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

what a waste of ice

Is Falkirk their most cursed constituency? You’d have to make a case for another one.

waht, pom

that's horrible, I had hoped things were not that bad around here but apparently I was mistaken, for which I apologise and second everyone else's notes of "fuck 'em / report 'em" :(

Thanks for the link, gyac.

And thanks for the support, all. What makes it even more absurd is that she was scheduled to have one in October but had to cancel due to other health concerns.

my ?, apologies, was that id just seen cummings resignation

im now given to understand this news is a few weeks old, or isnt, or, well, ?

not the eric joyce fracas that led to the leadership election changes ?

Liking labour’s environment proposals a lot, though my own preferred policy would be to spend £2 billion on making new potholes and then planting a tree in each of those

i would watch a 12 hour slow-tv programme of boris ice sculpture melting.

Drag 'em Pom, that's fucking awful.

Pom, did she get a letter from the practice inviting her to one? I would hold that letter in their faces, and assume the “advice” was ignorance but it’s ignorance from listening to outright xenophobia in the press and from the government. Fucking awful.

xps to zebra

Yes that Eric Joyce...now shacked up with India Knight.

Really sorry to hear you facing this shit, Pom.

Good question – if memory serves, she did. I'll discuss this in detail with her as soon as she gets home.

2xp

Thanks LBI & xyz.

iTV actually had a very hard-hitting package last night on glacier melt. Can't remember the last time the BBC included something like that in their actual main news programmes i.e. the 10

Pom that's awful and stupid

sorry pom. solidarity

Tories in my mentions asking where we'll get the land from to plant the trees, here are my suggestions, in order:

1. All golf courses.
2. Twickenham Stadium.

— JC (@jmsclee) November 28, 2019

Tbf they did warn us that the environment would be 'hostile'.

Sackable offence, pom.

Pom that’s fucking awful, get that bastard disciplined

Yes that Eric Joyce...now shacked up with India Knight

Gone a bit suzy there. What intelligent, modern woman isn't attracted to a violent drunk not afraid to beat up schoolboys?

Labour polling 16% in Scotland, Tories on 26%.

That’s the yoon vote, right?

*nervous, halting laugh*

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/28/revealed-tory-candidates-issued-with-attack-manuals-on-how-to-smear-rivals

They also reheat a discredited claim that Labour’s policy on free movement would lead to 840,000 migrants coming to the UK each year.

god the BBC will be all over this

The Conservative & Unionist Party. Drop the Conservative bit and they might do even better.

oh no wait

Labour's tree planting policy (with mathematical support from @BBCFrediani):
Labour wants to plant 2 billion trees by 2040.
That is, roughly...
* 100 million/yr
* Or 8.3 million a month
* 2 million a week
* 300,000 a day
*12,400 an hour, every hr, 24hrs/day
* 200 a minute #GE2019

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) November 28, 2019

for central scotland CON yoon vote looks strongest in ayrshire

guys i know we’ve probably already made up our minds about which way to vote but

just consider this, okay?

https://i.redd.it/gne17yqcxa141.png

for central scotland CON yoon vote looks strongest in ayrshire

Wid ye credit it?

In the early 1990s McKinstry was a Labour councillor in Islington and worked as a parliamentary aide to Labour politician Harriet Harman, later criticising what he described as her "dangerous gospel of feminist fascism". Losing his seat on Islington council in 1994, he was working for Labour front bencher Doug Henderson when he announced the following year, via an article in The Spectator, that he no longer supported the party. Subsequently, he was a regular columnist in both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

reluctantly bailed from the party under the auspices of militant Marxist - checks notes - Tony Blair

never change, ayrshire

You need to speak to the tree planters that work the highlands @ChrisMasonBBC .Many of those guys can do 2000-3000 a day every day of the week. So 200 a minute over the whole country, is really not that unimagionable and is proberly close to the norm in countries like Canada.

— Benjamin Nunn (@BenjaminNunn1) November 28, 2019

This whole thread is just city people giving their opinion on something they have no knowledge or connection to. Instead of just typing out some numbers you should have asked people who plant trees If it's a big deal and compared current tree planting rates with other countries.

— Benjamin Nunn (@BenjaminNunn1) November 28, 2019

Yeah, 400-300k trees a week is nothing a couple hundred planters couldn't handle easily.

the ‘lol that’s too many trees u dummies’ approach also conveniently skates over the reasons why we might want to do such a thing in the first place, eg it’s a cheap and easy way to get started on the staggeringly overdue work of at least attempting to stave off actual human extinction

plus it creates jobs u fuckin’ herbs, jobs are good iirc

the disingenuousness of Mason's "I was just making the figures more understable" is breathtaking, gulags are too good for these fuckers

Benjamin, I have offered no opinion whatsoever. I've just turned a figure that is meaningless to most people into something more understandable.

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) November 28, 2019

wau at this justification

xp nv beat me to it

i think i was right with "understable"

strong and understable figures

Err I meant 300-400k trees *a day* earlier. Still a totally reasonable figure.

i’M jUsT aSkINg QuEsTiOnS

I personally planted 1.5k trees in one day as a less-than-fit rookie ffs

Labour wants to plant 2 billion trees by 2040.
That is, roughly...
* 100 million/yr

UK net CO2 emissions for last year were 364.1 million tonnes = 1 million tonnes per day = 41,667 tonnes per hour = 695 tonnes of CO2 per minute

Suddenly I understand

weird the tories are pushing back against the trees, their party symbol is an oak ffs

They're only against foreign trees

The Endemic Party.

if I was truly fainthearted my attitude would be an accelerationist 'i'll be personally fine (probably), bring on the shitshow' but I fret for maybe like a quarter of my waking time atm hoping Labour finds a way to win the election fyi

just resent being reduced to 'the fainthearted' here lol

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— BBC Sounds (@BBCSounds) November 28, 2019