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

Sutton i mean

Current Polling Compared to This Time in the 2017 Campaign:

CON: 38.5% (-8.6)
LAB: 28.4% (-0.1)
LDM: 15.9% (+6.5)
BXP: 8.9% (+2.5)*
GRN: 3.7% (+0.7)

*Changes w/ UKIP vote share. pic.twitter.com/QQw4v1UuwC

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) November 11, 2019

Tony Watt, the most outspokenly pro-Labour footballer on Twitter as far as I know, is quite pally with Sutton. yeah the Celtic connection but I think there's something to Sutton having a decent political outlook for all his cockish comments about football itself

Chris Sutton, you say? OHHHHHH COME ON!!!!!!!!!

CELTIC SCENES!!!!!!!!!!!

CHRIS SUTTON HAS LOST THE PLOT ON COMMENTARY!

AMAZING 🍀🍀🍀

Olivier Ntcham scores the winner in the 95th minute 🙌

Rome conquered. pic.twitter.com/p2YBcy9hvK

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) November 7, 2019

He hates Rangers even more than most Celtic fans do, so that's one feather in his cap.

some finish that

obvs pro Celtic but them smashing Lazio makes it even better

Thanks to the LibDems, university tuition now costs £27,000 https://t.co/7JGv1X1Qg6

— Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) November 11, 2019

can't believe Brian Eno doesn't want to campaign on doorsteps for continuity austerity with added skills wallets

Can I just have the money?

Those amounts would barely get you a first aid certificate and Level 1 Basic Food Hygiene tbh

3K at 55 to train you for the job you'll have to keep doing until you die, good shout

Nah seriously a great bunch of lads I don't know why people are mean to them, whining povs need to stfu

does £4k even cover a short course on the correct way to sweep rubble these days?

Thanks to Skills Wallets i got my asbestos awareness card and am now qualified to enter the asbestos ball-fighting championship where the top prize is a full time job on minimum living wage without the zero hours conditions!

Nah but they're a proper grown-ups party for mature, thoughtful adults who love the EU and wallets and maintaining degrading levels of poverty.

Sam Gyimah accusing Emma Dent-Coad of bearing responsibility for Grenfell is something else.

https://www.cityam.com/general-election-2019-sam-gyimah-suggests-labour-rival-dent-coad-part-of-cladding-conversations-that-led-to-grenfell-tower-tragedy/

jesus wept, I preferred when he was a tory without the orange strides - but still a complete cunt.

He seems to have this weird idea that minority parties have the power to implement policy, must be the Lib Dem Kool Aid

There is so much dubious bullshit talked and reported on (in a completely disingenuous manner) about how drastic cuts from central government somehow is blameless from the appalling results it causes, and oh yeah New Labour also approved of it, so shut up complaining.

I like it when the Tories of various colours try and use shitty Nu Lab policies to beat Corbyn with like it's the same party now.

> Nigel Farage admits he was offered a peerage 48 hours before election U-turn

Is this legal?

Listening to the news about the possibility of Farage withdrawing from all but safe Labour seats is a pretty depressing start to the day.

I don't know that it should be all that depressing. The main reason he is withdrawing is because he thinks he's going to get poor numbers. Leave voters are generally chill with what Boris is offering. And whats the point of standing in only safe seats? Maybe the public aren't that bothered about brexit after all

think he may withdraw from further seats ? am sanguine either way

see that some of the candidates he has stiffed still intend to stand as independent brexit candidates

Yeah I am not entirely convinced them standing in Labour-Tory marginals benefits the Tories more? But we’ll see.

Re: those independent candidates!

....and the rest. I employed a full time campaign coordinator last week on a 2 month contract which has cost me thousands. I also have an outbuilding FULL of Brexit Party leaflets and signs ready for next weeks launch.

Nigel owes me over TEN GRAND. https://t.co/KxRlVLIyoZ

— Wayne BayIey (@Wayne_BayIey) November 11, 2019

It has to mean a gain in votes for the Tories. Whether it's a significant gain in significant seats...well, we'll see.

Poor old Nige coming across like a deflated balloon this morning, gone the cheeky chappie with the pint of lager beer to hand. Nigel Farage is no longer a fucking hero.

sunak on today in front of a live audience... are they laughing at him ?!

lol they were

Sun, Mail, Times all falling for Farage to pull out of every marginal

not sure BXP and CON votes are completely fungible. there must be a lot of BXP voters who are 1 ex-LAB never tory or 2 anti-govt change voters

He was listlessly still attacking the Tories this morning while at the same time trying to convince the viewers and himself that a video of Boris waffling away shot in two minutes on a Sunday night represented a genuine change in direction by the Tories. Pathetic.

Ex-Labour Never Tory. There used to be a lot of them in Scotland once upon a time.

Yeah I think there will be enough to get Tories the marginals they need. They wouldn't have voted Labour for at least two elections and they are quite a bit way into being converted by voting UKIP already.

The only hope would be enough Brexit Party independents standing.

they all vote for the SNP now

big education policy today

Lol 'hope' it's so grim..

Idk, Farage knows the shit he’s saying is subject to change and reversal as and when, but the people he’s stirred up talking about Boris’s “surrender deal” aren’t going to go along with him on that. They could stay home, they could spoil their ballots, but they could also just turn on him (as they seem to be?). They didn’t want to win the Euro elections, they’ve been spending the past few months trolling Labour MPs and remain leaning MPs with taunts of being “the silent majority” and now what? They’ve had all that taken off them, and they are just going to meekly vote Tory? Some will, obviously, but it’s a lot to take for granted especially when it’s so obvious that Farage (as was always clear) will be the only beneficiary.

they all vote for the SNP now

Who's been voting Tory in Scotland for the last few elections then?

I haven’t seen any analysis on this so could be well wrong but my feeling is that the BXP cohort overlaps strongly with that point during the referendum where the turnout went too high, if anyone remembers. Where the turnout was pushed higher by people who never voted or weren’t regular voters turning out in numbers.

/they all vote for the SNP now/

Who's been voting Tory in Scotland for the last few elections then?

Scottish voting is wild tbf, have seen more than a few Tories in Paul Sweeney’s constituency indicating they’ll lend him their votes to keep the SNP out.

Having had all those "There's more pandas in Edinburgh Zoo than Tory MPs in Scotland" jokes blow up in our faces, excuse me if I'm wary of the They'll Never Vote Tory Up There narrative.

“people are reporting seeing people coming out of estates in sunderland to vote, where people haven’t voted for years” - IDS, minutes after the exit poll came in

xp

ya was just being glib.

there was basically one dynamic at play in the last election in scotland tho: unionist Vs nat. it made it a lot easier for votes to organise into tactical blocs. how it will play out when you have unionist Vs nat + leave Vs remain + LAB’s big retail offer... difficult to predict

Me the last few years: there is NO such thing as a personal vote
Gapesy when he gets back in after his combination of red leaflets & tweeting at best for Britain to make him the tactical voting choice: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIpDSQHWkAAnfGm?format=png&name=large

please I’m lactose intolerant

I like Chris Sutton.

The puzzle is why it took him so long to become a BBC pundit.

there was basically one dynamic at play in the last election in scotland tho: unionist Vs nat. it made it a lot easier for votes to organise into tactical blocs. how it will play out when you have unionist Vs nat + leave Vs remain + LAB’s big retail offer... difficult to predict

You mean in the wake of a divisive referendum the result of a referendum came to be a distorting factor in the subsequent GE? Yeah, one-off, that'll never happen again..