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

A Labour "activist"? Does the Beeb also call Tory canvassers "activists"? BXP?

Anyway, hope she gets well soon and isn't too traumatised, what a horrible thing to happen

btw I got a leaflet from the Tories today (after approx five billion from the Lib Dems, 0 Lab, 0 BXP - Greens are not standing here once again) and the tagline is "Time for change".

Yeah, after 9.5 years of you bastards screwing up the country, the best way I can think of to get "change" is to vote you in locally as well, right.

big man like stormy

Stormzy backs Corbyn 10 minutes ago.

In those 10 minutes, the number of people registering to vote shot up from 4,500 to 47,000 right now.

We can win. Young people, we’ve got 28 hours left to register to vote.

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) November 25, 2019

corbyn doing interview w/ladbible tomorrow on registration deadline day. smart play - 2.5m twitter followers + 37m facebook followers

The relentless tidal wave of I've Always Been Labour But... continues on all channels.

stormzy <3

ladbible less so but I'll take whatever tbh

stormzy fuckin’ rules

all kicking off at dominic raab's hustings. could be bad if there was a confrontation between him and harry dunn's parents (who are currently outside and able to get in)

No room in the church for the hustings event. Dozens still outside. Changing: “LET US IN!”, including the family of Harry Dunn who want to speak to Dominic Raab. pic.twitter.com/vsYyIco8LX

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 25, 2019

unable*

von Raabentropp's winning personality really comes to the fore when he's in campaigning mode!

Honestly think I have to stop reading this thread & uninstall twitter til exit poll. It’s doing absolutely nothing for me and I feel sick and anxious every time I think about it.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2019 11:49 (yesterday)

This was me for about three days. Today's ICM poll is making me hope again, but the HUGE difference between it and the one for The Observer released on Saturday evening is messing with my mind.

4500 to 47000? Are those numbers right??

"The mood in the Lib Dem camp is one of “concern, close to despair”, according to one senior party figure..." https://t.co/1IoApBA2QJ

— Richard Seymour (@leninology) November 25, 2019

yup - they're right. has been solidly between 20-30k for the hours since that spike
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote

that ft story is just... delightful

noob qn - how do I place a custom political bet? is it possible to do it online? e.g. lab maj + bj lose seat + swinson lose seat

🤔

Boris Johnson could urinate through my mam’s letterbox and I’d still vote for him. It’s so important that we get Brexit done, deliver on that solemn promise, avoid going the same way as Venezuela and selling our armed forces for tea in No 10 with some of our most fervent enemies.

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) November 25, 2019

xp
it's related betting so you would have to get a quoted price, best ringing them perhaps. But fuck knows! tbh when I used to be a betting shop manager they still had £10 jackpots on the fruit machines!

daru g

jesus god almighty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cre0in5n-1E

:( :( :( :(

thx calz

You can see the exact point that Stormzy asked people to register to vote and vote Labour on the government voter registration site pic.twitter.com/gTpxvK440i

— Bloonface says vote Labour 🌹 (@bloonface) November 25, 2019

Daniel - that's where the numbers are coming from

Heseltine and Blair need to get a room.

ideally a pine one, six feet under

That's amazing. xp to stormzy

Meanwhile LauraK is all over the Rabbi story as if it is thee game changer of this GE? Like, that's it. It was hard work, but we finally got Cromryn cancelled properly.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKQK6_GWsAQ7lTN?format=jpg&name=large

This very impartial Rabbi?

quite easy to look back smugly at the early 20th century and think howtf could ordinary people slide into fascism like that

meanwhile, elderly labour canvassers are being attacked in the street

the media’s whole approach to this strikes me as really dangerous for jewish people - it won’t be tories putting their bodies on the line to protect them from fascists. fully understand jewish people’s’ anxiety but when a yougov poll shows people think 30% of labour members have committed antisemitic acts/are antisemitic you really have to question the very irresponsible reporting of this serious issue. (very serious issue: antisemitic attacks are on the rise in europe ffs)

and when there has been no (zilch zero none) analysis or interrogation of the governments approach to dealing with the (very wide scale) antisemitism within its ranks (often at the top of the party eg bravermans cultural marxism; endorsing orban) etc

don’t think the approach is one not helpful in the very important fight against antisemitism

(while they have not dealt with the issue well, labour does get absolutely zero credit for the measures it HAS put in place, which were now dealing with the antisemitism
in the party that previous leadership’s ignored)

does that polling result reflect the degree to which british people think labour is islamophile? or even, does it reflect the percentage of islamophobes in the uk population? like, I find the antisemitism "question" puzzling until I think about it as a proxy for islamophobia, but I'm not sure that's right.

let’s also not forget the party’s long and storied history of islamophobia - they prosecuted the iraq war ffs

' a beacon of tolerance and understanding'? 1964: Smethwick : "If you want a nigger for a neighbour vote Labour." Election 2005 Tory posters: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" 2009. European Elections: BNP win two seats. Dude, read a book.

— Gary Younge (@garyyounge) November 26, 2019

also don't forget a Tory candidate in Lincoln is still running after it emerged he was merrily retweeting Tommy Robinson posts on "Muslim paedophiles". That did get some coverage yesterday but quietly disappeared after a mealy-mouthed apology.

like, I find the antisemitism "question" puzzling until I think about it as a proxy for islamophobia, but I'm not sure that's right.

I think this is largely correct.

Seeing the papers just repeat the exact same tactics as last time is...to be expected I guess

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' a beacon of tolerance and understanding'? English history is indeed full of it, there is a really nice beacon of tolerance up the road from me, it's call Clifford's Tower.

Gary Younge totally otm

Jewish community centres and synagogues in the UK employ security guards because of the dangers posed to Jewish people by the far right, and for no other reason.

Boris Johnson has welcomed antisemites to Parliament, allowed conspiracist anti-Soros bullshit to be repeated by members of his own cabinet, has been guilty of racism against Muslims and black people both in rhetoric and in support for hostile environment policies, has repeatedly engaged in homophobia and misogyny, and there is also the matter of some horrible, abusive behaviour on his part being well-known by a huge number of UK journalists who are unable to report on it because of the way it would affect blameless third parties, but it’s a proper bombshell. And no, I don’t mean the Camberwell tape.

One of the more pernicious legacies of the Blair years was the state's homogenizing of 'faith communities', all of them, & enabling a handful of retrograde figures to 'speak' for all in that community. It strengthened hands of patriarchs & chauvinists, sorry to say. Here we are.

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 26, 2019

^ this is OTM

Yep. I'd go one further and posit that we've seen this happen before the economical crisis in most of Western Europe, when hedonist liberalism was at a high. They enabled these retrograde figures to keep their votes.

imo the U.K. has always been deeply antisemitic, in the same way that it’s deeply racist towards more or less everyone else, and I can fully understand why a lot of well-intentioned people who have been banging that drum for decades are choosing to use this as an opportunity to make the case for reform of institutions, including Labour.

However, it’s difficult to underestimate how few people on the right would have cared about that fifteen or so years ago. You tended to have a position somewhere between ambivalence and hostility - both to British Jews and, to some extent, Israel, imo. It’s not purely islamophobia driving it, though I think that’s a huge part. The fallout from Iraq made defending Israel and rejecting left-wing ‘anti-imperialist ‘ politics much more of a cultural touchstone for large and small C conservatives. In the current climate, British Jews aren’t just perceived on the right as ‘the opposite of British Muslims’, they stand in as a proxy for all the allies (Israel. the US, NATO, Ulster Unionists, the military, the security services, business, etc) Corbyn’s supposed to be hostile to.

ok that's super interesting

Important election news from St Leonard's

https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/politics/liberal-democrat-poster-damaged-in-st-leonards-1-9154206

"Police said they received a report of criminal damage"

lol, these plods are obv short of some midsomer murders to solve

Welby enters the fray:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/26/justin-welby-chief-rabbi-labour-antisemitism