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

Tell me about it, Mark Francois has more brains than JRM.

They do but only with cunts tbf

maitlis must have meant “interview of”

must have

People are too impatient for pivots! Patience!

And this is a bigger issue than tuition fees.

― xyzzzz__,

To their voters? We'll see, not convinced of that one.

Except they also know what happened last time they were a moderating influence?

on a separate note Lewis Goodall has been really good for Sky News - shame he’s going to Newsnight tbh.

I reckon it is, yeah. Cuts across the age range a lot more I'd say.

xxp the membership and many of the party. MPs lost seats over this

Did the membership of the Lib Dems has decline significantly after/during the coalition? I don't know but I'm guessing not.

Dropped by a third.

on a separate note Lewis Goodall has been really good for Sky News - shame he’s going to Newsnight tbh.

Dropped by a third.

No worries, it was above pre-coalition membership within 4 years and is now almost three times the size.

xp to the Lewis Goodall tweet ob.

_on a separate note Lewis Goodall has been really good for Sky News - shame he’s going to Newsnight tbh._


Don’t quote me on this but Sky is generally a lot better than the BBC - BBC needs Goodall more.

/Dropped by a third./

No worries, it was above pre-coalition membership within 4 years and is now almost three times the size.

(xp) Sky is generally much better despite Kay Burley and despite deciding to slap the strapline Brexit Election on everything - I think they might rethink the latter as the campaign goes on.

This tweet by Goodall merges both discussions in the thread

Jo Swinson says Labour and the Tories “merge into one on Brexit”

This is a hard position to sustain. Labour are committed to a referendum in all circumstances. The Tories are committed to no referendum in all circumstances.

What am I missing?

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 5, 2019

time to wheel out my two favourite kay burley moments. seeing her in the supermarket instructing her assistant which things to pick off the shelves and put in the trolley.

second, on air, asking someone with peremptory contempt “Is that grease to the mill for your opponents?”
“I’m sorry, pardon?”
“Is it GREASE. TO. THE. MILL. for your *opponents*, Mr Whateveritwas”

"the entire eastern seaboard of the united states has been decimated in a terrorist attack” was pretty good tbf

also that time she tried to choke out another reporter

We are taking legal action against ITV for their outrageous decision to exclude Jo Swinson, the strongest voice for millions of Remainers across the country, from their TV debates.

Add your name if you think Corbyn and Johnson must #DebateHer ⬇️https://t.co/gwvvUnGMNy pic.twitter.com/itsviayW8p

— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) November 5, 2019

So they want a mass debate?

Must Debate Her omfg xpost

https://i.postimg.cc/BvxBqrmJ/ECDB4-D3-B-ED5-A-4-AB5-BFCB-BAE543-F0509-A.jpg I can’t

Seriously I thought there was laws about not publishing actual lies in your campaign material

Leaked plans show Boris and Corbyn will be placed 75 yards ahead of DCI Swinson, who will walk forward purposely towards her spot alongside them, before arresting both

get an mp who will wants to stop brexit

I’m not sure anyone’s paying attention to the actual content here tbf

THE STRONGEST VOICE FOR MILLIONS OF REMAINERS is SILENCED.

*Swinson is literally e-ve-ry-where*

Nult for PM

he will have wanted to stop brexit

The BBC man will have been disappointed by his failure to have will haven't stopped Brexit

Nult for PM

Greg Wallace for Secretary of State
Paul Martin for Chancellor of the Exchequer
John Terry at Home Dept
Richard Madeley at Defence
Blobby at Health and Social Care
Drew Pritchard for Secretary of State of Wales
Wayne Rooney for Minister without Portfolio iirc
Jeremy Clarkson for Minister of Transport

Sorted.

John Terry at Home Dept

Commonwealth, United Nations and Trade

beautiful

haha

a cabinet of all the tarrants

that shower aren't fit to polish blobby's blobs

maitlis deleted her tweet

lol, guess it was sincere

what a fucking goon

i've never seen even the slightest trace of humour or irony from maitlis on newsnight so it makes sense

More likely to be deleted if nobody was getting the joke I’d say. Or hope, tbh

To be fair to her I think there was at least a 50% chance that Maitlis wasn’t sincere and just thought a second Tory MP blaming the victims of Grenfell was a good opportunity to wheel out a wry sideways glance and a bit of snark.

If we didn't realize it already, the Tories are going fully Trump this time around.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/05/tories-unrepentant-about-doctored-video-of-keir-starmer-tv-appearance

Christ, imagine being on the wrong side of a debate Piers Morgan is in. Probably sticking up for a fellow Arsenal fan.

you know a lot abo

the guidelines for bbc staff using their personal social accounts during elections are very strict so if she actually wrote what she meant to write it’s hard to see how it’s defensible either way

i should say, news and editorial staff

Emily Maitlis lives near Grenfell and did a ton of volunteering and general mucking-in as part of the community effort to help victims. I suspect misfired snark.

the guidelines for bbc staff using their personal social accounts during elections are very strict so if she actually wrote what she meant to write it’s hard to see how it’s defensible either way

that may be true for civil servants but for the bbc the guidance is already in effect. i wouldn’t be surprised if maitlis got a call from her exec.

Started this afternoon