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

Same source who told me about Watson’s resignation says they’ve also heard other ‘moderate’ MPs are due to announce walk outs. We’ll see.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 6, 2019

People think he wants to run for West Mids mayor so it’s not in his interest to burn his bridges yet

oh noes, not the moderates

it's gonna be impossible to replace all this talent bleeding away from the party to spend more time with their corporate gigs

I bet no moderate in a safe seat will be walking, because they know can easily be replaced by a sand-bag with a red rosette

Watson stood for reselection so it’s something that’s come up recently. Hmmmm.

papers threatening to leak his Last.FM playlists?

not convinced a series of phased walk-outs of moderates is going to have the effect they think it will - might get some play in the media about the party in turmoil but more likely effect (given current buoyancy of feeling) is that it will (i) motivate the grassroots and (ii) mean corbyn-friendly candidates are parachuted by the NEC into the vacated seats, further motivating the activists who would have been having to campaign for known-wreckers

in any case............ they probably just won't walk out (as per)

The most high profile/damaging moderates (ie ones that people have heard of) are out and campaigning already. Let’s see.

lol @ LibDems putting quotes boosting them that attributed to The Graun on their election leaflets that are actually Jo Swinson quotes!

sorry shit at typing today, even my hands are becoming drunk with too much good news to adsorb in one day!

Go home @LibDems, you’re drunk. pic.twitter.com/vvCFIZOU8d

— Michael Walker (@michaeljswalker) November 6, 2019

Kevin Schofield updating labour-sources.xls pic.twitter.com/WBJprgm4Zy

— Ben (@moleyhtfc) November 6, 2019

MP gets in touch. Says PLP “are stunned and furious in equal measure. Briefing from shadow cabinet sources that MPs are leaving is paranoid nonsense. They should get on with attacking the Tories, not Labour politicians who are knocking on doors and getting on with our jobs.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 6, 2019

yeah - tone far too conciliatory

SB's summary, for tidiness' sake:

Some quick thoughts on that beyond "Well, knock me down with a feather": a twofold victory for Corbyn: https://t.co/WExQC8lE9O

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) November 6, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fygeRcO_yls

chris williamson ✅
roger godsiff ✅
tom watson ✅
unai emery ⃞

Is Poch good again?

and more good news for today, I get a strong feeling Poch will manage to keep Spurs up :p

Another source: “it’s not part of a wider moderate plot. Nobody knew it was coming.@

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 6, 2019

i doubt it's a coordinated plot tbh

Why is this thought

What if 20 moderate Lab and Cons deserted to the Lib Dems right now?
What chance Swinson as PM?

— Darren Elgar (@ElgarDarren) November 6, 2019

Corbynites will be celebrating, but losing Grima Wormtongue is a massive blow to the Men of Rohan | Comment Is Free pic.twitter.com/iy1sLPSmp1

— Election Bane (@banebutwoke) November 6, 2019

excellent

Many green-fingered tweeters pointing out that horseradish is an invasive plant that takes over your garden. Puts a whole new spin on things..

— Emily Ashton (@elashton) November 6, 2019

Wokingham, constituency voting intention:

CON: 42% (-15)
LDEM: 38% (+22)
LAB: 12% (-13)
BREX: 5% (+5)
GRN: 3% (+1)

via @Survation, 01 - 04 Nov
Chgs. w/ GE2017 result

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 6, 2019

Redwood!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIt34xhXkAEqxgx?format=jpg&name=small

🐦[Many green-fingered tweeters pointing out that horseradish is an invasive plant that takes over your garden. Puts a whole new spin on things..
— Emily Ashton (@elashton) November 6, 2019🕸]🐦

*red wine drinky motion*
*Amy Pond kills Madame Kovarian GIF*

xp any comment I make to this would be libellous

Country for Sale: UK Conservative Party has received a surge in donations from Russians in recent months. Donors with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin have donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the party.
Imagine media ire if Labour did this.https://t.co/y56ItcNrSL

— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) November 6, 2019

Gove will shat a rubik's cube when he reads this, and then try and use his vac to clean up the mess no doubt.

chris williamson get to fuck challenge

He wants his redundancy payment.

I saw a 2018 Laura Pidcock post sticking up for CW. Hope to fuck she has seen him for what he really is since then

Williamson handing a marginal to the Tories. A cunt till the end

still has #GTTO in his display name

Sure nobody will vote for him without a red ribbon.

Ugh, hope that massive swing to LDs in Wokingham is more to do with Redwood and it not being a particularly realistic target for Labour than indicative of bigger picture but now I'm nervous again.

The Business Insider article is predictably sloppy. For example:

Other donors include the Russian-born banker Lev Mikheev and the energy tycoon Alexander Temerko.

Temerko once said he and his “friend” Johnson would “plot” and drink wine together at Johnson’s parliamentary office, when Johnson was the UK’s foreign secretary, Reuters reported.

Temerko is ex-Yukos and has been accused of defrauding the Russian state / subject to extradition proceedings. He successfully fought them off by arguing that they were politically motivated and part of Putin’s ongoing attempt to expropriate the company. The conflation of pro and anti government Russians - or more accurately Brits with Russian heritage is not a route Labour and the Lib Dem’s should go down. Exploring why billionaires with vast amounts of largely unearned money parked in London are so keen to keep the Tories in power might be.

Ugh, hope that massive swing to LDs in Wokingham is more to do with Redwood and it not being a particularly realistic target for Labour than indicative of bigger picture but now I'm nervous again.

Ugh, hope that massive swing to LDs in Wokingham is more to do with Redwood and it not being a particularly realistic target for Labour than indicative of bigger picture but now I'm nervous again.

*gasp* I mean good

Remember all the fuss about Conservative data-gathering site https://t.co/0LQbEAqYoC?

Well fuss no longer, because it's disappeared. That url now redirects to the Conservative home page

Either that or the whole thing was a dream. I'm still not sure

— Rowland Manthorpe (@rowlsmanthorpe) November 6, 2019

Look I know this is very two minutes hate but

Sudden thought.

Watson taking people with him to start a new party?

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) November 6, 2019

tbf we haven't had a new party now for a couple of months

also that's totally what tweeting's for

lol listening to the bbc talking about how watson news is not a good start for their election campaign

I'm joining the labour party.

there's an international clp for folk living outside of the uk, i have just discovered.

I'm joining the labour party.

there's an international clp for folk living outside of the uk, i have just discovered.