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

booming post

Oh look, Pret have just brought their Xmas sandwich out, I'm a Lib Dem now

booming post rendered fatally ambiguous bcz the referent for the "it" in the last line is not well nailed down (it's "voting" not "cynicism")

lol, tt remarked to me only a few hours ago that Wimbledon is opening a Leon

seemed unambiguously what you said, mark!

Makes sense Mark. Makes it difficult for LibDems to scoop up 'politically homeless' because that means switching identity - there's nothing tangible they can offer to persuade people to switch because its nothing to do with the tangible (and also they're not really offering anything tangible anyway)

"disgruntled and dry-drunk joyless"

there go i if not for the grace of cheap booze

These voters seem too clustered geographically to matter also.

The closest anyone has come to the genuine centre ground* is probably Farage but is far too right wing economically to have made a genuine go at it

*supports death penalty but not bothered enough about it to make a thing out of it

That list on the stupid poster seems pretty good, but... wouldn't it be more likely to get Corbyn rather than Johnson to agree with that program?

Could it be so simple as that the succes of Macron has made them lose their minds?

can swap out death penalty out for nukes or Brexit, whatever takes your fancy

I think they lost their minds way before Macron's victory lap

farage doesn't talk politics because he's seen the limits of UKIP as a right wing protest party. But any illusions that the BXP are made out of different stuff won't last long. I noticed a candidate yesterday had deleted his twitter account but somebody dug up loads of absolute fash posts, including referring to asylum seekers as Gimme-grunts.

That BXP illusion lasted, what, 10 weeks? if that. Branding was good but should have gone with red. Was a good blue tbf but gave the game away

yeah i should have said "didn't" last long!

I think S Bush actually had a colour wheel and said aqua was the logical choice...

looking forward to anvil's Horrible Left-Wing Party, the first step is to convince Vardy to quit football but maybe his wife will do now

4-5-1, FDR up top

People who are soft left in my peer group/London media bubble will mostly vote Lab with some degree of nose-holding if they don’t like Corbyn, but won’t if they find him antisemitic or are ex-Labs who voted Owen Smith who are also more exercised about left antisemitism out loud than that practiced on the right. They are also making a lot of noise about a Lib Dem vote in the general because: Brexit but with every Jo Swinson fuckup they get a little quieter about that. There are a few TERFs and quiet Islamophobes in that grouping, who don’t like woke people younger than them.

Like imago I voted LD in 2010 (after not voting in 01 or 05) and Green in 2015 (v safe Labour seat). Now Marxists play me close like butter play toast .

There are a few TERFs and quiet Islamophobes in that grouping, who don’t like woke people younger than them.

― coup de twat (suzy),

This TERF thing is the most blue tick thing imaginable!

In the UK at least - they don't go great guns for them elsewhere.

There are a few TERFs and quiet Islamophobes in that grouping, who don’t like woke people younger than them.

this is a key demographic in online spaces. the people on my football forum who really go for me and call me a worthless idiot (and worse) aren't the right-wingers so much as the middle-aged alpha male blokes who espouse an old-fashioned anti-racism and clearly once were something of firebrands, but who now react with violent fury when countenanced with their former stance relumed, rejigged and definitely a shade or two more intersectional

this is what I got after calmly analysing why he might have gone after me unprovoked when I wasn't even posting to the thread:

Piss off Leuth you absolute pillock. Don't ever compare yourself to me - I have the benefits of critical thought, reason and intelligence on my side. You can only regurgitate bilge, bait imbeciles and incite arguments.

You are an intellectual child, thrashing his arms about blindly in a sea of privileged socialist rhetoric, who will still be screaming about some perceived injustice as the rest of us attempt to find our way out of the existential societal crisis we find ourselves in.

You are no better than the alt-right trolls that are paid to antagonise online.

these people are not worth engaging with, obviously, but I do wonder what they do in the sanctity of the ballot box. one hopes they curse under their breath and then vote labour

sounds like a reet supercilious prick, you should invite them here!

p sure that's Turrican tbh

lol

as I say, a certain type

Yep!

https://chriswilliamsonmp.com/2018/09/04/labour-mps-shouldnt-fear-reselection-itll-keep-us-rooted-in-the-real-world/

lol nashwan.

Wasn't 'thrashing his arms about blindly in a sea of privileged socialist rhetoric' a rejected Richard Dawson lyric?

as the rest of us attempt to find our way out of the existential societal crisis we find ourselves in.

the great thing about whatever sci-fi novel this guy is trapped inside is that you know he's going to be toast by the penultimate chapter

I am certainly an irritating wise-guy at times (who knew) but it's interesting to see who really loses their grip when faced with actual arguments in favour of Corbyn

as if the LDs new logo is a dodgy bar chart (where their colour isn’t even the largest bar)

Today I’ve been in the UK for 10 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days. Yesterday I found out that the @UKHomeOffice decided to refuse my application for Indefinite Leave to Remain. Thread for details but basically #HostileEnvironment

— Asiya Islam (@asiyaislam) November 6, 2019

That BXP illusion lasted, what, 10 weeks?

10 milliseconds.

It lasted until just after Peterborough

there was a point when they were polling low 20's and some fools were talking about the 4 party era!

sounds like a reet supercilious prick, you should invite them here!

my football forum has a total melt as the most prominent mod. I give him some shit for being a Billy Connolly fan (he's trying to launch a side-career as a stand-up himself) and using the phrase politically homeless too frequently. But tbf to the nauseating tool he has perma-banned all the neo-nazi posters.

He was boasting about forcing his kid to listen to James Bob and saying he learned a valuable lesson about fact-checking x0===

I don't think I know what a James Bob is

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mr jame sob

Twitter stuff?

big legend of melt talk radio, never heard him tbh!

I don't think I know what a James Bob is

- Marley Bob

Oh right, I only listen to our state broadcaster so I don't come across these types fortunately.

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ah, a fellow smooth radio enthusiast

same, but I have seen enough of him on twitter to know he's a complete cretin who'd fit in fine at the beeb

Bloody nora, that thread Calz linked to is shameful.

Sajid just said that asking questions about JRM was disrespectful to the victims of Grenfell

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It is.

I think I liked it better when I thought being a Jamesbob listener was something to do with Carter USM tbh

(err xp, that thread is shameful, asking questions is not...)

fair play to the tories, they just keep finding new ways to fuck up