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

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Ian Dunt and all that shower to back this too.

Reeves made the case that a deal – even if inadequate – is only the start. It would be a platform for building on, and would show Labour is listening to voters. Told this received support from MPs including Hilary Benn, Liam Byrne, Harriet Harman, Sarah Owen, Yvette Cooper.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 23, 2020

xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 November 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link

lol nothing matters

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 November 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link

this plan has received support from some of labour’s top-flight unprincipled idiots and cowards, we should definitely get behind it

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link

You've got to give it to the Keithsy and Reevesy show ... they've managed quite well to suck at least as much shit as the Tories

calzino, Monday, 23 November 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link

13 NEC members say: "We have decided not to remain in the NEC meeting today in order to show very clearly how factional the decisions of the current Labour leader have become. We will be returning to future NEC meetings to be the legitimate voice of the membership"

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 24, 2020

mass NEC walkout earlier over the Beckett vote they couldn't win or something.. it's a war.

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link

well a walkout figuratively speaking in the zoom era I should have said.

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link

13 NEC members say

Siri, define "faction"

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link

well a war might mean there would be some return fire by the other side, but this is just a shooting fish in a barrel purge for Kieth.

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link

at least Beckett get's to make up for her biggest political mistake (that she literally cried over), which wasn't backing the Iraq invasion, no is was lending her nomination to Corbz in 2015!

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link

Warning ...contains Yogic Flying.... From a 1994 Natural Law Party Party Political Broadcast pic.twitter.com/9G1dAsX6LB

— Alan Kinsella (@electionlit) November 24, 2020

just looking at ideas for a new party, fancy bouncing around on your arse whilst listening to some George Harrison with a bifta!

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link

I see..

Impossible situation for Labour this. Any option - support, oppose, abstain - full of danger and ultimately makes no difference to the final outcome. https://t.co/913p0SsHmi

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 24, 2020

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link

There's something perfect about deciding in advance whether you're going to support or abstain on a bill you haven't read yet.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link

"Impossible situation for Labour this" it's quite touching how much this former remainiac supports the Labour leadership these days.

calzino, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link

would've been good to think about the danger of grafting the undemocratic, unpopular people's vote campaign on to the Labour Party before the last election

Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link

Starmer whipping MP's to vote for ANY deal to apparently win back 4050 grim white lives matter troglodytes in Burnley and Workington just sums up what an unprincipled dickhead he is, and if it is a shit deal that impoverishes millions in the north it won't win him anything. People's Vote always was just a bunch of soft Tories more concerned with destroying Corbynism than stopping brexit, some said it at the time and they've been proved correct.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link

There is definitely something in this though. It was part of 2017's Lab surge. Except what Starmer is doing is supporting any piece of paper on the table.

Labour did very well in the North of England in 2017, partly on the promise to respect the referendum result. It's a genuine failure of Corbyn's time that he didn't insist on this at his point of maximum authority. https://t.co/Ir0fYpYVEP

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) November 25, 2020

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link

wasn't McD at fault there as well? I recall him as part of the pressure to appease the Remainer clique

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link

that's the problem when you've got the most left-wing Labour leader since the 40's. One misstep and the whole project crumbles to pieces.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link

while all the usual tory cunts queue up to gleefully piss on the corpse

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link

TBF to them both, 70 per cent of Lab members wanted Remain, including virtually all my friends who supported Corbyn.

scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link

and at least six of them have Ilx accounts!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link

By and large it's the 30 per cent spread over 2-3 dozen constituencies that delivered the 2019 majority. Which means remainers get nothing.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link

IKR? If cooler heads had prevailed we might be in EEA membership but technically out of the EU, with no upset to EU citizens long settled here and no loss of rights around travelling or working abroad.

scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link

imagine the vitriol if Corbyn was still leader and he said: I'll do a three line whip on any old turd of deal, who cares?

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link

and that Kieth fed this straight to the fucking S*n. remember when he told a crowd of scousers he wouldn't deal with them and then the next he told a load a fabian society wankers he would. That should have been enough to put people off voting for this cunt, but here we are.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link

Austerity sequel looks lit lads

Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link

we are still in the first Austerity movie - it never ended, and it makes Bela Tarr look like a maker of short jaunty comedy shorts!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link

I trust them to up the stakes, we’ve had it too good for too long

Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link

Surprise announcement of £500 rishmas bonus will sweeten the pill

Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link

I think my shithole of a one-horse Town got a hundred mill in the Towns "thanks for voting tory" Fund. It still doesn't look like austerity ended, fuck knows where it went! Yeah of course they can use all this Rona splurging and furlough debt as an excuse to kill more disableds and keep poor ppl even poorer, run down the public sector even more. At least we used to have that fine social-political writer suzy moore calling them out on it every week in the Graun!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link

this cheered me up a little

In order to regain the confidence of the Jewish community it is vital that Keir Starmer urgently say "oy" and sigh dramatically.

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 25, 2020

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link

He should definitely think about slipping some Yiddish words in here and there, a lot of them work well in a political context.

Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link

In order to regain the confidence of the Jewish community it is vital that Keir Starmer urgently weigh in on the Duolingo Yiddish dialect dispute.

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) November 25, 2020

lol !

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link

Lol jewdas have been doing the Starmer tweets all day. I really hope the humourless thin-skinned knight of the realm is not reading them.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link

Another 10 years

Laura Kuenssberg talking absolute twaddle on #PoliticsLive. Repeating the "no money left" nonsense from 2020. Talking about "maxed-out national credit cards". @BBCPolitics this is an utter disgrace and totally irresponsible. Please educate your reporters in basic economics.

— (((Frances "Cassandra" Coppola))) (@Frances_Coppola) November 25, 2020

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link

The interest rates are like free money ffs! Economically illiterate lies from the BBC shocker!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link

funny how economic illiteracy in the media always works in favour of entrenched power structures innit

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link

Yeah, what if these tales are convenient..

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link

thing is reducing the spending power of millions of people (just to buy necessities like food and clothes) is fucking lousy economics and the Tory addiction to austerity (even though they say it is over) is why the UK economy will continue to be the most stagnant basket-case of the European post-Rona ones. And I honestly don't believe Starmer Labour's approach would be any different. Shit times.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link

if only there was a large and credible evidence base that showed post-2008 austerity didn’t work, or a report from the un rapporteur that blamed austerity for crushing deprivation across the uk, which could change their minds

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link

but as ever the cruelty is the point

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link

if the credit cards are maxed out how did Gabriel González Andersson pocket £28m?

the amount of money that goes to absolutely corrupt and moronic procurement - just staggering sums - dwarfs anything any council needs in order to just keep the car on the road and it seems nothing can or will be done about it

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link

libraries in Wolverhampton did corona

Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link

why the fuck is Dudds rambling on about "policemen with less in their pockets" in context of public sector wage freeze, they've already had a recent 2.5% payrise ffs, any excuse to bum a copper.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link

They deserve a pay rise. pic.twitter.com/z3OsPy8eHA

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) November 25, 2020

give me a fucking break lad, this is taking the piss.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link

they got a 2.5% pay rise last year, there are NHS nurses and hospital porters who haven't had one in almost decades

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link

Truncheons don't come cheap you know.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link

yeah but every time they give some cheeky young blighter a tap on the noggin with it they get a bonus - it pays for itself!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link

Starmer Labour putting out messaging that makes it look like it was clap for fucking pigs while the NHS were at the coal face of one the worst Rona death rates in the world. He said NHS nurses should get medals and now he says coppers should get (another) pay rise. Seriously I wish nothing but death upon this man, he's the worst possible LOTO you could have during a crisis like this. I'd love to batter him! I don't mean kill him - just swing a shovel into his bollocks and listen to that satisfying crunch as he falls to the ground in agony!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link

cover him in egg and flour and slowly lower him into 250 Celsius vegetable oil

imago, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link


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