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

I can easily imagine this being spun as the complaint of 'slothful, sore losers' or some such.

tom........ read the full thread

Yeah, I don't read twitter threads tbh.

ok boomer

Boomed so hard you could hear me for miles around.

Boom boom boom boom
I want you in my room

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 42% (+3)
LAB: 28% (+2)
LDEM: 15% (-2)
BREX: 4% (-6)
GRN: 4% (-)

via @YouGov, 11 - 12 Nov
Chgs. w/ 08 Nov.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 12, 2019

YouGov cracks out the new methodology post-BXP standown

Interesting thread. To put this in a UK context, it's worth remembering that the Labour surge in 2017 was down to the 25-44 age group more than the 18-24 year-olds that fascinated the media, & the upper-end of that motivated cohort is growing (the Tories were only dominant >55). https://t.co/sGhiAmelhw
— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) November 12, 2019

interestingly, and perhaps why labour didn't experience a corbyn surge in scotland, this is the age demographic that voted yes (youngest voters leaned yoon)

boomers who failed to boom is a good descriptor of the labour core vote
🐦[Interesting thread. To put this in a UK context, it’s worth remembering that the Labour surge in 2017 was down to the 25-44 age group more than the 18-24 year-olds that fascinated the media, & the upper-end of that motivated cohort is growing (the Tories were only dominant >55). https://t.co/sGhiAmelhw🕸
— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) November 12, 2019🕸]🐦

The actual quote from the article btw:
"More to the point, millennials are a lot like boomers who just never got a chance to boom."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-12/millennials-approach-middle-age-without-benefit-of-economic-boom

don’t you’ll upset tom again

i'm a Gen Xer who never got the chance to X ffs

it's weird the pundit on the BBC was saying these DDoS attacks on Labour are no big deal, probably would say that whichever party they targeted, right?

I mean tbh ddos attacks are fairly easy, you could make the case they were trying to feel out how strong Labour’s defences are but it sounds like a short outage so...?

i don't have any conspiracy theories i just feel like if it had happened to the Tories we'd already be at war with Russia

can’t go to war against Russia if their oligarchs stop funding you

Was just about to say…

appearances have to be maintained

it’s a real shame SV is in another time zone and is not here to defend Russia from us, alas

Was cautiously impressed to see an ES headline screaming to RELEASE THE REPORT on the way home though

also, I know everyone hates polls but a poll about worst current Guardian writer is surely wellllll overdue

The hacks *love* stuff like the weird Johnson/wreath crap or the Corbyn/Russia hat one, but are a lot less vocal on e.g. how come their employers keep repeating Conservative press releases while their journalists are all on twitter laughing & saying those releases are bollocks. pic.twitter.com/rgjzwC827P

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) November 12, 2019

Boom boom boom boom
I want you in my room

― Camille Paglia is on my partner's NextDoor (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:08 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

blobby blobby blobby blobby......?

good. stupid bastert shouldn’t have been standing anyway

EXCL: Channel 4 News can reveal Lib Dem candidate @ThatTimWalker has taken unilateral decision to stand down in Labour marginal seat of Canterbury. This is personal decision by Tim Walker to back a Labour remain candidate and NOT a national policy by the Liberal Democrats.

— Hayley Barlow (@Hayley_Barlow) November 12, 2019

also... wtf

Scoop: the FCA has told off its own staff after reducing its shiny new HQ to squalor - with staff even defecating on the floor https://t.co/ynmFQkrExl

— Alex Lawson (@MrAlexLawson) November 12, 2019

xp good, he was getting huge amounts of hostility from local members and they were openly saying they’d be campaigning for Labour

will the dems run someone else there instead though

Surprised no-one's mentioned that Lib Dem candidate for Boris' seat has withdrawn too.

... health reasons, before anyone gets too excited.

greens have stood down in that seat too no? what happens if CONS win elex but johnson loses seat ?

dominic fucking raab takes the reins and legalises slavery

tories form government, tory party (if it so chooses) wd pressure some poor big-majority sap to step down and cause a by-election for bj to win

thankfully LAB plan to win both election and his dumm seat

The deadline to submit is either Thursday or Friday so if people are pulling out, they’ll be announcing before then.

The only campaign literature we’ve had so far is Brexit party. But at least it wasn’t addressed to me this time.

dominic fucking raab takes the reins and legalises slavery

I've never seen such a uniform response to anything on Twitter as I've seen to that Tim Walker tweet, it's just endless variants of "thank you".

I'd always assumed he lacked the self-awareness to do something like this but fair play.

https://i.postimg.cc/JzwNjd9n/2747-AC0-D-8-A27-4-D79-8843-88-AE6-B3-EE4-EC.png

Mr Corbyn, with your horrendous footwear decisions, you have made it impossible for me to vote Labour.

chuka-style 'overestimating the desire for Change' xp

You know that annoying cunt who stands outside the House of Commons shouting "Stop Brexit"? Sadly he isn't dead, instead...

He’s best known for standing outside parliament shouting “stop Brexit” over live broadcasts. Now, Steve Bray is now going to be a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the Welsh constituency, Cynon Valley.

Pretty sure I saw him outside Cabinet Office this morning? There were loads of EU flags draped out the railings in front.

In January 2019, Bray moved into a luxury apartment opposite the Westminster home of Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. In order to rent the property in Westminster’s Cowley Street for two months, he raised more than £12,000 from the public.[3]

money well-spent if it results in JRM having to see a placard in a window once or twice

So many grifters, like that awful EU super girl one getting donations from centrist dads to travel around Europe all summer

Tim Walker’s piece in the guardian about why he is stepping aside is demented.

“As with so many things, Corbyn was incapable of adapting to changing times and could not see that my party was now every bit as much of a force to be reckoned with as his, if not more. In the EU elections, we not only beat Labour, but also won more seats than them and the Tories combined.”

Crazy that Corbyn wasn’t willing to be more accommodating to a party that is set to win about 580 seats by the look of things.

RIP Dank Frobson, you were an awful London mayoral candidate.

Big John’s been up all night with the calculator and he’s in the mood for a fight

Come on @sajidjavid, come and debate me. pic.twitter.com/n5005GVreX

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) November 12, 2019

debate him u CDO deutsche xunt

https://i.postimg.cc/rsKzKxcW/64396-E36-21-E5-4434-BB34-A54-B3-CEDF771.png

I regret to inform you

Tim Walker will be replaced. Lib Dem spokesperson: "We will be selecting a candidate in due course to contest the seat of Canterbury.”

— Emily Ashton (@elashton) November 12, 2019

brilliant reading of the optics there from the LDs

looooool what absolute cunts

PPB from Conservatives, basically Boris wandering around while his inner child asks him nice questions like "What's your favourite band", "What did you cook most recently" and "what are you thinking about?"

Last q's answer was something like "The general election, I cannot lie"

(he might not have actually said that, you may need to check that one)