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

cool fairness doctrine

Most of the British press is acting as the campaigning arm of the Conservative Party. Just look at the state of this. https://t.co/aWaL3lKXkc pic.twitter.com/SuUVy1f6wn

— Owen REGISTER TO VOTE Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) November 18, 2019

So what's new?

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Tory candidate suspended in Aberdeen North, Labour chair quits in Leicester East https://t.co/Djq7lOHBOy

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) November 19, 2019

i liked when he said that it wasn't true he couldn't sing in tune, he had a beautiful singing voice he just chose not to use it

― mark s, Monday, November 18, 2019 11:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

"Edinburgh Man", beautiful is pushing it a little but yeah

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he looks like a bit of a John Thomas

LOL @ this character, a prime example of the sort of local Labour politician who's alienated so many Labour voters over the years.

So he objects to the new Labour candidate, the previous one was Keith Vaz?

Precisely.

meanwhile LK reports tory candidate suspended for homophobia and antisemitism but only links the labour story 🤔

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A viral story claims that Jo Swinson was caught firing stones at squirrels. It's obviously not true, but has been widely shared online. The Lib Dem leader told LBC that social media networks have questions to answer over the spread of "very fake news".https://t.co/IEorJ1SRur

— LBC (@LBC) November 19, 2019

kuennsberg is a CP activist

lovely to turn on the radio and hear Kate Andrews explaining how cuts to corporation tax make workers and consumers better off.

don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s trickle-down economics

Corbyn did pretty well in the 2017 debates but he performed below, say, Nicola Sturgeon in them.

Boris isn't very good at all in that kind of environment - he is terrible at dealing with unexpected scrutiny - but he will go one better than May by virtue of turning up.

Worth pointing out that he will at least have a few prerehearsed zings designed to fly on social media and they will presumably do so.

Wasn’t the Leicester East guy who quit also Keith Vaz’ agent?

I agree it might still be a mistake for the LibDems and SNP not to be included, Swinson would have been shown up by Sturgeon and her punching left routine would have reflected very badly on her in that context.

But she would still need to be better than Boris, its unpalatable but we still need her to be convincing enough to persuade enough Tory voters to vote LibDem.

I suspect one on one with Corbyn was the only way Johnson agreed to the debate, seeing as his two predecessors didn't need to do it (but he does have more seats to win).

Johnson:his stupid letters as May:getting the lectern out

Tonight I’ve written to Jeremy Corbyn to ask him whether he’s made up his mind on Brexit.

Because that is why we are having this election, to end the gridlock, get Brexit done, and move on as a country. pic.twitter.com/2msZlJbZ4Q

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 18, 2019

"But she would still need to be better than Boris, its unpalatable but we still need her to be convincing enough to persuade enough Tory voters to vote LibDem."

Thinking it's better for Swinson to be left out of it, in case she is a turn off to those Tory switchers

Bad news for Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats

Jo Swinson suffered a double blow last night with polling showing that voters like her less as they see her more and the High Court rejecting the Liberal Democrats’ attempt to gain a place in a televised election debate tonight.

Polling analysis shows that Ms Swinson, 39, is far better known since becoming party leader in July, but almost all of those to have formed a view of her have formed a negative one. The shift has been negative even with Remain voters.

In what is shaping up to be a presidential campaign, she had hoped to force ITV to include her in tonight’s first debate with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.

Btw, A++ convo on whether MES was a commie or not.

I did randomly catch Beautiful South doing "Build" on some TOTP re-run and while terrible it does explain his Corbyn-love and how that interview with Peston would go down.

Looks like the Lib Dems could seriously fuck this up, so keeping Swinson out of it while exposing Johnson as much as possible seems like our best opportunity

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/tory-candidate-tenants-tent-field

Nice guy. It'll probably win him votes though.

Like Mr Thomas from Leicester this is another example of the calibre of people being driven out of the Labour Party by the Islingtonian elite.

I don't know how but this kind of thing in that link is what has to be fought against, whether the Tories win or lose.

Former Labour member as well, who quit because of the hard left influence

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/105033/labour-frontbencher-gloria-de-pieros-former

As we’ve seen before, it’s good that these people no longer feel welcome in the party.

Told that billionaire John Caudwell has threatened to leave the UK if Labour wins the election, John McDonnell says: “Tell him to come and have a cup of tea with me.” #r4today

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) November 19, 2019

I’m gonna be drunk if I have ‘Jeremy clears his throat’ in debate bingo tonight.

his voice still playing up ?

Is there a debate bingo going?

- Boris ruffles his hair
- Jeremy looks over his glasses
- cut to shot of aggrieved looking pink man in audience
- Boris mentions “communism”
- Boris’s voice does that strained sounding thing when he gets pissed off
- ISSSSSSSSYOU

- “semi-Marxist”
- “oven ready, bang it in the microwave”

Whoever has 'Get Brexit Done' should have an ambulance and/or saline drip preemptively booked.

Interesting short report on Lab's efforts this election.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/momentum-scales-up-for-once-in-a-generation-chance

Tories' activities are reported as having increased but it's mostly under-reported here

lol at all the blue tick anti-wikileaks crew salivating over Aaron Banks’ hacked Twitter messages.

Boris Johnson throwing a few punches before tonight’s proper bout with Jeremy Corbyn. pic.twitter.com/oplh6qK3YM

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 19, 2019

xp Lol. 2.29gb of PM's though? I'll pass.

McD's schtick of "just come round for a cup of tea, I'm sure we can sort it out in an afternoon" to everything is praaxis

- “semi-Marxist”
- “oven ready, bang it in the microwave”

Dither/delay, two referendums in one year, 1.2 trillion, pronounces scones wrongly.

If scones are mentioned in this debate ffs

we should have a bingo card for this thread

don't forget "pantomine-gate"

*blobby hurtles on-stage, mark s dead of cans*

- "blobby"
- "blobby blobby blobbby"

*drowns self in drink*

xp fack

He’s ready

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Cz0WJgsjN/

xps instant liver failure

Just been checking the results of the last election in my hometown and such a pity Scottish Labour are so shit because it'd only take a 3% swing from the SNP for Labour to win both seats. More than a pity it's a crime.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJu6vDVWoAMrhaL?format=jpg&name=900x900
Yeah that’s why people didn’t like May or don’t like Swinson.

What is the point of David Aaronovitch these days?

He’s ready

Shocked to be alive in 2019 and see Mr Bobby lurking in a park. And I speak as someone who went to Morecambe's Bobby Land. Flashbacks. pic.twitter.com/ODHY707OG5

— Adam Cumiskey (@cumiskey) November 19, 2019