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

Looking at all the Ed M's posting now and thinking why he couldn't be like this back on 2010 :-( fucking Lab right cunts

2015 I mean

Corbyn's Q&A
Jeremy Corbyn and his colleagues are now taking questions.

Q: Isn’t the real problem with BT the fact that it has little competition. How would replacing it with a state monopoly make a difference?

Corbyn says he is proposing a public service, like any other public service.

He says his plan will improve the livelihoods of many people.

Every person in the room uses a computer every day, he says. They need this kind of access.

On public ownership, he says BT used to be in public sector.

Q: Can you really afford this? BT say your plans will cost twice as much as you claim. And won’t ultimately taxpayers have to pay more.

McDonnell says the £20bn figure that Labour is using is a figure from the government’s own review.

Since privatisation, £54bn has been paid out in share dividends. That is twice as much as full-fibre roll-out would have cost.

He says pension funds want the prospect of a steady income from something that is secure. This plan will offer that.

Q: Can you deliver this without a majority Labour government?

Corbyn says that issue does not arise because there is going to be a majority Labour government.

Actually dying at this

The Tories haven't properly invested in our infrastructure but,nevermind the costs of the nationalisation of OpenReach and shareholders (pension funds) not getting mkt value,I'm not sure Jeremy Corbyn is the man u would want to call if your Wifi goes downhttps://t.co/7AXD8jf1EB

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) November 15, 2019

Wrt "free water" it's useful to note that Scotland's water was never privatized,and while not free, is cheaper than all the private providers in England

Is this the part where I get to whip out my amazing fact that there is more water in Loch Ness than in all the lakes in England and Wales put together? I think it could be.

tfw you're so full of rage about a decent policy that your fingers won't tweet properly xp

it's good and instructive to see the level of freaking out and mendacity about this, imagine what it'll be like when they go after private landlords and utility companies

@georgeeaton
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Given that something as essential as Universal Credit is *entirely online* (not to mention job applications), fast and free broadband is a genuine human need.

Apparently the Tory campaign bus is launching today...or so I've heard

(xp) That's poor humans though.

are the poor really human tho when u think abt it

Venn diagram of people saying “the state is too technically incompetent to install a broadband connection” and people who say “the state should build and maintain a thermonuclear arsenal”

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) November 15, 2019

former Labour MP Chuka somewhere between terrified and apopleptic at the thought that any public amenity mightn't be a source of unearned profit for wealthy rentiers

probably need to fire up the "latte-sipping croissant-munching" thread for the hot takes this is gonna generate

Had once mentioned our entire street didn't have any phone lines for 6 months until I got Labour councillors involved to an Oxbridge graduate in BT Plc Strategy Office. They said "it's not in our interest to connect poor people, of course we delayed it" https://t.co/Ww8ztAUDNG

— Naadir Jeewa (@naadirjeewa) November 14, 2019

/Wrt "free water" it's useful to note that Scotland's water was never privatized,and while not free, is cheaper than all the private providers in England/

Is this the part where I get to whip out my amazing fact that there is more water in Loch Ness than in all the lakes in England and Wales put together? I think it could be.

*sternly indicates recent posts in thread*

Q: Do you plan to stop people watching porn on the government’s broadband service?

Rebecca Long-Bailey says there will be a charter of internet rights.

(She does not address the point about pornography.)

in corbyn's britain the only available pornography will be lovingly-photographed documentary footage of jeremy tending his marrow patch

Ewwwphemism.

yay! cast-iron drain cover pron is here to stay

phewwwphemism morelike amirite *fans self*

in corbyn's britain the only available pornography will be lovingly-photographed documentary footage of jeremy tending his marrow patch

o_O

he's ready

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.fsT62n3hmVI52RhLiSNiEwHaEo%26pid%3DApi&f=1

the real lemon party

from piss diamond to lemon party: a short film about vince cable

please don’t scare the child (imago)

“I’m the prime minister and you’re watching...Statewank”
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thought I pulled the prudish innocent -> 10/10 dank pun switcheroo p well there myself

here cum the corb-gettes

lol crobonym's NKVD will monitor your every online interaction also it's outrageous that Rebecca Long Bailey refuses to do that

Johnson burbling on about Labour's 'crazed communist' broadband. God, they are so fucking dumb. Who do they think that kind of language is appealing to?

Not tech nerds with money, that’s for sure!

omg he legit just claimed Labour is opposed to home ownership

god imagine a government capable of monitoring your every keystroke and online interaction, maybe even with the full collaboration of private corporations with whom we willingly share our fingerprints and faces, what a totalitarian nightmare that would be

we're surely only a day or two away from boris claiming that corbyn will force us to share toothbrushes

Whatever Johnson's brushing with it ain't enough

xp or marrows

I caught some of Labour's broadband policy press conference at gym and, when asked about Swinson ruling out supporting a Lab govt and whether he'd do any deals with the Lib Dems, Corbyn replied he wouldn't be working with 'pro-austerity parties' and I literally punched the air.

— How Upsetting (@How_Upsetting) November 15, 2019

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Really kicking myself I didn’t carry on renewing dotcommunism dot com for the past 15 years.

British Broadband is obv going to be very very popular, and so far the lines of attack against it from the right are music to ears because they have got a cogent argument against it and just makes them look desperate and shitting it.

@BBCPolitics this is ridiculous pic.twitter.com/FQOfiBq3va

— Joel - VOTE LABOUR 🌹 (@Omi_233) November 15, 2019

B B is such a good idea, the more they attack it the more they seem like meanie pawns of the establishment spoilsports

xp
the ironing not lost by the statist broadcasters there!

We may all lol die but as long as the posting is good then good

I see the Church of Scotland has suspended the bigoted Reverend for the views he held in the public domain being even more widely circulated.

Well, Labour has successfully changed the narrative away from al Baghdadi and free movement

— Steve Hawkes (@steve_hawkes) November 15, 2019

Lol to these cunts it's all about changing the narrative from the supposedly bad stuff.

Terrified of Corbyn getting his hands on Youtube and changing all the song titles. " I see you baby, shaking that Hamas" and

My Gerry (Adams) Amour.

— Tories out for Christmas! (@Worldchampsx2) November 15, 2019