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

The Lynn Barber thing is nuts. Standard now accepts he didn’t say it in their correction but it’s still in the print version.

Correction under the Standard Corbyn article now - how do you “bellow” something you didn’t say? Plus, like most senior politicians, his staff record the interviews too: why wasn’t it factchecked by editors? pic.twitter.com/ZiaiHzIFHh

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) November 21, 2019

Thinking must be that the standard owners are happy to pay damages if this contributes to a Conservative victory

i for one cannot believe Lynn Barber has written something that may be untrue

The Conservatives raised almost six million pounds in A WEEK 🤯 pic.twitter.com/WAXrFq7etT

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) November 21, 2019

looks like they've got a war chest boost in the last week

newspapers libelling JC + BBC in full-on indyref-style propaganda mode

rattled

Point remains but those are donations over £7500 only - avg Labour donation is £23 or thereabouts

avg tory donation is four suitcases

Average Tory donation is the full last will and testament.

Note it has been especially cold since the 6th.

You can say that again, tho I fear it's not the old Tories who are frightened of putting their heating on

re: 'radical' manifesto. I'm p sure that's how Corbyn described it himself when he announced it.

Hey also said it was totally gnarly and tubular

Shami Chakrabarti just did a top notch job of defending the manifesto against some E Davis scrutiny.

With the Tories spending their hard earned millions on cheap stunts like labourmanifesto.co.uk because their electoral success actively depends on tricking pensioners are they hoping it means that the more people google 'tory manifesto' over the next 3 weeks they get that website and coverage of it rather than having to actually cobble together a new one that isn't just another shitshow?

VOX POPULI:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/21/what-a-nice-surprise-readers-on-the-labour-manifesto

Correcting an obvious lie online but letting it go out in the printed version of the Substandard very much in line with the tricking pensioners strategy

Pensioners don’t read the Standard. It’s for commuters outside the red core of Z1/2..

In this instance you're right, but the larger strategy is clearly print/broadcast ridiculous lies in legacy and rely on older voters' comparative media illiteracy which ensures large numbers never see the easy debunking.

legacy media

I'm not quite glib enough a motherfucker to call papers/tv just 'legacy', lol

Johnson has chickened out of his constituency hustings, according to Ali Milani

He's also chickened out of the C4 leaders debate scheduled for Sunday so it's been cancelled

so far ahead in the polls he’s got nothing to gain surely?

twitter purging left twitter accounts

how so?

Huge numbers of left-Twitter accounts suspended, extremely subtle

— r🌹o🌹o🌹t🌹l🌹e🌹f🌹t (@RootLeftNews) November 21, 2019

Noticing a lot of accounts who I follow and know well being suspended from Twitter. Clear that some kind of organised attempt to get rid of leftists who actually hold people to account/have fun/are creative in their parodying. Disgraceful given the lack of action on actual lies.

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 21, 2019

Outrageous given the rank dishonesty & attempts to inflame revanchist sentiments from mainstream liberals & Tories that what happens is various left accounts, including some of the best & most creative, get booted off here.

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) November 21, 2019

BTW I am on a crowded District Line train right this second and zero (0) people I can see are reading the Standard oh lol okay as I typed that some old bloke got on brandishing one at Temple

old woman about 8m away appears to be doing the crossword

but yeah there are more people reading books. if I wasn't standing I'd break out the Dennis Cooper maybe, top commuting material

a second older man is now revealed s reading the Standard it's all the olds here ends the deep analysis

when am I gonna get reception and finally send this ffs

ok in the next carriage a youngish man is reading the Standard but he looks like a twat

jfc can't believe the cunts have suspended Streatham Rovers

yeah hang on what

Ppl reading the standard= sort of schmucks who are as easy to fool as doddery pensioners

Why for god's sake? xp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ5ccv1X0AAZpwc?format=jpg&name=small

in some ways Swinson has managed to bring the country together in a fashion, no thanks to her party's divisive policies, just in unified derision of her arrogant presidential leadership style and squirrel-murdering ways

counterpooint: peter brookes is a very terrible cartoonist

he is no matt

making humans into animals or vice versa always makes me chuckle a lot, but unlike most matt fans - I'm quite easily impressed

missed opportunity to make the squirrel piss-coloured

with can of acme piss diamond squirrel ale in its paws.

Toby Young basically says he'd be in the same trouble as Prince Andrew if it wasn't for his "tough, sensible, no-nonsense" mother figure wife.

jude suspended too

riley related?

They have both been permabanned before so it’s easy for people who dislike them to just report that back to Twitter to get their new accounts pulled.

Peter Brookes is bad but occasionally he draws something memorably nightmarish? I've not been able to stop thinking about Jo Swinson's face in this one

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJQI2uQWwAAcnmA?format=jpg&name=small

WTF???

this election is gonna end up full Very British Coup at this rate

trevorbastard gone as well... again. this is an outrage.

need to call a Twitter boycott

think all the banned left accounts were ones that renamed themselves as a CCHQ account during the factcheckUK debacle last night

xp mmm a lot of the dodgy right wing accounts who do nothing all day are in that position too, and have been reported, and...?

Streatham rovers account is back but no tweets showing

Christ, loads of people gone. Fuck this. I think Jude deleted rather than being suspended though.

xp no it’s still suspended

think the profile might just be stored in my app or sth

maybe #sackRachelRiley has led to a bit of a tantrum

it gets worse, Led By Donkeys is still up