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

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

Ralf Little got suspended for Factcheck UKing too (not that he’s Left Twitter, but he is a lefty).

not checked but I’m sure all the gnasher bullies are gone

Football = Spurs. Politics = Twitter. That's those crazy ILXors for you.

do some good and ban all the gammon cybernats called johnwhahae1964

Actual Gnasher is still there.

one time I reported an account I saw in replies that literally denied the holocaust as its handle, twitter gave me an update saying the account had broken the rules, but it was still there. And I’d reported enough blatantly racist tweets on the account as well.

and ofc I’m sure Gl1nn3r is still cunting it up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ6yzMQWsAEobbZ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

quite charmed by this, even though it looks like the unfussy coursework of a 90's (or even 80's) HND level graphic design student.

HAHAHAHA

I’ve eaten more manifestos than you’ve had hot dinners young fellow and this one tastes pretty good!

— Polly Toynbee (@pollytoynbee) November 21, 2019

Wait, is PT... good now?

her dad was a card carrying commie in his youth who later broke into a midlife tory strop, maybe she's decided to go the other way!

the melts lost polly… for now

Dan Hodges just said "how can serious politicians like Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves" back this manifesto with a straight face ra ra ra etc. Rachel fucking Reeves...? I thought it was only haters like me who actually remembered who this deeply unpleasant non-entity actually was.

Alex Sobel sharing the good stuff

This footage of Morrissey and George Michael discussing Joy Division in 1984 is quite extraordinary. Morrissey shows himself to be a dick even at this stage while George’s love of Closer is fascinating https://t.co/Rhgk9wGZlR

— Alex Sobel for Leeds North West (@alexsobel) November 20, 2019

it's good that, cos it is a showcase George Micheal's impressive music love and shows the other twat to be a peevish little precious shit with wretched taste.

I read the Standard most nights for a) the codeword puzzle, b) occasional snap of Bobby Gillespie looking awkward at a fashion party.

<3 georgey boy

my excuse for still getting the paper Graun for years after I hated it used to be my kakuro addiction.

my mum says she only gets the telegraph for the piece of piss crossword so it’s confusing where the goosestepoing has come from.

GOOSEPOSTING.

Today is #CarersRightsDay. Labour will boost #carersallowance in line with job seekers allowance and introduce a proper national carers’ strategy. We must care for them as they care for us.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 21, 2019

(xxp) Curious but apt hybrid of goosestepping and Gestapo there?

Carers Allowance needs boosting. I get £60 a bastard week for caring for two disableds. how am i supposed get shitfaced every night on that?:p

the labour manifesto is so clearly good, and delivered in good faith about achievability and costing, and the tory pork barrel bullshit giveaway politics is so transparent it is astonishing labour aren’t racing ahead in the polls. but this election will give us the government we deserve. i am drunk.

please make sure you have your keys before you order a chinese

I read the Standard on Wednesdays for the property section (it’s awful and I am aware of that) and ES Magazine to keep on top of those weird fashion party pix that look like a pile-up of eating-disordered dolls. The restaurant critic’s a bit shit rn, but until she self-suspended, the mag editor followed me on Twitter (she used to work at Vogue) so it’s something I pick up to leaf through if I go to the shops by Holborn tube (I don’t usually grab the paper itself).

A few months ago, at a friend’s book launch, I met Lynn Barber and discovered that she is quite good friends with Tracey Emin and had to explain with some delicacy that I no longer get on with that weird Tory numpty. But LB was fairly personable herself.