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

She’s one of my three

she could have mentioned that Corbz referred to boris as "the warm up act" at the CBI.

What's the opposite of warm up act? Negmeister?

meanwhile, in glasgow... whatever the fuck this is

The Scottish Lib Dem leader going to great lengths to get your vote this morning. pic.twitter.com/p3hDTBsOId

— Ewan Petrie (@stvewan) November 18, 2019

And who doesn’t want to see a political party leader running down a lane with a parrot? pic.twitter.com/g7sEIL9kw8

— Ewan Petrie (@stvewan) November 18, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/njRqw55.jpg

Meanwhile, here's how the polls are changing during the 2019 election. Labour and the Tories have improved their vote share steadily in the first few weeks - which is exactly what happened in 2017.

(2/3) pic.twitter.com/PVWjiEF9CD

— Stats for Lefties 🌹 🌹 (@LeftieStats) November 18, 2019

It's the hope etc.

canvassing update! i went out canvassing w/comrade alphabet! and my son! in westminster and the city of london where there has literally never been a labour mp! but there's no incumbent this time and the tories won by 3000 last time. soo.... maybe?? but hoo boy was it a disaster. lots of volunteers, which grouped off in fours and fives. we had a little troupe of 5, and a "board" with names and addresses, of mostly unknown affiliation, and they were all big estate blocks in westminster. either nobody was home, or they were tories or lib dems. nobody ever let us in. we were just huddled around the little keypads, trying flat after flat. finally somebody left the building and we introduced ourselves and he was like 'no labour in here mate!' and we're like, whatever. but eventually a guy let us in - who then confronted us in the hallway with his dog in his hands, demanding to know how we knew his name. and he then told us to get out (after having let us in....) He then followed us outside, and started haranguing us about GDPR! in the process of which he told us the entire estate was housing for ex-military. we then took a closer look at the "board". on the front someone had written 'HARD'. we tried another estate, and the buzzer at that one connected to people's phones, all of whom hung up on us.

we walked back dejected, not a single 'L' to mark against a name. it turns out we should have NEVER BEEN HANDED THAT BOARD as someone had already been there before, realised how hard it was, and was already cooking up a strategy to get inside. i was pretty annoyed at the organisers if i'm being honest. (i'm also annoyed that a white barrister guy was selected as the candidate above a lot of qualified energetic women and minorities).

going to try again this weekend - but in friendlier territory so my son doesn't get entirely demoralised

https://i.imgur.com/LgC3p3r.jpg

Someone Photoshop the word 'WELL' onto that post-it note pls

well done for braving the cursed realm though

Nice cap!

Yeah that area strikes me as Tory central tbh! Amazed at where they found the votes last time.

There is no GDPR violation in representatives of political parties using a copy of the electoral register in canvassing. Now you know! They ALL get to use this.

What can also be useful is doing a Zoopla value/sales history search on the road they send you to, on your way to the place.

Like our constituency is rock solid Tory, as are the nearby ones, and you’d see more Labour support in terms of window signs etc than you ever would in the two cities

i mean we did try to explain it but the guy's neck was visibly bulging, it was genuinely a little bit frightening. my son (8) went behind a lamppost.

xpost

Barbican/Golden Lane and Churchill Gardens in Victoria are possible Lab areas in Two Cities.

(xp) He must be pretty thin, your son.

No no, his son 'went' behind a lamppost you see

(sorry haha)

I think I’m supposed to be canvassing there on Wednesday... will try to avoid the HARD clipboard.

To be fair I did round my way (Peckham) last election and everyone was lovely so I’ve probably earned some Tory pricks.

good shout on Churchill, one of two Labour areas in two cities according to electoral calculus!

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Cities+of+London+and+Westminster

Did ye take one of those super happy “we’re having a great time on the #labourdoorstep, lots of enthusiasm for sending in the tanks!” that are so popular on labour twitter?

Kind of thinking it's bit of a waste sending people to the HARD neighbourhoods. This is a turnout election. There's only three and a bit weeks left, and Damascene conversions are going to be few, I think. Obviously you need to hit the marginals hard, but probably get a better return from maximizing turnout from more labour friendly areas.

Labour friendly areas within marginals, that is.

yeah. we eventually decided the same thing. there were some labour names on the board but i think it was just poor organization.

Having never been canvassing or had someone canvass me, how do they know who is likely to vote? Esp if they haven’t been canvassed before?

Props to comrade alphabet and TH and son for their hard work. Tbh I find the British campaign tactic of knocking on doors quite weird - only got leaflets through the mail in Portugal, assume most ppl unlikely to be interested in discussing politics with a stranger on the door no matter what their affiliation is?

xpost got canvassed a few days ago! For Labour, in Stoke Newington, in a two person household of EU citizens w/ no possibility of voting in this election. Surely not the best use of their time but it was lovely to chat.

Trace it's brilliant that you put the work in, thanks

yeah, critical support for our doorknocking radical communist comrades, thank u for yr service

(nationalise doorknobs, obv)

lol word. Guys thank you but I feel like it's pretty minimal, only takes a couple of hours. I could do a f*ck of a lot more.

It's based on what they said the last time somebody knocked on their door. It is pretty astonishing how much you learn from people when it's an actual DOOR and not a keypad that you're talking through. Some people really don't mind talking a lot, about the country, about their neighbourhood, about their problems. If you've got a councillor along it amounts to pretty valuable constituency work.

Anyway, Good man yerself Tracer Hand, at least you've got a good war story out of it

It sure is a war out there. Will hopefully be doing more around Battersea and Croydon in the coming weeks.

*Raises a glass* To entryism!

christ, imagine opening the door and theresa fucking may is standing there showing you her teeth

'Are you more of an asset than Boris Johnson to the Scottish Conservatives?'

Theresa May spotted in Stirling campaigning with Tory election candidate Stephen Kerr. #GE2019 https://t.co/22X9I6R89Q pic.twitter.com/2ChPNK8jzd

— STV News (@STVNews) November 18, 2019

Big ups Trace, Yung Trace and Comrade.

jo swindon DESTROYED, you hate to see it

BREAKING General election 2019: Lib Dems and SNP lose ITV debate legal challenge https://t.co/zCRq61zxSt pic.twitter.com/WtsMa5P7Uc

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) November 18, 2019

Lol ITV are already advertising the programme without that dork, RIP democracy

Tbh they probably benefit more from her being shut out by SEXISM than allowed on to be completely hopeless

Yeah, some ppl were saying, 'don't let her on, she and Johnson will gang up on Corbyn' and I'm like, 'good! yes! please can she do that!'

A lot of centrists tell on themselves when they call the left "anti-west" it reeks of "We should be able to slaughter people in other countries with impunity and never be held to account." A combination of British exceptionalism and overt racism.

— Sinan Kose 🦎 (@TheSinanKose) November 17, 2019

how do we think the first debate will go

also good shit TH and comrade alpha 👊🏻

Boris is hopeless so Corbz would have to be really off form not to come out of it better than he went in.

Corbyn was decent in the debates in 2017 and in the Labour leadership ones both times

Anyway, as I've mentioned - once, twice, seven times - I think it's an act of incredible folly on Boris Johnson's part to have agreed not one, but two one-on-one debates with Jeremy Corbyn. Here are my six reasons why: https://t.co/7VWTL4KXWF

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) November 18, 2019

Exclusive: Labour manifesto to pledge a Corbyn government would review the legacy of British colonial rule across the globe.https://t.co/ISfRzl49ir

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) November 18, 2019

Expecting howls of outrage over this one.

jiminy... your tweet should have ended after word 8

This is a genuinely decent thing to do but not sure why it’s in the manifesto: what vote does it win them that they didn’t almost certainly already have? And what votes may it lose them, for voters with (yes, wrongly) nostalgic views of empire? https://t.co/os7lwJcCLu

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) November 18, 2019

For a party that is being constantly accused of gammon triangulation it is worth noting that this is the kind of policy that could turn off those voters, which maybe goes to show... something

xp I don't get it? Why do anything in politics if not for $votes$?!