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

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

I wish Neil would do to Johnson what he did to Ben Shapiro.

Again tho it should be Mair not Neil

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.

― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:37 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

having a wee dig into the candidates activities he's an anti-trans cunt who has compared trans women to paedophiles

shame it's ok to be bigoted against some groups but not others

you can now vote for exposed (and now-ejected) antisemites in three seats in scotland (one for each main party)

that's democracy *jazz hands*

mmmmm this line seems familiar

#Corbyn has announced a plan to plant 2 billion trees by 2040. This means planting roughly 100 million trees a year, or 2m a week, or 300k a day, or 12,400 an hour, 24 hours a day. Which = planting 200 trees every minute, around the clock, for 20 years.
Diane Abbott arithmetic.

— Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧 (@Mike_Fabricant) November 28, 2019

can't you understand that he's just helping people understand the figure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_planting

I guess people like this assume you plant an entire tree or something.

I am available to Skype in on a UK panel show to explain how the job works.

one for comprade alpha

The YouGov MRP.

Terrible news for Labour? No.

Dig a little deeper, and all is not what it seems.

There are numerous trends and data points that indicate that Labour are, in my view, LIKELY to deprive Johnson of a majority.

A thread - with supporting charts/data.

1/12 pic.twitter.com/noUQcjBNhv

— Dr Moderate (@centrist_phone) November 28, 2019

I am available to Skype in on a UK panel show to explain how the job works.

Can a Canadian please talk some sense into these Tories?

dr moderate is chairman alph's real name

Twitter really doesn't help. Shitty dashed off tweet from a producer drives the discourse into the sand and yet same org, with professional production and time, puts out something genuinely interesting and contextual: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/50591261

dr moderate is chairman alph's real name

― mark s, Thursday, 28 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Feeling bullied rn

Maybe they should apply some editorial standards to their social media use then, particularly when speaking ex cathedra.

They made a big fuss of doing exactly that and just ... aren't.

friendship ended w/BBC now channel 4 is my best friend

These two ice sculptures - which represent the emergency on planet earth - will take the place of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage tonight after they declined our invitation to attend a party leaders' #ClimateDebate

Tune in at 7pm on 4 and here on Twitter: https://t.co/GXl7XiFbgA pic.twitter.com/niPE5MLdGV

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 28, 2019

Johnson sent his dad along instead, along with Gove, and Channel 4 wouldn’t let them stand it.

Farage is unnecessarily dignified by getting a sculpture tbh

So how many melts will there be on this discussion exactly?

Yeah his face already looks part melted anyway.

BBC political social media use is really terrible, tons of irresponsible stuff or just outright shithousery. They should just autotweet links to articles seeing as they clearly can’t handle it.

Stanley Johnson, father of Boris J, and supportive of tonight’s @Channel4News #Climatedebate asking Michael Gove, “Where’s my damn son tonight?! The planets burning and there’s a chair swinging in the breeze with his damn name on it?!’ (Was noisy, I might have misheard 😉) pic.twitter.com/208ZqFS399

— Clive Lewis (@labourlewis) November 28, 2019

Conservatives are so fucked off with the ice sculpture they’re threatening to “look at” Channel 4’s broadcast license.

let's be fair on the tories now - it's taken them four years of hard work to build zero starter homes out of 200,000 so of course planting more than say three trees is clearly an impossibility

Rang my dad (former president of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society) to ask about these numbers. He was up the hill inspecting trees. Says a decent planter will manage a minimum of 1,000 a day. Makes these figures look reasonable. The more important Q. is, what kind of trees? https://t.co/SPqcg4fVvJ

— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) November 28, 2019

I love it when shit-talking tories expose their own ignorance