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

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.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my vote
I'm a liberal democrat, look what I wrote
Austerity loud and coalition warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's alright, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
A touch of power's effect on man

Whether you're a LibDem or whether you're a Tory
You're writin things down, writin things down
Feel the pen scribblin' and notebook page turni'
And we're writin' things down, writin things down,
Ah, ha, ha, ha, writin' things down, writin things down,
Ah, ha, ha, ha, killin' the poor

I don't really like these song lyric things but it's been bugging me.

Well done calz!

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

― deems of internment (darraghmac)

underrated

Think I have more time than some ppl on this thread for Andrew Adonis but this one foxed me

@Andrew_Adonis
If the BBC was doing it’s job properly as public service broadcaster, it obviously should not done a huge royal interview during the general election campaign

Why ever not? They can report on more than one thing!

Well done, Calz!

A word of warning about those London Observer polls: the sample is only FIVE HUNDRED voters.

saw some activist on twitter say the wimbledon labour vote seems to be holding up, contrary to the observer poll

Congratulations calz!

Will free movement end after Brexit? Corbyn: “There will be a great deal of movement”. Also confirms family reunion will be guaranteed for all migrants. Looks like a 50/50 fudge between Abbott and Mccluskey wings #Marr

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 17, 2019

Also missed him getting ratioed over this:

Down at Oxshott station at 6,30am talking to residents - delivering our new leaflet setting out my local priorities, and ⁦@Conservatives⁩ plans to unleash Britain’s potential. pic.twitter.com/OecgeRMdKH

— Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) November 15, 2019

why are tories constitutionally incapable of taking group selfies that don’t have powerful ‘you just woke up hanging on a meathook and these ghouls are leering at you’ vibes

Kantar 7-11 Nov, re-weighted with 2017 age turnout:

CON: 34% (-3)
LAB: 30% (+3)
LDEM: 17% (-)
BREX: 8% (-)
GRN: 4% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-)

Chgs w/ Kantar 7-11 Nov, 2019 estimated turnout

— Rune Holm (@runehol) November 17, 2019

https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2017/06/09/corbyngif-compressor.gif

I see Raab is on Marr, I know he’s foreign secretary but he is honestly just...not good at this.

They got rid of safe, if boring, media performers like Hammond and Gauke and are now forced to rely on headbangers like Raab and Kwarteng or dumbasses like Cleverley - or, indeed, Priti Patel who manages to combine the two. Gove might make you retch every time you see him but at least he's adept at the handling the media. I don't think Labour are that much better though tbh.

Clive Lewis is generally very good and able to handle himself and he’s had a few appearances so far this campaign

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJiAfUbWwAEYER2?format=png&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJiAiKbXsAAjNB_?format=png&name=large

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why are tories constitutionally incapable of taking group selfies that don’t have powerful ‘you just woke up hanging on a meathook and these ghouls are leering at you’ vibes

pic.twitter.com/HirKejOrNp

— michael (@Sisyphusa) November 17, 2019

Thurston Moore!