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

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

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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.

Burgon is one of them from that period when Corbyn was struggling to make the numbers for a shadow cabinet. Since then he might have got slightly better at dealing with questions which isn't really saying much. And he's also got much less likable became the only charm he had was the pitiable type as he kept getting rinsed by some of the most lightweight journalists in the game

I mean he did rinse the Sun for libel. Corbyn could take a tip from him there.

booming post 21 mins ago gyac

Question Time Friday night special? wtf is wrong with people??

cunts on the radio arguing about £80K a year etc just get Swindon in and nuke the fucking country right now

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

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Thought you were mostly SNP. If so, what changed?

Stupor Friday is back baby! Astonished they could condense so much gammon into one studio audience.

feel like they could've combined this with Eastenders somehow to make a 2hr vile cunts shouting at each other special

get this communist aaahta mah pub

Grant Mitchell turns up in a for heroes shirt and does a citizens arrest on Corbyn

the kids are alright

Am told the most popular chant wasn’t “oh Jeremy Corbyn” but “Jo Swinson’s a Tory”, to the same tune

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 22, 2019

JC's power so potent they've had to crate him

Huge reaction from students for Jeremy Corbyn as he arrives for the #bbcqt debate (video via @jamesandrew48) pic.twitter.com/fxzRytbutl

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 22, 2019

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

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Thought you were mostly SNP. If so, what changed?

― xyzzzz__, Friday, November 22, 2019 10:26 AM (forty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

im a congenital scottish nationalist despite being from a labour and unionist (as in in favour of the union) household, and i have voted snp in general elections and scottish greens in scottish parliament elections because i support independence and labour was never really an option for me as someone who had their first vote immediately following the iraq war (2003 scottish parliament elections) and who was in scotland which, you know, has a shitty labour party full of blairites, chancers, and half-gangsters.

im not a corbyn fan, i don't think he's a very effectual leader, i think the handling of anti-semitism has been woeful, etc. but i am heartened by the emergence of the labour left and labour manifestos which have heft to them.

what has sort of pushed me over the edge into full labour support has really been the scurrilous attacks from the media and from wealthy melts on social media on the labour leadership. the fact that even the guardian is a primarily anti-labour newspaper. tom harris urging support for the tories.

i also think that scottish independence will make much less sense if there is an rUK brexit. pace the snp we can't "escape brexit" through creating a northern irish border problem on the island of britain

Slab as it was always came across as awful, though some of the current MPs (Sweeney, Rowley) seem good.

Tom Harris is very much one of those “why the fuck are you Labour?” types, and, like a lot of them, always comes across as incredibly bitter and unpleasant. He’s found his level with the paywalled Telegraph articles nobody reads.

https://twitter.com/henryvjscott

sorry meant to post this:

I am the UK’s youngest candidate for MP. (11/11/01) ask me questions!!

— Henry scott (@henryvjscott) November 22, 2019

the best thing tom harris ever did was when he knew he'd absolutely fucked it in 2015 and he posted a video of him dragging his dog around the carpet attached to his hoover

really big impromptu crowd (on a wet friday night) for JC outside of the BBC ahead of the QT debate... CON poll lead cut by 3 in the latest panelbase....

to be fair to scottish labour, growing up my dad was pals with trade unionist leaders, councillors, mps, who all seemed decent and were all on the party's left

still loads of absolute nuggets in scottish labour. good to see people like this tho

In 2014, Stella voted Yes because she believed it would bring hope and transformation to her community.

Next month, Stella is voting Labour because only a Labour government will end austerity, ban zero-hour contracts and scrap Universal Credit.

When Labour wins, Scotland wins. pic.twitter.com/Qw1X79WpbL

— Scottish Labour (@scottishlabour) November 21, 2019

well i don't know why i even tried but i managed 2 minutes of Question Time. you know these people exist but seeing them in the flesh is soul-destroying.

Thanks for the answer jim

who the fuck are these freaks?

in my house it's the Simpsons