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

I recently saw Jamelia promoting an event trying to raise money and awareness for homelessness, possibly was bbc breakfast news. She seems sound tbh

If not bbc breakfast, sky or all jazerra equivalent

i'm voting Labour again. The scratchcard I thought I'd won a grand on, only had 3 quid on it. It was a word search one and I'd accidentally scratched the F and made it look like an E ffs!

;_;

Ah no, fuck that :(

fuuuuck

You inspired me to go out and get one of those and I won 6 quid. That’s the labour way

Jesus Christ, Question Time in Bolton, wall-to-wall gammon. Some utter moron arguing the toss about not being in the top 5% earners despite earning over £80,000 a year.

The first two people to speak both agreed with the Labour manifesto in principle but:

1. Rich people will leave the countty.

2. I remember the *70s and we'll have union barons running the country.

(*he looked like he might have been born in the 70s tbf)

yeah we all died of starvation when the rolling stones fucked off to france in the 70's

can't believe I know Jenrick's voice so well, but didn't recognise his face on that quiz last night (even tho i guessed the question correct). What an utter cunt!

calzino ;(

i'm voting Labour again. The scratchcard I thought I'd won a grand on, only had 3 quid on it. It was a word search one and I'd accidentally scratched the F and made it look like an E ffs!

This bizarre goggle-eyed Telegraph journalist on QT saying there's too much respect and reverence for facts LOL

omg Rory Stewart offering support for the fallen while not denying being in mI5

Proper tears in the rain moment finding out TBEUs been ripped up@RoryStewartUK i know you had your differences with @streathamrover but can you ask MI5 to sort this out? An attack on free speech during an election.

— bread and poses (@MrJackGrant) November 21, 2019

Of course I’m on it - thanks for the heads-up - and my very best wishes to #tbeu - what a tragedy - someone will be at the club tonight at 11pm - wearing a club strip and carrying a copy of the Tooting Trumpet - you can trust them.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) November 21, 2019

He is surely MI6 tbfttl.

Lol at least scratchcard fail made for some lols and it inspired me to apply for a provisional driving licence. Cos you need photo id to claim prizes of a grand or over. If you've actually won them that is. But having photo id is seeming increasingly important as we go forward into this new era!

Lol chuka talking about Boris letting the queen down.

Oh Calz, that sucks.

Watching QT. Telegraph woman is actually thick, gammon on 80k miffed at a tax schedule that would have him pay a tenner extra a month got told by half the audience that yeah you ARE in the top five percent (that’s how averages work) Jenrick trying to say faux fact-checking shenanigans are Westminster insider BS despite someone in a Northern audience bringing it up in disapproval, and idiots placing the blame with Labour for austerity. AAAAARGH.

Plus Richard Burgon, who is shite. That's it, I've had enough.

not sure why anyone puts themself through the ordeal of watching QT tbh

Yeah I never read anything about it apart from here and it’s really bad for me blood pressure, fuck watching it

Burgon just gave a good answer re: Andrew and VAWG.

If you think Burgon is shit listen to that oily tory twat getting clapped for swerving a question by talking about heroic firefighters, even though they got blamed for Grenfell

not sure why anyone puts themself through the ordeal of watching QT tbh

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 November 2019 23:33 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

especially when the cricket's on!

That vacuous telegraph columnist barely has a functioning brain. Wtf is she ever talking about

Whoa....

For every £1 the Labour Party raised during the first week of this election campaign, the Tories raised £25. pic.twitter.com/5jfnpQ4RP4

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) November 21, 2019

For those on text-only, that's only large donations.

Does Theo think that donations under 7500 don't exist?

The below accounts have been suspended and it appears to be politically motivated. Twitter is a hellscape at the best of times, and these guys are among the few who make logging on worthwhile. They should all be reinstated immediately. https://t.co/AqshgUg2wY

— Simon Hedges #BeKindOnline (@Orwell_Fan) November 21, 2019

orwell fan posting in real voice is otm

it's fucking sinister that this is happening during a snap election.

Leftists to all the liberal rubes rn pic.twitter.com/CsaSUcfCSL

— Admiral Ackbars Memoriam (@GhostofAckbar) November 21, 2019

head of policy at twitter is ex-conservative candidate nick pickles. hmmm

xp

It is sinister, but the upside for me personally is I no longer have to fulminate embarrassingly when someone posts some unfunny parody tweet itt which I don't recognize as a parody and which then has to be explained to me like I'm the poster's grandad.

I think Jude has deactivated because we DM a fair bit and our correspondence is still in my inbox.

Good to see this addressed in the Labour manifesto as well:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-50511847

looks like they got the guy that started the "Jo Swinson Kills Squirrels" meme as well

xxp sounds like the kind of thing a granddad would say.

xp not a follower but yeah you can tell if someone is suspended because the profile will say so, it says “tweets not found” if they just deactivated.

Need to see some constituency polling for Peterborough

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/22/peterborough-voters-we-need-to-give-people-hope-again

was this posted ? fkn yikes

Gosh. This did not go well for @SamGyimah.

He’s not having a good election campaign at all, is he? pic.twitter.com/vrF22VPaOu

— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) November 21, 2019

Fuck some "businessman" who really wants to vote for the Liberal Democrats tbh

Mair "so if brexit happens you won't be able to fund this".. lol! that £50 bn libDem "brexit bonus" is even more of a genius move as when Gideon said there would be a punitive brexit budget if people voted for it

Of course I’m on it - thanks for the heads-up - and my very best wishes to #tbeu - what a tragedy - someone will be at the club tonight at 11pm - wearing a club strip and carrying a copy of the Tooting Trumpet - you can trust them.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) November 21, 2019

no flies on hepcat Rory, he's down with the kids on the tweets

useful context to suggest Labour’s spending plans might not be quite as extraordinary as some think - via The Times pic.twitter.com/IM13my70CT

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) November 22, 2019

this graph (from a murdoch owned Tory rag) makes it seem like the Labour manifesto is a comparatively tame spending spree in the scheme of Western democracies.

Yeah but those are all – *shudder* – socialist countries.

The Times' coverage has been sensible compared to the Telegraph's tbf.

god that sam gyimah interview is painful

nv otm re: fuck small businesspeople entertaining the idea of voting libdem (and small business tyrants in general) but tbfttl, he was doing a better job holding gyimah to account than most journalists would have

'sensible compared to the telegraph' is not a high bar to clear tho

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4499-the-long-conservative-decline

I never knew the internal Conservative Party Stop Boris campaign, yes the one that miserably failed was actually code-named Project Arse!

The 'remain bonus' being talked up as £50bn of new money is a fabulous. Not even sure that the Vote Leave campaign could match the chutzpah.

it's some galaxy-brain creative accounting alright

Maybe not for here, and not for right wing brainworm thread either but....

What is the deal with Rachel Riley (and to a lesser extent those other two but they are way less famous and I can't remember their names). Is it just Corbyn Derangement Syndrome? It has to be counter-productive at this point, and career-wise its weird (or is it?).

What's her end goal...and what does she do if Corbyn stands down next month? Just move on to whoever his replacement is? She's a LibDem, which presumably closes off the Katie Hopkins route, I don't see where the longevity in this is