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

Smart tactical move tbh. Fuck.

still no personal apology from boris tho

Scarabello heckled BJ earlier this month about how a PM should be a good husband and father lol. No love lost there.

Will be interesting to see how the media treat BJ on this, with this on the table:

In response to Johnson’s apology, Akhtar called the prime minister’s comments “very generous”, but added: “While I accept his apology for hurt and offence caused by Islamophobia within the party, I think specifically his comments were the views that were hurtful even if that was not his intent and I think he should apologise for those as well.”

Let the pummeling begin!

Lol @ the comments from that cunt Shuker in that piece

Sounds like Scarabello was taken down in a deliberate set-up:

4.20pm 16:20
Libby Brooks

Libby Brooks

The Scottish Conservatives have suspended their general election candidate for Glasgow Central following complaints about Islamophobic language.

Flora Scarabello will have support for her campaign withdrawn, following the submission of a complaint to the party’s central office about the alleged use of “anti-Muslim language”. It is being reported that the details emerged in a private phone call, which was recorded and sent to party officials.

that obviously does not excuse whatever she said

Will be interesting to see how the media treat BJ on this

yougov MRP thing is in the times so assume it won’t be good for LAB

It's unveiled in association with The Times, wouldn't it be independent?

Anyone know who is paying Gladwell for this...bizarre intervention? What's the story?

Also...Curtice is cancelled:

Curtice has been terrible so far this election tbh. Seems worth remembering that the skill sets of "overseeing and interpreting an extremely reliable exit poll" and "all purpose election campaign pundit" are not the same. https://t.co/DeGHhCfjYL

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) November 27, 2019

Gladwell has been taking money from pharma and tobacco companies for twenty years, at least.

Sounds like Scarabello was taken down in a deliberate set-up:

4.20pm 16:20
Libby Brooks
Libby Brooks

The Scottish Conservatives have suspended their general election candidate for Glasgow Central following complaints about Islamophobic language.

Flora Scarabello will have support for her campaign withdrawn, following the submission of a complaint to the party’s central office about the alleged use of “anti-Muslim language”. It is being reported that the details emerged in a private phone call, which was recorded and sent to party officials.

― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 8:41 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly why bother trying to take down a tory who is standing in glasgow central lol

he’s also got a new book of extremely-not-bullshit pseudoscience to sell

Believe I've already called for the death of senile old Tory cunt John Curtice on this thread

tories take racism seriously in a marginal challenge

Gladwell has been taking money from pharma and tobacco companies for twenty years, at least.

― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

On the clip he was all "I went to this conference last week".

“and claimed a huge speaking fee from glaxosmithkline”

The latest version of the NHS story on the BBC website is now titled "Row over Labour's 'NHS for sale' claim"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50572454

The whole thing reads like it's straight out of a CCHQ press release, even the bits in there for "balance" are hedged so much they barely count

honestly why bother trying to take down a tory who is standing in glasgow central lol

she was previously critical of johnson + tories want to be seen as tough on islamophobia = ?

If we can win this election I hope we start executing BBC journalists before christmas

honestly why bother trying to take down a tory who is standing in glasgow central lol

she was previously critical of johnson + tories want to be seen as tough on islamophobia = ?

― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:09 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess this is why! tories at good at cynical shithousery

dammit i finally have a Vote Labour poster for the window and it prominently features my Blairite lapdog MP

his name does more exposure after him suffering the ignominy of Cummings saying "sorry but I don't even know who you are"

Best For Britain attempts its own MRP - sample size just under 40K
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a706d4e03dc82629db3f7acf9/files/ae6c2fb1-48aa-4c6f-8a3d-b5f8fd958956/Best_for_Britain_Recommendation_Seats.pdf

are they recommending LDs in any dumb seats

all of them, by definition

i'm not reading all that shit but i've already found a couple where the recommendation based on Labour being 10% ahead of the LDs is "Labour/Lib Dem"

I scribbled down some half garbled thoughts last week about potential tailwinds for labour this time round:

1 JC’s hegemony means they’ll be able to fight a more effective campaign as he’ll have more authority to direct resources. So eg they won’t run the Scottish campaign like an Edinburgh South by-election this time round.

2 The post-2017 Electoral Map is very healthy. 1 pt swing for 15 seats. Further 21 seats if they replicate 2017 swing.

3 They’ve played their (difficult) Brexit hand very well and would have a coherent position which respects the referendum but also motivates their remain base.

4 They have maintained their 2017 coalition (broadly). They’re still polling broadly equal despite the 2 yr media onslaught and mischaracterisation. Inside Purdah, their polling will rise (though I suspect the press may play faster and looser this time round).

5 People like to vote for the winners. People say they benefited from sympathy votes last time round & a lack of credibility so people didn’t worry about voting for them. The evidence doesn’t bear this out.

6 TIG may be more of a threat to Tories than Labour

7 Scottish dimension is not well understood. Labour have a resonant offer for people who (I) feel the pain of austerity; and (II) worry about the democratic deficit [their last manifesto talked about increased federalism]. —— this part is least well thought through though I will say that if SNP get 49 seats at GE19 I will eat matt goodwin’s book AND one of giles coren’s children

― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 12:26 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

depressing

Lol @ Tig as somehow relevant

you might have to eat that book and child also

8 doses of mebendazole in UK = <£20
8 doses of mebendazole in US = $3,520

My youngest got threadworm. It’s a common, minor thing. Treatment is one pill now and one in two weeks. The whole family gets treated: that’s eight pills. I went to the pharmacist counter at Superdrug this morning. I got change from £20.

— George MacKerron (@jawj) November 25, 2019

The NHS dossier seems idk really important? I was thinking labor desperately needs a dementia tax but this should dwarf it (except I know kuenssberg Peston etc). Still Johnson already running scared from Neil interview has echoes of 2017. You have to hand it to Corbyn, he will walk calmly into the lion's den again and again, they don't like him and he doesn't like them.

'I’ve got a whole house full of books and I’ve got an emotional connection with each one,' he says. 'My wife wishes I had a smaller emotional connection with about two-thirds of them... That’s just as a question of space, mind.'

'I grew up in a small town in Shropshire. My mum and dad loved books. I became a volunteer librarian at school. I learned the Dewey Decimal System, which I still remember. We also had a branch library across the road and I’d go there after school and look at the great big atlases and it was my way of looking at the world, understanding it. Libraries gave me a fantastic start in life and I want that for everybody.'

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/nov/jeremy-corbyn-libraries-pledge-general-election-2019.html

The dossier is really important or else the media Tories wouldn't be striving so desperately to minimise it

Also omg Jed at the price comparisons below that tweet. Surely most people have at least one seriously ill person in their family whose medicine cabinet would bankrupt them in the US?

Yes, they’re called diabetics and epileptics.

Yeah I mean it's just so fucking obvious, that's what's galling

yeah, I read a story about what's happening with Insulin. Will try to find it.

I'm currently working at the school a previous pm's child attended and I fucking dare any Tory to show up for a photo op while I'm there

JC front and centre in tonight's party election broadcast, I guess the party doesn't see him as the liability that concern troll melts believe

dreading the times thing lads

Tory response to the dossier seems to be the Shaggy defence

Love kuenssberg's "only minister involved is [then secretary of state for international trade] Liam fox" as if this was nothing more than a family vacation to the Golan heights

Generous 5 minutes allotted to Katy Balls on BBC4's news to explain why everybody should vote Tory and they're totally not gonna sell off the NHS

Times thing?

yougov MRP poll in conjunction w/the times, which drops at 10

Guardian reporting that Cummings is briefing people that things are closer than the polls would have us believe

Lib Dems completely ignoring the NHS dossier

Just posting about being a girly swot as they usually do