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

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

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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

I honestly almost cried at that, the original image is some naked guy in an armchair from fuck knows where online ffs.

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— Charlie Hoult (@CharlieHoult) November 21, 2019

You left the instructions on Charlie😉

— Laura Pidcock (@LauraPidcockMP) November 21, 2019

fucking hell that gapes video I am creasing

xp that was great, the wink was so brutal. State of the old fella’s screenshot as well, you can identify the person who sent it.

Action man, business builder, networker. @HoultsYard @DynamoNorthEast @TeamOpencast @FutureheadsUK. #NorthOfTyneMayor runner-up

‘mayoral runner-up’ is pure partridge

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Nigel Farage’s candidate in Glasgow North has been accused of Islamophobia by one of the country’s leading anti-racist organisations.

Hope Not Hate say the Brexit Party’s Dionne Cocozza has frequently shared posts on her social media that portray Muslims as “inherently violent and a threat to the rest of the population”.

Labour and the SNP have criticised the Eurosceptic.

The investigation by the group followed a report in the Glasgow University student newspaper, the Glasgow Guardian.

Cocozza yesterday deleted her Twitter account.

Just two weeks ago the candidate shared a number of posts by the far-right Politicalite website claiming there was a planned Muslim “takeover”.

While in October 2018 Cocozza shared a tweet suggesting that “Germany will become African and Islamic if mass migration isn’t stopped” from Voice of Europe, a large Islamophobic website and Twitter account which often publishes well-known far-right activists.

Hope Not Hate believes Cocozza has a “strong belief” that white people are being discriminated against.

In one tweet highlighted by the group, Cocozza claimed “there’s mosk [sic] schools underground in UK”.

This ended up in a debate with a now-deleted Twitter account. After having backtracked on her first statement, she ends her last tweet saying “You can’t say anything if your [sic] white 2019”.

I'm being dumb - does anyone know what account on twitter I originally nabbed these from
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Also Corbyn's neutrality has clearly made a splash but there needs to be a stronger follow up message - "I trust the people to decide" or similar.

Christ, according to the voter registration dashboard, over 100,000 people under 25 registered to vote yesterday.

And 103k for 25-34

Further Gapes news from same thing

Special mention to this display of giving no fucks at all pic.twitter.com/8NyracjOuI

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

biggest voter registration day on record I read?

Is it? They registered half a million of the same age group on the last day of registrations in 2017, but it hasn’t closed yet, so potential to go higher. Is it really possible the debate pushed that?

you may be right - can't remember who said it

More than 300,000 people, including over 200,000 under-35s, registered to vote in the general election on Friday in what is thought to be the largest surge in pre-election registration in UK political history.

The race to join the electoral roll took place on the unofficial Naitonal Voter Registration Day declared by campaigners and backed by civil society groups and trade unions with the social media hashtag #RegisterToVote.

Some 308,000 registrations were recorded in the space of 24 hours, the vast majority of them online.

Among those signing up to vote in the 12 December general election were 103,000 under-25s, 103,000 25-34 year-olds, 53,000 35-44 year-olds, 28,500 45-54 year-olds and around 20,000 over-54s.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/register-vote-general-election-boris-johnson-corbyn-young-people-a9214761.html

NEW: Former Labour MP Ian Austin backed Boris Johnson over Jeremy Corbyn... now he has gone several steps further

Austin has written a personal endorsement for — wait for it — the "outstanding" Philip Davieshttps://t.co/A8pewIfC4G

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) November 22, 2019