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

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.

Urgent and key post:

Whatever happens with the election, it will likely set Labour's direction for the next decade. For all the sound and fury of the past four years, there's little opposition to its provisions within the party. It's the apotheosis and victory of the Corbyn project.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 22, 2019

Whatever happens we must keep demanding until there is nothing left but ashes.

That post covers my 'what if Labour lose this election?' thread that I am thinking of posting -- part of the answer for me is to keep Labour left.

the membership (including myself) isn't going to go all melty all of a sudden.

Molten, surely?

melton

It’ll stay left. I know people who joined and campaigned in 17 & who were successful in getting seats to change - and people are being enthused by the manifesto now and then. Esp as you can see the influence of young activists in it. They won’t wait, they’ll organise and get their own people in.

Depressing overhearing coworkers in the background supporting 80K QT bloke

Assuming some of those co-workers either earn 80k or are working towards it

Needless to say Burgon wasn't very good on this.

I feel about the aspiring rich worrying about their potential future taxes how I feel about all those cunts you see on twitter defending billionaires without getting paid for it. Taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilised society where children don’t go to school hungry, people don’t sleep on the street, and the sick are cared for with dignity. Couldn’t be me!

burgon is awful every time i see him

Too many ppl are still being paid off handomsely under the system to effect any kind of change.

And like James Morrison was saying a couple of days ago if the youth doesn't turn out (as in Australia) in the kind of numbers we need we could be cooked.

Hopefully we can see a pick up in the polls next week.