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

I literally cannot believe that a person this bad at the debate format actually tried to mount a legal challenge to be in the previous one. She's been torn apart by committed remainers here.

She should be paying to stay off the next one. Is she actually worse than Farron?

to think that poch got the sack before that clown

"From then on he had them eating out of his hand" -- Rentoul on Johnson in the Independent. Matt Forde can't even touch the KING here

Guys it's fucked, there's no way that any liberal Tories are voting LD this time round. Swinson has basically ensured another 10 seats for Johnson at the very least.

I didn't realise they had such high standards :p

xp not sure that anyone can, that’s how he’s survived two millennia

Tim Farron polled, what, 7%, and still took Tory seats? If this benefits anyone it should be Labour, saw a surprising number of fbpes making pro Corbyn comments (lol)

Did she get applauded for a single answer? Like, at all?

pretty sure Swindon has already established that a Lib Dem seat will be a Tory seat so

won’t be up to her by then

Christ, the revisionists are hilarious. Trying to make out it was the Labour and Conservative audience? She was being bodied by Remainers!

nice to see this in my timeline

https://i.imgur.com/btuAc4O.jpg

so guys i watched QT and i feel obligated to relate my objective opinion that the absolute boy fuckin walked it imo

Abdullah Ibrahim on jools holland now as well. I've obv sniffing the butane gas again, need to wake up !

This reply to the Matt Forde tweet is my favourite

I did a microdot and cried in KFC because they wouldn't sell me a Big Mac but even at that low point I was making more sense than this guy

— Andy Vote Labour Bennetts (@ajbcollectables) November 22, 2019

hah hah! my brother once went into a McDonald's on ketamine and just pissed all over the floor, his politics are shite as well!

Seems to be a winning combo, that: https://theoutline.com/post/7456/engadine-maccas-1997

Let’s all take a minute to appreciate how tight this guys look was pic.twitter.com/IL7Xq4J3UD

— Admiral Ackbars Memoriam (@GhostofAckbar) November 22, 2019

I think I prefer this guy to the ghoulish cunt with the South African accent

“How can you be neutral in a referendum and claim to be a leader,” said Raab, speaking to journalists in the venue’s media room. “All those citizens at home and all of those businesses who are wondering how they will navigate the uncertainty of Brexit, and Jeremy Corbyn says he’s neutral. That is not leadership on the biggest issue of the day.”

I don’t quite know what to say to this, it’s ineffable somehow.

generous take from tory rag on press on boris's performance that makes sound more like a typical ILXer: "he flapped and flailed like an eccentric paedophile geography teacher"

having a pop at myself there as well btw!

big dom is right, this is how a real man handles a difficult Brexit situation
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/26/00/4F548DCB00000578-0-Dominic_Raab_s_sweat_laden_performance_last_week_he_was_forced_t-m-25_1535241225917.jpg

https://www.dw.com/image/45257351_303.jpg

https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/metro-news-s3-prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Header_1937603_1.11-1024x1023.jpg

when they make a netflix series about that german party from the 30's, he'll make a fine young Ribbentrop. seriously

he's like the shit rik mayall

https://www.onthisday.com/images/people/joachim-von-ribbentrop-medium.jpg

Absolutely destroys the appalling Boris Johnson and his horrific Tory policies
Watch this 👇 pic.twitter.com/1Hc1a28uFb
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) November 22, 2019
this was a great question and she was clearly scared/angry saying it but did so anyway
― gyac, Friday, 22 November 2019 22:17 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This particular intervention was so on point. Really was the moment I wondered about what has changed that it's possible to articulate this so clearly and efficiently, the discourse has expanded at least to make this framing legible to a mass audience and I think that's heartening.

Also I hate Jo Swinson to a degree that worries me and I still found her performance difficult to watch I felt so mortified for her

something different to GE '17 in the air tonight in the BBC studio

Sturgeon was good but I don't think this was really that consequential for her. Corbyn was at times excellent at times less convincing. the other two were absolutely abysmal.

Lol calz have you swapped logins with Suzy?

But yeah watched a clip of random heads talking about this with Emma barnett and they all seemed to be awarding it to Corbyn

it's a piece of piss for Sturgeon really, but she makes it look easy by being a very good politician, Which is the main reason I wouldn't fucking trust her much.

xp

suzy often posts about golf nazis. i'm not shy about being accused of breaching Faldo's Godwin's Law by comparing actual nazis to tory ministers:p

Re: sturgeon I think it's hard to gauge her accurately on the canniness barometer because governance in Scotland is on an entirely different scale etc. There were moments where she addressed policy that showed in a very off hand way an obvious level of intimacy with actual process that no cabinet minister in Westminster would ever have clue of let alone Johnson. Shifting seamlessly to Liverpool council's approach to tackling drug fatalities. When lined up against Westminster horrors like esp Swinson it exaggerates her calculated folksy demeanor, but I think it's also that this blend of approachability and capability has a very different currency at Holyrood due to this question of scale. She is clearly a very talented politician and I think I'm clearly more easily won over by her than most here.

Xp no I was just joking that you sounded like you were posting from inside BBC studios

Yeah I mean Sturgeon has considerably less to win/lose than anyone else here, the pressure was right off her.

Swinson was bound to be fucked coming after a consummate pro but her main mistake was getting high on her own hubris after the European elections (which lest we forget the Brexit Party won) and boxing herself in with a series of unsupportable rigid policy positions. She's more like May than she'd like to think.

Someone has a lib dem sign up across the street and I keep wanting to augment it with the clegg fliers promoting the idea of the referendum etc

If I ever see Fiona Bruce in my kitchen (where I was liveblogging from), grr some violent class war will happen... she won't get no wholegrain mustard with her ham and cheese sandwich and I'll serve it to her in a very surly manner!

Lol calz have you swapped logins with Suzy?

He should be recasting his entire project as a pro-business agenda as well as a pro-community agenda - it's an approach that works well for him.

― Matt DC,

There's definitely room for him to be doing this, its a vacated space and its also has the benefit of being true

Swap with Calz? LOLOLOL for a second there, it really WAS freaky Friday!

Best wife swap ever

Show this to everyone. pic.twitter.com/AxERb9L5FI

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 23, 2019

Re the South African QT fella calz mentioned

Is this guy the ultimate Question Time superfan? He's been on at least four times, travelling to Peterborough, Scarborough, Lincoln, and then Sheffield tonight. And he always wears the same white shirt. He should get to go on the panel as a treat. pic.twitter.com/5MdsQBuJXs

— MatesJacob (@MatesJacob) November 22, 2019

can’t believe question time would do something unethical

Downthread? In...the future?

Down the twitter thread.

Genuinely cannot get over Michael Crick covering one of the left twitter trolls who got banned for trolling Gapes with deadly seriousness

Tonight we remember a fallen comrade, his legacy has been enriched by this spectacular moment. pic.twitter.com/d8HDn2JUJ4

— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) November 23, 2019

*paying my respects*

gapes doing a very poor job of pretending to not be deeply connected to mr richard miller tbh

full credit to channel 4 for blurring out miller’s profile pic tho, very responsible journalism