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

Please please please keep sending Cleverly out for interviews, O Tory Party HQ.

Pessimism corner: Tory campaign wasn't very impressive in 2015, but they won a majority. It was shockingly inept in 2017, and they got their biggest vote in a quarter of a century. Guess we may as well clown on them while the clowning is good tho :-/

Now THIS is holding the powerful to account pic.twitter.com/0m3yGFvqwk

— Owen REGISTER TO VOTE Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) November 6, 2019

I guess the point of that telegraph thing is to throw 'kulaks' out there, when many people have little or no idea of exactly what kulaks were and what Stalin did to them. This then justifies follow up pieces in all media, 'so, what were these kulaks the PM was talking about and why is Jeremy Corbyn like Stalin, look, here's a photo of him laughing next to a picture of horrifyingly emaciated peasant children from Voronezh province.

lmao, get his ass kay

I just keep telling people that kulaks is russian for paedos, doing my bit for the campaign!

^ other people bring me problems, calzino brings me solutions

Why on earth did Cleverley do that? Just bizarre..

Hope the answer is something relatable like just couldn't be fucked, enveloping futility of all human endeavour

Kay <3

one presumes he was guided into non-attendance by his vast reserves of cowardice common sense

he had another interview with Julia Harley-Brewer lined up, why get bodied when you can instead be served up open goals?

because he's used to doing bbC interviews where he tells them what questions to ask him whilst justin webb gives him a back massage and lol Murdoch tv is what passes for unbiased political coverage these days

when is the Eddie Mair interview? finish the job this time

Johnson building up to a "load of kulaks" punchline in the TV debate

Corbyn owns an allotment lol he is a damn kulak

can one 'own' an allotment tho

makes u think

Murdoch hasn't owned Sky for over a year now fwiw

never mind the kulaks

darren mcgavin IS kulak: the night stalker

who would be the kulak equivalent in modern british society? self-employed tradespeople?

small business tyrant dipshits for sure

landlords

was going to say more like mr. pimlico plumber but maybe he isn't actually an "employer" and his "employees" probably have to provide all their own tools

i look forward to an explosion of class consciousness across the united kingdom as people identify modern-day kulaks and realise what horrible sacks of shit they are

trying to decide best punishment for use of "wealth creator"

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a+

Kudos!

FPed obviously

trying to decide best punishment for use of "wealth creator"

there's one that starts with 'g' that's right on the tip of my tongue...

vigorous pointing of fingers in your general direction nv

feel like anyone who owns a business and resists a minimum wage hike because the 'extra expense' would allegedly mean they'd have to shut up shop would probably belong in a modern k-word definition

cops ban on ER protests in london has been declared illegal, fu cops

My dread is Tory voters will agree with the Telegraph piece and prob. agree with JRM re Grenfell residents; and the Labour-all-my-lifers who are voting Tory to GET BREXIT DONE ignore everything else.

The whole Corbyn is an IRA/Hamas pro-Iranian/Russian supporting Czech spy and Marxist thing fell completely on its arse in the last GE, so why are they stupid enough to believe plainly absurd comparisons to Stalin have any chance of succeeding? I'm seriously expecting one of these idiots to point out the full name of the Nazi Party was the National Socialist Party at some point in this campaign.

The Venezuela references have at least stopped (for now) since countries in the same region with right wing governments started going tits up.

Nah, everything's fucked now all those Labour-voting Telegraph readers have been turned.

Swinson was also pushing the nat sec thing yesterday, complaining that she wouldn't trust Corbyn to nuke everyone. I'd guess that it's at least moderately effective in seeding doubt about his credentials as a fit leader, even if nobody believes any of the individual claims.

If anything's going to cut through it's not going to be 'wah Venezuela Stalin IRA Hamas' it's going to be "these people can't be trusted to competently run the economy".

If we actually get a five year gap between elections ever again that might be sufficient time for the focus and spread of desperate deranged dying print media front pages to finally stop. To just be replaced by screenshots of tweets and homepages I guess but still.

I don't even think "Labour can't be trusted on the economy" will work, it's been nearly a decade since they've been in charge of it.

I thought this campaign would be relentlessly positive "we will create Jerusalem with Brexit" plus tax cuts plus an aspirational "you can be a billionaire" too. That might still happen but so far it's Stalin + Grenfell victims have only themselves to blame.

from graun's live blog:

The PM’s audience with the Queen is little more than a pointless photo opportunity.

In the past prime ministers who wanted to hold a general election had to ask the Queen to dissolve parliament, and so a trip to Buckingham Palace was always part of the election ritual.

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act means that the timing of an election is no longer in the gift of the Queen. This election is happening because, in order to get round the FTPA, parliament passed legislation, the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019.

But since the passing of the FTPA prime ministers have continued to insist on driving up the Mall to the palace at the start of an election, as if they believe that voters won’t believe it’s a real election unless they have seen the Queen somehow sanction it.

Javid apparently furious that Mark Sedwill is refusing to provide costings for Labour's policies.

"Although the manifestos aren’t published yet, Chancellor Sajid Javid’s recent spending round suggests government spending could be 41.3 percent of GDP by 2023, while Labour’s stated plans could take it to 43.3"

According to the Resolution Foundation, who I admit I've never heard of - but if it's that close, Labour would be well advised to ask people what they would rather be getting for their money.

As I understand it the Tories would actually be borrowing more, since they wouldn't raise taxes. Which would give Labour's plans a 'better' report card from the IFS. So...... bring it on?

It’s being reported that Priti Patel is going to be the face of the election campaign and might stand in for Johnson if there is an all-party leaders’ debate, adding weight to the theory that they want to lose.

shhhhhhh don’t tell them she is bad and hated and can’t think on her feet and irredeemably smug

The problem with the last Tory campaign was rigid adherence to the same messages long after people had started mocking them for it. The problem this time is more likely to be a lack of message discipline, there are too many fuckwits in high-profile positions who can't be relied upon not to just start shooting their mouths off.