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

wildly presses f

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— 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

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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!?

this is the qt clip btw

“From that rhetoric, I get told to go back to my own country”

“I can’t see how you can blame Boris Johnson for that”

This #bbcqt audience member clashes with Lionel Shriver over the Prime Minister’s past comments about women in burkas. pic.twitter.com/KhqxaC25md

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) November 28, 2019

Lionel Shriver is a piece of work. She is racist and madly into loyalism as well, to the point of openly posing with her Ulster Freedom Fighters mug.

Looks like it's time to post the photo of Lionel Shriver with a UFF mug again #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/lY8Urnd3JJ

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 28, 2019

working class antifascists in the 1930s banner-dropped BBC headquarters and gatecrashed their broadcasts in protest at how the BBC helped to facilitate the rise of Mosley, while ignoring or obstructing working class struggles. https://t.co/gwt4Kn3bex

— michael (@Sisyphusa) May 10, 2019

A stupid fucking talentless right wing American arsehole who valorizes Loyalist terrorism - the perfect guest for the BBC and Question Time, hoorah!

She’ll have fucked her sales here with these comments, which I gather were dwindling anyway.

She also said that WASPI women were losers, would guess that a high proportion of her readers would be in that demographic so good job Lionel

That’s what I mean. Faiiiiirly sure that women buy maybe ~75% of fiction? There’s a strong gender disparity anyway.

Shriver is a fucking grotesque nightmare. She makes Kate Andrews seem quite jovial and moderate by comparison amongst unwanted Yanks repping for fascism and neolib economics over here.

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theresa may unveils statue to nancy astor. cool cool

philip collins writes about “the muslim question” and ranks racisms in the paper of record. also cool cool

lionel shriver used to be a newsnight review regular back in the early 00s and her rightwing schtick earned her contrarian plaudits in that decade of challops wars. have not really heard from her since but I guess she turned out to be a gavin mcinnes type who got snared by their own bullshit and can't stop now.

Astor believed that Nazism would solve the problems associated with Communism and the Jews.

she sounds fun.

State broadcaster brings on shithead author to make the case for islamophobia, cool cool COOL

Astor wouldn't employ Catholics or Jews and was even considered too much of a liability by the Conservative party after the war. But a lot has changed for the Tories since that progressive era they went through in the late 40's.

Shriver is known principally as the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin.

First published in 2004, it's sold 822,000 copies in the UK and dwarfs the rest of her work.

Nothing Shriver published since has made much more than a tenth of Kevin in book sales. pic.twitter.com/Nq4IWCm4KN

— Chris McCrudden (@cmccrudden) March 1, 2019

good thread here that illustrates how post Kevin.. what a giant she is in publishing... well next to Alan Partridge's autobiography that is.

winner of the orange prize, oh the irony

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.

just trying to school myself re: lionel shriver:

She was interviewed on Newsnight on BBC Two the night of December 17, 2012, questioned about the issue of whether the United States should change gun control laws after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting but whoever wrote this Wikipedia entry forgot to mention what her views on gun control are.[20]