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

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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

this is what regional devolution is all about!

calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link

tbf Joe Anderson looks so straight and honest, it's so hard to picture him involved in grand corruption and nigh on gangsterism!

calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link

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

this UK Goodfellas remake certainly lacks a bit of visual pizzazz

calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link

L-R: Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 December 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link

lol!

calzino, Friday, 4 December 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link

I don't remember being at that FAP.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Friday, 4 December 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link

only one beard and two speccy types, can't be a FAP

Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 December 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link

One on the right looks like he's taken his glasses off just before the photo was taken.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoaZYInW8AA_kbv?format=jpg&name=medium

L-R: Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink, Mr Pink

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link

“Labour’s biggest trade union backer Unite has failed to make any donations to the party since Sir Keir Starmer was elected leader...”

under new management

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link

Individual donations have dried up as well. No wonder they don’t want to give that racist property developer’s money back.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link

I made an individual donation last year as a benefits scum member of the party. You might be shocked to hear I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss now.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link

beyond the short term goal of appeasing a thousands of tory voting bigots in the north who need shoes labelling L-R, Starmer will be turning a lot of the younger voters who came to Labour because of Corbz away into politically homeless wilderness which could a much bigger problem for Labour's financial and electoral prospects going into the future.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link

I wonder how many of the bloated whales that abandoned Miliband/Corbz Labour for the Tories can be won back and at what price, not that Starmer nor the party has much of a rep left to protect.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link

Unite really not making any donations since April?

Excellent if true! I thought there would be structures that meant they were constantly donating, like a direct debit. But clearly they would right to withhold funding now.

the pinefox, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link

re: giving bad people's money back -- I don't quite get this idea. Labour need the money and it's good to take things off bad people. So why not keep it?

The one reason for not doing that would be if the bad person wanted favours in exchange for the money. He probably does. But now he's been exposed as bad, it ought to be easy to refuse to give them.

the pinefox, Saturday, 5 December 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link

He made sure no-one got his list of campaign donors until the leadership vote was finished, so it isn't like Starmer can take any moral high ground by returning any money.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link

I wonder how long the Labour Party can survive such a drastic dropping off in donations.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link

surprised at the pinefox's "the money doesn't care where it came from" stance

like it get that's true but if we can directly trace donations to islamophobes are we supposed to just ignore it because the notes are the same colour?

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link

I realise the view is unorthodox, but as I say, I think it's logical, because - let's say we agree that person is bad - well, he is now £200k poorer. That seems a good thing.

the pinefox, Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link

well he grifted hundreds of thousands of members but I don't think a Starmer govt would do anything to upset the bent property developer lobby, especially racists like David Abrahams, so it would be money well spent.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link

All this Anderson/Hatton intrigue is a good excuse to dig out G. B. H. again. A lot of my presumably younger twitterers seem to lionise just about any old fucker who is "of the left". I draw the line at hideous wankers like Hatton, who apparently is the 72 year old who was arrested.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link

The one reason for not doing that would be if the bad person wanted favours in exchange for the money. He probably does. But now he's been exposed as bad, it ought to be easy to refuse to give them.

Donors on that level certainly expect favours in return and if lab takes the money and fails to come through on said favours, well, the donor won't donate again and the party'll get a rep for not following through (not that this would be a bad thing). So giving the money back would be a more credible gesture because the donator is not going to be a reliable source of income anyway.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link

I think it would be 'good optics' for them to announce that this entire donation was now going to be used to finance a response to the recent report on Labour Islamophobia.

The donor couldn't really complain about that.

the pinefox, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link

could pay for a few more unconscious bias sessions with it as well, job sorted!

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link

The donor couldn't really complain about that.

Of course he could. Not in the media - these things are never in public - but he could make it pretty clear that he wouldn't donate again, and assorted rich assholes would take note and avoid donating as well - and donations from asshole millionaires is what labour's after.

Alternatively, they could use the money as you suggest and fulfill whatever favours the guy is expecting anyway, in which case it would indeed be "good optics" and he wouldn't really care.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link

god GBH was good

Degsy was probably a twat but, y'know, so were his enemies

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link

I oh know, but still can't stand the fucker!

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link

he did a cheeky advert didn't he at some point, yeah fuck him

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link

just seeing ppl lionising him as a socialist hero really gets my heckles.

calzino, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link


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