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

i think on another occasion i said that this was from Timon, it is in fact Julius Caesar Pumbaa, as any fule kno.

ftfy

some of these rich folks have never wiped their arse on a newspaper (the Sun doesn't count), had a piece of foam ont deck as bed, scraped green mould off a condensed milk tin, lived in a hoyle in the ground where one gets battered to death every day and fed rat poison for brecky.... need a poverty awareness tsar with fresh poverty cliches to educate these fules?.. gizza job!

stan.... we stan

made some more propaganda for momentum. socialism's comingpic.twitter.com/5S1gV86PaN

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) November 22, 2019

drag her jeremy

Jo Swinson hasn't tweeted a single time this election asking people to register to vote.

Is she worried people saddled in debt from university will remember?

Register to vote today: https://t.co/vYH9vXVPXQ #RegisterToVote pic.twitter.com/3141mepJw0

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 22, 2019

just what the country needed, another party that equally despises and fears young people.

I love Swinson. Somewhere in The Guardian’s office there is a guy holding a monkey’s paw with one finger remaining thinking about how to really carefully word his last wish.

I'd be shocked if any Tory has tweeted 'register to vote'

They didn’t last time.

they have but the link leads to the Strictly homepage

i've reined myself in on here about the former MM journalists and their chums who still seem to be out there fighting the Blair wars, because i've got nothing helpful to say that wouldn't degenerate into kneejerk radge spite about class solidarity etc

but what a bunch of fucking maroons

Weirdly, just the other day I fell into a Facebook hellhole of rancid ex-music journalists because I recognized the name one of them who had replied to something a friend had posted and, yes, this guy is a spittle-flecked ranting hate machine - I won't mention his name but let's just say he was never anything more than the poor man's Dave McCullough in his heyday.

I noticed Iannucci is urging people to tactically vote in an election where the LibDems are a Tory coalition in waiting and tactical voting has negligible value. He needs to make like Eno and start urging his legions of young fans to register to vote again like he did during previous elections!

... and his ageing hasbeen hack friends seemed much the same. (xp)

Tom D - you are on FB but you hate twitter?!

My family and a lot of my friends are on Facebook, what is the point of Twitter again, remind me?

I generally don't go out of my way on Facebook to read a lot of shite satire or to hate read Rachel Riley or whoever.

you've just given me the main selling point of never getting FB. I'd probably top myself through daily exposure to thoughts of family and friends!

I actually like some of my family and friends though! And it's not daily exposure by any means.

no twitter, no emoji mashup bot:

😬 grimacing + 🤡 clown = pic.twitter.com/GmbcuGxr8H

— Emoji Mashup Bot (@EmojiMashupBot) November 21, 2019

it's the little frivolous accounts like that make it good imo

Frivolity yes. Rachel Riley no.

Tom D, that could be any of several MM alums writing in that thread. Was it:

The Australian?
The shortarse former star writer who BITD ppl accused of abusing two of his ex-girlfriends who are now amongst the most successful women in UK media?
Really interchangeable dude 1 who went into publishing?
Really interchangeable dude 2 who went into publishing, but who waited until now to mention his family’s role fighting apartheid?

My family and a lot of my friends are on Facebook, what is the point of Twitter again, remind me?

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Friday, 22 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Information and entertainment.

elective brain-poisoning

The shortarse former star writer who BITD ppl accused of ...

I have been wondering about this and whether it is true for quite a while - but until either of the women say anything on the matter probably best to assume not? I dunno.

She defended charging people £1200 if they’d been sacked for being gay or ill, and wanted to take their boss to an employment tribunal https://t.co/ZTSsSqCp9C

— Calum Sherwood (@CalumSSherwood) November 22, 2019

xp have just found an article from one of the women from 2014 that hints as much, hm.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ07KMkWoAEBo8N?format=jpg&name=900x900

i also like twitter for its wealth of striking imagery of tory cunts in posh sandwich shops in the region

Good to see my local Greens (candidate is a joint leader) recycling an idea from the LibDems. Last GE the Labour majority was 28,156 and the Greens got 1,408 votes pic.twitter.com/6rMdU0ViaI

— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) November 22, 2019

those Greens recycling some bad ideas that make them just as shit as their electoral partnership buddies

Predictions seldom age well, even so

https://i.imgur.com/TiJjsvY.jpg

Jewish colleagues also saying Greens are IHRA non-compliant and thus full of AS.

the "fat hand of death" is a very odd phrase!

google says this is the only time it's ever been used

not really many visual representations of death featuring fat hands tbf!

i mean i quite like it! as an editor i would query it but also request it stayed in!

https://img.apester.com/insecure/fit/700/0/ce/0/plain/user-images%2F98%2F987f8b3249b0dd7e544839ff925c9c56.jpg

Bit of harsh nickname for pre-dieting baggyMP imo

i suppose you could see they are greedy hands that have gained weight after millenniums of bumper harvests

http://www.isopyl.com/Blog/Files/fht.jpg

i have no idea what this image is, the blog it's from has vanished

Baggymp listening to (Fat) Red Right Hans today.

Hand ffs

Don’t want to be all AS A WOMAN but I cannot tell you how irritating I find this logic. When I think of great female politicians I think of, idk, Mary Robinson and none of the below. Prominent, maybe.

Gonna go out on a limb and say if a politician can be derailed by a meme about her killing squirrels, she's probably not a great politician pic.twitter.com/WRMFWlpMpk

— Doc Corbyn Dart (@PuebloCanyon) November 22, 2019

Information and entertainment.

That's the difference, nobody goes on FB expecting to find any useful information.

Tom D, that could be any of several MM alums writing in that thread. Was it:

The Australian?
The shortarse former star writer who BITD ppl accused of abusing two of his ex-girlfriends who are now amongst the most successful women in UK media?
Really interchangeable dude 1 who went into publishing?
Really interchangeable dude 2 who went into publishing, but who waited until now to mention his family’s role fighting apartheid?

No idea, I don't know if this guy even wrote for MM, I remember him at NME, and he was certainly not a star writer. The clue to his nationality was in my original post.

Is this Carella guy a joke account? I keep not being able to tell.

^ grandad

xp unfortunately not, he’s extremely cool being an EU migrant who thinks EU migrants shouldn’t have the vote. Can’t understand why his opinions are so circulated!

xp seanathair

tear him for his dutty genes as well (even tho I looked like shit* at 36 as well)

* pretty much the same as I look at 46!

Paying my respects to all tactical voters

It was genuinely only a fortnight ago that every second tweet was about tactical voting.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 22, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/21/im-not-going-to-be-bullied-into-silence-the-women-defying-abuse-to-stand-as-mps this is a good if depressing piece, speaking of MPs who never get the white sensibles of politics giving a shit about their predicament.

For years, Bell Ribeiro-Addy resisted the idea of standing for parliament, having seen first hand what could happen to black women who do. As an aide to the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott – who endured more abuse than any other MP during the last election – Ribeiro-Addy would regularly open abusive letters in an attempt to shield her boss from the worst of it, or pick up the phone to anonymous callers screaming the N-word.

When Abbott first suggested she think about becoming an MP, she shied away. What changed her mind, she says, was seeing what Abbott achieved by rising above what has been, for her, life-long abuse.