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

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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

2 years in. pic.twitter.com/chCTX401iG

— Glen Mitchell 🐝 🇪🇺 (@GlenMitchell1) November 28, 2019

this has aged as well as his prediction for communist space mining in the future will

aye that's a beamer but at least he didn't commit to eating 1 book and/or 1 child

i mean they're predictions the way the chants at a football match are predictions

(not the space thing, that's nailed-on science fact)

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

in fairness to cybernattery the other side in the indy ref did include loyalists and nasty centrist melt types so there was enough arsehole to go round

you will also find vile stuff from labour supporters under anything that mentions labour anti-semitism on twitter

Natgammon = lorne sausage?

CyberNattyDread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKfheRVXUAcXzBZ?format=jpg&name=large

Natgammon = lorne sausage?

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:33 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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The only true way into the vast galactic plains of space is by dying. So we're all going to go into space, lol.

Seems like the right day to repost this:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/boris-johnson-brazenly-refuses-apologise-16645338

This BBC Facebook ad thing is insane, to the extent I immediately assumed it was a joke.

I don't really believe the BBC is secretly conspiring in the Tories' favour. But what's becoming obvious is the extent to which the BBC has allowed itself to be blatantly, humiliatingly played by them.

Not a conspiracy but the outcome of a long established culture, and failure to respond to the challenges of social media, and a refusal to address the failings of individual employees.

The bbc won't get any thanks either, when people end up losing jobs to make up the pensioner license fee losses. Well maybe some of them will end up on the honours list.

Holy shit @ lionel shrivel on qt O_O

lol autocorrect

“what’s so bad about comparing Muslim women to letterboxes?” wtf

Holy shit @ lionel shrivel on qt O_O

― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:36 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

People You Suspect Are Frighteningly Overrated But Don't Actually Know Enough About To Say So

I don't believe anyone rates Lionel Shriver at anything.

OT but:

you have to attend a FAP before then obv

― imago, Thursday, November 28, 2019 4:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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

― pomenitul, Thursday, November 28, 2019 4:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'll Eurostar my way 'cross the water obv

increasingly unsuccessful author, increasingly hard right politics, increasing number of media gigs as a result. this picture - when you spot it - tells you all you need to know about her pic.twitter.com/V7AtWcHoB3

— Waluigitifo (@waluigitifo) November 28, 2019

wow what!?