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

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

"I really feel like I'm making a difference..."

The hosts of #TheReceiptsPodcast tell #Electioncast's @AdamFleming why voting is SO IMPORTANT.

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— BBC Sounds (@BBCSounds) November 28, 2019

Garage still knocking about, from this.

Nigel Farage: 'Immigration is not being talked about enough' https://t.co/1Etio0kAUp

— The Guardian (@guardian) November 27, 2019

Autorrect is truly for the fainthearted

Has to buy his own pints now though

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-denied-free-pints-in-wetherspoon-pubs-due-to-general-election-rules-1326322

And he removed European-made products such as champagne and Jagermeister, replacing them with British alternatives.

brb, off for a Babycham and Night Nurse sesh in Spoons

Emigrating Nigel Farage to a small badly-built raft off the coast of Franz Josef's Land isn't being talked about enough

sorry to hear about the shitty treatment of your partner, Pom. I posted something on here the other week that pointed out that what so-called health tourism is costing the NHS is a droplet in the scheme of its entire budget and is in the same neighbourhood as their stationery budget and only slightly more than what is lost to missed appointments. Fuck these people.

Iirc you posted that it was approx half the losses from missed appointments

Much appreciated, calz. I think it would be a lot harder to take (the whole thing tbh) if ours wasn't a temporary situation. I do want to point out that this kind of bullshit can occur anywhere, and neo-fascist 'musings' about whether foreigners deserve our glorious, free healthcare (at least until a trade deal with the US becomes a prospect) are also common in Canada and France, except you're unlikely to hear a GP express such a heinous opinion point blank (for now). There's no question that there's a human centipede-style feedback loop connecting a certain segment of the population to the ever-triumphant Tories and it has been expanding outwardly for far too long. I just hope the polls will turn out to be wrong again.

Fwiw my wife appears to be less offended by her ordeal than I am. She says not a single one of her encounters with the NHS have has positive thus far so this was merely a more explicit instance of that. She'll likely get her test done in Canada as soon as we move back (in March). We'll be passing through Montreal for the Christmas holidays, but it's almost impossible to get an appointment within less than a month in Quebec, which suffers from its own set of structural problems, especially now that our provincial PM is more intent on hounding muslims and cutting taxes than on strengthening our healthcare system, which has been ailing for as long as I can remember.

*has been.

you have to attend a FAP before then obv

I'd love to! I'm almost never in London is the rub.

they have been known to happen in your town tbf

it's perhaps a small mercy that my wife hasn't been challenged as a health tourist (yet), however not a single one of her encounters with the NHS have has positive thus far is about right. it's completely rotten from top to bottom

I immediately thought of you, CP, although it goes without saying that what my wife has experienced is absolutely insignificant in comparison.

argh, I assumed the horrible opinion was from a receptionist or a junior nurse, not a GP

a possibly classist/sexist assumption which I shall reflect on the naivety of for a while by considering 1. the most annoying GPs I've dealt with here and 2. how even my favourite former GP kept the waiting room stocked with old issues of the Spectator from his personal subscription

I made the exact same assumption! Old habits die hard…

will be seeing more of this then

We'll negotiate a credible deal - and then put that to the people for a final say. pic.twitter.com/jGK3l7tUmI

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 28, 2019

…and speaking of The Spectator:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/28/johnson-accused-of-racial-stereotyping-with-view-on-nigerians

An apology is long overdue.

Hillsborough police chief David Duckenfield cleared of manslaughter

*Guillotine emoji*

LAB majority c.260

SNP candidate for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, @JNHanvey suspended by party. Hard race between him and Labour’s deputy leader @LesleyLaird, but SNP have pulled all support

— Alasdair Clark (@alasdair_clark) November 28, 2019

argh, I assumed the horrible opinion was from a receptionist or a junior nurse, not a GP

a possibly classist/sexist assumption which I shall reflect on the naivety of for a while by considering 1. the most annoying GPs I've dealt with here and 2. how even my favourite former GP kept the waiting room stocked with old issues of the Spectator from his personal subscription

― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:59 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I made the exact same assumption! Old habits die hard…

― pomenitul, Thursday, 28 November 2019 16:01 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I assumed this too but only bc all the bad experiences of the NHS I have had have been encouters with incredibly rude and cruel receptionists on insane power trips

Particularly infuriating to hear what happened to your wife pom considering over 90% of the NHS personnel I've dealt with in my entire life had accents from beyond this stupid country (its mainland at least).

💥Tin hats on over at BBC.

Bit a row over in W1A coming.

Understand the Tories have offered up the Prime Minister for an interrogation by the BBC.

...on Andrew Marr's show this Sunday.

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) November 28, 2019

Last mind "Andrew Marr is sick, here's Andrew Neil" switcheroo required there

That's a parody account, Nick

Wait, no, sorry

"And there's Johnson entering the studio to face Marr...I...wait a minute...ba gawd King, that's Andrew Neil's music!"

Yesssssss > Boris Johnson to be replaced with melting ice sculpture after dodging climate change TV debate https://t.co/vHO03TO5cK

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) November 28, 2019

looooooool

andrew neil should interview the ice sculpture imo

LAB majority c.260

SNP candidate for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, @JNHanvey suspended by party. Hard race between him and Labour’s deputy leader @LesleyLaird, but SNP have pulled all support
— Alasdair Clark (@alasdair_clark) November 28, 2019
― tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:19 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the snp candidate suspended for antisemitism apparently.

Neil should invite Corbyn back and he can do his Boris impression for the whole interview