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

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The funniest gossip I read this weekend was that allegedly at Pride 2019, a very pissed up Angela Rayner was loudly telling anyone that would listen that she would soon enough be the new leader of the Labour Party.

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link

She should have stabbed her roomie in the back and run ;)

imago, Monday, 30 November 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link

she didn't need to, no weather forecast was required to see which way the wind was blowing!

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link

Kieth would never be very pissed up at Pride

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link

yeah, I did actually used to like Angela until I got a better sense of her politics.

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link

I still think her politics are sound, but she's in an unfortunate bind of her own making

imago, Monday, 30 November 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link

The 'bind' must itself be 'her politics'.

She's been elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. She can choose what she says. She chooses to say things that are mendacious and poisonous.

That's now her politics.

the pinefox, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link

correct. as England's foremost novelist Tom Watson has pointed out, the deputy is pretty much free to conduct their own line

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link

I guess the bind is lack of backbone, ultimately. Alas

imago, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link

i suspect it is just simple opportunism

plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link

I can't cope with reality any more, how can the EHRC commissioner in charge of the labour investigation be a 'can't say anything cos of the woke stasi' type racist and an actual fucking Whig, in the 21st century, a fucking Whig https://t.co/tdCtLUA5rO

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) November 30, 2020

lol the EHRC person who led the Labour inquiry not only liked a post defending Scruton's anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, he stood as Whig candidate in 2015 .. lol wtf!

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link

The Whig Party is sitting out the current situation in British politics. Brexit is a mess and the Tories are a shambolic government. We believe that there is a place for a socially liberal and economically literate party that stands up for progress, intelligence, and decency. But we don’t think we will make much impact right now. We chose not to stand any candidates at the 2017 General Election, and we expect not to stand any before 2022. Because next time we run, we’re running to win.

http://whigs.uk/

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link

fucking incredible (nb it is not fucking incredible) that there are grown adults out there LARPing politics

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link

that pretender Lolico will have to hold his beer now

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoFTjW1XEAMFghE?format=jpg&name=900x900

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link

I hope he's talking about the Morning Star. There aren't many other candidates.

the pinefox, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link

to people of his ilk the Graun is still a left wing newspaper.

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link

still

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link

BREAK: @UKLabour will abstain in tomorrow's #coronavirus TIER vote

This means it will pass irrespective of Conservative rebels

— Darren McCaffrey (@DarrenEuronews) November 30, 2020

xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link

Kier "Big Balls" Starmer at his best.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link

What's even the fucking point

boxedjoy, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link

so we can have two conservative and unionist parties of course!

calzino, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link

Here is a link to the full judgment in the Tavistock case. https://t.co/qQOYgZjUS4

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 1, 2020

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link

Windmill tilting in the right direction on this bullshit. Weird how I thought the Children's Act was supposed to protect human rights

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link

i wonder why this is different to the many other long term decisions children are able to give informed consent to

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link

God there are a lot of Tories against stopping coronavirus

stet, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link

The constant use of Keith instead of Keir seems a bit like that underlying racism where all the difficult or foreign sounding names should be anglicised. Literally every time I see it, that's the first thing I think of. It's disappointing.

— Liam Parker (@e_Liam_) December 1, 2020

the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link

are Keirs of the factory running classes a race now? lol!

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link

Keir is difficult to spell seemingly, but foreign?

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:11 (three years ago) link

Scotch bastids

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link

Keith is as foreign as Keir you plank.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link

Let's bend a knee for Kier. Posh white men's life matter as well, even if they have stupid names!

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link

Laim doesn't get it

Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link

If there any Labour history geeks that want to name their kids after a historical Labour leader, they should consider other options in future.

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link

Reminds me of when Rangers fans started thinking the Scottish press were biased against them (I mean, can you believe it?) and nicknamed the Daily Record the Daily Rebel and the Sunday Mail the Sunday Liam.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link

🤮

STARMER: "When I abstain, I come to the House and explain - when the Prime Minister abstains he runs away to Afghanistan." #PMQs

— Balance of Power (@BalancePowerUK) December 2, 2020

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link

I wish Keith would run off to Afghanistan, without bravely explaining the reasoning for his political cowardice.

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link

🎵 abstain in the melt brain 🎵

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link

F o r e n s i c O p p o s i t i o n pic.twitter.com/wyUqkSekO6

— Sanitary Naptime (@SanitaryNaptime) December 2, 2020

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link

look when keir starmer’s labour abstains on a bill that bill STAYS abstained

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/18/five-labour-lancaster-councillors-quit-party-protest-starmer-leadership?fbclid=IwAR2w9tU72rsmvnufHelaaxmi8Q84zuT4_xVD-P8HRBZY_liKuQ3ZqDQmjT0

3 in Kirklees, now 5 more councillors in Lancaster that have quit Labour over Keith's stupid voice.

calzino, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link

Speaking of Keith, who remembers last year's Highland League fixture when Keith scored 5 times for Keith, in Keith's 11-0 win over Fort William? Keith FC are ultra-Keith, the only Keith, exuding Keithness that Keith Starmer can only envy. pic.twitter.com/FdiPJnWP2X

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) December 2, 2020



Finally, a good Keith post

calzino, Thursday, 3 December 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link

Wondering if he'll get an accidental Kiething in Hansard.

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Thursday, 3 December 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link

No opposition to this narrative.

We can borrow for thirty years at near enough zero per cent. https://t.co/NOPjcJU8dy

— Jo Michell (@JoMicheII) December 2, 2020

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link

it's so fucking lame that Dudds talks like the main problem with New Labour was the tax-credits spending that at least temporarily lifted millions people out of poverty. Fucking soft-left my arse, more like soft-tories.

calzino, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mayor-liverpool-joe-anderson-arrested-19399231

come head divvy? what? No your fingerprints will do just fine, mate.

calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link

Local politics, just like the good old days.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link


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