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

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

There is a non-negligible possibility I am at a a conference with members of the Livestock Worrying Police Working Group at the moment, I will dig deeper.

What's with the purge of left wing twitter accounts? Any media on this yet?

Swinson* reaching peak Swinson by having been drawn as a squirrel squared with this thread going over Mark E. Smith's mowing of squirrels the other night <3

* shame she's called Swinson and not Swanson. There's a Longmont Potion Castle bit about a Swanson begging to retroactively be about her.

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Where i live farmers put up notices saying please put your dogs on the lead, there are young lambs and sheep in this field. I respect the fuck out of that and get the subtext that even if your dog is a cutie labbie who hasn't got a bite in him - we will still execute the fucker with a shotgun.

I was talking to someone in the vets waiting room the the other day telling me I should get a naughty cage for my dog #nationofdoglovers

Ugh I don’t think I could ever crate a dog.

oh it is vile, don't get one if you can't care for it properly

Well, blow me down, McDonnell bigging up Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and namechecking Harold Wilson on Newsnight. Newsnight taking a peculiar tack on this manifesto - that it's not radical enough.

Wild-eyed left wing firebrand Barry Gardiner somewhat bemused by this line of questioning.

wild - emma barnett attacking barry gardiner from the left on private schools

crating is not necessarily cruel, though i don't hear of the crate being used for disciplinary purposes, some dogs find it comforting when the owners are out.

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

at least one member of the cabinet

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/therese-coffey-s-dog-has-collar-which-gives-electric-shock-1-6275917

yeah - greyhounds e.g. tend to like their crates as they're familiar with them from the racecourse

ate my chinese inside. voting tory.

I don't believe for a second any living creature is happy to sit in a cage.

if the bbc say it's not radical then it ain't *Harold Wilson statue gives knowing wink*

xps to calz there are some shit owners out there alright. When we lived in n16 the park near us had deer and people were always letting their unleashed dogs at or near them and some were even killed :(

cutest thing in the manifesto is the bit about reviewing the allotments act like WOW I WONDER WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT