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

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/germany-ends-tampon-tax/

^ Labour could knock our socks off by going further on this

I was talking to a friend from Germany and has two children over there the other day and he was telling me about some of their loony left (well according to right wing uk commentariat) policies like free childcare, free school dinners, and think he also said people on benefits get free heating/electricity. He also said the kids at school have a dinner monitor encouraging them to eat their greens or something .. possibly that's nanny state going to far!

yeah, basically germany under christian democrat hegemony seems to be basically luxury space communism compared to anywhere in the anglophone world

need to use basically less

What does that make France?

well france nobody under 40 has a job it seems like so it seems less exciting

I just want to echo what Matt said above re other communities, and we are way past the point of being toxic and this is way too far into people playing communities off each other for their own benefit. Sorry to cite SV’s post yesterday, but a lot of the more racist view is that Corbyn is deliberately peddling antisemtism to appeal to Muslim voters - a view that has been thoroughly discredited and is shockingly racist, yet one constantly alluded to by people who should really know better. Feeling like Lionel Hutz going “there’s racism and there’s racism” - where one is bad and evil and needs rooting out, and the others the kind you do for votes.

In French public discourse Germany's 'mini jobs' are often held up as the slippery last step before zero-hour neo-liberal dystopia.

xp

my kids’ dinner ladies in London definitely tell them to eat their greens! it has provoked a phalanx of inventive skullduggery to get around. take that, Target Culture UK

strange things occurring on AQ tonight. I understand it's probably purdah why the host gave Diane Abbott a warm intro but weird listening to a Surrey studio audience clapping her, but it's obv a very remain audience. Shock horror Claire Fox thinks government owning means of fibre-optic communication is sinister stuff.

The thing that always sticks in my mind about fibre optic cable is that if it breaks in your hands and cuts you it can send a tiny crystal shard of death straight through your bloodstream and into your heart and kills you dead!

I like being killed by fibre optic cable, I think it's good

death by copper cable is so 20th century

https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.6378414.1573835351!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg

Tories hope to bag 'Norman factor' voters

I can't believe this North Norfolk News headline is actually referring to Sir Norman Lamb and not the current tory candidate in the picture.

can't believe it's not referring to the 11th Century tbh

that "Norman factor" is still going very strong!

tommy robinson endorsement... yikes

Big fire on an (apparently clad) block of student flat in Bolton tonight

Btw I've decided to officially endorse labour at this with election

Chris Mason mainly quite good on AQ i thought. That said I loved Abbot just flicking away his attempted gotcha.

2.1m views for that clip of boris johnson failing to say "I like a cup of tea, I like fish and chips, I'm a loving dad, I like boxsets, I love to watch england playing rugby and football etc"

I can’t believe people whinging about it being a “weird” or “unfair” question - it’s piss easy!

Corbyn is in Huddersfield talking about nationalising trains.

you mean Train Communism?

With Rod Stewart as Secretary of State for Transport.

I think the bizarre decision of the tories to run the hated Ken Davy as their candidate in Hudds will mean even the hated Barry Sheerwaste will be in a safe seat. But good to see them leaving nothing to chance.

Bolton Cube fire not a surprise. Bob Neil has been rightly banging on about fact that while local authorities have stripped their cladding, private landlords and freeholders have not - and government has done little to compel them.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) November 16, 2019

no deaths so it is fair to say it's not too soon to politicise the fuck out of this: weak on landlords, weak on building regs that are there to stop people dying. Chairman Mao would have sorted this out years ago.

can’t believe the invisible hand of the free market hasn’t sorted this out yet

only one thing for it: more tax cuts for the rich

I saw this classic three year old Hedges tweet
(Re yesterday)

I also have impeccable left wing credentials, but when it comes to the big day I vote Tory just like you do, I can't help myself

— Simon Hedges #BeKindOnline (@Orwell_Fan) September 26, 2016

Anymore on this?

🚨 Met Police say they are looking into two allegations of “electoral fraud and malpractice" regarding offers from the Conservatives to Brexit Party candidates to incentivise them to stand down 🚨

Several Brexit Party figures claim they were offered inducements. Tories deny.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 16, 2019

awful

The home secretary, Priti Patel, made a last-minute intervention to block a rescue operation to bring British orphans and unaccompanied minors home from Syria, the Observer has revealed.

Patel was backed by several other ministers, including the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, when she objected to the extraction of British children from the war-ravaged country during National Security Council meetings last month and internal discussions.

Mark Townsend, the Observer’s home affairs editor, reports:

More than 60 British minors, including at least three orphans, had been identified, and a quick and safe route identified to take them out of north-east Syria and then to Erbil, Iraq, where they would be flown home direct to the UK.

It has also emerged that not only had the extraction plan been prepared but that a number of councils in the UK had offered the care package and reintegration programme necessary for the children following their arrival in the UK.

The charity Save the Children, which has officials working in north-east Syria, described the resistance from ministers such as Patel as “grievous irresponsibility” and said that “playing politics” with children’s lives was unacceptable.

Classy of the Observer to refer to them as ‘Isis children’ in the headline

playing politics with children’s lives is the conservative m.o.

Will only extract the children they’ve sent over to fight in the first place.

without getting into physiognomy shaming I don't think there are many that wear their wretchedness, nastiness, psychotic hatred on their faces quite like Priti does.

Good line imo

If I was proposing the creation of our NHS today, the Conservatives would call it health communism.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 16, 2019

Doubtless they did at the time, too.

Doctors/GPs were probably the loudest tories screaming "We are turning into the soviet union and the great unwashed need to die in agony if they can't afford us ...etc

My best friend’s English doctor dad emigrated to the US rather than join in the NHS, but he was inventing medical equipment and tech, snaring himself a few patents. He said he wasn’t opposed to universal health care, but claimed his area of interest/research was not part of the remit, nor did he want to be a GP, a surgeon or a Harley Street consultant.

Not NHS-specific, but

https://spartacus-educational.com/001945EX.jpg

from here

https://spartacus-educational.com/GE1945.htm

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this post is still haunting my thoughts

most doctors had to be more or less bullied/blackmailed into the NHS aiui

at least Hunt has managed to radicalise a whole generation of junior doctors, who some of probably despise tories as much as anyone on here.

The Britain Elects poll tracker - updated yesterday afternoon:

CON: 37.9% (+0.9)
LAB: 28.4% (+0.7)
LDEM: 16.2% (+0.4)
BREX: 8.7% (-1.6)
GRN: 3.0% (-0.2)

Chgs. w/ 08 Novhttps://t.co/VAAH8PcjZk

New polling out tonight. pic.twitter.com/F4l0fQ4cyI

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 16, 2019

[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

— brandAn is good (@LeBearGirdle) August 17, 2017

teeth communism

Brace yourself, manifesto is coming

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the party's new #GE2019 manifesto 'will change the lives of the people of this country for the better'https://t.co/stFHhBYhhw pic.twitter.com/kKHod3ADFb

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) November 16, 2019

Look, changing people's lives for the better is the old politics

life communism

on one hand this guy is an annoying bast with a history of misrepresenting labour via anonymous sources. on the other hand, it is the labour party, so...

Breaking 🚨 Labour has shelved conference promise to maintain freedom of movement

Instead it will renegotiate migration policy with EU if Britain votes to leave in second referendum

Source at Clause V meeting said focus is citizens rights & ending exploitation of migrant labour

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) November 16, 2019

Labour list says this is different from what was tabled and agreed, might be more a direction of travel but the video they put out doesn’t make me think they’re back-pedalling

Meeting lasted over six hours but was amicable - not much rowing, I'm told. It was approved unanimously at the end, as usual. And one source says there was very little discussion of free movement, with the focus being on exploitation of workers by bosses: https://t.co/DQiL3gGTC2

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 16, 2019

Continued EU freedom of movement post-Brexit not agreed. As I wrote earlier this week, committing to freedom of movement *rights* is considered to be a different thing - that phrasing was important: https://t.co/7Zobg57zW1

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 16, 2019