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

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

(xxp) They don't like it up 'em.

The ice sculpture thing is great, how many more people will tune in now? And sending his dad ffs...!

Have signed in to watch online now (with some difficulty) so hopefully this is worth it

Siân Berry is dreadful. Think she’s friends with D1tum and a load of terfs as well.

Every Green is terrible except Caroline Lucas afaict.

“Brexit is a climate crime” - wtf

Isn’t one of the SNP’s arguments for being able to go it alone the access to North Sea oil?

Absolutely. IT'S OUR OIL!

it's scotland's oil!

Good answer from Corbyn on food there.

fs

"and I went down there... fully prepared to suck his dick" pic.twitter.com/4MVLJmE6kO

— YES the tiger is out 🐯 (@moya_lm) November 28, 2019

fp

good opportunity to redeploy "you are hiding a child" imho

why_are_you_booing.gif

xp

IFS have been criticising both party manifestos and it probably won't be reported widely they have criticised the Tories for not having one serious mention of the rampant childhood poverty they have caused in their manifesto. And that an impending NDB next year represents a far bigger risk than Labour's spending program, which they are also critical of but still concede that it isn't that radical by European standards.

Look how red and twitchy Gove looks

Dem yoot dem, eh Mikey @michaelgove https://t.co/Y3IREbF7Py

— Clive Lewis (@labourlewis) November 28, 2019

how to be right

Done the homework, champ. You are the chairman of the company that publishes the Spectator. Paid by the Barclay bros. You are not impartial. You bear deep personal responsibility for the mainstreaming of far right rhetoric. Much of the far right supports Boris Johnson. Job done. https://t.co/yY8kCaziGB

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 28, 2019

Siân Berry is dreadful

she was fine in that debate i thought. corbyn was okay, but i got no sense of urgency from him. swinson was waffling and way out of her depth. welsh guy will always be a hostage to sheep farmers. sturgeon was like hearing sainsbury's talking about how committed they are to the environment

Extremely critical support for Jame Sob

johnson on the run from neil has bubbled up from twitter into the general news - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50592259

labour should probably link it into their main theme by hammering "he can't even face up to andrew neil - how will he say no to trump ?"

Maybe he’ll send his dad instead? We know his brother won’t do it for him.

One-time Boris Johnson voter jamesob will be bad again soon enough

This is really good, can see Lab using yougov data over the next two weeks:

Around 20 seats could be moved out of the Conservative column if less than a third of current LD/Green voters switched to Lab.

Together with the push on Labour Leave voters, the arithmetic of this election could still be significantly altered in the next two weeks. 6/6

— Christabel Cooper (@ChristabelCoops) November 28, 2019

Around 20 seats could be moved out of the Conservative column if less than a third of current LD/Green voters switched to Lab.

well maybe you should've thought about a few electoral pacts, dipshits

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/general-election-polls-liberal-democrats-real-leader-jeremy-corbyn-1327418

"But in 2019, as in every election in the modern history of the Liberal Democrats, most voters believe that, given a choice, the Liberal Democrats’ first preference is a deal with Labour – and if the Conservative voters that the party needs to flip to win seats are turned off by the Labour leader, they won’t back the Liberal Democrats.

Despite the deep-seated ideological and personal differences between Swinson’s Liberal Democrats and a Corbynite Labour party, voters aren’t being unreasonable. The Liberal Democrats’ central political project is to stop Brexit and the Conservatives is to facilitate it. There can be no viable alliance between the two in office."

LDs were incredibly hostile to Lab so no chance of electoral pacts pre-election. The LD/greens voters now need to vote Lab to get their beloved people's vote.

I thought they'd abandoned the referendum under Prime Minister Swinson?

Thought it was Jihadi Crumlin that was the more averse to any pacts? xp

Gove sonned by a 15 year old in a climate, if you'll excuse the expression, beef.

I only just worked out what 'critical support' means ffs

wildly presses f

pic.twitter.com/AzBamKbjcc

— Neale Hanvey SNP ☘️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺🎗 (@JNHanvey) November 28, 2019

neale hanvey's apology/acceptance of being deselected as snp candidate.

there's natgammon in the comments saying the stuff was fine - linking a Sputnik article about Soros with an antisemitic image in it, comparing israeli treatment of palestinians to the treatment of the jewish people by the nazis, which meets IHRA definition of antisemitism, which SNP are signed up to.

there's natgammon elsewhere on twitter claiming it's a fit-up because of his anti-trans stance.

the comments are an absolute sewer (have read them all now)

How does this work with ballot papers for last minute drop outs like this? Do they reprint the papers or cross out the name?

i notice there's no apology for anything he might have inadvertently said about trans people

xp news bits i've heard says the name stays on the paper?

Yeah it's too late,name and party appear

Cybernats are among the more wild eyed and unpleasant habitues of social media.

Thought it was Jihadi Crumlin that was the more averse to any pacts? xp

― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Thursday, 28 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

CorBIN is the only putting out the juicy manifesto. Gotta match it before you get to deal.

2017 SNP manifesto committed to reforming the GRA but that's been dropped in the 2019 manifesto, I think (as was the 2017 commitment to repeal worst TU legislation.)

not sure why labour chose johann lamont in glasgow south