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

the beer bellied sash wearers are only part of the unionist coalition though - suspect they'll leak e.g. well-heeled newton mearns/pollokshields types to the lib dems.

the rangers fans probably always voted tory anyhow

Don't think that's true tbh. IndyRef shifted a lot of them from Labour.

... and Brexit put the cap on it.

probably right - indyref did for a lot of the deep roots of the labour party in scotland (certainly in west/central scotland)

A visit from star 🐶 ex Westminster Dog of the Year. #RegisterToVote #RealChange pic.twitter.com/LryYMCeXmI

— Tracy Brabin (@TracyBrabin) November 24, 2019

Batley can't fail with a (meltish but very nice person tbf) ex-Corrie star and an adorable chocolate labbie on the campaign trail.

as if another one of these banged

This man is called Ralph. He is the son of a wealthy duke. Sources tell me a BBC producer forced him to not shave and physically thickened his accent to make him sound working class. I can assure you he does not earn £80K because he does not work. He spends "daddy's money". https://t.co/VnzhSSS84B

— Dr Robert 'Rob' Zands PhD #BeKindOnline (@DrRobertZands) November 21, 2019

Is this one of those hilarious parody Twitter accounts?

Tory manifesto promises:

- Voting rights for British expats even after 15 years abroad.
- Boundary changes to equalise constituency sizes.
- Compulsory voter ID.

Votes for rich tax exiles, gerrymandering, voter suppression. Wow you'd do that for us.

imo gerrymandering is what we should be doing, but on the left

At this really good Italian cafe after an afternoon canvassing in Battersea. Feeling more positive than I thought I would beside one Tory cunt.

someone has put a vote conservative banner on a lamppost round the corner from my house. I'm going out later to throw a mud-ball at it.

trust no polls etc but couple of polls out today are better for the blood pressure

there is no way this shower of shit are 19 pts clear, not a chance!

I blame Brexit and Rangers having a good season.

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

What's the polling in Scotland like?

Tbh if worse came to the worse Johnson if people kicked up a fuss in Glasgow you could see Boris deploying the army to suppress but the Indy movement in Scotland isn't like the one in Spain so I can't see it getting to that.

This is the billionaires’ manifesto.

They bought it.

You’ll pay for it. pic.twitter.com/vLhKmdgwh1

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 24, 2019

tory nurse pledge unravelled already

Just get brexit done so we can move on to the important issues facing our country like fixing potholes

What's the polling in Scotland like?

Look away now.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1208572/election-2019-scotland-poll-SNP-labour-tories-nicola-sturgeon

Not ever looking away :)

Thanks. Be good to see a few pollsters but yes that's poor.

Major boost for Labour as Coldplay's Chris Martin (who lives in the US) says he'll probably vote LibDem
https://t.co/OgJ2eMV8gn

— keith flett (@kmflett) November 24, 2019

so yellow

keith flett is the mike giggler of the left

his line in incessant beards, cricket and chartists talk can get very wearing, but there is much worse than him out there!

Fan mail from Harold Wilson's press secretary in this week's New Statesman pic.twitter.com/0P5dlp5W8v

— keith flett (@kmflett) November 23, 2019

this was an interesting post, because I didn't know joe haines was still breathing.

4 people opened the door & said they'd never vote for Corbyn, he'd leave our country defenceless

3 are voting Labour now, and the last said he'll take a proper look at our manifesto

Volunteers going out to tell people our real policies is the best way to counter media lies

— Kieran Glasssmith (@KGlasss) November 24, 2019

Compared to the Labour manifesto, Boris Johnson's plan for the country is a shopping list of promises, not an encyclopaedia of ambitions.

And Boris Johnson called this election because he wants to leave the EU at speed.

Whereas Jeremy Corbyn is, after months of Labour evolving its position, offering another referendum.

That is the clear difference between the two big parties this time.

guess who

Kuenssberg?

bingo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50540099

BBC just showed vox pops with a voter loath to vote Labour because of Corbyn. The voter was a Labour Party member.

Ugh with all this manufacturing consent/dissent delete as applicable.

... let's not forget the woman who said she liked Boris, she didn't trust him but she liked him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still, 'appen as like this election could see the end of that red-tinted glasses pie-in-the-sky stuff about how t' Northerners won't vote Tory on pain of death.

going door to door telling stupid bastards "don't worry we'll still have nukes" yay politics

In The North it's like how *forget which dodgy french writer posited* in occupied France there was a sexually masochistic element of submission in some collaborators meek subservience to forces out to absolutely fucking destroy them

That Kuenssberg graf isn't so bad. imo this is the egregious one:

Vote to leave the EU at speed, and enact the 2016 referendum, or choose Labour to push for another big national ballot, and plump for the chance to stay.

Corby's literally just said he's not plumping either way. It was national news. On her network. And, assuming 'enact' is the right word to use about a non-binding referendum that offered a simple in-or-out question, surely any Labour-negotiated deal would also be, in effect, 'enacting' the 2016 referendum? But that doesn't suit the neat distinction she's trying to make. That, as it happens, is also the distinction Boris Johnson's been trying to make, famously, tendentiously, for weeks now.

The totally unstaged photo accompanying that article:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/FB7D/production/_109818346_5c34a7cf-a33d-42b3-a8b0-d37fa817aea4.jpg

such complacency to put out such a shite manifesto. This 50000 nurses thing has unravelled in good fashion. "Well no we can't give you a blood transfusion, we'll just persuade your blood with words not to gush out of your gaping wound". Nothing on social care. Oh lord anyone repping for this shit under the slightest amount of scrutiny will sound just as flustered and unconvincing as Nicky Morgan just did.

mind you at least it has a proposed ban on people keeping primates as pets, yes watch out billionaire oligarchs they'll be coming for your illegal zebras next.

Health tourism, as we know, doesn't actually cost the country very much money.

The cost to the NHS of people coming to Britain specifically to have medical procedures and then not paying us back is between £100m and £300m a year.

That puts it in the same ballpark as the NHS stationery budget (£100m).

Or the cost to the health service of people not turning up for appointments (£216m).

On one hand, the benefit of not cracking down on them is that it maintains the principle of the NHS being universal and free at the point of need.

On the other hand, it makes great headlines about foreigners coming here and cheating the system.

In any case, the Tories are doubling the budget of the 'health tourism enforcement unit'. We can find no record of any such unit, or what its budget might be.

that burning issue of health tourism that keeps UKIP voters awake at night.

It's like they're taking the piss with this manifesto. I don't know what sort of polling they're getting from the land of I've Voted Labour All Me Life But... but they obviously think they just need to show up on the day to get a majority.

Tony Blair weighs in...

The Labour party manifesto is heralded by its leadership as the most radical ever.

This is true. It promises a revolution; and if implemented it would indeed amount to one. I won’t go through the list of spending pledges, but they’re combined with renationalisation, repeal of union laws, new taxes on business, taking parts of a company’s shareholding into government mandated funds, a stack of new corporate and private sector regulation, and virtually every demand that any pressure group has ever submitted chucked in for good measure.

... I know, great stuff, innit Tony?

It's like they're taking the piss with this manifesto. I don't know what sort of polling they're getting from the land of I've Voted Labour All Me Life But... but they obviously think they just need to show up on the day to get a majority.

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 25 November 2019 09:31 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah there's a 2017 reminiscent hubris and it does seem that once again if the Tory wheels are going to fall off it's going to start now

I was expecting at least one or perhaps a few boldly populist New Labour type policies, it's thin gruel and full of dodgy numbers - like the 50000 nurses thing, which has immediately unravelled before the ink is even dry. They obv think Get Brexit Done and a few spending increases to public services they have completely fucked for the last decade and one-off bribes to dilapidated brexit voting towns is enough manifesto for one election.

And they very well might be right.

It's almost like Blair is discovering aloud what an opposition party looks like for the first time in his life.

Lol @ Blair's speech just being to Reuters. What an attention seeker.

I've got a Tory leaflet that was addressed to the vile curtain twitching snoop next door but one. It would been wasted anyway because she is 1000% a Tory voter. Around the time of the Shannon Matthews thing and the area was crawling with Sun reporters she give them a hackneyed bigot quote about how there are too many benefits scroungers and they are too lazy to even cut their hedges!

when we lived in Ely we had a patch of grass in front of our house but didn't own a mower, also a small hedge next to the garage, but obviously no hedge trimmer. the next door neighbours put rude notes through our door saying "CUT YOUR GRASS NOW" and called the estate agent to demand we trim the hedge. they had a mower and hedge trimmers and lived next door in the end of the terrace, but they wouldn't so much as knock on our door and speak to us in person. 100% sure they are tory voters.
An Indian family living in our old house now, hope the neighbours are profoundly unhappy about it, might go and tell the Indian family that their garage door key opens both garages.