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

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 $votes$?!

Jimmy testicle is the fucking guy from all the Bors comics

Jim bollock: (gravely) we cant say for sure but Jemery Coybrn could be the biggest antisemite of all time

Also Jim bollock: ehh??? The British empire was...bad??? Who cares about that lad? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As far as electoral calculation plays into this, it's clearly challenging the progressive, open-minded Lib Dems to a game of Cunt Chicken.

You're only being sarcastic about it because it may effect your ridiculous wage. Interview me you absolute coward Peston, and I'll tell you, as a socialist how things would work under Corbyn

— Paul Heaton (@PaulHeatonSolo) November 18, 2019

lol this one is testing my loyalties

I'd still think he sucked shit if he was a nazi paedo-melt!

he would suck shit if he was a nazi-paedo melt

mark e smith used to always to say he was a socialist, but came out with some reprehensible shit about asylum seekers.

Paul otm

pestpn's a clown, heaton is funny and smart but his music's bad and he shd feel bad

yes!

Peston so deserved to be dragged, it might as well be by Paul

I don't think Mark E. Smith ever said he was a socialist?