blatantly letting them win 18-0 every game and telling them what a good job they did afterwards

Should have won by 20

This is quite the story. Private hospital capacity was block purchased this year to take pressure off NHS during first peak of pandemic and then wasn't used to reduce waiting times over the rest of the year when it had already been paid for. https://t.co/9sKNkuhHVW

— Mark Brown (@MarkOneinFour) December 10, 2020

there will be hell to pay when Kieth gets wind of this!

Keith to uncritically support tier 5.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/tier-5-england-faces-possible-new-covid-restrictions-source-says

meanwhile...

Gonna be an interesting year for the Green Party of England and Wales, isn't it. pic.twitter.com/Bpak79N839

— D Franklin (@D_Libris) December 28, 2020

Lol omg

something for everybody, brilliant

Fucking hell! Green party policy on trans rights is pretty clear btw: https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/rr.html

Fills you with confidence in this watertight deal.

Netscape Communicator is mentioned in Brexit document ... Almost feels like it is 40 years old ...1K RSA and SHA-1 ... one day we will build a digital world fit for the 21st Century ... pic.twitter.com/1cg6uX3clw

— Prof B Buchanan OBE (@billatnapier) December 26, 2020

lol NickB

I think Kieth might be on a mission to see if he can be even more widely despised amongst teachers than Gove was, he's succeeding with flying colours if that's what he's going for.

to the students who follow me on here: i would strongly advise rethinking plans to come back to student halls or shared houses if u have other, safe options. the uni will keep sending you upbeat emails & making unkeepable promises about testing & safety & the student experience

— Sita Balani (@sitainshort) December 29, 2020

Incredible to think that even worse is yet to come

This is so bleak, supposedly Sage are doing an announcement tomorrow at ten, hopefully is about the schools.

Pic of ambulances stacked up outside @RoyalLondonHosp pic.twitter.com/unZUhixOuk

— Shaun Lintern (@ShaunLintern) December 29, 2020

anybody want to read a load of FBPEeps falling out of love with Kieth on Twitter?

no, nor me

#Coronavirus cases in last 24 hours:
🇬🇧 UK - 53,135
*more than all the below combined*

🇫🇷 FRANCE - 8,816
🇩🇪 GERMANY - 10,976
🇮🇹 ITALY - 8,937
🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS - 9,108
🇵🇱 POLAND - 3,211
🇵🇹 PORTUGAL - 1,577
🇮🇪 IRELAND - 735

— Michael Cowan (@mrmikecowan) December 29, 2020

anybody want to read a load of FBPEeps falling out of love with Kieth on Twitter?

no, nor me

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Will they self-combust when Corbyn abstains or votes against?

I do, actually. Is it Lineker? O'Brien? Grayling?

I don't know the details of any deal, have given up on this stuff by now, but for the sake of it, in the circumstances, I hope that JC votes against Brexit.

(1) Just a reminder that the "People's Vote" campaign had a strategy called "Last Man Standing" of pushing MPs to vote against any 'softer' Brexit deal, because they claimed stopping any compromise would, by "remorseless logic" force a second referendum and the end of Brexit. pic.twitter.com/jcjLJk4h6p

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) December 30, 2020

On a different note, I am just in despair looking at this stuff:

Wetherspoons literally filling their windows with anti-lockdown propaganda. Repugnant. pic.twitter.com/R69VZKs4yv

— Elainovision, Tiered and Tired (@scattermoon) December 29, 2020

And, as ever, illuminating to see how long you can have the whip if you’re from the party’s right

at what point is something going to be done about this? pic.twitter.com/biUn0unjMz

— bread and poses (@breadandposes) December 29, 2020

jfc the replies on that one are grim

this one was good:

Let's quit with the pretence that your concern here is about female sexuality or upholding the rights of lesbians, Jackie. https://t.co/OCZnEB6n9H pic.twitter.com/PPdw5c2OyV

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) December 29, 2020

If this is their plan it is almost the worst possible way to go about it

In contrast to Starmer's reported comments in the @guardian interview, Labour clearly do have ambitions to improve the Brexit deal. They're laying 9 amendments today on issues including SIS II, economic impact, employment and environmental standards and Erasmus.

Thread 👇👇 /1

— Mike Buckley (@mdbuckley) December 30, 2020

oh ffs have you got be on that irritating melty twat Izzard's side now? Fuck the bigots but I voted twice to keep her off the Labour NEC cos her politics suck and she's a irritating dickhead.

If this is their plan it is almost the worst possible way to go about it

It's not a plan, it will have the same impact on the deal as waving it through. He's just playing a different tune for a different audience.

Yes that’s more like it; it’s like his leadership campaign again

I disagree when people say he's *absolutely* unprincipled, he's a committed unionist whilst despising the unions and his conservative values have been a constant throughout his time as head of DPP, and he loves cops and armed forces - but yeah all else is up for grabs.

i think i've finally lost my mind. every time i hear a senior minister talking to the press it's just this stream of infantile fantasy adspeak, but then when i listen to the news on the BBC nobody's challenging a word of it, in fact they're amplifying it in their own version of baby talk.

i assume this is a delusion, there's no way a nation state can actually function like this.

Who knows, it might not at some point.

I cannot vote for this deal, which this Government will use to drive down rights and protections, and step up the sell-off of our vital public services.

We need instead to break with failed race-to-the-bottom policies and build a Britain that puts people before private profit.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 30, 2020

huh? I thought he was a closet hard-brexiter - my pathetic brane has just imploded!

Haha amazing.

<3 you Jez

Passed with no amendments

Recording this shit here for posterity:

That was the second reading vote. But the bill has to pass its committee of the whole house stage and third reading before it can go to the Lords.

However, according to the business motion agreed this morning, there is no time left for further scrutiny. The deputy speaker, Eleanor Laing, took the chair for the committee of the whole house stage. There was no debate, but there was some laughter when she declared the committee had gone through the bill.

MPs are now voting on the third reading. There was no third reading debate, and the result of this vote should be identical, or almost identical, to the result of the second reading one. (See 2.43pm.)