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

4390859034854d chess, I see.

Did you read what I posted?

I wasn't responding to you in particular.

state of Gove here, genuinely loled at WITH YOUR OWN MOUTH

One the best interviews I've seen during this campaign from @C4Ciaran. Relentless, unflustered forensic questioning https://t.co/bbOT0D6YBZ

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 20, 2019

I wasn't responding to you in particular.

Obviously not.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexwickham/lib-dems-candidate-antisemitism

Well this is timely.

antisemitism is so embedded in society that I don’t know how you could usefully combat it without educating properly on it (and racism in general) in schools.

hate the glib dems, but if you’re in a constituency where it’s basically a choice of yellow or blue, then I’d probably vote LD.

Mmmm. I'd hope people aren't overestimating the number of such constituencies that exist, though. And the aggregate labour vote might prove important in a hung parliament jockeying situation.

An electoral pact does not mean you support all of their policies, it’s just a way of avoiding the worse of two evils (tight contest though imo).

The electoral pact is a transparently cynical attempt by the lib dems to try and peel off green and green-sympathetic voters. They shouldn't fall for it. Hopefully Swinson's fuckin Jack D. Ripper turn will concentrate a few minds.

in the AS, feel i need to give full context to the KA piece, and also because i think it’s a powerful piece of writing, giving weight to anti-semitism, which often feels trivialised by its use as a toxic political ping-pong ball. (by martin amis i’m afraid but Experience is genuinely good)


–. . . What’s it like being mildly anti-Semitic?
–It’s all right.
–No. What’s it feel like being mildly anti-Semitic? Describe it.

..

– Hi, Dad, I said, and we embraced.–. . . What’s that you’re reading? Some *Jew*? I turned my back on him and kept it turned. The book referred to was *If This Is a Man*, by Primo Levi . . . Not many months earlier my novel about the Holocaust, *Time’s Arrow*, had appeared, and I had been accused of anti-Semitism. What I didn’t want was another syllable of loose talk on this subject. So as I fixed my father’s drink, the gin, the white onions, I kept my head down and said something like:

Actually I was going to tell you about it. A really clinching thing about sex difference. When the Fascist Militia rounded him up he was taken to a huge detention camp, in Italy, in the north, I think. Then the Jews were singled out and told that they would be deported to Auschwitz the next day. The men all spent that last night drinking and fucking and fighting. The women all spent it washing their children and their children’s clothes and preparing meals. And, he writes, something like–when the sun came up, like an ally of our enemy, the barbed wire around the camp was full of children’s washing hung out in the wind to dry.

At last I turned with the drink in my hand. And my first thought was to reach for a kitchen towel. How had he had time to cry so much? His motionless face was a mask of unattended tears. He said steadily,

– That’s one thing I feel more and more as I get older. Let’s *not* round up the women and the children. Let’s *not* go over the hill and fuck up the people in the next town along. Let’s not do any of that ever again.

whoops missed out his initial response to MA’s question about what it feels like.

–What’s it feel like? Well. Very mild, as you say. If I’m watching the end of some new arts programme I might notice the Jewish names in the credits and think, Ah, there’s another one. Or: Oh I see. There’s another one.

no doubt, knowing the discourse and how deeply unserious many (most) people are about genuinely dealing with antisemitism as the abhorrence it is, we will move seamlessly from "labour suspending so many people due to AS displays the extent of its problem" to the "conservatives suspending so many people shows how seriously they are taking this"

Your political fashion correspondent is here to say Jo Swinson jogs on while wearing fashy New Balance trainers in lens-flare teal’n’orange. 🤢

hahahshahahaha

Ed Davey tells @afneil that the most likely election result is a Tory minority government. He then says Lib Dems would use that to demand a 2nd referendum. What’s going on? Is anyone watching this shit?!? #andrewneilshow pic.twitter.com/QT4c96DlKT

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV2) November 20, 2019

jesus

jo swinson really was... the /best/ candidate

Legit I was thinking earlier “can’t believe they chose someone less likely than Ed Davey” and then...


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ1xO7nXkAUEWIb?format=jpg&name=large
Sobel and Lewis together on the campaign trail and Sobel wearing a trans day of remembrance badge, you love to see it

SIR Ed Davey to you, mate.

give us a 2nd ref or the squirrel get's it - is a marked contrast from when Jo was claiming she could win a majority based on EU election voting results and her ability to nod a lot.

Vote Lib Dem and we'll be a moderating force on the Tories, just not in a coalition, is probably the pitch that works best for them in their winnable seats.

Being a piss Tory is a helluva drug

Look let them be clear the Lib Dems are the only party who can double their seat count at this election. These mugs are no lads.

not sure it has received any coverage in the UK press but scottish labour MSP jenny marra and SNP MSP joan mcalpine invited terfs to speak at holyrood on international trans day of remembrance. absolutely wretched & reprehensible behaviour

classy

At least they’re not pretending they can win 200 seats anymore

xxp Joan m is fucking awful, the SNP (and Ch3rry esp) absolutely dire on this

Absolutely delusional for anyone to believe the Tories would bite at that even assuming the LibDems are the only party holding the balance of power.

Alan Moore has something important to ask of you, in the runup to #GeneralElection19 pic.twitter.com/8snC5Wf0YB

— Leah Moore (@leahmoore) November 20, 2019

lindelof or gtfo

he's no Leo Baxendale

you’re both wrong & Alan Moore is right

xxp Joan m is fucking awful, the SNP (and Ch3rry esp) absolutely dire on this

― gyac, Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:37 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bad enough if it were just msp arseholes, but lots of high profile/follower nats on twitter are terfy also.

wings notably a horrible basturt

yep, thoroughly depressing

Alan Moore knows the score.

maybe, but someone remind him we did have snap GE in 2017 as well, which arguably was a consultation!

Melt alert: SMDH at the person in my timeline, whose dad brought Tony Blair into Labour and whose sister is one of the most powerful editors in UK publishing, complaining that because of everything to do with this election, he has never felt so disenfranchised in all his life.

Mate, go tell it to a rough sleeper once you’ve paused even five seconds to CYP.

just think how disabled voters felt in 2015. Voting for a party with the likes of Rachel Reeves saying they should hit these benefit scum harder than the tories. That is what you call disenfranchised or politically homeless as some would have it.

Yeah, you know how insensitive I find the term ‘politically homeless’ when deployed by people who will never worry about where they’ll sleep any given night.

chuka’s not impressed by the manifesto he wrote

Lib Dem source on the party’s manifesto: “Much of the manifesto is just reheated since 2017 or even 2010. It's like a microwave meal. The Lib Dems are not an ideas party any more.” 1/2

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) November 20, 2019

microwave ready

at least their policies are good comedy value.

i’ve been lolling at ‘help to rent’ all day

this account is tweeting out BJ's novel (it warns that it's very racist):

‘That’s right, Roger. The whips have been on to us twice already. They are expecting it.’

‘Oh lor’, sighed the MP, stopping. ‘Can you remember what it’s all about?’

— 72 Virgins (@VirginsJohnson) November 20, 2019

he's no kilroy

legitimately Lib Dems use another Swinson photo please

First author to use "Oh lor" since Frank Richards

This is very significant: 1.36 million people aged under 35 have registered to vote, nearly twice as many as by this time in the 2017 election.

— Owen REGISTER TO VOTE Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) November 20, 2019

It's the hope etc.

Yep. That's pretty impressive tho.

New voters?

They may be. They may also be people who’ve moved since last time. But at least some new.