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

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

Don't wanna antagonise your future coalition partners

it's not my place to gatekeep feminism but "girly swot" seems like some regressive anti-feminist bullshit to me

Plus obviously not a good idea to push your swot credentials when you'm patently thick as two short planks

The worst were always the thick swots, the ones who did all the homework obsequiously but understood nothing

Jo swine flu always strikes me as the kind of dolt who gets to read her dull essay to the class because of how neatly handwritten it is

Hahaha truth

I mean to be fair I don't think politics as a profession rewards intelligence, it's about obstinacy and self-conviction which are usually the hallmarks of the idiot

So then, we're past all hope of getting a better thread title, aren't we?

still a wee while til the election!

if there's an upturn for labour in the polls:

UK is coming ever closer to having a PM that used to follow Phil Greaves on twitter

— m.crumps (@mcrumps) July 9, 2018

I think I may have been a thick swot

luckily I was also lazy and disorganised as fuck and so frequently forgot to do/take home/hand in the homework (also was permanently a mess with terrible handwriting, also frequently misunderstood or neglected to write down correctly what the homework was actually supposed to be), so it's possible few teachers actually noticed my sickening desire to please the grown-ups

was going to put something actually about politics at the end of this lame post but I forgot what it was, in a metaphor for my teenage too-spacecadetty-to-swot-properly-ness

Based on that summary I exonerate you.

There's a lot of anger out there at the fact that Johnson's bottled doing the Andrew Neil interview at all, and that the BBC went ahead with Corbyn on the basis that all three leaders were confirmed.

as there fucking well should be

On a fundamental level in what way is this even remotely balanced?

Corbyn still hasn't confirmed 5 Live Breakfast, which Johnson and er... Adam Price have done (but which was an easier ride than Neil would be)

God imagine a mauling from Nicky Campbell

The most feared political interviewer this side of Simon Mayo

It was Rachel Burden and essentially a phone-in but yes

God imagine a mauling from Nicky Campbell

I am certain that if Johnson really has bottled Neil - and why shouldn't he, really, from his perspective? - the anger will be quite real inside the BBC as well. About time tbh!

Did the BBC straight up lie to Corbyn to get an interview?

God I've heard some of the dolts that phone up Five Live I'd give that one a miss Mr Crumhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIn4qh82yY

I have to listen to Today in the morning because that cunt's so unbearable

satan’s hr department wouldn’t even acknowledge campbell’s job application, let’s be honest

That's no excuse to listen Today when other stations and silence are also available

Good to see the BBC putting Johnson under some real scrutiny over whether he knows which way round the jam and cream are meant to go on a scone.

Today's Justin Webb is so fucking gruesome. I sleep with my radio on and sometimes have lucid radio fed morning-mares where I'm arguing with him, but I'm powerless to speak.

is dominic cummings off the park now ?
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Hang on a second. Dominic Cummings, senior aide to the Prime Minister, allegedly resigned his job THREE WEEKS AGO, and *nobody* thought it worth reporting until now? pic.twitter.com/aqq8RO5YWr

— Downing Street Source (@judeinlondon2) November 27, 2019

so I, uh, was right

Spads are stood down when elections are called, also he’s supposed to have some kind of surgery.

Having a soul put in

the bbc must have known this and were reporting on his latest blog earlier without mentioning the small matter that spad-u-hate got pumped three weeks ago!

having an extra six inches of forehead installed

bbc are running roughshod over purdah, there reputation will be (even more) fucked after this election and they'll still have to stump for them pensioner license fees. Cunts.

A curious case of selective memory has surrounded the use of MRP. In the 2017 General Election, people seem to recall YouGov’s accurate central estimation of a hung parliament. Using the same technique, the Lord Ashcroft model (which estimated a Conservative majority over 60) is sometimes forgotten.

https://medium.com/@theintersectuk/mrp-estimates-and-the-2019-general-election-9ac1794120d6

Before the shit hits the fan at 10pm, it’s worth bearing in mind that this apparently ironclad MRP polling method is non-transparent, gameable by its underlying assumptions, and not signed off by the British Polling Council.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 27, 2019

xp lol yes

just getting a wee bit armour on before it gets ugly

if it predicts a tory majority then it's mere psy ops bullshit, but obv if it predicts a hung parliament or even a slim Labour majority I'll be stroking my chin and saying: hmm definitely interesting one is this.

Pretty good summary of how grim this has been.

i know we're all worried about what happens if Labour loses, but frankly I'm more and more afraid of what could happen after we win

— Archie Woodrow (@Archimbaldo) November 27, 2019