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

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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― anvil, Monday, November 4, 2019 9:20 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

I really hope they couch this with Windrush scandal: NEVER AGAIN and plan to revert to the old rules for migrants, eg. low/no cost visas, freelancer visas, OK with people moving here to work as long as they don’t have recourse to public funds for four years with ILR given as a rule, which are the terms under which I came over.

Hello LibDems. Can you explain why you think it is either good economics or good politics to impose a more severe constraint on day-to-day government spending - the bulk of public-service funding - than either Labour or the Tories. I don’t get it | inews https://t.co/hyF7U2VsFs

— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 16, 2019

stopped clock etc..

How much use national opinion polling is of use is of course, as ever, a little moot. Nonetheless all of these results would almost certainly yield a Conservative majority.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 16, 2019

Three weeks to turn this around.

Really no point in getting depressed at polls at this stage (I’m an exit poller only since 2015). I read an interesting thing which talks about the cut through of various stories so far along average voters - most voters at this stage in a campaign aren’t really that tuned in. Though that should pick up with debates next week. Stories we were all talking about had barely any cut through - JRM’s Grenfell comments were the ones that cut through most.

Not a poll expert but direction of travel is the thing to watch out for - and they basically all agree Labour is gaining.

... aaaaaaaaaaaaaand another yikes

Cool cool. pic.twitter.com/iSvDUY18AF

— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) November 16, 2019

lool, well Boris does look a bit like Sir Jimmy S/Klaus Kinski tbf.

look, let’s not let a spot of child rape affect the bottom line eh what

Yeah last year alone Andrew was responsible for exports totalling several teenagers.

In the ruthless world of global capital we have a secret weapon here.. a sad old paedo we can send as a top class trade envoy, if his mum lets him out of the house!

global capitalism: what they sent the flopsweat paedo man who still lives with his mother on benefits as a trade envoy?... wow that changes the whole game

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― anvil, Monday, November 4, 2019 9:20 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this post is still haunting my thoughts

― imago, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:53 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

is this a riff on alan partridge pitching to the guy sacking him?

I think it was originally posted in response to the mighty morphin' lib dems

there was a picture

gonna wait for the author's definitive response!

Election 2019 about to enter its official hell hath no fury phase

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/17/arcuri-says-johnson-cast-her-aside-like-one-night-stand

well one nightstand is about right if a fella cant handle a full cabinet i spose

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJir0JlWwAIc0F-?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
I'm starting to think anything is possible tonight. I just won a grand on a £3 scratchcard earlier and here is the photo to prove I'm not making it up. Might even vote for the tories now!

huzzah

Duty bound to vote Tory now calz, you don't want Crobyn wasting it on free Pornhub for the great unwashed.

good reminder that *that* is exactly what I want after the rentier classes ashes are used to fertilise yet another bumper harvest and scratchcards and numbers games are banned, and I'm reduced to betting on insect racing!

there was a picture

Congrats Calz!

Re: Prince Andrew, a reminder of who ‘global capital’ refers to in this context:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/30/prince-andrew-wikileaks-cables

It’s our minor royals selling overpriced, borderline-useless military gear to other minor royals as part of the ongoing effort of fraudsters on both sides to pocket the Saudi national budget.