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

steady

Oh Christ, Jess Phillips talking about Seumas Milne in Dispatches.

oh ffs I bet she's barely met him as an insignificant (attention seeking,self boosting realty tv star) backbencher!

I need to stop looking at polls but can't stop myself and that ICM one made me do a giddy Politics is Back, Baby ...awoooo!

Election rules not even kicked in and 7pts behind!

Hoyle: 325
Bryant: 213

the arse-Hoyle has triumphed

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Mr_Lindsay_Hoyle_crop_2.jpg

*whispers* orderrr, orrrderrrr

> 7pts behind!

is that good or bad?

CON: 38% (+3)
LAB: 31% (+2)
LDEM: 15% (-1)
BREX: 9% (-2)
GRN: 3% (-1)

these numbers extrapolated would mean what? a hung parliament? would LDEM go into coalition with CON again? would they dare? would that leave LAB + LDEM (+ GRN)?

at this stage very good for labour

Hope Corbyn's going to go in hard about the Russian report being sidelined by number 10.

lol

"You're going to need eyes at the back of your head." 👀@JeremyCorbyn congratulates the new Speaker of the House by drawing inspiration from a viral tweet showing @LindsayHoyle_MP watching the #RugbyWorldCup final but not looking at the TV.

More here: https://t.co/iIb1XbZOdo pic.twitter.com/XxpPcM85Sk

— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 4, 2019

Hope Corbyn's going to go in hard about the Russian report being sidelined by number 10.

Well, nobody else is going to. Apart from Dominic Grieve.

From a 2013 profile of Hoyle

Hands on hips, arms akimbo, his Lancastrian boom quite distinct from speaker John Bercow's south-easterly tone, Hoyle reined in Ed Balls for waving the Evening Standard's bootleg version of the budget from the front bench. "You should observe the courtesies of the House and should know BETTERRR," he remonstrated with a pointing finger. "I DO NOT WISH TO SEE IT."

And then they lezzed up

fucked it

Tonight I have written to Jeremy Corbyn to ask him if he has made up his mind on Brexit.

The British people deserve to know what they are voting for on December 12th. pic.twitter.com/abs3jjoOIP

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 4, 2019

You absolute spanner pic.twitter.com/5cVZUcpt1t

— 🚩 The Election Leftorium 🗳️ (@LeftoriumThe) November 4, 2019

I see he signed that letter for a change.

... ha, I've just noticed that! (xp)

jog on with your daft letters

2 or 3 page minimum and text heavy.

JC should just reply with a copy of the manifesto and be like “wait like everyone else clown”

do we reckon the signature typo is more of this

I'm really sceptical about that strategy, for what it's worth. It's desperate. But it is a really depressing marker of where we are at. pic.twitter.com/ZFpgj0w33P

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 4, 2019

on another topic - there was a good clip of laura parker going round with her talking about billionaires. she's so impressive

That’s not a typo, PM letters usually have the d-list at the end. It’s just so long it looks like the sign off.

See this letter here:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHp-AREWoAEbZoQ?format=jpg&name=large

You’d think he’d edit out a sentence (or page) of that to avoid this kind of thing happening?

andrew gwynne labour's shadow 'communities' bod is pressing the tories on how they drew up the list for their 'towns fund'
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ministers-pushed-urgently-clarify-how-17197437

Literally zero.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/05/tories-broke-pledge-on-starter-homes-in-2015-manifesto-report-says

look, doing things we promised to do is the old politics

instead let's give ourselves credit for having the courage to completely commit to absolutely not, under any circumstances, doing the thing we promised we were going to do

is a "starter home" another canard to match "affordable home". Even if they had built them they'd have either been converted container units/pacer trains or unaffordable, badly built wood and breezeblock shitholes where some tory donor owns the leasehold. Tories don't build houses since Thatcherism.

but, didn't you hear, labour's environmentally friendly homes will kill the economy.

JRM getting off to a flyer on the campaign trail today.

Eesh, Jo Swinson saying she is confident she would be a better PM out of Johnson and Corbyn. And launching the campaign with Chuka...

Oh Christ, this Jo Swinson launch. Bemoaning Universal Credit and a shitload of other things she voted for in Coalition.

Sexist.

look, taking responsibility for the things we voted for which killed 130,000 of our fellow britons is the old politics

Common Sense christ I hope this gets hung around his neck forever

I’ve had positive, admittedly pre-Coalition, interactions with her but today’s JS is white feminism in excelsis.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/government-pushes-ahead-plans-festival-of-brexit

festival of shite morelike innit? it sounds as much fun as the stalin era "festivals of labour" where he was saying "no more weekends lads we've got a 5 year plan to complete and then another, innit great tho? grrr you better enjoy it!"

Corbyn's Brexit will kill more than 130,000 dreams and hopes though.

never mind the thousands of squirrels whose dreams ended in Jo's garden 😢

JRMVMIC - Idiot calls emergency services workers and people who live in tower blocks idiots
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/jacob-rees-mogg-claims-grenfell-victims-lacked-common-sense

I’m bald. https://t.co/2niMFhfzqh

— Dave Ward (@DaveWardGS) November 5, 2019

It’s baldism on full throttle clearly anyone with a bald spot is being targeted by the Tories media machine. Bald men must vote Labour to end this targeted harassment

— Ian Hodson 🌍 (@IanBFAWU) November 5, 2019

Count me in!! https://t.co/C5Gl3TG4dx

— Jon Trickett (@jon_trickett) November 5, 2019

Swinson says she is “absolutely, categorically” ruling out using Lib Dem votes to put Corbyn into No 10.

ffffffuuuuuuuuck offffffffff

She says Labour are in the clutches of Corbyn and his supporters. Even if the leader were to change, the direction of policy would not.

oh noes, imagine the horror of having coherent, consistent policy positions

maybe they could relaunch their racist mugs to reel her back in

All good because this Swinson anti-Labour shite is more likely to force Remainiacs to vote Labour than not. She's a dimwit.

yeah, i unironically love to see it

The more people who understand that it's a straight choice between Labour and the Tories, and there's no prospect of the Lib Dems operating as a 'moderating influence' on the former, the better.

I bet there must be loads of libdem mp's/members who have realised she's a complete idiot by now - if they didn't already know.

all i want for xmas is for her to lose her seat

(and full communism in the uk as a little stocking-stuffer obv)

People sometimes accuse me of trying to talk to both sides at once in the Brexit debate; to people who voted leave and remain.

You know what? They’re right.

Why would I only want to talk to half the country?

I don’t want to live in half a country.

Anybody seeking to become prime minister must talk to and listen to the whole country.

Labour stands not just for the 52 per cent or the 48 per cent, but for the 99 per cent.

It’s Labour that’s determined to bring a divided country together.

Labour stands not just for the 52 per cent or the 48 per cent, but for the 99 per cent.

yesssss