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

My guess is that a significant chunk of those Brexit party voters, when deprived of a Brexit Party candidate to vote for, will either vote UKIP is they can or just not vote at all.

I will be one of millions of people who will not vote at all in the General Election. That breaks my heart. I have voted in every election since I was 18 and been involved in politics for over a decade. And I have been disenfranchised by my own party.

— Alexandra Phillips MEP (@BrexitAlex) November 12, 2019

How many UKIP candidates are even bothering to stand at this point? Is it even triple figures?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50387254

He told the BBC: "I would have expected, having put country before party, to perhaps have got something back from the Conservatives.

"But no, nothing is good enough for them."

He added: "It is clear to me it is not a Leave majority they want in Parliament, it is just a Tory one."

Apparently, he wants Boris to stand Conservative candidates down in favour of Brexit party, in those Labour Marginals!

aww, diddums

https://news.sky.com/story/labour-says-it-has-been-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack-11859823

I know polls are often just more noise, but I'm interested to see how this stacks up, it would be hilarious if large numbers of the votes caused the re-birth of the UKIP bacilli and significant numbers also went for the rage-quit option. So far farage and johnson seem to be taking the direction these votes go in for granted, unless Boris is suddenly going to declare he's going for the Hardest Brexit ever - build a wall to keep medicine and foreigns out forever.

He added: "It is clear to me it is not a Leave majority they want in Parliament, it is just a Tory one."

Wow, clarity!

I'm guessing a lot of those spent-up ex candidates aren't going to be ex-candidates in about half an hour...

I think what you’re seeing from this reaction is for the Conservative party it is about them as a party, not about delivering Brexit.

lol how dare they! farage has spent his entire professional life crowbarring up every plank in the right-wing platform not labelled racism brexit and has finally lived to see it; but narrow platforms are easy to fall off of

build a wall to keep medicine and foreigns out forever

let's crowdfund a tower defence mobile game where you protect the white cliffs of Dover from invading foreign medicine supplies

I think I recall calzino saying a few days ago that he'd made a donation - I wonder, are ilxors (who are able to donate) making any donations?

i should rly. where's the link

to be clear i'm talking about PHARMVILLE BOMBARDIERS not Labour here

no i am talking about Labour lol

https://donation.labour.org.uk/page/contribute/donate-fa-gdpr/

I was going donate a 20 spot but it helpfully suggested to me £23 is the average

chucked in my 23

idk if can join labour though - think i'm still a green member? idk i don't really know how it works do they just renew you, i joined like 7 years ago and have done nothing since

they keep sending me emails though

did donate a while back, probably will do again before end of the month

Donating now. I also volunteered as a translator for Momentum tho who they want to reach that is a UK citizen/entitled to vote and yet only speaks Portuguese I don't really know.

idk if can join labour though - think i'm still a green member?

friend of mine joined labour when it was time to get Corbyn in and is still a member of the greens regardless, he's wondered if he's gonna get kicked out too but so far nothing

only get kicked out if you like the green party’s tweets iirc

I unthinkingly kick Momentum a few quid pretty much every time they email asking about it. I'm going to have so much accidental blood on my hands when we've got those goolags everywhere

[daydreams of the Sgt. Biscuits Memorial Reeducation Camp]

Donated to Labour and to Momentum. Member of both too. Will give more.
My other half got kicked from Labour for signing something to do with the Women's Equality Party so it def can happen.

Whatever you donate to Momentum they seem to email you back a few weeks later asking for the same amount again ha

Donated to Labour and to Momentum. Member of both too. Will give more.
My other half got kicked from Labour for signing something to do with the Women's Equality Party so it def can happen.

Labour should put calz on a retainer for this.

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I agree, but for the sake of domestic harmony I rarely make the point.

I married a melt tbh. But I love her and as a responsible man will take the children to visit her at the reeducation camp.

trying to save money for reasons but I guess I could, like, not buy the bottle of Kraken I've been daydreaming of and then I'll have £23 for some gulags as well as a healthier liver

that's the downside of an xmas election maybe, guess Tory donors don't have to think whether they can still afford a house and xmas prezzies for everyone before they throw in their money

(also the downside of accidentally (un)marrying into a family which believes birthdays and Christmases are grand events that need to involve large piles of presents and large sums of money thrown at them, ugh, find it hard to deal with but that's for another thread)

Understandable.

Thanks for calz for telling me the suggested average, have chipped in (as the email says about 50 times).

my buy my parents party membership for christmas, 2 birds 1 stone and all that

mymight

To clarify my friend's speculations were about getting kicked out of the greens! He'd definitley choose Labour out of the two.

have donated to LAB and momentum 👍🏻

I married a melt tbh. But I love her and as a responsible man will take the children to visit her at the reeducation camp.

― woof, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 12:01 (fifteen minutes ago) link

Reeducation camp visit for wood and family on Xmas day 🎄

*woof

my buy my parents party membership for christmas, 2 birds 1 stone and all that

The last time I saw my mam she turned to me straight-out-of-this-thread style and said “what is the story with Jeremy Corbyn? Does he support Brexit or not?”

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I doubt we'd be allowed a visit before Easter. She'd still be spouting the counter-revolutionary lies of the 'politically homeless' at Christmas.

thanks to calzino for his virtue signals

I married a melt tbh. But I love her and as a responsible man will take the children to visit her at the reeducation camp.

― woof,

How does she feel about your membership of Hamas?

When has this garbage country not been open for business?

Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, says he's looking for post-Brexit Britain as a "Singapore on steroids" that's "open for business" https://t.co/tbUma5nw7K pic.twitter.com/4t2lwp2Ddm

— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) November 12, 2019

Is that advertising industry sex pest Martin Sorrell?

Tried to chip in my 23 quid but the form won't allow me because my postcode isn't valid, it says (even though I filled in the country where I live).

SEE? Cromryn doesn't want my filthy EU money

Ancient outdated red tape like the Representation of the People Act 1832 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 is still holding business back.

Fuck giving money to a political party, let alone joining one tbh.

where do they grow these lads

Unreal pic.twitter.com/LlIq4msdoR

— Matt Turner (@MattTurner4L) November 12, 2019