Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

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lest we forget this classic of the genre!

Yes! Was trying the find the literal top hat Tory who was faking upset about his 0 hour contract last election!

xxp David Lynch is directing QT now?

I’m amazed so many of you are able to watch that fucking thing

I had to turn the sound down when the lynch mob was in full throttle kill-a-Marxist-Remoaner mode.

The SDLP cooking up a storm with all the things they achieved through their 47 years of participation in Westminster pic.twitter.com/sxlx5pGnMt

— Ógra Shinn Féin ⭕️ (@Ogra_SF) October 31, 2019

in some ways the most FBPE tweet of them all https://t.co/YtYl0ueKOh

— ciarán (@schmrn) October 31, 2019

Nigel Dodds took a break from #Brexit to stop new housing in the predominantly catholic areas of his constituency being built.

Why would an MP do that? Modern day gerrymandering, that's why!

Get you, your friends and family on the electoral register and #VoteThemOut #GE19 pic.twitter.com/O3fYw93OQG

— Sarah (@Sal_feeko) October 31, 2019

sorry about too much twitter chain-posting, but just a reminder about what a set of cunts this lot are in the north of the ROI.

move to have this the official new name for the north

Ed Miliband channeling his dad (albeit 4 years too late):

Lots of objections to class war appearing. Totally agree. Assault on welfare state, slashing top rate and corporate tax while imposing cuts on everyone else, driving people to food banks, Universal Credit, pay freezes, growth in zero hours. Where will it end? FFS.

— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) October 31, 2019

here for fighting culture war with class war

There are 150 billionaires in the UK while 14 million people live in poverty.

In a fair society there would be no billionaires and no one would live in poverty.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 1, 2019

Is anyone feeling optimistic about this? I've got the same sense of crushing doom I had at this stage in 2017.

I am (but concede I may be a fool). there’s a long way to go but labour have had a good start to the air war and BJ looked rattled in his campaign video last night

I will wait until broadcast rules kick in to be really optimistic, but I am pretty convinced that Corbyn is more popular than a flawed system of small-sample push polls (which would be illegal methodology in the US!) suggest, plus the voter registration numbers and Lab/Momentum funds raised this week are both off the charts. My only other time of wariness is on the Saturday eve/Sunday morning before Election Day, when tabloids might break a big spoiler story (last time, that did not happen).

BXP launch at 11 today

Is anyone feeling optimistic about this? I've got the same sense of crushing doom I had at this stage in 2017.

Is anyone feeling optimistic about this?

At this stage, neither optimistic nor pessimistic.

New European stort was that BXP were going to focus entirely on taking Labour votes. I don't think there's anywhere they can do this without also pulling Tory votes even if only in protest and they won't get near UKIP '15 share but I do think a couple of seats are still vulnerable enough to them.

I'd rather save my premonitions for later.

BXP have realised they won't get enough Farage airtime if they're not competing for as many seats as possible, and that includes Tory ones.

People are going in on those LibDem bar charts early which is a smart move. Labour won the social media election last time and a lot will depend on whether they can do it again.

Independent not NE btw

I'm v pessimistic but I've lived thru 50 years of shit government so

Of course Labour will win the social media election, it's how many olds they can snag

The middle-aged vote held on very well for Labour but in some areas is more vulnerable to the LibDems this time, so they need to make them look stupid and/or dishonest early.

I've lived through 40 years of Thatcherism/Blairism/ but I reckon 5 more years of these cunts might just finish me off, so I'm very optimistic about death and the prospect of never getting 5 numbers on the Daily Millions draw, but being optimistic about the prospect of anything resembling socialism in the UK would require some stronger drugs for me!

The middle-aged vote held on very well for Labour but in some areas is more vulnerable to the LibDems this time, so they need to make them look stupid and/or dishonest early.

it's not just the erosion of your opportunities, standard of living and hope for the future, it's the knowledge of just how many people you live among are stupid feckless vicious cunts

Who are these Labour 10%ers?

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The Paul Embry types.

This ‘Corbyn is the Devil’ strategy pursued by some Lib Dems seems pretty fundamentally misguided. The biggest losers from it seem likely to be the Lib Dems, not Labour. (Short thread)

— Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) November 1, 2019

This seems fairly convincing re: Swinson.

Read also that Swinson was intending to do a “presidential” campaign, like that wasn’t completely disastrous for Theresa May.

it's almost as if she's a vacuous moron

swindon really does have an incredibly high opinion of herself huh

What happens when you believe your own hype and hang out with too many journalists.

I see the strategy as providing reassurance to Tories in LD-Tory marginals, so in that sense I can see it. If she appeared neutral the press might have a field day.

doesn’t stop newsnight splashing on the “brexit election” every night tho

Three days into the ‘Brexit election’ campaign and so far it has been dominated by debate over:

- The NHS ✅
- The super rich ✅
- Trump ✅
- Brexit ❌

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 1, 2019

does anyone even watch newsnight tho

This seems fairly convincing re: Swinson.

― Matt DC, Friday, 1 November 2019 10:19 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If most of their target seats are currently Conservatives, is part of the thinking here to head off the idea that she's going to work with Corbyn? (and lay the groundwork for going into coalition w Tories if necessary)

Read also that Swinson was intending to do a “presidential” campaign, like that wasn’t completely disastrous for Theresa May.

― gyac,

Has been doing this all along, no? I saw a magazine with her on the cover the other day with "Your Next Prime Minister" as the main headline. Its a weird strategy

(as for being disastrous for May, in seats definitely, but she did improve on Cameron's vote share!)

I don't understand this tweet. She needs Tories to switch to LDs?

The main thrust of the plan, to make Corbyn out to be abysmal, seems more likely to make people vote for Boris Johnson’s Tories. That is unlikely to help the Lib Dems as most of their target seats involve beating those Tories.

— Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) November 1, 2019

Because Cameron lost votes to UKIP and May absorbed most of them.

Starting the campaign off right

Jrimmimmby Crobybiby! You have made it completely and utterly impossible for me, CEO of Offshore Tax Havens Plc and prospective member of the House of Lords, and my extremely poor multimillionaire client list, to vote for you and your so-called "people-powered" manifesto. https://t.co/b88ui270lQ

— epiplexis (@epiplexis_) November 1, 2019

"first they came for the billionaires and I said nothing"

Xyzzz - it's tricky for them either way - most of the LDs target seats are Tory-held, so she needs to communicate that she's anti-Corbyn and won't work with him in order to attract liberal/soft Tory voters who are repelled by Johnson and the Brexit policy. However, a lot of these voters are pretty comfortable and might not care about Corbyn one way or another (these people don't really exist in simplistic political discourse but I bet you there are thousands of them out there). The more the LDs ramp up the apocalyptic rhetoric the more it's likely to make them go 'nah, let's stick with the Tories just to be on the safe side'.

It also makes Labour voters less likely to tactically vote LD, even in areas where Labour is nowhere, and they might need those votes.

"and then society was just... better" xp

doesn’t stop newsnight splashing on the “brexit election” every night tho

As I said upthread, Sky's straplines all say Brexit Election.

Re that young headbanger on QT

#bbcqt, a story in 4 parts: pic.twitter.com/Hb0Cq1tmgD

— Insane Clown Pussy (@misslucyp) October 31, 2019

It's only four and a half years since my first experience of a Tory majority as an adult/voter and I'm glad it only lasted a couple of years.

I really think the days of single party majority are over though, with Brexit pulling and pushing against that in roughly equal measure. I'm optimistic and idealistic when it comes to PR but Swinson should be bringing it up again regardless of polls and as much as I want Labour to get as many votes as possible.

The Tories had a net gain of 18 seats in 2015 and it got them over the line but as it is I'll be shocked if they aren't down at least 10 seats after this, hopefully enough to rule out any coalition.

But let's hear from the 'Labour will get massacred' cru itt again some time k

"Read also that Swinson was intending to do a “presidential” campaign"

damn i already feel like i've seen more of her teeth than her fucking dentist has

yeah, i'm fully expecting some kind of narrow coalition after this election, just extremely nervous about which way the chips are gonna fall

Is anyone feeling optimistic about this? I've got the same sense of crushing doom I had at this stage in 2017.

I have a sense of crushing doom when I watch more than 30 seconds coverage of this Brexit Election. Otherwise not too bad, I mean obviously the Tories are going to win.

Part of the issue is that Brexit felt like much more of a foregone conclusion in 2017. It doesn't now.