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

i don't really have a point here but that number is about the same as the difference between leave and remain in the referendum (1.27M)

get them JC

Tomorrow Jeremy Corbyn will launch Labour's manifesto with a firebrand speech that takes on the elite who have rigged our economy – and promises a future worth fighting for. https://t.co/W0kni1Mo5B

— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) November 20, 2019

News klaxon!

NHS overtakes Brexit as key issue for voters in this election.

Good news for Corbyn.

Data from @IpsosMORI @benatipsosmori pic.twitter.com/AyLG35GTvj

— Joe Murphy (@JoeMurphyLondon) November 20, 2019

Fuck me the drop-off after Brexit tho. NHS being foregrounded is positive tho, no way can Johnson do anything to convince anybody but the dullest witted Tory that he's not lying.

Again I'd be cautious about pinning your hopes on lots of young people registering to vote. Same thing happened in Australia and we still ended up with the same bunch of happy-clappy fundamentalist fascist immigrant-murdering shitballs we had before.

who could have predicted this depressing turn of events

this is just a profoundly racist and specifically anti-black t shirt. if you think making a mockery of the anti-apartheid struggle is a good look, you’re probably not an anti-racist https://t.co/ZlPg2hfriq

— jack🚩 (@tankiejack) November 20, 2019

fs

pivoting towards... CONDEM 2: austerity boogaloo

Political editor @nicholaswatt says there has been a “clear pivot” in the Lib Dems’ general election campaign today as they downgrade their ambitions.

They are “suggesting they could vote for Boris Johnson’s deal" if he adds on to it a referendum with a Remain option#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/aXDGb6FZdr

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) November 20, 2019

fuckin weasels

a pivot moves on a fixed point, which in the case of these lousy pieces of shit is being the remain wing of the Conservative party

Get it out in the open now, plenty of time for people to think about what they're voting for

On a final note...if you can get every one in this, you spend too much time itt

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/20/quiz-can-you-name-these-leading-politicians

i fucked up some of the easiest questions, especially that current non-entity DWP minister whose face I can't forget. But still got a respectable very shit 12/16

Lol I got 8 I have a very selective attention span

Robert Jenrick was a lucky guess obv

could tell Alok Sharma had international development brief because he had an empty folder in his hand. badum tish

16/16

:/

4/16 never even heard of most of these

13/16, sorry for letting the thread down

when’s the TBEU quiz

The only one I didn't get was the NI Secretary. Not proud of myself.

Skybet have Conservative Lib Dem coalition at 33/1 right now, not sure why people here think its so unlikely

They do?

not sure why people here think its so unlikely

Because the polls show the Tories getting a sizeable majority?

I suggested it a month or so ago, my legitimate concerns were aggressively shot down in many online lefty spheres. It resulted in me changing my bet to Pochettino to Legia Warsaw, this is on you not me, you made me do it

Because the polls show the Tories getting a sizeable majority?

Can't go too wrong betting against polls tho