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

Toynbee got excited by the 2017 manifesto as well IIRC.

Rebecca Long-Bailey's speech beforehand couched everything in the context of the Green Industrial Revolution which I think was a smart move - it should appeal to two very different voter groups at once.

melt communism.

Oh interesting, I just got a notif from twitter saying “we have received your 235 reports in the last month”. Maybe there’s been a backlog of reporting hence all the good accounts being banned?

the embarrassing admission is that it turns out i did actually have my keys. also i haven’t returned the next door neighbours weird fork yet.

ikr

I didn't know Emin was a tory. Shit artist anyway, no loss.

emin once in a pleasant summer’s evening while i was enjoying an excellent pint of adnams, came round the corner in a wheelchair and simultaneously a fly landed in my pint, an event (a ruinous fly or wasp in the pint) which i have always subsequently referred to as “an Emin”.

she supported blair then cameron, then she was anti-Brexit, fuck knows what her position is now, probably not something very well-thought-through at a guess

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Jasper Emin

Jamelia on C4 news serving Jez realness to some odd Tory boy who looks like a shit impersonator of Michel Sheen in Good Omens.

Yeh I saw that and was thinking "If there's one thing Labour is known for right now it's having plenty of young supporters" and they found three earnest young people against the manifesto and...Jamelia.

Wait, Jamelia is a Tory?

Labour promises to add the Cricket World Cup on list of events on free-to-air TV.

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) November 21, 2019

“Both of these men, who are fine politicians and essentially good people, will be remembered in history for doing the most terrible things to our political system and I don’t understand why they fell for it; I don’t understand why they did it.”

these YBAs really were a deep thinking set of people, no wonder Dave Stewart was so impressed with them.

no she was the only one at all pro the manifesto, just seemed an odd choice.

Can’t believe the news finds it so easy to get young Tories on air any night of the week

(xp) No, there was a Labour ex-policy wonk there too.

nicola sturgeon just interviewed by johnnie beattie on BBC scotland - she clearly hates him

john beattie

tom hamilton is hardly leadership-aligned

T0m Ham1lt0n...the thing that sticks in my mind about that guy is I remember when he had a baby and he spent tons of time on Twitter around and after the baby’s birth going on and on about Labour/Corbyn. Just...one of those people that is talked up as being normal or sensible but I couldn’t get over that.

want a window poster, so far Labour have sent me a load of fucking (capitalist roader) raffle tickets

(xp) Haven't a fucking clue what he or anyone else is like on Twitter, he didn't sound too critical of the manifesto to me tbh.

the Labour member in this household received an “election pack” but judging by the size I don’t think there’s a poster. ask Paula for one!

nicola sturgeon just interviewed by johnnie beattie on BBC scotland - she clearly hates him

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... Alex Salmond not on there, I see.

Ok, I’m laughing (check the @ and icon of the second one)

Corbynite omissions from Labour Manifesto. No mention at all of Venezuela. No mention of Russian annexation of Ukraine. No condemnation of Assad and Russia bombing hospitals in Syria. No condemnation of Iran and its malign proxy Hezbollah role in Syria or the Houthis in Yemen.

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) November 21, 2019

No mention of perestroika or glasnost. A disgrace.

— Miwkhail Gorbachev (@MikeGapesMP) November 21, 2019

... people you thought were dead... Johnny Beattie, that is, 93!

even the tory SPAD channel 4 news had on was reasonably positive about the labour manifesto - 'undeliverable' seems to be the attack line they've settled on

My cartoon Thursday @TheTimes. As her popularity plummets, #JoSwinson is a victim of #FakeNews posts accusing her of attacking #squirrels .........#LibDemManifesto pic.twitter.com/qWYBOuAaXM

— Peter Brookes (@BrookesTimes) November 21, 2019

Alex is a bit busy at the moment. Hasn't Scotland got about 1 person named Johnny Beattie for every ant colony over there?

peter brookes: bad cartoonist (still), also bad explainer of his own cartoons

there's jonny beattie, johnnie beattie, and john beattie.

true Ma[s]TTers don't need to explain their work, and especially with crass fake news hashtags!

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just seems one of them names I've seen all over the place. Like when there were nine Tommy Joyce's at my secondary school at the same time.

No way.

i occasionally have to work with john beattie and i can confirm that he is a cunt

beat that, suzy

So Johnnie Beattie is John Beattie's son? Though, I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Johnnie Beattie before.

many xposts Jamelia was on, one assumes, because she is a lefty Brummie and C4 were broadcasting in Brum.

yes, and johnnienie beattie is johnnie beattie’s son xp

I can't believe an old ex-egg chaser would be a complete cunt!

Then there's Jen Beattie, who is Johnnie's sister and John's daughter and plays for Arsenal.

Johnny Beattie's daughter meanwhile is President of Equity.

cor we’re gone right down the beattiehole tonight

... his other daughter was Wee Burney's girlfriend in Rab C. Nesbitt.

what a dynasty

full disclosure: he also occasionally plays ac/dc covers in a band with a friend of my wife’s

the friend is not a cunt

vote labour for CATS' RIGHTS pic.twitter.com/IeuZzOjbTW

— danielle is actually at capacity (@Danielle_J_Thom) November 21, 2019

there is family around the corner from me with a car sticker on their motor that says something like Ban Stupid Owners - Not The Dogs. And they don't even have a dog!

Good take imo (speaking as a former dog owner).

you just couldn't face your dog anymore after you got into the puppy smuggling game, admit it!

what a dynasty

full disclosure: he also occasionally plays ac/dc covers in a band with a friend of my wife’s

the friend is not a cunt

At 93, that's impressive... oh, you mean, John Beattie.

do people really use animal shock collars? that is some degenerate cruelty